Turfster
@turfster.bsky.social
Coder, pun perpetrator
Grumpiness elemental
Hyperbole abuser
Bitter, bites
Wait, no, shit, "bits and bytes"
Don't put words in my mouth
It's not my fault you can't perceive tone and context
(TurfsterNTE off The Bird Site)
Grumpiness elemental
Hyperbole abuser
Bitter, bites
Wait, no, shit, "bits and bytes"
Don't put words in my mouth
It's not my fault you can't perceive tone and context
(TurfsterNTE off The Bird Site)
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Turfster
@turfster.bsky.social
· Oct 18
I guess I'm on here now as well, if only just to stake my claim.
Will I use this for actual posting?
Probably not, if I'm honest.
Still.
I'm here now too.
For given values of "here".
Will I use this for actual posting?
Probably not, if I'm honest.
Still.
I'm here now too.
For given values of "here".
Hey Microslop, now that you've helped make computers prohibitively expensive/just not buyable, don't you think it's time to rethink that "force everyone on 10 to buy a new machine with 11" idea?
(spoiler: they won't, because they're run by the biggest idiots around, but hey, Decade of Linux, Baby!)
(spoiler: they won't, because they're run by the biggest idiots around, but hey, Decade of Linux, Baby!)
February 16, 2026 at 7:40 PM
Hey Microslop, now that you've helped make computers prohibitively expensive/just not buyable, don't you think it's time to rethink that "force everyone on 10 to buy a new machine with 11" idea?
(spoiler: they won't, because they're run by the biggest idiots around, but hey, Decade of Linux, Baby!)
(spoiler: they won't, because they're run by the biggest idiots around, but hey, Decade of Linux, Baby!)
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Almost all of our yuri visual novels are on sale right now on Steam! Whether you want a modern roadtrip gold rush yuri, a dark fantasy, or something more cozy, we've got it 💖
Play some yuri today: store.steampowered.com/developer/st...
Play some yuri today: store.steampowered.com/developer/st...
February 16, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Almost all of our yuri visual novels are on sale right now on Steam! Whether you want a modern roadtrip gold rush yuri, a dark fantasy, or something more cozy, we've got it 💖
Play some yuri today: store.steampowered.com/developer/st...
Play some yuri today: store.steampowered.com/developer/st...
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🚨 HUGE NEWS! 🚨
All Will Rise is now LIVE on Kickstarter! Fundraising has begun to bring our revenge fantasy against the powerful to life.
Want to try before you fund? All Will Rise currently has a demo on Steam too!
Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/spe...
#IndieGame #GameDev #IndieDev
All Will Rise is now LIVE on Kickstarter! Fundraising has begun to bring our revenge fantasy against the powerful to life.
Want to try before you fund? All Will Rise currently has a demo on Steam too!
Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/spe...
#IndieGame #GameDev #IndieDev
February 16, 2026 at 1:48 PM
🚨 HUGE NEWS! 🚨
All Will Rise is now LIVE on Kickstarter! Fundraising has begun to bring our revenge fantasy against the powerful to life.
Want to try before you fund? All Will Rise currently has a demo on Steam too!
Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/spe...
#IndieGame #GameDev #IndieDev
All Will Rise is now LIVE on Kickstarter! Fundraising has begun to bring our revenge fantasy against the powerful to life.
Want to try before you fund? All Will Rise currently has a demo on Steam too!
Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/spe...
#IndieGame #GameDev #IndieDev
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Forums for speech don’t, as it turns out, democratically self-moderate towards the good or correct when left totally unchecked.
It’s so cool that the biggest platforms in the world provide and protect the space for far-right hate groups to try and ruin mine and my friends’ lives.
It’s so cool that the biggest platforms in the world provide and protect the space for far-right hate groups to try and ruin mine and my friends’ lives.
‘This shouldn’t be normal’: developers speak out about bigotry on Steam, the world’s biggest PC gaming storefront
‘This shouldn’t be normal’: developers speak out about bigotry on Steam, the world’s biggest PC gaming storefront
Multiple game creators describe ineffective moderation on the platform, resulting in unchecked hatred in forums and targeted campaigns of negative ‘anti-woke’ reviews
www.theguardian.com
February 16, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Forums for speech don’t, as it turns out, democratically self-moderate towards the good or correct when left totally unchecked.
It’s so cool that the biggest platforms in the world provide and protect the space for far-right hate groups to try and ruin mine and my friends’ lives.
It’s so cool that the biggest platforms in the world provide and protect the space for far-right hate groups to try and ruin mine and my friends’ lives.
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Honestly, AI slop PRs are becoming increasingly draining and demoralizing for #Godot maintainers.
If you want to help, more funding so we can pay more maintainers to deal with the slop (on top of everything we do already) is the only viable solution I can think of:
fund.godotengine.org
If you want to help, more funding so we can pay more maintainers to deal with the slop (on top of everything we do already) is the only viable solution I can think of:
fund.godotengine.org
Godot's GitHub has increasingly many pull requests generated by LLMs and it's a MASSIVE time waster for reviewers – especially if people don't disclose it. Changes often make no sense, descriptions are extremely verbose, users don't understand their own changes… It's a total shitshow. #godotengine
February 16, 2026 at 3:33 PM
Honestly, AI slop PRs are becoming increasingly draining and demoralizing for #Godot maintainers.
If you want to help, more funding so we can pay more maintainers to deal with the slop (on top of everything we do already) is the only viable solution I can think of:
fund.godotengine.org
If you want to help, more funding so we can pay more maintainers to deal with the slop (on top of everything we do already) is the only viable solution I can think of:
fund.godotengine.org
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business resources: business is where you take on the risk yourself but in exchange you get a lot of money
small business owners: my failing business is the fault of the guy who points it out
business resources: business is where you take on the risk yourself but in exchange you get a lot of money
small business owners: my failing business is the fault of the guy who points it out
February 16, 2026 at 5:06 PM
youtube.com/shorts/z2k0z...
business resources: business is where you take on the risk yourself but in exchange you get a lot of money
small business owners: my failing business is the fault of the guy who points it out
business resources: business is where you take on the risk yourself but in exchange you get a lot of money
small business owners: my failing business is the fault of the guy who points it out
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Notice how they never want to talk about what it can reliably do an actually good job with in the real world at present time?
Unity says its AI tech will soon be able to 'prompt full casual games into existence'
Unity says its AI tech will soon be able to 'prompt full casual games into existence'
Company CEO Matt Bromberg claims AI will empower non-coders and seasoned developers alike.
www.gamedeveloper.com
February 16, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Notice how they never want to talk about what it can reliably do an actually good job with in the real world at present time?
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I'm back! 😎
This is what I've been up to lately with my own project!
This is what I've been up to lately with my own project!
February 16, 2026 at 4:20 PM
I'm back! 😎
This is what I've been up to lately with my own project!
This is what I've been up to lately with my own project!
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There are posts wondering about why there's so much discussion comparing fighting games' success or failure to modern live-service games, and the answer is because fighting game pubs have been chasing that dragon for a few years.
Is that thrust working or not working is a salient question.
Is that thrust working or not working is a salient question.
February 16, 2026 at 4:00 AM
There are posts wondering about why there's so much discussion comparing fighting games' success or failure to modern live-service games, and the answer is because fighting game pubs have been chasing that dragon for a few years.
Is that thrust working or not working is a salient question.
Is that thrust working or not working is a salient question.
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whenever I play a AAA game with writing that let’s say has not hit for me, the first thing I always think is “ok what were the particular horrors the writers had to deal with in this VO pipeline”
February 16, 2026 at 3:50 AM
whenever I play a AAA game with writing that let’s say has not hit for me, the first thing I always think is “ok what were the particular horrors the writers had to deal with in this VO pipeline”
Weird.
To recapture my youth, I don't need to self-lobotomise with the Lying Larceny Machine, all I need is *checks notes on hand* not having to caper like a circus monkey 24/7 for ✨Capitalism✨ and manager-class know-nothings' approval so I can keep getting enough money to survive in Hellscape 2026
To recapture my youth, I don't need to self-lobotomise with the Lying Larceny Machine, all I need is *checks notes on hand* not having to caper like a circus monkey 24/7 for ✨Capitalism✨ and manager-class know-nothings' approval so I can keep getting enough money to survive in Hellscape 2026
god is this AI agent stuff just midlife crisis shit for programmers. is it just a recapturing-your-youth thing. machine that convinces you that you can lock in and hack for two days like you did in your twenties.
10 days ago, matt mullenweg uploaded a blog post about how he started using AI to code and now tumblr is entirely non functional
great job, buddy! i knew you havent lost your touch
great job, buddy! i knew you havent lost your touch
February 16, 2026 at 4:12 PM
Weird.
To recapture my youth, I don't need to self-lobotomise with the Lying Larceny Machine, all I need is *checks notes on hand* not having to caper like a circus monkey 24/7 for ✨Capitalism✨ and manager-class know-nothings' approval so I can keep getting enough money to survive in Hellscape 2026
To recapture my youth, I don't need to self-lobotomise with the Lying Larceny Machine, all I need is *checks notes on hand* not having to caper like a circus monkey 24/7 for ✨Capitalism✨ and manager-class know-nothings' approval so I can keep getting enough money to survive in Hellscape 2026
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the world order effectively letting the palestinian genocide occur with no real objections has effectively dropped the formalities around pretending to care about genocide in the post-ww2 era and so the 21st century will be marked by more genocides & attempts to depoliticize them
February 16, 2026 at 4:20 AM
the world order effectively letting the palestinian genocide occur with no real objections has effectively dropped the formalities around pretending to care about genocide in the post-ww2 era and so the 21st century will be marked by more genocides & attempts to depoliticize them
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This is something we should think about across all writing intensive fields. Even if you're using the AI to turn notes into drafts, you are offloading the kinds of creative and epistemic decisions that drive the organization of your writing to a machine.
Thinking about the many decisions that get made when you turn your notes into a draft and what that looks like when the bot is making all of those decisions, even if you get the "final say" after the decisions have been made. www.cleveland.com/news/2026/02...
February 16, 2026 at 4:52 AM
This is something we should think about across all writing intensive fields. Even if you're using the AI to turn notes into drafts, you are offloading the kinds of creative and epistemic decisions that drive the organization of your writing to a machine.
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trying to evoke hl1 in all its cartoonishness
February 15, 2026 at 10:04 PM
trying to evoke hl1 in all its cartoonishness
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#OtD 16 Feb 1931 coal bosses in Harlan County, Kentucky cut miners' wages by 10%. Workers responded by going on strike several weeks later, kickstarting nearly a decade of often violent conflict and eventually winning union rights in the region stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8776...
February 16, 2026 at 5:10 AM
#OtD 16 Feb 1931 coal bosses in Harlan County, Kentucky cut miners' wages by 10%. Workers responded by going on strike several weeks later, kickstarting nearly a decade of often violent conflict and eventually winning union rights in the region stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8776...
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Frankly all this AI stuff is just a waste of time, which is why I'm going back to the original and having a horse named Clever Hans rewrite my codebase.
He knows python AND c++!
He knows python AND c++!
February 16, 2026 at 5:11 AM
Frankly all this AI stuff is just a waste of time, which is why I'm going back to the original and having a horse named Clever Hans rewrite my codebase.
He knows python AND c++!
He knows python AND c++!
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this is so self-defeating. these lil guys have batteries. who is going to do battery tests on all 19,000 e-ink labels in a walmart, the three employees they've got on duty at any given moment?
(5/11) Walmart, Whole Foods, and Kohls are switching to electronic shelf labels that can display dynamic prices. Kroger deployed them with Microsoft AI—a setup a 2024 Senate inquiry warned could enable “surge pricing” via facial recognition. (Kroger claims it will only lower prices.)
February 16, 2026 at 5:13 AM
this is so self-defeating. these lil guys have batteries. who is going to do battery tests on all 19,000 e-ink labels in a walmart, the three employees they've got on duty at any given moment?
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The amount of times I sit in a call with a dreamer and their dream game is basically "everything from my favorite six games smashed together into perfect harmony and there was endless flawless content and it has graphics everyone likes" and I have to explain that making feet go on stairs is hard
i think what a lot of people never seem to realize is that a lot of people's vision of an "epic dream game" isn't actually very deep and comes down to scale and/or having a lot of features, whereas by embracing limitations you can be pushed in a far more radical direction.
rpgmaker definitely isn't the right tool for everyone, but I think using opinionated pre-baked tools to make some games would be very instructive to a lot of folks setting out to make their epic custom dream game. they're a much lower-stakes way to learn important lessons like "how to tell a story"
February 14, 2026 at 11:48 PM
The amount of times I sit in a call with a dreamer and their dream game is basically "everything from my favorite six games smashed together into perfect harmony and there was endless flawless content and it has graphics everyone likes" and I have to explain that making feet go on stairs is hard
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new fun one! edit by me as per usual ✨
February 14, 2026 at 11:11 PM
new fun one! edit by me as per usual ✨
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new blog post: The future of public game arts festivals and non-commercial games culture, with notes on @free-play.bsky.social / indie games events around the world www.blog.radiator.debacle.us/2026/02/the-...
The future of public game arts festivals and non-commercial games culture
Discoursing about public games events / the shrinking non-commercial game festival space around the world (and in Australia)
www.blog.radiator.debacle.us
February 12, 2026 at 11:21 PM
new blog post: The future of public game arts festivals and non-commercial games culture, with notes on @free-play.bsky.social / indie games events around the world www.blog.radiator.debacle.us/2026/02/the-...
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It's incredibly fucked up that a weapons manufacturer can put out retro video game hardware and people will still buy it (while defending the company) when there are other alternatives available.
The Arms Dealer's Nintendo 64 Finally Sees the Light of Day
It's hard to get truly excited about ModRetro's M64 when Palmer Luckey is on board.
gizmodo.com
February 15, 2026 at 9:28 PM
It's incredibly fucked up that a weapons manufacturer can put out retro video game hardware and people will still buy it (while defending the company) when there are other alternatives available.
graphic_design_is_my_passion.jpg
February 16, 2026 at 12:20 PM
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"Ah, I see you've made it to 45 years old, Snake"
*adds another incomprehensible meter to your hud*
February 16, 2026 at 6:52 AM
"Ah, I see you've made it to 45 years old, Snake"