Smiley

Smiley

@smileybarry.com

🎗️ Stop the war. 🏳️‍🌈 Infosec software developer and really-bad-puns guy (he/him) 🌐 https://smileybarry.com

80 followers165 following393 posts

Smiley reposted

The Steam page for Static Hour is now live! Work the night shift in a 1980s radio newsroom during a mysterious lockdown. Listen to reports, decide what the town hears, and uncover a story you can't see, but only hear. #indiegames #gamedev

Smiley reposted

I never made a proper announcement, but it has been my pleasure to provide the voice of Astalor Bloodsworn in World of Warcraft’s new Midnight Expansion. Always a joy working with these fine folks. Eternally grateful to get to step into this world again. 🙏 Now come along. There is much to be done.

Smiley reposted

Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step. 1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish. 2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.

They fixed the icon composition too so now it looks great in clear WOOHOO

Bluesky@bsky.app

In v1.110, Bluesky now has a dark-mode app icon — for anyone who thinks light mode should require a content warning.

I already have too many little computers, but I'm resisting the urge to add this cutie patootie square to the collection

The Verge@theverge.com

Ten years to the month after Valve’s original Steam Machines went on sale, the company is announcing… the Steam Machine. Can Valve’s tiny box take on Microsoft and Sony? Read more from @seanhollister.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/tech/818111/...

Watching Black Mirror with subtitles, I think I’m gonna start counting how many times it says “[ethereal music playing]”. Also, didn’t Netflix say they were going to add English subtitles that aren’t closed captioning?

Smiley reposted

Oh sure. Ask @aftermath.site three or four times to publish your explicit lesbian personal ads and they tell you no, but get a bizarre ChatGPT rejection email from a game studio and suddenly they’re interested,

Aftermath@aftermath.site

If you're going to reject someone's video game job application, you don't have to be a dick about it aftermath.site/video-game-ind...

Smiley reposted

beloved poster will stancil has been struck dead by a truck… only to be reborn as the 19th century german philosopher karl marx?? watch “help me engels-kun! i’ve been reborn as the father of communism” airing on toonami this friday

Smiley reposted

um WHAT??? EXCUSE ME???? 😭💖💖💖💖

HDKirin@hdkirin.bsky.social

Hidetaka Suehiro aka SWERY (White Owls - Director of The Missing & Deadly Premonition series; working on upcoming title Hotel Barcelona with Suda51) 1) Balatro 2) Batman: Arkham Shadow 3) Suika Game 4) 1000xResist 5) Sorry We're Closed

Every year I send out Christmas gifts to my online friends (Steam gift cards, etc.). This year I threw in Balatro too and I fear I may’ve given them digital crack

Balatro on mobile has absolutely decimated my free time, according to iOS I played it for *30 hours* in the last month’s time. I have 17 hours total on Steam.

This is a good opportunity to recommend @porkbun.com and @cloudflare.social as domain registrars. I use a mix of both and I’m very happy with them. If your registrar dumps your domain in an automated process after YEARS of service — leave them. This is RIDICULOUS.

itch.io@itch.io

I kid you not, @itch.io has been taken down by Funko of "Funko Pop" because they use some trash "AI Powered" Brand Protection Software called Brand Shield that created some bogus Phishing report to our registrar, iwantmyname, who ignored our response and just disabled the domain

It’s almost 2025 and Twitter STILL has that bug where RTL tweets with a link render the link from the *right*, but render the clickable area from the *left*. So you have to click on the empty area. Twitter for iOS used to be so well-done and native, I’m this didn’t exist before the takeover.

Kinda weird to post about this on Bluesky but I’ve basically gone read-only on birdsite, yet I still need to use it for following some accounts.

Smiley reposted

they fucked up by making me see mobile game ads so often that now i just feel rage when i look at them. i hope that king from royal match does fucking drown. i hope the butler from gardenscapes pulls the wrong pin and gets eaten by the wolf. i hope that bitch in the cabin freezes AND her baby too