Updated my pfp to this amazing Half-Life 1 player model of my kobold character by the outstanding @gmad.bsky.social. hire her!!!! Buy her and @coolgoblinzone.bsky.social's game chiaroscuro imago!!!!!!!

Yet again extremely angered that bluray rollout for PCs was stymied by Naked Greed and Cost Cutting, which means I have to do So Many Bullshit Hoops™ if I want to watch something I Physical Own In HD that it's *less* painful to just see if I can find some 180p wrong AR & speed youtube upload for it

Perfect might be the enemy of the Good but so is the Settling for Not Fucking Good Enough.

Wow yeah I'd totally memoryholed that thing

HOT TAKE: modern insistence that theres a 'right' way to design games is leading to homogenised cookie cutter games. That's why every game you played in the 1990s was a weird, enchanting delight and everything now is a bit stale and makes you feel like you've played it before. END HOT TAKE

Business Insider YouTube has these interviews that go basically like "yeah i lived like a rockstar, did heroic amounts of GHB daily, spent millions of other people's money, and got ten years for it. Do I regret it? absolutely not. anyway here's how to do the crimes."

Toujima Tanzaburou has a combat sequence that's a very close copy of one from Air Master, and I'm here for it

funko pop killed the toy art industry for a decade. they should rot in a way their product won't

Casey is right and should say it

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Rewrite of Lens Glint Rings now implemented for the modular layered approach, here's me playing around with 3 layers of Glint Rings with 2 layers of Glints. #UE5 #UnrealEngine #GameDev #TechArt #Cinematography

If your using genAi your a talentless hack with zero respect for others and the impact of it all but it’s not too late to drop it and learn to be cool again. Or don’t and be forced to drop it as you’re priced out of it.

Why were there gender-balanced teams at Sega in the late 80s, and why was this never the case again afterwards? I also provide a chronology of the industry's pioneers in Japan, while addressing the issue of gender discrimination, before discussing working conditions more broadly in a later chapter.

this is one of the most insane policies people are subjected to in Australia if you're in a couple, your partner's income is used to assess *your* eligibility for dole, disability, etc. if your partner makes a basic wage, *you* can't get help it's designed to keep victims in abusive relationships

Maybe it's because we work in an office where people will say "So I gave Gemini this information and it totally misinterpreted everything, but maybe we should trust the advice it gave for this other thing?" with a straight face, but the satire in Q-UP feels like it's hitting the nail on the head r/n

One of the unacknowledged advantages of this awful era is that it's revealing for all to see the putrid connections between great wealth and great power. The intentions of the oligarchs are fully exposed and more blatant than ever. But remember: We outnumber the oligarchs.

Financebro 1: "Spending is down, bro, we need to get the livestock to spend more so we can buy more yachts!" Financebro 2: "Don't worry, bro, I've got you! I talked to Brad, Chad and Spiff!" And Then Spending Went Down Even More, Because These People Are Idiots And Need To Be Shot

some people are so interested in saving face that they never reflect on why they lost it in the first place

You shouldn't have to be rich to have dedicated healthcare teams who actually pay attention to, communicate with, and all around give a genuine fuck about you

Rediscovered this electric article from 2020 by the great @duncanfyfe.net about the death of Sierra, a studio that was so so important to my childhood.

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what if Beyond Good and Evil 2 comes out before GTA6

Can't wait for the Ouroboros of Disneyland: Fortnite featuring Fortnite the Game: Disney DLC

dreamed that I made a video game called Re:Morse that involved decoding morse code messages to figure out tragedies going on all over the world

inviting the neighborhood kids to check out my Baudriyard

I love a lot of things Angeline Era does, but IMO its smartest decision is understanding that Mystery and Full Knowledge Of A Game's Scope are enemies that cannot coexist and its refusal to even _imply_ what completionism looks enhances its sense of atmosphere a thousandfold

Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine

Altman has been quite clear about his strategy. From the 2008 crash he learned that if you bind enough of the economy to your business you can do whatever you like; government will decide the rules no longer apply. What he's selling is unaccountabilty.

AI wrote the article, So nobody had to, AI edited the article, So nobody had to, AI illustrated the article, So nobody had to, AI wrote the adverts that paid for the article, So nobody had to. AI read the article, So nobody had to.

When I write about a game, the question I am always trying to answer is "why did this need to be a game?" And when someone uses AI, they are loudly answering "It Didn't!"

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This is a great read. Also: important to realise that this industry has become *persistently terrifying* for your favourite devs, and that is no atmosphere in which to be creative. Try to buy games, if you're able. Buy lots of games. Review and share them if you love them. Talk about them.

for me an exciting sense of exploration for me isn't a giant world map, it's being able to wonder if there's an entire world of things I haven't seen under any given bush, even that one I passed hours ago. a sense of inner life that defies "good game design"

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

Bad: got harassed on the train for wearing a mask Good: I told him the reason I'm wearing it is I got surgery to replace my mouth with a second butthole, and the power I felt when he looked disgusted and left was intoxicating

Yeah I work at TWIZVE Yeah you can't miss it

If these fucks don't feel *any* effects from their dogshit decision making because their political collaborators bail them out with *your* money each time, they'll just keep repeating the same shit again. tl;dr: bring back public executions for executives, it's in the name

if the devil's bargain we are forced to make as taxpayers funds this shit there should be a lottery where once a month some random dipshit cop is subject to honest citizens coming to their apartment and knocking stuff around and leaving without saying a word

as of today #half-edge can export .stl yes! it required like 11 lines of code lol

Believe in yourself, they say. Anything is possible, they say.

The studio that made the shitty coca-cola AI ad getting their teeth kicked in on socials bc of how icky bad it is, then the studio CEO coming out insulting and dismissing folks kicking their teeth in, and THEN releasing the worst ever cover up “hey we actually made this by hand” scam vid 🧍‍♀️

Rule #1 in art is never use someone else's art for naturalistic reference. You want a human pose? A structure? A landscape? A fruit? A machine? Look at the actual thing. Each removal from the source introduces errors which look increasingly unappealing. AI is so far removed it's essentially useless.

Using ai for reference is one way to legitimise it but also will make you worse in time. If you care about the art you make you should care about what influences it and where your ideas come from. The world is massive with tens of thousands of years of art and culture and history you can learn about

The most memorable thing I have about Target is the fact that after they died up here, a local drug dealer stole the stupid red concrete balls and rolled them like 3-4 km to his house to use as siege defense around his property

Delighted to learn who Ben Barres is today (although not delighted that this is why). Extra delighted to look him up on Wikipedia and find such a respectul and thoughtfully-written page, with nary a deadname in sight.

Anybody who has watched the Times pull this shit for ages knows this game. Good piece.

chat is this bad?

My level editor for Unreal Engine called Scythe just got a new major update! Here's what's in it: 🧵 (1/)

Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice. It doesn't have to be this way.

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