Newbieblook

Newbieblook

@newbiespud.bsky.social

Experienced writer of glorified fanfics and game mods. Recovering workaholic. Staying reasonably busy to stay reasonably sane. Struggling openly with crippling social anxiety and trauma, so make an informed decision about whether to follow. (he/him)

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Me: Let's just take it easy today My depressed brain: TIME TO HAVE AN EXISTENTIAL CRISIS ABOUT YOUR ENTIRE RELATIONSHIP WITH FOOD AND THE CONCEPT OF EATING Me: ok

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During the brazilian elections we learned one obvious but important tactic to defeat the far right on the Internet and I think everyone should know it: IGNORE THEM! DON'T ENGAGE WITH THEIR CONTENT! DON'T MAKE CONTENT REACTING TO THEM! DON'T HATE QRT! LET THEM ALONE IN THEIR BUBBLE!

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We tried "everyone is entitled to an opinion" for three straight decades and all we have to show for it is four thousand cases of measles and a death cult running the government. It's time for people who don't know what they're talking about to shut the fuck up.

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There was a fucking hole in our planet’s *atmosphere* Like a legit, no joke, “this will unravel our entire ecosystem” hole in the world, and then we fixed it by working together across national and political lines As a species we decided, “we will survive” Let’s do that some more

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

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We acknowledge that no one has the bandwidth for this, but if it helps: -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It's 'buck naked' -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’ -It’s ‘toe the line'

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HERE WE GO AGAIN!!!! Desert Bus for Hope 2026, the 20th year of Desert Bus! I hope y'all are ready for what promises to be the greatest show on Earth featuring a bus. What mischief, excitement, wonder and hilarity have we cooked up for this most auspicious year? Head to desertbus.org right now!

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Night Vale has always been a 100% independent podcast, while most independent podcasts at a similar level have sold to large companies. Being independent has protected us from a lot of the up and down of the industry, but it's also, to be clear, incredibly fucking hard work and annoying

Aysha@ayshaufarah.bsky.social

“You can just start your own studio!” Brother I do not WANT to own a business. I don’t want to be anybody’s boss. I want to write, which is the thing i’m good at!!!

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Replying to @greyduck.net

We got the biggest parts of the nuclear power facility built, including the 8 particle accelerators making Nuclear Pasta, and the first stage of power generation has begun. Ah, it's so nice to be over the huge-project hurdle. Onward and upward!

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need people to stop reposting things that pissed them off on the bird site to here i stopped using that site for a damn reason!

Barely one non-structured non-work week and I'm already unraveling at the seams and climbing up the walls and falling apart into my feelings, this is probably a good sign

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please stop replying to game devs saying things like "well look on the bright side those laid off devs can start their own indie studios now" because eventually one of us is going to snap and "WITH WHAT FUCKING MONEY" would be a shitty last thing to hear before you die

Once again, regarding GenSlop in software: I can't imagine putting out a piece of software that you're supposedly proud of and NOT wanting to understand it inside and out, prepared mentally and emotionally to support it for months or years after so that your precious users enjoy it longer

"We've succeeded at automating proofs-of-concept that provide no foundation to build upon" So you've taken the fun, passion, joy, and function out of the process in every respect? "Yeah but it gets a lot of social media engagement from normies, so"

It's taken me 34 years, but I can finally lose a game of Magic the Gathering without quietly taking it as an indictment of my entire existence making choices as a human being on this Earth

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mr. TIM@timkellogg.me

wow, i had my doubts, but this is true in every single LLM i can find

Absolutely absurd to once again have the thought "It's probably a good thing that I dropped out of my game design degree and lived in misery and destitution ever since rather than having spent those years getting chewed up and spat out by the video games industry"

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Things I wish I'd understood sooner as an AuDHD progressive beyond that would have saved me, and others, frustration. 1. Injustice Trigger Unfairness, whether it is games or political climate, is EXTREMELY activating and/or triggering and it's common with ADHD and autism.

Stream idea if I was way more popular: 1) Stream Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective 2) Display a mysterious speedrun timer with only one checkpoint: "It happens" 3) The moment anyone in chat can't help posting a major spoiler or a reference to a major spoiler, speedrun ends 4) Reveal category: Spoiler%

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Replying to @joewintergreen.com

platforms like itchio and cohost and bandcamp show us conclusively what rentseeking middlemen want us to believe is non-obvious... if you let people support the people they want to support and get out of the way with your ads and your algos and your bullshit they will do it bsky.app/profile/joew...

Joe Wintergreen@joewintergreen.com

apropos of nothing, here's an old blog post i did about piracy and when/whether it's ok and things like that when the people who make the games aren't even getting to keep their jobs, far less profit from a game's success, pirate those suckaz tbh www.joewintergreen.com/one-time-a-g...

Whatever you make today is the best version that you could have made today. Tomorrow you'll be better, but if you wait to make something on that level you'll never get anything made at all. This has been a very important maxim for overcoming a lot of my writer's block.

Stress nightmare: Brother yelling and fighting with family. Wake up to reality: Brother yelling and fighting with family. This is why I haven't even begun to heal my social anxiety even seven years after the breakdown.

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If a project hired you, they needed you. The current push of the term "core team" is wildly reductive and a horrid bit of marketing dross meant to boost reputation by attempting to concentrate perceived work in a smaller number of individuals.

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JBRedux@jbredux.dev

I'm writing a mod in C# and it's reporting a warning on line 3 of a file but the warning is blank for some reason so the "problems" overview just looks like this

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lotgh is the best to ever do it man i should watch it again

Ryan@kuvosa.bsky.social

my fiance and i are watching LotGH (her first time, my 3rd rewatch) and this shit is hitting a lot harder then it did back when i watched it in 2009 and 2018