Sam Winkler

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Granting read/write access to my superego so I can log into Battle.Net

Oh shit, the Uplink pervert who's been locked away in my brain is finally feeding

See now I have TWO games to play

Looks dope, will check it out!

Oh hell yeah

Thank you!

You’re right, thank you!

Awesome, thank you!

Hell yeah!

I want to wring the remaining juice out of NextFest, please give me recommendations for demos to play. Especially if you made it!

Right now there’s a group of military personnel who know for a fact they launched a cruise missile into an elementary school. Not really a political statement, but: those people should spend every night of their lives tasting the barrel of their service pistol until they get the courage to squeeze.

The reality is that, until very recently, I had very stubbornly refused to learn what cholesterol was, let alone which foods contained it

YouTube video by SPRAWL SPRAWL ZERO - REVEAL TRAILER

Hey so we just announced SPRAWL zero, a new FPS that we've been working really hard on.

Inspired by classics like Bungie's Halo and Marathon, as well as Half Life 2 and anime from the era, this is our love letter to the golden years of FPS. Wishlists would rule <3

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ju0r...

TO THE WRITERS OF THE UNIT GREETINGS. AS WE LEARN HOW TO WRITE THIS SHOW, A RECURRING PROBLEM BECOMES CLEAR. THE PROBLEM IS THIS: TO DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN DRAMA AND NON-DRAMA. LET ME BREAK-IT-DOWN-NOW. VERYONE IN CREATION IS SCREAMING AT US TO MAKE THE SHOW TASKED CLEAR. WE ARE TASKED WITH, IT SEEMS, CRAMMING A SHITLOAD OF INFORMATION INTO A LITTLE BIT OF TIME. OUR FRIENDS. THE PENGUINS, THINK THAT WE, THEREFORE, ARE EMPLOYED TO COMMUNICATE INFORMATION -- AND, SO, AT TIMES, IT SEEMS TO US. BUT NOTE: THE AUDIENCE WILL NOT TUNE IN TO WATCH INFORMATION. YOU WOULDN'T, I WOULDN'T. NO ONE WOULD OR WILL. THE AUDIENCE WILL ONLY TUNE IN AND STAY TUNED TO WATCH DRAMA.

My friend and dear heart @maxfolkman.bsky.social today reminded me of the most important (game or otherwise) writing document, Mamet’s memo to his writers on The Unit. It is my Bible. It is what all of us aspire to screencraft.org/wp-content/u...

Bungie’s still got the juice, folks

I’m going feral on these peas. I’m spreading it on toast. I’m crunching up Buffalo wing potato chips on top. I’m like a reverse Linda Blair on these mushy bad boys

Whoever had me on polymarket to get really into split pea soup get ready to rake in baby

Selaco goes crazy

Selaco is normally $25 by itself and is worth every penny.

$17 for all that lot (though I would highly recommend adding Cultic Part 2 as well) is bananas.

tbh Gaige was my favorite borderlands 2 character even before I knew she was Jewish

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No generative AI was used in creating The Mermaid Mask - this game is the result of nothing less than a small group of very talented artists working hard for a long time!

A shame it even has to be said, but it's important to restate our values when making games:

No GenAI. Ever.

Transphobia is an astroturfed moral panic invented from whole cloth by people on the Epstein list

hi, I worked in indie games for 10 years and sorry, they're also burning down. you just don't hear about it because it doesn't make the news when a studio of 19 lays off 7, even when it's 200 small studios doing that

Deep lore with @jacobgeller.com

just from a purely anecdotal perspective this seems flatly untrue. 99% of game developers I know are trying to kill AI with some kind of Large Gun.

The AI bubble RAM crisis is caused for non-existent problems by non-existent money for a non-existent infrastructure to meet non-existent demand to make non-existent business and will utterly destroy real business based on real demand and real infrastructure built with real money for real problems.