It really cannot be overstated that COVID happened, suddenly a bunch of absentee tech dads were forced to stay home where they saw their kids playing Animal Crossing while talking on Discord, then collectively decided to light a trillion dollars on fire to make Snow Crash IRL.

I probably worked on it.

Discord is going to be twitter 2.0. Everyone sits around waiting for the perfect answer twiddling their thumbs until jumping on the first corporate answer thrown at them and we're back there a year later with everyone shocked the new corpo overlords aren't any better.

Also don't fucking daisy chain power strips.

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Your original idea isn't actually very original and that's fine, that's normal. Don't crash out and throw everything away when you find out someone else had a similar idea 5 years go.

Look, all I'm saying is I figured out that fella was a loose cannon long before we came to "invents a thing that lets users generate non-consensual pornography and even CSAM"

Woot is currently selling 64 and 32 megabyte RAM sticks as a joke 😭

Remember when most studios had an intern in a closet working on "blockchain technology" to make investors happy? The shoving AI into the the part of the workflow where it will have the least impact feels the same. Things feel very investor-y right now.

A film is just a TAS of a play

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A commonly-misunderstood aspect of computer security is that you are battling computers. No. That is not right at all. Computers are barely involved. You are battling humans who eat apathy and coordination problems.

even before AI this was a problem. I have seen so many things almost ship because they were placeholders that were too good. We got used to them but they would have stood out on release and been extremely ugly. Or in a couple cases a copyright problem (legal for use not for ship)

just saw the worst gaming ad ive ever seen

it's on miro. it's literally on figma. you have to log into okta. it's in jira. it's on zoom. it's on pureref. it's on flow. it's on perforce. it's on slack. you can find it on slack. you can go to slack and find it. log onto slack right now. you can slack it. slack has it for you. it's on slack.

I have waited for this day. Its finally time for me to update my resume and make the linux game dev portion a bit more obvious.

Had to share this from twitter just because

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I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice. This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.

We live in a country where the media is focused more on who a Democratic mayoral candidate defines as his ‘aunt’ than on the DHS Twitter account putting out white nationalist propaganda and replying to Nazis online.

My dad sent me this

I keep seeing friends who aren't thrilled that Word is newly enshittified. At the risk of sounding like one of Those Guys, there is a magnificent, full featured, entirely free alternative called Libre Office that works on all platforms. I've used it exclusively for over a decade.

Time to start looking for work again. My favorite 3 to 5 year ritual of game dev.

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

No more job, if anyone needs a ue5 senior engine programmer let me know.

nothing chatgpt has done is as impressive as akinator, the mind-reading internet genie from 2007

I've reposted many posts made by folks who were recently laid off from Heart Machine, but here is a thread that highlights them all. I am also including folks who were previously laid off & are still looking for work. I will be linking their Bsky posts, as well as LinkedIn. Please, share this. 🖤

World map, but every country is Brazil.

Learned that I am being laid off from Heart Machine, and will be leaving the studio later this month. Do you need a contractor? I've got a track record of leading scope-friendly script revisions late in dev. I have also done a lot of consulting on new IPs and pitches/demos. Feel free to DM me!

Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.

we built a whole society on the basic idea of respecting every possible viewpoint and look where that got us. sometimes you just gotta tell some people that they suck shit and are not welcome

"How will we solve the male loneliness epidemic, how can adult men make friends in this day and age" literally just pick up a brush and buy a warhammer mini, it's not hard

I cannot express how wild this quote is. This is a top tech analyst at a well-regarded firm saying that there is not enough capital to actually pay for all the stuff that NVIDIA and OpenAI has promised. It is so important that everybody realizes that *there is not enough money to do this*

Subtly downgrade a band Soundpatch

🌍 💨 🔥 — “09/21”

shock of all non shocks, the thing engineers have been saying for over a year is true?! www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

1 in 10 people in Gaza has now been massacred by Israel.

The internet of today sucks and everyone is too obsessed with having a "hit tweet" for us to ever go back to actually having social groups online.

Anyone who ever tells you that your teens or your 20's are the best part of your life is boring and should be disregarded.

hey so I’m hearing from a librarian in San Diego that a media company contacted the libraries to put up anti-human trafficking posters there but the numbers on them redirect to ICE hotlines and the media company was hired out by DHS. Not sure if this is happening elsewhere in SoCal, but be advised!!

LiveAI demo fails on the first prompt at Meta Connect 2025. #Meta #AI #LiveAI

Just so you know guys, we did what the patent describes 20 years ago in The Lord of the Creatures. If any game dev needs protection from this I'll be happy to share the publicly available information about this wrongfully patented mechanic.

this is misinformation and I expect better from you. the AI bubble can be traced back to 2021 when the 49ers drafted Trey Lance, putting the bay area into a prolonged hysteria where value became disconnected from outcomes

BREAKING: Over 450 game developers behind hit video-game series Diablo have joined CWA, joining the historic fight for a better video game industry. Hail to you, union champions 💪

This was not our choice but we understand why the choice was made. We aren't mad at Ysbryd but at the situation. Dropping the GTA of indie games with 2 weeks notice makes everyone freak out. Ysbryd is being a good partner and paying for the delay. We're sorry this is happening.