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I don't think live games are the problem, honestly. I think the problem is investor and managerial insanity, where the people making those high-level decisions don't understand the business they're in and keep changing their mind about the risk profile of their business plan

IT DOES

1908: the Lancet, one of the most respected scientific journals, calls for 18 age limit on reading in bed amidst a moral panic surrounding children becoming "addicted" to novels, which were "designed to keep kids hooked" and destroy their attention/mental health

This is a bombshell: "the Pentagon wanted the company to allow for the collection and analysis of unclassified, commercial bulk data on Americans, such as geolocation and web browsing data"

This kind of agenda echoes the defunded Total Information Awareness effort, post-9/11

I'm a game design genius

A highly stylized 3D knight character wearing red and white armor and brandishing a huge water cooled sniper rifle

A large red cel-shaded boss monster from the Dragon Prince: Xadia

Roughly 30 different avatars I made for Creature Crew

Mr. Negative and one of his goons from Marvel's Spider-Man (2018)

Hey!

Do you need a highly technical character artist with almost 15 years of individual contributor and leadership experience? Looking for someone to wrangle your shaders? Or perhaps you need a person to assemble your character art pipeline?

That's me!

🎨 www.xavierck.com
📫 xavierck.3d@gmail.com

Currently looking for work and projects. Give me a shout or a DM if you have a project - ttrpg, card game, etc that's in need of illustration/art/concepts.

eurosky

Morning.
You can now move your Bluesky profile to EU servers under EU jurisdiction. Its the same front, but EUropean behind, where it matters.

eurosky.tech

Screenshot of a social media poll by “the-unflappablewolf” asking “Who would you trust more?” with results showing 94.7% for “total stranger in a Star Trek shirt” and 5.3% for “total stranger in a Star Wars shirt,” with over 83,000 votes.

Saying this as someone who grew up far more into Star Wars, the split on this poll is absolutely correct

a screenshot of the gamescom dev 2026 call for speakers page. It asks for LinkedIn, Bluesky, Facebook, and Instagram links for your profile. It does not have a place to put a Twitter link.

bluesky stonks - the call for speakers for Gamescom Dev asks for LinkedIn, BlueSky, Facebook, Instagram in that order. no Twitter allowed, nice.

IF THIS IS YOUR FIRST WINTER STORM, REMEMBER FOUR TIPS: 1. FILL UP YOUR TUB AND/OR POTS WITH WATER FOR YOUR TOILET. 2. DO NOT USE PROPANE HEATERS INDOORS. THE FUMES KILL. 3. EVERYONE STAYING IN ONE ROOM CONSOLIDATES WARMTH. 4. THE NORWEGIAN CAMP DIDN'T DESTROY ITSELF. ONE OF YOU IS THE THING.

Some safety tips for the big storm! Be safe, everybody.

So it didn't "generate" the fight, it generated a background/overlaid faces.

This makes sense of my experience trying to use LLMs for work. I don't want to make powerpoints, but everytime I try to get the LLM to do it for me it gives me blank slides, even when I give it outlines and reference decks

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland.

And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

Finish photo got that dog in it.

The photo finish camera shot is a 10/10.

douglas adams was our most accurate futurist

Car interior filled with firewood to the roof level

Honored the ancestors by gathering firewood, like gods intended

Happy Darwin day! :D

Oh yes! One of the formative game experiences for me, hands down.

Prince of Persia was an experiment in rotoscoping. It put lifelike animation on '80s home computers.

Designer Jordan Mechner converted VHS tapes and movie footage into pixels -- and went way beyond the tech of his time. We explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/how-the-li...

Oh hell this looks pretty

did captain picard lead the x-men

hey remember when I got shit on for years for trying to warn people that GamerGate was just Nazis and not just about harassing women and not just about some “consumer revolt”

Fascinating answer about fascism by a Disco Elysium dev 👌

Feels like (to an outsider, obv) middle/upper management is touchy and doesn't like when they're questioned, even for valid reasons with good intentions. Entitlement, stuck in top-down dictated power structures that clash with realities of how creative process wants to naturally form in teams, etc.

Oh yeah, the "beatings continue until the morale improves" is always the winning tactic in keeping your top professionals *checks notes* loyal to you

Person: say, i am alive. Computer: I am alive. Person: oh my god.

Two black and white long-tailed tits eating from a birdfeeder that hangs from a pine

Crappy photo through telescope, but hey, long-tailed tits made a showing at the feeders in -20c! Charming little spherules onna stick
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