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yeah, i was hoping to use dropbox because syncthing has some limitations

oh yeah all these guys are showing up in a character action games as rad enemies to fight for sure

OOOH I will check this out after physical therapy tomorrow

There should be a little gaming software thing that lets you set up a 'save folder' on a cloud folder of your choosing and has a bunch of game save paths already set up in it, especially for games that don't have cloud saving by default. Like auto-symlink

They used to make fuckin MOVIES

In 2006, at the first GDC I ever attended, Ron Moore gave the keynote and talked about adapting IP. Echoes of that speech guided me in working with the Pokémon IP on Detective Pikachu.

nah, it's not disdain, it's "I'm the chef, you're the diner"

Ugh, I didn't know about this one. Of course it has all my books. Not only is that money I could use, but every sale helps those of us hanging on in the midlist keep publishing at all. Love to see hundreds of downloads on series that people complain haven't continued with more books. Yeah guess why.

There is no way you can guess how the thread that ends in this instant classic begins.

right??? the combat is amazing.

one of the things that makes me most mad about genAI (and there are many) is we've been told there's not enough money for hiring. but there's billions poured into ai.

so not enough money to hire workers. but infinite money to pour into technology whose goal is never having to pay workers again.

i swear to god dandadan feels like the world's most beautifully animated shitpost

What does an eight thousand pound mako shark with a brain the size of a flathead V8 engine and no natural predators think about, Charlie Brown?

BRUH

bruh

imagine a world... with pikmin 5

and fans very much want you to flanderize

you don't want to flanderize, basically

this is also why hiring fans often sucks, because fans have very specific ideas of what your franchise is because of _their_ context of it _immersed in fandom_ and you want to hire people who like what you're making but are not fans of it because they won't get weird about blorbos like fans do

funnily enough, I decided to write her because Cameron was laughing his ass off at a character in a game we were watching a friend play together during covid, and I was like "I am going to make a character like that for Cameron" and this character came out of that

yes, our readers all unanimously agree on who the best character is and she's dead by the time the series starts lmao

like, if waifu death squad becomes a success in any way, it will be that way because I'm doing what I wanna do with it.

but if someone's like "oh i LOVE this character so much i can't wait to see more of her" I'm not gonna choose to let her live just because of that

my logic on this is as follows: they became fans of your game when you didn't listen to them; why would they remain fans if you changed (by listening to them?)

When onboarding people into a specialized trade, it is hammered into you from the jump that you should minimize jargon in order to make the learning process smoother. This also applies to world building, and you should always act accordingly. There will be PLENTY of time to get them buried in vocab.

I have a hard time remembering any single time streamers brought anything good to a game's community. It's either drama or biased changes meant to cater to them & their content.

Note I'm talking about those super famous big name streamers. Plenty of smaller ones who are nice and respectful people.

Fake AI news clip purporting to show "native police arrest ICE agent".

22.6k likes, thousands of shares, completely and blatantly fake. These AI slop peddlers have to be shut down, and fast.

Know this, jesting rabbit! These TRIX are forbidden thee, and meant only for the children, who, somehow also know the secret of loving Cinnamon Toast Crunch. Have at thee!

"SBMM is ruining <game>!" cries person whose livelihood depends on constantly generating new clips of themselves humiliating other players in-game.

like, if bungie wants to bring me in every couple of months to talk about the game, where it's at, what they're struggling with, and so on, I could offer some fairly useful advice to turn it around

people whose job it is to play a game for stream income will invariably give you advice on how to make their job easier.

this is NOT HEALTHY for the game