James Youngman

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The best time to electrify freight railroads was 50 years ago. The second best time is now.

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stand up for us before it’s too late, cis folks.

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Especially relevant for live service games

When I worked on a mobile f2p game my advice to our writer was to think in terms of soap opera structure. It's a successful model for the type of storytelling live service games do, by their nature.

reminder that one of the many practical problems with people betting on everything is it creates financial incentives for involved betters to find ways to change odds to turn out in their favor

Once Victor realized he'd made a murderer, he refused, at his own peril, to repeat the process. Gen AI grifters aren't even Victor Frankenstein.

A friend of mine who runs these things always repeats something to me along the lines of "Playtests and Research isn't for telling you the right thing to do, it's to confirm to you that your assumptions are correct and that your intentions are getting through to the players" and that's stuck with me

And if you want to check out the game I wrote it for, you can play it here: onsensoft.itch.io/cthulhus-bea...

From Circana's PlayerPulse - US video game player sentiment around the use of generative AI is worsening. In December 2025, over 25% of players said the use of generative AI would lead them to refuse or be less likely to buy a game.

Reposting because in my first try I words up my mixed.

The Titan Elite 2 looks slick, but my ISP already locks me out of my Titan 2. ☹️

Hopefully some day I'll be able to have a phone with a physical keyboard as my daily driver.

I had a Juno address back in the day!

I've been thinking about this video the past couple days so much, man. I've complained plenty about lack of real, humanized representation of Jewish people in games and media in general and this hit so hard.

Hungry Sand, by James Youngman from the album Closing the Loop

Happy #BandcampFriday! Have some surf rock!

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What are your thoughts on robo taxis as transit? Autonomous vans, operated by the local transit agency, offering last mile services and covering gaps where higher volume transit isn't available.

It's obvious these are fleet, not personal vehicles. But why not have transit systems own the fleets?

Are we falling out of love with nonfiction? In the early 2020s, readers flocked to books to explain political turbulence. But is the world now too grim to read about – and are podcasters taking the place of authors?

If we learned nothing else from 2025, it’s that we shouldn’t take for granted that what we love will continue to be funded

If people and libraries don’t buy a certain kind of book, publishers will stop investing in them

That’s also one reason the library book bans are so scary

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careful! if you see a post claiming something that confirms your worries but doesn't link to the source do a 4 second web search to check if it's made up before spreading it into our eyeballs by reposting that. misinformation we agree with doesn't help our cause it weakens our case talking to others

I've been thinking about EIFDs a lot lately... and it occurs to me that they're potentially how we turn transit from something that *deprives* other projects of funding (due to high capital costs) into something that actually *provides* funding. Stay with me here. First, a primer on EIFDs. 1/12

Gut answer is that the shift to younger generations being poorer than their parents is the only thing that's ahistorical.

There are other inflection points, sure, but history isn't linear progress towards a goal any more than evolution is, so those don't feel ahistorical to me.

A friend of mine and I were interviewed about this by MTV our senior year of high school.

I wonder if that would have any knock on effects on credit rating agencies, which, to be clear, I want to stop existing.

That's a turkey

What if we simply make selling data illegal

When will California grant enhanced permitting authority to transit projects?

I tried to warn people. Can't force anyone to listen though.

Turns out lawlessness is not a winning strategy. See you at Nuremberg 2.0

If anyone else is willing to share Steam Next Fest numbers, please reply to this post.

Let's normalize sharing reality and not "fake it til you make it" culture.

There are 20 people (and families) that could bankroll this personally, all of whom would still be rich enough to live lives of idle decadence afterwards.

www.forbes.com/real-time-bi...

When you accept that people who come after you deserve to have the same chances to experience something age appropriate that will change their lives the way your books and games did for you, you will be a healthier and happier person.