Faolan
@faolan.bsky.social
Game dev, geek, motorcycle rider, 🏳️🌈 in the Pacific Northwest
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RIP to a games industry pioneer and legend, Rebecca Heineman (@burgerbecky.bsky.social) If your unfamiliar, look her up. Her career is like the story of videogames itself.
November 18, 2025 at 3:01 AM
RIP to a games industry pioneer and legend, Rebecca Heineman (@burgerbecky.bsky.social) If your unfamiliar, look her up. Her career is like the story of videogames itself.
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with Marjorie Taylor Greene being kind of a whack job and magic the gathering rolling every IP it can into the game, it’s taking longer and longer to decipher which one posts about “MTG” are actually referencing lately
November 17, 2025 at 10:05 AM
with Marjorie Taylor Greene being kind of a whack job and magic the gathering rolling every IP it can into the game, it’s taking longer and longer to decipher which one posts about “MTG” are actually referencing lately
Got a settlement check recently that advises me to contact my tax advisor.
Anyone willing to provide some advice? Open to splitting the settlement 50/50 since it’s so large and this could require some complicated tax forms.
Anyone willing to provide some advice? Open to splitting the settlement 50/50 since it’s so large and this could require some complicated tax forms.
November 15, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Got a settlement check recently that advises me to contact my tax advisor.
Anyone willing to provide some advice? Open to splitting the settlement 50/50 since it’s so large and this could require some complicated tax forms.
Anyone willing to provide some advice? Open to splitting the settlement 50/50 since it’s so large and this could require some complicated tax forms.
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Protests continued today outside Take Two's offices in London, but also in Paris, where Le Syndicat des Travailleureuses du Jeu Vidéo (@stjv.fr) came out to show their international solidarity with the fired Rockstar workers.
November 14, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Protests continued today outside Take Two's offices in London, but also in Paris, where Le Syndicat des Travailleureuses du Jeu Vidéo (@stjv.fr) came out to show their international solidarity with the fired Rockstar workers.
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What a coincidence!
November 11, 2025 at 7:46 PM
What a coincidence!
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[uspol]
This weight presses upon me every day. I am flooded with stories. There are so many I cannot remember them all; cannot keep straight who was gassed, beaten, abducted, or shot. I write to leave a record, to stare at the track of the tornado which tears through our city. I write to leave […]
This weight presses upon me every day. I am flooded with stories. There are so many I cannot remember them all; cannot keep straight who was gassed, beaten, abducted, or shot. I write to leave a record, to stare at the track of the tornado which tears through our city. I write to leave […]
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November 8, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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This weight presses upon me every day. I am flooded with stories. There are so many I cannot remember them all; cannot keep straight who was gassed, beaten, abducted, or shot. I write to leave a record, to stare at the track of the tornado which tears through our city. I write to leave […]
This weight presses upon me every day. I am flooded with stories. There are so many I cannot remember them all; cannot keep straight who was gassed, beaten, abducted, or shot. I write to leave a record, to stare at the track of the tornado which tears through our city. I write to leave […]
National landlord company has pissed me off enough to go talk to some nice local organized folks that like to help tenants.
Tired of some Texas company shoving a lot of bad systems and policies down on underpaid local management staff many states away. The staff and tenants here deserve better.
Tired of some Texas company shoving a lot of bad systems and policies down on underpaid local management staff many states away. The staff and tenants here deserve better.
November 8, 2025 at 9:52 PM
National landlord company has pissed me off enough to go talk to some nice local organized folks that like to help tenants.
Tired of some Texas company shoving a lot of bad systems and policies down on underpaid local management staff many states away. The staff and tenants here deserve better.
Tired of some Texas company shoving a lot of bad systems and policies down on underpaid local management staff many states away. The staff and tenants here deserve better.
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The quintessential aesthetic of fascism
November 5, 2025 at 3:41 PM
The quintessential aesthetic of fascism
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In the face of the Texas class...Cali class shows up strong. Cerritos, Oakland, Alhambra, San Diego, San Clemente, Sherman Oaks, Vacaville, Burbank, Fresno, Santa Monica, San Jose, Sacramento, Culver City, Redding, Eureka, Merced, Carlsbad, Inglewood...and I presume Long Beach and many others.
November 5, 2025 at 5:54 AM
In the face of the Texas class...Cali class shows up strong. Cerritos, Oakland, Alhambra, San Diego, San Clemente, Sherman Oaks, Vacaville, Burbank, Fresno, Santa Monica, San Jose, Sacramento, Culver City, Redding, Eureka, Merced, Carlsbad, Inglewood...and I presume Long Beach and many others.
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How poor leadership slows down game development
How poor leadership slows down game development
No tool—AI or otherwise—can speed up game development if leaders don't rise to the occasion.
www.gamedeveloper.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:32 PM
How poor leadership slows down game development
Always notable to remember Cheney wouldn’t have been VP had the winner of the 2000 election made it to the White House. Instead the Supreme Court decided W Bush “won” after Roger Stone orchestrated the Brooks Brothers Riots in Florida that delayed recounts, aka a mini Jan 6, 2021.
November 4, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Always notable to remember Cheney wouldn’t have been VP had the winner of the 2000 election made it to the White House. Instead the Supreme Court decided W Bush “won” after Roger Stone orchestrated the Brooks Brothers Riots in Florida that delayed recounts, aka a mini Jan 6, 2021.
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Yep.
That and the fact that the US political and media apparatus made sure that neither Bush nor Cheney paid any price for what they did after their rule ended. just back to the politics of "decency" and politeness. No justice, no accounting.
That and the fact that the US political and media apparatus made sure that neither Bush nor Cheney paid any price for what they did after their rule ended. just back to the politics of "decency" and politeness. No justice, no accounting.
Between Gitmo, the Department of "Homeland Security," the Hague Invasion Act, extraordinary rendition, torture gulags, No Child Left Behind, the Patriot Act, and the Great Recession, Bush and Cheney did more to enable the rise of Trump and fascism in the US than almost anyone in the 21st century.
November 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Yep.
That and the fact that the US political and media apparatus made sure that neither Bush nor Cheney paid any price for what they did after their rule ended. just back to the politics of "decency" and politeness. No justice, no accounting.
That and the fact that the US political and media apparatus made sure that neither Bush nor Cheney paid any price for what they did after their rule ended. just back to the politics of "decency" and politeness. No justice, no accounting.
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When you email issues to Obsidian Entertainment (the video game company) their AI support hallucinates and tells you to email Obsidian (the note-taking company) instead.
If the reward function is to reduce the number of touches in a support ticket, this is one way to do it.
If the reward function is to reduce the number of touches in a support ticket, this is one way to do it.
November 3, 2025 at 10:16 PM
When you email issues to Obsidian Entertainment (the video game company) their AI support hallucinates and tells you to email Obsidian (the note-taking company) instead.
If the reward function is to reduce the number of touches in a support ticket, this is one way to do it.
If the reward function is to reduce the number of touches in a support ticket, this is one way to do it.
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New blog post, on the role of attrition in software incidents, and how we don't talk about that in incident write-ups:
surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/11/02/y...
surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/11/02/y...
You’ll never see attrition referenced in an RCA
In the wake of the recent AWS us-east-1 outage, I saw speculation online about how the departure of experienced engineers played a role in the outage. The most notable one was from the acerbic clou…
surfingcomplexity.blog
November 3, 2025 at 1:08 AM
New blog post, on the role of attrition in software incidents, and how we don't talk about that in incident write-ups:
surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/11/02/y...
surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/11/02/y...
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They hanged the people who got us the 8-hour workday.
If people actually understood how willing our government is to go to war with its own people simply for demanding equal rights, I think a lot more of us would be ready for war.
October 30, 2025 at 7:16 PM
They hanged the people who got us the 8-hour workday.
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Always interesting seeing the impacts of different outages. AWS outages tend to get a bit more press and social chatter while tending to not impact much in my current professional life, and the outages that do impact things at work tend to be the quieter ones for others.
October 29, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Always interesting seeing the impacts of different outages. AWS outages tend to get a bit more press and social chatter while tending to not impact much in my current professional life, and the outages that do impact things at work tend to be the quieter ones for others.
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I legitimately didn't know they were competing with Steam and it's crazy to me that they burnt so much money on what sounds like something with very little (or wildly misguided) market research.
October 28, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I legitimately didn't know they were competing with Steam and it's crazy to me that they burnt so much money on what sounds like something with very little (or wildly misguided) market research.
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I asked Microsoft PR about this—specially the DHS using Halo IP to recruit for ICE—and the company declined to comment.
October 27, 2025 at 7:22 PM
I asked Microsoft PR about this—specially the DHS using Halo IP to recruit for ICE—and the company declined to comment.
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Which traffic cam spider are you today?
October 27, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Which traffic cam spider are you today?
Feeling the frustration from seeing possible workflow improvements for the team, but there’s legitimately no time to work on those improvements currently
Clear communication and spreading troubleshooting steps will have to patch over the rough bumps for now. Focused helpdesk rooms are nice for this
Clear communication and spreading troubleshooting steps will have to patch over the rough bumps for now. Focused helpdesk rooms are nice for this
October 23, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Feeling the frustration from seeing possible workflow improvements for the team, but there’s legitimately no time to work on those improvements currently
Clear communication and spreading troubleshooting steps will have to patch over the rough bumps for now. Focused helpdesk rooms are nice for this
Clear communication and spreading troubleshooting steps will have to patch over the rough bumps for now. Focused helpdesk rooms are nice for this
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I don’t talk about it much because the situation doesn’t really change but it’s still insane to me what an enormous amount of really talented game developers are out of work. just whole studios worth of incredible people, often people who worked on beloved games, unemployed.
October 23, 2025 at 2:42 AM
I don’t talk about it much because the situation doesn’t really change but it’s still insane to me what an enormous amount of really talented game developers are out of work. just whole studios worth of incredible people, often people who worked on beloved games, unemployed.
Good to know at least one person out there picked up a new game for their PS3 UDraw tablet, does that revenue still go to @thqnordic.com ? 🤣
I love it too!
Among the titles selling exactly 1 NEW unit at US retail in Sept:
3DS Imagine Babyz
PS2 Grandia 3
PS3 Blitz: The League II
PS3 uDraw Pictionary ($5!!)
PS4 Kao the Kangaroo
Wii The Smurfs Dance Party
XBO Balan Wonderworld
XBX Batman Begins
PS3 Wolfenstein
Wii Just Dance 2020
Wheeeee
Among the titles selling exactly 1 NEW unit at US retail in Sept:
3DS Imagine Babyz
PS2 Grandia 3
PS3 Blitz: The League II
PS3 uDraw Pictionary ($5!!)
PS4 Kao the Kangaroo
Wii The Smurfs Dance Party
XBO Balan Wonderworld
XBX Batman Begins
PS3 Wolfenstein
Wii Just Dance 2020
Wheeeee
October 21, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Good to know at least one person out there picked up a new game for their PS3 UDraw tablet, does that revenue still go to @thqnordic.com ? 🤣
Can’t tell who the current discourse is about, some Nazi tattoo on someone. Curse of this reversed timeline where reactions without context come before the posts with information.
October 21, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Can’t tell who the current discourse is about, some Nazi tattoo on someone. Curse of this reversed timeline where reactions without context come before the posts with information.