Tyler Pham

He really edged the entirety of skyrim.

It's time to bring the trackball back. I use the ploopy adept.

I saw someone call Ai a Thneed and I can't stop thinking about it. It's a PERFECT analogy. The Thneed was an all-purpose tool that didn't do anything really useful. It was a fad that did major damage to the environment to make the Onceler a billionare. It left no real lasting impact, only damage.

@jacobfullerton.bsky.social Holy shit that swordle was insane.

A lot of people will sing the praises of "This was a triumph" and "Want you gone" in the Portal games' soundtracks (and rightfully so), but can we take a sec to appreciate the rest of the music in the games as well? It all oozes with unbridled creativity.

Celebrating Idli Doodle - Google Doodles Learn more about the creation of Celebrating Idli Doodle and discover the story behind the unique artwork.

doodles.google/doodle/celeb...

Yo @developers.google.com did you pick up a couple copy of Venba?

We're just a teeny indie team and our art was pretty distinctive and this looks eerily similar

Anyways in good faith, the game is on all platforms, credits easily accessible, link below

More people need to know how amazing this game is 🤖🎶

why did it take me 2 hours to edit 1 minute of footage.. i gotta get faster at this 🫠 #gaming #indiegames #videogames #gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev

fellas is it DEI if i'm uncomfortable when everything isn't about me

The mushroom kingdom, koopa kingdom, the bean bean kingdom, the flower kingdom, and... Italy? Mario's Italian so somewhere in the Mario canon Italy exists right?

Society accepts eating mashed potatoes as a side but guacamole is regulated to being a dip and that really illustrates how unfair the universe can be.

Fast forward to today and I am now replacing my full size ATX gaming desktop with a 10 inch laptop and an external GPU enclosure.

I remember when I was in high school, and kept dying in Fez because it was running at 12 frames per second on my Toshiba laptop. Back then I wished there was a way to plug a GPU into it for more performance.

Sleight of hand magician does the trick where they take an unsuspecting participant's watch, but the participant is actually another sleight of hand magician, and he sneakily puts another watch on. This goes on as the first magician keeps taking watch after watch but the participant always has more.

"Our thin device actually has great battery life. Anyways here's a $99 battery pack."

Hi it's me I'm one of the people on your steam friends list that was playing Hollow Knight to get caught up for Silksong.

While algorithmic content may have driven me towards these interests. They are activities which actively discourage being on a device and have a culture of not really acknowledging algorithmic content. Which is something I think is something that I need personally at this time in my life.

If you asked me a few years ago what hobbies I'd be expressing interest in, I would've never been able to guess that it's going to be rock climbing and... Motorcycles?

When I play a video game for an extended period of time before sleeping it influences what my dreams look/feel like. Pulled a late night of playing Receiver 2 (which tbf has a lot of metacognition dreamstate themes) and then more or less dreamt the game that night. Anyone else like this?

IDK why I purchased through steam wallet so much but at least all of the titles are absolute bangers.

I'm thinking about the time I was at the Paul Revere's house in Boston and asking the historian about the fork with 2 tines on the dinner table and seeing them light up because they probably don't get that question often and they had fun and interesting info about the Revere family's 2 tine fork.

People talking about their experiences with AI is the modern equivalent of people sharing vivid dreams they had, and banking the entire future of entertainment on definitionally unsharable experiences is wild.

A collage of several women appearing to be crying but wiping their tears/blowing their noses with hundred dollar bills

Big games companies when they say how "difficult" it has been to "make the decision to part with a number of talented individuals" due to "changing industry conditions" in their layoff announcements

These are the best reviewed games of 2025 so far How many have you played?

Despite the games industry being so rough right now, seeing titles like Despelote, Blue Prince, and Citizen Sleeper 2 standing alongside Mario Kart World, Breath of the Wild, and Tears of the Kingdom is simply amazing.

www.nme.com/news/gaming-...

Yeah there's probably a better term for games that don't really pursue depth of expression. A lot of the discussion around your top post centers around whether these types of games are exploitative in nature. But I think I get the vibe a little bit lol.

On the other end at the consumer side, since gaming as a hobby is completely mainstream now, the bulk of the audience will have mainstream sensibilities, which often means the most successful games will be ones that hit right in the middle of that bell curve at the cost of risk & pushing boundaries.

In the past 10 years games have been easier to distribute thanks to things like steam, XBLA, and the mobile market, which birthed the indie revolution.

But I think low effort games have been enabled by the game creation process being made more accessible. Unity engine, assets stores, etc.

Like I get the idea behind not liking "low effort" games. But hating on their success seems to miss many more meaningful arguments in critique of them.

I avoid buying potato chips because they're unhealthy and addictive, not because they're a successful product.

I don't really understand why the premise of this post puts expression and dopamine delivery at odds against one another (but maybe because drawing lines in the sand is a great way to boost engagement.)

And also framing the term as "dopamine delivery" as some sort of inferior "feeling good".

@landfall.se really giving the end of my first solo run the cinematic ending. Literally did a double take in-game at the end there.