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woke up this afternoon to find bb sleeping caught in a headlock by his own back legs. why can't i sleep this easily??
This “core team” rhetoric is getting really weird. Games that take hundreds of people to make take hundreds of people to make. Just say it! We’re reinventing “QA is in another building and aren’t real devs” from first principles
Star Wars: Galactic Racer was made by a core team of 75 people. "What we wanted to do was keep that core small, smaller than perhaps you might have done in the past, and scale capacity and capability with what we call distributed development." https://bit.ly/4hT02qg
“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest
🍁Autumn Adopts🍁 I wrote a little lore for each of them here: toyhou.se/42252699.aut... And you can get them all here: ko-fi.com/monstromer/s... 🍁Reposts appreciated❤️!
bsky has decided since i now have a blackberry-esque phone i can no longer access the button to correctly add alt text. it's off-screen. smh.
thoughts i had like 5 seconds apart: 1) my brain is like a database specifically for bugs. 2) oh no. my brain is jira.
getting my ABF tattoo shaded tomorrow, seeing / maybe buying a car sunday, hopefully adopting a new cat soon. big shakeups in the world of sev 🌐
With Call of Duty release near and no union contract in sight, Activision workers authorize strike aftermath.site/activision-qa-...
holy fuck i just saw dropout's trailer for MP3 and like. do the Kids These Days even remember TRL. i don't know but i am so fucking here for this i am so excited.
Please reply to this post with your nomination for the BEST FOOD DEPICTION IN A GAME IN 2026 award. Include an visual of the food depiction and the name of the game. This will be decided by vote. This award is NEW for this year!
Happy 32nd Birthday The first proposal of Cascading HTML Style Sheets! On October 10, 1994, the Norwegian programmer Håkon Wium Lie published the first proposal of Cascading HTML style sheets.
last night i was literally playing dressmaker in my dream. like just sat at my laptop playing the game fucking up the sewing making more dresses. that's what i get for playing like 4 hours of dressmaker while high before bed i guess.
I don’t want everything tailored to my interests I want stuff made by perverts and sickos that makes me think about stuff differently
fav dress i've made so far and it sold for a PITTANCE despite spending like ages on it. smh. just like real life.
In 2001, we really thought this was what the future of web design would look like.
my mom: yaoi.... that's, like, another name for god, right?
With distance, Kain throwing Raziel into the pit in Soul Reaver for looking extra is the bitchiest origin story in gaming.
god grant me the dexterity to dodge the attacks I cannot guard; the timing to perfect parry the attacks I can; and the wisdom to know the difference
i already have 12 hours in Antivirus Survivors 2003 Professional, i have a problem.
oh i hope [redacted for spoilers] from dressmaker kills me i would do anything for her
sorry can we talk about how this room is labeled "cave room"
#CursedZillow carpeted interior
Laserdiscs, Laser players, XBR monitors... If you had a *lot* of disposable cash in 1989, then you too could enjoy a new dimension in anime clarity. 📖: Animag Issue 7, 1989
hey i forgot that a uv bath for humans is literally just going outside
going to think of my hip surgery next week like those asmr vintage pc restoration channels. my body is just a PC from 92 that needs to be taken apart, repaired, then reassembled. 😌 a uv bath would probably do me some good too tbh