[wakes up @ 2am, can't get back to sleep] i think i have havana syndrome.

reminding myself that tech was supposed to be about providing tools and not injecting ads & gambling into pre-existing public goods.

this is peak game design: nicknicknicknick.net/twits/nickfo...

unity just crashed so hard it crashed unreal

shout out to @synthcoder.bsky.social and all the musicians on PROJECT FORLORN. stunning work, anxiety- and vertigo-inducing. synthcoder.itch.io/project-forl... projectforlorn.bandcamp.com/album/projec...

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i'm not doing surveillance capitalism for the sake of glorified irc porn.

One week until this year’s Quebec Games Celebration! Join us Monday, February 16th to check out hundreds of games from the fine studios across Quebec! ✨ #QGC2026 #QuebecGamesCelebration #CélébrationJeuxQuébec

Anyway do not, under any circumstances, for any reason, give your ID to a tech company or one of their subcontractors

19th-century procgen rules www.wopc.co.uk/games/myrior...

young suns (2026)

[picard we have engaged the borg voice] i have begun watching… babylon 5.

Hover my portrait in the About section (and/or shrink the page enough that it changes to landscape layout) for a tiny surprise.

I added important sound

we take game dev extremely seriously 🎩🕺🏻

still thinking about getting that MRGS tattoo

Friends, I've told you about my playmap designs, right?

hey fellas is it weird that when i consume content i am likewise by content consumed?

Videogame reviewers are like “ghibliesque” and you look at the screenshot and it’s this

I've made a Backloggd list that recapitulates the Polaris List of 100 games that inspired participating designers. backloggd.com/u/nickfourti... No I will not share how many I have played 😅 (The original's here: polarisgamedesign.com/the-polaris-...)

crusader kings III mod that replaces the papal estates with FIFA.

tragic: i just remembered how they pronounce "Camus" in Cloudpunk. 😔

Oh hey, check this out:

Shout out to all the amazing Black game developers, media, and creatives across every part of making games. I’m rooting for y’all year-round. Go follow Black folks making games. We’re often ignored, then imitated. Tag some Black devs below and follow the ones you don’t know yet.

i want to commission a portrait of myself for non-weird reasons, i promise.

hey man, if your camera studio lost your film around 21 oct 2025, uh, you are loved, and get in touch. (i have gotten in touch)

Happy Black history month!! Here’s your reading list:

alright anyone got any favourite magazine recs on Libby?

Coverage for Gaza has died down recently, so I wanted to remind folks that lots of people are still struggling. The Gaza Soup Kitchen opened its 14th location recently, and they are accepting donations. If you have some money to spare, please consider sending some spare funds their way.

i’ve been watching Tie Xi Qu and playing The Century Burn and boy i think there might be something happening here youtu.be/M4oxipESPtk?... fixgritt.itch.io/the-century-...

i’ve been watching Tie Xi Qu and playing The Century Burn and boy i think there might be something happening here youtu.be/M4oxipESPtk?... fixgritt.itch.io/the-century-...

there was also the one or two years that VR was going to Fix video games by sloshing a few hundred billion between different classes of fiscal parasite

come work with us! an extremely rare well-paid qa position. i used to be the qa lead at the studio so i'm open to answer any questions about this role!

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she thinks it's an issue of women's progress & tech inclusivity. whereas it's actually laudable that women withdraw their participation from a grift that provides unprecedented tools for their exploitation, harms the environment, threatens jobs, & cannot be separated from the current rise of fascism

"Ethical AI" does not exist. There is no reality where you can have generative AI that's "ethically trained". There are ZERO AI models trained ethically, and there will never be any. The term has been made up by people who want a pass on using AI. You don't get that pass, slop peddlers.

baffling that the media isn’t making more of an issue out of how carney is gutting key federal agencies/depts and what that’s going to mean for gov capacity when we’re supposed to be more independent and capable. food inspection, health canada, statscan, global affairs — all being cut, and more

i got a library book.

lmfao at anyone who describes themselves as a "technologist," imho congrats dude you set up a wireless router i'm impressed

thinking about GNOG again! ha ha! GNOG!

if you work on a screen it's important to take breaks to look outside and rest your eyes and remind yourself that you were once free.

did you know that this is about the percentage of support among your coworkers you want to aim for to go to a union certification vote? makes u think......

anyway today's Le temps des monstres was urgent and rageful and good. linktr.ee/letempsdesmo...

On 29th January 1996, "Threshold", the Star Trek: Voyager episode where Captain Janeway and Tom Paris turned into giant space newts and had babies first aired. Since it's #ThresholdDay we aim to answer a burning question: did Paris and Janeway fuck? If so, how did they fuck?

it turns out everything takes Effort, which i find problematic.

Coyle #YoungSuns

[no context young suns]

i picked a helluva time to be aLIeNatEd

That's 2025 wrapped & recapped for me. nicknicknicknick.net/notes/2026/0... ✨