Lunar_Penguin

Don't let billionaires convince you slop is the future. They're used to managing & directing, not making things themselves. Of course they can't see the difference. They don't understand your love for the craft. Keep making personal, beautiful games. You've got my support 💖

Ahsoka: Undefeated at staring contests! 👀 📷: Female lion by zoo hospital staff Maddie

The main way in which AI has negatively impacted games industry jobs is not through actual automation of those jobs or even untrue claims about automation. It's by making capital unavailable because it's tied up in AI investments while also destroying the consumer base for video game hardware.

Someone actually crunched the numbers, and using GenAI can decrease reviews for indie game on Steam (a useful proxy stat for sales) by as much as *58%* 🤖

Anyway I'm just going to say it outright: if you're an indie dev using AI for coding, above and beyond any other objections, what you're telling me is that you have no solidarity with anyone else in games. Not artists, not writers, not other coders. You beleive in personal convenience at all costs.

Just finished some adjustments to my little personal webpage. No more iframes, no more dependencies on Google or other external sites, no more unnecessary cookies or tracking. 🙂 Up next: making separate pages for some projects and adding a "links" page. #webdev #indieweb

Sharing a really awesome animated music video that just released, made by some of the best humans I know! #human-made #animation #music #supershigi www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac-K...

Cloudflare's down. Look at Capybaras.

I may create things that aren’t the most polished, or are unfinished, possibly even just absolute garbage… …but they’ll be MY absolute garbage, from my imperfect human brain and imagination, not from some slop machine built from an amalgamation of other people’s work.

This is insanely bad for anyone doing game development. Who the hell knows what Gaming Copilot is doing with your screen captures, but it almost certainly isn't compliant with your NDA.

Happy Caturday from Revan! 🦁 📷: Male African lion by zoo volunteer Kennedy

huge notice that pops up if you try to edit the cat article

Thinking of experimenting with running my own tiny Mastodon / ActivityPub instance… I miss when the Internet was a web of little personal sites, forums, and communities instead of everyone being on a few big sites, waiting for the heads of the new big site to screw everything up again.

New D&D Animated Short! A simple dinner song. 💐 From: Curious Curios #ttrpg #dnd #dnd5e

Gonna go even further: don't refer to it as "consuming media" when doing this. You aren't a consumer - it's not a product. You read books. You look at art. You watch movies and/or videos. Be careful about word choice. Reject "consume" and REJECT "CONTENT." IT IS ART. YOU ARE ENGAGING WITH ART.

Yet another good reason to not use the plagiarism machine for game dev, including at the concept/placeholder stages:

Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.

All I’m going to say about recent happenings is that the people in charge of my government continue to work overtime to convince me that I am a horrible person and the reason for everything bad that is happening. Feels real welcoming

Godot has become a viable game engine Blender has become a viable 3D modelling AND animation tool SteamDeck is now a fantastic "mobile" Desktop platform AAA is shrinking / abandoning territory, ceding more genres to indie Basically, (funding sitch aside) indie gamedev is seriously looking up!

New favorite festival/fair food: pizza, in cone form.

I don't get how people don't realize that a technology that replaces junior and entry level positions in a field destroys that field. There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.

itch.io has been nothing but supportive of LGBTQ+ work since the beginning. it pains me to see the community turn on them like this and so gleefully spread misinformation about them without even giving them a shred of benefit of the doubt. journalists too...

Well, that's not great... 😬 (fortunately, this is "just" a backup storage device)

"OooooOOOoooo, looks like you'll have to make a whole GAME about me, stardust~! 96 whole hours thinking about your bestie, aren't you excited????" #isat #InStarsAndTime #GMTKJam #GMTKGameJam2025

"I asked chatgpt" "I asked grok" well I asked Achenar from the best-selling point&click adventure game Myst and he told me to bring him the blue pages and NOT to touch the red ones

Sabu is the best at catnaps! 📷: Male snow leopard by zookeeper Taylor S

Tune in to the original #MoonDay by visiting apolloinrealtime.org/11/

you're gonna wanna see this

Happy International Non-Binary People's Day everybody

I am so, so very tired of all of this... but I continue to exist. 🟥🟪🟦

Have a very fluffy #cat in a box! (her name is Lynx)

If I’m knowledgeable on a subject I don’t *need* an LLM. If I’m not knowledgeable on a subject I don’t *trust* an LLM.

Boise State Public Radio is at risk of losing nearly 20% of our annual budget. The rescission package sent to Congress by President Trump has now been released to the floor by the House Rules Committee and a vote is expected soon, possibly this week.