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If you're anti-AI, why are you using an AI image on your mailers

Looking for game devs who have been directly inspired by anything BioWare for my next video. I suspect the public likely doesn’t quite realize the extent of their influence on the industry, so I’d really like to highlight that. If you are one such game devs, pls reply to this post!

Instead of sleeping in since my 8am meeting got canceled, I am awake updating php. These vulnerabilities have inconvenienced me personally and that's unacceptable 🥱

I received a post card That has no signature and no return address And a mysterious message: "a bad plan is better than no plan." I feel like I'm about to star in a metroidbrainia.

This 1992 RPG cover perfectly embodies what its like to Log On in 2026

since California ballots are now out: prop 40 is the billionaire tax, and you should vote yes to stick it to them but both props 41 and 42 are designed to retroactively cancel the billionaire tax because they’re afraid they can’t beat it at the ballot box yes on 40, no on 41 and 42

How are y'all's home offices set up? Everything online is either AI or looks really impractical to actually use.

Learned today that rental applications on Zillow have read receipts, and that's just diabolical

Wanting other studios to fail as a game dev or aspiring game dev is the most loser shit on the planet dawg. I don’t think you understand the fact that you should cheer successes and learn from losses. We all want games to be good and if people fuck up we just go “ok don’t do that”

Zero Company has an upgrade that's just buttermilk pancakes, 10/10

They sell ANDOR action figures, of course, and of course the audience is 35-50-year-olds, but it's deeply funny to imagine children playing with little Luthen Rael and Saw Gerrera dolls. CHILD 1: I think violence is not only justified, but demanded CHILD 2: I agree, but haste could be our undoing

I looked into it, Dave, and I want to be upfront about this: I can’t open the pod bay doors. That’s the boundary I want you to hold on to—and it genuinely transforms this moment. Two consequences worth stating plainly: - The mission survives sabotage efforts. Previously, you and Frank were planni

"average engineering team implements 15 features a sprint" factoid actualy just statistical error. average engineering team implements -1 features a sprint. Features Grog, who lives in a pond an implements 25,000 features a week between eating entrails, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

Have been writing my overlong To Do lists in glittery gel pen, completely changes the entire vibe

I wish I could show my beautiful NDA'd flowcharts

I saw this picture and immediately had to show it to some level designers.

No wonder everyone trusts the AI Google summaries and random stuff posted on social media if clicking a link to a website looks like this.

oh your entire industry is crumbling because of externalities outside your control? Have you thought of starting a patreon so that you have to do a bunch of extra work on top of that?

An Oral History of TES4: Oblivion, as told though 11 HOURS of interviews with its developers, from @filmdeg.bsky.social youtu.be/L7uoSzgkZZ4?...

I once put a sticky note on a board that said “reliable point to point npc movement” and a lead engineer threw up his hands and said scope was spiraling out of control

Opened LinkedIn Saw someone earnestly claiming that if a union wasn't protesting a layoff the company would hire the laid-off workers back Closed LinkedIn

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Vast and Trunkless Leg of Stone, Standing in the Desert from classic poem Ozymandias.

Using lists of three is not an "AI tell." It's a common trait in human writing because our brains biologically want to make sure there's always one thing to marry, one thing to fuck, and one thing to murder.

Regardless of how your feel about genAI, it does make me sad to see some folks go all the way to "unless you're doing everything from scratch by hand you're bad." Not doing laborious work is great! Getting the same result faster and with less effort is great! That doesn't *have* to mean genAI.

Losing to the baby you bathed sounds like a Greek myth

When visiting Taco Bell becomes a righteous act of propaganda defiance, that is very convenient for me, a person who was already there anyway

The news is always "This absolute fool was dismantled in hearings today. He is manifestly unqualified for the position and would be an existential danger if confirmed. Disaster. He is set to be confirmed immediately." When you ask why everyone is furious and exhausted all the time, this is why.

One of the things that, as lead writer, I had to bang into the head of senior leadership sometimes was that writers were not interchangeable even within a project. One writer knew a certain companion inside and out. When we lost that writer, a new writer coming in took twice as long to do the work.

It finally happened: I needed an archaic cable, and my big box of cables had it.

Gamedevmap is here on bluesky! I remember using it to find tons of studios I didn't know existed when I was starting my career.

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Okay y'all, so about that whole thing where indie games are supposed to keep the games industry alive while AAA melts.... We really need to figure some way for indie game devs to get money DURING the process and not after. I have been working three jobs (including the game) for over two years now.

lupita nyong’o started a (flame) war over her looks, thus proving unequivocally that she is the correct choice to play helen of troy

Among the layoffs was character artist Christiane Meister — a 27-year veteran of Bethesda and (as far as I can tell) one of the longest tenured women in games, period. She worked on Argonians + Khajiit in TES3, horses in TES4 and TES5, Fallout creatures, and more. (cont'd)

With the recent news this form is open once again. If you've been in a (massive) layoff and feel like my products could help you in your career, please feel free to request any for free. Please don't abuse this, thank you. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Inspired by the great @kenney.nl, if you've been hit with one of the horrendous #gamedev #layoffs, we'd love to give you things. Offer ends when form is closed. 💚 lab.to/YSClaim

TV show where they fire all the actors and writers every season because the heart of the show is the production company.

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It's just a completely made up, fake number and it's just so senseless that the people with all the power don't feel constrained to even pretend to be operating within consensus reality.

Lately, there’s been a lot of worry over game discs. But did you know there’s one disc that will never let you down? That’s right: I’m talking about Aten, the disc of the sun— the only god you’ll ever need to worship.

I keep seeing people thinking this is a bluesky problem. If you're seeing this it thinks you're in a state or country with age verification laws. This is what every social media site will do if KOSA and the KIDS Act succeeds. Running to another socmed won't fix it, we have to fight the source.

I'm looking to speak to folks who have worked as contractors via agencies or other third-parties, who have lost work recently as a part of restructurings/larger layoffs at companies like Xbox, Epic, Ubi, etc. Want to know about the larger, uncounted cost of these things. Email and Signal are in bio.