Edward Newton

Really fantastic breakdown of how (not) to interpret feedback from social media, with great examples and references.

Fun fact: other countries were baffled that the US chose "President" for the name of their executive leadership. It implied exactly as you said: a boring, administrator "presiding" over the actual work being done in the Congress. Not sexy, not supremely powerful.

I'd like to get back to that, too.

A Reddit post describing how the original poster learned their company's AI had been making up their analytics data for 3 months. The VP of sales made territory decisions, the CFO showed a board a deck with fake insights, all using information that had been made up by the AI. The original poster only discovered it when someone asked them to double check something. Holy shit. It's bad.

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@zerotrickpony.com Just finished playing IntelligenceGame - and it was great! Really enjoyed your work. :)

A screenshot of discord's support page, with the question "can you please just stop" in the search bar

I propose we treat every claim that "AI will replace everything by (very soon)" the same as everyone who keeps saying Jesus is coming back tomorrow.

If I don't see you selling off stuff to prepare for the Rapidly Approaching Utopia, I don't believe you.

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how come everyone wants to legislate all the mean stuff in the Bible

but they never want to legislate the "take care of the poor" and "rich men go fock yourselves" bits of the Bible?

that moment when I was trying to stream an After Effects tutorial for a department of video producers

and I realized Microsoft Teams was blocking all the After Effects shortcut keys

and after 12 years of animating

I had no idea how to find any-goddamn-thing in the menus

And the rest of the folks who have been killed by ICE

Someone wrote "are metroidvanias just a cheat to making a game fun"

my guy

if you have a cheat to making a game fun,

you just "know how to make a game fun."

I will pull whatever "up up down down", "my dad works at Nintendo" BS I have to

@dragonglitch.bsky.social

Dear me from 2010,

You don't know it yet, but in about sixteen years, you will spend a significant amount of time interacting with AI.

Specifically, searching how to disable it after every update on every device you own.

Edmund McMillen's face superimposed on a cartoon cat, with the caption "HAS SCIENCE GONE TOO FAR" - (a reference to Mewgenics)

Edmund McMillen in full marketing mode is a delight. I will brook no argument.

I saw someone say

"KID ROCK is just slang for Epstein's island"

and I'll never be able to think of it another way again.

I never mind the first one. If it starts to stack, I get concerned.

Perfect Muppet Show guests:
Richard Ayoade
Pedro Pascal
Taylor Swift
Glen Powell
Olivia Colman
Amy Poehler
Jemaine Clement (someone else is supposed to be musical guest, and Flight of the Conchords has to fill in)

Piers Anthony is definitely the Chik Fil A of scifi/fantasy.

"Seemed good when I was a kid, but I can't enjoy it now, knowing what I know."

Powell's is okay, though. The folks there seem genuinely nice and into the work.

I hate not to "yes and" a bit, but are we really calling Blusky posts "skeets"?

Does that mean threads are going to be called "skeetskeetskeets"?

I'm going to need to get goggles.

Every AI advocate is Syndrome from The Incredibles.

If code is basically thought patterns written out, then refactoring bad code is basically playing Psychonauts.

So much so. In my experience, the best producers were the ones that always kept that goal in the forefront of everyone's mind, but they also took their cues from the team. They listened when the team said, "trust us, this is one of those things we've been saving the time for."

Not all producers are great producers.

But great producers are an invaluable part of game development.

Show them the respect they deserve.

a man with red hair is standing next to a rock and says `` and i 'm coming with you '' . ALT: a man with red hair is standing next to a rock and says `` and i 'm coming with you '' .

In other words, great producers are Samwise Gamgee.

They weren't picked to carry the ring. They can't make your game for you.

But they will have your back, all the way to the end, ride or die.

Most importantlt, great producers *never get the credit they deserve* for the work they do.

When they do their job well, nobody notices.

Everything just seems to work.

"The development was so smooth."

A good producer will protect you from logistical problems, burn out, and above all: overreaching executives.

A great producers will fight management, if they have to.

From a friend:

During a particularly hectic period of crunch, his producer came to him on Friday and said, "I can't code. I can't do art. But if there's something tedious you have to do, teach me, and I'll do it."

His producer worked with them all weekend.

That's great producing.

When a creative lead says, "I just need a little more time to finish this feature!"

A great producer digs into the schedule and pulls out two or three days that they'd squirreled away specifically for this kind of emergency.

I can't remember who said it, but I will never forget this quote:

"Every great artistic achievement was also a great producing achievement."

In other words:

Every video game (or movie) you love exists because some very smart people worked very hard in the background to keep everything running.

The other day, someone in the gamedev discourse said (paraphrasing)

"I know a lot of programmers who have made games. I don't know any games made by project managers."

Snarky, but it's a good excuse.

Let's talk about great project managers.

(AKA great producers)