Josh W
@mariobones.bsky.social
The amiibo guy formerly of two underscores. Game design, writing, tester of software and patience. He/him
Not American!
Not American!
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bummer situation but grim lol at this exception on the epic games store
December 2, 2025 at 5:17 PM
bummer situation but grim lol at this exception on the epic games store
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The Frosty Mini showcase of games made in Australia and Aotearoa NZ is happening NEXT WEEK! ☀️🍦 Here's some handy timezone info to help you tune in:
🇦🇺 8am AEDT and 5am AWST (10 Dec)
🇳🇿 10am NZDT (10 Dec)
🇯🇵 6am JST (10 Dec)
🇺🇸 1pm PT and 4pm ET (9 Dec)
🇬🇧 9pm GMT (9 Dec)
🇦🇺 8am AEDT and 5am AWST (10 Dec)
🇳🇿 10am NZDT (10 Dec)
🇯🇵 6am JST (10 Dec)
🇺🇸 1pm PT and 4pm ET (9 Dec)
🇬🇧 9pm GMT (9 Dec)
December 2, 2025 at 9:02 PM
The Frosty Mini showcase of games made in Australia and Aotearoa NZ is happening NEXT WEEK! ☀️🍦 Here's some handy timezone info to help you tune in:
🇦🇺 8am AEDT and 5am AWST (10 Dec)
🇳🇿 10am NZDT (10 Dec)
🇯🇵 6am JST (10 Dec)
🇺🇸 1pm PT and 4pm ET (9 Dec)
🇬🇧 9pm GMT (9 Dec)
🇦🇺 8am AEDT and 5am AWST (10 Dec)
🇳🇿 10am NZDT (10 Dec)
🇯🇵 6am JST (10 Dec)
🇺🇸 1pm PT and 4pm ET (9 Dec)
🇬🇧 9pm GMT (9 Dec)
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now imagining a AAA game where you can talk to anyone about anything and they have to slop yellow paint on the dialogue boxes to indicate when conversations have been authored to contribute to the actual game story
AI dialogue in games is so stupid. If a studio hired 100 junior writers at fractional cents a word to write reams of mediocre and utterly meaningless dialogue for NPCs nobody would engage with that dialogue because it doesn't contribute anything. even if AI dialogue wasn't bad it'd be just like that
December 3, 2025 at 9:16 AM
now imagining a AAA game where you can talk to anyone about anything and they have to slop yellow paint on the dialogue boxes to indicate when conversations have been authored to contribute to the actual game story
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Me when I get to babysit my 5 year old cousin
September 17, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Me when I get to babysit my 5 year old cousin
The scene from Free Guy where they’re all freaking out about the lightsaber but they’re saying “Look, Sarge, she’s doing Morph Ball!”
December 3, 2025 at 6:15 AM
The scene from Free Guy where they’re all freaking out about the lightsaber but they’re saying “Look, Sarge, she’s doing Morph Ball!”
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December 2, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Now I wanna know what the Bandai-Namco version of Prime 4 looked like
December 2, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Now I wanna know what the Bandai-Namco version of Prime 4 looked like
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Still thinking about the moment where Myles is like "Samus, you're free to pick whichever biome you want to go to next!" and then I went to a place, hit a gear-gated wall immediately, and Myles radioed again to say "Have you tried going to this biome instead?"
Metroid Prime 4: Beyond plays like a post-mortem of its own dev cycle. The story of a doomed race throwing one last Hail Mary to salvage its legacy after a series of failed experiments. Disjointed, full of abandoned ideas, but Retro finds a way through the debris. www.polygon.com/metroid-prim...
Metroid Prime 4: Beyond is uneven, with bright spots
The disjointed Switch 2 adventure is revelatory and aggravating in the same breath.
www.polygon.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Still thinking about the moment where Myles is like "Samus, you're free to pick whichever biome you want to go to next!" and then I went to a place, hit a gear-gated wall immediately, and Myles radioed again to say "Have you tried going to this biome instead?"
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The Albanese govt sat on this report for TWO YEARS, and then only released it after parliament finished for the year.
The report was originally commissioned “to enhance integrity and trust in government institutions” lol
The report was originally commissioned “to enhance integrity and trust in government institutions” lol
Scathing ‘jobs for mates’ review finds appointments to government boards routinely abused
A report by Lynelle Briggs says placements ‘look like nepotism’ and are undermining confidence in government
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:45 PM
The Albanese govt sat on this report for TWO YEARS, and then only released it after parliament finished for the year.
The report was originally commissioned “to enhance integrity and trust in government institutions” lol
The report was originally commissioned “to enhance integrity and trust in government institutions” lol
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We’re so freaking back. Videogames. Board games. Role playing games. I wanna show case you at ALT: GAMES 2026! Submit in the cheeky link.
Successful applications will be paid an honorarium.
If you love me, please read the webpage. All the info is there.
Link:
powerhouse.com.au/alt-games-ca...
Successful applications will be paid an honorarium.
If you love me, please read the webpage. All the info is there.
Link:
powerhouse.com.au/alt-games-ca...
December 2, 2025 at 6:10 AM
We’re so freaking back. Videogames. Board games. Role playing games. I wanna show case you at ALT: GAMES 2026! Submit in the cheeky link.
Successful applications will be paid an honorarium.
If you love me, please read the webpage. All the info is there.
Link:
powerhouse.com.au/alt-games-ca...
Successful applications will be paid an honorarium.
If you love me, please read the webpage. All the info is there.
Link:
powerhouse.com.au/alt-games-ca...
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Do you think Catly will be at The Game Awards next week
Do you think it’s a good or a bad thing that the definitely real and not at all AI cat game from The Game Awards has not tweeted in seven months
December 1, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Do you think Catly will be at The Game Awards next week
Luigi Mangione has gotta be one of the most photogenic guys in history huh. There are just not bad photos of him
December 1, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Luigi Mangione has gotta be one of the most photogenic guys in history huh. There are just not bad photos of him
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for gamer friends: genuinely close to 100% of the time you see a typeface in a game that has support for both JP & EN/latin characters (such as Rodin or Skip), it's because of a license from fontworks. this is a monopoly being cashed out in real time, intensely fucking lame
December 1, 2025 at 9:17 PM
for gamer friends: genuinely close to 100% of the time you see a typeface in a game that has support for both JP & EN/latin characters (such as Rodin or Skip), it's because of a license from fontworks. this is a monopoly being cashed out in real time, intensely fucking lame
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automaton-media.com/en/news/japa...
Wild story, a font service was bought out by a US company and now they are absolutely dogshit and it'll particularly heavily affect JP games, especially service titles.
Wild story, a font service was bought out by a US company and now they are absolutely dogshit and it'll particularly heavily affect JP games, especially service titles.
December 1, 2025 at 1:48 PM
automaton-media.com/en/news/japa...
Wild story, a font service was bought out by a US company and now they are absolutely dogshit and it'll particularly heavily affect JP games, especially service titles.
Wild story, a font service was bought out by a US company and now they are absolutely dogshit and it'll particularly heavily affect JP games, especially service titles.
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sure thing boss 🫡
November 30, 2025 at 2:17 AM
sure thing boss 🫡
“AI derangement syndrome” is such a funny thing to say unironically. Shut the fuck up, slop monkey
November 30, 2025 at 8:46 PM
“AI derangement syndrome” is such a funny thing to say unironically. Shut the fuck up, slop monkey
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Anecdotally on twitter seeing a big shift the last few days from every AI slop account saying every other creative field is “over” and they’re in control now to now posting about how nobody likes them and it’s not fair and they’ll persevere and real artists respect and uplift eachother
November 30, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Anecdotally on twitter seeing a big shift the last few days from every AI slop account saying every other creative field is “over” and they’re in control now to now posting about how nobody likes them and it’s not fair and they’ll persevere and real artists respect and uplift eachother
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I’m very unhappy about the aggressive AI upscaling in the Beatles Anthology on Disney Plus. It’s added a whole extra Beatle! Who the fuck is “George”?
November 30, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I’m very unhappy about the aggressive AI upscaling in the Beatles Anthology on Disney Plus. It’s added a whole extra Beatle! Who the fuck is “George”?
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i think it's useful to look at areas where the *tech* has gotten much better while tech *interactions* have gotten way worse. streaming has gotten worse, google search has gotten worse, digital cameras are leaps better. apple's silicone is so good it's threatening their user upgrade cycle
it’s so weird to look around and realize like, tech and media are materially worse than a decade ago
November 30, 2025 at 12:14 PM
i think it's useful to look at areas where the *tech* has gotten much better while tech *interactions* have gotten way worse. streaming has gotten worse, google search has gotten worse, digital cameras are leaps better. apple's silicone is so good it's threatening their user upgrade cycle
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The thing about AI anime dubs and AI Actor Tilly Norwood and AI music is just the fucking disrespect, this is what your industry thinks can replace you and it’s not even good. It’s not even a thing you look at with dread at how the computer has replaced Man, it just sucks ass lol it just blows
November 30, 2025 at 5:44 AM
The thing about AI anime dubs and AI Actor Tilly Norwood and AI music is just the fucking disrespect, this is what your industry thinks can replace you and it’s not even good. It’s not even a thing you look at with dread at how the computer has replaced Man, it just sucks ass lol it just blows