Alexandre Baron

Definitely the best season of the series!

Rebecca Heineman's bluesky profile picture.

RIP to a games industry pioneer and legend, Rebecca Heineman (@burgerbecky.bsky.social) If your unfamiliar, look her up. Her career is like the story of videogames itself.

Absolutely devastating that our industry has lost the incredible Laralyn McWilliams, Jennell Jaquays, and now Rebecca Heineman within a couple of short years. We really will never truly be the same. We forge on in the shadows of giants, y’all.

lmao

That's ridiculous and can only be correct with horribly skewed averages + very biased sampling (both, in this case).

I was making $150k as a Senior Designer at Bungie with 15 years of industry experience in one of the highest-paying job markets in a high cost-of-living area with geopay

YouTube video by People Make Games The Rockstar Workers Fired Before They Could Finish GTA 6

I went to meet the 'Rockstar 31', the developers who were suddenly fired from their work on GTA 6 for what the studio has described as gross misconduct.

That's not what the workers call it though. They have another couple of words they prefer to use: union busting.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...

Utterly obscene. Think of all the good that could actually do, instead of satisfying the pure greed of one man.

Hell's going to need a deeper pit for him....

me to others: it's hard right now. be gentle with yourself
me to me: wtf is wrong with you

YouTube video by Mixed Signals The genius of the Playstation startup sound

A very interesting video on the PlayStation 1 startup sound, for all gamers that are also sound engineering ner... enthusiasts 😜 (featuring perfect cadence! Equal temperament! Just intonation!)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nr14...

And for someone like me with a long backlog of games to play, I think by the time the 8 GB of VRAM will be a problem, I'll be due to buy a new one anyway 😅😅

Personally, my old desktop was 11 years old, so I thought it was time to change it. 🤠
I'm not really into the flashing rainbow LEDs thing, the unboxing instructions were terrible, and the power button is a bit finnicky, but other than that, it works well so far ! Haven't tried to game with it yet.

Pretty much unbeatable at this price, even building it yourself ends up being more expensive IMO...
The only obvious downside is that the GPU "only" has 8 GB of VRAM, which is very rapidly gonna be a limitation for bleeding edge hardcore gaming.

For Canadians: if you're looking for a new desktop, I think the iBuyPower ESI5N5602 currently sold at Costco for 1,300$ is a good deal! 14th gen Intel CPU, 16GB RAM, 1 To NVME SSD, and a RTX 5060 GPU. Windows 11 preinstalled.

Et donc on a une agence directement reliée à Israël qui organise des salons pour vendre des terres occupées illégalement, et l'état français, plutôt que de les interdire comme il le devrait, les protège en envoyant la police (avec l'argent des impôts hein).

Vous trouvez ça normal, vous ? 😖

Des évènements que les colons israéliens organisent pour recruter des nouveaux colons afin d'aller s'installer sur des terres en territoire palestinien occupé. Le lieu est tenu secret car sinon il y aurait des rassemblements anticoloniaux devant.

Il paraît qu'il y a quelques jours, tout le quartier Garibaldi de Lyon a été bouclé par des CRS armés jusqu'aux dents pour protéger le salon de l'Alyah :

I don’t think Nintendo is perfect by any stretch, but they’re definitely masters at responding to the overall mood.

During the pandemic, we got a game about talking to your neighbors and giving them presents and nice letters.

Now, we get a giant ape just smashing the shit out of everything.

Game devs post your first shipped game and your latest shipped game

Somehow... Never got to work on a game that shipped after The Crew 2 (at least to this day).

Maybe one day for those still in progress... 😆

In Germany, scientists have made a breakthrough in treating Parkinson’s by implanting a chip in the brain that sends precise signals to restore movement. A stunning leap in neuroscience—witness the power of innovation and the beauty of science in action.
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YouTube video by ずっと真夜中でいいのに。 ZUTOMAYO ずっと真夜中でいいのに。『TAIDADA』MV (ZUTOMAYO - TAIDADA)【ダンダダン MAD】

I love how the videoclip for the outro song of DanDaDan first season is a pastiche of the actual anime ending 😂 It makes subtle references to the show but someone who hasn't watched it wouldn't be able to tell. Pretty cool
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Not shown: I used the Fibonacci joker (sold for Gros Michel) and it worked really well! I could fill my deck with Hearts cards without fearing of the Boss debuffing them since I had the ticket to reroll the Boss blind. Still got whacked by the one debuffing cards used that ante. 🥲 Good run!

Balatro Green Deck win screen

Balatro winning loadout

Balatro game over screen

Another #Balatro win, with the Green Deck, that basically makes it easier to get rich. That was unlikely IMO... But the Ludty Joker boosting Hearts + getting the Castle early so it could accumulate a lot of chips helped a lot.

Having quite a lot of stone cards and the four fingers Joker was surprisingly powerful, since I could make 4-cards Straights and Flushes and complete them with a stone card. As long as I made sure to discard the low numbers, the Red Fist was particularly useful too. Good synergy!

A bit more detail: the first joker gets 0.1x mult when using planet cards so I spammed them. The Driver License gets 3x mult if you have at least 16 enhanced cards, and the stone joker generating a stone card every blind helped getting there. The Burnt Joker helped leveling up low hands quickly

Balatro victory screen

Balatro game over screen

Another day, another win at #Balatro. This time with the Yellow Deck. A tough one because starting with 10$ is not much of a bonus... But it worked somehow. Not shown: the Joker who spawns a Stone card on every blind, sold for the Burnt Joker. Took me to Ante 10 before finally getting whacked 😄

(This is mostly for disaster scenarios such as I lose everything in a fire, so a self hosted NAS is not an option here...)
I wonder what would be the cheapest? From my research, storage is usually the most expensive when having your own server. Going above 50GB costs $$$$... Need to research.

Wanted to obtain an easy to use cloud storage of about 500 GB, on an hopefully cheaper alternative than Google Drive since they don't have any 500GB plans.
I'm trying out NordLocker at the moment, works well so far, but doesn't like spaces in filenames (it replaces them with underscores).

Investing Master Class - YouTube Introducing the Wealthsimple #InvestingMasterClass, a totally jargon-free investing course that will change your financial future. https://www.wealthsimple.c...

This "Investing Masterclass" by Wealthsimple starring Nicholas Braun (of Succession fame) is quirky and fun 😄
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Seagull proudly perched on a "no seagulls" sign

Los Angeles 2025

If you really want to drive the point home about how fucked up ICE is then people should start forcing Star Wars themes on ICE. Protesters should start playing the imperial march whenever ICE shows up and should also start dressing like the rebel alliance.

Fuck ICE.
Fund community programs not cops.
Tax the rich.
Raise the minimum wage.
Universal healthcare.
Universal basic income.
No more kings.