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Adam. Pottery Beard.
Adam. Pottery Beard.
@thatbeardoadam.bsky.social
Ceramicist/Potter. Former PR, marketing in games. Former game journalist. I do stuff for BitSummit and IGF. Geek and expensive-mead-wanter. My opinions are my own.
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Me: "I can't draw for shit." Also me: (As always, full credit and appreciation to @lukelukeluke.bsky.social for his excellent photography) #mushrooms #sketch @procreate.com
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Once again, I beg people to learn basic physics before buying a folding phone. There's no screen material that won't rapidly warp and degrade from repeated bending and folding.
iPhone Duo screens are cracking/breaking at the same point in a pretty obvious flaw. Interested to see where this goes www.tomsguide.com/phones/iphon...
Gonna need some VR recs from @papapishu.bsky.social
Please don’t tell my mum. She thinks I’m being responsible with my money. #SteamFrame
Responding to this particular post…we need to remove “leadership” from our game dev lexicon (where necessary). Is it leadership to march a studio off of a cliff? Is it leadership to take massive pay raises when staff are laid off or furloughed? Is it leadership to misappropriate funding?
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
Jesus Fucking Christ. Nobody's surprised what with the Saudi purchase, but whole swathes of an industry are being wiped out for greed and ownership of husks. Every fucker responsible for all of this are ghouls.
Electronic Arts is closing Dragon Age studio BioWare and canceling the next Mass Effect game. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/ea-is-c...
One bright light in an otherwise AI-shite filled #SteamNextFest is The Road of Dust And Sorrow, an absolutely gorgeous pixel art survival action game where you play as a mother trying to keep her daughter safe, no matter the cost. Really stunning and tightly put together. Definitely worth watching.
If this is true (which I'm sus about because it's Remedy, the craft devils) this may mean an entirely new game is in the works. In which case I desperately hope it's a Tim Breaker game.
Control Resonant creative director Mikael Kasurinen has claimed that Control Resonant doesn’t show off a future Remedy game, despite a prominent easter egg featuring the studio’s other big franchise. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/is-cont...
Who's WE?? I agree with the argument, but "we" are not nor ever will be included in what the techdouches are doing to the world. The sooner we align ourselves against "them", the more constructive we'll be in taking it all down.
I don’t just want us to be opposing data centers, but also starting a larger debate about how we build technology and who that technology serves. The tech industry is forcing their vision of the future on the rest of us, but it doesn’t have to be that way.
Ahh yeahhhh. That's the good stuff!
Hey everyone, I made a small tutorial video for my friends on how to install the AI Disclosure Warning and SteamDB extensions directly in the Steam APP on Windows. That way, you get those QoLs directly in Steam! Enjoy and pass it along! 💜 www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-qQ...
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Now that Steam Next Fest has started I want to remind everybody to not give games with AI any attention, to help you with this you can download this neat extension that will make it A LOT easier to filter through the slop! github.com/seeeeew/aiwa...
Honestly, I think people should just stop putting demos out. You'd lose a lot less in sales by not giving people a playable thing versus shitfucks getting their hands on any code you may have so they can clone it. This is also coming at a time when Steam is doing #NextFest, with some 8,000 demos...
The indie studio behind the upcoming Steam game ReVamp has cancelled plans for a public playtest, in case someone uses AI to reverse engineer the code and publishes a clone first. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/revamp-...
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Our disgust is justified. It's only going to get worse because @valvesoftware.com isn't going to do shit to properly curtail the slop infestation.