Ryan Markel

Writing this so I can pin it. Hi; I’m Ryan, and I am a customer experience/relationship management dude with 20+ years of experience. I’m also looking for a job right now and would appreciate any connections you can provide. I’m in the St. Louis metro and can work remotely as well. Email in bio.

MASSIVE news for the GameMaker game engine... Starting January 1, 2027 GameMaker can be used completely free for commercial game development on Desktop, Mobile and Web using the new GMRT. gamefromscratch.com/gamemaker-go... #gamedev #indiedev #GameMaker

RIP

Brazilians recommending not to amplify right-wing talking points by dunking and quoting, as a winning strategy Next day, my tl is full of people dunking on rfk jr I literally would not have seen the bigotry if it wasn't for y'all repeating it. That's exactly what the Brazilians were on about!

Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga (GBA, 2003)

Whoever did the combat AI for the bots in Marathon is a real jerk. And I love them for it.

If there’s one thing I wish I’d done before we got into the spot we’re in now, it’s putting solar panels on my roof. Electricity costs are getting to be ridiculous.

No. This is dooming for nothing. Lula *did* end up cruising to re-election, it was called an hour after polls closed. The fact that he managed to pull that off when everything was pointing to a Bolsanaro win is not terrifying, it's inspiring. Stop looking at things through the worst possible lens.

This theory needs to be actively tested.

It's really nice to see another Meta investment fail

I call upon the youth of the world to look at Brazil, to look at Serbia, and recognize that you *can* make a difference. You *can* turn the tide. You gotta show. Up. Get your asses out there and make a difference. Show fascists that they have no power that’s not given to them by fools.

Figure of a Child Seated atop a Pig, 2nd–1st B.C, 📸 by @tomnweston

if only there was a lesson to be learned from this…

This legitimately makes me want to cry for Marielle. That her mother would not know her well enough to be able to answer this question. Tech “luminaries” have divested themselves of their emotions and empathy. It explains why they think LLMs could be sentient—they themselves are not fully so.

I’m gonna be president of the solar system someday if you follow this logic

This is why AI advertisements have pivoted in the last few months to be aimed at elderly folks. They are an easier target audience for what it does and how it works. To my parents, computers are already mostly magic boxes. It’s not much of a reach.

Currently, Hasbro’s guidelines keep us from having total ownership over the work we make in our free time. Our union aims to change that and ensure we own what we make in our free time. actionnetwork.org/forms/uwotcp...

When the Space Marines are too woke for you I just feel like you gotta go home, man. There's gotta be a point where you chill.

if you're into some of the worst people you know having a terrible time: airbnb has changed it's rules so owners can no longer require guests to clean up, do dishes, take out bins etc, and as you can expect they are all being super normal about it

The fighting game community is a much more inclusive and welcoming place.

It is *wacky* that at some point, folks looked at how the Hollywood blockbuster economy works and said “every kind of business should be like this” rather than sustainable business plans and a sense of responsibility to communities. That’s where we are right now.

I have been looking into starting my own business in the wake of my own job loss, and I can tell you from working on the business plan: it’s near-impossible to make it work unless you have insane connections or a partner who will drop the initial investment for you. People still have to live.

Welp, getting a dental insurance claim rejected that could end up costing us something like $4k was not the news I needed on what was starting out to be an OK-ish Friday. [insert Yakov Smirnoff “I *love* this country”]

Whomever on the Belmont’s Curse team decided on the outline you can add to your character and enemies to increase contrast at user-discretion: thank you so much.

Previously I have posted about a Nintendo of Europe downloadable premium animated wallpaper that featured a bizarre Toad eating the wallpaper. The files have finally been datamined, allowing the Wallpaper-Eating Toad to be observed in never-before-seen maximum quality.

I’d like to point out that this official account is properly using alt text for their images, which means someone on that social team cares appropriately. I would like to take this moment to thank that person, whoever you are.

Belmont’s Curse is dope.

Outta my sight, scrub

Let them have the damn candy

It is absolutely *wild* that a PHP vulnerability led to Final Fantasy XIV being down for all PC users for a full day.

I cannot stop thinking about this and I am convinced it now lives rent-free in my head forever; thank you (I guess) @catacalypto.bsky.social Popped in my head *immediately* during a conversation friends were having in Discord re: Unreal blueprints

Today is my birthday and I'd love if people would share my artwork 🥰🖤

Couldn't stop thinking about pathetic spider donut so I decided to draw him

Looking forward to the Demolition Man-style future, where we conduct daring raids against datacenters to liberate semiconductor parts, which we funnel to an underground that repurposes them for PC gaming builds at a fundamental level.

Going to give my own takeaway on the demise of Bioware, which still makes me very sad. The TLDR: Bioware was not killed suddenly by a private equity acquisition. It was slowly strangled by idiots who didn't understand what made Bioware great - some at EA but also some inside of Bioware leadership

I’m going back in, I guess

Look. We dreamed of a future with things like C-3PO. Alpha 5. The Enterprise-D computer. Synergy. V.I.C.I.. Tron. K.I.T.T.. The WOPR. Johnny Five. The ship from Flight of the Navigator. Data. Instead, we got destructive and irresponsible probability engines run by carnival barkers.

I have an N7 hoodie - the OG one - that I still wear around the house because it’s the comfiest thing on earth, even though it’s now WAY oversized and the sleeves are fraying. BioWare was a once-great company that created worlds we inhabited, not just experienced.

Today is just A Day™, huh?

It’s in frontier model providers’ best interest not to have LLMs give you accurate information on first pass, because then they can get you to spend additional tokens on verification/validation passes. Think about that one for a few.

If you want to get one of those T-shirt quilts made out of your stuff, but you don’t want to pay what they cost, then check out Project Repat, register, put one in your cart, and leave it there. You will get an email with a 50% off code every other day until the end of time.