Sophie
@sophies.games
Programmer, game developer.
Always using the correct amount of cynicism.
https://sophies.games
Wishlist ROBOT RECKONING:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3174820/ROBOT_RECKONING/
Always using the correct amount of cynicism.
https://sophies.games
Wishlist ROBOT RECKONING:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3174820/ROBOT_RECKONING/
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Sophie
@sophies.games
· Nov 1
#PitchYaGame ROBOT RECKONING is a hardcore physics-action game that rewards skillful maneuvering, tactical thinking, and creative ability combos, with satisfying robot-smashing action.
Steam page should be live very soon, hopefully.
#gamedev #indiegame #godotengine
Steam page should be live very soon, hopefully.
#gamedev #indiegame #godotengine
saw someone say something like "everyone who worked on that movie talks about it like they killed a man, hid the body, then agreed never to speak of it again" which is bang on
Watching Rogue One. Such a terrific rescue job, such a shame we will never get the “Tony Gilroy commentary in which he talks us through his rescue job” DVD extra it deserves.
November 23, 2025 at 2:42 AM
saw someone say something like "everyone who worked on that movie talks about it like they killed a man, hid the body, then agreed never to speak of it again" which is bang on
yeah people clown on JS a lot because they're forced to use it for the web but Lua is easily worse
1-indexed arrays sound like they'd only be a mild annoyance but it's actually a huge pain, since you have to keep track of what integers are array indexes and what integers are array index offsets
1-indexed arrays sound like they'd only be a mild annoyance but it's actually a huge pain, since you have to keep track of what integers are array indexes and what integers are array index offsets
people are always like oh isn't javascript funny, it thinks a string is a number, meanwhile lua appears to have been designed by six of the world's most powerful and nefarious evil wizards to specifically torment humankind (me)
November 22, 2025 at 3:25 PM
yeah people clown on JS a lot because they're forced to use it for the web but Lua is easily worse
1-indexed arrays sound like they'd only be a mild annoyance but it's actually a huge pain, since you have to keep track of what integers are array indexes and what integers are array index offsets
1-indexed arrays sound like they'd only be a mild annoyance but it's actually a huge pain, since you have to keep track of what integers are array indexes and what integers are array index offsets
like the UK recently put into effect a whole-ass law supposedly intended to protect children online, and, as far as I can tell, it is not designed to target roblox in any way, even though that is where kids spend a ton of time online and are demonstrably unsafe in myriad ways. just fuckin crazy.
something that makes me feel insane is how bad roblox is, how every kid plays it, and how nobody ever talks about it. highly recommend everyone watch the People Make Games investigations on them.
me: oh god it can't get worse can it
roblox ceo: we are innovating ways to get kids addicted to gambling
roblox ceo: we are innovating ways to get kids addicted to gambling
November 22, 2025 at 12:46 AM
like the UK recently put into effect a whole-ass law supposedly intended to protect children online, and, as far as I can tell, it is not designed to target roblox in any way, even though that is where kids spend a ton of time online and are demonstrably unsafe in myriad ways. just fuckin crazy.
something that makes me feel insane is how bad roblox is, how every kid plays it, and how nobody ever talks about it. highly recommend everyone watch the People Make Games investigations on them.
me: oh god it can't get worse can it
roblox ceo: we are innovating ways to get kids addicted to gambling
roblox ceo: we are innovating ways to get kids addicted to gambling
November 22, 2025 at 12:44 AM
something that makes me feel insane is how bad roblox is, how every kid plays it, and how nobody ever talks about it. highly recommend everyone watch the People Make Games investigations on them.
2026 will be the year of Godot and the year of the linux desktop, get ready for it nerds
Godot having robust svg support so I can work on vector sprite sheets without intermediary pngs is one of those lovely ‘this will save me 10 minutes a day’ solves.
And damn will it be helpful when I decide to change the lineweight on all icons an hour before an update goes live
And damn will it be helpful when I decide to change the lineweight on all icons an hour before an update goes live
November 21, 2025 at 12:00 AM
2026 will be the year of Godot and the year of the linux desktop, get ready for it nerds
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said this as a joke but honestly,,
August 26, 2025 at 1:47 PM
said this as a joke but honestly,,
I don't really get why but apparently this discord message was good enough to deserve a pin
November 20, 2025 at 1:18 AM
I don't really get why but apparently this discord message was good enough to deserve a pin
I'm sure everyone was worried, but I'm pleased to report the Cloudflare outage isn't affecting my website.
November 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I'm sure everyone was worried, but I'm pleased to report the Cloudflare outage isn't affecting my website.
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review is very good as a whole but this one sentence beautifully tells you everything:
"There’s a “damn Daniel” joke immediately followed by a “Pepperidge Farm remembers” callback within the first 20 minutes."
"There’s a “damn Daniel” joke immediately followed by a “Pepperidge Farm remembers” callback within the first 20 minutes."
I spent so much time in Marvel’s Deadpool VR having nonstop “Deadpool jokes” pumped directly into my ear that I started to see the very predictable anatomy of a “Deadpool joke.” So here is a cursed review of Marvel’s Deadpool VR. www.polygon.com/marvels-dead...
Marvel's Deadpool VR, as reviewed by Deadpool
Polygon's IGN 7/10 of the year
www.polygon.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:23 PM
review is very good as a whole but this one sentence beautifully tells you everything:
"There’s a “damn Daniel” joke immediately followed by a “Pepperidge Farm remembers” callback within the first 20 minutes."
"There’s a “damn Daniel” joke immediately followed by a “Pepperidge Farm remembers” callback within the first 20 minutes."
Notably, this marks the third major not-game-dev-specific sponsor of Godot, including Jetbrains and Sentry. Pretty cool that the project is getting recognition outside the industry!
Please welcome Arm, our newest Corporate Gold Sponsor! Thank you for your investment in the future of open-source gaming and graphics 💙
www.arm.com
www.arm.com
Powering the Future of AI Compute
From cloud to edge, Arm provides the compute platforms behind today’s most advanced AI, trusted by innovators worldwide.
www.arm.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Notably, this marks the third major not-game-dev-specific sponsor of Godot, including Jetbrains and Sentry. Pretty cool that the project is getting recognition outside the industry!
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It's a great cosmic joke that neurodivergence both runs in families and gets diagnosed based on parent reports. I was diagnosed at 30 because a man who has eaten potatoes every day for 57 years and a woman who collects loose buttons decided I was a perfectly normal child.
November 15, 2025 at 5:10 AM
It's a great cosmic joke that neurodivergence both runs in families and gets diagnosed based on parent reports. I was diagnosed at 30 because a man who has eaten potatoes every day for 57 years and a woman who collects loose buttons decided I was a perfectly normal child.
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I am genuinely pleased that the first time my private correspondence was entered into the public record without my knowledge, it was both grammatically correct and morally unimpeachable
@skepchick.org saw you in the epstein emails DEMANDING to know why weirdo @lkrauss1.bsky.social was defending him well after sexual violence was known.
WELL DONE!
INCREDIBLE WORK
I NOTICED
WELL DONE!
INCREDIBLE WORK
I NOTICED
November 15, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I am genuinely pleased that the first time my private correspondence was entered into the public record without my knowledge, it was both grammatically correct and morally unimpeachable
man, I'm so bad at chess. oh the pain. I mean, I'm laughing, but oh, the pain.
November 16, 2025 at 1:17 AM
man, I'm so bad at chess. oh the pain. I mean, I'm laughing, but oh, the pain.
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imo, you're overthinking it. i've watched playtesters who were focused on the gameplay not hear a voice line, not read a subtitle, and ignore three lit in-world signs in the dark then get lost
ive had someone i was on mic with not hear my words when i told them what to do 5x
attention is weird
ive had someone i was on mic with not hear my words when i told them what to do 5x
attention is weird
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 15, 2025 at 9:48 AM
imo, you're overthinking it. i've watched playtesters who were focused on the gameplay not hear a voice line, not read a subtitle, and ignore three lit in-world signs in the dark then get lost
ive had someone i was on mic with not hear my words when i told them what to do 5x
attention is weird
ive had someone i was on mic with not hear my words when i told them what to do 5x
attention is weird
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it's so easy to scam at scale, or flood the zone with shit, or stoke tribalism, and while we can educate, i don't know if there's a way to Stop entire societies from Being Stupid. so please, don't *you* be stupid. recognize the exploits, call them out, and show others. i think that's all we got.
November 14, 2025 at 2:22 AM
it's so easy to scam at scale, or flood the zone with shit, or stoke tribalism, and while we can educate, i don't know if there's a way to Stop entire societies from Being Stupid. so please, don't *you* be stupid. recognize the exploits, call them out, and show others. i think that's all we got.
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i spend a lot of time thinking about how we live in an age where so many human psychology exploits are known and preyed upon a trillion times from a trillion angles every day, and i'm not sure what we can do about that. human brains are wired up for certain stuff, and evil easily takes advantage.
November 14, 2025 at 2:21 AM
i spend a lot of time thinking about how we live in an age where so many human psychology exploits are known and preyed upon a trillion times from a trillion angles every day, and i'm not sure what we can do about that. human brains are wired up for certain stuff, and evil easily takes advantage.
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yooo the android devs are officially writing more rust per day than c/c++!!! security.googleblog.com/2025/11/rust...
Rust in Android: move fast and fix things
Posted by Jeff Vander Stoep, Android Last year, we wrote about why a memory safety strategy that focuses on vulnerability prevention in ...
security.googleblog.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:19 PM
yooo the android devs are officially writing more rust per day than c/c++!!! security.googleblog.com/2025/11/rust...
hm, not really, this isn't a mass market play.
if anything it feels like what's about to happen is the PC gaming wars; with its new Xbox strategy MS wants to tighten its grip on Windows gaming, while Valve wants to slip out of that grip with Linux while relying on Windows APIs via Proton.
if anything it feels like what's about to happen is the PC gaming wars; with its new Xbox strategy MS wants to tighten its grip on Windows gaming, while Valve wants to slip out of that grip with Linux while relying on Windows APIs via Proton.
Imagine going back 15 years To the height of Xbox 360 and saying Microsoft has functionally left the console wars only to be replaced by Valve
The Verge exists so @seanhollister.bsky.social can go deep on the new Steam Machine, the culmination of over a decade of Valve investing in making Linux run Windows games better than Windows www.theverge.com/games/818622...
November 13, 2025 at 12:45 AM
hm, not really, this isn't a mass market play.
if anything it feels like what's about to happen is the PC gaming wars; with its new Xbox strategy MS wants to tighten its grip on Windows gaming, while Valve wants to slip out of that grip with Linux while relying on Windows APIs via Proton.
if anything it feels like what's about to happen is the PC gaming wars; with its new Xbox strategy MS wants to tighten its grip on Windows gaming, while Valve wants to slip out of that grip with Linux while relying on Windows APIs via Proton.
meanwhile this is what my chess games look like 😭
November 10, 2025 at 1:21 AM
meanwhile this is what my chess games look like 😭
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You don’t think skibidi toilet would have fit right in during the era of Charlie the Unicorn and Salad Fingers??? Get real
November 8, 2025 at 11:55 PM
You don’t think skibidi toilet would have fit right in during the era of Charlie the Unicorn and Salad Fingers??? Get real
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Phrases like skibidi, 67, fanum tax, etc aren’t inherently more bad, dumb, or meaningless than the memes you grew up with; you’re just not 14 any more
November 8, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Phrases like skibidi, 67, fanum tax, etc aren’t inherently more bad, dumb, or meaningless than the memes you grew up with; you’re just not 14 any more
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Like I don’t think it’s possible to underestimate how isolated powerful people can be and how tempting a robot that always thinks you are asking good questions and won’t report you to HR would be to them
November 8, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Like I don’t think it’s possible to underestimate how isolated powerful people can be and how tempting a robot that always thinks you are asking good questions and won’t report you to HR would be to them
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I revisited my "Trees Hate You" project. I'm just continuing to come up with new ways to get bullied by foliage. #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiegame #ragegame
November 8, 2025 at 6:25 PM
I revisited my "Trees Hate You" project. I'm just continuing to come up with new ways to get bullied by foliage. #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiegame #ragegame
if you change the packaging on a food product you have to put a badge on that says New Look, Same Great Taste or they'll kill you
November 8, 2025 at 5:14 PM
if you change the packaging on a food product you have to put a badge on that says New Look, Same Great Taste or they'll kill you