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Going through old photos and this surfaced. A useful reminder that the games industry ‘good old days’ were a mixed bag, same as it ever was.

Half-Life 3 Nears The Finish Line, As Developers Are Reportedly Moving To Other Projects "HLX development has reached a point where it no longer requires all hands on deck."

Ah yes that classic moment in game development as you near shipping that you have less people on the project and just a mere skeleton crew getting it over the finish line while others cheer from the sideline.

Yep, that’s exactly how it works! Crack reporting!

www.thegamer.com/half-life-3-...

Just watched @stepickford.bsky.social 's interview at Crash last year, and reminded just how brutal, and frankly shit, the games business was during the 90's and 00's.

Predatory publishers forcing devs to go bust so they don't need to pay their final milestones. I had the same with THQ.

Dog with comic book. In obligatory proof of delivery post.

@tomtomorrow.bsky.social my dog has received a copy of your excellent book.

Dear John, you spoiled little privileged bitch, people left because they have a set of ethics and believe in human rights, not platforming hate and making claims like there are only two races, whites and everyone else… plus posting work on twitter gives it to Xai to do with as it pleases

Fuck you

ah, time to take a big sip of coffee and check the morning news, as is my daily tradition

Failed to persuade my mother-in-law that Hellraiser is a Christmas movie. They watched the horror movie Love Actually instead.

Kung Fu Panda was on the 360 Christmas hardware bundle! I still have that box.

Pundit floor exercises to reduce accidental voter leakage.

Oh no, is that an AI recruiter?

And the experience is better for it. I hadn’t realized how much of their feature adds detracted from usability.

There are two wolves beside me. One is hassling for a bit of my sandwich, the other has let out the rankest of farts.

Your cartoons capture the historical moment better than anything else. The efficiency with which you do this is always amazing.

My wife had a Scott Bessent interview on CNN up on the TV. I sure hope @colbertlateshow.bsky.social introduces a ventriloquist dummy of him. Leaning backwards.

Or maybe we should provide a universal basic income for ALL humans, no exceptions, no means tests (just take it back from the billionaires at income tax time).

Humans shouldn't need to work to live.

We are not work machines!

In video games many bugs are filed with a suggestion of how to fix them. Those suggestions are never really right, but indicate a problem that should be addressed. QA pros just describe what went wrong. Execs aren’t QA pros. Be kind.

“I hear that you want to hold big balls. The biggest balls of all.”

I am surprised that Amazon hasn’t made a show about the cats of Queen Berúthiel yet.

There is no real going back. Though I may come to the Shire, it will not seem the same; for I shall not be the same. I am wounded with knife, sting, and tooth, and a long burden. Where shall I find rest?

True Crime NYC poster with CA “I Voted” sticker on it. #yeson50

This is Jade. She just met the biggest dogs she's ever seen. But quickly learned they have the biggest hearts too. 13/10 for all (TT: catimtins.pscal)

In the 90s I had push back about having 4 fingered cartoon characters from Japanese game publishers because, “it is associated with gangsters.” Checks out.

Justice Jackson, essentially citing Tom the Dancing Bug in her dissent. "This is Calvinball jurisprudence"

James Dobson, the homophobic leader of Focus on the Family, dead at 89 Dobson was notoriously anti-LGBTQ+ and helped catalyze the religious right movement.

I spent several years working on a screenplay about the last week of Ted Bundy's life in which Dobson featured prominently, requiring mounds of research.

Imagine writing a scene between someone and Ted Bundy knowing that Bundy wasn't the worst person in that room.

www.advocate.com/news/james-d...

MS PAC-MAN

My wife’s name is Sally, and bloody Siri fires off anytime I use her name in conversation.

Based on an attempt to steal money from my current account either Edison or AT&T have had their digital records compromised. Keep an eye out if you use or have used either.

I think Altman assumes that “PhD-level expert” means someone who speaks confidently on everything as opposed to saying “it’s nuanced,” losing their keys, and getting maniacally fixated on their current topic to the point of seeing it in everything.