Last couple of days I've been trying to fashion my own homemade midi breath controller, a specialized electronic instrument that retails for hundreds of dollars... ...and boy, did I nail it! Using a headset mic, masking tape, a paper straw, some lego pieces and an inexpensive audio plugin = $40. 😆

The kind of mindset that makes a species want to build a Dyson Sphere is guaranteed to make it extinct in way, way less time than it takes to actually build a Dyson Sphere.

Me: found a great sampled instrument at pianobook and it’s totally free! 30s later: …and it can only be played with the $300 Kontakt 8 sampler.

Major outage with GitHub Git Operations. There is a non-zero chance they let some AI push code to prod without review.

Applies to most western democracies.

Three episodes into Pluribus, I'm getting the sense that the whole setup is a metaphor for ChatGPT.

don't want to meet the case where the 'or eyes' clause isn't redundant

You know, I had my theories like most of you, but… I gotta admit this was not something I could have imagined in a million years.

Make him a force ghost or something, I don’t know

I need an advice, I don't feel confident when working with colors, I mean every time I need to pick color or palette it's always kinda struggle. Do you have any advice or a suggestion to get better, to learn color theory? #needadvice

Someone tell me what Arc Raiders is about and why I should not play it.

YES!

Find the missing piece

There is hope after all. Thank you @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

It's not a good sign when there is a webinar just for upgrading one's project to a new Unity version.

@oskarstalberg.bsky.social’s excellent presentation on efficient and flexible tile-based procedural generation: #gamedev #gamedesign

Bluesky algo seems to have storytelling chops of its own

The two states of me

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Having that parenthood moment where you say yes to a ton of things they ask for, and still end up being the asshole because you said no once.

They'd probably have a better market in... long distance relationships.

Hope this holds.

Thanks, Disney, for reminding me I used to pay and still see ads. 🖕

Have they admitted consuming a succulent Chinese meal?

I'm forcing myself to make Eilands on my potato PC so that it will be optimized for low-end PCs by default, but man, it's like... 😪

Because men casually dismiss them the first two times?

Really looking forward to this game: "The focus is on interacting with a rich ecosystem and developing a unique culture, rather than engaging in combat or territorial domination." Made by the cool folks @badcog.bsky.social. Give them a follow!

lol Netflix are u trying to start a fight?

A hard truth is that the search for artificial general intelligence as a commercial tool is fundamentally a reproduction of slavery. Not because computers are people or anything so silly, but because of the impetus: To acquire the products of humanity without the need for a human to consent.

Working with Unity terrains? Are you adding or removing trees and runtime? Having issues with colliders not matching the tree state? Apparently Unity won't refresh tree colliders unless you disable/re-enable the whole terrain collider. If you have a better way of doing it, let me know!

Finally done with all the undo/redo commands. Every action in the game can now be rolled back and reapplied! And boy, did that surface a ton of technical debt, but it's all under control now... 😅 #gamedev (reported with alt text)

Another Fermi Paradox explanation: aliens have put our solar system in quarantine because they don’t want this cancer spreading further.

Enjoying Battlefield but on nights I play, it takes me forever to fall asleep. Does this happen to anyone else?

I’m thinking I might be in the market for a community builder/social media marketer type of person for my game some time in the near future. Know anyone who’s got a good grasp of the cozy game audiences?

Enrico Fermi: “Where are all the advanced alien civs?” Humans: “Well maybe they destroy themselves too soon with like environmental disasters, artificial intelligence, political implosion, societal collapse, weird antichrist shit… here let us demonstrate.”

What's it like inside your head?

Took my kids to the Halloween dance party at their school gym. 10/10 sensory overload. And that was before they started playing Golden from k-pop demon hunters, and the place went BANANAS.

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Ah, that's why nobody likes Star Trek or Star Wars. Makes sense now.

Me, a Unity dev, looking at Unreal positions

Variation of “Honey, have you seen my keys? Can’t find my keys.”

Universal rule of debugging with teams: You will discover some stupid mistake you were making and resolve the bug with a trivial fix, within minutes of asking for help on company slack channel and setting everyone off on a wild goose chase.

Rider: The AI assistant plugin is not compatible with the version of Rider you are using. Me: Good.

“We are going to make them pay their fair share in taxes to fund our school, to fund jobs, to fund healthcare, to fund transportation.”

Sadly not in the sense that everyone's busy making cool impactful indie games.

Layoffs imminent then?

The vehicle

Incidentally, I don't think I'd use any communal holodecks in the future.

You know, one possible explanation of the Fermi Paradox is that aliens just end up building virtual worlds that are more compelling than space exploration, so they don't even bother... It just never had occurred to me that particular compulsion could be gooning to AI slop.