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Graeme Devine @graemedevine.com · 13h

Is there any hw/sw ecosystem that is not running towards the new god of ai slop? I'm just so fed up with it plastered over everything all the time.

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Eric Torreborre @etorreborre.blog · 2d

"The great software quality collapse" techtrenches.substack.com/p/the-great-...

The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe

The Apple Calculator leaked 32GB of RAM.

techtrenches.substack.com

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Graeme Devine @graemedevine.com · 2d

Off to teach about stack and heap and the evils of C++. Bella is in my slides as always. One day I'll work somewhere where she can go with me to class.

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Graeme Devine @graemedevine.com · 2d

Go buy Little Rocket Lab on Steam and give it a positive review!

Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 3d

We banned a guy on the Steam forums for repeatedly saying there were “too many women” in our game

So he flipped his positive review to negative

Still totally worth it

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Graeme Devine @graemedevine.com · 3d

And...... back to Fedora.

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Graeme Devine @graemedevine.com · 3d

My new Framework desktop showed up. Before I install Fedora on it I am trying the latest fad Omarchy. Good lord this is one snappy and fast machine / os.

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Graeme Devine @graemedevine.com · 4d

Time for a rewatch of Uprising. It was so good and deserved to be seen more.

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 4d

Foundation Season 3 (2025)

Showrunner David S. Goyer on Brother Dusk: "I think it’s truly a guy who, the center obviously cannot hold and he knows he can’t fix things, but he can burn everything down. And I would argue that there are people like that operating in power on Earth today that have..."

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Graeme Devine @graemedevine.com · 4d

This is one of those headlines like "Darth Vader says Empire would fail if Death Star not allowed to blow up planets".

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Graeme Devine @graemedevine.com · 4d

Well now I will...

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 5d

[SHIP THREAD] It's worth making a short dive into the story of the Racing starfighter Fireball 🔥

A design created for Resistance (2018-2020) by a Star Wars and ILM legend, inspired by a well-known aircraft, and who will take part in the final live-action battle against Palpatine. 1/15

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Graeme Devine @graemedevine.com · 5d

This is actually how I met both William Volk and Geoff Keighley, two people I'm friends with to this day.

Video Game History Foundation @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social · 12d

William Volk would also do research on competing titles. When Volk was working on Return to Zork, the team kept a document with every comment they could find on Compuserve about The 7th Guest.

Like this review from 1993... by 14-year-old Geoff Keighley.

archive.gamehistory.org/item/5e5d44a...

Message: #345881, S/12 *HOT*/Timequest
Date: Sat, May 1, 1993 7:33:20 PM
Subject: T7G REVIEW
From: Geoff Keighley 71044,412
To: All
Reply: #346403 (1 reply)

Well I would like to post my feeling on this game, and see what you guys have to say about it.

Last night when I started to play it, I was amazed at the quality of the graphics and sound. I actually enjoyed the first puzzle.

Then after the initial "WOW" of the graphics/sound wore off, I became bored with the puzzles. They all seem pretty impossible, and not very fun at all.

So all in all, I'd say the graphics/sound are the best I have seen on a PC, but it is a shame the puzzles are so "dull".

I think Trilobyte should be very proud of their first effort. I hope they plan on producing another game with these amazing graphics/sound, but try to make it a little more fun to play and include some more original puzzles.

COMMENTS on my review?

-=GEoFF=-

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Graeme Devine @graemedevine.com · 5d

This book is a must read for game industry folks. The lessons presented here, the history, is part of our foundation as an industry.

Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 5d

My latest book, Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Blizzard Entertainment, is out in paperback today! You can get it wherever you get your books. Ideally at your local indie bookstore www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/jason...

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Graeme Devine @graemedevine.com · 6d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3qu...

The Obsolete Man (BEST)

YouTube video by MIndMattersMost

www.youtube.com

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Graeme Devine @graemedevine.com · 6d

Maybe I would if you got the name of my game right?

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Graeme Devine @graemedevine.com · 6d

Just blew my class away by using an image as a shape test. Were they all expecting me to check hexagons the hard way? Lots of wait… this is just one line of code?

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Graeme Devine @graemedevine.com · 6d

Purchased! I'm here for the vibes..

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Graeme Devine @graemedevine.com · 6d

Love it! Which area of expertise was purple again?

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Graeme Devine @graemedevine.com · 6d

I was out walking Bella when it hit me. Westworld season 4 is now true. The hum that controls all humans? AI boosted social media outrage guiding the masses. The hosts? The oligarchs who now control social media.

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Graeme Devine @graemedevine.com · 6d

I dreamt up new slides as I slept, which as discussed previously are, for some reason, not magically on my computer when I wake up, so I was up at 6am remaking my first deck for today.

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Graeme Devine @graemedevine.com · 7d

Oh I loved the Minitel, that was so far ahead of its time!

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Graeme Devine @graemedevine.com · 7d

This is awesome! I would be interested to see how you manage these in game code, a good learning point for all game devs is making an achievement system that can handle this many achievements but not cause code spaghetti and I'm betting you have a cool system here backing this up!

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Graeme Devine @graemedevine.com · 7d

We should have stopped making computers here.. peak design.. (along with my beloved VT100), although maybe I'd also count the DEC Rainbow here as well.

Konstantinos Dimopoulos @konstantinosd.bsky.social · 7d

Burroughs B21 (1982) multi-user system 🖥️ classictech.wordpress.com/computer-com...

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Graeme Devine @graemedevine.com · 7d

Just thrown two of my classes into chaos by moving the schedule out a week and giving them a sudden game jam to do, with crossover from one class into the other. CHAOS!

Pretty sure I'm the worst professor ever right now in a lot of their minds. :-)

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Erik Robson @erikrobson.net · 9d

Look at this wicked list of the "top" games on Steam that use Love2d (Lua).

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