I currently cannot overstate my desire to gorge upon the cheapest, greasiest, cheesiest cardboard pizza known to man right now

Yes, translating your game costs money, but it’s an investment that provides future returns and shows your audience you respect them and their native language. It’s one thing for a small indie to do it; it’s another for a dev and publisher who has the money for good, human localization.

It's been a "time for Nap 2: Electric Boogaloo" kind of day

oh my god this is extremely funny

you kinda have to have brain worms in the first place to accept any notion that people who aren’t bothered enough to do anything about an open pedophile ring involving the president and keep trying to legalize child marriage in various states suddenly care about protecting children

kind of seems like the people saying data center energy use is overstated were full of shit

The real theme of the modern age is "Nobody Wants This". AI, ICE in airports, ICE in general, the Iran War, data centers sending actual cities wiht people into blackouts -- "nobody" wants this. And yet here we are.

"Sorry we got caught!" I'm out of disbelief suspension for folks not putting big pink and black square textures so they know to remove em. you only do this in 2026 if you're trying to be slick, get outta here

Good news: Second of two extremely stressful disability evaluations cleared, now the ball's back in their court. Bad news: Still probably not getting medical insurance or food stamps back before that resolves.

I still get amazed that somehow standard like USB and 802.11 and HDMI not only were assembled but they were adopted worldwide. My friends some of you don't remember but there was a point in time where if you needed to plug something into the computer you cleared your schedule for the day.

Here you go

The only book that really made me go "Hmmm" was Lord of the Flies in middle school, but I was also the quiet nerdy kid who spent all his spare time hiding in the school library reading random novels, so I'd say I'm a poor measurement for appropriateness.

Jesus, they weren’t bloody joking.

Hey, uh, the fact that Microsoft is starting to push "age verification" pull requests through for open source projects that have, up to this point, been privacy-focused should be fucking ALARMING to folks. Doubly so when Lennart Poettering - the dude who favors breaking POSIX - is the one approving

(Content Warning: misophonia / gross mouth noises) (Audio by GreatDinn, video by me) For your consideration:

Tenno, the direct invite system is temporarily disabled as we investigate improper game invites being sent to players. Full PSA here: wrfr.me/4bXlTuU

dang, the final lost MST3K episode was JUST found at a garage sale, and now it's on YouTube for all to enjoy. watch and be astounded that a 38-year-old VHS recording held up so nicely: youtu.be/u_Z4hnagGLE?...

(Content Warning: misophonia / gross mouth noises) (Audio by GreatDinn, video by me) For your consideration:

Rounding out this week's effort: The first sidequest (of 25) for Sweet Moreef is now in the game, with all first-draft non-placeholder dialogue! I forgot how time-consuming sidequests are to build. It's like theater. Casting, staging, blocking, murder... #Griftlands #ThreeForAll #modding

My son came up with the best term for the DLSS 5 and other weird GenAI non improvement (at least the first time I've heard it): "Sloptimization". It's perfect. No notes.

Fighting off the nightly brain weasels with some 80s pop rock

Thinking about how angry I got over Fairy Fencer F (because every once in a while, as a creative, you should hate-consume something just enough to be inspired) I think what made me the most angry was how it took one of my favorite genres - Self-Aware Fantasy Protagonist - and did NOTHING with it

Perfect

After much painstaking effort, I'm now all caught-up (as far as mastery and arsenals are concerned, minus a couple of seasonal items) in both 'Frame games - @soulframe.com and @warframe.com! And a founder in both!

I still remember when RTGame may or may not had caused Meta stock to plummet thanks to a Livestream of their Metaverse youtu.be/35_dsRdZ278?...

Everyone has a dumbass conspiracy theory and mine is that Meta's virtual reality stuff contained a money laundering scheme. You'll never make me believe they lost $80 billion dollars in 5 years for real on developing stuff that looks & works like that. Nah, someone was squirreling away something man

just saw that video with the tire men. but how do I make this about #FinalFantasy #FFVI

see? here's the thing. A lot of people are like, the earth is fucked, it's beyond salvation, it's hit the tipping point, but time and time again we see that if we just fucking fixed the problem, it rebounds so incredibly fast. Imagine what could be done if people actually cared

this one hurts the most

Hypothetically.

These are valuable facilities they’ll be guarding, and I certainly hope they’ve fixed the problem of using a wifi jammer to kill their cameras’ connection to the security feeds, one person flipping it with a pole and another then pulling up and back on the battery handle on the now exposed belly.

Portland pothole artists are seriously my favorite people. If you know one or are one and would be willing to talk about your craft, please DM

billionaire being interviewed: i havent listened to a single note of music in 27 years. think about it, music was basically invented, what, maybe 50 years ago? interviewer: this is really interesting

Sorry to repost from twitter but you must see this

don't worry video gamers: dlss5 will also be an option for your favorite retro video games

Going live with more Satisfactory for family co-op gaming night! twitch.tv/newbiespud

DLSS 5 OFF // DLSS 5 ON

Finally, with the power of NVIDIA, all protagonists will be Scarlett Johansson.

Good news: I'm finally at the task of making quest content for the mod Bad news: Making quest content for mods is a very involved process with a lot of moving parts and fine details

Guy who made 800 million dollars selling a website named ToodleCo to Yahoo in 1996 and has done nothing since then but now has $100 billion: the concept of “human kindness” was invented by bolshevik psychologists in 1953, no one heard of that term until then Podcast Host: fascinating, I have worms

Didn't have "Recover my ancient Newgrounds account just in case that turns out to be a safe haven during the internet apocalypse" on my 2026 bingo card, but here we are

No one: Me: I kinda wanna play DEATHLOOP again.

It's striking how much mental health advice directed at kids and teenagers boils down to saying "you have to be okay with people treating you like you're not fully human because they're right, but it's okay because one day you WILL be human", then being genuinely surprised when it doesn't help.

Keeping an eye out for a suitable escape pod from Discord (which itself was just an escape pod from Skype for our Fallout is Dragons group chat) but with the awareness that a lot of projects posturing in that direction are either honeypots or future sites of enshittification themselves