I dunno, man. If I have to keep calling my representative and screaming at them to not vote for stuff like the Nailing Babies to Wolverines Act, and if I don't they'll vote to nail babies to wolverines, then it seems to me that person shouldn't be my representative.

Genuinely incredibly fascinating study in what marketing vectors lead to literally zero sales here, wowwww kotaku.com/king-meat-gl...

refering to ursula k. le guin's thoughts on tech for a videogame mechanics discussion walls are a mechanic, turning is a mechanic, hitstun is a mechanic, jumping is a mechanic, physics are a mechanic, a ton of load-bearing mechanics aren't really that flashy and they don't need to be

Furi is on sale at 80% off right now. While I haven't played the game itself and I'm not sure its boss rush deal would be my thing, what I can personally say for Furi is that its original soundtrack happens to be a best-in-class banger of electronic tunes: store.steampowered.com/app/423230/F...

Not continuing to still manufacture and also provide decent software support for electronics using older, cheaper, lower-power components, even as newer ones have been developed, is a grave mistake that we are only now beginning to feel the consequences of.

As the last 4 years have shown, there are few things more dangerous than a technology which does not exist but is being sold on the premise that it does. Imagine how dangerous it would be to have a machine that people believe reads thoughts but does not. Imagine what law enforcement would do with it

The thing about how "pixel art was designed for CRTs" always kind of annoys me because: Pokemon wasn't. Pokemon was released on the Game Boy, which used a liquid crystal display. Nobody ever seems to think to bring this up. Drives me mad!!!

Developer attempts to replicate "Liquid Glass" in CSS, and once finished realizes what she'd actually created is an exploit for a fundamental, previously unknown, and rather serious browser vulnerability lyra.horse/blog/2025/12... "CSS hack accidentally becomes regular hack"

doctor who is a scam designed to make it hard to organize your video files

Also, referring to a lot of separate and distinct language models, stable diffusion models, etc. collectively as "AI", as though it's some unified thing, is fucked up. You are using the language of your enemy. And your enemy chose this language to make it harder to communicate about their actions.

The reason why LLMs aren't AI is because they simulate language and language is a second-order effect of intelligence, not intelligence itself. In other words, there's a fundamental detachment rooted in how you don't need language to be intelligent, and you don't need intelligence to use language.

My immediate reaction to Metroid Prime 4 is that it's not a Prime game. Why? Well, there's more than a couple of factors

Anyone have suggestions for a hosting provider less likely to fuck this up than AWS? I'm not picky on price. I've been paying a premium for AWS because, at least up until now, it meant I could set things up and then just not worry. 8½ years without an incident, but then this big fucking mess.

holy fuck this is ridiculous, how can we claim games are art if art is this scary to our two primary distribution channels?

Fuck VirusTotal and its vendors for labeling an old open source library I host - and as far as I know I'm the only one still hosting it - as malware, for no apparent reason. Resulting in an entire server of mine being taken down and resulting in a very frustrating process of trying to get it back up

Do any of y'all read books? Novels? Like, as a regular occurrence? It seems like no one else ever reads these days. Literally cannot recall the last time I saw someone else holding a book or e-reader. I wish I had someone to discuss books with.

@uzdoom.bsky.social UZDoom is forked under a

i generally think it's a good thing for a game to be book-like, in the sense that you can flip to any "page" (game state) relatively unimpeded, which i feel is a more radical position on difficulty than "dark souls should have easy mode"

drawing parkour/menus on one axis and mystlike/skinner box on the other

Dang, the more I hear about KSA's development the more faith I have in it being a worthy successor to KSP (Don't let the mention of LLMs mislead you. They're not vibe coding. It's about LLMs as a tool for web search, which they are in fact very good at.) www.gamedeveloper.com/programming/...

One day soon, a politician will claim that a compromising photo or video was generated by Sora or Veo or NBP or what have you, and the company owning that generative media platform will release a public statement claiming that they analyzed their records and found this to be true. Only it won't be.

No, this is a smokescreen. The real money isn't in consumer spending. Consumer ChatGPT plans will remain cheap or free as a lure while Altman & co. suck enterprises into their ecosystem and make them absolutely dependent to even kind of function, and then they squeeze.

Day 2,000 of fighting the urge to drop everything and make a 3D automation game

I remain forever baffled over how Lua of all languages became the gold standard for performant and easy to implement embedded scripting capabilities

Exit 3A at night 🚚🌃

This is what it’s like to read about the American governing elite right now.

Rip and tear until it is done? No, shred and grind until it is fun, dude 🙂🤙

You GOTTA stop being so desperately afraid of the audience. Look at me. Look in my eyeballs. Stop being so desperate for approval. Stop writing for the whiny babies in your audience and start writing for the freaks who like cool fucked up shit

Truly remarkable the way some folks can't handle it when you're rubber and they're glue (& anything they say bounces off of you and sticks to them). Really takes a special kind of jerk to keep insulting you again and again seemingly out of desperate frustration that they simply cannot hurt you, huh.

10 years old and maybe never more relevant than in contemporary software development www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/08/2...

Visual storytelling. Video: x.com/atrupar/stat...

A new sect may have been formed to capture the "whispers" in the woods for @ironwood.bsky.social's Pacific Drive expansion👁️‍🗨️ Thanks to the vancouver indie camp members, and uh sorry to the campers across the lake. ⛺ *Use headphones for a binaural experience

they're treating a Nazi takeover of the federal government as no big deal and the possible election of Zohran Mamdani as the end times. it's a remarkable job of failing to meet the moment, and the most revealing sign yet they don't want to do anything at all except cling to party power.

Alright, y'all. One leftist mayor got elected. Meanwhile, the Trump admin is very intent on making sure there are no more elections. This is a very small win. Don't celebrate yet. You aren't voting your way out of this new Nazi regency. You have a hell of a lot more work to do.

US citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents children would be coming to get bus, lawyers say

Kings aren't bound by laws, after all. Though history does contain a number of examples of what else one can do with malignant regents.

Frank Herbert on LLMs, from Children of Dune (1976):

When the market becomes inured to arbitrary tariffs and can no longer be so easily manipulated by them, the administration will resort next to arbitrary wars.