A thought that has been in my head for a while now: if you use / promote gen AI products, you must hate your customers. Aside from the slop quality produced, you are: * increasing the cost of video cards * increasing the const of RAM Both of these effectively make your game/content more expensive.

"You canceled your account. How about we spam you daily about all our AI updates to our service?" - every tech company now.

I can tell it's going to be a bad election year next year and I am going to hate every single candidate and party. I'm on something like my 23rd political campaign fundraising text of the day and we're not even in the election year yet.

But it's very important to see the trick the tech industry is trying to play on us. If AI is in every product, and the states cannot regulate AI, then the states cannot regulate technology at all. This applies to basic consumer and anti-discrimination protections. These people are our enemies.

Despite being fully playable on Steam Deck since basically the release of the Steam Deck, my games are *still* apparently not eligible to even request that Steam review them to mark them as compatible.

I swear every time Windows decides to auto-update overnight it causes the loss of an entire day from having to reestablish working environment and context.

How much fucking time has been wasted in everyone having to hunt down and shut off automatically-enabled "AI" every time an app/OS updates?

All of the companies that make the software I use are increasing their prices, to account for an "investment" in AI. I'm sat here imagining how my clients would feel if I added 30% to each invoice, because I "really got into gambling".

Sometimes games get too real. In my current Dwarf Fortress, I have more bedrooms than dwarves. Some dwarves do not have a room of their own. Others have claimed more than one.

This does not instill confidence in this update.

Is is private equity? "In October 2019 Monotype changed ownership to HGGC, a private equity firm." Of course it's private equity.

Tis the season when all methods of communication become even more useless than usual thanks to the increased daily flood of spam. Black Friday. End of month campaign reporting. Cyber Monday. Giving Tuesday. No wait, now it's cyber *week*.

Apparently Disney+ is so desperate for subscribers now that they're now offering discounts with orders of cat litter. I'm not even joking. Got prompted for the discount on checkout. "Hey, we want you to associate our brand with ... cat shit."

Instead of doing a consumerism on "Black" Friday, consider supporting small businesses, dropping a few coins in someone's ko-fi or go fund me, sign up for their patreon instead. Life is expensive, things are hard. Drop coins to humans, not AI, or big corporations today. QRP with your links!

Let's get an indie ttrpg HYPE TRAIN going and recommend some cool games for people to buy/gift. If you're a small #ttrpg creator (or there's an indie game you really love) drop a quick pitch and a link below. 🚅🎲🎲🎲🌟🌟

Why I no longer want to play your game on my PC: "This game needs a controller" Plug in game controller. "Your game controller needs a firmware update." Install firmware update software. "The firmware update software needs an update." Task manager -> kill process. Start a different game.

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The number of big tech companies going all-in on AI coding and then completely fucking up is fascinating. I assume a lawsuit vs Google is coming for this one. "A system issue caused incorrect price changes to paid apps and one-time product prices between Tue, 28 Oct 2025, and Sat, 15 Nov 2025."

Some days you just have to give up on Confluence popping up its stupid AI suggestion box over and over while typing documentation and make a "README.md" instead.

Sometimes you're trying to maintain someone else's old code and it just gives you a headache. Today's example: topology = GetTopography()

In the two days since I woke up our Pixel Tablet to test Google Play builds again, it has downloaded 300GB of data, which is more than 2x the combined total over a week of all desktop PCs over used for game dev and with Steam libraries that are on the same network. What the *fuck* is Google doing?

Tonight I play the game of every portable test device being out of battery because it's been long enough since I last did a full suite of testing.

Fundamentally, what has happened to the US is a misinterpretation of "capitalism" as being "to succeed, we must eliminate the competition" versus what capitalist principals actually say, which is "to succeed, we must be better than the competition"

Romero didn't have the long-term results of cosmetic plastic surgery before Night of the Living Dead. Gunn only sort of had this before the commentary on rampant consumerism that was Dawn of the Dead. This is what the *actual* zombie apocalypse looks like.

2017? I'm fairly sure that's been the message since at least 1980. Probably earlier, but my reasonable memory doesn't go back much further. TBF in the 1980s it was probably just "millionaires"

When my cat gets happy, curled up in a lap and otherwise relaxed and getting all the pets and scritches he wants, every single natural tendency toward murder that is natural to a cat is transferred to his tail to beat the ABSOLUTE LIVING FUCK out of everything in range.

On top of everything else, I'm pleased to see Portland properly taking up the mantle of weird (complimentary), which Austin entirely gave up right around the same time that one guy decided to move here.

More than ever, I do not want "the internet of things". Most of the things would be better as LAN-only, or not connected at all.

I'd prefer to live in a universe where "a bunch of aggressive diseased lab monkeys escaped" were not the fifth-most ridiculous thing that happened in a day.

if you see this post, your actions are: - if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this - if you don't have a spare buck, just repost your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive

The desperate need to accumulate more and more at the cost of everyone else’s wellbeing should be classified as a mental disorder, and I will absolutely die on this hill.

Since we've renamed the DoD to "Department of War" here are my proposals for renaming other departments: Agriculture -> Department of Famine HHS -> Department of Pestilence Treasury -> Department of Death (and Taxes)

Have to love when FedEx needs a signature on a package, and you have on camera their truck stopping for about 10 seconds, driver never even getting out, and then driving off and a "failed delivery: recipient was unavailable" notification.

What are the eviction procedures when a temporary resident destroys a substantial part of your property? Asking for a country.

Been thinking a lot about this as I watch a project slide rapidly into AI adoption: what are the implications this has on the IP and the company value? 1/?

Of all the accounts on the lists today, this one that's been around for a while has to be the best representation of the current US government.

This is an obvious propaganda push, give the first post from almost every one of the accounts on this list.

i imagine there’s about to be an influx of MAGA chuds spewing their bullshit but i really can’t stress enough that if we don’t give them oxygen, they’ll get bored and leave. block early and often.

For some reason, today seems like a good day for the periodic reminder to block and move on.

So I guess Google is going to spam me once a day for every app I'm connected to that has the recent Unity security flaw, reminding me that the app needs to be updated? I didn't really need a functional inbox, right? I'm sure they offer an "AI" solution to deal with the noise they're generating.

Send this fake NY Times Wirecutter recommendation to every dad you know. It's the only way to save our neighborhoods.

First image that came into my head on seeing the preview frame.

There's definitely a part of me thinking that my internet being out right now but still having cell service is a case of "oops we turned that off a day too early"

Why I will always be angry about artists and their commit messages: Trying to track down changes that caused a build failure and seeing commit descriptions of: * Assets * Update * asdf * Changed * Change

Fucking Samsung mobile devices. I now have *four* that have split in half from battery expansion from the last 8 years. Absolute garbage. Guess I'm going to have to buy yet another Android test device.

There is a 100% chance on any project that a new programmer will come in and suggest using some tool feature or technology that the team tried in the past and found it caused more problems than it solved.

Quick napkin math: the Unity security flaw has so far cost me around $5K of my time for all the various updates it forced, if I were billing at usual contract rates. But since they're my own company's apps, I just get to eat that cost.

One cool feature of Steam is they provide a Harassment Zone for each game you announce. It's a place for people who hate progress to come and crap all over games they haven't even played. No, they won't help you moderate it, but hey, at least you can't delete it!

Hello my old friend errSecInternalComponent. Guess it's time to change a bunch of things at random and hope one of them fixes it. So nice of Apple to provide any kind of detail about why it's failing to codesign again with the same cert/keys and the same project that worked last time I ran it.

After building and installing software on a fresh Windows 11 system over the weekend: the "AI" bubble needs to pop immediately and everybody involved needs to never have a job in tech or a tech-adjacent field again. The install was a couple days straight of nothing but ads upselling "AI"