Mike Turczyn 🇺🇦

Mike Turczyn 🇺🇦

@waywardcodex.bsky.social

Solo game dev & """pixel artist""" outside Philly, PA. Mid-school, gatekeepy elder goth who's judging you. FYI: This is not a GenAI-friendly space. Dem/Lib (Not a leftist. Problem with that? That REALLY sucks 🙂) #Godot #Godotdev

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Mike Turczyn 🇺🇦
@waywardcodex.bsky.social

As it turns out, FF Resonance is indeed everything I wanted. It's heavy on callbacks to prior games, but otherwise it is really solid. (Still not better than VI, but feel like a VII from an alternate universe) bsky.app/profile/wayw...

Mike Turczyn 🇺🇦@waywardcodex.bsky.social

Downloading Final Fantasy Resonance. Most expensive single game purchase I've done in quite a long time. This better be the "shoulda been the one after FF6" game I hope it is

Mike Turczyn 🇺🇦
@waywardcodex.bsky.social

I will create a world where dudes with rinkydink cartoon character names like "Palmer Luckey" and "Tommy Tuberville," never get close to any levers of power again. We're so close to WWIII being started by some fucker named "Iggy Weenieballs" & it's not a good feeling.

Mike Turczyn 🇺🇦
@waywardcodex.bsky.social

Basically. Parasites, not a single true steward among them.

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social

Who's in charge of this country because it sure isn't us and it doesn't even appear to be the government anymore A bunch of paunchy moon-faced degenerate dead-eyed parasites forming a human centipede of investment in each others' vanity conglomerates, not a scintilla of civic virtue among them

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KetAnthropic JoshAI
@ketanjoshi.co

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

Mike Turczyn 🇺🇦
@waywardcodex.bsky.social

As far as I can tell, the easiest way (one anyway,) to suss out legit devs participating in THIS year's Next Fest, is see who has profiles here on bluesky, posting about it. Sloppers don't really camp here, & any inch of visibility above this year's ocean of slop will go far.

Mike Turczyn 🇺🇦
@waywardcodex.bsky.social

Apparently some are suggesting indie devs with an "easily-Roblox'd" game project, be the ones to drop the Roblox clone alongside their true project. I think that's actually a genius idea. In fact, I'd even be fine with them ~vibecoding~ the Roblox Slop version to save themselves time 🤔

Mike Turczyn 🇺🇦
@waywardcodex.bsky.social

Gonna try to go see Wildwood. It's not really even my cup of tea but apparently it's "tracking to fail at the box office™" & tbh if a hand-made, original property like Wildwood is just gonna fail within the shitstorm of AI media we're living in, we don't deserve any better.

Mike Turczyn 🇺🇦
@waywardcodex.bsky.social

No. This is what people need to hear. I still had this idea that I needed to hedge & "maintain a foothold" on that platform, until a year or so ago. It's nothing but a shit pit populated by/run by the worst of humanity, eating you but mostly just eating THEMSELVES, with no further forward motion.

Anil Dash@anildash.com

You know, the thing is, I had drafted this piece a month ago, and then never published it, because I thought maybe it was too mean.

Mike Turczyn 🇺🇦
@waywardcodex.bsky.social

All of these dudes making these kinds of posts, are my age. All of them. Somewhere between 44 & 48 years old. You always hear about how "the middle aged have largely embraced AI." No shit? This is PRIME midlife crisis time. Most of these thuds never worked a skill/sacrificed a thing in their lives.

Mike Turczyn 🇺🇦
@waywardcodex.bsky.social

"Where does the hate come from?" tells you all you need to know about just how little stake these clowns ever had in anything. "U people r just skeerrd," typically offered with glee, demonstrates they know they're addressing the kinds of people they've seethed at for untold years.

Mike Turczyn 🇺🇦
@waywardcodex.bsky.social

Been figuring out that the only time Steam actually gives 10/10 Fucking Amazing recs to you is at the bottom of the shopping cart page when you're about to purchase something. It's like what do you MEAN this absolute gold that I'D NEVER SEEN OR HEARD ABOUT, had been out 4 years already?

Mike Turczyn 🇺🇦
@waywardcodex.bsky.social

Thing that always bothered me about "lol let's just gut 90% of the IP/the character/the etc. and do our own thang XD" millennial writers and showrunners is that, the whole mindset behind it is Business School as fuck. "Gawta SHAKE THINGS UP, Gawta ESTABLISH DOMINANCE by firing 85% of [the plot]"

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani
@mayor.nyc.gov

I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.

Mike Turczyn 🇺🇦
@waywardcodex.bsky.social

If there isn't an army of American citizens between Nidal Malik Hasan and the firing squad on the day, the people permitted it. The people allowed it to happen. It's on us. That's where we're at.

Hillary Rodham Clinton@hillaryclinton.bsky.social

A barbaric idea, beneath our dignity as a country. Push back on this.

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LaurenWalshArt
@laurenwalshart.bsky.social

Ai bros hate artists because deep down they know they have no goals, no dreams, & nothing that they truly love. It’s a dark void that eats & gnaws at them so they lash out at those that have that spark. All they want is to drag you down with them to prove that it’s all hopeless

Mike Turczyn 🇺🇦
@waywardcodex.bsky.social

Our own President saying Iran should be allowed to just strike LA or San Diego (while his army of reprobates cheer) should be the thing that concerns me and pisses me of the most. What's actually doing it is I know this will be just one more "cuh-raazy" news item that everyone forgets inside a week.

Mike Turczyn 🇺🇦
@waywardcodex.bsky.social

Wading into "political bluesky," one thing is abundantly clear: too many Gen X/Baby Boomers on here filled to the brim with useless slogans, platitudes, brainlessly posting empty Facebook memes, etc. who seem more interested in "The Fight™," not so much working towards a real, definitive end to it.

Mike Turczyn 🇺🇦
@waywardcodex.bsky.social

Under every pundit/govt official post is just an ocean of brainless "TRUMP is BAD, he's GOTTA GO!" & it's like yeah, that's been fucking established a million times over, Susan. Oh & you posted the meme again. Very cool. And you're the first to balk whenever anything truly proactive gets suggested.

Mike Turczyn 🇺🇦
@waywardcodex.bsky.social

I mean let's be real here. I'd probably beat up AI users on the streetz. Not really, but maybe. At the very least I already know I can take them and that's enough. Bitches can't move without Claude telling them what to do

Mike Turczyn 🇺🇦
@waywardcodex.bsky.social

Another day, another "I'm done with AAA." It's one the easiest decisions I've ever had to make at this point. Long-standing studios, long-standing franchises, "all dat shit ya grew up with™," etc. Completely meaningless in the face of this bullshit, that you know WILL be shat into everything.

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Mike Turczyn 🇺🇦
@waywardcodex.bsky.social

Every grubby-ass, publicly-traded company WILL be doing this. Every single one. Even if they insist they won't. The temptation to make Line Go Up is too great. Yes, they'll STILL be asking for $60-$90 per fucking unit. Yes the absolutely will.