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Just a reminder. I'm always surprised how many people aren't aware of this. #Libraries

this is good

my job isnt to like computers or software its to *save users from them*

The Amazing World of Tomorrow

DiscoPup is one of the most amazing and wonderful games made in years, please give it your attention, I'm amazed by its existence and also amazed it hasn't gotten more discussion and attention, it will richly reward the attention you give it. Thank you for your attention to this DiscoPup!

I mean if platforms that make us carve down our character/word count constantly, have actually made us unconsciously assume that ADULTS cannot handle long sentences and therefore that kids can't handle long sentences and so we shouldn't try societal collapse is not an unreasonable expectation

Microsoft this week: We're laying off half the industry. Sony: We're ending physical games. Nintendo: have u seen this splatoon weapon we call it the bloblobber

disgusting

A lot of people (accurately) point out that premium video games are cheaper today than they were 30 years ago thanks to inflation, but discussed less often is how much bigger the margins are for game companies now that sales are 80-90% (soon to be 100%) digital. No more retail or packaging costs!

my argument to the execs is: if no videogame professional is now receiving a living wage for their craft, who is going to be buying all those nerd trinkets you produce to sell to them. perhaps now you can see what a mistake you are making. AI has no bookshelf on which to display these

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra_H... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_C... this concludes your Nintendo History Lesson for today

As the director of a historical video game preservation institution, and someone who has dedicated his entire adult life to this cause, this is accurate. We have attempted to work with the industry's trade organization to find a legal path forward, but they refuse to offer a meaningful alternative.

idk how you unfuck the economics of game dev, but big studios constantly going "we just can't afford all these developers who we pay like 60% the market rate for engineering roles w/ comparable experience at comparable non-game-dev companies" doesn't reflect well on studio execs' basic competence

I don’t remember the name of the language, but I’m gonna keep ranting about it because I feel like it. The language has its good points, but the claim that it is a good replacement for blueprints, or an easy to learn “first time coder“ language, totally fermented bean brain stuff there

He’s a CEO so it’s his job to be dishonest, the beans for brains is something I agree with and cannot explain. This new programming language they’re introducing, hoo boy, more like roasted and fermented beans

well well well look who's losing their job to ai

also my dad never paid for cable, and I think I just kinda inherited his attitude about exactly this question (he didn't want to pay and still be shown ads) and never realized that until you pointed out this "you get used to what you grew up with" point... thank you for that

fair enough, and I've made ad-driven games myself. in spite of my strident ranty words, I really don't think I'd apply "evil" here at all, though I do think that neurodivergence, brains that have limited control over where their attention goes, and ethics around that are at issue here, FWIW.

"evil" is a strong word, but let's just say that some brains can control where their attention goes more than others, I do believe there's a neurodivergence disability/exploitation/ethics question at stake here. and I didn't have cable growing up, so it's true I don't take that as a given so much