Alina Christenbury

This “core team” rhetoric is getting really weird. Games that take hundreds of people to make take hundreds of people to make. Just say it! We’re reinventing “QA is in another building and aren’t real devs” from first principles

"Programming is hard" is not what i want to hear from a software company, even if it was meant to be a joke.

We are soon going to have to come to grips with the fact that this shit is asbestos for the mind

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Programmer: In Python, whitespace is syntactically significant

i saw these spiders waayyyy too young, they're still horrifying youtu.be/zpLpkfFFsnI?...

In Control, women run the business and men go in the CAGE. this is the future that liberals want

is it cool if all bugs in the videogame are diegetic

highkey though solar is inevitable, you're telling me we have a way to literally harness the power of the sun, near indefinitely with little to no maintenance and oil's supposed to compete with that forever? grow up lmao

i am passing a law to ban all level design that's like ok we have the obvious way and then dead ends with like 1% upgrade materials. couldnt give any more than that because the game is 50 hours long. but you do have to go down all of them

14 hours later and my mentions are still full of angry treatises about badly behaved cyclists. Bike lanes are not a reward for good cyclist behavior! They are infrastructure proven to make cities safer for ALL ROAD USERS. Whatever way cyclists have wronged you is irrelevant to the discussion!

sorry to the haters but the CORRECT order to play the series is A Short Hike Big Walk Marathon

Devs, pay attention to who is actually, practically offering support to our laid off colleagues. It’s not the companies, it’s not the ESA, it’s the union, it’s us.

I don't see how this gets better without shifting to co-op owned studios or strong unionization, it's obscene

THEY TALKED TO THE COMPUTER IN STAR TREK BEACUSE ITS A *TV SHOW* AND YOU CANT HEAR WHAT SOMEONE IS TYPING NOT BEACUSE IT IS GOOD UX

imagine if they fired every band member every time an album came out

Saying we should all go back to physical media I think misses the point. I actually *like* buying games and movies digitally for a bunch of reasons. What we need is better consumer protections so the things we do buy digitally are actually owned and companies cant delete/revoke access!

is anyone out here actually good at stewarding videogame teams and budgets or is proper games management a unicorn

it seems very strange to me to deprecate blueprints, after everyone including epic lauded E33 so hard, a game that is mostly made in blueprint it's a great system that enables "non coders" to code why are we throwing it out

Its just this meme over and over again. STOP BUYING STUDIOS TO CLOSE THEM

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i have yet to see a single cis person say something about the fact that the government just designated trans people a terrorist group and threatened to kill all of us.

This could be business casual if we even gave a shit

i think generally you shouldn't let other people decide whether or not you make art. they might influence how, or what resources you have to work with, but whether or not you're going to try at all should be an internal decision. don't let the bastards get you down

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this is what they said it would be like under socialism

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

Now that CNN and WBD are set to become state media in a sale to Paramount/Oracle/TikTok, it is especially important to support independent media. Off the top of my head: www.thehandbasket.co 404media.co www.garbageday.email Add your favorites in the replies. Fuck state-backed media monopolies.

The video game industry decided to discontinue their product, the video game, in exchange for trying to make Fortnites. They have in recent years found out this doesn't work, so they have pivoted from making Fortnites to making ????????????????? nothing I guess

mom they’re roasting the US economy on mastodon again

Somebody should invent a socioeconomic system which is good at allocating resources

in a just world we get inside job season 2 after this

Not fair that as someone who was both too whimsical to be on the chans and too young to ever go on something awful that i have to deal with All This