Hayden Dingman will be at GDC 2026

The most baffling change at GDC this year is splitting the IGF and GDC Awards onto separate nights.

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

Also like Michael Crichton: He has books that are dumb-but-fun-and-inoffensive (The Martian, Project Hail Mary) that everyone talks about and knows him by, and then books that are just dumb (Artemis) that are absolutely wretched.

Oh dang, usually those outlets aren't powerful enough to keep my Steam Deck alive while in use. Jealous!

What kind of external battery do you have that let you get 11 hours in?

This year has felt like a decade.

It's pretty hard to look around and see how the last ten years of behemoth mergers has gone and think "Yeah, more of that, please."

Snowpiercer (2013)

two otters one is showing off her baby and the other is showing off a pipe with a headline that says that

being at the age where everyone you know is having children

Statue of a horse standing on its hind legs from the upcoming film The Odyssey.

A statue of a blue horse standing on its hind legs outside the Denver International Airport.

I can't believe the Trojan Horse in Nolan's version of The Odyssey is just a recolored Bluecifer from the Denver airport.

Another screenshot of the Olympics closing ceremony captions, this time showing "Faber de la la la macklin Macklin" as the system's best guess for what the Italian speakers are saying.

Now we've got Macklin Celebrini also hallucinated by the AI captions. How is this useful to or respectful of people who actually rely on captions?

Screenshot of the Olympics closing ceremony where the captions thought people singing in Italian mentioned the name of US hockey player Jack Eichel.

Peacock's AI-gen captions losing their mind during Rigoletto and hallucinating the words "Jack Eichel" among all the Italian.

I just think full-face hockey helmets should be mandatory.

Pretty tired of hearing about tomorrow's US v Canada game in the middle of this Finland vs Slovakia game. Disrespectful.

The vibes at GDC are going to be rancid.

Hold on—by god, that's Don Mattrick's music!

Screenshot of DownDetector showing problems at AWS, Cloudflare, Microsoft, and more.

Building all the data centers I can so that sloppy AI code changes can crash the entire internet every few months.

Saros did the lord's work in this game but at some point the shot disparity is just not going to break your way.

Holy fuck what a goal

Catching up on today's hockey so apologies, but that double-hit on Sidney Crosby was so fucking dirty.

Photo of a tree in San Francisco surrounded by ice crystals.

It hailed so hard in SF it looks like it snowed. Honest to god watched a man make a snowball.

The side of a semi truck sporting the words "AIR RIDE EQUIPPED."

Dang this truck's got Kirby?

42 is so young, man. Unbelievable.

This is crushing. www.instagram.com/p/DUwOL2ekXB...

I think Titanfall 3 is a particularly pertinent example for this piece to open with because EA has been burned by this so many times.

Ex: The Mirror's Edge sequel nobody played.

It's wild Phil Fish ended up being the least controversial of the Indie Game: The Movie developers.

To me it's just more proof that the "Just start your own indie studio" people don't know what the fuck they're talking about.

if you played sonic the hedgehog and put down the controller, sonic would look at you and tap his foot impatiently. this was proof that sega genesis cartridges had souls. the decision was made to make the storage cases a lot larger than the cartridges so they would have room to move around in there

Dimension 20 is like, one step away from that. The short-form programs are easy to binge though. You can get through all of Game Changer and Make Some Noise in about a month, maybe less.

It's brilliant. The author, Scott Hawkins, reputedly has another novel coming out this year finally after publishing nothing but Apache and Linux explainers for the past decade. Excited to see what he's been working on!