Sophie Kirschner

i love that you gave to wonder whether americans will have the gumption to throw out a bunch of bums who, after illegally imposing a new national sales tax on you for a year, imposed a new national sales tax on you because they're mad about being told the prior sales tax was illegal

"All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted."

I re-read Frank Herbert's Dune series recently. There were a lot of parts that felt like he might have glimpsed 2026 America through a crystal ball and was just writing what he'd seen.

For example:

You don't understand. I don't want millions of dollars from remaking stinkin Demon's Souls. I want GAZILLIONS of dollars from making the next Fortnite. You simpletons just don't understand good business.

This: But for everything, not just game development

ye I agree

Profiler? Well I sure hope so! I get a profile on all the girls I invite over to the mansion. You've got to be careful that their families aren't too well connected, and won't have too many scruples about accepting some hush money. Do it just like Jeffy E did, right?

Yes, yes, all just standard questions, I get it. I'm not sure why I have to be subject to this, but I'll humor you. A debugger is someone who keeps the windshield of my Ferrari clean after I've had a ride. We're thinking of letting her go, though. Climate change, Holocene, all that sort of thing.

Wow, you really have to ask? Of course I know what a linker is. That's like one of those nice kids who maintains the fairway at my country club.

Well, duh. A compiler is the person who compiles my big ass pile of money into nicely organized stacks after I'm done bathing in it. Why do you ask?

I'm older than you so I can confirm that they came with a little book that had the tutorial in it and you read it on the way home

This is absolutely gorgeous. I don't get many opportunities to play RPGs but I'm definitely adding this to my library to hopefully try sometime

A sorceress astounded by her freshly sculpted homunculus. A single shaft of light illuminates her creation. Bounce lighting reflects upon the sorceress. The homunculus has a flaccid butt. The maker's hands are covered in fresh clay. They are the only body parts of the sorceress that are directly lit. Faint, residual purple smoke wisps from her fingertips: the homunculus stands in an awkward pose, that of a creature freshly adjusting to its body. The homunculus has thin limbs and a hefty torso, though it is faced against the viewer. The sorceress's workshop is littered in sculpting tools, brushes, an open tome of transmutation, ceramic bowls and a pitcher of dirty clay water in which lie a few of these tools. Clay shavings are scattered about the floor. A red, runic circle surrounds the humonculus. In the dark background it is possible to catch a few failed prototypes on a shelf.

"Birth of the Homunculus"

A sorceress astounded by her creation.

This painting has been floating around in my head for months now, and I only found the right time to bring it to fruition yesterday!

(see thread for details + process shot-by-shot)

liberal walking into the car dealership: i want the second shittiest car you have. i will buy it for literally any price

I mean, the world is still burning, but at least I'm carving out my own lil spot in it

buncha things are coming together pretty well over here. that's nice. actually feeling halfway optimistic about the future for a change.

Any chance of also explaining MSDFs? I feel like SDFs generally make sense to me at this point but MSDFs still kinda feel like magic

As it turns out, when you post a bunch of flyers for how expensive games were in the 90's and say things just cost "what they're supposed to cost" now, you get sales figures from the 90's too.

Hey guess what, game sales in the 90's were comparatively low because they were too fucking expensive.

Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses

Facebook plans to put facial recognition in its glasses and they think we’re too stupid to fight back.

Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”

The deeper you get into the complexities of getting a rigged character with IK and physics properly working in a videogame, the more Rayman makes sense as a character.

Discord lied.

they’re now sending scanned IDs to persona, a third party company.

“facial scans will never leave your device” -discord lmao.

Screenshot of the beginning few paragraphs of the article

Screenshot from a later portion of the article. Included in this text is an important clarifying detail, noting that the flag has flown here since 2019, following a significant legal effort to get it there in the first place: "advocates fought for years to see the banner fly high every day on federal property, and they saw it as an important gesture of recognition when the flag first went up in 2019."

apnews.com/article/ston...

Microsoft has withdrawn their DMCA claim! The game is back up on Steam! Allumeria is back! Thank you EVERYONE for your support. It's hard to comprehend that a single post in my discord would lead to so many people expressing support. Thank you <3 #gamedev #indiedev

Apparently American Tourists All Stand In A Particular Way — And They Even Have A Name For It Plus, a few other tell-tale signs that you're an American abroad.

Fun fact: This KGB agent is likely to be an American spy

www.huffpost.com/entry/americ...

OpenAI and these other generative LLM peddlers have deliberately co-opted the language used in these fields and slapped it onto their plagarism engine, specifically so people will "well-actually" anyone arguing their products are garbage with "it's used in science actually"

I think you are extremely optimistic to think we will ever exorcise this. I worry this will be less of a radium situation, more of a petroleum and plastics situation.

Toyota has just announced a proprietary game engine, but that doesn't mean it's targeting PC and consoles

www.eurogamer.net/toyota-fluor...

When your rulers' actions cannot possibly be rationalized using their stated motives, e.g. "protecting the children", that is how you know when their stated motives were not their true motives.