pete hegseth sweating in a leprechaun costume promising those "foolish enough to come after [his] lucky charms" will be met with "never before seen" marshmallow shapes. smirking and chopping the air with his hands as he says "play stupid games, win stupid prizes." the prizes are from Pixar's Hoppers
it's gone now ... mysterious
burning to archival blurays like "so i says to MABL i says"
why the hell did bluesky flag this
they're fucking all the snacks up
a). brushed metal graphics my beloved
b). i have Plans for this concept
almost there...
imo it's a bad faith description of when a social mp game finds success not bc of original design but bc of the social interactions it facilitates, and how incidental that can be.
frankly, the success of many games w this label /was/ incidental. but "friendslop" implies that success was undeserved.
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hopefully one day i will not feel like i'm playing catchup
man i really need to get my art direction skills up, the competition in the indie game world is getting so much steeper so quickly. world kept turning while i was wasting away at my old job
This write-up and my notes on Flantz’s talk (from the end of my previously posted huge thread) seem to me like the most accurate summaries of the “state of AI in games” as it appears via this year’s GDC. Hodgepodge amidst grift-noise; hustles in the dark; inconsistent hedging; hazy outlook
LinkedIn actually showed me something I wanted to see, for a change. I cannot underestimate how gorgeous this is. A proper Mirror's Edge successor in current year is not something I expected to see.
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In honor of the upcoming motion picture Toy Story 17, I've started a new account called "GET IPAD" that documents the first time fictional characters from the past come across a smart device.
Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers.
Anyway, this is the Gorbaechev Dictum (@mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social): we fight antisemitism like there is no Israel and fight Israel like there is no antisemitism.
reddit will unfortunately never shut up even if people paid them to not speak. i think this entirely hinges on how well that phenomenon can feed an llm
wait ... every leg of a three legged table is a weight bearing leg. i may not know much
i hope to god it doesn't work or it's gonna be the final nail in the coffin of the current business model for almost every outlet
guides are the weightbearing leg of the three legged table holding up video games journalism, and this thing is coming for them
you can't justify palworld and criticize pickmon. either both or nothing
LOOK! you big-haired freaerf!
americans starting conspiracy tiktoks discussing the lore of a mysterious machine known only as "the kempston"
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spiritually, this post belongs in thread with this
and investors putting tens of millions of pounds into them when they promised "Super Game" and played pink floyd during their boardroom pitch. "mother of god these guys have graphics. give them everything they want"
To this day, still the best explanation of the phenomenon I've read, published all the way back in 2020:
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every video i watch about the history of british video games seems made up
many cases of "guys who made a small fortune selling copies of Watch Out, Scrimblo's About! to the starving masses on audio cassette tapes that your uncle could copy and sell at a boot fair" becoming industry bedrock
it would be impossible to explain to my younger self that there is a tv show that godzilla is on sometimes but it simply does not interest you
