Thomas! (Philosophical Zombie)

Thomas! (Philosophical Zombie)

@attackofthetom.bsky.social

Dad. Wife guy. Aspiring Game Dev. Coffee-addled Front End Dev. Actual Neckbeard. Filthy Genwunner. Star Wars and Star Trek aficionado. Adult Bluey fan. Chaotic Good. Anti-enshittification. My brain is alphabet soup. I made a lil app - altext.app

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I finally tried the demo for Star Trek Voyager: Across the Unknown. I get that it’s just a demo, so it’s the early experience, but so far I feel like it doesn’t have any meat on its bones. I haven’t yet been given a real chance to make an interesting choice gameplay wise. I’ll keep at it.

Back when I fancied myself an artist, I felt the same way. Ideas were perfect in my head but I could never quite translate them to paper or canvas in a way that was satisfactory to me. Now, I would never use AI art. But I've always wanted my ideas to burst forth from my head like Athena.

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I had to go on Twitter to confirm this was real because Ship Awesome Games In A Weekend having a hand with six fingers was so on the nose I was about to pass out

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This shit just writes itself at this point. Just the name "Epic AI MegaJam" is a joke that best describes what is going on with these companies.

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2 years and 20 million downloads later... Delta 2.0 is finally here 🚀 It’s our BIGGEST UPDATE EVER 💜 🫧 All-new Liquid Glass design 🎮 Sega Genesis 🏆 RetroAchievements 📖 iPhone Duo support … and so much more Available NOW on AltStore PAL and the App Store!

I am 45 and really the only “gamer” in my friend group. Further, I don’t really have the ability to schedule dedicated gaming time. So basically what I’m saying is that this current co-op craze isn’t for me. I really wanted to try Orbitals, which is very much my vibe, but alas.

One of the fucked up things is that, despite EAs (Saudi Arabias) decisions today, they'll still gladly profit from the existing work Bioware produced. I'm BEGGING people to not buy a single EA published product AT ALL. I don't care if it's your favorite game/IP.

Shameless Plug/Reminder, I created a little app for generating alt-text for images. Not a revolutionary idea, I know. But it's focused on accessibility, reducing friction as much as possible, and ties directly into @bsky.app and @joinmastodon.org.web.brid.gy #app #fediverse #accessibility #bsky

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holy smokes, conan strikes up a chat with a random lady on the subway and she immediately starts riffing on his level, no problem.

I installed Letterboxd and Goodreads to see what all the hullabaloo is about. This is it? Maybe I need more time to marinate in what they’re offering, but so far I don’t see the appeal. And the UI/UX feels kind of shit. If not shit, then at least old, like iPhone 3 era apps.

Introducing Altext! It’s a small social media accessibility app I made for generating image alt text. My approach was based on minimizing friction. No costs, no cumbersome UI, just grab a photo off your camera roll, get text, and post straight to Bluesky/Mastodon with the text already attached.

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The only solution is for the only games to be made must include so much lgbt rainbow wars that the sloppers either stay away or they realize too late they got deprogrammed by the constant barrage of bisexual lighting.

The fact that we have to be afraid to market our games because of AI theft is a condemnation of every executive who has pushed for this cancer in our industry and art form. www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...