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ඞ 23 VR enthusiast (Valve Index). also a writer i love my wife please DM if you want to talk more personally. i'm always open to more friends or arch-nemesis..es? archnemeses https://seaboundsanctuary.bandcamp.com/

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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 12d

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

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p4riah @p4riah.bsky.social · 1d

that guy spends his whole day bringing your temu bullshit right to your door for terrible pay, chill TF out with your CCTV security blanket

sanctumsys @sanctumsys.itch.io · 15m

women don't like the vehicle

Ecto-1 from Ghostbusters (basically a car with a bunch of flashing lights and a loud annoying horn) driving away from the Ghostbusters headquarters

sanctumsys @sanctumsys.itch.io · 3h

death stranding's backpack balancing is a modern iteration of the ancient sumerian stick and hoop game, in this essay i will

sanctumsys @sanctumsys.itch.io · 4h

got vaccinated yesterday. you should too. my arm hurts but i also have a much-lessened chance of falling victim to the permanent brain damage disease which i think is a fair tradeoff

sanctumsys @sanctumsys.itch.io · 6h

you don't have to just make mario again

sanctumsys @sanctumsys.itch.io · 6h

maybe that's not the point but there's a lot of potential in a penguin mascot platformer, you know? there are lots of actions penguins are famous for doing. many of them are ice and water-related. you could make a really interesting platformer moveset if you looked to penguins for inspiration

sanctumsys @sanctumsys.itch.io · 6h

no shade to supertux but i feel like committing to being a clone so hard that you make an ice ball do the same thing as a fireball while your penguin mascot character runs and jumps exactly like a human doesn't leave a lot of room to stand out and be something interesting

sanctumsys @sanctumsys.itch.io · 6h

mario in new super mario bros wii can get a penguin suit that lets him slide faster than running but becomes unable to readily turn around, along with the ability to throw snowballs to freeze enemies
supertux can't really slide and his snowballs are functionally identical to fireballs

sanctumsys @sanctumsys.itch.io · 6h

you ever think about how mario himself can do more penguin-related things than supertux can

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BoringKate @boringkate.com · 22h

Seeing game devs take a "the customer is always right" approach to feedback is so sad because like I get it from a PR perspective, but...

1) The customer is always wrong

2) Your customers are gamers, so they're twice as wrong

sanctumsys @sanctumsys.itch.io · 14h

i consider gamers an incidental casualty beside my actual target market, game designers

sanctumsys @sanctumsys.itch.io · 15h

i was going to say "itch usernames are probably fine because i've seen a few still functioning" but then i pasted a post into discord and realized it didn't embed, so the server issues are messing with *something* here

sanctumsys @sanctumsys.itch.io · 15h

pretty weird that itch, bluesky and youtube suddenly run into server issues all on the same day

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Kaiju - Monstrous Non-Binary ⚧️🦖 @enbykaiju.itch.io · 17h

Notable side effect of itch being down is that anyone (including me) using the itch io domain on our bsky accounts currently has an invalid handle

That's gonna be a lot of indie devs not being seen or heard

Make sure you check in on your favourite devs & share their work when things start working

itch.io @itch.io · 19h

🚧 Sorry everyone, it appears we're currently under a DDOS attack and our host, Linode, put a networking restriction on our main web server, meaning it isn't publicly available. We've reached out to them for more information. Hope to have an update soon.

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 16h

"we're gonna make a handheld that doesn't run unnecessary apps"

"what, like removing teams?"

"...we said unnecessary."

"...like teams?"

i note the laser dot on the microsoft rep's chest. ah. satya nadella is behind me with a sniper rifle right now, isn't he?

Jai @lowercasejai.bsky.social · 1d

LMAOOO WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE NEW XBOX HANDHELD COMES WITH MICROSOFT TEAMS AND ONEDRIVE INSTALLED??? this is the fucking goofiest company in games

a list of apps pre-installed on the Xbox ROG Ally including Microsoft Teams and Onedrive

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splendidland🌱 @splendid.land · 1d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=snYN... when you watch cartoons that look like this you'll understand everything.

Priit Parn Ja teeb trikke 1978

YouTube video by Patrycja Kasperkiewicz

www.youtube.com

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splendidland🌱 @splendid.land · 1d

also this is genuinely one of the coolest looking environments in any zelda game

landscape from Link: the faces of evil.

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splendidland🌱 @splendid.land · 1d

the animation in the zelda cdi games is good, gamers just weren't ready for their eastern european swag

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Dazure @neoncomet.bsky.social · 22h

It's that time of the year again

sanctumsys @sanctumsys.itch.io · 19h

we need to support game designers who understand what they're doing and can articulate those thoughts this well. we'll all make cooler, more artistically rich games

sanctumsys @sanctumsys.itch.io · 19h

make it happen people, game design as a field needs more writing like doc's. i genuinely might not have gotten back to making video games without these articles provoking the long-dormant game designer part of my mind again

doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 19h

so yeah, if you like these:

1) please share

2) please tip

That's all I'm asking for. I know shit's tight for everybody, I'm grateful for everything and I try to send a thank you to everyone I can (some of you have the ability to thank you through paypal turned off though)

sanctumsys @sanctumsys.itch.io · 19h

dammit itch is down, hope it's back up soon because i needed to reference something in a conversation

sanctumsys @sanctumsys.itch.io · 20h

youtu.be/j0ioHQdQnJQ

Going Downtown Bomberman 2 DS (OST)

YouTube video by ViviVGM

sanctumsys @sanctumsys.itch.io · 1d

i'm not giving up the ability to use my index in the name of security