kaloncpu57

kaloncpu57

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I like optimizing and breaking games | He/Him https://bio.link/kaloncpu57

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I need more fun facts about 57. If you ever have any fun facts about 57 (ones that aren't already listed on the Wikipedia article for 57, since I've seen all of those), literally just tag me any time. Also if you see 57 in really cool places out in the world.

My favorite memory of Unite was the short moment in time after the reveal where I thought it might be anything besides a Tencent data farming, predatory micro-transaction hell game.

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Pyronoid! 🦉🐻@pyronoid.com

youtube on my TV knows i really like these fucking videos where someone makes a game soundtrack for a game that could never exist and also is completely absurd so occasionally my TV starts producing the most beautifully composed sounds ever and i turn around and its just this

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Anyone else going as Pumpkin Hill from Sonic Adventure 2 for Halloween this year or just me? 🎃⛰️ The costume has a treasure hunting minigame where you can move Knuckles across the “level” and the radar necklace will blink as you get closer to the hidden emerald in the pockets 💎 I love Halloween!!

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I feel such an enormous relief that the HGSS video is out. I felt so crappy for like 2 years that I couldn't finish it. Now I have a workflow that results in these videos being made (by hiring people). When things feel overwhelming, it is a cue to make a plan, not give up!

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every email you get as a dev starts out with a perfunctory sentence to display some familiarity with your work. this one could use a little more effort

I saw this question a while ago, and I've been thinking about it again: Is there any AAA game with a fully gay man as the main, playable character? Not a player insert character that *can* be gay, but could also be anything else depending on your choices. A fully written out gay man.

The closest I was ever able to come up with is a playable character that only shows up in a DLC expansion for We Happy Few I think it was the "They Came From Below" DLC, and the story does very specifically follow two men in love, but it's also DLC which is a bit of an asterisk on the answer lol

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Guillermo Del Toro dropping another one liner that’s exactly how I feel about AI slop, the “punishment” is built in

Okay I usually hate posting clips about these things, but... (mention of suicide btw)

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Bro there's no way Ethan Klein dressed up his wife and mistress as Thing 1 and Thing 2, AND THEN THEY TALKED ABOUT SOMEBODY ELSE DOING THE SAME THING, WHILE IN COSTUME, BEFORE HIS WIFE FOUND OUT

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Game dev has gotten so much more accessible than when I was a kid. Used to be you had to either program a whole engine from scratch, or pay an exorbitant amount to license something like Unreal. You probably weren't making games unless you were a professional or on the path to becoming one.

Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?

Bro there's no way Ethan Klein dressed up his wife and mistress as Thing 1 and Thing 2, AND THEN THEY TALKED ABOUT SOMEBODY ELSE DOING THE SAME THING, WHILE IN COSTUME, BEFORE HIS WIFE FOUND OUT

I genuinely don't understand how they could have so much footage of a game existing (pre-AI video generation) and apparently still be able to entirely switch up what the basic concept of the game is for THREE YEARS, and then go back?! I'm almost afraid to play it if it ever comes out.

Jack Saint@lackingsaint.bsky.social

HOW ABOUT MAKING A SEQUEL TO BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL

Not even afraid of it being its own, contained, unplayable mess, but that it might be such a confused project that it retroactively does something terrible to the first game.

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Sorry still thinking of $1,200-$1,800 dollar console just conceptually. Those are Real Computer numbers. You can just get a real computer for that kinda cash. The entire premise of the console is “this is a baby computer you don’t control but it’s standardized and affordable” but they can’t do that.