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Jason Maltzen
Jason Maltzen
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Working in game dev professionally since the 1990s, largely on MMO servers. Video games, cat pictures, hockey. Too many previous games to list. Started making games professionally with Ultima IX. Game dev merc for hire. NO genAI. he/him
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To understand the context of why this was the case: at the time there were like three games to choose from where you didn't have to type in the code yourself each time, one of which was tic-tac-toe. There was an Oregon Trail floppy next to every Apple ][ in the school. This was before the 90s.
Americans who went to school in the 90s: did you play Oregon Trail? Did EVERYONE play Oregon Trail? I keep seeing it come up and wonder if it was truly that prevalent
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Since the details were a couple deep in the last repost: for all the indie devs out there running it, dopresskit / presskit() is a php app and you probably want to figure out a replacement or take your presskit sites down until it's updated.
details leaked. this vulnerability is a full unauthenticated unconditional remote code execution exploit against any service running on a PHP version from 5.4 until latest yeah if anything deserves CVSS 11, this is it. this is CATACLYSMICALLY bad.
My big issue with this (not the EFF guide, but the general problem) is that you have to "opt out" of having all your work shoved into the slop extruding machine pretty much everywhere.
By default, most companies that make chatbots and other AI software collect and use your data for AI training. But you can opt out of that training. www.eff.org/pages/i-wan...
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By default, most companies that make chatbots and other AI software collect and use your data for AI training. But you can opt out of that training. www.eff.org/pages/i-wan...
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We REALLY need fem VAs y’all. We have many auditions for the male characters & almost none for the rest. ISO -Japanese or other East Asian fem &/or nonbinary VAs -Indigenous fem VAs -Latina or Filipina VAs 🔁 Please RT! 🔁 #VoiceActress #VoiceActor #VoiceActing #VisualNovel #IndieGame #Monsterhearts
📢 VA #CastingCall 📢 🩸MONSTERHEARTS🩸 Welcome to Drowned Lake Want to be a #VoiceActor in the #Monsterhearts video game? AUDITION HERE: forms.gle/bcNPpu7FJ1ZvCGWm7 🩸PAID 🩸Especially ISO Canadian, Asian & Indigenous VAs 🩸7F, 7M, 1NB, 2any 🗓️ Due 8/18 🗓️ 🔁 RT & Share! 🔁 #VoiceActing #IndieGame
Me: "this is going to be fucking stupid, isn't it?" *reads* Yep, it's fucking stupid. "make online games have some form of offline mode that can still work even if servers are shut down" is functionally a non-starter
US Congressman unveils legislation to protect digital games ownership massivelyop.com/2026/10/18/u...
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Employers worldwide are pulling back on AI as they navigate a flood of errors and low-quality work that sap employee time, raise privacy and security risks, and drive up costs
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Okay, @unity.com why the FUCK is my account suddenly blocked without notification, and why does there seem to be no way to correct this, because all recommended methods of contact require logging in to the blocked account?
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Okay, @unity.com why the FUCK is my account suddenly blocked without notification, and why does there seem to be no way to correct this, because all recommended methods of contact require logging in to the blocked account?
Okay, @unity.com why the FUCK is my account suddenly blocked without notification, and why does there seem to be no way to correct this, because all recommended methods of contact require logging in to the blocked account?
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It is absolutely preferable to not pick up the cigarette in the first place news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u...
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Sam Altman said people are just gonna have to die in order to implement AI. In the very same week, Anthropic claimed it’s a human rights violation to be mean to the computer. These people need to be held accountable. They think lines of code are a person with rights but living people are debris.
Over the past year, Anthropic has repeatedly flirted with the idea that its AI models could be conscious in some way. In February, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said on a podcast, “We don’t know if the models are conscious.”
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NEW: Footage from Thursdays shooting shows an ICE agent in a construction vest brandishing a rifle. His name is Brenden Cuni. Federal judges have found multiple arrests involving Cuni unlawful. He has been accused of repeatedly Tasing a handcuffed man and tackling a pregnant woman in Minneapolis.
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