I saw The Death of Robin Hood yesterday, and I just want to say it wasn't surprisingly to see Robin Hood and Little John turned into villains, especially when one of the executive producers is listed as "The Sheriff of Nottingham."

I understand _why_ this works this way, but is there an option to readd the "I understand the SSL cert is fucked up in some dumb little way, but it's highly unlikely this site is actually compromised to the point where I shouldn't even view it, load it anyway" button?

John Oliver just did an episode about the destruction of New College, and I have to say, he made it look like goofy conservatives doing goofy conservative things and not an absolute fascist nightmare. If you ever get a chance to see First They Came For My College, you should, I promise you.

"Come to watch me dip my hands into Chocolate Doom, but stay to hear my dog Clementine sigh deeply because I'm porting games and not playing with her. :)" www.patreon.com/icculus/post...

I Saw the TV Glow is free on YouTube! (with ads) www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYxQ...

I can confirm there is in fact a cow rescue in there.

In case you ever wanted to have your name in a YouTube video, this is your chance! I'm adding patrons to the credits of the video I'm publishing shortly. Details are here: www.patreon.com/icculus/post...

"Oh my god, they made a Broadway musical out of The Lost Boys, that's so embarrassing!" *compelled by my genetic code to purchase tickets anyhow*

My only hot take for the Tony awards is that André De Shields deserves way better than being in fucking Cats.

Here's an easter egg in the new Lego Batman that I think all of you will REALLY appreciate. It's so good, I had to make a video.

SDL_sound has been updated to work with SDL3: github.com/icculus/SDL_... For those on SDL2 still, we did a final 2.0.6 release today, too: github.com/icculus/SDL_... I'm running out of satellite libraries to move off SDL2!

This whole thread is great and it was hard to pick any specific piece to share, but this advice is a very good starting point.

SDL3_mixer bugfix release! github.com/libsdl-org/S...

I hear there are censorship issues on BlueSky now. I'm shocked, shocked. Is there some reason you _have_ to tolerate this place? We could all just leave, our middle fingers trailing in the air behind us. What is it about BlueSky that you actually _need_ that you can't get from, say, Mastodon?

Busy SDL day!! Monthly SDL3 bugfix release 3.4.10 is live! github.com/libsdl-org/S... …and SDL3_net is officially released! github.com/libsdl-org/S...

Completely unacceptable.

Can we bring _at least_ this level of whimsy back to operating systems? On Haiku, if your app crashes, the confirm button says "Oh no!" unless you choose "Debug," in which case it changes to "Oh yeah!"

Thanks, @chess.com, “Your blunders demand immediate attention” is 100% getting slipped into conversations from now on.

SDL3_net is at prerelease! We'll probably move to an official 3.x release soon! github.com/libsdl-org/S...

Just trying something. Our Girl Scout cookie season is over, and we still have 85 boxes: 510 dollars worth of cookies. If people PayPal me, I will give these cookies out to nurses, Waffle House employees, and any other good requests y'all have. paypal.me/rcgordon

I have a lot of feelings about Merrily We Roll Along that I won't bore you with, but they filmed the 2024 version and put it on Netflix, and man, "Franklin Shepard, Inc" is an amazing piece of work from both Radcliffe and Groff.

I don’t understand people clicking the “I promise an AI agent didn’t write this patch” checkbox, that then paste pull request description text that an AI agent clearly did write. I guess we never said you _couldn’t_ do that explicitly, but what the fuck, everyone.

Cookie Queens trailer is out! Come see us in theaters August 7th! youtu.be/nnSQS43Eil8

Monthly SDL3 bugfix release is out! github.com/libsdl-org/S...

I feel like the hardest part of the GPL3 anti-tivoization clause to explain these days is what “TiVo” is

I love what Amir wrote for DragonRuby Game Toolkit’s seventh birthday. Making something you want to use yourself is so good. Go grab yourself a free copy! dragonruby.itch.io/dragonruby-g...

Hey, guess what platform SDL3 just merged support for?

Honestly feel seen.

I'm so shit-soaked in AI conversation after the last 24 hours that I will just point out that ChatGPT couldn't even successfully understand the webpage where we told it to fuck off. I'm sure OpenAI-based Copilot understands the nuances of your codebase much better. chatgpt.com/share/69e11b...

Life hack: don't ever do a single thing that will get people on Hacker News to discuss you.

That weird thing where you somehow brew a pot of coffee while deciding if you should go back to sleep.

Also, we're starting to catalog tutorials in other languages on the wiki. Arabic went up today! If you're helping people to learn about SDL in languages other than English, we want to highlight your work! wiki.libsdl.org/SDL3/Tutorials

The SDL organization has an official position on LLMs and generative AI now: don't use it. github.com/libsdl-org/S...

SDL 3.4.4 (a bugfix release) is out now: github.com/libsdl-org/S... Also sdl2-compat: github.com/libsdl-org/s... Also sdl12-compat! github.com/libsdl-org/s...

Couple things that have been grating on me forever in Ubuntu, that I'm definitely noticing aren't there to grate on me in a default Fedora install. I have Fedora on a throwaway Chromebook I'm going to use while traveling...kinda considering making the plunge on my main machines now, too.

Man, the stuff people are doing on the Playdate is _amazing_.

Oh man, Cookie Queens won Festival Favorite at SXSW!

This is huge news, and a giant gift to the public good from Eric.

On the way home from SXSW! Had a ton of fun in Austin, and at the Cookie Queens screenings. Got to see First They Came For My College, and it broke my heart in half. Absolutely required viewing for understanding how fascism devours, and who it digests.

Oh man, we’re going into movie theaters. 😳 deadline.com/2026/03/megh...

Definitely not a metaphor.

There needs to be a technical term for the threshold where it becomes more efficient to write and debug a throwaway script and where it's more efficient to just miserably do something manually.

Okay, enough of all this anti-war sentiment, let's talk about Hair.

We have always been at war with Eastasia.

Getting around to watching the State of the Union. Finally hit the part where it goes off the rails, as you knew it would. People are starting to yell at each other.

Disaster.

Cookie Queens is screening at SXSW! March 13th and 15th. If you're near Austin, come say hi! schedule.sxsw.com/films/2253649

A deck-builder game about suing a shithead billionaire? I didn't even try the demo before pledging the kickstarter. :)

Not only was Firewatch incredible, but the wild marketing done outside the game was honestly brilliant: you could mail order your in-game photos and they would send you printed copies, and one person actually wrote in to order a paperback from the game and _they produced and sent it to him_.

I wonder if there are any 80s kids watching the Olympic opening ceremonies play the Triumphal March from Aida, who just got their shit rocked because they always thought this was the opening theme to The Hobbit on the C-64. youtu.be/l3w4I-KElxQ?... youtu.be/4ZLD0tBuEbA?...