Frank
@cptcroissant.bsky.social
He/Him.
Combat Game Designer. Formerly Harmonix. Made Blood Alloy.
I make games and paint minis and curse my dice rolls.
On a quest to hug every corgi.
Combat Game Designer. Formerly Harmonix. Made Blood Alloy.
I make games and paint minis and curse my dice rolls.
On a quest to hug every corgi.
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Frank
@cptcroissant.bsky.social
· Nov 14
Had a friend of a friend apply to the remote combat design gig and got rejected in a day. Took a look at their resume and it wasn’t terribly hard to see why. Thread - improving your resume for #gamedev gigs!
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FILE THAT SHIT. ALL MY HOMIES FILE CLASS ACTION CLAIMS AGAINST THE PLAGIARISM MACHINE.
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:55 AM
FILE THAT SHIT. ALL MY HOMIES FILE CLASS ACTION CLAIMS AGAINST THE PLAGIARISM MACHINE.
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It has always been so obvious that the backlash to MeToo isn’t about whether the abuse is happening but whether people are allowed to want it to stop
November 17, 2025 at 9:27 PM
It has always been so obvious that the backlash to MeToo isn’t about whether the abuse is happening but whether people are allowed to want it to stop
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(spending 9 billion dollars to make a robot say "i have always loved you") hard times create strong men
November 16, 2025 at 9:35 PM
(spending 9 billion dollars to make a robot say "i have always loved you") hard times create strong men
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I hate that AI has made me approach cute animal videos with an air of suspicion. I resent having to harden my heart to the possibility of an unlikely friendship between a very large dog and a very small one
November 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I hate that AI has made me approach cute animal videos with an air of suspicion. I resent having to harden my heart to the possibility of an unlikely friendship between a very large dog and a very small one
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genuinely very few things more satisfying than reading the kinds of emails rich and famous people send each other
November 13, 2025 at 3:47 AM
genuinely very few things more satisfying than reading the kinds of emails rich and famous people send each other
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In addition to all of this, because I know someone is going to say "but James Earl Jones also signed his rights over (regarding Fortnite Vader)": let me remind you that people got Fortnite Vader to say some nasty, heinous shit before they patched it out.
This can't be allowed to take root. (1/2)
This can't be allowed to take root. (1/2)
“But in ARC Raiders the GenAi voices were officially sanctioned by the actors! And so did Fortnite!” - and their agreement to this undermines everything the rest of us Voice Actors, our union, and other industries have been fighting against.
November 16, 2025 at 2:09 AM
In addition to all of this, because I know someone is going to say "but James Earl Jones also signed his rights over (regarding Fortnite Vader)": let me remind you that people got Fortnite Vader to say some nasty, heinous shit before they patched it out.
This can't be allowed to take root. (1/2)
This can't be allowed to take root. (1/2)
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Libraries purchase books. When you see a book at the library, it isn’t “free”
the library bought it.
which in turn means that the community bought it.
In other words, library books are not lost sales for authors and publishers; they’re positive sales. Active sales. Those are bought.
the library bought it.
which in turn means that the community bought it.
In other words, library books are not lost sales for authors and publishers; they’re positive sales. Active sales. Those are bought.
November 15, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Libraries purchase books. When you see a book at the library, it isn’t “free”
the library bought it.
which in turn means that the community bought it.
In other words, library books are not lost sales for authors and publishers; they’re positive sales. Active sales. Those are bought.
the library bought it.
which in turn means that the community bought it.
In other words, library books are not lost sales for authors and publishers; they’re positive sales. Active sales. Those are bought.
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the files don't exist, also they were made up by the democrats to harm trump, and most importantly now they cannot be made public because to do so could compromise the investigation into how the facts in those documents that don't exist that the democrats made up are devastating to all the democrats
November 15, 2025 at 10:00 PM
the files don't exist, also they were made up by the democrats to harm trump, and most importantly now they cannot be made public because to do so could compromise the investigation into how the facts in those documents that don't exist that the democrats made up are devastating to all the democrats
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JESUS: This bread... is my body. Go on, take it, pass it around. This wine... is my blood. These grapes are my eyeballs
JUDAS: I don't think you're supposed to tell us it's grapes. I think you just let us feel it--
JESUS: Shut up dude. Now this cold spaghetti... is my guts
JUDAS: I don't think you're supposed to tell us it's grapes. I think you just let us feel it--
JESUS: Shut up dude. Now this cold spaghetti... is my guts
November 15, 2025 at 11:42 PM
JESUS: This bread... is my body. Go on, take it, pass it around. This wine... is my blood. These grapes are my eyeballs
JUDAS: I don't think you're supposed to tell us it's grapes. I think you just let us feel it--
JESUS: Shut up dude. Now this cold spaghetti... is my guts
JUDAS: I don't think you're supposed to tell us it's grapes. I think you just let us feel it--
JESUS: Shut up dude. Now this cold spaghetti... is my guts
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Happens so much in gaming now. Yes, video games have always adopted new tech, and AI like machine learning has been a part of that. Hell, Rogue used generative algorithms in the 80s.
But the use of GenAI in gaming is new, and quite different. Although companies using it love to say it isn't.
But the use of GenAI in gaming is new, and quite different. Although companies using it love to say it isn't.
Conflating machine learning tools with GenAI and LLMs are such a favorite of these bad faith arguments, too. Like, machines studying X-rays to better understand cancer is not the same thing as Open AI swallowing all my books via piracy to regurgitate sentences that sound similar. It's just not.
November 15, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Happens so much in gaming now. Yes, video games have always adopted new tech, and AI like machine learning has been a part of that. Hell, Rogue used generative algorithms in the 80s.
But the use of GenAI in gaming is new, and quite different. Although companies using it love to say it isn't.
But the use of GenAI in gaming is new, and quite different. Although companies using it love to say it isn't.
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Personally, I think the idea that all women should be measured by the failures of Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris is actually a sort of sexist doomerism.
Former first lady Michelle Obama said America is "not ready for a woman" president during a conversation at her New York book event. https://cnn.it/43ApuKZ
November 15, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Personally, I think the idea that all women should be measured by the failures of Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris is actually a sort of sexist doomerism.
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yep. this is, notably, the case wrt to the "brain isn't fully developed until age 25" myth. Brains do not stop developing and there is nothing notable that happens to them at age 25. There's just a development study that stopped following up at that age.
In general you can safely assume that any claim about human bodies that says "this stops at a hard cutoff of [x] years" actually means "the studies on this ran out of funding at [x] years"
November 15, 2025 at 11:08 PM
yep. this is, notably, the case wrt to the "brain isn't fully developed until age 25" myth. Brains do not stop developing and there is nothing notable that happens to them at age 25. There's just a development study that stopped following up at that age.
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"one day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this"
‘We Should’ve Done More’: Kamala Harris Slams Biden Admin Over Netanyahu Support and Praises Pro-Palestine Protesters
‘We Should’ve Done More’: Kamala Harris Slams Biden Admin Over Netanyahu Support and Praises Pro-Palestine Protesters
Kamala Harris criticized Joe Biden's Administration, saying they should have been more willing to publicly criticize Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu over Gaza
The post ‘We Should’ve Done More’: Kamala Harris Slams Biden Admin Over Netanyahu Support and Praises Pro-Palestine Protesters first appeared on Mediaite.
dlvr.it
November 14, 2025 at 6:23 PM
"one day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this"
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i looked at this earlier and the article is very careful not to say what actually happened but if you know history and you know this administration it is impossible not to assume programatic eugenics and anyone involved in programatic eugenics should not be allowed to see the sun ever again
“Many of the women say that they were pressured to have unwanted or unnecessary gynecological procedures while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement”
"They tried to shut me up by deporting me."
www.npr.org/2020/12/22/9...
www.npr.org/2020/12/22/9...
November 15, 2025 at 9:50 AM
i looked at this earlier and the article is very careful not to say what actually happened but if you know history and you know this administration it is impossible not to assume programatic eugenics and anyone involved in programatic eugenics should not be allowed to see the sun ever again
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I will say it again; the Democrats need openly create a list of civil servants called the Dirty Dozen that will be subject to impeachment in 2026, The Constitution provides that “… all civil Officers of the United States” are subject to removal from office upon impeachment.”
November 15, 2025 at 12:45 PM
I will say it again; the Democrats need openly create a list of civil servants called the Dirty Dozen that will be subject to impeachment in 2026, The Constitution provides that “… all civil Officers of the United States” are subject to removal from office upon impeachment.”
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By turning it into a cultural issue rather than a material one with only one cogent side
I'm kind of baffled how the "moderates" have apparently all decided to turn against climate policy at once, just as China reaches green electrostate liftoff mode. I thought these people were all about National Greatness and making Hard Choices
November 15, 2025 at 2:00 PM
By turning it into a cultural issue rather than a material one with only one cogent side
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3 years ago today, Riot Games offered me a job making more money than I ever thought I’d make in my life. I had 19 interviews over 2.5 months to get it. Partner and I were moving to LA for it. I put in notice at my job and apartment.
2 weeks later they rescinded the offer due to “headcount issues”.
2 weeks later they rescinded the offer due to “headcount issues”.
November 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
3 years ago today, Riot Games offered me a job making more money than I ever thought I’d make in my life. I had 19 interviews over 2.5 months to get it. Partner and I were moving to LA for it. I put in notice at my job and apartment.
2 weeks later they rescinded the offer due to “headcount issues”.
2 weeks later they rescinded the offer due to “headcount issues”.
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DOLLMAN: Samus, you can roll yourself into a “morph ball” and use what are known as “bombs” to clear obstacles. Pretty handy for when you find a small tunnel if you ask me.
November 15, 2025 at 4:11 AM
DOLLMAN: Samus, you can roll yourself into a “morph ball” and use what are known as “bombs” to clear obstacles. Pretty handy for when you find a small tunnel if you ask me.
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me passing someone: u slow bitch
me being passed: ok speed racer
me being passed: ok speed racer
November 15, 2025 at 2:01 AM
me passing someone: u slow bitch
me being passed: ok speed racer
me being passed: ok speed racer
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I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here
November 15, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here
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They’re calling him the Most Vindicated Man in History
November 14, 2025 at 11:06 PM
They’re calling him the Most Vindicated Man in History
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Consider the example in that Metroid article that's making the rounds. Having a voice tell you "hey, I think you might've missed something" when you bypass a save room doesn't teach the player to look out for save rooms. It teaches them to listen for instructions.
www.eurogamer.net/metroid-prim...
www.eurogamer.net/metroid-prim...
Metroid Prime 4: Beyond delivers the series' trademark gameplay in spades, but I fear one very annoying addition might derail the whole thing
Metroid Prime 4: Beyond has plenty of the good stuff. It also has an incredibly annoying, incredibly un-Metroid sidekick who won't shut up.
www.eurogamer.net
November 14, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Consider the example in that Metroid article that's making the rounds. Having a voice tell you "hey, I think you might've missed something" when you bypass a save room doesn't teach the player to look out for save rooms. It teaches them to listen for instructions.
www.eurogamer.net/metroid-prim...
www.eurogamer.net/metroid-prim...
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i'd love to read a real evolution of "stay woke" - i saw it evolve as:
1. in black culture, a way of pointing out structural racism
2. on black twitter, same thing but often a joke about something silly
3. white people adopt woke to mean generic antiracism
4. conservatives learn a new n-word
1. in black culture, a way of pointing out structural racism
2. on black twitter, same thing but often a joke about something silly
3. white people adopt woke to mean generic antiracism
4. conservatives learn a new n-word
“woke” as i recall originated as a kind of ironic conspiratorial posting thing on black twitter (“stay woke”), and then conservatives decided it was just “political correctness” in the millennial era bsky.app/profile/unst...
I think many of them thought woke is just like clinton-era "political correctness" when the latter was imposed from the top by imbeciles who didn't know anything about anything and woke has always been a genuinely grassroots initiative
November 14, 2025 at 2:39 PM
i'd love to read a real evolution of "stay woke" - i saw it evolve as:
1. in black culture, a way of pointing out structural racism
2. on black twitter, same thing but often a joke about something silly
3. white people adopt woke to mean generic antiracism
4. conservatives learn a new n-word
1. in black culture, a way of pointing out structural racism
2. on black twitter, same thing but often a joke about something silly
3. white people adopt woke to mean generic antiracism
4. conservatives learn a new n-word
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A lot of things start to make sense once you come to the conclusion that Donald Trump might have honestly just forgotten he’s a pedophile
November 14, 2025 at 1:29 PM
A lot of things start to make sense once you come to the conclusion that Donald Trump might have honestly just forgotten he’s a pedophile
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I made a joke in my main Discord server about DOOM E1M1 being in a major key and @abigbagofkeys.sickonedude.com actually made it. Jesus fucking Christ listen to this hahahaha
November 14, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I made a joke in my main Discord server about DOOM E1M1 being in a major key and @abigbagofkeys.sickonedude.com actually made it. Jesus fucking Christ listen to this hahahaha