I am going to take it as a good sign that I handed in my dissertation proposal yesterday and today was immediately greeted by a headline directly related to one of the chapter topics. I should note that it is a bad sign at a macro level.

Graphite and Bun getting agreeing to acquisition by AI companies is really concerning. This is a pretty underbaked thought, but the shift of dev tool companies entrench themselves in the community quickly enough to look enticing for acquisition before figuring out profitability is bad. (1/?)

"save systems should dynamically handle object IDs and automatically populate the serialized data of every object that requires save states, and then for dialogue progression it needs to-" team cherry: WRONG. 1400 hardcoded fields in PlayerData.cs

What in the world is `nvm` doing to my .rc file?

IT IS TIME.

Miniaudio rules. Easy to build, easy to link, easy to read. I wish more c/c++ stuff was this mice to work with.

The Journal of Games Criticism has published a new issue!! Come and read 6 great new open-access game studies articles! gamescriticism.org/issue-6-1/ #gamestudies

There is something poetic about us making memory too expensive because we tried making memory machines remember more.

I am a sucker for the holidays, so Post Games is on sale till Sunday night. $1 gets you all episodes. Videos. Bonus content. No ads. Everything. (But for real, after this, I need to stop with the sales, because this is a terrible way to make money!) patreon.com/postgames

Holiday kiln firing is underway. Most of these pots are refires, but I have a few fun experiments in there

John Carmack both misgendering and deadnaming someone is deeply bleak, but doing in their eulogy is beyond the pale.

Just Published: For the latest @jcmsjournal.bsky.social issue, Mal Ahern and I co-edited an In Focus dossier on 'Images and (Infra)structures,' which originally emerged from a lively @scmstudies.bsky.social roundtable in 2022. What, we ask, do images and infrastructure have to say to each other?

RIP @burgerbecky.bsky.social Rebecca Heineman and thanks for all the wonderful games 😢

Typst not supporting endnotes is a show stopper for me. Really disappointing.

NYC alt-ctrl fans! Did you miss your chance tonight to register a team for the OCTOPAD OPEN, for a chance to secure New York City its very own OCTOPAD?! Tomorrow & Saturday night the OCTOPADNESS continues at Boshi’s and Wonderville, see details below! Final tournament Nov 22 at the NYU Game Center!

Truly hell.

This is very bad.

Have we considered calling it a tie?

Pain

It seems the dodgers strategy is the nearly hit batters

It looks like it is _not_ showtime.

Springer looks less like he is dying every time he swings. This is a great improvement.

Tonight I am sports posting

I think that 18 inning game broke the Dodgers.

NEW: I spoke to original Halo devs about that ICE Halo post One: "abhorrent” Another: "Using Halo imagery in a call to ‘destroy’ people because of their immigration status goes way too far, and ought to offend every Halo fan, regardless of political orientation” www.gamefile.news/p/halo-ice-d...

i can't believe they have to play again today.

It’s hard to over emphasize how important it is to have a real constitution like this. There are things you should not tolerate regardless of any accompanying political or monetary pressure because they are incompatible with decency. “Don’t be evil” is not enough: make a list and stick to it.

The PSF applied for a $1.5M grant from the US National Science Foundation (NSF) to make innovative improvements to packaging security—and we were recommended for funding! But...

I reached out to The White House and asked about its use of AI-generated Halo imagery. White House Deputy Press Secretary Kush Desai just responded to me, and it's insane. I've removed the paywall. Please share and subscribe if you can. www.patreon.com/posts/exclus...

I asked Microsoft PR about this—specially the DHS using Halo IP to recruit for ICE—and the company declined to comment.

This is not a strictly academic point, but one I feel import to state nonetheless: Nvidia did not "make the first GPU," they (potentially) coined the term, but folks like 3dfx, NEC, and _Nvidia_ had been making coprocessors for years prior to the release of the Geforce 256.

How do folks deal with line rendering in an Attributes-less quad renderer (as in, all sprite data is in a buffer object instead of passed as vertex attributes)? I assume you just make a single struct to store both gets of render data (quads and lines), but I it feels finicky. #gamedev #SDL

what do you mean 'normal tools'?

Is there any update on Colorblind support for Blue Prince? abletoplay.com/blog/accessi... Still pretty frustrated that the greyed out accessibility button was met with good faith (folks assuming it was a priority) and yet 0 updates have been made about it since launch.

A really useful question to ask these days is “What do you mean by authoritarian?” Like, actually unpack the word socially with others. I think a lot of the current established figure heads would have pretty specific answers that shows exactly how incapable they are to meet the current moment.

I am sure this is going to be totally fine with no fallouts or scandals: research.google/blog/learn-y...

SCMS highlights the work of member Kate Galloway, co-editor of Taylor Swift: The Star, The Songs, The Fans, alongside Christa Anne Bentley and Paula Clare Harper. The volume is now out with Routledge. buff.ly/nBT9L7Q

Today I am 31, it’s like a twenty first birthday but for my 30s.

Slow progress in figuring out interesting glazes now that I’m using electric kilns.

Thanks so much to @maxwellfoxman.bsky.social for this generous review of Enacting Platforms! ijoc.org/index.php/ij...

This Sunday, we’re hosting a back to school drive in Evanston with 500 free backpacks, all-day free haircuts, and free food by two of the best restaurants in Evanston! Drop by the Fleetwood-Jourdain Center this Sunday afternoon to start the school year with everything you need!

Currently playing Death Stranding 1 for the first time and I can’t believe they named the main guy “Uncle Sam Delivery Guy America.”

Finished my first non-workshop bound woodworking project: the tables for my wedding.

I feel like the interaction-as-cursor concept in game studies literature was thrown out there and left on the vine. The more stuff I read that says “interactivity” without really unpacking what that means (it can mean many things) makes me skeptical of it as a concept/topic. (Same for agency)

I feel like I need to admit I’ve been refreshing the P2996 issue tracker page once a week for like 5 months watching for updates.

The only issue I have with this article we already have designed for iffy internet. HTTP gain ubiquity _because_ it assumed failure was going to happen and builds recovery in from the start. It’s a modern issue that Webapps design for native experiences assume native reliability.

First pots I’ve made in about a year

So Blue Prince still doesn’t have colorblind filters huh?

I love game dev.