joel

joel

@joel.zone

freelance writer. i’m also at sidequest.cool

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joel
@joel.zone

i am sorry, but i do not know how you’d ever build a tutorial for deadlock, but it all kind of makes sense if you just sort of let it hold your hand. i am sure this info is important, but I’ve accidentally made my way to destroying one of the shrines so i must be doing something right

joel
@joel.zone

quantum leap jumps into being Jeremy Clarkson during the BBC punch meeting

joel
@joel.zone

"a distinctively British approach to artificial intelligence"

Dan Whitehead@danwhitehead.net

"a distinctively British approach to artificial intelligence"

joel
@joel.zone

what-ho, let’s just start posting our wishful thinking for future farside reboots and adaptations

joel
@joel.zone

like this shit is gonna kill of the SBC hobby space completely at this rate, but how cool is it that something this tiny (it’s the size of a credit card sans carrier board), can run a full big boy game like cyberpunk 2077 at 1080p60hz at this level??

joel
@joel.zone

Essentially, it’s a very, very expensive SBC with some incredible potential, but is utterly fucked by the ongoing supply chain issue. this is the weaker Core 5 variant! it’s still like $650 before carrier boards etc.!!

joel
@joel.zone

the electrician is going to turn your power off - have you edited your fstab?

joel
@joel.zone

are you telling me that the bbc has a "cyber correspondent" who doesn't know what php is

joel
@joel.zone

how can you be within this sector and not know what php is, even at a basic level

joel
@joel.zone

this is like when i began writing for a tech website & was told that "not all editors will know this" and it was about the ram shortage.

joel
@joel.zone

incredible how you'll log onto a website and immediately tell if they got claude to design it.

joel
@joel.zone

the never ending search for a good third serious sam game

Gematsu@gematsu.com

Serious Sam: The Third Encounter announced for PC www.gematsu.com/2026/10/seri...

joel
@joel.zone

first person shooter in goldsrc inspired by tom waits’ “brawlers, bawlers, and bastards”

joel
@joel.zone

simpsons tv scene bit territory now

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social

NVIDIA CEO JENSEN HUANG SAYS EVERY COMPANY IN THE FUTURE WILL HAVE TWO FACTORIES, ONE REAL AND ONE DIGITAL, WITH THE DIGITAL FACTORY SO REAL IT MIGHT AS WELL BE REAL

joel
@joel.zone

they’re back!!

joel@joel.zone

i posted one of these ages ago, but they’re doing the rounds again. the weird, super lazy Instagram ads from Disney+, now with “pennding copy”

joel
@joel.zone

with gta 6 on the way, the fun game to play is will the nephew’s father allow him to play it, despite his mum clearly banning the 8 year old from playing it

joel
@joel.zone

smash players never beating the allegations

IGN@ign.com

Professional Super Smash Bros. player Jason 'Mew2King' Zimmerman has been banned from a competitive tournament after posting photos of his concerning skin condition and complaining of a bug infestation in his home. https://bit.ly/4i1mMob

joel
@joel.zone

i think i’m gonna start editing carl from athf into things. he speaks to me, on err, a different level, y’know? it’s a shame the CN leak had nothing for athf in it.

joel
@joel.zone

not sure dedicating an entire conversation to why there’s no game studios in nyc, the most notoriously expensive place on the planet is actually something I’d be actively promoting as a cool chat, but I dunno. i’m sure we have a lot more insight.

joel
@joel.zone

just having a very slow realisation that a lot of people I’ve gravitated towards reading in recent years have become not my taste or have had glaring holes that I’ve only just realised. just found myself going back to reading the most boring version of a report or whatever.

joel
@joel.zone

we were actively told at escapist to not bother covering call of duty, because black ops 7 was so bad that it tanked general interest - even non-BO7 pieces did bad!!

Andy Robinson@andyrobinson.bsky.social

Activision believes there’s a “Call of Duty tax” on the way the series is covered by games media these days, according to an executive. vgc.news/news/the-cal...

vgc.newsThe ‘Call of Duty tax’ means games media doesn’t cover COD the way it used to, Activision says | VGCIts large audience has “become status quo” and people forget the work that goes into each entry…
joel
@joel.zone

the funny thing is watching billionaires blow up their remaining shreds of reputation by trying to be “hip” and “with it” but you know Tim Sweeney and Epic management haven’t seen the sun for years.

Wario64@wario64.bsky.social

new Epic Games Launcher in preview - "Programming is hard. So, instead of doing that, we vibe coded a new Epic Games Launcher that’s way faster and more responsive than the current one, and has a new look." store.epicgames.com/news/epic-ga...

joel
@joel.zone

like, you’re saying you wanna launch on linux and are releasing not only vibe coded stuff, but also… it’s entirely closed off? we genuinely know nothing about what’s in it until someone inevitably points another LLM to “reverse engineer” it and that’s how some towns don’t have any water :)

joel
@joel.zone

fun thing about looking at company pages for work stuff these days is that you see just how much some people have checked out

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Joe Siegler
@joesiegler.blog

Richard B. Gray - LEVELORD 11/15/1957 - 10/12/2026 Just heard the news that an old friend of mine has passed on. Richard Gray - aka Levelord has departed the planet. I know he's dealt with cancer on and off for awhile now, a word that I cannot stand. Word comes from his wife Olga.

joel
@joel.zone

every other ad or every other scroll on Instagram is now just ai shite. it’s completely normal.

joel
@joel.zone

syndicate 2012 but in 2026 would have had a cool mission where you steal drives and gpus because the corp you work for can’t afford new ones

joel
@joel.zone

I’d say “they should do an absolute version of an obscure character,” but Al Ewing has pulled Anti-Matter Man out of his ass, so what do I know

joel
@joel.zone

you: wow, it’d be so cool to see an absolute question or absolute constantine! ewing: how about this funny guy

joel
@joel.zone

triple h is a coward, ditching the bald look. he looks like several asda vacuum sealed packs of beef that’s gone mouldy

joel
@joel.zone

did rfk tell him to get some hair before the next maha event that Cody Rhodes (defo not a trump supporter) will also attend