The stupid timeline we're living in just got stupider. I don't even have words for it. How could I?

even a cheap melitta pour-over cone can make better coffee than a pod machine. please stop using keurigs and git gud. you'll probably even be healthier for it in the long run, because those machines attract tons of microbes and accumulate mold.

oh wait i see it now, by [gdc] they mean "gamedev detention camp", because it's where international attendees risk ending up. they even included the brackets to symbolize the fences. 💀 i don't know why anyone would attempt coming right now. it's way too dangerous.

bell beast is the best thing to come out of silksong and i will not be convinced otherwise. also, a plushie would go like gangbusters

SPOTIFY: (holds hand up) "what's this then. we'll need ID if you want to be on here, mate" USER: "ID? why would i need ID" SPOTIFY: "we don't know if you're old enough to be in DMs" USER: "then why'd you add DMs to begin with. i'm just here for music-" SPOTIFY: "MUSIC?!? get out! GET OUT! GET OUT!!"

watching the working class collectively fumble at achieving class consciousness is frustrating. everyone implicits understands the system is broken, but few realize it's designed to fence you in. it's a midway game designed to take as much of your resources as possible. there is no prize, just bait.

(Sigh.) In a few hours, I need to take a trip to Switzerland for my grandfather's funeral, and I have 20 bucks to my name. If anybody is able to help me cover the (not already otherwise) covered expenses of the trip, I would be massively grateful. ko-fi.com/quinnkdev/go...

proximity mines everywhere

new spiderman suit looks great

making a coffee frappe at home, and I was suddenly reminded about David Lynch and his search for the perfect milkshake. I should try to make a milkshake next!

they're not even trying to make their arguments against green energy intelligible or coherent anymore. the status quo is relying entirely on voters being gullible dumb fucks who will believe anything FOX tells them to. unfortunately for the rest of us, this appears to be a winning strategy.

Hey, #gameaudio and #composer folk. I don't want to keep supporting Microsoft when they're doing stuff like this, so I want to divest myself of them completely. Is there a Linux distro that's VST and DAW-friendly? Or am I up shit creek?

history is repeating itself. the 1920s had alcohol prohibition. the 2020s have what effectively amounts to digital prohibition. By criminalizing consumption, all they're doing is creating dangerous black markets where people are actually more likely to get hurt. we really don't learn, do we?

if you care about this, get off social media NOW and call each and every one of these companies. taking real action means a lot more than posting about it online. it's time to get organized. here, have a fun idea: make a discord server. plan and coordinate calling parties. turn it into an event!

hot take: if the core gameplay loop of a JRPG is tedious enough that players want a skip or 2x speed button, you've fundamentally screwed up somewhere.

So, itch has gone scorched earth. My best friend started an NSFW project last year. It's a horror RPG and, understandably, its development is under attack. Maybe this is just the push it needs to break through. Please consider sharing it with anyone it resonates with! #indiedev #horror #nsfw

Itch's new content policy is: 1. We can't tell you what violates the rules. 2. If you violate the rules, we take all your money. Not just the money from that work, ALL your money from EVERYTHING you've ever made. I don't care how much of a smol bean Itch is, this is not a viable platform.

annnd they're trying to deny my claim. of course they are.

watching the new dandadan season and stumbled on this face. i don't know why but this cracks me the hell up lmao

did a bit of playing around in Unreal Engine yesterday! my long-term plan is to make something inspired by Mega Man Legends. #indiedev #ue5

Companies are looking for unicorns because they sent the one they had to the glue factory.

i got followed by LLM enthusiasts, so i guess this is a good time for a reminder: i will defenestrate you. if you're high on that bullshit, do not follow me. do not engage with me. don't even like my posts. wait, why am i even writing this? you illiterate motherfuckers don't even read. get blocked.

did a bit of playing around in Unreal Engine yesterday! my long-term plan is to make something inspired by Mega Man Legends. #indiedev #ue5

I was scoring an NSFW game as of last year and yup, we got hit by this too. It's totally threatening the livelihoods of the creative working class, not just whole studios. This has simply gone too far.

This piece was originally made for a fanzine called "The KH Guidebook"! For this piece I have taken elements from "Dearly Beloved", "Precious Stars in the Sky", and "Blast Away!" and combined them in a Bossa Nova arrangement. [ #zebbeats | #kingdomhearts | #fanzine ] ⬇️ full video on Youtube ⬇️

I'm ecstatic to announce I now have my own personal website! It took a lot of tweaking, but I'm very happy with how it turned out. leissmusic.carrd.co #composer #gamemusic #indiedev

society: "let's make it really fucking difficult to transition by using trans folks as our go-to punching bag for every perceived grievance" trans individuals: (go back in the closet to avoid conflict) society: "wOw, DeTrAnSiTiOn rAtEs aRe sOoO HiGh!!"

I had to pinch myself, thinking it was the 2000s all over again. I had a thought: Possession is 9/10ths of the law. Most people don't have the capital to represent themselves in a court of law. However, corporations do. Conclusion: 9/10ths of the law is for protecting corporate interests, not you.

Easiest prediction of all time: it will not. or rather, it *can't*. the console market hasn't grown to accommodate this, in fact it has shrunk. and investors somehow expect us to believe that GTAVI is entitled to around 5% of the industry's revenue in 2026? the math makes no sense.

employees: (builds contraption that collects and squeezes labor like a juicer) "hey, does anyone else think this seems like a bad idea" execs: "you'll be fine! I'd never do anything to hurt you. anyway, you did great work. now get in the contraption"

it's like a less interesting version of midgar, which is about as much as anyone can really say about silicon valley's vision for the future. we could've avoided (some of) this if myspace hadn't lost the internet bowl.

rando: (collects 4000 orbs doing nothing of substance or interest on discord) notification: "good job sport!! you've earned a 40 cent discount on nitro!!!!" i guaran-fucking-tee you these wumpusdollars will never amount to shit. But will they still be obtrusive and get in the way? ABSOLUTELY.

my dad: (shows me a deepfake willem dafoe gif gallery) "why's willem dafoe showing up everywhere. was he really in all those games and movies?" me: "no, it's fake, he--" my dad: "he has such an amazing range" me: (realizing it's funnier if he believes it for now) "... yes, he does."

things i've posted before have blown up on other people's feeds with only a couple of words changed, and it's baffling. the winds of social media are mercurial as fuck. admitting to caring about if i'm screaming into a void probably makes me look pathetic. but i can't pretend i don't care.

me: (spends all day making a spreadsheet of all the things I want to do) me: "dude ... i did nothing today"

wake up babe new potatoes dropped

i came, i saw, i skipped through every optional cutscene

I'm a magnet for accidents. impaled my foot once on a nail; tore open my elbow on sheet metal and needed 15 stitches. have a scar on my left eyebrow from when I bumped into a metal door. tore ligaments in my shoulder after failing to ollie on a skateboard. this is why I'm not physically active.

claims process started. here we goooooo

I had a dream i was working out at a place called Tomboy Fitness. my personal trainer was a tall Amazonian that bellowed "bwahaha!" and "look at this stringbean, she's puny" so loudly everyone else would hear. it ended with me dying on the bench press b/c she got distracted and stopped spotting me

stranger: "wow, your English is so good. what's your native language?" me: "violence"

what if castlevania, but also stevie wonder

Don't fly on United Airlines with guitars. Not even if you put them in injection molded SKB cases. The attendants at IAH forced me to check my Strandberg Boden through to my final destination two connections away, no matter how much I pleaded with them. This is not negligence, this was utter malice.

I think my exhaustion comes from my inability to describe everything that's wrong with America in one sentence while still being cogent. Semantics fails to adequately and satisfyingly capture the current administration's lunacy. In lieu of this, screaming will have to suffice. (screams)

normal nightmares: being hunted for sport in some kind of shadow dimension hellscape my nightmares: accidentally biting into raw chicken and then frantically googling to see if I'll get salmonella

Shadow the Hedgehog, but everything reminds him of Maria Shadow: (sees eggs burning on frying pan) "MARIA!"

what if castlevania, but also stevie wonder

Finally fired up Furnace for the first time and I'm really happy to see that my old Famitracker projects import perfectly. There's a lot of songs I'd like to grab the tracker footage of to put up on Youtube, since this is ostensibly more interesting than just the raw audio.

phantom jobs implies the existence of "phantom candidates"