The computer lost the mandate of heaven when the humble, helpful "program" was replaced with the insidious "app"

Now that I have a crop of sidequests, it's on to opportunities, the first of which is now finished! You can restore your health with a number of options from food carts, though someone may interrupt you before you can enjoy your delicious meal. #Griftlands #ThreeForAll #modding

1/3 of the game industry has lost their job in the last two years. Ubisoft closed two more studios today. Everyone is out of work. To that end I'm starting a new bundle to benefit a layoffs hardship fund. Game devs: please consider submitting your PAID games to the bundle, which will launch in July.

I like to say that I have good research skills, but there's an important caveat - when it comes to shopping or otherwise navigating marketing material or anything that costs money, that is a swamp of adversarial information that even I cannot navigate.

Sometimes Detroit Become Human clips hit my feed. It's infuriating because scattered 3-5 minute clumps of DBH promise potential, but then you remember the rest is filled with misery porn, empty allegory, and clunky interactions pretending to be grit, social commentary, and fun gameplay respectively.

Commentary: I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake

Far from being the crime ridden hell holes that conservatives want everyone to fear, cities are nexuses of thousands upon thousands of anonymous acts of compassion and kindness every day, like a steady stream of prayers for a better world.

Just had a moment where I stared at VSCode for 15 minutes before realizing, "Oop! Brain's out of gas. Time to put down tools for the day."

Yesterday's post-1.2 and somewhat glitch-rampant #Satisfactory co-op stream is now archived on YouTube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xsm8...

My inner 14-year-old is having a pretty good day today

this article is circulating with a COMPLETELY bullshit framing and clickbait lie about it, the "ai cybersecurity" firm is actually training AGAINST AI and the conan series is about helping people spot deepfakes and other gen-ai material, beginning with the famous robert smigel video mouth sketches

seeing the new final fantasy thing i'm not the only one who thinks that every 'HD2D' game is ugly, right? like ever since octopath traveler theres been a visual trend in these rpgs and rpg remakes that i think is just straight up Not A Good Visual Style. would vastly prefer an actual regular 2d look

Sorry to keep you waiting! DELTARUNE Chapter 5 will be released on June 24th at 11:00AM EDT. Here's the trailer if you missed it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5y2...

Oh goodness gracious 1.2 has some multiplayer ISSUES right now. We ended up bailing early because one of us couldn't even build things, even after a full game restart. (Which means it was a problem on the host end.) Might have to put this on hold until we see some encouraging patch notes.

Returning triumphant to Satisfactory co-op, now in illustrious (and sure to be multiplayer-jittery) version 1.2! twitch.tv/newbiespud

oh I love learning about indev stuff. here's a fun fact: during wanderstop dev I set up a spot in the animation test level that would automatically load bbc fish videos on the wall as a web-render-to-texture when I needed stress relief

no no you don’t understand, we only used AI for the part of the production pipeline where we didn’t want to pay employees, it’s different

"Instead of full-on sidequests," I said to myself, "now I'll work on one-time opportunities and random events! Those are only one encounter long and will be much easier and faster!" "Oh, right," I muttered several hours later. "What they lose in narrative complexity they make up in mechanics."

This is what every game developer sounds like right now.

Thomas Pynchon is the only realist writer.

trans rights motto / Twin Peaks reference in the background of Remedy's CONTROL: RESONANT promo image, happy pride :')

There's a video game coming out which used generative AI to make assets but is also "protected by Denuvo" which is just such a perfect encapsulation of how intellectual property law works and who it is for

Filed under "extremely late to this party" again, but count me among those deliriously happy that Sonic Racing Crossworlds is also a stealth Sonic Riders sequel

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.

these are getting weird

Sometimes (a lot of times) I think that my ambitions are a bit too big and that I'm a hack punching above his weight class And then some Hollywood producer self-aggrandizing leaks out and I realize, "Y'know, maybe I've got room to be more self-confident before it starts getting unhealthy, actually"

Sex workers have been banging the drum that moral panics around porn are a fascist project for years and years and people on this website still go "but it's ickyyyyy it's probably baaad for socieeetyyy"

Watched the ff7r part 3 trailer and can already tell I’ll need to do multiple playthroughs to romance all the weapons

I have no real exposure to Evangelion other than the cultural osmosis of every media property since then - and the Tenacious D mashups - but I am reliably informed that the upcoming Sonic Racing Crossworlds crossover is Extremely Funny and Good

Red Dead Redemption 2 was awful for gaming because now every cheap content creator posts a video of like, a game taking a shortcut when doing something inane like having a character saw through wood to show “oh look RDR2 actually rendered that for no reason but THIS LAZY GAME JUST HAS THE SAW CLIP-“

My current full-throated entire-chested Hot Take about AI is that we don't *have* "AI" in any sense of the term and we never did, to the point where even using those two letters furthers its false mythology, because everything claiming to be such is digital snake oil

had never seen this one and it's killing me

I'm over half a year late to this party, but - holy cow, Sonic Racing Crossworlds actually is all that, not least of which because they made the non-Speed stat archetypes - of which I'm most shocked by Power - actually useful and meaningful as playstyles and player expressions.

Sidequest 5 has gotten its second pass, and I even fixed some really, REALLY STUPID bugs today! Milestone's getting closer! For now, though, I'm probably taking the rest of the week off, since that FiD anniversary stream took a lot of my battery. #Griftlands #ThreeForAll #modding

As it turns out, the atmosphere in Marathon is so finely tuned to make you creeped out and jumpy, and you die so quickly, that pretty much none of the playerbase is receptive to this, so this dream is dead

Wouldn't it be "funny" if I tried playing Marathon during the free week but trying in vain to be the one friendly runner using proximity chat to try and negotiate instead of fight other players

At long last, sidequest 5 is first-draft complete! Just need to make another pass with tone indicators and I can call it good. Then it's on to opportunities and random events to get to my first-playable milestone! #Griftlands #ThreeForAll #modding

Every year for Pride, I repost Hue. I made him to send love and comfort to those who feel Pride isn’t for them because they aren’t out. You matter, you are valid, and it’s ok if you aren’t ready yet. Coming out is not a requirement for being part of this community. Happy Pride 🌈

The site and the people who operate it deserve a -lot- of flak for some of their decisions but this is twice now that they've (relatively) quickly reversed stuff people have overwhelmingly complained about.

Pride #Warframe #WarframeCaptura #FashionFrame #Yareli

After a brutal Monday back in the office, local project manager Jeff Parks has decided not to try and recover this week, but instead to simply damage boost through it. paletteswap.site/dif...

As I kind of expected, the weekend stream sapped some of my battery for this week's work, so mod progress is going to be on the slow side. Which is a shame, because I'm tantalizingly close to finishing the first draft of sidequest 5. But I didn't get this far by not listening to my body, so.

Yesterday's chill, casual #FriendshipIsDragons anniversary stream is now archived on YouTube! Thrill as we quietly reminisce about my nearly 13-year screencap webcomic about D&D and My Little Ponies! www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcPK...

No Satisfactory co-op this week due to lack of sufficient sleep across the average of players due to life circumstances. (Though this does mean that by the time we return, the main branch will have updated to V1.2, so won't THAT be fun.)