Brandon Franklin

A skeet a week makes the tweets delete 🎵

I guess democracy huh. Good news for the first time in what feels like a decade. Fuck yeah @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

I think people are right that games were more affordable relative to the gaming public's buying power in the last 10 years.
People are rightfully pissed that they could easily access consoles as an expense, but now they can't.
Unfortunately, they're mad at Nintendo instead of global economic policy.

Here's a picture of my lobby earlier where we all just hung out at the beach until the clock ran out. Hope that takes your mind off of it.

I hope not, but probably yes.

Yeah I always chuckle when I see it under "social themes" as well. It's such a funny imagined context they've concocted where that is actually valid consumer information.

concurrent to American capitalism doesn't seem so much a rebuttal as just another example of the absurd torment that capitalism demands.

I think the point you were originally responding to was pointing out that the current system creates such absurd torment then maybe we should collectively recognize that before picking an ideology we live and die by.

The minutia of the Soviet Union's poverty that existed in the context of and

He's playing @jesawyer.bsky.social in the dramatic recreation of New Vegas (the Fallout show).

This looks like a Disco Elysium thought cabinet piece

I think it is because their life has no conflict so the world seems perfect to them. Even if they intellectually understand the negative externalities, they don't emotionally understand it as anything more than a game with those people as liabilities in that game. It's sad. Evil and sad.

This photo looks like Katy Perry kissing the ground after riding the space bus.

I got real life french lessons from a former employee a year ago, they laid her off to replace her with AI way back then. I guess they still had contractors in the mean time between then and now.

It feels much better. I remember entire strategies to subvert these systems, and I frequently feel they aren't needed now.

I can try to out scale the game, but it's more fun to just play it as it says you're meant to now.

Feels like a big win towards recommending the game with fewer caveats haha

significant improvements to the core system problems that existed in the original games leveling and scaling systems.

then be stuck not have any combat ability stats going up more than 1/100 per level.

another huge win is the combat system has been overhauled in a way to remove the spamming as much, weapons are more differentiated with range, damage, and speed.

Late game could start to be wonky but these are

and feeling a net gain from leveling. Part is that the archaic system of you pick 3 core stats to get seemingly random bonuses (its not random it's based on skill leveling). Now that's just a point allocation system so progress however you want.

this means it harder to level up non-combat skills,

Obviously not extensive late game info yet, but my experience as been that yes a lot of the way progression and difficulty relate is changed.
First thing is just those first few levels, it was that conventional wisdom was don't level past level 5-10 to avoid bad scaling, but I have been leveling

hey @bsky.app plz verify me. there's not much incentive for people to impersonate me, but I make cool games and I go by my real name online so I think I deserve to see a cool checkbox next to my name. thanks :)

Probably true when talking globally, but there were decades of specialization in game dev in part because of how inaccessible doing even one discipline was and there were (until the last couple years) many specialized junior tracks at big studios.

I always assumed this meant you stop getting new versions, not that they unlicense you the product.
My Photoshop 6 license still works, I just don't get updates anymore 🤷‍♂️

It used to be better about 10 years or so ago. They started reducing quality of ingredients pretty hard at that point and paying worse wages so the whole thing just kind of enshitified.

That was my starting point haha.
And at the time I didn't have very articulate reasons why; I think I just noticed that all those people sucked.

That 3rd stump is in Evangelion I think.

Composers for Palestine, by Various Artists 16 track album

Now that I'm back from the US and not in fear about being detained at customs for my political beliefs, I helped create a charity album for Palestine!

'Composers for Palestine' is a collection of beautiful indie video game music. Enjoy, donate and share!

RT's appreciated

tinyurl.com/yeyw4yta

The fact he is not in prison or worse says more.

Just sounds like Disco Elysium in space and I don't mean that as a criticism haha

I wanna make a game about Dwarves, what is something you associate with Dwarves? There are no wrong answers!

#indie #gamedev

underground + the trope of the balrog and other monsters living deep underground (also heavily present in dwarf fortress though idr if you can eat the monsters).

The anti-magic trope also comes up in this story on the grounds of it being "unnatural" from the dwarves perspective.

mining since those are very grounded, earthly activities.

The cooking of monsters comes from Delicious in Dungeon, a popular anime, a character, Senshi, helps the main characters survive in the dungeon by making meals out of monsters. This makes perfect sense to me since they mine a lot and live