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Lunar_Penguin
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|| A human who enjoys pixel art, programming, and penguins. ||
|| he/they | 🏳️‍🌈​ | game dev ||
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Cloudflare's down. Look at Capybaras.
November 18, 2025 at 1:32 PM
I may create things that aren’t the most polished, or are unfinished, possibly even just absolute garbage…

…but they’ll be MY absolute garbage, from my imperfect human brain and imagination, not from some slop machine built from an amalgamation of other people’s work.
November 12, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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This is insanely bad for anyone doing game development. Who the hell knows what Gaming Copilot is doing with your screen captures, but it almost certainly isn't compliant with your NDA.
If you're using Windows 11, Microsoft is now surveilling you in a new way. This may already be turned on on your computer, and you would not be notified; it activates whenever they detect you are in a "game", which in my experience Microsoft often false-positives on

doublepulsar.com/microsoft-bu...
Microsoft builds on Recall with Gaming Copilot — fails basic privacy tests
Gaming Copilot, rolling out now to Windows 11, adds a new attack surface to Windows.
doublepulsar.com
October 24, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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Happy Caturday from Revan! 🦁

📷: Male African lion by zoo volunteer Kennedy
October 4, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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huge notice that pops up if you try to edit the cat article
October 3, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Thinking of experimenting with running my own tiny Mastodon / ActivityPub instance…

I miss when the Internet was a web of little personal sites, forums, and communities instead of everyone being on a few big sites, waiting for the heads of the new big site to screw everything up again.
October 3, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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New D&D Animated Short! A simple dinner song. 💐
From: Curious Curios
#ttrpg #dnd #dnd5e
September 30, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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September 22, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Gonna go even further: don't refer to it as "consuming media" when doing this. You aren't a consumer - it's not a product. You read books. You look at art. You watch movies and/or videos. Be careful about word choice.

Reject "consume" and REJECT "CONTENT."
IT IS ART.
YOU ARE ENGAGING WITH ART.
I'm being so real right now, learn how to engage in media as art and not a reflection of your own real life morals. consume things that make you uncomfortable and understand why it makes you uncomfortable. Don't just base yours and others morals standings on the media you consume.
September 22, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Yet another good reason to not use the plagiarism machine for game dev, including at the concept/placeholder stages:
Another reason to NOT use genAI made assets as placeholders (if this is even a thing 🤷🏻‍♂️):

The person capturing footage for your game's trailer is much less likely to notice them!

When an asset is NEON HOT PINK or incredibly rough, that makes it crystal clear I should avoid or capture around it.
September 16, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.
September 15, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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All I’m going to say about recent happenings is that the people in charge of my government continue to work overtime to convince me that I am a horrible person and the reason for everything bad that is happening. Feels real welcoming
September 14, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Godot has become a viable game engine

Blender has become a viable 3D modelling AND animation tool

SteamDeck is now a fantastic "mobile" Desktop platform

AAA is shrinking / abandoning territory, ceding more genres to indie

Basically, (funding sitch aside) indie gamedev is seriously looking up!
Please give me an unironic list of things that have gotten better over the last ten years because I’m spiraling.

I’ll start: you can buy an enormous TV from Costco for like $100 bucks now.
September 12, 2025 at 4:54 AM
New favorite festival/fair food: pizza, in cone form.
September 7, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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September is Bi Visibility Month, so perceiving me may be easier, as all bisexuals have disadvantage on stealth rolls until Halloween 1st.
September 1, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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I don't get how people don't realize that a technology that replaces junior and entry level positions in a field destroys that field.

There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.
Remember, kids: A real big goal of "AI" is to entirely sever capital from labor, and no, there will be no universal basic income, you can all just starve and die, thanks

www.axios.com/2025/08/26/a...
AI is already taking jobs away from entry-level workers
Software and customer service are most at risk right now and could be the canary in the coal mine.
www.axios.com
September 1, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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itch.io has been nothing but supportive of LGBTQ+ work since the beginning. it pains me to see the community turn on them like this and so gleefully spread misinformation about them without even giving them a shred of benefit of the doubt.
journalists too...
August 13, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Well, that's not great... 😬

(fortunately, this is "just" a backup storage device)
August 8, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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"OooooOOOoooo, looks like you'll have to make a whole GAME about me, stardust~! 96 whole hours thinking about your bestie, aren't you excited????"

#isat #InStarsAndTime #GMTKJam #GMTKGameJam2025
July 30, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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"I asked chatgpt" "I asked grok" well I asked Achenar from the best-selling point&click adventure game Myst and he told me to bring him the blue pages and NOT to touch the red ones
July 26, 2025 at 2:39 AM
July 26, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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July 24, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Sabu is the best at catnaps!

📷: Male snow leopard by zookeeper Taylor S
July 24, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I honestly thought this was a bit when reading it. Apparently it’s not…

Giving these tools the ability to output natural language was a mistake, since it causes people without the appropriate knowledge level to still believe the output of these tools, because “it sounds like it knows what’s right.”
July 20, 2025 at 7:10 PM