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I'm Dave, sometimes D, they, indie game dev near tokyo, nonsense poster, abstract geometry appreciator, mixolumia creator, indebted to lesbians, secret ui/ux contractor, bleep bloop musician
is there a single person on earth who wishes typewriter text in games would go slower
December 9, 2025 at 10:03 AM
the best Christmas movie is the old SNL alternative ending to It's A Wonderful Life where George Bailey finds out Mr. Potter stole the money and leads a mob to beat him to death
December 9, 2025 at 6:28 AM
There's a sort of fake OOP thing in Lua where you set __index in a table's metatable to a "parent class" table. When you access an object's variable, if it's not in that table it searches up the chain to its parent looking for it
December 9, 2025 at 4:07 AM
need to stop making friends with devs who make incredible sprawling narrative games I don't have time to play. only befriending creators of tight little action games I can basically fully understand from a 2 minute trailer
December 8, 2025 at 10:07 PM
I've rejected ai coding so hard I am becoming one of those guys who thinks intellisense rots your brain
December 8, 2025 at 4:30 AM
hi everybody! I'm postign too
December 7, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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December 6, 2025 at 7:24 AM
they'll never legalize weed in japan because konbini edibles would unravel society
December 7, 2025 at 3:03 AM
welcome to your davemakes wrapped

this year you read:
several bad posts
December 6, 2025 at 12:22 PM
I need a four hour defunctland video about house on the rock
December 6, 2025 at 3:12 AM
software licensing is goofy but font licensing especially is an incredible racket
Japanese devs face font licensing dilemma as leading provider increases annual plan price from $380 to $20,000+
Japanese game makers are struggling to locate affordable commercial fonts after one of the country's leading font licen…
www.gamesindustry.biz
December 5, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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Red Lobster never released a commercial with a jingle that went “Shrimply having a wonderful Fishmastime.” That’s why they went bankrupt.
December 5, 2025 at 12:09 AM
is it safe to admit i've never gotten past halfway through a metroid game because they always wind up giving me that feeling of "yeah... i get it"
December 5, 2025 at 12:50 AM
what if i made a sewer shark-like for 7 day fps
December 4, 2025 at 11:17 PM
[guy reviewing first few hours of chess] interesting mechanics, not much content though!
December 4, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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In 1954 film On the Waterfront, Marlon Brando laments getting a “one-way ticket to Palookaville.” This is because one-way tickets are often more expensive due to pricing models that favor round-trip bookings, leaving Brando with less cash on hand to enjoy Palookaville’s restaurants and attractions.
December 3, 2025 at 11:17 PM
my main takeaway about love2d is someone needs to rewrite all of the documentation
December 3, 2025 at 1:53 PM
they should make a velocity sensitive laptop keyboard where you do capital letters by hitting the key harder
December 3, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance.
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
December 2, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I am watching Man on the Inside season 2, a series I generally enjoy, but can I talk about something Michael Schur does in his shows that drives me fucking crazy?
December 2, 2025 at 11:21 PM
if you're wondering who the avatar movies are for, it's me. they put carmela soprano in a mech i dont know what more you can ask from a film
December 2, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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bro they had to be up way past their bed time when they made this 😂
December 2, 2025 at 4:52 AM
me, playing demonschool, every single time the music throws in a little modal interchange
December 2, 2025 at 5:59 AM
getting to the point in exploring love2d where i think it would be so much stronger (and more consistent) if they stopped mucking around in OOP. it's really making me appreciate how good pico-8 is and how solidly it commits to a procedural style
December 2, 2025 at 4:23 AM
death stranding guy Herr Cutman who, due to a tragic accident giving him cellular crono destabilization, is constantly rapidly growing hair and has to run a shaver over his head every two minutes
Character design idea
December 1, 2025 at 10:53 PM