What's the preferred pattern for managing core functionality? Service scripts that field signals, or singletons? Is one noticeably more performant? I was mostly using signals but I worry that all those async calls could lead to timing issues. #godot #gamedev #indiedev

So #BallXPit came out of nowhere and rocked my world. youtu.be/J-hw3aMMLiY?...

My toddler can't say "gloves" yet, so she calls them "guvvos". I hope she never grows up.

I'm having a crisis of data structure in my #godot game. I need to associate a TON of meta data to each unique instance a scene, and though I can do it in the inspector, that is a CHORE to manage. I'm looking for a clean, scalable way to do this. Using .tres files might work, but it's not great.

Tech giants are investing billions to develop AI. Whether that bubble bursts or not, expect to have to pay to use AI in the near future, or (and?) for AI to basically become a very smart commercial, weaving ads and brands into everything it says. This free age of AI we're in right now can't last.

As bitter as George Carlin got in his twilight years, can you imagine what he'd have to say nowadays about Trump, AI, etc...

This month marks a year of development on the #godot version of Dawn of Days - Tactics. As a solo dev (with a full time "real" job, and two little ones) I haven't been able to put a ton of time into the game, but I'm having a blast. Here's to another year in the trenches! #indiedev #gamedev

I love it when new systems I'm developing for my game snap right into existing systems I've already developed, accidentally. Makes me feel like I'm building it the right way. #gamedev #indiedev #godot

I used to think my favorite #Predator movies were the first two. Nah. Dan Trachtenberg owns this IP now. Though I'd say Badlands is the weakest of his three entries, I'd still say his contributions to the franchise are by far my favorite. I'm excited about Predator again!

The SkyNet apocalypse pop-culture promised us won't happen because AI gains true sentience -- it will happen because assholes will use AI for hacking and black-hat tomfoolery.

I've had Seven Days of the Week as my alarm clock song for about 15 years now, and I think I'll keep it that way for the rest of my life. #tmbg www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBa9...

Whether Microsoft is ready to leave the console market or not (it seems inevitable they'll have too at some point), I just can't find it in me to be sad. Maybe I've drank too much Nintendo Kool Aid, but I don't see what they brought to the industry that makes them deserve a funeral.

Hi. I'm Dragon Quest. I'm what happens when a basic-ass JRPG gets a budget and some polish and waaay too much hype.

#Absolum day one!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3zh...

Could there be a #DarkCrystal movie in the works?? gizmodo.com/the-world-of...

It's been fun working on Dawn of Days: Tactics in #godot, but lately I've been able to work on enemy AI and that's been particularly exciting. I've wanted to program this kind of logic for so long. There's nothing more off-putting in a strategy game than stupid NPCs. #gamedev #indiegamedev

Rewatching Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance and it just blows my mind how great it is. I want to live in the universe where this show got ten seasons, not this stupid universe where it only got one :( #DarkCrystal #AgeOfResistance

The Little Prince * platformer = Mario Galaxy.

Straight. Up. Fascism. #fuckdonaldtrump

#PredatorBadlands looks like another great entry for the series. And though I thought AvP was horrible, all the chatter about this being either a lead up or another AvP outright sounds good to me. Between #AlienEarth and #Prey, these franchises have been on point lately. youtu.be/43R9l7EkJwE?...

I was already very hyped, but after the first couple episodes of #AlienEarth I am STOKED for more. Bravo, Noah Hawley!

Ugh! #godot, I love ya, but you've gotta do something about exported variables using enums getting "stuck" with stale values when the enum is updated.

It was a slow start, but once the game picks up, #DonkeyKongBananza real starts to shine. As many have said before, the #MarioOdyssey DNA is evident, and that's a good thing. But that's not to say that DKB doesn't stand on it's own merits - it does. This is the launch title I was waiting for!

In the past two years, with surprisingly little notice, renewable energy has suddenly become the obvious, mainstream, cost-efficient choice around the world.

That's right, Kim Reynolds. Regulation couldn't possibly help with Iowa's water quality problems. Why would it help to have gurard rails around an industry that's become too corporate to care about who it hurts? 😡 #sarcasm www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/p...

I'm excited for the #FinalFantasyTacitcs remake but at the end of the day it's just a coat of paint on a beloved game I've played many times already. What I would be much more hyped for would be any news at all about a possible sequel to #TriangleStrategy. This game is criminally under appreciated.

I know it's not as crisp as the 1st party camera, but it's perhaps the cutest accessory I've ever owned. #NintendoSwitch2

LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

#NoKings Des Moines rally.

Thanks to #8BitDo, I'll be rocking three generations of Pro controllers on my Switch 2. The OG Pro controller works natively, and after the latest firmware update for the 8BitDo Wireless USB Adapter added support for Switch 2, I can also connect my Wii U Pro controller.

RE: this Forbes article about the missing Switch 2 buzz ( www.forbes.com/sites/paulta... ). In my opinion, despite being a HUGE Nintendo fan, and being plenty excited for the new console, this release does feel a bit more like what we NEED rather than what we WANT.

In my #RimeOfTheFrostmaiden campaign one of my players died fighting an ice troll so the party brought him to their necromancer friend who made an #EvilDead mistake while resurrecting him. Now he's a zombie similar to a Coldlight Walker. Fun times! #dnd5e

Enjoying a fantastic vacation in the #Badlands with the family.

Many, many horrible things happened in the first 100 days (or the short window thereafter). This isn't the worst, but it really, really stings. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n... #democracydiesindarkness

Here's a fun thought - won't it be great when you have to skip to page 2 of the Google search results list to see the first non-ad entry? #sarcasm

Crazy ride but finally got my Switch 2 order to got through at Best Buy. Much less glitchy process than the mess at Target, I'll say.

Happy Earth Day! We are one tiny candle barely flickering in the dark empty vastness of space. Please consider caring about avoiding the next mass extinction. #earthday

Common People, the first episode of the new season of Black Mirror did the trick. I found it sad, scary, and thought provoking. It was predictable after the first act, which I think was a good thing. It felt like an idea so inevitable I should have already thought it before. Bravo! #blackmirror

You know that sense of vertigo you get when you are on a roller coaster and you near the top of the first hill on the course? Right before you peak and begin the descent? Yeah, that's me when I look at my 401k portfolio. The shriek of terror is the same, but the smile is missing.

Switch 2 pre-order FOMO is real.

I didn't think I could hate Trump more. I was wrong.

"Upgraded" to Windows 11 after restoring my PC recently. In general I think it's fine (but what is up with the Start menu?). One thing I LOVE about it compared to W10 is that you can easily switch which monitor things show up on. I could never find a good way to do that before.

Had a burst of inspiration yesterday and laid out about a year's worth of features on Dawn of Days roadmap. Feels good to have a plan. #dodtactics

The anticipation of Nintendo's upcoming Direct on April 2 is driving me crazy. I've been watching every new console rollout for #Nintendo since the Super Nintendo (I was a bit young to be following the NES before it came out, though I played the snot out of it once it arrived). #switch2

Growing up as a kid in Iowa I used to love thunderstorms. But as an adult, with climate change throwing convention to the wind, thunderstorms are scary as shit now.

Using ChatGPT to tell stories feels a lot like reading a mediocre choose your own adventure story. You provide the scenario, AI elaborates, provides prompts to continue story, you choose a prompt, etc... I'm not siding with AI, or railing against it. I'm just saying I dig #CYOA, and this was fun.

As an eclectic solo indie dev with ADHD who barely knows what he's doing, it's amazing I get anything done. That being said, I have to take joy at slow, incremental progress on the games I make. It's' a journey, and hopefully, maybe, eventually, a destination. #indiedev

Does anyone know how to slice a sprite sheet into multiple layers in #photoshop? I managed to slice them into separate images, and then reimport them, which works, but there must be a faster way. #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart

TFW your PC shits the bed and after a fresh Windows install you realize that yes, your game is fine because you were using version control, but no you don't have all your assets any more because they weren't backed up properly. Time to reverse engineer PSDs out of sprite sheets. #godot #indiedev

I held off for a while bc something about the trailer didn't do it for me. But eventually I bit - and let me tell you, I'm so glad I did. The AMC show #Pantheon is terrific. Great casting, voice acting, story - deliciously sci-fi. Don't let anyone spoil it for you. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTgY...