Putnam

i want to make an entire essay about how calling CDs/DVDs "physical media" is misinformation but i think that would get people very mad at me (they're just as much digital media as an SSD! you own the content on them just as much as you own the content on an SSD! they were putting DRM on CDs/DVDs!)

A24 is potentially doing something really fucked up here, but also they have the opportunity to do something extremely fucking cool and make the movie Creative Commons people would still pay to see it in theaters. but you want to benefit from a community project? then contribute to it

i walk up to a conversation and they're talking about how they aren't interested in dating sims but like it when they're funny like date everything. i cover my mouth so they can't see me seethe

Across the US, workers are souring on AI. The tech industry has insisted that AI would make workers’ lives easier and more productive, that the more people understood and used AI, the more they would like it. Something closer to the opposite has happened.

📣 Heads up Dwarf Fortress Fans! Myth & Magic begins this year! 🧙‍♀️ youtu.be/8P-FTy6hhp0

attn dwarves of #paxwest! Important information: - Zach Adams & Putnam will BOTH be autographing from 2 - 4pm on Friday Sept 4 - @fangamer.com will be selling Dwarf Fortress books and pins a perfect setup to get a Guidebook or Expedition Leader's Journal and get a personal message from DF devs!

This is such a brazen lie that you almost have to admire the balls they've got.

"thingpunk" got away from punk pretty bad. and "thingcore"... actually also took off from punk. is there anything more punk than becoming mainstream and losing meaning

Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures. it's a nice little adventure game with a wild control scheme. god forbid game devs have fun at the expense of the player

Upcoming Dwarf Fortress talk! @putnam3145.bsky.social will be at SLICE 2026 talking about getting acclimated to Dwarf Fortress' codebase.

eventually I will convert everyone to my the-cloud-is-actually-the-root-evil view

i don't know why nothing makes me more angry on the internet than someone posting a fake leak that got one thing out of 20 right and going "oh my god it was real". like no it wasn't. come on. raise your standards of evidence

anyway i know being told by a dude in his forties that smoking is actually NOT cool isn’t going to persuade anybody of anything but it is a real bummer that young people are selling it to each other again on behalf of some of the most sinister and exploitative companies in the world

the great filter (opt out only)

i think now's a good time to say that many games on Steam and Itch.io are DRM free and the concept was not invented by gog

stumbling into a carbon zero future like mr bean

i still can't get over every AI usage statement that starts with "like other members of the industry,". it's so funny. i'd be less annoyed if they just owned it

PIGcon was fun i should probably mention going to places before i go them because i don't have bluesky on my phone because moving my password is a pain oops

scrolling through linkedin and it looks like the latest trend is finally catching up once again to the act that code is bad, actually, and you want less of it whenever possible

i'm not going to just stop going because of this but man does it make me feel like the vise is tightening around my head on places to go without alcohol around

does "we are giving out $1,000,000 to 10,000 eligible people" really dazzle people more than "a chance to win $100"

when woke 2.0 starts up i'm deinitely making a push to get people to stop saying "baby name". that's only gonna be a baby name for 3 years buddy that's going to be a whole human for DECADES with that name

Do people genuinely *not know* that you don't need to host a git repository *at all*?

turns out it WAS true, the best game dev advice actually was to spend 6 years making a 100+ hour RPG with infinite variety

based on google suggestions for me i think i'm slacking on the visibility front

i've been complaining about this for years and they're still trying

simscommunity.info/2016/01/25/t... look all i'm saying is that every gif on this page is applicable to LLM brainrot

i still can't believe that all it took for LLMs to break peoples' brains en masse was to make them obsequious. people just getting absolutely one-shot by unerring politeness and agreement. if it were in a novel i would call it cynical to the point of being cringe

whose idea was it to have video both autoplay and muted by default. somehow they found something worse than autoplay already is

Once again, immigration is not even a problem. Immigrants are not more criminal, they don't cost jobs, they don't harm the economy. There is no reason for any of this. It is hurting ourselves to hurt them.

i'm trying to describe how this caption makes me feel and failing. like imagine if you saw the caption "thousands of cars ended up stuck in traffic due to head-on collision resulting in 9 deaths". the actual human lives aren't as important as making sure the commerce wheels stay greasy i guess

Delicious to me

one of these days i want to go somewhere with two other logicians and they ask "Do all of you want a beer?" and i say "no" and nobody else says anything

I proooobably should've mentioned I knew it was fake immediately because I happen to know the "express" thing actually does do something, it makes it so that the driver's scheduled to do no intermediate stops for that delivery, and this is pretty clear and obvious to drivers in general

found a truly incredible period piece

www.livescience.com/technology/a... I wish science journalism would stop gormlessly repeating the ideas of billionaires who don't read. "experts are torn" but not a single mention of the fact that radiative cooling happens literally everywhere for free and it's generally the worst kind

Ostranauts is 20% off! store.steampowered.com/app/1022980/...

Just gonna say this again for games sphere cus we get the same question: Networking doesn't mean schmoozing up to famous people, it means making friends with your peers. Then in 10 years, 20, one of you might be famous? And sure you're still helping each other cus well yeah friends. Make. Friends.

oh brother, another bad post from political influencer beltway brian. i am furious at beltway brian all of the time. i share screencaps of beltway brian's posts with people who have no idea who he is. i hate all of beltway brian's posts and i read all of them every single day, including weekends

Of course any attempt at explaining this is base bulverizing, but in general it looks like simple defensiveness: they thought "wow this is revolutionary", found other people think it's Utter Crap, and go "nuh uh!! i'm not making utter crap!! nuh uh!!" and it just sorta spirals like that