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YouTube video by GDC Festival of Gaming Keeping Level Designers in the Zone Through Level Editor Design

This is another great example.
Fun fact, one of the exact issues mentioned in this talk just landed on my desk, as a feature request from a LD... like, three days ago.
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If you have ever rocked with anything I've said about tooling for level design, Robin-Yann Storm has probably also said it but more articulate and more richly grounded in experience

This contains a bunch of great, specific info spanning across tons of games you've played

hooded horse has always been real as fuck

Genuinely the only thing keeping me going—but it really is keeping me going—is how good it is to see people link arms and push for this to end.

I cannot stop thinking about how much love people can have for their neighbors, and how much work and money is poured into breaking that love apart.

Every person on Bluesky should know:
* Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever
* Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies
* Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured
* Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic

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we will build the machine god and automate all jobs (automates sexting kids) (automates generating porn of kids) (automates v

Opinion | I'm a Minneapolis sociologist who studies violence. Here's how ICE observers are helping. Research into how violence occurs shows that disapproval from the people around you can help reduce it.

For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention.

The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.

why does the red cross cpr training course have nintendo wii sound design

this is fine because we're going to do websites and go outside

social media is still dead though

lying to consumers gives me hope.
if 'consumers' didn't want to believe that there was a human reality to their art, didn't inherently care about and value how things were made - nobody would bother lying about it.
but we do, so they do.

absolutely agreed on all counts

even worse, insert disclaimer here, but some people DO have an easier time working in short bursts than at a regular pace - and there are ways to accommodate that without forcing people into unhealthy situations

"Crunch is bad for you and the project" and "I feel like working on this because I enjoy it" are part of the same coin.

Just as much as 'kill your darlings' and 'stop tinkering and release' are flipsides to 'put in the work' and 'iteration is normal'

The correct and annoying answer is "it depends"

anyway this is why producers are important

like yeah working late nights on something you're passionate about can be awesome when you're in control of it, and it's not primarily secretly a massive corporation grinding you into dust in a trench coat. and even then you gotta be careful

the question of agency, where the mandate comes from, and extent, and ways we treat ourselves also matter in weird and fucky ways we don't talk about easily because the top-down labor exploitation variant is so pervasive

yes to everything everyone is saying about crunch, also if you lock twelve artists in a room and give them a million dollars they will do it to themselves 9 times out of 10

Tell your professor I said hi

YOUR PROFESSOR DID WHAT

dude i fuckin want to hire you to make loading screens
ssd prices are exploding, shitdrives are bound to make a comeback, this is the future

this is how i make video games personally

ending every thought with "the girl i've been dating for a month made me realize this"

my ai takes will truly annoy you, as they should, but we can all agree that there's never been a better sentence to end an update

greatest steam update of all time, because of one unnecessary detail

holy shit?
that could be amazing, i will message you back about this tomorrow
thank you for even offering

doing some shit that's awesome

Is there a good way to acquire a 2000s camcorder without paying Crazy Inflated eBay Prices

And not some shitty webcam being put in a white label camcorder shell for Amazon resale - the image has to look Like That.

I *can* dig on eBay for a deal. I haven't found good options at thrift stores yet.

Been following this project for a few years, really excited to play with it when I get the chance! I'm curious what others think