As I travel from freezing Berlin to incoming snowpocalypse North Carolina, I dream of California and the Mediterranean and think how many people in the world don't realize it is possible to live in places that entirely skip the misery of winter. The only ice I want is the ice in my cocktails.

"AI is the asbestos in the walls of our tech society." www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Amtrak is offering Euro style rail passes for $250. Within 120 days, use 10 trips within a 30 day period and get all around the US. I know a lot of people are unemployed right now. Maybe a big, cheap adventure will help clear your head? I'm hoping it will mine. Sale ends today!

hey train perverts wanna see the shinkansen cloaca

First day back in the US (back temporarily) and I'm in Charlotte, North Carolina in I'm at a hotel full of little girls in makeup for a cheerleading competition, throwing away my recyclables after a breakfast of bread that wouldn't pass EU regulation.

This administration has been great for people needing a fucking cigarette.

All I have to add on the crunch conversation is that I've crunched on games with MC scores in the 80s and ones in the 50s. The crunches were not appreciably better or worse. Crunch isn't the difference between a good and bad game. The bad things about the bad ones weren't things late nights fix.

Just 2 of 75 Democrats who continue funding ICE lets-address-this-with-qasim-rashid.ghost.io/did-your-dem...

The theme for January is that SNOW is pretty but ICE sucks.

The primary thing with AI voice we know: AI sucks. The secondary thing true of VO, art etc is the majority of people using it to fill a skills gap lack the XP to develop TASTE. Creating with quality is so far above their heads, they proudly share work that is not only soulless but mediocre.

Artist: Daniel Warren Johnson

Cancelled and they did ask me if it was about ICE and I said yes. Not the hugest traveler but I used Hilton often. Every person who calls, no matter how small their hotels counts. They will be having panicked meetings this week if the trickle turns into a flood.

according to the creator of beauty and the beast it's actually pronounced jaston

People warned me Berlin in January was grim and they were right. The sidewalks are ice and the daytime isn't getting above freezing. I don't miss 4 seasons. I want to give this season a miss.

We're hiring another freelance experienced gameplay animator! www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

important message to all bluesky users

An excellent read on #gamedev, especially after having been through starting a studio in 2025.

Reading LinkedIn posts where people are "beyond excited" to announce a new job and I don't know if I've ever been "beyond excited" about anything in my whole damn life. "Excited" is still pretty good, right?

Last night I went to an amateur stand-up night and the a comedian was from Kazakhstan. She was funny and riffed on how a Russian speaking Asian is confusing for racists. At the end, she went by me and I gave her two thumbs up because the host was talking but then I realized I'm an asshole because...

Sometimes all you can do is make the world 0.0000000000001% less awful by being a good person and it feels very meaningless but it’s also the only thing that really matters

Ok, so "slop" is a fine word for AI generated content. What do we call the people who are now useless husks without it? Like people who use AI for pictures that there are million photographs of or ChatGPT everything that is searchable?

Had a very shitty thing pointed out to me today, after I updated my "where I've lived" #tattoo. If you're someone who gets flash tattoos or original designs from artists, you now need (if you care) to ask if the image was #AI generated or not :/

This site is trying to reproduce the experience of watching MTV, with 27,000+ videos, no personalized content and even period correct commercials, Headbangers Ball and Yo! MTV Raps. wantmymtv.vercel.app/player.html

Yesterday I picked up my German Residence Card. Two days before that the President of the Country I am from threatened to attack a NATO country. 2026 is a real hoot so far.

It's a real trip to dig deep into social media history (to find the tattoo font) and see comments from people who are now dead :/

#Tattoo pro tip: if you're going to get any lists tattood on your body that might grow longer in the future and you have a PSD of that tattoo SAVE THE FONT WITH IT.

Watching videos on the situation in Venezuela, a lot of what went wrong was an economy over-reliant ona a single thing (oil) with no backup plan (like Norway did) for if that thing dramatically loses value (2008 financial crisis.) All the ads between the videos are for AI. HMMMMMMMM.

The only video from #NewYears small enough for BSky. Berlin does not fuck around. Lots of car fires, at least one flood, non-stock explosions for hours. Amsterdam is the only one I've witnessed closed to this.

Happy New Year FROM THE FUTURE!!!

I have 100% for sure done this at least once. AI is negware.

The Internet was not a mistake. The privatization of it by tech companies was. We should've all stayed on forums. I stayed at the homes of more people I met on forums from 1999-2006 than in the time since on "social media."

Someone needs to start an app for Californians who say "I miss having 4 seasons!" to trade places with Nordics/Germans/Polish in January and February. Better yet, make it a reality show called...

Watched the whole Netflix thing on Sean Combs. I always thought he sucked but now I know he really, really sucked.

Berlin's finest establishments

LLMs=This will replace your job and be your romantic partner! Also LLMs=Autocorrected "my phone data wasn't working because my AUTOPAY didn't work" to "my AUTOPSY."

#HappyBoxingDay to those who celebrate. HARHARHAR

A reminder for you "too cool for Christmas" hipsters or those just sick of the same old songs, that both The Killers and JD McPherson have excellent Christmas albums from the 21st century. This one hits a very specific note for LA transplants. www.youtube.com/watch?v=938G...

Stolen from @downieseb.bsky.social #merrychristmas #gamedev #3dartisrs

I nearly said "Happy 12/15/25 (and 25/12/25 to the Europeans!)" then I thought "I bet the latter is the whole rest of the world and as usual, the Americans are the assholes." So TIL...

A very Merry 25/12/25 to you all and remember, whatever the internet says, there are not 25 months. And yes, I nearly fell for it.

this stupid menu does absolutely fuck all. useless.

here's the 60 minutes cecot video part 1 of 5 - recorded/uploaded by and all credit to @jasonparis.bsky.social I just reduced background noise, chopped the 14 minutes into 3 minute segments each compressed under 100 mb for bsky's limits, cropped and rotated a few degrees for easier viewing on here

Amazing how anyone made anything before 2023!

What's up with peopling adding "...to say the least" to a sentence that is entirely functional and would be hard to expand upon?

There is a special place in hell for people who make AI that looks like stop motion.

I say this with zero irony: if you are even tangentially a part of a retro video game community, it is your civic duty to push back against this company and shun anyone who doesn't. This is fascism tapping gently at the door and as soon as you let it in, it's going to invite its friends.

In the early days of CG animation, we often made tool/feature requests to the engineers working on Maya, and more often than not, the initial response was “why would you want to do it that way?” The engineers had never used the tools for an actual production. A familiar disconnect with AI bros