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Game design professor, math and science geek. Did spreadsheety stuff for Splinter Cell Blacklist, Starlink: Battle for Atlas, and Far Cry 6. Moderator on gamedev.stackexchange.com Formerly @D_M_Gregory on Twitter (he/him/his)

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See this sort of thing is why they say the price of freedom is eternal vigilance. If you take liberty for granted for too long it tends to get stolen from you bit by bit.

04.08.2025 12:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

it's such a great example of generic LLM speech, and how easy it is to see the patterns

04.08.2025 16:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 239    ๐Ÿ” 82    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Game idea: Monster Hunter but itโ€™s about washing them, AND THEY DONT LIKE IT

04.08.2025 16:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Hey Americans, if this passes you'll be uploading your ID to every social media and website to access it.

04.08.2025 14:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1722    ๐Ÿ” 1857    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 17    ๐Ÿ“Œ 27
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'I create fake IDs of your MP so you can get round Online Safety Act'

"Websites that are implementing age verification checks are incentivised to do it as cheaply as possible, which means outsourcing it to a third party.โ€ฆAnd that means that these checks will not be being done securely and safely or thoroughly."

And Canada plans to follow ๐Ÿคฆ
metro.co.uk/2025/08/04/i...

04.08.2025 15:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Just to say that every age-verification is an identity verification.

This creates the long held, never-possible dream of surveillance agencies everywhere of a full, Govt-backed record of Internet habits linked to ID.

04.08.2025 11:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 108    ๐Ÿ” 64    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Also giving your biometric data and real world identifiers to a random third party is a bad idea.

Shut this down.

04.08.2025 11:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 25    ๐Ÿ” 20    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Canadaโ€™s Bill C-2 Opens the Floodgates to U.S. Surveillance The Canadian government is preparing to give away Canadiansโ€™ digital livesโ€”to U.S. police, to the Donald Trump administration, and possibly to foreign spy agencies.Bill C-2, the so-called Strong Borde...

โ€œThe Canadian government is preparing to give away Canadiansโ€™ digital livesโ€”to U.S. police, to the Donald Trump administration, and possibly to foreign spy agencies.

Bill C-2โ€ฆis a sprawling surveillance bill with multiple privacy-invasive provisions.โ€
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

04.08.2025 12:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Realtors warn that if housing market collapses everyone could one day afford house TORONTO - After a nearly 30% decline in value, realtors across Toronto are concerned that if the market continues to falter someday in the near future everyone could afford a house.

Realtors warn that if housing market collapses everyone could one day afford house

03.08.2025 20:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 513    ๐Ÿ” 149    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 8
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Anti-hate coalition denounces presence of white nationalist 'active clubs' in Hamilton, calls for action | CBC News A recent investigative report by CBC News has prompted a local organization to appeal to residents for their involvementย in aย discussion around combating hate, while a coalition of organizations are c...

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/hamilton-hcci-hat-1.7594112

04.08.2025 10:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 18    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Exclusive: Google is indexing ChatGPT conversations, potentially exposing sensitive user data Thousands of shared ChatGPT chats are now appearing in Google search results.

Well this is bad. Google is indexing ChatGPT conversations exposing sensitive user data

I tried a few quick searches. I found someone's chat where I can see their api key

I found some building their resume. Their name, email and phone numbers are exposed.

www.fastcompany.com/91376687/goo...

31.07.2025 20:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2580    ๐Ÿ” 1779    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 78    ๐Ÿ“Œ 249
KnightSync: Turn Your Touchscreen Into Smart Chess Board
YouTube video by Quation KnightSync: Turn Your Touchscreen Into Smart Chess Board

Pretty cool smart #chess board made with #Godot
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCm1...
Dev writes about the experience using #GodotEngine for it:
www.reddit.com/r/godot/comm...

04.08.2025 11:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 41    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Remember as good as all these victories are, it's still incredibly important that the calls keep up. There's a million people and more that care about this issue. We care way more than these christofascists, and we need to be exactly as consistent as they were when they managed to start this fight.

03.08.2025 17:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1269    ๐Ÿ” 887    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Alright, due to popular demand, let's start talking about the

๐ŸŽถ Beasts with the fur (with the fur) ๐ŸŽถ

in โœจHERDLING โœจ

Here's a ๐Ÿงต with the process and tech behind the fur on our fluffy Calicorns:

04.08.2025 10:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 90    ๐Ÿ” 27    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

At the most basic level we can only measure androgen levels in the blood and not at the tissue level, where the androgen effect is expected to occur.

The @worldathletics.org sex test policy is unscientific and impossible to implement!!!

04.08.2025 10:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 40    ๐Ÿ” 10    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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"A Simple Book About How To Design a Turn-based RPG" is a pay what you want, short 16k word book for anyone who wants to make those kinds of games but isn't sure about the whats or hows

cannibalinteractive.itch.io/a-simple-boo...

20.07.2024 01:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 251    ๐Ÿ” 103    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 10    ๐Ÿ“Œ 8

Whatever you want to โ€˜get doneโ€™ while conceding the enemyโ€™s hatred, will be done according to the enemyโ€™s hatred. You are seeing right now what three decades of conceding Republican arguments on immigration have led to. They did not simply turn a switch. The apparatus had been built for them.

03.08.2025 07:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1226    ๐Ÿ” 172    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 7

Ok I'll make a thread of #gmtkjam games that I've found that I think you should play here! I may do a small stream in the week of some of my favourites too. Here's an information game like Rise of the Golden Idol but set inside a social media app.

03.08.2025 21:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Save 40% on Co-op Kaiju Horror Cooking on Steam In this absurd co-op horror game you are medieval monks--and the only chefs who can prevent the apocalypse. Feed enormous monsters with a catapult, evade supernatural enemies, and navigate a reality-b...

I have bought 4 copies of @strangescaffold.bsky.social's Co-op Kaiju Horror Cooking and I have no regrets, please help finance @writnelson.bsky.social and co's increasingly unhinged ideas
store.steampowered.com/app/3139570/...

04.08.2025 03:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 24    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

It's important to note here that we're not just talking about faculty & university staff. 100s of U.S. colleges are in towns or small cities where they form the major industry & lifeblood of the community. Loss of students -> loss of rent $, restaurant $, bars, bookstores, gaming stores...

04.08.2025 03:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1189    ๐Ÿ” 404    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 36    ๐Ÿ“Œ 36

everything already broken is far harder to fix than even if they could be restored in a snap to exactly the jobs and budgets they had just a few years ago, because everyone now has to account for the risk of it being pissed away in a few years for no reason. nothing long-term is safe to do in the US

04.08.2025 05:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 89    ๐Ÿ” 28    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

ban private equity ownership of housing instead of whatever this shit is

04.08.2025 06:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 126    ๐Ÿ” 24    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's not perfect, but oh is this way better than Duolingo. Actually fun too!

04.08.2025 06:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 18    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

As predicted, Starmerโ€™s far-right targeting of food delivery drivers has led to an attack.

04.08.2025 07:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 240    ๐Ÿ” 83    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Many people turn to games when theyโ€™re stressed. But stress can affect focus, memory, and motor skills, making accessibility even more important. ๐Ÿง 

Accessible design supports players with different needs and helps reduce stress by making gameplay smoother, clearer, and therefore more enjoyable.

04.08.2025 09:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 30    ๐Ÿ” 10    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Pie chart. Title reads "2025. Game engines used to create 9724 GMTK Game Jam Games" Unity has 41%. Godot has 39%. Other has 11%. Game Maker has 5%. Unreal has 4%.

Pie chart. Title reads "2025. Game engines used to create 9724 GMTK Game Jam Games" Unity has 41%. Godot has 39%. Other has 11%. Game Maker has 5%. Unreal has 4%.

These are the engines used to make 9,724 games for the GMTK Game Jam in 2025!

1๏ธโƒฃ Unity - 41%
2๏ธโƒฃ Godot - 39%
3๏ธโƒฃ Other / No Engine - 11%
4๏ธโƒฃ Game Maker - 5%
5๏ธโƒฃ Unreal Engine - 4%

04.08.2025 08:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 874    ๐Ÿ” 139    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 28    ๐Ÿ“Œ 62

I use "Detach Quote" liberally, when someone is trying to dogpile, also when someone is using something I said to use it as part of an argument or assertion I don't want to be associated with, also when, I don't know, they're reporting in from Neptune and I don't know wtf they're trying to say

03.08.2025 23:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 705    ๐Ÿ” 117    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 24    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

per the previous rt: I think the hardest part of being a black dev is trying to manage yourself, helping others, and guiding newbies trying to get in we only have so many hours in a day!!!

03.08.2025 23:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

You ever just think about how much it sucks that Musk bought Twitter and absolutely destroyed it? Like man, that used to be where I'd meet new people, make real life friends, etc. Now, whenever I glance over there to check something, it's just unrecognizable.

04.08.2025 00:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5278    ๐Ÿ” 486    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 131    ๐Ÿ“Œ 166
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Have you seen this petition yet? Stop Bill S-209โ€™s De-Anonymization of Every Canadian Adult

chng.it/Zrpz8NYCdh

04.08.2025 00:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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