dont forget, together we are vastly stronger than all the billoonaires, a fact they spend a lot of money and blood trying to suppress

I don't get how people don't realize that a technology that replaces junior and entry level positions in a field destroys that field. There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.

Microsoft employees occupy headquarters in protest of Israel contracts. The protest encampment started today, and it’s the biggest escalation of the protests at Microsoft so far www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Remarkable account of the people who can't wait to join the American Gestapo and inflict pain ... and travel the world deporting poor people. Two Days Talking to People Looking for Jobs at ICE www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese now also names Microsoft among 48 corps aiding the genocide. Based on the reporting from earlier this year but perhaps lends credence beyond BDS's (and my own) claim that Microsoft is complicit.

Hi everyone I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing

Yoooo @nathangrayson.bsky.social

OH MY FUCKING GOOOODDDDDDDDD MATSUNO YOU ARE THE ETERNAL GOAT

Can confirm: 5calls.org makes this very quick and easy! The most immediate thing we cis folks in the U.S. can do to help our trans siblings right now is call our representatives, and this site makes that process extremely simple. 5calls.org/issue/medica...

at the very least it's a nepo baby choosing to facilitate the arts instead of inventing yet another torment nexus. like i imagine this is Bleak™ if you're an indie hoping this team had simply synthesized a philosopher's stone, but it would seem equivalent exchange still applies.

These folks seem pretty cool. Developers from around the world are eligible.

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

We have removed Tenderfoot Tactics from sale on @xbox.com in solidarity with @bdsmovement.bsky.social . We call on others in our community to do whatever they can to fight this historic injustice. Free Palestine 🍉

I'm not gonna hammer anyone over the head about this, but I will occasionally reshare this due to our both long- and short-term institutional memory loss. Take care in your work today!

The only appropriate response to this is impeachment and removal from office. Every moment the political press spends spinning out theories about 2026 and immigration polling is a minute they are not spending asking Republicans in Congress about their plans to enforce the rule of law

Fundamentally, no one believes the Dem base will truly get violent, and if they do, the cops will put them down, whereas everyone believes the GOP base will get violent, and when they do the cops won’t stand in their way. Foucault: “Politics is war by other means.”

another stylized aesthetic explosion experiment. still challenging myself to only use default sphere mesh + vtx warp + fragment fx, no particles. stylized discard instead of alphablend in fragment shader for a sharp contrast + glitchy pixel look. #gamedev #godotengine #wip #vfx #rtvfx #procgen

Moon Crash //

Here's a version of solving inverse kinematics using CCD (Cylic Coordinate Descent). The prevoius methods were analytical methods, this one is iterative, and starts moving into solving for an N number of bones. The p5js sketch: editor.p5js.org/admiralra/sk...

I wrote this post about the illusion that indie is a 'superior development style' about a week ago and waffled on whether or not it was still relevant enough to post. Aftermath putting up a podcast on the same topic today convinced me to finally shove it out the door. auratriolo.com/blog/2025/01...

The first gameplay trailer for Slay the Spire 2 has been revealed at #TheGameAwards! Step into the newly evolved Spire with a new and returning cast of characters, as well as an arsenal of brand new cards, relics, and potions ⚔️✨ What new strategies and challenges await...?

@chaosed0.bsky.social's pick: Beyond All Reason 🤖 "Free to play RTS where the standard format is 8v8 and thousands of units is normal. Very unusual to see an RTS where teamwork is so heavily emphasized. Their moderation team is very active and bans toxic people. Cool game."

yeah to non-shitpost for a second, I have close friends that this has happened to and it's extremely tragic. mid-20s mental onset illness in young men is A Thing, and it's really fucking scary and sad. people who loved him are probably agonizing over if only they had done something.

Here's a recording of my Tiny Glade presentation from the Graphics Programming Conference 2024: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jusW... It's an any% speedrun of our GPU-driven rendering, shadows, global illumination, water, and DoF, involving a few weird tricks.

After years away from game dev, I couldn’t stay silent about my people’s dehumanization. I made Dreams on a Pillow 🍉a game inspired by a famous Palestinian folktale about the 1948 Nakba. I’m crowdfunding it now—please back & share! 🔗 launchgood.com/1948

Why does 'finding the fun' fail so often as a design strategy? #gamedesign New designers are told to prototype and 'find the fun'. But the naive version of this is a garbage tactic that mostly results in poorly thought out prototypes that are never going to converge on gameplay.

Happy 2-year anniversary to Pentiment.

I wrote up this post on Breakpoint's replay system simply to share the knowledge with the world, but it got me a game dev job not once, but twice. Weird how a lot of the interview process is just proving that you know what you're talking about. straypixels.net/breakpoint-r...

This game dev post on Wizard with a Gun's use of deterministic lockstep is super niche, but I hope it helps someone someday. And it's weird that I'm using quite a bit of the knowledge in the new gig. straypixels.net/wwag-diverge...

I wrote this technical art post some time ago on mixing 3D and 2D for Wizard with a Gun. Seeing a lot of games come out with this art style lately, probably inspired by Octopath Traveler and similar games. straypixels.net/wwag-charact...