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Former gamedev turned embedded firmware engineer turned gamedev again. For my sins, I now write MMO networking code. (I am bad at social media.)

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My Litleo here in Pokemon Legends Z-A like "I can haz your cake??" πŸ₯Ί

17.10.2025 07:53 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Packetdancer Listen to Packetdancer | SoundCloud is an audio platform that lets you listen to what you love and share the sounds you create.

Since someone DM'd over on the Site We Do Not Speak Of asking: I've put a couple of the aforementioned pieces of music (not nearly all of what I've done) up on my ancient and disused Soundcloud at soundcloud.com/packetdancer

22.09.2025 21:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Been writing music again over the past few months! It's weird trying to pick back up after years of not composing anything...

22.09.2025 16:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And if they just shrug it off... then hey, they have to stop doing lootboxes and just sell things directly. Which would still be a victory condition! Even if not the intended one.

24.07.2025 20:12 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Because I feel like the *instant* that everything with lootboxes or other gamble-y mechanics gets delisted from Steam or whatever, larger publishers are suddenly gonna be *way* more interested in throwing around their weight to say "Hey, uh, payment processors should not be able to dictate this." πŸ€”

24.07.2025 20:12 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

As I said to friends elsewhere...

I feel like we ought to organize a campaign to get the payment processors to similarly ban payments for anything that lets you use a purchased currency to get lootboxes or gatcha pulls, on the grounds it encourages gambling.

24.07.2025 20:12 β€” πŸ‘ 32    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I honestly wish I were.

It felt pretty unbelievable at the time, too. When the would-be client left, the jr. engineer turned to me with wide eyes and asked, "Did that really just happen?"

(We did not end up working with those individuals.)

18.06.2025 21:57 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

At a previous job, a potential client kept asking a nearby (male) jr. engineer their technical questions, which I (female sr. engineer) would then answer.

He kept looking more and more unhappy each time, as he'd point to me and go "She's the domain expert, not me; I'm shadowing her today."

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18.06.2025 17:19 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Almost 20 Years Later, You Still Can't Buy No One Lives Forever Released in 2000, the classic Monolith shooter remains in legal limbo - with no hope in sight.

So far as I know, literally no one knows who owns the rights any longer. If this was resolved in the years since the article I'm linking, I'm unaware of it.

www.thegamer.com/no-one-lives...

25.02.2025 20:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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