Colin Ferguson
@fearlessson.bsky.social
Senior QA Engineer at Epic Games working on the Unreal Engine, cosplayer, human-simulacrum. He/They.
Wait, Bob Page? This isn't a Deus Ex thing, is it?
a computer generated image of a man standing in front of a red wall
Alt: Bob page from the game Deus Ex as the camera zooms in on his face.
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November 19, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Wait, Bob Page? This isn't a Deus Ex thing, is it?
Did he ever try Disco Elysium? It harkens back to classic 90s CRPGs, but it's a murder mystery that's all story and almost no combat. There are heavy RPG mechanics (attributes, skills, dice rolls, etc.) but the focus you apply them to is investigation. The main character has many internal dialogues.
November 18, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Did he ever try Disco Elysium? It harkens back to classic 90s CRPGs, but it's a murder mystery that's all story and almost no combat. There are heavy RPG mechanics (attributes, skills, dice rolls, etc.) but the focus you apply them to is investigation. The main character has many internal dialogues.
I suppose a charitable reading would be that democratic socialism SHOULD BE the centrist position.
But I think your analysis is probably accurate.
But I think your analysis is probably accurate.
November 18, 2025 at 2:58 AM
I suppose a charitable reading would be that democratic socialism SHOULD BE the centrist position.
But I think your analysis is probably accurate.
But I think your analysis is probably accurate.
“I only used it for placeholder assets until I could finish the real stuff.”
“Then you’ve fallen afoul of a bad practice. Programmer art exists for a reason.”
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“Then you’ve fallen afoul of a bad practice. Programmer art exists for a reason.”
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In gamedev, if you're using a placeholder asset, best practices involve marking it as placeholder so garishly and offensively clearly PLACEHOLDER that you can't possibly miss it. Also flagging that asset in the dev process so it can be identified quickly before the final build.
November 17, 2025 at 7:11 PM
“I only used it for placeholder assets until I could finish the real stuff.”
“Then you’ve fallen afoul of a bad practice. Programmer art exists for a reason.”
bsky.app/profile/raji...
“Then you’ve fallen afoul of a bad practice. Programmer art exists for a reason.”
bsky.app/profile/raji...
It’s reputational poison.
If you’ve used even a little generative AI in a game, it calls into question everything else you’ve made. Is it art made with deliberation and craftsmanship, or is it some extruded content product that was quickly cranked out of a machine?
If you’ve used even a little generative AI in a game, it calls into question everything else you’ve made. Is it art made with deliberation and craftsmanship, or is it some extruded content product that was quickly cranked out of a machine?
November 17, 2025 at 6:59 PM
It’s reputational poison.
If you’ve used even a little generative AI in a game, it calls into question everything else you’ve made. Is it art made with deliberation and craftsmanship, or is it some extruded content product that was quickly cranked out of a machine?
If you’ve used even a little generative AI in a game, it calls into question everything else you’ve made. Is it art made with deliberation and craftsmanship, or is it some extruded content product that was quickly cranked out of a machine?
Of course it’s a CEO that says that. C-suite types use generative AI at higher rates than their employees do. I’d bet if you asked any of the Arrowhead employees they’d probably have a much firmer negative opinion on the topic.
November 17, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Of course it’s a CEO that says that. C-suite types use generative AI at higher rates than their employees do. I’d bet if you asked any of the Arrowhead employees they’d probably have a much firmer negative opinion on the topic.
I caught a post of yours in my feed back in the other site's days. You were dunking on some ignorant take about the games industry and your wit in doing so quickly earned my appreciation.
November 16, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I caught a post of yours in my feed back in the other site's days. You were dunking on some ignorant take about the games industry and your wit in doing so quickly earned my appreciation.
It strikes me that I could say, “Oh, THAT Hazel,” on any number of websites and people would know exactly who I’m referring to.
November 14, 2025 at 6:23 AM
It strikes me that I could say, “Oh, THAT Hazel,” on any number of websites and people would know exactly who I’m referring to.
Another factor is that Seattle, like a lot of cities, does have it's conservative elements, usually monied and property-owning. But also like a lot of cities, it leans blue such that a Republican would struggle to get elected. So someone like Harrell is the closest they could get to a conservative.
November 13, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Another factor is that Seattle, like a lot of cities, does have it's conservative elements, usually monied and property-owning. But also like a lot of cities, it leans blue such that a Republican would struggle to get elected. So someone like Harrell is the closest they could get to a conservative.
The story about the gun got buried, virtually nobody in any position of influence talked about it. The more significant element of this was money. The business class within Seattle really liked his harsh-crackdowns-on-unhoused-people policy, and they put a lot of resources behind his campaign.
November 13, 2025 at 4:07 PM
The story about the gun got buried, virtually nobody in any position of influence talked about it. The more significant element of this was money. The business class within Seattle really liked his harsh-crackdowns-on-unhoused-people policy, and they put a lot of resources behind his campaign.
A haiku:
Vect masks in battle
It's scary but he's really hot
With the armor off
Vect masks in battle
It's scary but he's really hot
With the armor off
November 13, 2025 at 2:13 AM
A haiku:
Vect masks in battle
It's scary but he's really hot
With the armor off
Vect masks in battle
It's scary but he's really hot
With the armor off
I maintain the headcanon that the "face" on the old model is just a mask Vect wears into battle, like a samurai menpō, it's supposed to be ugly and frightening. He's probably way hotter when he takes his armor off.
November 13, 2025 at 2:09 AM
I maintain the headcanon that the "face" on the old model is just a mask Vect wears into battle, like a samurai menpō, it's supposed to be ugly and frightening. He's probably way hotter when he takes his armor off.
Heck, we used some machine learning in the game-AI system of a game I worked on. It helped the AI make better tactical decisions without having to hand-tweak and extensively design test every value change. But it was nothing like an LLM. It was coupled with traditional behavior tree logic.
November 12, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Heck, we used some machine learning in the game-AI system of a game I worked on. It helped the AI make better tactical decisions without having to hand-tweak and extensively design test every value change. But it was nothing like an LLM. It was coupled with traditional behavior tree logic.
I’d internalized that contempt even before I developed that desire as an adolescent; it felt wrong to want. It took me until college before I realized I couldn’t just will it away.
It’d be nice if I could be more at peace with it. But culturally we don’t have a lot of room to maneuver around that.
It’d be nice if I could be more at peace with it. But culturally we don’t have a lot of room to maneuver around that.
November 11, 2025 at 12:44 AM
I’d internalized that contempt even before I developed that desire as an adolescent; it felt wrong to want. It took me until college before I realized I couldn’t just will it away.
It’d be nice if I could be more at peace with it. But culturally we don’t have a lot of room to maneuver around that.
It’d be nice if I could be more at peace with it. But culturally we don’t have a lot of room to maneuver around that.
Thank you for putting this into words.
I don’t feel like my sexuality is “catered to” by mainstream society so much as it’s “targeted” for commercial exploitation. Advertisers make unflattering assumptions about what I like and then try to pick my pocket with it. I hate that.
I don’t feel like my sexuality is “catered to” by mainstream society so much as it’s “targeted” for commercial exploitation. Advertisers make unflattering assumptions about what I like and then try to pick my pocket with it. I hate that.
November 10, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Thank you for putting this into words.
I don’t feel like my sexuality is “catered to” by mainstream society so much as it’s “targeted” for commercial exploitation. Advertisers make unflattering assumptions about what I like and then try to pick my pocket with it. I hate that.
I don’t feel like my sexuality is “catered to” by mainstream society so much as it’s “targeted” for commercial exploitation. Advertisers make unflattering assumptions about what I like and then try to pick my pocket with it. I hate that.
Speaking from experience, they're also hella' expensive to operate. They're good for certain specialist applications, but beyond that? I'd go with filament.
November 10, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Speaking from experience, they're also hella' expensive to operate. They're good for certain specialist applications, but beyond that? I'd go with filament.
I left a message with Cantwell because she was still accepting messages. Murray's voice mail box was full.
November 10, 2025 at 1:09 AM
I left a message with Cantwell because she was still accepting messages. Murray's voice mail box was full.
Hold on, getting "More Speech" tattooed on my knuckles.
I'll be happy to offer it in response to hate speech.
I'll be happy to offer it in response to hate speech.
November 9, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Hold on, getting "More Speech" tattooed on my knuckles.
I'll be happy to offer it in response to hate speech.
I'll be happy to offer it in response to hate speech.
Just grabbed the audiobook version. I’ll probably start listening to it this weekend.
November 6, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Just grabbed the audiobook version. I’ll probably start listening to it this weekend.
Either way I say, “Fuck ‘em up, Hazel.”
November 6, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Either way I say, “Fuck ‘em up, Hazel.”