Josh Busuito

@actionscripter.bsky.social

Detroit-ish | Developer of "Gunner, HEAT, PC!" | gunnerheatpc.com | he/him Fix your hearts or die https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ywnLQywz74

I don't know who needs to read this, but if your game's short summary includes a list of 3 imperatives sprinkled with emoji, I'm not playing it. Tell me why you cared enough to make the thing. Write something in your own voice, not the voice of a soulless marketing bot. #indiedev

I am not going to fucking relitigate, justify, or explain how I work every fucking time I mention not using Ai as part of the creative fucking process. It’s how I learn and discover what I’m really fucking making. So take your fucking army of agents and tokens and shove them up your fucking ass.

The botched development of SimCity 2013 was a formative moment for me. It flipped me instantly to the "never pre-order" camp and instilled a deep distrust of any and all big studio marketing claims. Plus, seeing Cities: Skylines pick up the slack shortly afterward proved a better world is possible.

woke stifler@yelix.bsky.social · last wk.

i fear that history has been rewritten so that the death of SimCity was as simple as “Cities: Skylines came out and was better and that was that.” let me tell you it was a lot more stupid than that

IMDb is now on my shit list. I visited briefly to read about a movie and they sent a welcome email to my personal inbox and made me an account. Utterly absurd violation of trust and really creepy to boot. Pretty sure they did this via shared tech from Amazon, so - as we all know - fuck Amazon too.

Sometimes I wonder, are the "smushed Shiba" goofballs gonna cling to the bit after it's all over and create something even more weird and stupid, or will they quietly rebrand to the next thing?

You gotta hand it to Discord for the app's technical mastery. Oh- no, not for live scroll or rendering media attachments or tracking forum unreads or handling spam, nothing important like that. I mean live-updating the UI to slap the Nitro cosmetics away the microsecond the subscription expires.

By some metrics, the American Midwest currently has the worst air quality in THE WORLD. Got me pulling the heavy gas/particulate filter masks out of the emergency supply stash so my asthmatic girlfriend doesn't have a medical incident on the way to work.

Seeing Lina Khan come out swinging from her new post on Zohran's team is legit uplifting. When you find someone who's motivated to do a good job and help people, you hold the fuck onto them and give them all the opportunity and support you can.

lindsey graham won't see your jokes and memes because he got diarrhea and is in hell now, but someone writing an op-ed titled "the left's problem with manners" might. So make them really funny.

One fun thing about video game community management is that you CAN gatekeep weird assholes and still succeed! You can ban transphobes and white supremacists on sight and then ignore them. What are they gonna do? Leave a bad review? Your principles are worth the few dollars you'd lose. Have a spine.

This is, let's say, severely tempered by the fact that seeing a never-ending train of KC-135, KC-46, and E-3 planes over the Persian Gulf means a bunch of unmarked attack jets are heading out to kill innocent people and fuck up civilian infrastructure so some Republican cabinet members can get hard.

Josh Busuito@actionscripter.bsky.social · 4w ago

Now when I see a rare plane, instead of just screenshotting it to soyjak about on Discord, I can get a little collector card that says I caught it. So good!

Our religious Right are so cooked. Aside from ignoring the stuff about loving your neighbor, caring for the poor, welcoming immigrants - they've def never read Ecclesiastes. Never ask “Why does the past seem so much better than now?” because this question does not come from wisdom. - Ecc. 7:10, ISV