RE that RT.. itโs wild how steam reviews are still so damn important to getting visibility. If you play and like indie games, the most generous and helpful thing you can do is spend an hour popping positive reviews onto anything you like with <500 or so reviews.
31.01.2026 10:11 โ ๐ 471 ๐ 126 ๐ฌ 7 ๐ 18
[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation
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Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village)
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Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
25.12.2025 23:25 โ ๐ 8153 ๐ 2223 ๐ฌ 104 ๐ 168
Gamers Are Overwhelmingly Negative About Gen AI in Video Games, but Attitudes Vary by Gender, Age, and Gaming Motivations.
Learn about how gender, age, and gaming motivations shape the perception of Gen AI in video games.
everyone dislikes genai in games, but kids and story-focused players the most.
sounds like we'll be ok. just have to stay the course here and the "inevitable" new technology nobody likes will die. again.
quanticfoundry.com/2025/12/18/g...
20.12.2025 00:52 โ ๐ 1415 ๐ 464 ๐ฌ 10 ๐ 63
Concept Artists Say Generative AI References Only Make Their Jobs Harder
โThe โearly ideation stagesโ, when worlds are being fleshed out by writers and artists, are literally crucial to the development of a gameโs vision,โ said one artist.
We spoke to a dozen professional concept artists who are currently or have previously worked in game development about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs any easier.
Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder.
thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc...
18.12.2025 21:05 โ ๐ 4959 ๐ 2537 ๐ฌ 52 ๐ 163
What gets me about executives at movie/videogame studios being taken aback at consumer backlash to AI is that they seem genuinely surprised that we like the human beings that make the things that we like
17.12.2025 17:23 โ ๐ 4208 ๐ 775 ๐ฌ 52 ๐ 31
"We need to adopt new tech or be left behind" no you don't. Every time when entertainment industries adopt new tech, the successful works that embrace that new tech happen when that tech is old and mature.
17.12.2025 00:49 โ ๐ 157 ๐ 30 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1
The official home of the Python Programming Language
TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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27.10.2025 14:47 โ ๐ 6419 ๐ 2757 ๐ฌ 125 ๐ 452
Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia
Musk has denounced Wikipedia as "Wokepedia" on X and urged people not to donate to the platform.
Iโve never donated to Wikipedia before but I set up a small monthly donation as a fuck you to the worldโs richest psychopath.
25.12.2024 18:18 โ ๐ 10477 ๐ 5521 ๐ฌ 423 ๐ 810
Horizon Chase representando! ๐๐๏ธ
09.08.2025 14:21 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Patient, sobbing: But Doctor, I AM Pagliacci!
ChatGPT: Apologies. I didn't realise when recommending Pagliacci's epic show to cure your depression that you were the genius himself. I'm impressed! With regards to your initial question, I can recommend seeing the Great Clown Pagliacci.
07.08.2025 11:31 โ ๐ 11658 ๐ 2862 ๐ฌ 18 ๐ 32
Good god, I have never watched a single Pirate Software video in my life, nor any videos about the guy, and yet there is at least one video about him in EVERY SINGLE YOUTUBE RECOMMENDATIONS LIST now.
Clearly farming 'lolcows' is lucrative. Also ethically fucked and you should just leave people be.
05.08.2025 11:15 โ ๐ 350 ๐ 32 ๐ฌ 21 ๐ 0
The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble
Hey! Before we go any further โ if you want to support my work, please sign up for the premium version of Whereโs Your Ed At, itโs a $7-a-month (or $70-a-year) paid product where every week you get a ...
Newsletter: This is the Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble: genAI is nothing like Uber or Amazon Web Services, there are no profitable genAI companies, agents do not and cannot exist, there is no AI SaaS story, and everything rides - and dies - on selling GPUs.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...
21.07.2025 16:48 โ ๐ 3391 ๐ 1060 ๐ฌ 82 ๐ 139
Reflecting on the "stop killing games" conversation. I think folks don't realize that the petition is bigger than what fans want . Fans want a right to repair and for volunteers to be able to tinker and reverse engineer.
But the petition wants developers to alter how they make games
28.06.2025 11:55 โ ๐ 184 ๐ 46 ๐ฌ 15 ๐ 3
I Asked Panic About GenAI in Playdate Season 2 - exp.
Hereโs what they said.
For some reason no one else was going to do this, so I did a journalism. I asked @panic.com About GenAI in @play.date S2 after @brandon.insertcredit.com raised that Wheelsprung used it. Here's what they said:
24.06.2025 18:49 โ ๐ 76 ๐ 24 ๐ฌ 4 ๐ 3
Regardless of how you feel about AI, I'd strongly advise you don't do this. This is going to sabotage you in the long run.
04.06.2025 13:40 โ ๐ 950 ๐ 171 ๐ฌ 26 ๐ 11
Game funding is in a drought, yes, but not because good games arenโt out there.
Itโs that no one with money wants to fund something that isnโt already a success in disguise.
Thatโs not investment, or partnership- itโs financialization of art.
31.05.2025 15:10 โ ๐ 284 ๐ 79 ๐ฌ 6 ๐ 3
Video-Game Companies Have an AI Problem: Players Donโt Want It
Publishers like EA and Take-Two are warning shareholders about the potential โreputationalโ risks of AI
In recent weeks, video game publishers Take-Two and EA both warned investors about potential "reputational" risks to the use of gen-AI in games. It's a problem that all game companies will soon need to confront: Players hate genAI.
This week's column: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
23.05.2025 17:35 โ ๐ 2989 ๐ 832 ๐ฌ 90 ๐ 130
Dad's Coming to Nintendo Switch!!!
It launches on May 22nd, prepare to play it in any house, or even outside the house! Will Dad arrive there too?
#gamelaunch #nintendoswitch #indiegame #pixelart #indiebr #jogobr #gamedev #indiegames
18.05.2025 19:54 โ ๐ 18 ๐ 6 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Title card slide: "20 magic tricks for developers"
So this was a talk about magic tricks. Things that anyone, at any scale of development, could do to make their work more special. It's also a bit of a manifesto, it's kinda funny how much of this I ended up applying to TRON: Catalyst, which we started on a couple years after I wrote this.
20.04.2025 09:45 โ ๐ 83 ๐ 24 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
โAn overwhelmingly negative and demoralizing forceโ: what itโs like working for a company thatโs forcing AI on its developers
aftermath.site/ai-video-game-...
07.04.2025 23:16 โ ๐ 767 ๐ 240 ๐ฌ 9 ๐ 35
galera trata desenhar como se fosse um superpoder. isso รฉ sua frustraรงรฃo falando. quando vocรช tinha 6 anos, vocรช gostava de desenhar. eu tambรฉm. mas vocรช parou de desenhar. e eu nรฃo. essa รฉ a รบnica diferenรงa entre nรณs. e vocรช pode voltar a desenhar. vem comigo. o lรกpis e o papel estรฃo te esperando.
31.03.2025 02:52 โ ๐ 1182 ๐ 297 ๐ฌ 13 ๐ 40
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So, the DOGE kids intend to rewrite the social-security administration's COBOL code-base!
and they want to do it ...
... in *a few months*
I did a huge dive into COBOL a few years ago (www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/magazi...) ...
... so let me explain why DOGE is *way* over its skis here
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30.03.2025 18:41 โ ๐ 6860 ๐ 2940 ๐ฌ 510 ๐ 543
the problem with gen AI characters just from purely a game design & player experience standpoint is that the characters are unmemorable and boring, there's no way to feel clever when talking to them, and even if you roleplay when talking to them they won't remember or react to that meaningfully
11.03.2025 00:01 โ ๐ 724 ๐ 140 ๐ฌ 13 ๐ 14
I've learned (and I am still learning) how to run a game studio for the last seven years doing both creative and biz. Here's a list of guidelines that work for us and might be useful for others that were lessons I've incorporated with our experience and guidance from others. ๐งต
23.02.2025 21:26 โ ๐ 1071 ๐ 243 ๐ฌ 16 ๐ 27
YouTube video by Casey Explosion
Casey Explosion's Top 12 Games of 2024
WELCOME TO THE CASEY AWARDS 2024!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRnU...
08.02.2025 19:00 โ ๐ 819 ๐ 221 ๐ฌ 51 ๐ 41
Ok lets get into it then. Hi I'm Valentine, I was one of the employees who led most of the walkouts and who was part of the original group pushing for unionization at Blizzard, especially on the WoW team where I worked at the time.
13.02.2025 01:11 โ ๐ 2495 ๐ 1088 ๐ฌ 21 ๐ 30
5 HORAS PARA O LANรAMENTO!! ๐
O PAI TA CHEGANDO!
5 HOURS TO GO UNTIL LAUNCH!! ๐
DAD'S ALMOST HOME!
#gamelaunch #indiegame #gamedev #pixelart #indiebr #jogobr
21.01.2025 11:59 โ ๐ 14 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Essa รฉ a armadilha, รฉ assim que eles (os Indielluminati) te pegam kkkkkk
20.01.2025 12:45 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
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...from the proudly London-based The Rolistes Podcast.
Author of #MagicOfInventorying, #RosewoodAbbey, and #NaNiCthulhu.
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Starter Pack: https://go.bsky.app/88G9otw
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Turning Passion into Great Games! Publisher of Fate, Monster of the Week, Blades in the Dark, Thirsty Sword Lesbians, and other games. www.evilhat.com
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Cool things I've worked on:
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TTRPG designer and illustrator. Created DURF and The Electrum Archive.
CULT OF THE LIZARD KING
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28 ๐ฑ she/her ๐ฑ editorial director at Possum Creek, lead game designer at Steve Jackson Games, award-winning trans gay ๐ฑ wrote wanderhome, yazeba's b&b, seven part pact, and others
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Game designer (Mothership, Two Rooms and a Boom) at Tuesday Knight Games.
I make roleplaying games, toy soldiers, and bad decisions.
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Blackened doomsday rpg about miserable bastards and heretics enduring a bleak, dying world. Ockult รrtmรคstare Games & Stockholm Kartell. The end.
www.morkborg.com
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