Lum

Lum

@brokentoys.social

aka Scott Jennings. "a writer of some cursed repute" - @ed3d.net MMO game dev for too long. Wrote that blog you snorted at in 1999. Currently working on an arcane hex and counter wargame from the 1970s, only on your PC. signal: lum.66

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More August Storm work - getting air units to work in the first operational-level campaign scenario, the initial Soviet invasion of Manchuria. It's 1969, so MiG-21s rule the skies!

this is absolutely ridiculous. I am not changing my BIOS to help you rootkit my system, "anti cheat developers". SecureBoot breaks dual boot linux installs. You're asking me to brick my own system so I can play your sweaty manshooter. No sale.

if anything, he's *worse* at this now, actively profiting off the continuing destruction of his own industry while making some of the most tone deaf, selfish and idiotic public statements in an industry full of tone deaf, selfish idiots. full dance on LGS's grave:

Mike Turczyn 🇺🇦@waywardcodex.bsky.social

26 whole years later, & not an inkling of "Yeah, maybe I could have handled that a great deal better back then, or just didn't say anything at all." Seen it praised for "autistic rationality." A convenient excuse for just being a royal twat, likely silently seething & harboring a chunk of envy.

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if we're complaining about Mass Effect: it's fucked up that the guy who's in charge of all the Reapers is named Harbinger and the guy who's supposed to open the way for the other Reapers is named Sovereign

i'm just gonna correct dmitry here and note that if i had a howitzer i could get my local tv station to put on the air whatever the hell i wanted i can be trusted with this power, 100% completely, by the way

Dmitry Grozoubinski@explaintrade.com

I started a thread debunking these claims with links to Kiel, programs monitoring Ukraine aid money, the fact the US cut off funding once Trump was in, data showing most of what the US gave was military aid and you can't buy TV ads in Ohio with a Howitzer... ... but fuck it. It's late. I'm tired.

it will shock you to learn that elon musk is making bad posts about conspiracy theories on right wing twitter again remember that trump's first impeachment was due to his pressuring zelensky over an insane vote tampering conspiracy involving a dnc server hidden in ukraine for some reason

Dmitry Grozoubinski@explaintrade.com

Hey everyone, gather around! Elon Musk, the trillionaire defense contractor currently spending >$400m on political campaigns to prop up the party of a deeply unpopular president who launched the Iran War has some thoughts about Ukraine, elites, and money in politics.

we're in hell. we're literally in hell.

Oliver Darcy@oliverdarcy.bsky.social

Scoop from @brettlogiurato.bsky.social: CBS has sold its local election night coverage to DraftKings, stirring more controversy inside the David Ellison-owned company. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/cbs-draftk...

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Replying to @zenofdesign.com

Anyway, I was gone at this point but from the outside it always felt like The Powers That Be wouldn't let the last Mass Effect games and final Dragon Age to really focus on what made those IPs great: namely good story and highly f*ckable companion characters.

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YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING is very divisive right now, but there's one trick it uses that even its most ardent haters would have to concede is very effective. Fielder displays his shots in rapid succession, 30+ per second, which makes it seem like Elizabeth Holmes and him are really moving on the screen

coming down on the side of child rapists is definitely a choice, JD

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

JD Vance: "Now the media and the Democrats in the state of Ohio are obsessed because Vivek Ramaswamy had the audacity to run a TV commercial which calls it out like it is and call Amy Acton a liar"

if you're wondering why bioware, a studio with 30 years of history and an incredible pedigree of games and licenses to print money closed, it's because EA was saddled with $18 billion in debt because Jared Kushner and his venture capital firm did a leveraged buyout, otherwise known as theft

the thing about the games industry is that the same people keep piloting the plan directly into the ground, then jump out of the plane before it crashes and run to the next one and no one questions how or why this keeps happening

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What's maddening is just the laziness of it. EA's new owners view it as an Ultimate Team machine so they're not even bothering to *appraise* the other parts of the company. Bioware's brand alone would be worth money, but why bother looking for a buyer, it's a rounding error to them.

end of an era, man. i loved meeting ray and greg when i visited the edmonton studio long ago. played baldur's gate 2 for about 10 years or so, played dragon age 1 to death as well. mass effect 2 was the best one and i will fight you over this opinion. veilguard never happened.

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It's the Todd Akin "legitimate rape" quote, but directed at an opponent who happens to be an actual child rape survivor

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social

Unearthed footage of Vivek Ramaswamy mocking Amy Acton for being a survivor of childhood abuse: "She has no vision other than to complain about what someone else did to her"

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I am really not an accelerationist by nature but finding out that it was an OpenAI disclosure that has now made a bunch of jank old PHP untenable is really flashing a potential villain arc right before my eyes here... glad I'm not holding the lathe

Nope.

Eurogamer@eurogamer.bsky.social

Xbox's next-gen console to reportedly cost up to $1,800, with a Helix handheld coming in 2027 and a full release in holiday 2028 www.eurogamer.net/microsoft-ne...

Confirmed: this is a black propaganda campaign by Ken Paxton and it's dirty as hell, much like Ken Paxton. They're also doing physical mailers which are clearly aimed at 60+ boomers (because who checks their snail mail any more)

Lum@brokentoys.social

Although the organization it links is real, I’ve had no contact with them and ActBlue thinks I live in Georgia for some reason. I’m seriously wondering if this is black ops from Republicans - mass texting Texans about school bathrooms seems VERY GOP

I'm just stunned about everything about this. Vivek is making an extremely ugly family issue (Acton was the victim of child rape) a political issue to try to capture voters estranged by their children. Words fail as to how unutterably evil this is.

The Rooster@rooster.info

Wrote last week on The Rooster about Conman cutting an ad with Amy Acton's estranged mother as his "October surprise." Well, here it is. Polling on it just went out.

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5 people in the industry still see value in attending and of those, only 3 can afford it. one of them is speaking

Vertical Slice@verticalslice.news

GDC is ditching Fridays to become four-day event in 2027 Event organiser Informa said the annual game industry conference is "concentrating" its programming and will now run Monday through Thursday

or do what i do and get the robot to beat skills you find into relevance for your tasks

Ed@ed3d.net

I at this point am like 90% convinced that reusable/shareable skills packages are a bad thing for LLM users. The 10% is that it can show you what's possible; the 90% is that people want to be incurious and just slap something in the only person who can effectively guide your tasks is you

"Jaime West tells Piers Morgan that her next door neighbor just graduated high school and enlisted in the Marines and may get shipped off to die in an illegal war so people need to get off her nuts about drinking a few Coor’s Lights before an interview"

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he's doing victory laps because clueless c-suiters are literally handing him millions of dollars to install linux for them

president trump, as your chief political advisor i advise you to keep saying stuff like this