getting hung up on the continuity of a nintendo franchise is like losing at chess to a dog, except there isn't a dog and there never was, there isn't a chessboard either, you're not even indoors, you're standing in the parking lot of a shuttered Kmart, a hollow wind blows

Fire Emblemong Us

The number of posts I've been seeing about an upcoming Rapture has been unusually higher than average

waiting for the CI tests to pass

After visiting Canada for several days, I firmly believe the US should cede A&W, so it can officially be an Iconic Canadian Brand. They get way more mileage out of it than we do tbh

The virgin OceanGate vs the chad Outer Wilds Ventures

Simply the best slide I have ever seen in a powerpoint presentation care of @premeemohamed.com’s talk at @banffcentre.bsky.social re: Putting the Science in Science Fiction

Mental well-being tip: When something has you thinking angry or mean thoughts, even if you feel in the moment that they are justified, take a step back and try to redirect that energy into something more explicitly positive and upbeat

I’m just trying to write my little stories bro

I'm not personally religious but I feel offended by this anyways

Seems to me like these concerns don't take into consideration the number of sales. A game that crashes all major storefronts on release *can* afford to be priced lower, because so many people are buying it. Most indie games are Not that, and as such selling for such a low price would be infeasible

i have never seen so many people act like one popular indie game coming out had some kind of moral obligation to not overshadow other releases or to set a precedent for pricing or whatever like what's been going on with silksong on here. it's so bizarre. silksong isn't the only popular indie game

Everyone on Bluesky is poised like we're waiting for the DVD logo to hit the corner of the screen

WHAT HAPPENED

New Donk City implies the existence of a city in a colonial empire simply named Donk

chat gpt ass autopilot in my outer wilds spaceship

Professional assassins have warned that if the government made killing people illegal, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.

Sam Altman Places Gun To Head After New GPT Claims Dogs Are Crustaceans For 60th Time https://theonion.com/sam-altman-places-gun-to-head-after-new-gpt-claims-dogs-are-crustaceans-for-60th-time/

tfw you spend a long time writing a multi-part reply, and when you're finally happy with the wording and you click "Post", you find out the OP deleted the post you were replying to 😭

Current mood: unnecessarily grumpy about the quality of either In-N-Out’s food or their marketing Several months ago I had the opportunity to try them, so I bought the combo meal they stick front and center on the menu… and it was aggressively mid

Prompts Georg

one of the many problems with large-scale moderation is that unfortunately the best moderating is done based partially on vibes and there is no way to scale that up for a site with millions of users. there will never be a list of guidelines that is both strict and also forgiving enough

hey friends if you put scrolling text in your game, and it does this Happy birt Happy birthday! then you have fucked up. You have fucked up real bad and i am going to notice every time it happens and i will be so very sad about it

wash marmot

AI is helpful when a task is tedious. For example, last week I said "I could write a script for that but meh, probably won't have it finished in time". A friend said "just ask ChatGPT to do it", and the suggestion disgusted me so I did it by hand in 20 minutes out of spite.

I'm like 5 hours into trying to make a "simple little" shader effect for my game

These days, a lot of my work is powered by AI ✨ (I see slop, and am filled with spite which fuels my determination to make something better)

So, first up, obvious disclaimer that porn is fine and these policies are bad solely on that basis. But for your consideration, here is a list of classic, well-respected artistic works that would be banned on Itch per these policies:

if you're looking at what's going on and concluding that the enemy is the <10 employee marketplace and not the $1.2t payment processors then you are, at best, extremely credulous and should rethink your priorities

Damn I wish I could get accepted to a conference for writing a paper whose abstract boils down to "people don't like things that are bad and ugly and mean". Really gotta step up my game I guess

nintendo direct leak is wild 👀

[worst possible stuff happening everywhere] man why do I feel bad

head ache :(

New SAG guidelines require productions to have a cute little animal on set that you can squeeze and play with at all times (Source: tinyurl.com/mrxj699c)

Sometimes I get "trebuchet" and "guillotine" mixed up in my head and end up with a very funny vision of a revolution

my game's starting to feel like an actual game now. that's pretty cool

There’s a lot of commotion about the Godot Foundation being sponsored by an AI company right now. I too avoid generative AI where possible for all the ethical and environmental reasons & I didn’t like seeing this. In this particular case, I don’t think it’s very worrying. Thread 🧵👇🏼 #godotengine

Literally begging you to post about Just Some Stuff. We will see the news I absolutely promise. Twenty people will repost the same exact thing about the news. Only you can post about a turtle you saw

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

BREAKING: SpaceX Rocket

everything happens so much

I got to juice up one of my game’s mini games a bunch today!

You: take 2 hours to read 1 book Me: read a less accurate, more resource-intensive version of CliffsNotes, gaining a rough-surface level understanding of the material 😎

[playing chapter 9 of Live A Live] friend: wow, is that the bad guy? he looks pretty scary me: don't worry, this ain't my first odio

I would like to thank the combined powers of daydreaming and heaphones for my entire career

gamer math

[trying to extrapolate on current trends] yeah well SOME games might be solo dev projects but OUR game actually had a team of -43 people working on it

Welcome Tour is a game for nerds and i am a NERD 🤓 the little games and stuff are fun, but honestly i am really enjoying learning about how everything works! it really makes you appreciate every little thing that went into the design 👩‍🏫