I know this isn't just the game industry, but it's the one I know, and the trajectory we are on will not end well for the world economic system as it currently exists.

this all makes sense to me and Ive seen implementations of these techniques in other games, but I still wish I was half as smart as this guy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXxm...

listening to the CBC, radio that has never once played an interesting or good piece of music, talking about the Junos and how amazing "canadian music" is Unlike the BBC, who actively acknowledges electronic music, rave, dub, house, trance, etc the CBC only plays singer songwriter schmultzy crap

like I said, AAA is dead a console should not be going UP in price 5 years later. I dont care that there are RAM shortages. you know what coulda offset the cost of that RAM? the $400 million they flushed down the toilet with Concord, a game no one ever saw or played

If you buy records / tapes / CDs / downloads / merch / anything from independent artists and labels you’re literally keeping underground music alive. Thank you for that.

People hate machines in 2026 A.D.

People hate machines in 2026 A.D.

Indies ARE the games "industry" now, if you can call it that the wealth-hoarding juggernauts will fire, replace, cancel, re-tool, and vaporware anything that doesn't look like "easy money" to them. Games are just lottery tickets to them, they are all racing to make 1 billion as fast as possible

Jazzpunk ($3.74) - in the strangest version of the Cold War ever, you guide your fisher price toy looking secret agent to solve (?) problems (????) by doing... things? (??????) it makes me think of the bizarreness of Lego Island, in a good way. store.steampowered.com/app/250260/J...

this means that the bar for an AAA break-even is set impossibly high. innovation is depressed bc who can take a chance when stakes are so high? but audiences tire of stale spectacle. the solution? spray more marketing dollars to capture the audience, make the next more spectacular! a doom spiral

Indies ARE the games "industry" now, if you can call it that the wealth-hoarding juggernauts will fire, replace, cancel, re-tool, and vaporware anything that doesn't look like "easy money" to them. Games are just lottery tickets to them, they are all racing to make 1 billion as fast as possible

I will drop hundreds on vintage/used nintendo stuff (nes, snes, virtual boy, gameboy, n64, gamecube, wii), but I can't think of the last time Nintendo was actually the recipient of my nintendo purchase money and I dont care to give them my cash at this point. Kirby on Switch is $114, go fuck yaself

This is the really big news here imo, its not just the sora app thats gone but chatgpt wont be doing videos either. This is a massive hit to openAI. Hopefully this hit causes internal bleeding that kills them as painfully as possible.

Louder: IT'S NOT YOUR FAULT IF YOU CAN'T FIND WORK. THERE ARE NO JOBS. I know it still hurts but Anna is 1000% correct here.

layoffs suck but I would be so happy to see Fortnite and other Games as a Service games sink into the fucking ocean so that investors could stop chasing that mystical unicorn GAAS sucks time/money/resources from not just the industry but from the world of players

I'm so fucking sick of watching my friends lose their jobs so that a man-child CEO can do kickflips off of a dinosaur or whatever the fuck meta is spending billions of dollars on 1 billion would've kept all of these people employed and happy for a lifetime. they flushed 73 billion down the toilet

The Resistance hacked the crossing signal in Denver. Need sound up.

the only email I ever want to receive is some surprise that Im inheriting a house, haunted or otherwise if its not about a cheap house I'm not interested

Sam Kieth died and Prodigy's Firestarter just turned 30 so I guess Im old and irrelevant... it feels like a night to blast Fat of the Land while reading my MAXX omnibus the 90s was a wild time for the arts, when rents were cheap and ideas were plentiful... I wonder if we'll ever get back 'Here'

picture, thousan words, etc etc

"What kind of TSA PreCheck Member are you"

You know how in a library no one’s trying to sell you anything? That’s how the internet was.

Genuinely give AuDHD people basic income and housing, give them a bit to settle into their routines and recover from the trauma of survival, and then be ready to see shit pop the fuck off

Resident Evil 1 turns 30 today (oof) played it way back in like 1997 in my friend's basement on a PS1. I think we borrowed CD from his cousin, we didn't have the manual or anything it was so stressful and horrifying, we'd never seen a game like that before. the game still feels haunted to me

but also, I dont prioritize efficiency. a lot of my stuff is VERY baroque. because I see this whole industry lean hard into efficiency and its created a blandess some of the best things in life are not efficient. a peacock is inefficient by design, thats why its so impressive

pouring one out for one of the greatest comic artists of all time The Maxx is such an amazing piece of work, had a strong influence on me

it consistently disturbs me just how beautiful toronto used to be and how far its come from that

this is absolutely true doesn't matter how many low income or luxury condo towers you build, they are just Banks in the Sky; theyre not priced to be affordable by anyone but investors who already own many other properties this is just another Stock to them, it has nothing to do with housing people

found a copy of Final Doom at the thriftstore for $2, not too shabby. I met Dario Casali (one of the creators of Final Doom) back in like 2012 when he was at Valve, I showed him an early prototype of Jazzpunk and he did not get it at alllllll

the other thing that needs to be absolutely fucking illegal: tinted windows if I cant see your face I cant make safe decisions about your sight lines and whether you see me or not. you're probably staring at your phone and not looking out for bikes if you want to tint the SUN wear SUNGLASSES

if you googled "cyberpunk" back in the 2000s, it was wild just how few results youd get, and how varied those results were in tone and palette bits of bladerunner and the matrix for sure, but lots of other interesting things too if you do it now its just rainy pink neon forever, nothing unique

if you googled "cyberpunk" back in the 2000s, it was wild just how few results youd get, and how varied those results were in tone and palette bits of bladerunner and the matrix for sure, but lots of other interesting things too if you do it now its just rainy pink neon forever, nothing unique

My counterpoint to this would be: you don't know what the game is until you're deep into making it this is only true if you're trying to leave the bounds of conventional genres and established tropes top-down design from before the production even began means that you cannot iterate along the way

does an indie game have any chance of success without the devs having to run a Discord channel for that game? basically, would I need to make a discord server for my next game?

does an indie game have any chance of success without the devs having to run a Discord channel for that game? basically, would I need to make a discord server for my next game?

young game designers: study these types of games there are so many tricks here happening simultaneously, to create the illusion of speed, depth, terrain elevation, etc so much respect for the devs who made this stuff sing on very limited hardware

this is a Toronto-centric reference, but every homeowner in the Annex looks like either Jane Jacobs or Noam Chomsky

this one hurts the most

"Just walk away. Give me your pump, the oil, the gasoline, and the whole compound, and I'll spare your lives. Just walk away. I will give you safe passage in the wasteland. Just walk away and there will be an end to the horror."

𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕹𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙 𝖎𝖘 𝖎𝖓 𝖒𝖞 𝖛𝖊𝖎𝖓𝖘 Film: EXR Cinefilm ( #ECN2 process) Camera: Canon F1, 35mm 1.2 #art #photography #miniature #kitbash #canon #film

𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕹𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙 𝖎𝖘 𝖎𝖓 𝖒𝖞 𝖛𝖊𝖎𝖓𝖘 Film: EXR Cinefilm ( #ECN2 process) Camera: Canon AE-1, 50mm 1.2 #art #photography #miniature #kitbash #canon #film

young game designers: study these types of games there are so many tricks here happening simultaneously, to create the illusion of speed, depth, terrain elevation, etc so much respect for the devs who made this stuff sing on very limited hardware

There’s just nothing to say, to people who clearly think shit like this is progress

kick, punch, its all in the mind

this whole technique would not be so controversial had it not so obviously changed Grace's face, in a way we've all seen Yassify filters do for the past 5~ years this belies that the training data here is not strictly about light behaviour, its contaminated by all the other AI celebrity beauty slop