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I don't care if it's more efficient. I don't care if you study the output so it's not "vibe coding." I don't care if it's just "grunt work." By letting the machine do your job for you, by coming up with excuses for why that's OK, you are kneeling before the billionaires with your neck on the block.

Plenty push back against AI artwork, but there's a hard bulwark of programmers defending it to the death. Even my own game engine dug their heels in. Coders, have some self-respect. What you do is creative. All you do by embracing their stolen code is justify their greed and hasten your own end.

"This remake is inviting new players into this world" is so condescending. Ohh wittle new players oooh you simply cannot handle playing games from 20 years ago...you're too wittle and dumb with your wittle brain

this kind of stuff makes me think of the old game design adage that goes "no player plays incorrectly" and I'm like you know what. sometimes. yes they do. and the purpose of game design has to be to show them the error of their ways.

Like obviously I hate achievements as a like 'platform wide required* system' thing, and as much as I'll FUSS and GRUMBLE like I can't have more than playful beef with people who find fun in them sometimes. But some fuckers are way WAY off the deep end.

Like GOD YOU'RE LITERALLY CLICKER TRAINED. You're like my dogs who run over to get cheese when they hear the precise sound of a specific refrigerator door. Only you don't get cheese! You get a little box that says "Blorpin' it up (1)" on your screen for 3 seconds

Reading the reddit thread of the achievement people like 'yeah why would I buy a game without achievements?' has me so hot like oh god I would be so mean so incorrectly mean if I ran into a person in real life like this WHAT LITTLE DOG PEOPLE, wearing human clothes like they're people 😭

puts a little easter egg in my shaders for da robots

"let IPs die" 🚫 "force IP into the public domain" 👉

I can't stress enough how counterproductive it is for campaign sites to hit visitors with a donation pop-up they have to close before they can see anything. A week out, most visits to these pages are voters trying to make up their minds.

One of the biggest parts of truly becoming an adult is being able to see something you find cringe and think "ah this just isn't for me" and move on. So many people are still living in their 14 year old mindset as 20+ year olds

It's even more angering to me when other trans people will see "cringe" trans art and say that it's "setting the community back" or "making us look bad". Actually transphobes are going to hate us no matter what, you're just miserable and want everyone else to hate themselves like you do

Bluesky has 4 kinds of user

it's fucked up how while estradiol is extremely easy to take sublingually it works best with spiro which has been giving me hell for the past week because it needs to be swallowed

"But people won't like it and will complain" people will complain because nothing does it anymore and if you just chase design choices that generate the least complaints, you'll eventually end up training an audience who will accept barely anything.

Shout out to this thing you can do in games with a fixed jump arc

Its forever been the wildest thing being at games conferences -especially the largest ones- and the talk schedule is like - creating sincere art from playful naivete - balancing passion and health - how to dodge parental controls when monetizing toddlers - regrets from my 1st commercial codebase

when you notice your shirt's been the wrong way around all day but you don't feel like fixing it now so you just leave it

when people push back against the idea of arcade games being "quarter munchers", it's not to deny the idea that they were made to make money, or to give the impression that people would 1CC them on their first try it's just asking to not dismiss them as being completely lacking in value as games

swallowing pills is so fucking hard how the fuck do you do it without throwing up (genuinely looking for advice because nothing i've found on the internet has worked at all)

checkmate liberal: if its ace combat why do i wanna fuck the planes

once again tapping the sign

really the thing about it is that it's not even about getting the 1CC as much as it is just actively going in with the intent of Trying Hard Not To Lose that reveals the goodness of a lot of arcade games (and the badness of plenty too!)

It's a lesson on how much these systems can shape player perception, not just of an individual game but of entire genres and eras of gaming. In the case of beat 'em ups, the continue system literally flattened them to the point where most people can only distinguish the themes.

Painful review of the Capcom Beat 'Em Up Bundle on Steam that really highlights how destructive the continue system was to people's perception of arcade games. The beat 'em ups mentioned play wildly different from one another if you're actually trying to survive on 1 credit.

it is absolutely goddamned insane that to get a stuck disc out of this macbook you need to disassemble it down to the disc drive. DISC DRIVES HAVE AUXILIARY EJECT HOLES FOR A REASON

bitches love my unhealthy artistic drive and general mental instability

continued macbook linux adventures: i'm now so used to my kde plasma setup that i'm actively repulsed by aspects of how my regular windows desktop is set up. my desktop might genuinely just become a gaming and music rig at this rate, the ability to take the laptop into another room is transformative

i'm on HRT now