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Richard Meredith

Richard Meredith

@rtm223.me

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Game developer @foldedfox.games | Previously: Bad North, Little Nightmares, LittleBigPlanet | He/Him http://mastodon.gamedev.place/@rtm223

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Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · Sep 26

Also in exciting news: I've published my little blueprint exceptions plugin on the Fab store. It lets you raise blueprint exceptions from Blueprints and CPP using Assert and Verify behaviors. With support for auto-breakpointing on errors and custom diagnostic messages

www.fab.com/listings/e3a...

RTM Blueprint Exceptions

A plugin providing a clean and easy way to implement Blueprint Exceptions in your UE5 codebase, from Blueprints or cpp code, with automatic breakpointing on errors and integration with the Message Log...

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squeaky from:me @skeet.best · 11h

BABIES ARE BORN
WORSHIPPING
UNKNOWN GODS

— DWARF FORTRESS, BUG REPORT #13172

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Younès ★ @pyrofoux.bsky.social · 15h

Just want you to know that when I asked Geoff why he gave the silent treatment to an open letter written by his own "future of games" program (& co-signed by 3000+ industry peers), he replied:

"Because that's my show and nobody gets to tell me how I should use my platform". 💀💀💀

Keza MacDonald @mackeza.bsky.social · 21h

“Don’t gather some of the most brilliant activists in the industry, treat us like crap, and then expect us to do nothing about it.” After the Game Awards cancelled its Future Class programme, @alyssamerc.bsky.social talked to its former honorees

www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...

“We were effectively props”: young stars of game development feel let down by the ‘gaming Oscars’

Announced in 2020 by the Game Awards as an inclusive programme for the industry’s next generation, the Future Class initiative has now been discontinued. Inductees describe clashes with organisers and...

www.theguardian.com

Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · 9h

Yeah, I think diffused 3500k is what I have for painting minis. Also for behind the camera on video calls. Generally an unpleasant vibe, but useful

Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · 9h

Took me so long to get around to properly exploring them, which was a huge mistake.

Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · 9h

Finally for reference

2700k is roughly the warmth of a standard incandescent. Lower is warmer/softer, good for low level cosy lamps. Higher is cooler /harsher, good for work areas

800 lumens is roughly a 60W incandescent light bulb, but an LED build will consume much less power

Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · 9h

Finally work lights, at 3000k+ (cool white) for under the kitchen cabinets and at my desk for painting miniatures. Very bright and somewhat harsh but also diffused and don't cast shadows so great for working with my aging eyes

Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · 9h

That's for ceiling lights. All very high lumen (1000ish) because dimmable

Big caveat is you need LED dimmers and those will require you to run the earth wire down to the wall switch

Then i have a shit load of lamps at 2200k (very warm), between 80-150 lumens, that are what I use in the evenings

Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · 9h

A few years ago, I overhauled all my lighting and the MVP is Phillips WarmGlow. It's a dimmable LED bulb (numerous socket types), that gets warmer as it dims. 2700k at max brightness and 2200k at min. Has incredible range as well so you can dim it right down to a barely visble cosy ambiance

Chet Faliszek @chetsucks.com · 10h

Mental exhaustion

40 years of buying lightbulbs… what wattage? 10 years of look at all these new plug types and now?

This lightbulb can play happy birthday on your birthday. This one has Wi-Fi. This one changes tones based on your mood… this one?

I am not smart enough to know what glow I want

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 14h

in a long life filled with saying stupid shit this is may be the stupidest shit he's ever said

Elon Musk: With Optimus, we might be able to stop putting people in prison.

“If somebody's committed a crime, we might be able to provide a more humane form of containment of future crime. You now get a free Optimus, and it's just going to follow you around and stop you from doing crime. Other than that, you get to do anything; it's just going to stop you from committing crime. That's really it. You don't have to put people in prisons and stuff. It's pretty wild to think of all the possibilities, but I think it's clearly the future.”

Tesla Shareholder Meeting, November 6,

Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · 17h

Noooop. She's chilled out a bit today, but still not happy

Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · 1d

Tiny kitten staying with me right now. He's very sweet but Loppan has opinions

#CatsOfBluesky

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Sebastian Larsson @mnniska.bsky.social · 1d

Drill Bird is now on Steam!! ⛏️🐦✨

I am really happy with how joyful this lil game felt to make, and how it turned out. I hope people like it! 🥰 store.steampowered.com/app/3809940/...

Save 17% on Drill Bird on Steam

Drill Bird is a cozy-yet-tense digging platformer where every trip underground counts. Play as a bird fallen from the sky, in search for powerful ores to hatch your Egg. Get home before night falls, u...

store.steampowered.com

Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · 1d

If you've been tagging all your reference posts, then it should be possible to set up a custom feed that is "posts by me, tagged #reference", that you can pin to your profile and people can follow

I've not used it, but a service like blueskyfeedcreator.com should make that pretty easy to set up

Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · 2d

Ok, so jokes aside, this is a great adaption of the story and also manages to land with such a sense of beauty and emotional payoff that GDT excels at

Might not push out Sinners for my favourite of this year, but it's very close

Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · 2d

I'm just over halfway through Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein and I dunno you guys, I'm starting to wonder if maybe this creature isn't a monster at all 🤔

Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · 4d

Elon has been desperately trying to calibrate Grok towards more right-wing content for ages and now it's asking children for nudes

Is this not just a statistical proof of pedocon theory?

Dr Ben Wolfe @benwolfevision.bsky.social · 4d

Today's entry in "why your chatbot, particularly that one, should not be in general deployment"

"My car asked my kids a shocking and inappropriate question. That’s how I realized there are few safe spaces anymore" in the Toronto Star [gift link]

www.thestar.com

Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · 4d

1930 on that graph like "nothing to see here!"

Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · 5d

I very rarely acknowledge that part of my life, and it's been decades since I've had those impulses, I'm ok

But reading this terrifies me for vulnerable youth and it is sickening that we're being constantly pushed a technology who's purpose is "harm at scale" as the future of everything

Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · 5d

I spent several years as a teenager dealing with suicidal ideation *every single day*. I have scars from cutting myself with razor blades as a release valve for those feelings

If ChatGPT was available to me at that time I probably wouldn't be here today

This shit is abhorrent

CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 5d

ChatGPT advised a suicidal young woman on how to take her own life, telling her "If you choose death, I'm with you - till the end, without judging."

I wanted ChatGPT to help me. So why did it advise me how to kill myself?

ChatGPT wrote a woman a suicide note and another AI chatbot role-played sexual acts with children, BBC finds.

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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 5d

The fact that 30% of our stock market is wrapped up in “help-kids-kill-themselves” technology seems to be an important datapoint in the evolution of late stage capitalism.

CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 5d

ChatGPT advised a suicidal young woman on how to take her own life, telling her "If you choose death, I'm with you - till the end, without judging."

I wanted ChatGPT to help me. So why did it advise me how to kill myself?

ChatGPT wrote a woman a suicide note and another AI chatbot role-played sexual acts with children, BBC finds.

Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · 5d

Are you just passing the controller around when characters change? That's what we did when we played it, each new pov character got assigned to one of us, and we role played their character choices

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 5d

Also can video game journalists, please, please stop framing QA as a 'gateway' into the industry or a way for people to get their foot in the door so they can go into 'more creative' disciplines? QA is its own specialized field which requires very capable and specialized professionals.

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Commander Sterling @commandersterling.bsky.social · 5d

Game publisher execs are about two more fads away from putting all their faith in literal magic beans.

They went all-in on services, all-in on NFTs, all-in on AI. Every time they’re convinced they’ve invested in a divine cure-all.

They believe in magic the way a child might. Except kids learn.

Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · 5d

After all these years I'm still haunted by

"Class A (Legal) : "PS" and "Vita" must not be separated by line breaks [MUSTFIX]"

(we did not have support for non-breaking spaces in our game 😰)

A code snipped that says

PS Vita

Which, in html would produce the term "PS Vita" and make the space between the words unable to break over lines

Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · 5d

The time management mechanic in the Séance of Blake Manor is both very neat and also very stressful. I have absolutely no idea how much time I can afford to spend on anything and it's really good