Don’t forget to vote Californians

Lavos, the alien monster intent on destroying all life, has emerged from beneath the planet's surface to endorse Andrew Cuomo in the New York City mayoral race. "Cuomo has the experience and character necessary to lead," said Lavos, while fire rained from the sky

Anyway even if Google responds to my email and they have a work around I might just be done with them. I can just move my apps to itch.io. But what I worry about is that any Google presence I have could just arbitrarily decide to publish personal info one day and I would not know.

I hope this gets some visibility so other Android developers can avoid this trap. chng.it/XcTSczFbpm

Which surprises me as well is the internet was pretty silent about this. I expected people to get upset like they did when unity messed up. I did find a few grumbling on reddit with a handful of comments, but that’s pretty much it. I emailed Google and also found a change .org petition.

This is a huge violation of privacy. Other companies go through great lengths to keep personal data like this private and google publishes it for every bot to scrape. Whats more, it’s not even necessary. Apple does not do this.

Recently google requested that I verify my Google pay ID. It seemed like a reasonable request. However, Today I discovered that google without my knowledge published my info and home address on my apps store pages. This is so messed up.

I just had a surprisingly f’ed up experience with the google play store. I’m still kind of in shock. So a few years back I made a few art project games in my spare time, free projects for anyone interested.

Just as a statistic, Israel's government has gruesomely murdered 38 Palestinians today so far, statistically over half of them under the age of 16, many through methods explicitly prohibited even in the violence-accepting rules of war. It is 13:00 / 1 PM.

very hard not to see the shift from traditional arcades to crane game emporiums as evidence of the degeneration of the world state

Did some nostalgic fanart for Chrono Trigger! One of the best to ever do it.

hey just some quick feedback. the groceries -> cooking -> washing up loop feels too tight, it’s like I’ve only cooked a few times before I have to start over again. it’s a reliable resource sink for sure but it would be great to not have to do it so often. can we do a tuning pass

I’m having a mental health beer. ..and a mental health fish taco

Every semester, I tell myself, I know this one’s looking crazy, but if I just make it through, should be smooth sailing from here.

Back in my day this country had so many eggs, and so many video games, and sometimes the video games would even have eggs in them.

I think this might be the busiest, most stressful teaching semester of my life. There is so much going on it’s hard to say what the problem is.

How are you doing ?

I got inspired to make a game at GDC. An inverted vr dungeon crawler rpg. I want to play with inverted vision experiments again, and reference early 90s first person grid based rpgs. With the gravity inverted, falling in pits moves the player to higher floors. Anyway it’s called “Failing Upwards”

I left GDC with 1 main thought. I want to make games and play games my friends make. My current life does not afford me this. Thus I need to actively work to change it.

Back in Los Angeles

🥚🍳 boshi's place is in town with syzygy at GDC! 🥚🍳 We’re partnering with syzygy SF on thursday, march 20th for a night of free-range indie games from the east AND west coast! no GDC pass is required! (only 2.99) 6-11pm | Syzygy SF 395 S Van Ness Ave, San Francisco, CA 94103 Tickets and details ->

Yes. If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it's revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone.

Let's be really really clear. The Trump admin chose a Palestinian activist as the target of its first lawless political detention precisely BECAUSE they believe that will split the opposition. If you shrug at the abduction of Mahmoud Khalil, or worse, cheer it on, you're following Trump's script.

Work made me come back to LA early. But if you are going to GDC, you can hit me up there.

I’m in nyc for a bit. Sat to Sat. I was going to give a talk but it was postponed and moved online. So now I’m just here. Existing.

so officially-cool retrotech youtuber Tech Connections found the best thing in an obscure astrology program while he was repairing an old Tandy Computer. The "MAYBE QUIT" option!

LA is finally getting rain. And we just got rain gutters not a moment too soon.

I hope everyone in the LA area is staying safe.

I woke up around 6 this morning because of the smoke. We aren’t I the fire zone but the aqi went past 400 for a while. I had to escape just to breathe. Took a little road trip east until the air quality was double digits.

Pretty happy this morning. My student course evals came back fairly positive this semester. I put everything I had into those classes. Average 10hrs a day, 6 days a week. It feels validating. Looking forward to only 3 classes next semester.

Yux: we can do it. One scone, two birds. Me: Usually it’s 2 birds 1 stone. Yux: 1 scone 2 birds Me: Are you feeding the scone to the birds? Yux: Yes.

My beard is a diegetic UI indicator for how busy and stressed I am.

It’s cool Adobe is still running the semaphore puzzle. Looks like one wheel is out though. Unless this is part of the puzzle

Visiting old friends. No matter how successful in tech you become you can still find yourself debugging someone else’s css flex boxes.

No trains going home Monday. Someone was reckless.

Reach out to your family, loved ones, old friends, those you haven’t spoken to in a while.

He asked me my #1 bucket list band. One I never saw but always wanted to. It took me while but I realized its probably Live. Maybe back in the day Live. Probably because we were in Kevin Smith's bar we started talking about hold me up.. which still holds up. :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvDM...

"Did it on Ritalin Got me some good grades Now I work me the night shift, where I Pull and pull and pull 'till it hurts" "Down at the Radio Shack We're turning shit into solid gold Solid gold!"

Nick is a big Matthews Good fan. I told him how teaching physical computing always reminds me of that band. When I was an undergrad taking pcom, I spent so much time at Radioshack buying parts for my janky projects. It was like right place right time for Hello Timebomb to resinate with me.

Nick B visited for the last few days and took me to see David Gilmour at the Hollywood Bowl. Amazing show and its always good to catch up with old friends. We also got to spend some time at scum and villainy. If you like starwars and an extensive drink menu, check it out. I had virgin blue milk.

I decided no Magfest for me this year. Its the second week of the semester and Monday is MLK. So I would miss basically all my classes. If they could move it back where it was or forward a few weeks that would be great.

I just watched the scene where they go to the vault and all the treasure keeps multiplying. Im sure there is some meaning behind hoarded wealth nearly killing you but I just keep thinking I really don't understand how the wizard economy works. Like at all.

What are the dementors? As far as I can tell they are like ghost zombies that suck souls. But like they also somehow are employed. They got to go to work too?

Why are the office schmucks putting on a tie to do paperwork when you can just have magic do your paperwork? Why get a shit job at all you can just make food and wine appear whenevs. Become an artist, whats wrong with you.