Seeing "$2500 Picnic Table Reservations" in the same breath as "a bunch of the people who worked on the best-selling game of 2025 just got fired" is kinda breaking me, man.

With so many games dependant on skin sales I'm genuinely surprised that genderswapped versions of characters are not more common. People will pay $20 bucks just to be a girl. More than that, even.

At this point it's just an act of spite and cruelty. I didn't feel safe travelling into the US this year, and I'm playing on ultra-easy mode. @officialgdc.bsky.social is so clearly saying it does not want non-US people of colour or trans developers to visit. www.gamesindustry.biz/gdc-confirms...

the push for AI is, essentially, the push for work output to *look* correct rather than *be* correct

It's not very subtle, is it

I feel incredibly bad for the musicians but this is going to be miserable for anyone having a lunch conversation

They waited way too long to say this and it had time to look so bad. Not really sorry for assuming bsky.app/profile/brya...

This is so damn evil, so blatant you have to laugh. For those who don't know, this event costs almost a thousand dollars but an affordable way to go previously was to hang out in the park and *only* have to pay for lodging and meals. Now the grass is gated off. Hope GDC dies out

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA They're platforming an ACTUAL NAZI NOW I'm laughing to keep from screaming

The emails. They found me. I don't know how, but they found me.

when I was a kid I thought executives at these big companies didn't seem smart then I got to college and saw the challenges of coordinating technical teams I thought maybe I'd underestimated them then worked at EA off and on a few years met some executives and quit because I was right the first time

I am shocked to learn this is actually underestimating costs, because it ignores the infrastructure costs. This video is lowballing it.

For years now, FPE has advised runners to move away from language like this because the words you choose to use do matter! Instead of saying something like "I'm so OCD" try something like "I'm very particular about this". "Absurd" in the place of "insane" or "crazy" is also my go to.

documentary dad said keep the tapes circulating, y'all know what to do

No, it does not. And I'm tired of telling people this. Mastodon's platform level controls did fuck all to stem the nasty habits that people carried with them from other places. FURTHER the platform level controls enabled some fairly uniquely shitty habits to develop.

In case you missed it: Inspiring message from ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot on International Women's Day #IWD2026

Pour les mêmes raisons, l’usage de l’IA en médecine, s’il paraît prometteur, est dangereux en ce sens qu’il défaussera les responsabilités sur les « algorithmes » Et on a vu au début du Covid à quel point certaines personnes ne voient aucun problème à accepter un « quota de pertes acceptables »

I guarantee that the SECOND billionares need fetal stem cells to make uncanny human wetware computers abortion will magically be legal again. www.newscientist.com/article/2517...

This reminds me of something Toni Morrison wrote.

Do I want to know what EA is planning to do to the corpse of Origin this time?

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unsurprisingly

#FROSTFATALES 2026 STARTS TOMORROW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 💜💛💜💛💜💛💜💛💜💛 (P.S. Don't forget to adjust your clocks 😉) gdq.gg/schedule

For International Women Day you should read Maria Ying books since we're a team of 3 women, so that's 300% women in the bargain. mariaying.itch.io

"Man with metal detector stumbled onto 80 year old aerial bomb, 700m perimeter installed" TFW your fun little hobby turns *very* exciting in the blink of an eye

here's another thing i hate: when companies change their AI computer voice to be more "human". under no circumstances do I want that. i want every computer in my life to sound stilted and weird because it's a computer, not a person, and it is a violation of natural law for it to speak in our voice

Happy International Women's Day to the original International Woman

happy international women's day annual reminder that the autistic women on your dev team are probably doing a lot of extra masking to compensate for the socially-acceptable lack of masking from the autistic men on your dev team yes, they're mad about it

I think this thread has the right of it, and captures conversations I’ve had with @byzantienne.bsky.social some time ago

Not only are those parents bad parents they want to make their bad parenting a problem for everyone else as well

new additions for this bold new era of mfs not knowing how to learn

if you want to know how important it is for you to do this math: the fees patreon took from me in 2025 add up to roughly 3 months of income. that's 3 months of income i would have paid taxes on if i didn't deduct the fees from the 1099. 3 months of income i never actually had!

There is no punk rock AI. To be into AI is to wed yourself to the worst billionaires in the world. And I think this makes the AI people crazy. You just can’t be into it and not be a shill for a corporation. You can’t be into AI and be cool. And it makes them all bitter weirdos.

You should hammer all these reps who voted yes on the KIDS Act. Additionally, keep contacting your other reps as well

currently exploring a voyager AU in which Harry Kim and Neelix tragically died in the season 2 finale Harry has been replaced on the bridge crew by recurring extra Lt. Joe Carey, while Kes got over Neelix's death basically instantly and is now hanging out with her pal Seven of Nine

happy day to all of my fellow international women 💖 abolish all borders and let's become post-national women 🤘

GDC is upon us and I will forever repost this as a warning, in case you run into this guy.

the No ICE in Minnesota charity bundle keeps smashing its goals and now is near its new $700,000 goal with five days left!! please keep sharing it around, tell people, buy it. you get many good games for a great cause. the funds raised here are going to make a difference 🎉

This neatly encapsulates The Dipshit Paradox: Any ignorance creating sufficiently damaging effects will become indistinguishable from malice. Any sufficiently damaging malice will be abetted by ignorance. We must never exonerate malice simply because it can easily be explained by stupidity.

Guess what just got added to UE5-Main :D Mesh Terrain lets gooooo #GameDev #UE5 #UnrealEngine

It's called "preprod" and they made it illegal in 2019

i think that one of the things that nobody in the mainstream talks about (yes i know we complain about it on here all the time if you think this is the mainstream oh boy) is how successfully politicians have divested themselves of any responsibility for anything at all

"I think the LLM is conscious" makes a lot more sense when you realize a lot of people don't grasp the interiority of other people. If you view other people as a series of inputs and utilities, it makes a lot of sense that you would see inert code awaiting your prompt as conscious.

Soylent Stream is people?!

we should go back to saying shards instead of instances. spin up a new shard. balance the load across all shards. "instances" is too amazon web services now. shard has whimsy and fantasy gaming origins

no it didn’t look at how herbert hoover got famous in ww1 scamming americans stranded in europe

this is really interesting: WoW quest to drain energy from young wildlife because warlock shit. you have the option to alter it so it doesn't kill them and takes your own health to make up for it. opt-in to a more punishing version, but anyone who cares enough to pick it would do in a heartbeat

I think there's a difference between creatives that want to understand their medium on every level and those that are there for the glory of the red carpet. An artist is a craftsperson above all else. Even if the final product seems effortless, it is the result of years of hard work and study.