Jim Dagg

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Video games has decided to discontinue its once leading product, the video game

now look at them yo yos that's the way you do it use number 4 as your private key that aint workin thats the way you do it kill all computers via PHP

Some of the most fruitful creative relationships I've ever had in this industry have been with artists or with engineers and the idea of everyone in the industry just going "*my* discipline is important ofc but we can just use the slop machine for everyone else's" is so fucking depressing

Every accusation is an admission.

There is no longer a Republican Party. Now it’s a private organization run by Elon and a handful of billionaires with the explicit task of controlling the US government. If they succeed, the entire country will be their wholly-owned subsidiary.

I spat out my peppermint tea 🤭

Read all of this. It's really good, and there's a treat if you read the whole thread.

The Pinball Primer has just reached the milestone of having rulesheets for 1,000 games! The website has come a long way from its first publication in November 2023, when it was still called Pinball Rest Stop and featured tutorials for 12 games.

“America taking villainy to new levels”

You can pet the belly. It's not a trap.

Hi. I would very much like it if black gamers/devs (specifically those from Chicago) would get in touch for a story. You can get me here or on discord @adashtra

Tired: These Fools Are Voting Against Their Own Interests! Wired: Or maybe, just maybe, the idea that anyone "acts against their own interests" comes from a flawed & naive view of what people's interests actually are ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I've been toying around a lot with the idea of libidinal rationality, which is when people act not according to strict rationality of maximising profit or returns or sustainability, but toward what provides them with libidinal satisfaction, which trumps everything else

the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

Asking for a friend: Anyone free Saturday morning (EST) and want to record a 2-player TTRPG Actual Play-as-Interview podcast? Preference would be to someone who hasn't been on Party of One previously, but I'm open. We have an unexpected opening on the calendar for this week.

If you see this we IMPLORE you to post a picture from whatever device you’re using without explanation.

Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of

May you feel this joy today: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/cute/s/fzD...

"How did you get into ttrpgs" I wanted to figure out how to play Rainbow Six on a half-inch battle grid.

Make stuff. For the love of all that there is, please just keep making stuff! Doesn't matter if it's bad, good etc. Just *keep* making stuff.

This. And a lot of the "Is college even worth it?" conversations would have a very different answer if a college education was reasonably priced. Becoming a heart surgeon in the USA can cost you $550,000+ in US private school tuition🤯, but under $3,000 in public universities in the Philippines.🤷🏿‍♂️

15 years ago when Apocalypse World was new and people were beginning to understand and work with it, it was seductive to look at "acting under fire" and see, not one basic move of several, but the template underlying all the game's moves. Like @kierongillen.bsky.social 's classic gag:

A thing I learned not too long ago is that when an LLM selects a token that leads it down an incorrect path (factually), it has no way to back up, or even know that it should back up, it's just on to the next likely bit. Literally every LLM is just posting their way through it. What an image.

I believe fraternity hazing and military hazing and sports team hazing where men abuse each other is acclimating them into a broader culture of abuse where they will then believe it is their right to abuse other more vulnerable people. It’s so insidious. And that’s also why I think men defend it

Definitely click through on this story for the quotes from the Third Way spokesperson, who AGREED Democratic candidates should NOT adopt Republican language on trans issues. I was floored - even tried to get Billie to put it in the headline. This is not just analysis, these quotes are news.

This is me but turning 40.

Pay attention Dems. Gov Beshear won twice, in a deep red state, and never threw trans people under the bus. He led with compassion rather than the fear and cowardice we've seen from some of our Ohio candidates and party leadership.

a universal feature of the game designer working on a long project is that their next game wells up inside of them until it is physically painful

Note: It's not actually clear to me if the DOEd can unilaterally do the thing they claim they just did, but it doesn't entirely matter; if the goal is to produce instances of anti-LGBT discrimination, you just have to create an air of uncertainty, and someone will get excited and do a discrimination

I am teaming up with @nerdburgercraig.bsky.social to celebrate 10 years of making awesome indie games! Check out our online convention Wicked Burger Con at discord.gg/bcJqxRMBv Sign up to play in our games, tune in to the GM worshop or podcast interviews, donate to charity, and grab some swag!

I don't know that anyone who needs to hear this will, but if you ever find yourself thinking "I know that every kids-these-days take in history has been terrible, forever, but THIS TIME IS DIFFERENT" then please, please, please do ANYTHING other than record yourself.

i posted an epiphany i had about why i hate AI so much on fedi and i wanna post it here but it won't fit and i don't wanna cut it down to size so fuckit i'm just posting a screenshot

Microsoft just did this with Id, too. Game's done, critically lauded, celebrations happening WELP EVERYONE'S FIRED BEFORE IT EVEN HITS STORES.

Honestly I think like 50% of the Teams 101 course is just me saying this in 30 different ways with 15 different methods of making sure everybody on your team understands that decisions are made to be executed on, not argued about further, that's the whole-ass point of it being a decision.

Worthy thread.

Dirty secret of AAA gamedev: they don't take 5-10 years because of graphics. They take 5-10 years because people don't make up their fucking minds.

A Star War

incredibly so. "yes" doesn't exist when "no" has professional or financial consequences.

Everything about genAI is the opposite of consent, man. Like EVERY. SINGLE. PART. OF. IT. It's all built on the idea that consent is for lesser fools.

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."