TrooperBari
@trooperbari.bsky.social
Have notebook, will travel. Indie game aficionado, "Asia hand" (whatever that means), too stubborn or cowardly to quit newspapers. Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/trooperbari YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@trooperbari
It always comes back to this for me; if AI was so good, such a disclosure would be a selling point. If AI was everything these slop jockeys said it was, they should be proud to let people know their game was AI made. But the proof is in the pudding, and they can't stand that people don't want it.
Kim Hu@kim-hu.com · 9h agoI can't believe he's still at it, it's been days
TONIGHT: Our coverage of #SteamNextFest begins! We're doing a demo dash to get through more games this time around, so every demo has 1 hour to cook. We're starting with Thornspell by Modach Games, a gardening-based Balatro-like. Live NOW at www.twitch.tv/trooperbari/!
TrooperBari - Twitch
Professional wanderer, amateur variety streamer. Long-time ink-stained wretch seeing if there's something to this "video" fad. — TrooperBari streams live on Twitch! Check out their videos, sign up to ...
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We're diving into #NextFest on stream tonight, but I want to send some love to games whose demos I've already played and you should try. We start with Merry Crisis by @monsoongames.bsky.social, a romance VN about love, loss, and where you truly feel at home. store.steampowered.com/app/3975250/...
Merry Crisis on Steam
Three loves. One week. Merry Crisis is an intimate, character-driven romance visual novel about love, loss, and belonging—is home what you left behind, or where you're headed?
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weird how the first two things to be noticed were “Protect the Dolls” and pronoun pins, strange how that’s centred around a particular type of identity, what an odd coincidence.
this is what the government means when it’s talking about a “distinctly British AI” btw, the ability to airbrush out any individuality or expression into an homogenous blob.
Leicester Gazette@leicestergazette.leicester.news · 14h agoTwo University of Leicester students speak out over ‘absurd’ and ‘Orwellian’ decision by the BBC and ITV Studios to edit out pride pins worn on University Challenge
It's cute when some ppl who don't live in Hong Kong say life in Hong Kong hasn't changed since the NSL was pushed on us, because it most definitely has.
Tom Grundy@tomgrundy.hongkongfp.com · 2d agoHKFP's timeline of disbanded groups: hongkongfp.com/2026/02/19/e...
Weird how the CCP keeps driving unions and labour groups to disband. Almost seems as though they aren’t actually socialist.
Tom Grundy@tomgrundy.hongkongfp.com · 2d agoHKFP's timeline of disbanded groups: hongkongfp.com/2026/02/19/e...
Not the top Steam review of Dressmaker making me cry this morning!
Good news! I can confirm that Fansly and OnlyFans links are no longer blocked!
Bonnicula | Vampire Vtuber ⚧@bonnicula.bsky.social · yesterdayHuge. Looks like the 'adult links are blocked' thing in the bio links is actually being addressed!
TONIGHT: Next Fest is upon us, but the Iron Road DLC for The Long Dark lands on Tuesday. Let's take a chill evening, dust off an old run, and do some prep work so we can explore Caldera Island with confidence. I need a backpack and a moosehide satchel. Live NOW at www.twitch.tv/trooperbari/!
TrooperBari - Twitch
Professional wanderer, amateur variety streamer. Long-time ink-stained wretch seeing if there's something to this "video" fad. — TrooperBari streams live on Twitch! Check out their videos, sign up to ...
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Okay, I really need to sleep now, but I will leave you with this PSA: The Next Fest page is good now. I spent three hours and found *fifty* games you can play NOW, that I had never heard of before, and all look cool. Many look very weird. The only AI use is a couple that use machine translation.
Dominic Tarason@dominictarason.com · 3d agoOkay, now the Next Fest page is set to Personalized by default, it's giving me some REAL sicko stuff (positive, laudatory even), like... RUIN: 35th ANNIVERSARY DEFINITIVE EDITION A remaster of a game that never existed.
Honestly and you're all going to hate how simple it is. Rowling likes being in the spotlight, her 'concerns' are all about her being a massive twat bully ... and centering herself. That's all it is, someone who loves bullying and centering herself...with a billion dollars and a moldy castle.
Billie Jean Sweeney@billiejsweeney.bsky.social · yesterdayRowling *never* writes about women’s rights, workplace discrimination or the threats to women from predatory men. I tracked her posts for five months: Well over 200 hateful transphobic smears. Not a single post about women’s actual concerns or needs None
KICKSTARTER UPDATE!!! As soon as Next Fest wraps up I will finish building the campaign's page and will eventually launch it in November! Go follow the pre launch page to be notified when it goes live! Thanks!! 🥰 #indiegame #gamedev #kickstarter #darkrooms
Coming soon: Incoherence: Dark Rooms
A first-person survival horror puzzle game inspired by Blue Prince and classics like Resident Evil and Silent Hill.
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Fun fact: We're also seeing the same sort of backlash against trans people! No, there isn't an "epidemic" of transness. People are just more aware of it now, and accordingly a bit more able to (and less afraid to) transition. bsky.app/profile/jude...
Jude@judeinlondon.com · 2d agoImagine if we’d spent the 1970s accusing left-handed ppl of faking it because more of them suddenly appeared once teachers stopped beating it out of kids. That’s basically where we are with the ADHD and autism discourse. Anyway, I wrote 1500 words on this for @zeteo.uk zeteo.uk/p/there-is-n...
If you use ai generators, I hate you.
Just ran across yet another "[a food you buy] has weird ingredients in it that you can't pronounce." As the kids say, skill issue. If you'd paid attention in your various science classes you'd be able to pronounce them, and also know that few (likely none) of them are weird.
I wrote this as a parody of the kind of thing I saw some slopware "developers" saying and I wish I could say this was a wild exaggeration, but the amount of games in my inbox where the AI disclosure was a god damn manifesto... They're so angry that people don't want to play games they didn't make.
Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃@caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 6mo agoLately I've noticed the AI generated slopware being sent to me has gone from special pleading about how they're just small little devs to full on Sephiroth posting in the AI Generated Content Disclosure sections, and it's an incredible evolution in slopware purveyors. (The below is just an example)
Goddamn did I need to hear someone with actual influence and power say this right now
More Perfect University@mpuniversity.bsky.social · 2d agoTrans voter to @aoc.bsky.social: Trans people in America feel like they've been abandoned by the Democratic Party, that we are a losing issue, that it's not worth defending us. What do you say to that? AOC:
It would be lovely if the video games industry would let the people who make the games buy food
Oh, are AI haters becoming "unhinged" now? Does it seem like we're everywhere no matter what you do? Are we ruining being online for you? Are you feeling like you can't do anything without us making your experience worse? Is it like we can't be escaped even though you want nothing to do with us?
I was moving furniture around the apartment last night and stupidly lifted with my back instead of my legs. Instantly feel 30 years older. Fully horizontal or vertical is fine, anything in between is awful. Panadol helping so far. First person to suggest acupuncture gets kicked in the shins.
Don’t think most people in the west realize outside of the highly publiziced jailing of dissidents and arrests of booksellers, HKSARG has been chipping away at freedoms which on the surface have very little to do with democracy but actually have everything to do with democracy
Tom Grundy@tomgrundy.hongkongfp.com · 3d agoA Hong Kong press group has urged the government to scrap new rules tightening media access to the city’s land records, warning that the arrangements will “exacerbate information asymmetry” and harm freedom of information. hongkongfp.com/2026/10/21/h...
in the narrative of this ad, kyle, our white plagiarist, isn't even depicted as worried about his own job performance; he steals labor because seeing someone who's not a white guy being praised "really got to him" if that doesn't sum up where we are with all of this, i don't know what does
Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 3d agoThe first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...
it would be cool if this outcome got the same amount of coverage as the anti-trans ads that caused it. would be cool if the people impacted by political rhetoric were treated with as much care and attention as those pushing it receive
gwen howerton@kissphoria.bsky.social · 3d agoNew: OutYouth, an LGBTQ+ youth program in Austin, says it's briefly closing for safety reasons because it was mentioned in the fake trans resource guide pamphlets that went out this week across Texas - www.chron.com/culture/arti...
Avi Lewis, leader of Canada's federal NDP, comments on the Bioware closure.
with sloppy (but convincing enough) AI vibeclones on the rise, developers now face a future in which a steady stream of pre-release videos, demos, and playtests—the only reliable way to promote and build community—could be their game’s undoing
![“For new devs there [used to be] two ways of making games and getting some attention,” games industry veteran Rami Ismail—whose game, Ridiculous Fishing, was infamously cloned way back in 2013—told Aftermath. “You either make a big game that takes years, build a community around it by painstakingly and consistently building community around it, and then hope that by the time you launch your Next Fest demo you have the wishlists and momentum to not just disappear into the quicksand; or you build something ‘hook-y’ fast, post [quickly], and have it ready to launch if it goes viral. If it doesn't, you just move on.”
“Both of those models are now incredibly risky,” he explained. “The slow one because sloppers can literally see what is gaining momentum and copy the aesthetic and gameplay, launch fast and simply dupe a lot of players with an inferior and cynical game. The original will remain a superior game, but the winds will be out of [its] sails, and countless people will believe they're playing the original that they've seen a few times on the internet. The faster one is risky because ultimately, the development speed and hook-y nature of the game makes the idea and basic implementation the ‘golden’ part, but they're also very fast to clone. So as soon as something [gains] momentum, anyone with resources can burn a few grand stealing it, launching it, and making sure the actual creator never sees any opportunity.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5gdejlhcswjbzraadoltdpps/bafkreidje6aksv7wdvpwl2cbih54mekmezjbfeh53aszqgfy5pxb2d646u)
Aftermath@aftermath.site · 3d agoGame developers fear that thieving AI vibecoders will make free game demos a thing of the past aftermath.site/steam-next-fes...
