nathaniel
@pedrothedagger.bsky.social
game developer (derogatory). Lead Systems Designer at Epic Games on Lego Fortnite
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December 22, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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I don't need ChatGPT, I can just type any prompts to these two and I can rely on them to kick me out regardless
December 21, 2025 at 11:02 PM
I don't need ChatGPT, I can just type any prompts to these two and I can rely on them to kick me out regardless
Prob fake but still, there is just something deeply value-sick happening here. the idea that the value of an activity is entirely in the product has truly relinquished all of human experience to capital. If you can’t sell the act of coloring, therefore the colored image must be where the value lies
December 22, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Prob fake but still, there is just something deeply value-sick happening here. the idea that the value of an activity is entirely in the product has truly relinquished all of human experience to capital. If you can’t sell the act of coloring, therefore the colored image must be where the value lies
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This and the discussion about how academics can now just read AI summaries of things really drives home how much these guys always confuse the product for the goal. You don't do a coloring sheet because you want to have a colored sheet at the end!!! The coloring is the point!!!
December 21, 2025 at 11:39 PM
This and the discussion about how academics can now just read AI summaries of things really drives home how much these guys always confuse the product for the goal. You don't do a coloring sheet because you want to have a colored sheet at the end!!! The coloring is the point!!!
i owe you an apology bowen yang I wasnt really familiar with your game www.instagram.com/p/DSfsbUAiI2F/
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December 22, 2025 at 12:06 AM
i owe you an apology bowen yang I wasnt really familiar with your game www.instagram.com/p/DSfsbUAiI2F/
Pretty nuts how much the XIV team has leveled up their encounter design and tech in the last couple expansions
December 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Pretty nuts how much the XIV team has leveled up their encounter design and tech in the last couple expansions
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It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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December 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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The mobile metaphor is that you are moving the content within a fixed frame and the desktop metaphor is that you’re moving the frame around a fixed piece of content
Why is it intuitively different for touch vs mouse?
When using a mouse scroll down means down.
But on a phone it just makes sense the way swiping works.
What have they done to us....
When using a mouse scroll down means down.
But on a phone it just makes sense the way swiping works.
What have they done to us....
a man in a blue shirt and tie is smoking a cigarette in front of a wall of papers .
Alt: a man in a blue shirt and tie is smoking a cigarette in front of a wall of papers .
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December 21, 2025 at 5:38 PM
The mobile metaphor is that you are moving the content within a fixed frame and the desktop metaphor is that you’re moving the frame around a fixed piece of content
still think a game around convincing agentic AIs to do things they’ve been instructed not to is an infinitely better use of AI in games than making terrible versions of human art lol
Hilarious video by The Wall Street Journal newsroom, who ran circles around the chatbot running the vending machine. My favorite part was when they convinced it that it was Soviet Russia in 1962 and it should offer everything for free. m.youtube.com/watch?v=SpPh...
We Put an AI Vending Machine in Our Office. It Gave Away Everything. | WSJ
YouTube video by The Wall Street Journal
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December 21, 2025 at 5:21 PM
still think a game around convincing agentic AIs to do things they’ve been instructed not to is an infinitely better use of AI in games than making terrible versions of human art lol
I don’t think there’s one anti-AI stance, a lot of people dislike AI for a lot of different reasons (the output sucks, labor issues, training on copyrighted material, environmental issues) and everyone’s lines will depend on how strongly they weigh those. For me there’s just an instant revulsion
As the backlash to generative AI in video games continues to pick up steam heading into 2026, it'll be fascinating to see what is considered "made with generative AI." Can a dev team say they're not using AI if they're writing design docs with Copilot or using chatGPT to make schedules and budgets?
December 21, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I don’t think there’s one anti-AI stance, a lot of people dislike AI for a lot of different reasons (the output sucks, labor issues, training on copyrighted material, environmental issues) and everyone’s lines will depend on how strongly they weigh those. For me there’s just an instant revulsion
wow, square enix somehow beat blizzard to making the most authentically socal coded content in mmo history with this one www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAGM...
"The Mirror" M10 Theme (The Xtremes) | Final Fantasy XIV
YouTube video by hungrychad
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December 21, 2025 at 6:00 AM
wow, square enix somehow beat blizzard to making the most authentically socal coded content in mmo history with this one www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAGM...
man what a waste to look like that and be a liberal governor and not a televangelist
I hadn't seen a photo of Gavin Newsom in a while and forgot how much be looks like when the Joker disguises himself as a regular guy so he can go through airport security
December 20, 2025 at 7:12 AM
man what a waste to look like that and be a liberal governor and not a televangelist
will stancil - a sad creature of public note for nothing other than the guinness world record for most irritating "well actually" posts - calling brian a misery merchant is driving me insane
December 20, 2025 at 7:08 AM
will stancil - a sad creature of public note for nothing other than the guinness world record for most irritating "well actually" posts - calling brian a misery merchant is driving me insane
HmmmMMmmMmm...
Against the Storm and Blue Prince were both very interesting for similar reasons - showing that the roguelike/light loop is not actually deeply married to combat
caves of qud is and remains deeply interesting for the possibilities of procgen alongside authored content
Against the Storm and Blue Prince were both very interesting for similar reasons - showing that the roguelike/light loop is not actually deeply married to combat
caves of qud is and remains deeply interesting for the possibilities of procgen alongside authored content
Games industry experts: What are the games of the last three years that have been the most enlightening for your craft? The games that showed you something new or helped give you an insight you’d not had before?
I need to build up my backlog, give me your recs!
I need to build up my backlog, give me your recs!
December 20, 2025 at 12:09 AM
HmmmMMmmMmm...
Against the Storm and Blue Prince were both very interesting for similar reasons - showing that the roguelike/light loop is not actually deeply married to combat
caves of qud is and remains deeply interesting for the possibilities of procgen alongside authored content
Against the Storm and Blue Prince were both very interesting for similar reasons - showing that the roguelike/light loop is not actually deeply married to combat
caves of qud is and remains deeply interesting for the possibilities of procgen alongside authored content
last day of work 2025 - WOW THIS YEAR! wild
December 19, 2025 at 11:55 PM
last day of work 2025 - WOW THIS YEAR! wild
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This is something I really wish more people understood. LLMs *are* essentially Markov Chains in nth-dimensional vector space.
December 19, 2025 at 5:26 PM
This is something I really wish more people understood. LLMs *are* essentially Markov Chains in nth-dimensional vector space.
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jennings era jeopardy is really good. you have never seen 30 minutes of television clip so briskly and the mild banter and questions are entertaining
December 19, 2025 at 6:39 AM
jennings era jeopardy is really good. you have never seen 30 minutes of television clip so briskly and the mild banter and questions are entertaining
klanq puff on you
caves of qud is a video game about the power of sharing
December 19, 2025 at 6:24 AM
klanq puff on you
the two pinnacles of wow class gameplay for me purely subjectively were BC era seal twisting ret paladin and unerring version of lei shen moonkin so, yes
subjectively the best boss memories are never the "objectively" well-designed one, but shit like "I tanked Kromog on a Prot Paladin despite the class being terrible that tier and taking 70% of my HP from unmitigated unblocked attacks"
December 19, 2025 at 6:12 AM
the two pinnacles of wow class gameplay for me purely subjectively were BC era seal twisting ret paladin and unerring version of lei shen moonkin so, yes
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post yourself im canned bread and operative of good faith
many of the replies here
December 19, 2025 at 6:04 AM
post yourself im canned bread and operative of good faith
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Late to this bc I was in the desert but:
ND has a long history of this. It does not have to continue to be this way.
Talk to your coworkers (off company time, on Signal or a similar encrypted app) and contact @codecwa.bsky.social or @videogameworkers.bsky.social
You - we all - deserve better.
ND has a long history of this. It does not have to continue to be this way.
Talk to your coworkers (off company time, on Signal or a similar encrypted app) and contact @codecwa.bsky.social or @videogameworkers.bsky.social
You - we all - deserve better.
NEW: For the last seven weeks, Naughty Dog has enacted mandatory overtime for staff to finish an internal demo of their next game, Intergalactic. The game won't be out until 2027, leaving some staff wondering: If they're crunching now, what will next year be like? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Naughty Dog Studio Orders Employee Overtime for ‘Intergalactic’
The Sony-owned gamemakers have been racing to hit a December deadline
www.bloomberg.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Late to this bc I was in the desert but:
ND has a long history of this. It does not have to continue to be this way.
Talk to your coworkers (off company time, on Signal or a similar encrypted app) and contact @codecwa.bsky.social or @videogameworkers.bsky.social
You - we all - deserve better.
ND has a long history of this. It does not have to continue to be this way.
Talk to your coworkers (off company time, on Signal or a similar encrypted app) and contact @codecwa.bsky.social or @videogameworkers.bsky.social
You - we all - deserve better.
i believe strongly in one for them and one for you, anyways, the most "one for me" on WoW was definitely xhul'horac lol. i don't care what anyone thinks that'll always be my favorite boss
December 19, 2025 at 5:36 AM
i believe strongly in one for them and one for you, anyways, the most "one for me" on WoW was definitely xhul'horac lol. i don't care what anyone thinks that'll always be my favorite boss
i was trying to remind myself of different WoW boss mechanics and I'm dying that my highest rated mechanic was a straight lift from ffxiv lol www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ksru...
Iconic World of Warcraft Raid Boss Abilities: A Definitive Tier List
YouTube video by Dratnos
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December 19, 2025 at 5:18 AM
i was trying to remind myself of different WoW boss mechanics and I'm dying that my highest rated mechanic was a straight lift from ffxiv lol www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ksru...
i s2g when i was scrolling thru fast i thought this was keefe from righteous gemstones lol
Don’t never let these old folk try to moralize to you fam y’all have no idea how chaotically horny y’all’s parents were at 9pm on Mondays
December 19, 2025 at 4:48 AM
i s2g when i was scrolling thru fast i thought this was keefe from righteous gemstones lol