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What does an artist do, mostly? She tweaks that which she’s already done. There are those moments when we sit before a blank page, but mostly we’re adjusting that which is already there. The writer revises, the painter touches up, the director edits, the musician overdubs. I write, “Jane came into the room and sat down on the blue couch,” read that, wince, cross out “came into the room” and “down” and “blue” (Why does she have to come into the room? Can someone sit UP on a couch? Why do we care if it’s blue?) and the sentence becomes “Jane sat on the couch – ” and suddenly, it’s better (Hemingwayesque, even!), although … why is it meaningful for Jane to sit on a couch? Do we really need that? And soon we have arrived, simply, at “Jane”, which at least doesn’t suck, and has the virtue of brevity.

See also, George Saunders' essay "What writers really do when they write" which has maybe the definitive paragraph on editing I've ever read. www.theguardian.com/books/2017/m...

This is one of those "Last of Us rope" things that players wouldn't bat an eye at but developers look at and go "wow........................real life sorcery"

The Unity HDRP is Dead – GameFromScratch.com Unity have just announced HDRP and the Built In Render pipelines are as good as dead with URP being the new priority SRP

but rest assured that if youre now completely dependent on built-in, Unity wont just leave you hanging without some official, easy and reliable way to convert all your assets and configs to URP, since its a forced change.

right? 🤡

gamefromscratch.com/the-unity-hd...

It's incredible how it was revealed that the anti-trans push over the past decade was concocted in no small part by a literal PEDOPHILE CONSPIRACY and the reaction of transphobic lawmakers, journalists, academics has been a shrug and a "well, we gotta
carry out the orders from pedophile island"

most of these wont even compile without human intervention, let alone be shippable/playable.

Unity itself is underestimating how much of a finnicky asshole Unity is, to think any bs one saves in a .cs file would make it a game.

also, you can't even vibe code your way in and around the editor

Unity will soon eliminate the need for Unity

Galera da pirataria e conservação de games, acho que vocês vão gostar de saber disso aqui.

Hype demais pqp.

Link: ps3-pro.github.io/PSN-Content/...

It remains to be seen how the Venezuelan people will respond to a more overt CIA presence in the country post-Maduro. For years, Maduro cast the CIA as a convenient boogey man, repeatedly accusing the agency – without evidence – of attempting to topple his regime as he clung to power despite US opposition. Now, the CIA has helped supplant Maduro and is poised to help actively manage the Trump administration’s dealings with Venezuela’s new leadership.

Absolutely incredible sequence from CNN.

"Maduro was a paranoid lunatic always lying about the CIA trying to overthrow him. Anyways, now that the CIA has overthrown him..."

steam's whole review system is a joke

Screenshot of an account @patriotmocha.bsky.social going around begging to be added to "anti-ICE signal group chats"

Image of a guy wearing a blue jacket labeled "FBI" typing on a laptop

Dr Kareem Carr man: i wish to publish @kareem_carr Jan 21 reviewer 2: your paper is no good man: i'll do anything to improve reviewer 2: it's simple. you must read the work of the great scientist Pagliarini man: *bursts into tears* but i am Pagliarini Andre Pagliarini @apagliar Jan 21 a first: in rejecting an article I submitted to a journal, reviewer 2 noted I failed to engage the work of one Andre Pagliarini Jan 21, 2026 • 3:47 PM UTC

I just thought everyone should see this

NEM FUDENDO QUE AS FRAUDES DO INSS, A MUTRETA DO BANCO MASTER E O ESQUEMA DO PCC NA FARINHA LIMA TÃO INTERLIGADAS

Completely aside from the other horribleness here, to say "we don't try to moderate reviews based on accuracy" is tantamount to admitting your reviews system is a completely arbitrary popularity contest that may not have any actual relation to the product. One that can make or break your game sales!

things are on where theyre doing something, off when theyre not.

open doors are the same as an empty door frame so on is closed.

whenever I get too stressed to motivate myself through AI debugging I just give myself some skill with a lot VFX to make, as a treat

was bored last week and decided to try an odachi moveset.
still feels floaty, esp in power stance, but I just love Great Katanas so much

also see if you can spot the bug with it

I was just complaining about that earlier today. didn't use to get those like ever, now it's everyday

because you're not their citizens, you're just their workforce and consumers.

A framed print of two screengrabs from a Kirby Air Riders Direct. Game Director Masahiro Sakurai is saying 'Oh dear. Why is making a game so hard?'

Reconnecting with your desk buddies after the festive break...

Trump diz que EUA vão governar Venezuela interinamente e controlar petróleo do país Em pronunciamento, Donald Trump disse que petroleiras norte-americanas voltarão a explorar petróleo na Venezuela e disse que vai governar o país até uma transição, mas indicou que María Corina Machado não fará parte do novo governo. E falou em ampliar 'domínio dos EUA' no Ocidente. Por Luisa Belchior, g1 — São Paulo 03/01/2026 13h41 Atualizado há uma hora

A mídia comercial e hereditária e a extrema-direita entreguista não precisam mais mentir sobre uma tal de defesa da democracia na Venezuela ou de um suposto combate ao narcotráfico.

O agressor já declarou com todas as letras qual é o objetivo real.

Agora, toda a América Latina é alvo potencial.

so as long as making it is easy/fun, its ok

Chavez in 2009, while being labelled as paranoid, outlines exactly what is happening today.

Too bad, slopguy

We've Got Our First Clair Obscur-like, And It's A Chinese Game Called Sword And Fairy 4: Remake Some shots almost looks like a Clair Obscur DLC.

I really hate how games media handles anything out of China: www.thegamer.com/clair-obscur...

We're getting a gorgeous remake of one of their best RPGs ever, but the clown does zero research about it and just goes "I'm getting a lot of Boss Baby vibes from this..."

Andrew Kadel @DrewKadel@social.coop My daughter, who's had a degree in computer science for 25 years, posted this about ChatGPT on Facebook. It's the best description I've seen. Something that seems fundamental to me about ChatGPT, which gets lost over and over again: When you enter text into it, you're asking "What would a response to this sound like?" If you put in a scientific question, and it comes back with a response citing a non-existent paper with a plausible title, using a real journal name and an author name who's written things related to your question, it's not being tricky or telling lies or doing anything at all surprising! This is what a response to that question would sound like! It did the thing! But people keep wanting the "say something that sounds like an answer" machine to be doing something else, and believing it *is* doing something else. It's good at generating things that sound like responses to being told it was wrong, so people think that it's engaging in introspection or looking up more information or something, but it's not, it's only, ever, saying something that sounds like the next bit of the conversation.

The only thing ChatGPT ever does.

Tumblr post by and-fishing-equipment reading "in 2026 DO NOT ask yourself whether your art is GOOD instead ask: - Is it SINCERE - is it CATHARTIC - was it FUN TO MAKE - is it MADE BY ME and don't forget to stay silly"

Talking to one of these types at a con who asked how I 'got in' with so many 'famous writers' who I'd been talking to and I said "we made friends before anyone knew who we were decades ago by striking up interesting conversations and enjoying each other's company" and he kept re-asking the question.