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I make games and collect hobbies, currently obsessed with miniature painting. Some kind of trans. Occasional coffee making posts since I do it like 40 hours a week.

https://jotull.itch.io/
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220 Rockstar North employees have signed a letter demanding that more than 30 colleagues recently fired in what it alleges is union-busting "are immediately reinstated".

www.videogameschronicle.com/news/220-roc...
220 Rockstar North staff have signed a letter demanding their fired colleagues ‘are immediately reinstated’ | VGC
The 31 employees have accused the Grand Theft Auto studio of illegally firing them for unionising…
www.videogameschronicle.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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AINT NO FUCKING WAY

AINT NO FUCKING WAY
November 13, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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I have a playtesting page for my game up! It still needs a lot of enemies and ALL the supporting screens, so get in here and tell me what's good! And bad! And needed! And wanted!

#pico8 #indiedev #gamedev

jotull.itch.io/jos-secret-p...
Jo's secret playtesting room for cool people by Jo Tull
Play in your browser
jotull.itch.io
November 12, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.

Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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November 13, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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Valve again proving something I’ve observed lately: companies giving you stuff -and even the bare minimum- that you actually want, and not random new features for investors, makes people get excited for new tech. Who would have thought
November 13, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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I'd like to congratulate Gabe Newell on discovering that the exact midpoint between the NeXT box and the Nintendo GameCube is...

Lian Li Presents the Matte Black Cuboid.
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
I have a playtesting page for my game up! It still needs a lot of enemies and ALL the supporting screens, so get in here and tell me what's good! And bad! And needed! And wanted!

#pico8 #indiedev #gamedev

jotull.itch.io/jos-secret-p...
Jo's secret playtesting room for cool people by Jo Tull
Play in your browser
jotull.itch.io
November 12, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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29 long years have passed since I founded the emulation archive, Zophar's Domain, on 11.9.96. To this very day, the site still stands as a testament to an era that never actually disappeared but continues to live in the hearts of retrogamers all over the word. Emulation Forever!
November 9, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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the "are games art?" debate is so funny because gamers and game company execs are steadfastly determined to make the answer "no"
sincerely cannot imagine being this stupid or anti-art
November 11, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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selected weaponry
November 11, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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My last word on the matter
November 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Bracketing that they absolutely failed here. And bracketing that such a failure reflects a dearth of discipline, understanding, and acumen...

They just don't got the juice, man. Absolutely sauceless leadership.
CNN: Was the shutdown worth it?

HAKEEM JEFFRIES: We have waged a battle on behalf of the American people.

CNN: But you didn't get what you want.

JEFFRIES: At the end of the day, the fight lives on.
November 11, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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For Arc Raiders to ride the wave of human sociability all the way to the bank, while also being so contemptuous of the thing that makes us social animals in its own workflow demonstrates a lack of artistic integrity that I find impossible to ignore.

Our review: https://bit.ly/49bVn01
November 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Despite being a bit obsessed with this whole extraction shooter thing, I've actively avoided playing Arc Raiders due to the AI voices. I genuinely felt like the only one grossed out by it
For Arc Raiders to ride the wave of human sociability all the way to the bank, while also being so contemptuous of the thing that makes us social animals in its own workflow demonstrates a lack of artistic integrity that I find impossible to ignore.

Our review: https://bit.ly/49bVn01
November 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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It really is that simple.
The thing that gets me about ARC’s use of fully generated barks, as well as in The Finals, is that the juice is absolutely not worth the squeeze in a game that is unquestionably high effort. Like it sounds bad because there isn’t a human performance to ground it.
For Arc Raiders to ride the wave of human sociability all the way to the bank, while also being so contemptuous of the thing that makes us social animals in its own workflow demonstrates a lack of artistic integrity that I find impossible to ignore.

Our review: https://bit.ly/49bVn01
November 10, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Following firings and Grand Theft Auto VI delay, union plans to keep pressure on Rockstar
aftermath.site/grand-theft-au...
November 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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The morphs in Keeper use distance fields as an (implicit) surface representation, which makes it possible to control the distance at which the surface should lie. In other words, it’s easy to deflate or inflate objects, and meshes become easily ‘moldable’.
November 7, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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WE FUCKING DID IT!!!!
November 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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November 8, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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Thinking about William Blake's lovingly detailed illustrations of Satan's Ripped Bod And Ass
November 7, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Something worth noting: Rockstar is leaning HEAVILY on the excuse that the unionising employees were "leaking private company information"

They want people to assume this means game info or assets.

But I will bet you CASH MONEY this translates to:

'they were comparing salaries and work contracts"
November 7, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Latte art is by far my biggest weakness as a barista, but we're starting to get somewhere
November 6, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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TWO WEEKS UNTIL DEMONSCHOOL
November 5, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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added gifs and pngs to game description on steam check it out wishlist kiss me on the cheek store.steampowered.com/app/3372460/...
November 6, 2025 at 12:32 PM