Steam Controller easter egg: the controller screams when dropped by about 3 feet (Big Picture Mode, about once every 5-6 drops) www.reddit.com/r/SteamContr...

Your friendly neighborhood CTO here reminding you that universities(, etc.) are such easy targets because we all use the same major systems. Hackers just need one good exploit to screw everyone at once. We got ourselves into this mess by letting monopolistic private platforms sit between everyone.

Crucially: Leg is a type of Arm. But Legs (plural) is a type of Feet. I've been staring at this all week and have come around to believing, yeah, this is the best way to do it

Oh yeah, so, if you're at VGMCON, I'm performing with @discocactus.bsky.social Saturday at 4:30 on the boss stage! Be there or be square which is not very cactus-like

This is just Street Fighter

“A whole civilization will die tonight” is the most vile thing a US president has ever said, certainly during the post-1945 era when they’ve had the power to kill civilizations with the dropping of a bomb. I’m staring into the darkness. May this not be one of the most fateful days in human history.

nasa employee: oh hey u guys are back early astronaut: Office365 in spaceship nasa employee: what? astronaut: *loading a pistol and getting back on the rocket-ship* Office365 in spaceship

Whoa. "[F]inetuning exclusively on Haruki Murakami's novels unlocks verbatim recall of copyrighted books from over 30 unrelated authors...Our findings offer compelling evidence that model weights store copies of copyrighted works." papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I'm live with @discocactus.bsky.social !! We're taking requests, come hang out~ twitch.tv/discocactusmusic

Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay

Nvidia has confirmed that the new DLSS 5 algorithm is redrawing games based on a 2D image input and motion data. https://bit.ly/4smPOCx

Thank you for including screenshots from a soccer game so we can look at what it does to a digital representation of a real player, definitively showing that DLSS 5 is way worse than the game's lighting system at representing reality. The lighting on his hair, skin tone, lip color: all wrong

look at how the warm glow from the shop landing on the ice machine and other nearby objects (left) gets COMPLETELY obliterated by DLSS here (right). art direction? what's that. we don't want any of that, apparently

Yeah this is another egregious example. DLSS5 literally deleted the shadows cast by objects in the scene! It's removing gross lighting detail while adding fake pseudo-AO and fake dynamic range!

even from a pure technical perspective, it's clearly throwing out a bunch of the actual lighting information in the scene to replace it with essentially a pre-baked yassified valley face. it's the Samsung moon thing but for video game characters' faces

The most helpful any everyday technology has ever been is GMail's "You wrote 'Attached is' but no files are attached." reminder and I don't need any tech to be more intelligent than that.

“[Amazon] said there had been a ‘trend of incidents’ in recent months, characterised by a ‘high blast radius’ and ‘Gen-AI assisted changes’ among other factors … Junior and mid-level engineers will now require more senior engineers to sign off any AI-assisted changes” www.ft.com/content/7cab...

Calling Cormac McCarthy’s authorial style a “mistake” that AI no longer makes is so funny

I've seen your steam backlogs. Many of you should be hosting a Previous Fest.

This is something we should think about across all writing intensive fields. Even if you're using the AI to turn notes into drafts, you are offloading the kinds of creative and epistemic decisions that drive the organization of your writing to a machine.

Honestly, AI slop PRs are becoming increasingly draining and demoralizing for #Godot maintainers. If you want to help, more funding so we can pay more maintainers to deal with the slop (on top of everything we do already) is the only viable solution I can think of: fund.godotengine.org

I'm cleaning up my drives and I was looking at file sizes, this was kind of amusing: 1 install of UE4: 41.2 GB 6 versions of Unity: 48.7 GB 22 versions of Godot: 2.4 GB (5 GB with export templates)

new blog post: notes on level design workflows for the 3D platformer Big Hops www.blog.radiator.debacle.us/2026/01/note...

Rogue waves were once the stuff of nautical legend. Tales of giant lone waves were considered sailors' tall tales, until an oil rig in the North Sea was hit by a 25.6-meter wave on 1 January 1995. fyfluiddynamics.com/?p=25993

vgmtogether is standing in solidarity with our community in Minnesota and all other areas affected by ICE. We are organizing a fundraising stream on the weekend of February 6th-8th to raise money for The Women's Foundation of Minnesota's Immigrant Rapid Relief Fund.

I spoke to a friend on the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota board. They need financial donations to keep up with the heightened demand for their services: www.ilcm.org ILCM is a nonprofit that provides free immigration legal representation to low-income immigrants and refugees in MN & ND

I always feel extra inspired after attending MAGFest. Just a really wonderful event with a lot of great, creative, curious, welcoming humans.

What you're doing is the equivalent of asking a StarWars addled 10 year old for design ideas on your scifi game I'm not joking that's literally how these models work Can you argue him off StarWars? Sure. But do you know enough Extended Universe lore to catch when he sneaks back into it? You don't.

In the nutcracker, I have to play the chime that the grandfather clock makes when it strikes midnight. It's not in the part, so I had to make a mark to help me remember

The atomic ensemble time scale at the NIST Boulder campus has failed.

🚀 Excited to announce SharpIDE - A Modern, Cross-Platform IDE for .NET! I'm thrilled to share my latest open-source project, just in time for .NET 10: SharpIDE, a brand new IDE for .NET, built with .NET and Godot! 🎉 🔗 Check it out on GitHub: github.com/MattParkerDe... ...

I’m being rickrolled by the car dealership’s easy-listening playlist.

Ah yes, "using humans to generate any summary longer than a couple hundred words". The worst passive description of "authors writing"!?!

Game development.

We should do this with many other open source projects and brands 😬

As entertaining as it was watching strategy-game units run around the periphery of a fight like background extras...

Any tea drinkers out there? I’ve had to take a break from coffee lately, so I’d love to collect some recommendations. I’ve been enjoying matcha lattes and some lapsang blends from a local business that does D&D-themed teas. Herbal teas also appreciated!

Road signs of MA: “Squeeze Left” “Thickly Settled” “Road Legally Closed - Proceed at Own Risk”

Need a short video to watch this weekend? My talk from GodotCon got posted yesterday! It’s an introduction to the Chickensoft community, its fleet of open-source C# tools, and how they might help organize your game architecture and make development more enjoyable. youtu.be/BgrHnJDt2ww