Basil

Basil

@basilthecreator.bsky.social

Building playful interactions @lauflauf Writes about creative life and politics. He/Him, Zürich basilsutter.com lauflauf.games

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Swiss Game Hub
@swissgamehub.com

That's a wrap! ❤️ The first Gamespace Conference is over, and what an amazing two days! Sold out, over 350 attendees and a packed program full of talks, workshops, games and wonderful people. A HUGE thank you to everyone who made this possible!

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Swiss Game Hub
@swissgamehub.com

We’re SOLD OUT! ❤️‍🔥 All 200 tickets for the first Gamespace Conference have been sold. We couldn’t have asked for a better start! We’ve now made a few extra tickets available, and a limited number will also be available at the box office on both conference days. See you tomorrow! 🔥

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Sargoth (gyromantically haberdashing iamb)
@longersky.com

Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume? Me: an unintended side-effect of employers doing everything in their limited powers to avoid being labeled as employers, I can not legally claim to be affiliated with any of them. I do however have the keys to a worryingly large nr of buildings

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Tuta
@tuta.com

If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this. Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how. Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:

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𝔻𝕠𝕞𝕚𝕟𝕚𝕔 🇨🇦
@dominic.tech

Un guide intéressant et complet des alternatives techno hors États-Unis.

Paris Marx@parismarx.com

The United States is taking aim at Canada once again, with a crushing new set of tariffs. Ultimately, government will need to solve this. But in the same way Canadians are avoiding US alcohol, produce, and other goods, they should get off US tech products too. Luckily, I have a guide for that.

disconnect.blogGetting off US tech: a guideI’m in the process of dropping US tech services. Here’s how I did it, and options you should consider.

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Bruno Dies
@brunodias.dev

The reason why procgen in games is, as we like to say, a great way of getting twice the content with four times the work is that you can't fight Shannon's laws any more than you can fight the laws of thermodynamics. You can't give the audience more information than you were willing to put in.

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Swiss Game Hub
@swissgamehub.com

A wild HUBiter has appeared! 🪐 Meet HUBiter, the newest member of the Swiss Game Hub! Our Hub Member Fabian asked us if we might have a new home for this giant Jupiter after it had to make way during renovations at Grand Casino Baden.

Basil
@basilthecreator.bsky.social

Finally took the time to record my first hybrid set: on.soundcloud.com/QJnDWSyANkVG... Used my sampler and XDJs to layer tracks, drums and other samples. Still has a bunch of edges in it, but i like it. #music #dj #jungle #ambient

soundcloud.comAll the places I wont be // Hybrid Set (Live and XDJs)A hybrid set of my own tracks mixed with XDJs and tracks from other artists. ID: 00:00 Unknown voice sample / own music 01:45 And still they move - voice sample by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan / own music

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Smooth Dunk
@smoothdunk2.bsky.social

i dunno I think sometimes people just enjoy talking to like minded people. do you do this kind of shit with your friends offline

Corey Atad@coreyatad.com

i think, end of the day, the real problem with Bluesky is that most of its users are here *because* they want to be in a bubble. and they can tell themselves that it’s just about not being around Nazis it supporting Musk, and that’s part of it, but also there’s a palpable desire to be ensconced.

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tante
@tante.cc

"Might they say no? Of course. But they might also say yes. We’re broken. We gotta keep shit simple. No complex planning. No calendar bullshit. No ranges of dates. No pencilling shit in. We are very much in “Get in loser. We’re doing crimes.” territory." How to stay friends

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Swiss Game Hub
@swissgamehub.com

Tickets for the Gamespace Conference 2026 are now available! We’ve just announced our first speakers for the Gamespace Conference! Check them out on our website! More speakers will be revealed over the next few weeks. Get your ticket and find all the latest information on our website: gamespace.ch

Basil
@basilthecreator.bsky.social

And when i say "content" i don't mean it in this awful "everything is content now to be consumed" notion but in a "stuff that is actually contained within the boundaries of our game" notion. But maybe i should stop to use the word all along

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Joe Wintergreen
@joewintergreen.com

i am more of the view that it's impossible for LLMs to be used for automation myself

innes mck@innes.bsky.social

im pretty far on the anti-AI and LLM end of the spectrum, but you have to constantly think critically and reassert your reasons *why* you oppose it, otherwise you end up taking positions like "it's good to manually complete tasks which could be automated and doing avoidable work is virtuous"

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BedWords
@snacklesbian.bsky.social

ya can't learn to swim in a library

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science

You don't teach a child what it looks like to ride a bike. You teach then to ride the bike. What it looks like in fact can be known before knowing what it is to do it. In fact it often is for many serious skills. I know what it looks like to pilot a plane well, but I don't know what it is to do it.

Basil
@basilthecreator.bsky.social

"Expanding a boundary is the wrong phrase or framing. This is more like cooking or gardening. We do new things and experiment to find what we care about, to find new things to share with other people, and to remind ourselves that nothing is static and that we can define the future for ourselves."

Mike Cook@mtrc.bsky.social

I wrote a manifesto for making games, and (not) selling them, for #manifestojam illomens.itch.io/no-one-is-go...

illomens.itch.ioNO-ONE IS GOING TO BUY YOUR GAME by ill omensA Manifesto For Making Games
Basil
@basilthecreator.bsky.social

Another good reason we (also we as developers and designers) should oppose tracking and unnecessary data collection as much as we can. this world we are in finds ways to turn this data into malicious things

NESbot@nesbot.bsky.social

30 billion street and environmental scans from Pokémon GO players were used to train US military drones www.resetera.com/threads/15...

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Roland Meyer
@bildoperationen.bsky.social

«Der Denkfehler… liegt darin, dass Menschen keine Hühner sind. Es wurde nie beobachtet, dass ein Huhn zehn- oder hundertmal so viel Futter frisst wie ein anderes, zehn- oder hundertmal so viel Platz beansprucht und zehn- oder hundertmal so viel Dreck macht.» www.woz.ch/2623/gastbei...

woz.chGastbeitrag: Menschen sind keine HühnerDie SVP verspricht Nachhaltigkeit, doch ihre Initiative würde das Gegenteil bewirken, schreibt der Klimaexperte und Geflügelhalter Marcel Hänggi.