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aka Worry Darque Lead Programmer & Tech Director in Game Dev; Personal account & opinions. Worked on e.g. #Dungeons2 #Dungeons3 #Ostwind2 #HorseTales #PoliceSimulator #IndustryGiant4

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This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. β€œI consider it to ...

NEW: A hobbyist has created Nearby Glasses, an app that warns you if someone close by is wearing smart glasses. 404 Media spoke to the creator who said he was inspired by our coverage that uncovers how men are wearing Meta's Ray-Bans to covertly film massage parlor workers.

24.02.2026 15:48 β€” πŸ‘ 11049    πŸ” 4714    πŸ’¬ 143    πŸ“Œ 266

goofy face randomizer
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24.02.2026 18:00 β€” πŸ‘ 97    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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Workaround for now could be making a smart object of fhe base layer and then do your trick?

25.02.2026 05:48 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hey, so, survivor of CSAM (child sexual abuse material) hereβ€”and a global survivor advocate, including policy work!

Fictional material is not illegal. That’s actually why deepfakes are such a big issue for survivors too.

That said, actual art should *not* be made illegal. Why? (Con’t)

22.09.2025 07:24 β€” πŸ‘ 3318    πŸ” 1546    πŸ’¬ 30    πŸ“Œ 40
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I updated Modular Dungeon Kit... yes... again. Sorry I just wasn't completely happy OK? 😭

I've now added a ground texture, added some detail and tweaked the gradient on the walls!

kenney.nl/assets/modul...

24.02.2026 09:42 β€” πŸ‘ 162    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Anyway, the update looks great, I love that you do live update it and it makes it feel more like I have *you* in my gamekit rather than a no-strings-attached asset kit (which is a good thing, feels like you're part of the team)

24.02.2026 10:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Nah, thats perfectionism I'd wager.

(Taking the chances to trigger recursive impostor syndrome now, sorry)

24.02.2026 10:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
xkcd is second nature to use terminally online folk, so it's easy to forget that the average person probably only knows 386 and 356 by number.

and 2347, of course.

of course.

xkcd is second nature to use terminally online folk, so it's easy to forget that the average person probably only knows 386 and 356 by number. and 2347, of course. of course.

generated with foone.github.io/xkcd2501-gen... by @foone.bsky.social

24.02.2026 10:02 β€” πŸ‘ 90    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 1

I hate this post. And I'll probably hate very answer referencing another number.
Why yes, I'll stop everything I'm doing and look it up and at the same time leave the tab open to regularily check for updates in the thread.

24.02.2026 10:23 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I don't get what propelled it exactly, but I like that, over the past year or so, game demos seem to have made a valiant return.

24.02.2026 10:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point.

I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion

People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it

18.02.2026 16:37 β€” πŸ‘ 4794    πŸ” 2112    πŸ’¬ 85    πŸ“Œ 297

I ran a workshop a few years ago on game AI - stealth patrols, pathfinding, race waypoints, alpha beta pruning, state machine behaviors - made clear on our page and promos it has nothing to do with LLMs. some clueless folks still expected chatgpt

new CEO of Microsoft Gaming: same level of clueless

22.02.2026 18:49 β€” πŸ‘ 188    πŸ” 43    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 0

are there a lot of other industries where after a very successful project all the people post "it almost killed me and was driven past the brink of sanity that dark abyss beyond which light cannot reach and now im looking for work also check my linkedin"?

23.02.2026 03:55 β€” πŸ‘ 245    πŸ” 29    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 3

Top screen gives me major mortal kombat vibes

22.02.2026 06:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This implies I am NOT, in fact, forbidden from disappointing other customers!

22.02.2026 06:56 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
21.02.2026 18:28 β€” πŸ‘ 269    πŸ” 109    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I was convinced this would go somewhere else

21.02.2026 15:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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DELIVERY MUST COMPLETE on Steam High speed Acelike Roguelike with SSSTYLE. Cut across cel-shaded, action-packed, arcade-paced dogfights as you fly, fight, and upgrade your roster of kickass planes. Every battle is massive, every loc...

This game has the best publisher

store.steampowered.com/app/3639060/...

20.02.2026 16:13 β€” πŸ‘ 606    πŸ” 175    πŸ’¬ 32    πŸ“Œ 14
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I need men to understand: at some point in every conservative gal's life, she will have the experience of sitting and listening to the men around her --men who are her friends -- discuss, in a detached way, whether or not her kind of people (women) should have the right to vote.

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Post Danae Hudlow @danae hudlow Follow 6 I need men to understand: at some point in every conservative gal's life, she will have the experience of sitting and listening to the men around her --men who are her friends -- discuss, in a detached way, whether or not her kind of people (women) should have the right to vote. 9:45 PM Feb 18, 2026494.8K Views

Sounds rough! I avoid this ever happening to me with One Weird Trick

20.02.2026 10:52 β€” πŸ‘ 9058    πŸ” 1158    πŸ’¬ 118    πŸ“Œ 101

Currently writing a lot of posts and answers on social media - just never posting/sending them.

Positive: got it out of my system without any regret afterwards
Negative: sometimes feels like a waste of time

Net positive i believe

20.02.2026 07:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
from reddit 

r/ExperiencedDevs β€’ 21h ago
Tech-Cowboy
An AI CEO finally said something honest
(Meta
Dax Raad from anoma.ly might be the only CEO speaking honestly about Al right now.
His most recent take:
"everyone's talking about their teams like they were at the peak of efficiency and bottlenecked by ability to produce code
here's what things actually look like
- your org rarely has good ideas. ideas being expensive to implement was actually helping
- majority of workers have no reason to be super motivated, they want to do their 9-5 and get back to their life
- they're not using Al to be 10x more effective they're using it to churn out their tasks with less energy spend
- the 2 people on your team that actually tried are now flattened by the slop code everyone is producing, they will quit soon
- even when you produce work faster you're still bottlenecked by bureaucracy and the dozen other realities of shipping something real
- your CFO is like what do you mean each engineer now costs $2000 extra per month in LLM bills"

from reddit r/ExperiencedDevs β€’ 21h ago Tech-Cowboy An AI CEO finally said something honest (Meta Dax Raad from anoma.ly might be the only CEO speaking honestly about Al right now. His most recent take: "everyone's talking about their teams like they were at the peak of efficiency and bottlenecked by ability to produce code here's what things actually look like - your org rarely has good ideas. ideas being expensive to implement was actually helping - majority of workers have no reason to be super motivated, they want to do their 9-5 and get back to their life - they're not using Al to be 10x more effective they're using it to churn out their tasks with less energy spend - the 2 people on your team that actually tried are now flattened by the slop code everyone is producing, they will quit soon - even when you produce work faster you're still bottlenecked by bureaucracy and the dozen other realities of shipping something real - your CFO is like what do you mean each engineer now costs $2000 extra per month in LLM bills"

someone in AI fucked up and actually told the truth

20.02.2026 00:55 β€” πŸ‘ 2360    πŸ” 698    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 23

i finally got around to implementing character sprites, therefore, Error Joseph is now real and can jumpscare me

(sprite @yummypillow.art who put an unreasonable amount of effort into this)

20.02.2026 01:35 β€” πŸ‘ 402    πŸ” 128    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Game exec walks into a curry house.

β€œMake me a pizza?”

19.02.2026 20:32 β€” πŸ‘ 848    πŸ” 153    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 11

"free/cheap/non-toxic youth sports" feels like one of those skeleton keys that would have knock-on effects accidentally fix 100 unrelated things about America

or, you know, even if it didn't, at least a bunch of kids would be able to have fun playing sports

19.02.2026 15:24 β€” πŸ‘ 4484    πŸ” 614    πŸ’¬ 74    πŸ“Œ 92

Meaning, "Also, don't get me wrong, der kΓ€rcher"
Can mean

"So, don't get me wrong, the high pressure cleaner"
or
"Also, don't get me wrong, the high pressure cleaner"

depending on if the beginning was read as german or english

19.02.2026 09:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If you speak a lot of denglish (mixing german and english mid-sentence with some people) never forget:

Also.. => Ausserdem..
So.. => Also..

19.02.2026 09:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Adobe popup offering "this appears to be a long document. save time by reading a summary using AI assistant."

Adobe popup offering "this appears to be a long document. save time by reading a summary using AI assistant."

Are you a dumb little baby? Is reading an exhausting chore? Don't you want someone else to just read that for you?

GET OUT OF MY DAMN COMPUTER

19.02.2026 06:04 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

It's kinda annoying how solar panels were hung around the neck of the left as impractical pie in the sky treehugger shit *right* up until it started outcompeting every other energy source. Then suddenly, instead of going "hey the left was correct about solar" it's no longer a "left" idea!

18.02.2026 03:54 β€” πŸ‘ 2584    πŸ” 426    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 10

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