I make games and hug animals. Mid tier poster on my best days. Connoisseur of rare vibes. Chairman Shen-ji Yang stan
Obsidian & CDPR, ex-quest designer, lore & franchise guy
Action Quake 2, Neverwinter Nights 2, Alpha Protocol, Witcher 3, Cyberpunk 2077
A lesson about feedback I learned at obsidian was from what feargus called "the rock game". You tell someone to bring you a rock, any rock. No, not that rock, more red. No, not that one, a bit bigger. Actually, smaller. Hmm, probably should be igneous, though...
I’m always morbidly fascinated with what sort of justifications creators come up with for AI usage (especially here in Japan). And lol? Mostly it seems to boil down to them hating people and sucking at communication. Like what even is this:
Penelope Cruz was in a bunch of movies i watched over people's shoulders on the very many flights i took in the last few weeks and I don't know how I've made it this far in life without having a huge crush on her
Problem is rectified now tho
You think you'd be good and smooth at time travel, that you wouldn't act a fool like Marty McFly, but then you read about how no one called it a "mullet" until the '90s and you realize you wouldn't last five minutes before someone in an AMC Pacer gave you one of these
The crew? Assembled.
The dice? Ready!
What could possibly go wrong?
The first episode of our special Cyberpunk Pen & Paper session is here, with the one and only Mike Pondsmith from RTalsorian Games running the game!
youtu.be/PBmkJbK3NGw
I of course loved him as Chekov, but playing Bester on BABYLON 5 really showed his range. You really forgot the guy ever *was* Chekov in that role.
RIP Walter Koenig.
The long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has conceded defeat in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government.
Anti-trans Democrats are spreading poison when we can least afford it, during elections in this ongoing fascist takeover.
As a strategy, it’s a recipe for failure. As a moral stand, it’s reprehensible.
PS I’m the father of young trans woman and I’ll never forgive anyone who makes her life harder.
There's a lot of really stupid people on the Bsky today saying that Political Purity Is Good, and let me tell you, these people are wrong, these people are idiots, and these people are so much the reason why the left can't build persistent power in this country that you wonder if they're GOP plants.
Detective work in downtown Neoliberon - in my cyberpunk adventure, Neofeud 2, on sale now! store.steampowered.com/app/4611140/...#indiegames#SteamDeck#noai#cyberpunk#steam#indiegame#scifi#scifiart#retrogame
Being a video game writer has to be hell.
>write asshole character called "Jimmy the Asshole"
>be bombarded with complaints that Jimmy's an asshole
>legions of tumblrites that inexplicably want to fuck him
>republicans unironically admire him
>800,000 downloads for BIG TITTY ANIME JIMMY on Nexus
She yelled “fascist” as President Trump spoke at a midterm campaign rally. Almost immediately, she was tackled and punched by male rally-goers. Why has no one been charged? nyti.ms/3Ukw1b8
Hey Somerville...
Guess what?
WE BOUGHT THE BUILDING.
The Somerville Theatre now belongs to the people who run it. Buying it was our leap of faith.
Supporting it is where you come in.
Find how you can help: somervilletheatre.com/future
If jd Vance gets even into the final two in the republican primary I would be shocked, the man has negative charisma even in a field populated largely by orcs and slug people
So, at risk of damaging my already borderline reputation among my peers*, one thing that does bother me about the ai declarations is that, at least among the bskyerati, there's zero difference between a pure slop and an original game that uses "ai" for something we've been automating for decades
*by peers I mean mutuals on here, discussions I have about this subject with real people and not through social media are a lot more nuanced and informative
So, at risk of damaging my already borderline reputation among my peers*, one thing that does bother me about the ai declarations is that, at least among the bskyerati, there's zero difference between a pure slop and an original game that uses "ai" for something we've been automating for decades
Like, a recent major AA release, highly praised by critics and fans, is "slop" because they used "ai" voicegen for placeholder vo, something the industry has been doing since I've been in it (20+ years)
Ai isn't one thing, it's a blanket designation given to dozens of different technologies and tools, some of which are just evolutions of tools that have been in use since before some of the people complaining about them were born
I fear all the people wishing Valve would add a way to filter out games with AI declarations might not quite be grasping the dimensions of the problem.
Who's feeling ready to try the survival train in next week's launch of THE LONG DARK: IRON ROAD?
🚂❄️ Coming to Steam on Tuesday, October 27th. Exact launch timing to be shared on Monday!
🚂❄️ More info, including the full planned Roadmap here:
www.thelongdark.com/iron-road/
Who's feeling ready to try the survival train in next week's launch of THE LONG DARK: IRON ROAD?
🚂❄️ Coming to Steam on Tuesday, October 27th. Exact launch timing to be shared on Monday!
🚂❄️ More info, including the full planned Roadmap here:
www.thelongdark.com/iron-road/
This is fun - to find out your wizard name, carefully write out your real current name then right after that add “the Wizard.” We did this at a party last week and had some big laughs.
Once again I'm telling people to play Corru.Observer - one of the coolest things ever made to be played in a browser.
It is a sprawling, genre-hopping sci-fi mystery with multiple albums of soundtrack now. Excellently written, both in terms of loveable characters and speculative hard sci-fi stuff.
Nearly every actual play I've tried to get into has had a ~*HiLaRiOuS*~ joke character, sometimes more than one. Even the (extremely good) Glass Cannon production of Impossible Landscapes had a guy basically playing as Duke Nukem.
In the finale the performer gives the game away a bit, admitting that the ending that's "right" for the character is not right for the network, since his character has become "part of the brand"
ME2 is such a quantum leap forward in terms of graphics and gameplay that it really disguises how much worse it is at worldbuilding and narrative coherence
Honestly, anybody who had any residual good feelings for the kliens in tyool 2026 has something wrong with them, I'm shocked anybody on bsky would even admit to knowing who they are