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Luke Benstead
@kazade.bsky.social
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Programmer. One-Time Author. Part-Time Game Developer. Simulant Engine, DreamPi, and Djangae Creator. Head of Engineering at AKQA Leap. Views are my own!
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johnharris1969.bsky.social
With impeccable timing, the Maybe I'm Amazed Substack is back, and it's free maybeimamazed.substack.com/p/and-so-it-...
And so it begins: 2026 will be the year of a huge Special Needs battle, and this is why
Amid briefings, whispers and rumours, off we go: in an increasingly toxic atmosphere, basic educational rights look set to be one of this year's biggest issues
maybeimamazed.substack.com
January 2, 2026 at 6:21 PM
kazade.bsky.social
I have been trying to implement GJK/EPA collision detection in C for two weeks now. GJK works, but my EPA code is screwing up the polytope faces and I can't see the bug!

Code is here if anyone fancies a bug spotting challenge: gitlab.com/Kazade/picop...

#gamedev
gitlab.com
December 20, 2025 at 6:57 PM
kazade.bsky.social
Vibe coding is tracing someone else's work and calling yourself Monet
December 19, 2025 at 7:50 AM
kazade.bsky.social
Man, we're gonna have a missing generation of programmers aren't we?
kenney.nl Kenney @kenney.nl · 15d
Pretty disappointed in both @humblebundle.com and especially in @girlswhocode.bsky.social. Please teach girls how to code, don't push them into generative AI. That won't build their skills. Prioritize foundational programming skills and awaken their interest. "Tired of long days writing code"???
December 19, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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thoughtrise.bsky.social
this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing

these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous

this is worth sharing and educating people about
screenshot of a post on facebook from Alex Lamoreaux, depicting two versions of the "same" photograph of a bobcat in front of a pine plantation, one labeled original game cam photo, one labeling AI processed the markings have been altered on the AI photo, and the head changed and resized text says: Oh! A neat goose hybrid posted to ‘What’s this Bird?’ but when you zoom in on the photos the bill details have been too manipulated by AI photo editing to be accurately assessed for which species may be involved. Scroll on… A cool-looking Red-tailed Hawk that someone is wondering which subspecies it might be - right up my alley! But when you zoom in on the photos literally every feather group has been so heavily manipulated and altered by AI editing that it’s impossible to determine subspecies because the photo is essentially fake now; just a mashup of whatever AI thinks parts of a Red-tail should look like. Scroll on… WOW! That’s a remarkable trail cam photo of a Bobcat! It almost looks like a painting!… but the head looks oddly small…. hmmmm. After some prodding the original photo is produced and sure enough it had been so heavily altered by AI ‘post processing’ that the photo posted was essentially a digital mock-up with totally different proportions and fur markings. No longer the photo off the trail cam; it may as well have just been ‘created’ by AI from scratch. This stuff is killing me. My days on social media are becoming very limited. We can’t even trust simple, everyday photos of animals to be real. The wildlife community needs to quit editing with AI, and we need to start calling out photographers that are using it. Our reality is being destroyed all around us.
December 15, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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anaelseghezzi.bsky.social
Background + sprite animation (the ship is now pre-rendered) and... tunnels ! I think I can add more gameplay elements and stay at 30fps, there is hope, the megadrive is a beast :o
November 18, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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falcogirgis.bsky.social
JNMARTIN HAS BROUGHT US CHRISTMAS EARLY THIS YEAR! #StarFox 64 has officially been released for the Sega #Dreamcast! Here's some direct hardware captures to celebrate!

Here's the repo with directions for converting an N64 ROM to a DC image: github.com/jnmartin84/s...

#gamedev #retrogaming #n64
December 6, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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darcagn.bsky.social
jnmartin64's Star Fox 64 for Dreamcast port is now RELEASED! Video and link below!
December 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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sixeurocups.bsky.social
I just dont understand why this isn't the lead story on BBC news.
If this was any other political party it would be.
It's complete in your face corruption.
bylinetimes.bsky.social Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · Dec 4
🔴Crypto Investor Donates £9 Million to Reform UK After Nigel Farage Plugs His Company and Tells Industry ‘I Am Your Champion’

The Reform leader recently used media interviews to back Christopher Harborne’s company while promising to cut taxes and regulations on crypto firms
Crypto Investor Donates £9 Million to Reform UK After Nigel Farage Plugs His Company and Tells Industry 'I Am Your Champion'
The Reform leader recently used media interviews to back Christopher Harborne's company while promising to cut taxes and regulations on crypto firms
bylinetimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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johnharris1969.bsky.social
Oh, look. A load of coverage about a new government inquiry into "overdiagnosis" that completely blurs autism & mental illness, and ends up leaning into all those tropes about people making it all up.
December 4, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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josh-foreman.bsky.social
Tumblr user nocryptographer: I talked with someone who works in book publishing, and they mentioned they get a lot of AI slop these days. I asked how they know what's human-written, and they said that there's one thing that will reveal AI slop without error, and that's the author not knowing their own creation. A real author can talk about their story for hours. They love to elaborate every character, every twist, every detail. Because those existed in their head long before they ever made it to the paper. They were loved before they were written. AI slop wasn't. It was just vomited into existence. Someone who generates their story with AI will never bond with their story the way real writers do. That's why they may not know what to say when they're asked why did the character do this, or even remember the scene in the first place. It's something they read, not something they wrote. And to a writer, those are not the same. There's a unique bond between the creator and the creation. If your writing doesn't come of you, you'll always lack that. I keep hearing soon we won't be able to tell. And perhaps, in a superficial sense, that's true. But there is a difference. It's not em dashes or repeated words. It's whether the story was made by someone who loves it and cares about it. If the writer's eyes light up when asked why did the character do that? and they start their very own Ted Talk about that specific scene... then it's real.
December 3, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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thedreamcastjunkyard.co.uk
A Tribute to Retro Gamer Magazine's Nick Thorpe

www.thedreamcastjunkyard.co.uk/2025/12/a-tr...
A Tribute to Retro Gamer Magazine's Nick Thorpe
www.thedreamcastjunkyard.co.uk
December 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
kazade.bsky.social
I'm still reeling from the passing of @hkt3030.neocities.org. I only chatted to him once or twice but he was ever present in retro gaming circles and on my timeline. It's such sad news.
December 3, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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retrogamerdaz.bsky.social
This is absolutely heartbreaking news.
Nick Thorpe
@hkt3030.neocities.org
our incredible features editor, sadly passed away yesterday. He was an incredible asset to the magazine and a compassionate and fantastic friend. My thoughts go out to his friends and family.
I just can’t believe he’s gone
December 2, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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why485.bsky.social
If you needed another reason to buy Gunner Heat PC, they recently did an interview on AI usage in gamedev and their response is absolutely worth highlighting:

"First of all, the proliferation of LLMs and other generative AI products is an active, top-down consolidation of power by tech capital."
Josh: “Radian’s approach to AI in development can be summed up as total rejection. We don’t use it, we prefer our contractors not use it, and we consider it a problem when others adopt it in the game development field. I’ll try to give some context on this. First of all, the proliferation of LLMs and other generative AI products is an active, top-down consolidation of power by tech capital. These big companies, already unaccountable for how they mistreat both their workers and their customers, are pushing these products in the hopes that they will become a core tool in the work process. That gives them the ability to demand any concession they desire, and it removes the ability for the people doing the actual labor – ourselves – to negotiate that relationship. As one of our members put it to me recently, “AI is an industrial relations issue.” If the tech bro CEOs have their way, the next generation of game developers (and all other white-collar professions) will be useless without a subscription-based chatbot offering advice. We would rather see our colleagues using open-source tools and their own brains to operate, with full control over the process and the results. This sentiment is shared by plenty of other developers whom I respect.
December 1, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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gwillow.me
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
blipstress.bsky.social violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social · Nov 24
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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anaelseghezzi.bsky.social
Chunky, but 60 fps 3d possible with colors and transparency on bare metal Megadrive #SGDK #BlastEm
November 27, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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implausibleblog.bsky.social
Ash Sarkar, "What's your vision of the good life?"

Zack Polanski, "I think it's one where we can spend more time with the people that we love"
November 24, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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eurovision.tv
Your journey to Vienna 2026 starts today at eurovision.com 🇦🇹
November 24, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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thedreamcastjunkyard.co.uk
The Sega Dreamcast's disc drive is infamous for the grinding sounds it makes. It turns out that this can be cured with a £3.50 brass gear. @pizzahotline.bsky.social has a handy guide here for those interested in taking on this unique mod.
👉 www.thedreamcastjunkyard.co.uk/2025/11/sile...
Silence Your Sega Dreamcast's Old Grinding GD-ROM Drive with a Fancy New Brass Gear
www.thedreamcastjunkyard.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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rosieisaholt.bsky.social
Labour MP says only way to unite UK over immigration is by leaning into Reform narrative.
November 20, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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gateworld.net
Amazon Greenlights A New Stargate Series
www.gateworld.net/news/2025/11...

FIRST ON GATEWORLD: A new #Stargate series is now in pre-production for Prime Video, with veteran writer and producer Martin Gero at the helm. @primevideo.bsky.social
Amazon Greenlights A New Stargate Series » GateWorld
FIRST ON GATEWORLD: A new Stargate series is now in pre-production for Prime Video, with veteran writer and producer Martin Gero at the helm.
www.gateworld.net
November 19, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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ocasio-cortez.house.gov
Trump's economy is being held up by a massive AI bubble.

A recent study found that of 300 companies that owned generative AI tools, 95% reported zero return on their investments.

We will not entertain a bailout of these companies should this bubble pop.
November 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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johanvinet.com
🏝️My little indie game #Castaway is like $3.99 now on Playstation and Switch! $3.99 ridiculous bucks that would help me fund my new game! please share!
💙PS: bit.ly/Castaway-Pla...
❤️Switch: bit.ly/Castaway-Swi...
November 14, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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trekcore.com
LEGO posted this cute video for the launch of their first official #StarTrek set today

#LEGO
November 6, 2025 at 2:43 PM