Drawn in 30 seconds

I'd like to like Control, but it seems to not want me to. This first boss fight (Tomassi) has such muddy visuals I can't tell where anything is, I can't see who's attacking, I don't understand why I'm taking damage, and it's just a bunch of chaos until I eventually die. Is the whole game like this?

Wife got me the Caves of Qud shirt for Christmas. Like it so much I'm thinking of buying myself a second one.

Was reading about Wendy Carlos, and I didn't realise she did the score to The Shining! And that's because she sort-of did, but also sort-of didn't. Also, Kubrick is a bit of a dick to composers:

Why do programmers get confused around the holidays? OCT 31 = DEC 25

Honored to write another Giant Bomb GOTY list: this time, the top 10 games from 2025 I'll be furious you didn't play you have one year you've been warned giantbomb.com/articles/xal...

Ford Falcon Concorde. This is what was taken from us.

Advent of optimisations! Start now and you'll be ready for the fastest Christmas Day ever. www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-Bw...

i cant believe i never realised before that to make a bitmask with set bits in [x0, x1), you can just do `mask = (1u<<x1)-(1u<<x0);` (obviously be sure that 0<=x0<=x1<32). ive used the degenerate case with x0==0 a billion times, but never thought to extend it. doh.

Went out on bad tires in the rain, and having established that yeah these tires are bad in the rain, did not immediately come back in. Aquaplaned at 80mph into a wall.

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My CHATGPT programming hack is pulling open the window and typing out what I need from it in regular language but as specifically as possible and usually by the time I've written those several sentences I've figured out what I need to do and I just close the window.

Every day a new obscenity.

From the 1966 Sunset Magazine “Sunset Cook Book of Breads”

RIP Chris Rea. I love that he fell in love with Caterhams so hard that he wrote multiple songs and did basically an entire album about them. Nerdy crossover passions make the world a better place.

Wife and I saved the day (again!). And just in time for Ficsmas.

Fun watching dudes discover the difference between amateurs and pros the hard way. I race motor cars. I'm pretty good at it. Put me in YOUR car on a track, I will do things with it you won't believe. But a pro? If I really focus, I could keep up for 10 laps. But the pro will go another 3 hours.

Why isn't there a WH40k factory game? Somebody at GW clearly hates money.

It is very funny that anybody in the W.H. thought this Epstein "disclosure" would do anything but make things worse. Absolute reality connection fail. I wonder if they, too, are just trying to spin the clock out until It Happens.

here's clips of Elise Stefanik getting brutally booed at an event today in her district

this is crazy, how am I just now hearing about this? youtu.be/QoOVqQ5sa08?...

For our Playdate game based on Firewatch, we wanted some collectible Forrest Byrnes posters with a creepy and threatening 60s-70s Smokey Bear aura. Scaring kids into not starting fires. So I made these.

Breakdown of where the money you pay for a game on Steam goes: - 30% goes to Valve, right off the top. - The remaining 70% goes to the publisher, and is split with the developer based on their contract. Usually the publisher will want to recoup their investment before paying the devs. ...

Who does she endorse for First Lady?

Don’t never let these old folk try to moralize to you fam y’all have no idea how chaotically horny y’all’s parents were at 9pm on Mondays

Oh, it's just incredible and effortless how Kristen Stewart dismantles and diagnoses the pathology and ego of Brando (and... well, all the dudes in Hollywood) here. www.youtube.com/shorts/_h-iK... There's just so many parallels to tech in this. And I'm so glad she's solid in herself to just SAY it.

Eliza is 50% off. It’s a fully-voiced visual novel about an AI therapy app. It was released in 2019, years before the idea of AI became what it is now. How much did it get right? What did it get wrong? Play it for yourself (play the whole thing) and decide. store.steampowered.com/app/716500/E...

a dumb idea i had yesterday

Oh, I guess I should plug our own games. Hey hi hello you can buy all of Minor Key Games' catalog for cheap as heck during the (checks notes) Steam Winter Sale! Except for EPONYMOUS, that one doesn't go on sale. I dunno, ask @piratehearts.com. It's good tho. store.steampowered.com/developer/Mi...

I am still confused by how in a modern OS I can't trivially limit how much CPU time, disk bandwidth and network bandwidth an app gets to use. It should be right there in the Task Manager. Like - that's the whole point of an OS - to manage that stuff. So why not let ME THE USER manage that stuff?

My regular reminder to you of what an innovative comic MISTY was. To retell the tale, my wife dug her annual out of storage a few years ago. "You should read this." "A girl's comic? Oh, come on, it'll be all gymkhanas and sleepovers and... HOLY SHIT." Reader, it was not all gymkhanas and sleepovers.

I don't mention this often to avoid hurting indie font developers, but: Unless law has changed in last 20 years, in the USA, bitmap fonts are not covered by copyright, only outline fonts (basically because the latter are programs). So bake game fonts to bitmaps and no license is required. IANAL.

To my trans folks. I'm so sorry these assholes have decided to single you out for just trying to live your lives. It's a disgusting attack on a person's simple right to exist. I hope one day we bring them all to account - no tolerance for intolerance. Trans rights are human rights. Love you all.

Indie Dev discovers the game they're making basically already exists, worried of being deemed a ripoff. Original dev responds.

INFORMATION WANTS TO BE FREE (trying again)

If I was a US naval pilot right now, looking down the barrel of orders to invade Venezuela for no reason whatsoever, I would be plotting a list of possible flight plans within my fuel radius to claim asylum. Places like Jamaica have historic ties with the UK. Maybe Belize is in range?

Not sure how to classify this game. What genre is it even - a herd-em-up? It's gorgeous is what it is. Very intrigued. Well done @benthroop.com ! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qtf2...

I wish nothing but the worst for Google.

Even Hitler and Putin made some sort of effort to make up a justification story. But Donny can't even be bothered to do that - just directly stating it's for the oil.

My "No Graphics API" blog post is live! Please repost :) www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-grap... I spend 1.5 years doing this. Full rewrite last summer and another partial rewrite last month. As Hemingway said: "First draft of everything is always shit".

My take on Wiles is that she is very deliberately talking out of both sides of her mouth to achieve two things. The first is to destroy the WH/GOP even faster. The fight over whether she should go or not should be pretty entertaining and cause some lovely infighting, while the Dems eat popcorn.

low-poly - fun - imagination fills in the gaps - room for all kinds of cool tricks medium-poly - finicky valley of pain - nothing interpolates correctly - jaggies everywhere - despair high-poly - fun again

I think it's kind of beautiful that this was Rob Reiner's final line on television

I beg your pardon

incredible things happening at the nazi bar

As you may know, I have stopped using Twitter, and have decided to reproduce some of my more memorable threads here for posterity. Here’s one I hold wrote after a particularly engaging swordfighting lesson. Buckle up, swordfighting fans, because I *have* studied my Agrippa! [BIG ASS THREAD]

Just noticed that some of Amazon's pricing automatically shows you the cost in dollars per foot, which is very clever for lumber, but very silly for charging cables.

talking to blorbo accounts for over 50% of AI use openrouter.ai/state-of-ai