Dugan

Dugan

@tikipodltd.bsky.social

Bafta nominated game developer and owner of Tikipod. Co-Dev and Publisher of Astro Aqua Kitty, Iron Crypticle, Aqua Kitty, Rock Boshers. Currently based in VIC region, AUS.

910 Followers 397 Following 1,043 Posts Joined Jul 2023
9 hours ago

not used the PC Engine in a while - one of the controllers cables has gone sticky! ew

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3 days ago
Screenshot of a Tweet by @TheChiefNerd inclusing an interview with Sam Altman.

The text in the Tweet says:
SAM ALTMAN: “We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.”

The whole "AI" industry is just based on the hope that they can deskill people fast enough that they'll have to rent back cognitive support systems. Forever.

It's like Uber. Just that they don't try to break existing transportation infrastructures but your brain.

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1 day ago

Did you see the latest New Zealand Story remake? (Pc)
The art is quite poor, clouds like a 2 second job in Photoshop with drop shadow

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3 days ago
Digital painting, a meeting between two flying ships

Mileships outtake

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2 days ago
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Extending the demo: Ridge Racer (PlayStation) Reverse engineering an early look at one of the first PlayStation titles

There's a PlayStation demo CD with a restricted build of *Ridge Racer*. It's from 3 weeks before the final, making it some of the earliest PlayStation software.

I patched out the limits to enable full access. There are lots of differences!

32bits.substack.com/p/extending-...

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2 days ago

The Japanese title for Hoppers is "The Time I Became a Beaver" and yeah. No notes. Fantastic

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2 days ago
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1/ This is the new normal. Billionaires and opaque money are not just buying ads and buying the media. They are buying the social layer of politics through paid posts that look organic. If we do not treat this as a system, it will keep scaling. #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy

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3 days ago

this time with links! :D
ASTRO AQUA KITTY, Xbox sale (Unsure when ends, prob soon)

USA Store
www.xbox.com/en-US/games/...

UK Store
www.xbox.com/en-GB/games/...

And generic local store link (should work in theory)
www.xbox.com/games/store/...

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4 days ago
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Emilie Tronche ("Samuel") directed "Ça pik un peu quand même", a music video for French-Korean singer Miki.
Full MV >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1At...

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3 days ago
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Xeno Crisis for PS4 is 50% off on the PlayStation Store as part of the Mega March Sale!

Embark on a deadly mission to confront an alien menace and get home alive! 👽

🛒: (store.playstation.com/en-gb/produc...)

Ends 25/03 at 23:59 GMT.

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4 days ago

oh, so the official tech bro term for stealing people's work in order to make AI sludge is apparently "surfacing". noted for the future

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4 days ago
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

Today marks the 42nd anniversary of the release of Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, based on his own manga.

A fabulous environmental fable that led to the creation of Ghibli Studios.

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4 days ago

Just ate 3 creme eggs, how's your day going?

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5 days ago
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Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

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5 days ago

i totally misread that as lizard licker

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1 week ago

Apologies for that, our games are still due to be migrated over to a new account which will fix the issue.
Problem is, we are stuck in a queue and have not been given a definitive date of when :(

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1 week ago
A woman wearing a ghillie suit holding an assault rifle while standing in shallow water. She’s looking off, scanning the horizon for threats.

It’s almost International Women’s Day and I’m currently thinking about some of the most badass women on earth: The Akashinga Rangers
These Zimbabwean women train hard to protect wildlife from the worst people on the planet: poachers

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1 week ago

ah thanks - yeah I have never seen that sort of thing on new drive before, was wondering

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1 week ago

Was worried it might be something like that

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1 week ago

The crystal check thing is saying all zeros, but I read somewhere it's possible to reset that data?

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1 week ago

Disk recovery is taking a while.... So far it's reporting 42 files found.

That normal for a brand new drive? Do manufacturers test files on them then wipe/reset usage data?

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1 week ago
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hmm - bought a laptop HDD... came in a teeny jiffy bag. Was sealed in a small electrostatic bag - and label on HDD says made 2018!

Could it be old/used and had its usage data wiped/reset?

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1 week ago

thinking ill probably extend this for a week just because, not posting on the other site = very little traction lol so come get your juice while its bubbling <3

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1 week ago
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Astro Aqua Kitty is having a huge 75% OFF on XBOX

Sale is worldwide, just search ASTRO AQUA KITTY :D

Pick your crew (1 pilot and 1 engineer) - each with unique skills to unlock and equip.
Shoot - explore - shop and upgrade across 8 increasingly large levels

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1 week ago

There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.

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1 week ago

We didn't desert it, made one of the last games before the cut off :)
(Astro Aqua Kitty)

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1 week ago

#ScottPilgrimEX is 100% funded, developed and published by @tributegames.com. Ubisoft isn't and never was involved. There's no Uplay required. When you buy Scott Pilgrim EX, you help Tribute Games make more cool games! Thank you for your support!

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1 week ago
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Teeny seed pods

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1 week ago
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I've been running gdcparties.com for a few years now. Some shitty company BlueberryAI decided they'd just take all the source code for the work I've done and reskin it, advertising it as their own. Jokes on them...it was still linked to my events spreadsheet, and now their website looks like this 😉

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1 week ago

It seems the thieving grifter pieces of human filth at "superhuman" are using my work without my consent to create AI editors based on me. The world isn't terrible enough, we also have to deal with people just stealing our work to burn resources and enrich themselves in a brand new way? Fuck off

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