Patrick Ferland
@fleck99pf.bsky.social
Pointy-haired boss making games. Fitness enthusiast (but bad at it). Non-employer-sanctioned opinions here. pronoun.is/he
True game dev story: Back around 2010, I was developing Facebook social games (think Farmville type with some twists). Specifically, my studio's second title like this! And I learned something that sticks with me to this day, completely by mistake.
I'll be honest: dunno that I'm willing to buy a "we HAVE to force tutorialization down players' throats" argument in a period where games like counterstrike, dota, minecraft, roblox et al are some of the most popular games in the world
November 14, 2025 at 8:46 PM
True game dev story: Back around 2010, I was developing Facebook social games (think Farmville type with some twists). Specifically, my studio's second title like this! And I learned something that sticks with me to this day, completely by mistake.
We've gotten numb to a lot but it's important to remember that there was no "Russia hoax." The Mueller investigation didn't find there was no collusion; it didn't find a provable, chargeable crime. I can't believe I have to say this but not-illegally colluding with evil is still ethically wrong.
In case you missed it, Trump is still spiraling about the ‘Epstein Hoax.’
November 14, 2025 at 5:17 PM
We've gotten numb to a lot but it's important to remember that there was no "Russia hoax." The Mueller investigation didn't find there was no collusion; it didn't find a provable, chargeable crime. I can't believe I have to say this but not-illegally colluding with evil is still ethically wrong.
There’s so much else to point at here but also, by 11PM on a work night, I’m not drinking.
Eric Trump: "You can send $500 million worth of bitcoin on a Sunday night at 11pm while having a glass of wine with your wife for virtually zero fees."
November 14, 2025 at 3:50 PM
There’s so much else to point at here but also, by 11PM on a work night, I’m not drinking.
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Literally all this man does is complain.
Trump: "If we die, we must die and we as men we die without complaining."
November 11, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Literally all this man does is complain.
Ok, now can we agree never to give Kim Davis the light of day again? Bigots from a former century can stay there, thanks.
November 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Ok, now can we agree never to give Kim Davis the light of day again? Bigots from a former century can stay there, thanks.
It's trivial compared to *points at everything* but I used to derive a lot of fun ironic satisfaction from using "FAFO" until thugs like Hegseth decided that was an appropriate thing for government officials to repeatedly say.
I suppose in the end, I FO'd.
I suppose in the end, I FO'd.
November 7, 2025 at 8:29 PM
It's trivial compared to *points at everything* but I used to derive a lot of fun ironic satisfaction from using "FAFO" until thugs like Hegseth decided that was an appropriate thing for government officials to repeatedly say.
I suppose in the end, I FO'd.
I suppose in the end, I FO'd.
I am extremely certain this word is "Drumpf"
There should be a German word for white men who cannot conceive of possibility they'll be held accountable for their own actions.
November 7, 2025 at 12:37 AM
I am extremely certain this word is "Drumpf"
Of COURSE Tesla shareholders approved a ridiculous pay package for Elon. It's a meme stock, with performance divorced from any fundamentals. The meme doesn't work without Elon. You can't remove a key figure from a character-centric meme.
November 6, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Of COURSE Tesla shareholders approved a ridiculous pay package for Elon. It's a meme stock, with performance divorced from any fundamentals. The meme doesn't work without Elon. You can't remove a key figure from a character-centric meme.
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If you're arresting people so fast that you have to hold them in squalid cells without access to lawyers or basic human dignities, you should stop arresting people so fast.
Feds claim immigration enforcement might have to stop if judge intervenes on Broadview facility conditions.
UPDATED @chicago.suntimes.com story: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
UPDATED @chicago.suntimes.com story: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Feds say immigration enforcement might have to stop if judge intervenes at Broadview facility
The comment from a DOJ attorney followed emotional testimony from detainees and came after U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman told her, "if the conditions are unconstitutional, so be it."
chicago.suntimes.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:45 PM
If you're arresting people so fast that you have to hold them in squalid cells without access to lawyers or basic human dignities, you should stop arresting people so fast.
This. The admin and GOP have already been very clear that they're going to abuse rescissions and such to the point that no deal is trustworthy. Now Trump explicitly claims (impeachably, FWIW) that he's going to defy a court order where compliance is already in progress. Don't accept a bad deal.
November 4, 2025 at 6:56 PM
This. The admin and GOP have already been very clear that they're going to abuse rescissions and such to the point that no deal is trustworthy. Now Trump explicitly claims (impeachably, FWIW) that he's going to defy a court order where compliance is already in progress. Don't accept a bad deal.
It’s a small special election but I did the thing and you have an election this year, it’s your week!
November 2, 2025 at 10:30 PM
It’s a small special election but I did the thing and you have an election this year, it’s your week!
In the end, I didn’t get recording and playback finished so I wasn’t able to make them sing, but I did get a first revision of my projection-mapped jack-o-lanterns. Now I have a list of changes to make next year, mostly replacing some Blueprints with C++ and I definitely need a better projector.
November 1, 2025 at 6:13 PM
In the end, I didn’t get recording and playback finished so I wasn’t able to make them sing, but I did get a first revision of my projection-mapped jack-o-lanterns. Now I have a list of changes to make next year, mostly replacing some Blueprints with C++ and I definitely need a better projector.
But it's totally uncivil and unacceptable to shun people who have shown their true colors through taking explicitly fascist actions when they show up in public and expect things like food service, do I have this right?
Vance says it is "totally reasonable and acceptable" for people to not want to live next door to people who speak a different language than they do
October 29, 2025 at 5:29 PM
But it's totally uncivil and unacceptable to shun people who have shown their true colors through taking explicitly fascist actions when they show up in public and expect things like food service, do I have this right?
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My studio Boss Fight was hit with an 'event' today, so if you're looking for some supremely smart and talented people to help make your game, let me know, I can hook you up.
October 23, 2025 at 4:48 PM
My studio Boss Fight was hit with an 'event' today, so if you're looking for some supremely smart and talented people to help make your game, let me know, I can hook you up.
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A key attribute of thug trash is pathological sensitivity to criticism and mockery.
Use it.
Use it.
The DC ACLU is suing on behalf of a man who was arrested by a National Guardsman and MPD officers for playing the Imperial March (from Star Wars) as an act of protest. www.acludc.org/app/uploads/...
October 23, 2025 at 2:30 PM
A key attribute of thug trash is pathological sensitivity to criticism and mockery.
Use it.
Use it.
I believe in a big tent. A tent big enough for people who did very dumb, and even bigoted, things in the past and sincerely regret those things and seek atonement.
My tent is not big enough for unrepentant bearers of Nazi symbolism.
My tent is not big enough for unrepentant bearers of Nazi symbolism.
October 22, 2025 at 12:32 AM
I believe in a big tent. A tent big enough for people who did very dumb, and even bigoted, things in the past and sincerely regret those things and seek atonement.
My tent is not big enough for unrepentant bearers of Nazi symbolism.
My tent is not big enough for unrepentant bearers of Nazi symbolism.
You know how I know this is bullshit? Teenagers typically wouldn’t have these tests without a specific cause to check. I didn’t until I was a dude in my 40s trying to conceive.
RFK Jr: "Today the average teenager in this country has 50% of the sperm count, 50% of the testosterone of a 65 year old man. Our girls are hitting puberty 6 years early ... our parents aren't having children."
October 16, 2025 at 11:02 PM
You know how I know this is bullshit? Teenagers typically wouldn’t have these tests without a specific cause to check. I didn’t until I was a dude in my 40s trying to conceive.
For any friends (even friends I’ve never yet met) going to No Kings 2 protests, just remember: if someone is trying to get you to do something violent or illegal, assume they’re a cop and ignore them.
October 15, 2025 at 12:36 AM
For any friends (even friends I’ve never yet met) going to No Kings 2 protests, just remember: if someone is trying to get you to do something violent or illegal, assume they’re a cop and ignore them.
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This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.
Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵
Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵
October 12, 2025 at 9:38 PM
This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.
Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵
Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵
You know who else used AI-generated videos of fires recently…
Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."
October 10, 2025 at 10:47 PM
You know who else used AI-generated videos of fires recently…
If I’m in a meeting and don’t know something I should know, I’m allowed to say so… once. Next time, I’m expected to have done that homework, and anything related.
What I do is awesome — I love my job — but it’s not even 1% as important as Speaker of the US House of Representatives.
What I do is awesome — I love my job — but it’s not even 1% as important as Speaker of the US House of Representatives.
Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?
MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that
MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that
October 8, 2025 at 4:53 PM
If I’m in a meeting and don’t know something I should know, I’m allowed to say so… once. Next time, I’m expected to have done that homework, and anything related.
What I do is awesome — I love my job — but it’s not even 1% as important as Speaker of the US House of Representatives.
What I do is awesome — I love my job — but it’s not even 1% as important as Speaker of the US House of Representatives.
I was told police have no affirmative duty to protect people anyway, right?
I will not back down.
Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.
What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?
Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.
What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?
October 8, 2025 at 3:59 PM
I was told police have no affirmative duty to protect people anyway, right?
You merely adopted the subway. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn’t see the personal motor vehicle until I was already a man, and I found it carbon-inefficient and dangerous for pedestrians.
Rep. Lisa McClain, on CNN, praising President Trump for deploying the National Guard to Washington:
"My daughter could actually ride the Metro for the first time since she has been in DC."
[Her daughter is 22]
"My daughter could actually ride the Metro for the first time since she has been in DC."
[Her daughter is 22]
October 1, 2025 at 4:54 PM
You merely adopted the subway. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn’t see the personal motor vehicle until I was already a man, and I found it carbon-inefficient and dangerous for pedestrians.
I need to revise my statements from “that was grounds for impeachment” to how many more counts are now added for when we take the government back and set things right.
I want the thugs gone and punished, and the rule of law back. I guess that makes me a “traitor from within.” I’m good with it.
I want the thugs gone and punished, and the rule of law back. I guess that makes me a “traitor from within.” I’m good with it.
September 30, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I need to revise my statements from “that was grounds for impeachment” to how many more counts are now added for when we take the government back and set things right.
I want the thugs gone and punished, and the rule of law back. I guess that makes me a “traitor from within.” I’m good with it.
I want the thugs gone and punished, and the rule of law back. I guess that makes me a “traitor from within.” I’m good with it.
So many things are horrific with our current federal government wannabe dictatorship regime, but I fear the single piece that will cause the most long-lasting (generational, likely) damage is:
Entities used to be able to rely on signing deals with the US government.
Entities used to be able to rely on signing deals with the US government.
September 26, 2025 at 9:35 PM
So many things are horrific with our current federal government wannabe dictatorship regime, but I fear the single piece that will cause the most long-lasting (generational, likely) damage is:
Entities used to be able to rely on signing deals with the US government.
Entities used to be able to rely on signing deals with the US government.