I'm starting to realize that I'm less willing to go on search tangents or watch essays from creators I don't already *know* because mid-tier content I usually would at least peek at has a decent chance of just being a facsimile of content now.

I mean... ESPECIALLY the composer *cough cough*

I could have made a game called SilkSchlong! I've missed the perfect opportunity!

Oops! I got my graphics update in right before they locked out submissions for the ratings period!

The folks who get strict definitions stuck in their head are just banging their heads against the wall. I used to watch a single person who would go to every Steam game with the Roguelike tag and make a thread complaining about how each game was not fitting the Berlin Interpretation of Roguelikes

Joining a team as the "ideas person" and constantly demanding my other team members implement my terrible jokes

(I actually enjoy being a programmer and implementing my own terrible jokes, but if you tell me to design levels I will curl up into a ball)

The thing really throwing me is the vague hand waving at “PR issues”.

gameindustry dot biz showing up with the manufactured consent, hah

googling "can grapefruit suppress covid"

I have to wonder how many posts in that subreddit are llm generated posts that also get llm generated replies that they then generate a reply to the reply, because the most important thing is engagement even if no one is a real person to engage with

“Gambling but you can cheat” is a compelling hook that casinos should adopt

but have you considered these dark patterns make my brain go "brrrrrrrrzzzt"

me celebrating it being overcast and rainy instead of just hot and burning without any kind of respite

It's available on Steam with a 10% launch discount! store.steampowered.com/app/2212670/...

That said, I also was always a small projects dev. I think a lot of people will dive headlong into long projects, stick with them for years, and never have a chance to experiment and find that, out of like 6 prototypes, only 1 actually is market viable.

So I love working on tiny projects but I seem to have lost connection with my ability to finish. I REALLY did like when I was able to release a game every month or so in XBLIG days, but then my standards went weird after MYF. Now I seem to have trouble with staying w/ a project past the "fun" parts

I'm a machine that turns game ideas into unfinished prototypes.

The water from the sink dumps into the reservoir for the toilet for the next flush. I had them one of the first times I went to San Francisco at an "eco hotel"