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 ๐ 15 ๐ 9 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@dmgregory.ca.bsky.social
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)
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 ๐ 15 ๐ 9 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0it's such a great example of generic LLM speech, and how easy it is to see the patterns
04.08.2025 16:04 โ ๐ 239 ๐ 82 ๐ฌ 9 ๐ 1Game idea: Monster Hunter but itโs about washing them, AND THEY DONT LIKE IT
04.08.2025 16:04 โ ๐ 16 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 1Hey 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 ๐ 1722 ๐ 1857 ๐ฌ 17 ๐ 27"Websites that are implementing age verification checks are incentivised to do it as cheaply as possible, which means outsourcing it to a third party.โฆAnd that means that these checks will not be being done securely and safely or thoroughly."
And Canada plans to follow ๐คฆ
metro.co.uk/2025/08/04/i...
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.
Also giving your biometric data and real world identifiers to a random third party is a bad idea.
Shut this down.
โThe Canadian government is preparing to give away Canadiansโ digital livesโto U.S. police, to the Donald Trump administration, and possibly to foreign spy agencies.
Bill C-2โฆis a sprawling surveillance bill with multiple privacy-invasive provisions.โ
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
Realtors warn that if housing market collapses everyone could one day afford house
03.08.2025 20:04 โ ๐ 513 ๐ 149 ๐ฌ 6 ๐ 8Well 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...
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...
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 ๐ 1269 ๐ 887 ๐ฌ 8 ๐ 2Alright, due to popular demand, let's start talking about the
๐ถ Beasts with the fur (with the fur) ๐ถ
in โจHERDLING โจ
Here's a ๐งต with the process and tech behind the fur on our fluffy Calicorns:
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!!!
"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...
Whatever you want to โget doneโ while conceding the enemyโs hatred, will be done according to the enemyโs 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 ๐ 1226 ๐ 172 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 7Ok 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 ๐ 12 ๐ 7 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0I 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/...
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 ๐ 1189 ๐ 404 ๐ฌ 36 ๐ 36everything 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 ๐ 89 ๐ 28 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0ban private equity ownership of housing instead of whatever this shit is
04.08.2025 06:03 โ ๐ 126 ๐ 24 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0It's not perfect, but oh is this way better than Duolingo. Actually fun too!
04.08.2025 06:43 โ ๐ 18 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0As predicted, Starmerโs far-right targeting of food delivery drivers has led to an attack.
04.08.2025 07:06 โ ๐ 240 ๐ 83 ๐ฌ 4 ๐ 0Many people turn to games when theyโre stressed. But stress can affect focus, memory, and motor skills, making accessibility even more important. ๐ง
Accessible design supports players with different needs and helps reduce stress by making gameplay smoother, clearer, and therefore more enjoyable.
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๏ธโฃ Unity - 41%
2๏ธโฃ Godot - 39%
3๏ธโฃ Other / No Engine - 11%
4๏ธโฃ Game Maker - 5%
5๏ธโฃ Unreal Engine - 4%
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 ๐ 705 ๐ 117 ๐ฌ 24 ๐ 3per 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 ๐ 6 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0You 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.
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