Troldann Arothin

Today we lost Walter Koenig. Some thoughts about a fine actor and genuinely nice guy....

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@kirkhamilton.com Megarace mention on Triple Click!

But if you go this route, I beg you: build an engine, and then just make interesting characters in great stories. Don't overthink it. Every shared bioware memory I've seen today has been a character or a narrative moment. The appetite for great Bioware-style stories is still huge.

Casino for Tax Purposes.

@doublefine.com I like the aesthetic of Thank You Bus Driver and want to play it, but there seems to be no option to invert the Y-axis? I'm curious if you have telemetry in any of your games that tell you how many people turn that setting on. I can't play without it thanks to imprinting 30 years ago

@willsmith.fun regarding Tech Pod, I just got my SSD RMAd and decided that it’s time to try full-time Linux. I have living room hardware with Ethernet and was super excited about the Steam streaming news you talked about. And then you broke my heart telling me I’d need Windows for HDR. Sadness.

I don't want gen AI in my browser I don't want gen AI in my pc I don't want gen AI in my art I don't want gen AI in my games I don't want gen AI in my music I don't want gen AI in my movies I don't want gen AI in my books I don't want gen AI in my cart I don't want gen AI in my life

To honor Tim Curry's memory, we are making Brütal Legend FREE on Itch.io, for 666 minutes: itch.io/s/199277/the...

@acollierastro.bsky.social I’m 43 years old and know what a spark plug is. But I had no friggin’ clue what an external combustion engine was until you said “steam engine” and I was like, “Oh! Duh!” So thank you.

@dbrand.bsky.social your Reddit spend is weird. I’ve seen a lot of ads on Reddit, almost never one from you guys. I made a purchase from you for the first time yesterday and now half of the Reddit ads are for you. Isn’t that kinda the opposite of how you want it to go?

@midimyers.com @kirkhamilton.com can you please call your third cohost “One-Take” for an episode?

RIP Bobby Prince. His music legacy will live on, making inspired music for Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, DOOM, countless others. A true legend. And such a nice man, great musician, wonderful, fun-loving man, nothing but happy memories of him. A loss to the world.

@kirkhamilton.com stay out of YouTube algorithmic holes, browse those videos in private mode or a separate browser container!

Paramount+ wanted to use the image on the left as a poster for the wrath of Khan, so they used everyone's least favorite technology to generate the rest of the image.

You worry about the fighters, I’ll worry about the towers.

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Out of this entire title bar, there is a single 16 pixel-ish area that I can click on to drag the window position. Everything else is an annoying clickable item I really don't care about. Please stop polluting the caption area of windows with crap so I can move the damn window where I want.

No other president has been able to find all the pictures of bicycles. I've done it three times. And I found the crosswalks too

Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only— Babylon 5 ST: DS9 The Expanse ST: Lower Decks Mr. Robot Breaking Bad The Magicians The Good Place Ehhh, a bunch of others, whatever. 15 is a huge number. Just watch these and make me happy.

@willsmith.fun Need a stupid mouse story? I was so annoyed at my cheap mousepad, seemed to be incompatible with my mouse. Would get dirty and my cursor would jiggle a tiny bit. Clean it, seemed fine for a few days. Dealt with this for a couple years. Then found a hair in my optical sensor. Cured.

@captaindisillusion.bsky.social just watched your intern's video about film slates. I expected something to the effect of "it's to sync audio with the video" and came away learning a ton more. You should give that guy a [very small, maybe sugar-free?] cookie, he's very informative!

Your favourite game was not your favourite game until in the last 5% of development. Some games you don't like would've been your favourite game had they made different decisions in the last 5%

@garrettart.bsky.social you might enjoy making Kyle watch this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qicQ...

You should have to show you can play Civilization reasonably well to be eligible for president

my uncle runs a place in Anchorage that serves fish and chips, and he named the half portion the "Texas size" which is just an incredible troll

I’m Analilia Mejia and I approve this message.

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.

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

New life goal - live my life so that @techconnectify.bsky.social never feels a desire to use my name to get my attention in a post. If he does, though, it's Brian. This whole Troldann thing is a charade.

I’m just gonna leave this here. cottonbureau.com/p/ACS2EP/shi...

For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention. The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.

Better yet, disestablish all of DHS, and undo the nightmarish idiocies that we created in a panic 25 years ago. Reestablish the INS, get rid of ODNI, fix the damage from the Patriot Act, etc.

I made a t-shirt last night after I read that Satya Nadella post about how mean we're being by calling AI slop slop. I'm sad I couldn't get it here in time for the CES keynotes tomorrow.

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

@garrettart.bsky.social listening to your conversation with Jesse Cox, you just mentioned your E33 analytics dropping off a cliff when doing menus. My wife and I watched you guys play and it was definitely “menus. Fast forward.” Sorry for your analytics, we contributed. But we watch all Dispatch!

@kirkhamilton.com gonna need you to chime in on AI now too. <grin> (in case context is lost, I'm sending this while Maddy and Jason are also posting about AI, and I'm 110% here for it)

This MTV recording I found from an extremely golden age of 1994 is a time capsule of exactly specifically the last time the world existed before Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You,” as shown by this ominous trailer. Make of that what you will.

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

@willsmith.fun you wanted to know where people listen. I listen on Overcast and am presently listening from work at a QA/QC lab in a soda ash plant in the California high desert.