Mr. Hands is making SuccuDeck 😈🃏

My wife has an expression for the guy that alleges corporate espionage ruined his "groundbreaking" open world game: Honey, you're not *that* hot

Polymarket's tweet here is like a casino saying "it's now more likely the next roulette roll will come up 22 than any other individual number" because more money is currently bet on 22 than on any other number.

Nice...
#dispatch

My hope is that one day, an Itchio commenter will tell me to delete my game, and then myself

That's how I'll know I've made Art 😌

I may have just turned a client's fortune completely around with a clever bit of game design, but I'll have to present a rock-solid case for it tomorrow 👀

This is why I love embedded client work 💪

i'm taking a brave stance that may get me canceled: there is no reason for the pervert glasses to exist

Kurzgesagt has an excellent video on what actually happens when you detonate a nuclear weapon over a city

Spoiler alert: Imagine every natural disaster at once + radiation

According to the courts, not only can AI not be copyrighted, but it also can't be vandalized.

hello. please look at this incredible list of authors whose craft advice you can get for less than $20. I’m in this and still completely amazed by how good the quality is

This book is an absolute treasure trove of insights from all different perspectives in 100+ short chapters dealing with a huge range of topics about the craft. Can’t recommend it enough!

Delighted to have my chapter, “Cite your sources!”, in amongst all the the excellent contributions.

With one pull of this lever, I will have the robot dispense me a Discord clone!

🍒 No, not like that
🍌 No, not like that
🍎 Look, have you tried setting up an instructions md file

The Cali law requires self-reported age brackets:

- under 13
- 13 - 16
- 16 - 18
- 18+

This is then sent to apps/websites

So once this law goes into effect, the goal posts will shift to demand for more age brackets and then more "robust" solutions for age verification

With one pull of this lever, I will have the robot dispense me a Discord clone!

🍒 No, not like that
🍌 No, not like that
🍎 Look, have you tried setting up an instructions md file

You ever just scroll your own feed and go, damn, I'd follow *that* guy

Don't you mean Amazon™'s FireBook© with a Microsoft™ Windows 12© AI-Enhanced Edition© license? 😌

People tend to think of functional illiteracy as just being unable to read words aloud or such.

What it *really* means is such as not being able to perceive subtext, context, understand who the audience of something may be, etc.

Media illiteracy is fundamentally part of functional illiteracy.

Yes, OS-level age verification has been pushed as a compromise toward less-draconian verification laws. My argument is a slippery slope one: Once this is implemented, it will immediately be deemed "not good enough" by those who want to ban porn from the Internet, because their goal is to ban porn

"Ah, but it only records your birthday and sends it to websites!"

- Why does the website need to know
- Why would the OS verification be "good enough"
- Why wouldn't the very next step be "upload your driver's license to access Disney dot com"

It's only the north-eastern side tho

They should just turn it around

I got two of 'em and they're both scared of hands 😔

Really proud of this piece and so thankful to all the sex workers who talked with me while I was researching! I don’t often see this framed as a speech and artistic expression issue but it is: Visa/MC are effectively crowning themselves art directors as they rip sex workers off.

Self care is over, it's time for others harm 😌

And she gently repeats the Jacob Wysocki "You are a regular guy. You can enter a space. You can enter a room. You can do that transaction. You know how to answer the phone. You know what sleep is. You know how to wake up. You know how to move through space. You know what it means to be you" to me

Plumbing is grueling, gross, and the clients suck

You won't have energy for much after work 😅

"Ah, but it only records your birthday and sends it to websites!"

- Why does the website need to know
- Why would the OS verification be "good enough"
- Why wouldn't the very next step be "upload your driver's license to access Disney dot com"

Yeah, it takes weeks to push out an update, especially on a skeleton crew

I spent three years of my life on a stupid live service game that was canceled before it came out, but this is so, so much worse

this sucks. no patience for the people laughing at it, calling it concord 2.0, etc. if 2 million people pick up a game, and you have to shutter it and lay everyone off, it doesn't matter if the game is good or bad. it's a symptom of a much bigger and deeper problem.

They remembered to add Flevoland, though 😎

What I love about my birthday is that "the last day of the second fiscal quarter" is when companies realize they need to spend a bunch of money or risk losing the budget for next quarter, so I often have a corpo party on my birthday, but I don't love this 😀