Snipehunter
@snipehunter.bsky.social
Gamedev on Warcraft, Diablo, Starcraft, Fear Effect, Nightcaster, Auto Assault, Rift, Destiny 2, and more.
I post stupid sh-- stuff, often about stupid sh-- stuff.
Opinions are mine alone.
I post stupid sh-- stuff, often about stupid sh-- stuff.
Opinions are mine alone.
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With the Epstein Files dominating political news, Trump is doubling down on rigging maps.
November 18, 2025 at 3:07 PM
With the Epstein Files dominating political news, Trump is doubling down on rigging maps.
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See, look, U.S.A., it's this easy
(and should have been done immediately upon the knowledge that these cheats and grifters were STEALING our work)
(and should have been done immediately upon the knowledge that these cheats and grifters were STEALING our work)
November 11, 2025 at 12:17 AM
See, look, U.S.A., it's this easy
(and should have been done immediately upon the knowledge that these cheats and grifters were STEALING our work)
(and should have been done immediately upon the knowledge that these cheats and grifters were STEALING our work)
There are too many to name them all, but, let me name a pair: Ryan and Scott, who were part of the folks who ran NetDevil.
Our time together was complicated, but I kept coming back because the games they saw were the games I wanted made and they wanted to make them the right way.
Our time together was complicated, but I kept coming back because the games they saw were the games I wanted made and they wanted to make them the right way.
Because I just got emotional watching a thing, I'm going to inflict this emotion on everyone else: Please RT this and shout out someone whose work is important to you. Don't wait to praise our best until they're gone. Give them their flowers while they can hear it and know they're appreciated.
November 15, 2025 at 5:19 PM
There are too many to name them all, but, let me name a pair: Ryan and Scott, who were part of the folks who ran NetDevil.
Our time together was complicated, but I kept coming back because the games they saw were the games I wanted made and they wanted to make them the right way.
Our time together was complicated, but I kept coming back because the games they saw were the games I wanted made and they wanted to make them the right way.
As a guy who's been forced to work with LLMs for a little bit now, I can safely say: Nothing is more infuriating than trying to troubleshoot a technical problem with an LLM...
...so of course "replace tech support" is the first thing corpos did.
...so of course "replace tech support" is the first thing corpos did.
November 15, 2025 at 5:15 PM
As a guy who's been forced to work with LLMs for a little bit now, I can safely say: Nothing is more infuriating than trying to troubleshoot a technical problem with an LLM...
...so of course "replace tech support" is the first thing corpos did.
...so of course "replace tech support" is the first thing corpos did.
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KIRO 7 ran an article and two TV pieces on the theft of a box truck full of arcade PCBs, artwork, and machines from my workplace yesterday. If anyone in the Seattle area sees someone offloading a ton of CPS2/NAOMI/Neo Geo PCBs, stuff of that nature, please reach out.
www.kiro7.com/news/local/g...
www.kiro7.com/news/local/g...
GAME OVER: $25k+ of tech stolen from Kent arcade
Tens of thousands of dollars worth of vintage video game equipment was stolen from a Kent arcade this week.
www.kiro7.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:32 AM
KIRO 7 ran an article and two TV pieces on the theft of a box truck full of arcade PCBs, artwork, and machines from my workplace yesterday. If anyone in the Seattle area sees someone offloading a ton of CPS2/NAOMI/Neo Geo PCBs, stuff of that nature, please reach out.
www.kiro7.com/news/local/g...
www.kiro7.com/news/local/g...
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This, I say as a long-time student of history and economics who holds an MBA, is correct:
November 13, 2025 at 10:39 PM
This, I say as a long-time student of history and economics who holds an MBA, is correct:
Get your racist nazi ass out of here, JD. You think people who had to sneak into the country to get here can afford fucking houses? How much do you think they cost?
You want to know why they're expensive? Landlords. Plain and simple. Houses are income streams, instead of, you know, HOUSES.
You want to know why they're expensive? Landlords. Plain and simple. Houses are income streams, instead of, you know, HOUSES.
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Get your racist nazi ass out of here, JD. You think people who had to sneak into the country to get here can afford fucking houses? How much do you think they cost?
You want to know why they're expensive? Landlords. Plain and simple. Houses are income streams, instead of, you know, HOUSES.
You want to know why they're expensive? Landlords. Plain and simple. Houses are income streams, instead of, you know, HOUSES.
Training your robots on video games sounds great. Cheaply available, complex and varied, the perfect testbed... until you've got a robot army hopped up on 30 years of combat games and adversarial play. Just sayin'.
“SIMA 2 is a more general agent. It can complete complex tasks in previously unseen environments. And it's a self improving agent... which is a step towards more general purpose robots and AGI systems more generally.”
Google's SIMA 2 agent uses Gemini to reason and act in virtual worlds | TechCrunch
“SIMA 2 is a more general agent. It can complete complex tasks in previously unseen environments. And it's a self improving agent... which is a step towards more general purpose robots and AGI systems more generally.”
techcrunch.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Training your robots on video games sounds great. Cheaply available, complex and varied, the perfect testbed... until you've got a robot army hopped up on 30 years of combat games and adversarial play. Just sayin'.
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Obviously these people are, on a literal, factual level, insane. But it's interesting to think about this in terms of what it suggests about the actual function of bus fares and similar user fees: to keep undesirable people out of public spaces.
"The more-than-300 comments responding to that anonymous post are full of mothers looking for property in New Jersey or Florida, predicting that Mamdani’s promise to make buses free will lead criminals to rape and kill innocent passengers."
LMAO @ UES mommies crashing out
LMAO @ UES mommies crashing out
Upper East Side Moms Are Melting Down Over Mamdani
A 35,000-person Facebook group devolved into panic and infighting after the mayoral election.
www.thecut.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Obviously these people are, on a literal, factual level, insane. But it's interesting to think about this in terms of what it suggests about the actual function of bus fares and similar user fees: to keep undesirable people out of public spaces.
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Stunning banner cloud over the Rock of Gibraltar.
Credit: Met Office Gibraltar
Credit: Met Office Gibraltar
October 29, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Stunning banner cloud over the Rock of Gibraltar.
Credit: Met Office Gibraltar
Credit: Met Office Gibraltar
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“Don’t gather some of the most brilliant activists in the industry, treat us like crap, and then expect us to do nothing about it.” After the Game Awards cancelled its Future Class programme, @alyssamerc.bsky.social talked to its former honorees
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
“We were effectively props”: young stars of game development feel let down by the ‘gaming Oscars’
Announced in 2020 by the Game Awards as an inclusive programme for the industry’s next generation, the Future Class initiative has now been discontinued. Inductees describe clashes with organisers and...
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
“Don’t gather some of the most brilliant activists in the industry, treat us like crap, and then expect us to do nothing about it.” After the Game Awards cancelled its Future Class programme, @alyssamerc.bsky.social talked to its former honorees
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
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Democrats need to be very careful about claiming to be able to influence “affordability”. Hard to do. Many facets of the economy are outside the government’s control.
Simple things that are easy to do and easy to explain:
1. Increase the minimum wage
2. UBI
3. Properly fund ACA
4. Fix the tax law
Simple things that are easy to do and easy to explain:
1. Increase the minimum wage
2. UBI
3. Properly fund ACA
4. Fix the tax law
November 11, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Democrats need to be very careful about claiming to be able to influence “affordability”. Hard to do. Many facets of the economy are outside the government’s control.
Simple things that are easy to do and easy to explain:
1. Increase the minimum wage
2. UBI
3. Properly fund ACA
4. Fix the tax law
Simple things that are easy to do and easy to explain:
1. Increase the minimum wage
2. UBI
3. Properly fund ACA
4. Fix the tax law
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I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
November 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
@megaran.com Congrats on the Grammy nod!
November 9, 2025 at 12:02 AM
@megaran.com Congrats on the Grammy nod!
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I understand why we shut down American airspace for a few days after 9-11 to avoid a repeat attack but imagine shutting down American airspace to avoid releasing the Epstein files.
November 7, 2025 at 11:03 PM
I understand why we shut down American airspace for a few days after 9-11 to avoid a repeat attack but imagine shutting down American airspace to avoid releasing the Epstein files.
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Post an anime you love
November 6, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Post an anime you love
Let me guess, the secrets they were sharing were working conditions and the forum was at a pro-unionization site.
(Not saying I know, just saying that if a studio wanted to lay off a bunch of people who were about to unionize, they'd need a pretext... and boy, does this sound like one.)
(Not saying I know, just saying that if a studio wanted to lay off a bunch of people who were about to unionize, they'd need a pretext... and boy, does this sound like one.)
'Grand Theft Auto' Studio Says Fired Employees Were Leaking Information
https://games.slashdot.org/story/25/11/06/1232215/grand-theft-auto-studio-says-fired-employees-were-leaking-information?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
'Grand Theft Auto' Studio Says Fired Employees Were Leaking Information
Rockstar Games, the company behind the hit Grand Theft Auto franchise, said that the dozens of employees it fired last week were leaking company secrets, disputing allegations by labor leaders that it was disrupting workers' attempt to unionize. From a report: The employees had been sharing company ...
games.slashdot.org
November 6, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Let me guess, the secrets they were sharing were working conditions and the forum was at a pro-unionization site.
(Not saying I know, just saying that if a studio wanted to lay off a bunch of people who were about to unionize, they'd need a pretext... and boy, does this sound like one.)
(Not saying I know, just saying that if a studio wanted to lay off a bunch of people who were about to unionize, they'd need a pretext... and boy, does this sound like one.)
Maybe it's worth reminding the "They shut down the government, not the regime" crowd that what really happened is the party in power demanded we choose between providing health care for the infirm or food for the famished.
Does that sound like a thing the good guys do?
Does that sound like a thing the good guys do?
November 5, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Maybe it's worth reminding the "They shut down the government, not the regime" crowd that what really happened is the party in power demanded we choose between providing health care for the infirm or food for the famished.
Does that sound like a thing the good guys do?
Does that sound like a thing the good guys do?
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A few months ago Jeff Bezos expressed interest in buying Conde Nast, the parent company of Teen Vogue.
Teen Vogue has been a leader in political coverage and critical of the current regime.
I hope the elimination of their political coverage isn’t designed to woo Bezos…
Teen Vogue has been a leader in political coverage and critical of the current regime.
I hope the elimination of their political coverage isn’t designed to woo Bezos…
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 9:53 PM
A few months ago Jeff Bezos expressed interest in buying Conde Nast, the parent company of Teen Vogue.
Teen Vogue has been a leader in political coverage and critical of the current regime.
I hope the elimination of their political coverage isn’t designed to woo Bezos…
Teen Vogue has been a leader in political coverage and critical of the current regime.
I hope the elimination of their political coverage isn’t designed to woo Bezos…
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It sucks because Direct File was one of the first times a lot of people ever had a positive experience using a government website or service.
IRS Direct File dies a sad, quick death after only a brief time among the living.
Why? It's not because it's a bad idea or that it didn't work.
It's because TurboTax's parent company spent decades trying to make sure they controlled the e-filing market:
Why? It's not because it's a bad idea or that it didn't work.
It's because TurboTax's parent company spent decades trying to make sure they controlled the e-filing market:
November 4, 2025 at 11:17 PM
It sucks because Direct File was one of the first times a lot of people ever had a positive experience using a government website or service.
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the mainstream taking betting and gambling companies as seriously as journalism is one of the greatest evils of modern society
November 4, 2025 at 8:20 PM
the mainstream taking betting and gambling companies as seriously as journalism is one of the greatest evils of modern society
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I had a very uninformed view of the potential benefits of the Universal Basic Income. I thought my society would be obliged to introduce a basic income for all, as unemployment increased with the evolution of technology. But the prospect of UBI could be a much more positive action.
I've been researching the idea of Unconditional Universal Basic Income since 2013. Here's a collection of findings I've compiled from various UBI experiments and studies of cash transfer programs around the world.
This will be a VERY LONG and ongoing thread focused entirely on empirical evidence. 🧵
This will be a VERY LONG and ongoing thread focused entirely on empirical evidence. 🧵
November 2, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I had a very uninformed view of the potential benefits of the Universal Basic Income. I thought my society would be obliged to introduce a basic income for all, as unemployment increased with the evolution of technology. But the prospect of UBI could be a much more positive action.
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Swear her in. Release the Epstein Files.
October 30, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Swear her in. Release the Epstein Files.