Martin Dubuque
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they're saying there's a spectre haunting europe and it's very nice, we're looking into it strongly, it's beautiful, we love it and we think it means well
November 21, 2025 at 10:39 PM
they're saying there's a spectre haunting europe and it's very nice, we're looking into it strongly, it's beautiful, we love it and we think it means well
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I feel like most of us understand that he will change his mind literally the next time he talks to any of his horrible goblins, because he just agrees with the last person who talked to him. but still it's so funny that he fully got rolled by Mamdani leagues more than we even could have hoped
Let's not go crazy & think that just because he has nice things to say about Mamdani while Mamdani is in the room means that it's going to last past his next dose of naptime propaganda. Still some fine entertainment
Alhamdulillah truly
*TRUMP: WE'LL BE HELPING MAMDANI
*TRUMP: WE'LL BE HELPING MAMDANI
November 21, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I feel like most of us understand that he will change his mind literally the next time he talks to any of his horrible goblins, because he just agrees with the last person who talked to him. but still it's so funny that he fully got rolled by Mamdani leagues more than we even could have hoped
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do you guys know about consider the consequences, the first ever choose your own adventure book from 1930? it’s free on itch and i just read through a couple of routes with friends and had a blast, highly recommend geetheriot.itch.io/consider-the...
Consider the Consequences by geetheriot
The first ever Choose Your Own Adventure (style) book from 1930 is back! In Interactive Fiction form!
geetheriot.itch.io
November 21, 2025 at 1:43 AM
do you guys know about consider the consequences, the first ever choose your own adventure book from 1930? it’s free on itch and i just read through a couple of routes with friends and had a blast, highly recommend geetheriot.itch.io/consider-the...
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Ogres have a mutualistic relationship with their big sticks – aptly named Persuaders – malevolent mimics that instigate their wielders into raiding settlements for food.. in exchange for plunder.
"A boy of your girth, still foraging for berries? Pfft! Brandish me – I shall introduce you to salami."
"A boy of your girth, still foraging for berries? Pfft! Brandish me – I shall introduce you to salami."
November 20, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Ogres have a mutualistic relationship with their big sticks – aptly named Persuaders – malevolent mimics that instigate their wielders into raiding settlements for food.. in exchange for plunder.
"A boy of your girth, still foraging for berries? Pfft! Brandish me – I shall introduce you to salami."
"A boy of your girth, still foraging for berries? Pfft! Brandish me – I shall introduce you to salami."
I've got 4 TTRPG ashcans I'm going to throw out into the wild soon.
Been playing around with diceless mechanics, and resurrecting my personal home game stat-less system.
Been playing around with diceless mechanics, and resurrecting my personal home game stat-less system.
November 20, 2025 at 1:20 AM
I've got 4 TTRPG ashcans I'm going to throw out into the wild soon.
Been playing around with diceless mechanics, and resurrecting my personal home game stat-less system.
Been playing around with diceless mechanics, and resurrecting my personal home game stat-less system.
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This is pretty amazing. This guy just won a solid victory in Bucks County, PA, one of the most important swing counties in the country, by *explicitly and deliberately* making his race *all about* nationalizing ICE raids. Confirms the point about this now being a winning issue for Dems.
November 19, 2025 at 5:02 PM
This is pretty amazing. This guy just won a solid victory in Bucks County, PA, one of the most important swing counties in the country, by *explicitly and deliberately* making his race *all about* nationalizing ICE raids. Confirms the point about this now being a winning issue for Dems.
Can we please get a new I, Robot adaption so every time I look up I, Robot I don't have to see that god awful action movie at the top.
November 19, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Can we please get a new I, Robot adaption so every time I look up I, Robot I don't have to see that god awful action movie at the top.
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D66 Things Guards Say When You Pass A Stealth Check (Fantasy)
November 19, 2025 at 5:36 PM
D66 Things Guards Say When You Pass A Stealth Check (Fantasy)
Half Life 1's birthday is tomorrow 🤡
November 18, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Half Life 1's birthday is tomorrow 🤡
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i am beginning to believe that, like many video game publishers, krafton is run by extremely lucky morons
kotaku.com/subnautica-2...
kotaku.com/subnautica-2...
![The new filing also claims that Krafton felt it had overpaid for Unknown Worlds and wanted to avoid following through on the original contractually obligated payouts at all costs, even going so far as to ask an AI chatbot for help. "[Maria Park] told Kim that 'it seems to be highly likely that the earn-out will still be paid if the sales goal is achieved regardless of the dismissal with cause," the new filing reads. "Kim turned to artificial intelligence to help him brainstorm ways to avoid paying the earnout. ChatGPT likewise advised that it would be 'difficult to cancel the earn-out." The cofounders claim Krafton refused to "produce the ChatGPT conversations and, when pressed, confirmed that they no longer exist."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:zgvsjugwr2sxzjwripyhx52q/bafkreie5rufph4renttu7pkkioafotyahrqd7qrsi54ydts4ghqasa4poq@jpeg)
November 17, 2025 at 7:39 PM
i am beginning to believe that, like many video game publishers, krafton is run by extremely lucky morons
kotaku.com/subnautica-2...
kotaku.com/subnautica-2...
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doing some studies of the artpla that were inspired by early ILM stuff
November 16, 2025 at 11:33 PM
doing some studies of the artpla that were inspired by early ILM stuff
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The Game Awards are not the Oscars of video games. The Oscars miss constantly but at least they are a bona fide attempt by an industry to legitimize and promote itself; TGA is not that, it's just ads for individual products masquerading as an awards show run by one guy's particular preferences.
November 17, 2025 at 5:56 PM
The Game Awards are not the Oscars of video games. The Oscars miss constantly but at least they are a bona fide attempt by an industry to legitimize and promote itself; TGA is not that, it's just ads for individual products masquerading as an awards show run by one guy's particular preferences.
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“Our talented team with its own human hands and brains and souls decided that all this shitty art made by a computer was good enough to go in our game” is not a good defense of using AI tools to generate assets.
November 17, 2025 at 3:57 PM
“Our talented team with its own human hands and brains and souls decided that all this shitty art made by a computer was good enough to go in our game” is not a good defense of using AI tools to generate assets.
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comparing genai to simplygon means you don't know how at least one of them works
"Surely there's a middle ground here?" The CEO of Helldivers 2 studio Arrowhead says people "jump to extreme takes" when debating generative AI, and that there needs to be more nuance in the discussion.
www.videogameschronicle.com/news/surely-...
www.videogameschronicle.com/news/surely-...
‘Surely there’s a middle ground here?’ Helldivers studio CEO says people ‘jump to extreme takes’ when debating GenAI | VGC
“This is such a trigger point for big parts of the games industry today”…
www.videogameschronicle.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:28 PM
comparing genai to simplygon means you don't know how at least one of them works
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Visuals for this game are fucking insane it's actually so beautiful, here's what i could find abt the art team
art direction from Adam Volker, concepts from Ysabel Li and Vash Taylor, tech art/effects by Fiona Jeeva, environmental art by Thomas Fraser (links to portfolios below)
art direction from Adam Volker, concepts from Ysabel Li and Vash Taylor, tech art/effects by Fiona Jeeva, environmental art by Thomas Fraser (links to portfolios below)
kudos to the team that worked on Ambrosia Sky for the "make things wet" shader. it's really fun to watch surfaces dry. Yes I'm spraying a corpse
November 16, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Visuals for this game are fucking insane it's actually so beautiful, here's what i could find abt the art team
art direction from Adam Volker, concepts from Ysabel Li and Vash Taylor, tech art/effects by Fiona Jeeva, environmental art by Thomas Fraser (links to portfolios below)
art direction from Adam Volker, concepts from Ysabel Li and Vash Taylor, tech art/effects by Fiona Jeeva, environmental art by Thomas Fraser (links to portfolios below)
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Oh yeah everyone's attention span is awful. If you put out an extremely complex elaborate barely-tutorialised text-heavy role-playing immersive sim RPG they'll all just go on tiktok. Oh shit everyone played it for two million hours each. Uhhhhhhhhhh
November 15, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Oh yeah everyone's attention span is awful. If you put out an extremely complex elaborate barely-tutorialised text-heavy role-playing immersive sim RPG they'll all just go on tiktok. Oh shit everyone played it for two million hours each. Uhhhhhhhhhh
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We all saw that Netflix shit about the spaghetti and we all collectively groaned and I thought we all knew it was bullshit!
but I guess a lot of you were going "Ugh, what a shame Netflix are totally correct in their damning assessment of humanity. I wish they weren't right that everyone sucks!"
but I guess a lot of you were going "Ugh, what a shame Netflix are totally correct in their damning assessment of humanity. I wish they weren't right that everyone sucks!"
November 14, 2025 at 9:26 PM
We all saw that Netflix shit about the spaghetti and we all collectively groaned and I thought we all knew it was bullshit!
but I guess a lot of you were going "Ugh, what a shame Netflix are totally correct in their damning assessment of humanity. I wish they weren't right that everyone sucks!"
but I guess a lot of you were going "Ugh, what a shame Netflix are totally correct in their damning assessment of humanity. I wish they weren't right that everyone sucks!"
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this is so cart-before-horse to me. i don't accept that people's attention spans are shorter in a way that has to matter. the problem is that we keep thinking that and "complying in advance" with the imagined boogieman of "people not paying attention nowadays". nothing done in that direction helps
You wanna know why we're having nag line discourse in 2025? Because developers know we're fighting an attention economy war we'll lose no matter what. Players don't read, have TikTok open next to them, god forbid we are scared you miss something and then blame us for not giving you all the info.
November 14, 2025 at 9:10 PM
this is so cart-before-horse to me. i don't accept that people's attention spans are shorter in a way that has to matter. the problem is that we keep thinking that and "complying in advance" with the imagined boogieman of "people not paying attention nowadays". nothing done in that direction helps
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if you watch enough playtests you will find that everyone, no matter how attentive and video game literate, will sometimes fail to notice important things. and also some people are just beyond saving. and that's okay. you gotta let it go, man. you gotta let it go!
November 14, 2025 at 11:35 PM
if you watch enough playtests you will find that everyone, no matter how attentive and video game literate, will sometimes fail to notice important things. and also some people are just beyond saving. and that's okay. you gotta let it go, man. you gotta let it go!
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If you're making a game for the players who absolutely need extremely high-frequency nagging barks from an NPC, you're kind of making a game for no one *but* those players
November 14, 2025 at 8:23 PM
If you're making a game for the players who absolutely need extremely high-frequency nagging barks from an NPC, you're kind of making a game for no one *but* those players
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oh y'all are talkin about overbearing ways to direct the player's attention again huh. well this stuff is all solved, the only relevant attention span is your own and that of your boss
People were talking about yellow paint in games again, and I got thoughts on that and the sorts of things you should do instead, so here's a blog post on that. Imo read my blog post and buy influx redux
www.joewintergreen.com/what-i-recko...
www.joewintergreen.com/what-i-recko...
November 14, 2025 at 8:25 PM
oh y'all are talkin about overbearing ways to direct the player's attention again huh. well this stuff is all solved, the only relevant attention span is your own and that of your boss
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Any God of War fans here?
What about a ruling for Boundless where your "companion" is represented by a dice Pool that shrinks as they help you or tackle their own challenges.
Tested this in a solo play session and it was so much fun.
What about a ruling for Boundless where your "companion" is represented by a dice Pool that shrinks as they help you or tackle their own challenges.
Tested this in a solo play session and it was so much fun.
Companion — Boundless Extra
Boundless ruling to add an ally to your group and let them help you.
boundless.farirpgs.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Any God of War fans here?
What about a ruling for Boundless where your "companion" is represented by a dice Pool that shrinks as they help you or tackle their own challenges.
Tested this in a solo play session and it was so much fun.
What about a ruling for Boundless where your "companion" is represented by a dice Pool that shrinks as they help you or tackle their own challenges.
Tested this in a solo play session and it was so much fun.
It is incredible just how much this sounds like satire but is Totally Real.
HANDS-ON: "So far, Metroid Prime 4 doesn’t feel much like Metroid at all – and I’m worried."
www.videogameschronicle.com/features/so-...
www.videogameschronicle.com/features/so-...
So far, Metroid Prime 4 doesn’t feel much like Metroid at all – and I’m worried | VGC
As a Metroid fan, Nintendo’s hands-on demo left me cold…
www.videogameschronicle.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:50 PM
It is incredible just how much this sounds like satire but is Totally Real.