Ben 🦇🥌
@ben.batst.one
Pro Game Designer, amateur hole digger. Building social/systems at Dropfake working on @play-dcko.bsky.social. Prev: Linden Lab, Disney, Foxglove, Midwinter, Akili. Trying to build a better pig pen.
I'm sure it's good that over the past several days I have seen multiple vibecoding people say their individual versions of "yeah this is like playing a slot machine for me and I find it hard to stop and I love that actually"
You might have seen the original "no genAI seal" by @kanaratron.bsky.social. I've made the icon into a set of assets in both PNG and vector formats that can be more widely used in different contexts. You can find them here: www.joramwolters.com/no-gen-ai-ico/
Oh man, is it quarterly earning report time again? Looks like it’s getting Nina be a rough one.
Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 2w agoThe vehicle, which has been under development for a decade, will be Tesla’s only manual car. It can accelerate to 60 miles per hour in less than one second and achieve a top speed of 230mph. ft.trib.al/LCK9HwV
Still looking for writing work! Been about four months. I know everything is on fire, but still looking.
Zaire@zeestermeester.bsky.social · 5mo agoIf anyone is looking to hire a Peabody and BAFTA winning senior writer, I am looking for work. I’ve got six years experience in games. Everything from indie to AAA. I am not married to staying in games. I am hoping to relocate to the Bay Area. I am keeping my ears to the ground.
Probably around 5th grade when my school did a contest that required you to log all the books you read over the year, and I had read two orders of magnitude more than my "normal" peers.
Gail Simone@gailsimone.bsky.social · 2w agoQUESTION OF THE DAY: This sounds like a joke question, but it isn’t. If it doesn’t apply to you, fine. But it’s a serious question with different levels of meaning. And I am genuinely curious. When did you first realize you were weird?
Voter registration deadlines are SUNDAY in Alaska, Rhode Island, South Carolina. And MONDAY in: Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, and *Texas*. If you live in these states, verify your registration now, literally.
The number of game studios I interviewed at in the last 24 months that have had major layoffs or closed down since is astounding. It feels like dodging bullets like Neo in the Matrix, only to look down and see 3 shots to the gut from the places I did find work.
Maybe the most important political story of our time. People just want the bullshit to stop.
71% of Americans Say They're Completely Exhausted
A CDC report shows that people are not feeling relaxed and restful in the United States.
gizmodo.com
Personal recession indicator: fantasizing about winning a lottery I never play so that I can hire a trainer to help teach my lab not to pee on my wife’s piano.
If you become a Ravenous paid subscriber today, you’ll get a chance to have a single-figure illustration (i.e. an avatar, portrait or similar) drawn by cartoonist, illustrator, and Friend of Ravenous @mattielubchansky.com. We’ll be selecting three subscribers to win. Here’s how to enter:
my kid does this exact thing to me and I never understood why til today
Haus of Decline@hausofdecline.bsky.social · last mo.
OPPORTUNITY Madhead, Senior Narrative Designer Not affiliated. Shares welcome careers.madheadgames.com/jobs/senior-...
Senior Narrative Designer - Mad Head Games
Senior Narrative Designer at Mad Head Games
careers.madheadgames.com
This is why getting back into applying for jobs feels so GRIM
Radiant G🌈@radiantg.bsky.social · 2mo agoSometimes my feed is just: [amazing art] looking for work [goated resume] looking for work [great writing] looking for work [banger music] looking for work Dave Slutbutt, CEO of Game Dev, has laid off 9000 people to buy a 4th house in Bora Bora. [industry veteran] looking for work
for two months, I've been flying drones over Flock cameras to situation them in space and geography; I even got my commercial drone license in order to do it. I'd like to share this project with you all: it's called Records Of Enemy Surveillance: recordsofenemysurveillance.com
PAUL: What’s in the box? REVEREND MOTHER: Pain. [PAUL hesitantly puts his hand in the BOX, then FROWNS IN CONFUSION. He pulls out A BAGUETTE.] REVEREND MOHER: Hōn hōn,
The number of game studios I interviewed at in the last 24 months that have had major layoffs or closed down since is astounding. It feels like dodging bullets like Neo in the Matrix, only to look down and see 3 shots to the gut from the places I did find work.
So you are telling me that the amazing AI result was actually a regurgitation of stolen human creativity? I'm shocked.
After years of company stalling, Blizzard workers win mega-contract that applies to all unionized teams aftermath.site/blizzard-union...
Our sweet Buster hopes you are having a wonderful day ☺️
@hellojed.bsky.social they wouldn’t have canceled Project T if this was the truck..
about a cayce in the kinki region@cayce.zone · 2y ago1973 Ferves Ranger...beep beep
