Ben Throop

I suppose someone was going with a health play with that sad name.

tis the season for unsubscription

bringing the late great man's words back to speak on netflix ted's assertion about watching movies on your phone

Reminds me of Matthew Wegner. He was posting a lot of these kinds of Francis Bacon style nightmares back before DallE and the like. Then he just disappeared.

💯

SDF?

Solo gamedev story

Hollywood

no

I believe that game worlds give us space to practice our ethics.

A hallmark of well-crafted, thoughtful and believable storytelling is the empathy and connection we feel towards a story's characters. 🧵

“Flow in concert” shown on a projection screen above the orchestra at Benaroya Hall, Seattle

Really glad I got tickets to see Flow in Concert at the Seattle Symphony. Could use a bit of lovely art and music right now

Retail price $40 in 1981 is equivalent to... www.bls.gov/data/inflati...

Windows Notepad, the native simple text editor, now has formatting options and a Copilot button.

Look what they did to Notepad. Shut the fuck up. This is Notepad. You are not welcome here. Oh yeah "Let me use Copilot for Notepad". "I'm going to sign into my account for Notepad". What the fuck are you talking about. It's Notepad.

Last night my daughter was chilling after her first day at a new school. We were watching random Youtube together and I went to to get up. Before I could leave she put on Mitchells v The Machines. I had to stay. It's one of our favorites. What an amazing piece of work it is. More prescient every day

HORF

congrats on finishing!

Look, we're either going to have to Return to Office (RTO) or we're going to have to Ban Daytime Lawn Maintenance (BDLM). One or the other people.

a whole scene today at Hula

I'm a longtime subscriber to The Economist and I'm here for headlines like this

Life hack: If you do something that's not on your to-do list, instead of feeling disappointed when you can't find it, add it, but DON'T check it off. Then when you come back, you get to be like ✅.

someone needs to be held accountable for this and all the other cases like it. unconscionable.

Good luck to everyone that's gone to GDC with a mission. You can do that thing! It's gonna be great!

words - what are they really for?

WINDOWS: "Oh hey I heard you were working with color on your computer here have some NIGHT MODE"

Two red ceramic jars, one with white text that says "coffee", the other says "tea". However, someone crossed these out with black sharpie and wrote the opposite word on each.

Game dev

I love this still

you animal

Yeah I've had my eye on Tall Trails for a while. Talented designer there

It's 2025. I updated Windows 11 and my Realtek audio driver disappeared.

In a small way, it's comforting to still feel needed. Thank you Microsoft.

Download the latest indie games itch.io is a simple way to find, download and distribute indie games online. Whether you're a developer looking to upload your game or just someone looking for something new to play itch.io has you co...

I get little pings from itch.io about this and it makes me quite pleased and also for some reason makes ME feel more productive which is wrong but fine.