Dan Gerstein

@pebby.net

Game Director for Free Stars: Children of Infinity at @pistolshrimpgames.com Formerly Toys for Bob (Skylanders, Madagascar, Tony Hawk’s Downhill Jam). Opinions are my birds’. he/him

There are two wolves. One always lies. One controls the lever of trolley track. They're in a state of superposition inside a box. On the trolley are infinite monkeys at infinite typewriters going to an infinite hotel. The trolley must first travel halfway, but before that a quarterway, and so on...

System update. Want to make application. Make application from CLI. Send for notarization. You have not agreed to the Xcode license. Type command in terminal to agree. Type agree. Build application. No identity in keyring. Do you want to use new keyring application or old keyring? It’s the future.

Fun fact: Taylor Farms was her original stage name. She changed it to “Swift” to help promote the launch of Apple’s programming language.

Game pitch: Recursion Cookie Clicker. Each click spawns a new window which spawns a new window which spawns a new window which spawns a new window which spawns a new window. STACKOVERFLOW_ERR

As usual I wish I had more time to actually watch Summer Games Done Quick but a constant background of nerds having fun and yelling “trans rights” over video game sounds while I work is still a week I look forward to every year.

If I were the CEO of a Fortune 500 company I would show these two things as PowerPoint slides and people would be nodding and clapping.

A pencil sketch of a series of squares with two arrows pointing either way. An oval in the middle says “OMG”A 3x3 grid pencil sketch with numbers 1 through 8 written in the boxes. The middle box says “WOW”

When they said video games were poisoning kids’ minds I think—given the current climate—they were probably referring to Dandy from Beast Breaker. Disgusting!!

A screenshot of the game Beast Breakers. A cute cartoon cockatiel in a suit is talking to a mouse. The cockatiel, Dandy, says “Why, my father is adamant that those of us with privilege must pass it on to those who are less fortunate.”