I posit that looksmaxxing is the new incarnation of the spirit behind unironically asking people "do you even lift?"
Eduardo Escudero
@amonjerro.bsky.social
Game dev. Peruvian. Huevón a tiempo completo. Bat Bots is finally live on Steam! Go play it! It's couch co-op! It's free! https://store.steampowered.com/app/3099010/Bat_Bots/
Minimum requirements to qualify for political astuteness: Noticing there is a problem then offering a solution. Mamdani truly is a devious schemer.
cait (and adonis)@cait.bsky.social · 6d agothat is very literally how taxes work
It's easy to forget, but there was once a time before people heard the opening riff of Raining Blood. Times used to be truly dark
A few times over the course of my life, I've developed skills to be competent at something out of spite. It mostly happens when someone says "this is one of those things that only a few people can understand, so don't bother" Fuck you, I'll bother - watch me. Hearing about AI elicits the same.
Absolute dogshit job in paint - as a good meme should be
really excited to see my friends’ game, Bait and Tackle, ran at SGDQ on Thursday!
Currently replaying FFVIII and going through some of their design decisions. Right now I'm baffled by the inexplicable choice of making a stop/go minigame for train sequence where RED is go and BLUE is stop.
It goes it goes it goes it goes it goes it goes it goes CREATINEEEEEEEE
I like how the goose ominously appears in this slide transition without mention. I find it to be like a prog song, where a riff is building in the background, ready to become the main melody after a few bars.
Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · 2mo agoSoftBank’s investor presentation is one of the greatest things ever made. I’ve been thinking about it all day. These are the real slides shown in a speech where Masayoshi Son said he wouldn’t retire for at least another decade. The goose stuff is truly demented. Bravo group.softbank/media/Projec...
This fucking sucks. The UI Database is an incredible resource and Edd's work is nothing short of heroic
Edd Coates | Game UI Database@eddcoates.bsky.social · 2mo agoI am so fucking sick of my website getting scraped. Millions of requests per minute, somehow designed to bypass all my security rules, choking the site until it completely stops loading. If I were paying for bandwidth, it would cost me a fortune. How is this legal?
Microsoft Teams, amidst its many hell-like features, has a notification it pushes whenever it's checking for new messages. This causes the phone to vibrate and is indistuingishable from actual messages until you open the phone and see Teams was informing you there is nothing to inform. I hate it.
They fuckin got me. Absolutely fiendish, I tell you.
Eduardo Escudero@amonjerro.bsky.social · 2mo agoIn what I can only describe as a villanous marketing tactic, a bakery just opened at the entrance of my gym's building and no one is more entitled to a sweet baked good as a treat for doing their exercise than gym patrons. Dastardly.
Bro, how do you cool data centers in space? It's a vacuum - there is no convection or conduction; only radiation. I don't give a shit about the robots or construction costs - how do you - physically - dissipate the enormous heat created by vast arrays of GPUs processing dumbass queries?
Semafor@semafor.com · 2mo agoBuilding data centers in space could be cost-effective by the early 2030s. www.semafor.com/article/06/1...
Amazing read. A true step by step of design, worth for every aspiring dev
doc@docseuss.bsky.social · 2mo agoNEW ARTICLE! You ever wonder why some people don't enjoy games that they oughtta be able to? How much control should a player have over the game experience? Whose responsibility is it to have fun? The player? Or the designer? Check this out: docseuss.medium.com/have-you-hea...
Broke: I have a producer that sets deliverables deadlines for our game so we keep work progressing apace. Woke: My niece really, really wants to play my games and if I make her wait I am a bad person and a poop-head.
"We see a future where intelligence is a utility like electricity or water and people buy it from us on a meter and use it for whatever they want to use it for" I remember what happened with Bolivia's privatized water. If you intend a utility to be privatized, prepare for a rough time.
Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · 2mo agoToday Microsoft moved all its GitHub copilot subscribers to token-based billing. If you want to see what happens when people have to pay the actual costs of AI, the day is finally here. It's obvious that every customer sees the deep, meaningful value and isn't angry at all.
In what I can only describe as a villanous marketing tactic, a bakery just opened at the entrance of my gym's building and no one is more entitled to a sweet baked good as a treat for doing their exercise than gym patrons. Dastardly.
Artificer/tinkerer wizard perpetually frustrated by one cog in their system not turning at the expected rate, fucking up everything up in unexpected and hard to debug ways.
Seems like I picked up a few followers from the starter pack, so it's a good time to say hi! I'm a Peruvian dev currently on a project close to my heart that I hope to showcase (in early state) soon. I mostly shitpost, post shower thoughts and, once in a blue moon, some game dev.
Bitch, I made croissants. My hubris knows no bounds.
Worldbuilding be like: "ok, so I want to set up a tavern for the opening scene. Time to figure out the economics, sociology, culinary history, religion, architectural developments, geology, geography, meteorology and political structures of the setting to figure out what drinks they serve here"
Making a gym playlist like I'm walking through the aisles of a supermarket. "Oh, since I'm in the Thrash Metal aisle I should pick up some Evile and some Kreator. Then over to the Tech Death aisle because I'm low on Necrophagist"
If a tree falls in the woods and the shareholders and prediction markets don't profit from it, did it really happen?
I wonder how we need to revisit McLuhan's "The medium is the message" in a post-LLM world. An LLM tool is, on further inspection, an entirely new medium. Despite the transformer acting as receiver, it repurposes the information of its training in ways that transcend whatever content it outputs.
Cinema peaked with 2003's The Core. I refuse to elaborate further.