SpOoKy Budgie

@electricbudgie.bsky.social

Just a lil' lightning birb screaming at the void~ Also the idiot writing at https://finallyfantasy.blog like it's 2006

I genuinely mean this. I cannot imagine a more bleak dystopian notion than the idea of all art being turned into slop designed to coddle my exact perceived intentions. The point of literature, film, music, and art is to be exposed to the interior lives of others. Who are these people.

Bugs, Yaoist@bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 4d ago

maybe i'm old fashion but the coolest thing about video games is being taken to new worlds that i hadn't thought up and experiencing something exciting that the artists behind the game want to show me

Paul Ifeanyichukwu Gabriel @ @...•2h
Can you explain to me like a 5 yrs old ?

Nikita Bier
@nikitabier • 2h

Every video game -- and every piece of software -- will be personalized exactly to your preferences.

today marks a whopper of an anniversary as we released the very first episode of Retronauts on October 4, 2006. Twenty years of podcasts! Thank you for listening for two entire decades. What's your favorite episode or Retronauts memory?

a screengrab of 1up.com listing Retronauts Episode 1: 10/4/2006
(the topic was Final Fantasy III and its recent port to the Nintendo DS)the banner art for the Retronauts blog on 1up.com featuring an astronaut in front of a colored rainbow. We're still partial to this theme all these years later!

i posted an epiphany i had about why i hate AI so much on fedi and i wanna post it here but it won't fit and i don't wanna cut it down to size so fuckit i'm just posting a screenshot

Eniko Fox
@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

OH. right! i get it now!

i get why AI is so depressing to me. because covid already shrunk my world to almost nothing, where almost all of my life revolves around socializing and watching videos on the internet (which is being ruined by AI) and creating creative works through coding (which is being ruined by AI), often using open source tools and libraries (which are being ruined by AI)

i already had so little and now even that is being rotted away before my eyes
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I saw this screenshot going around, found this detail charming, looked more into the game (I've never played a Silent Hill) & decided to buy it. Btw these are the "unimportant" background assets AI idiots think AI should be used for

Screenshot of a Twitter post by Val / @shegoingtogloat - it's a Silent Hill screenshot showing a close up of a cork board. On it, a paper says "Welcome to Shorefront Family Clinic" in a classic wiggly 3D font style. The tweet text is: Is this a Silent Hill asset made using PowerPoint lol"

modern software development is toxic af now (it probably always was and I didn't notice sooner) and I have no interest on getting back into the industry anyway now I'm learning 6502 assembly, finishing up a minecraft mod, and writing a final fantasy blog as some kind of coping mechanism

a thumbs up at an intro to NES programming tutorial while, unpictured, behind the camera the poster desperately tries to hold it together

Hello. I am a bird who is also on the internet and has made the stupid decision to write a blog in 2026 about making their way through the Final Fantasy games (in U.S. release order). I do software development and maybe I will someday post other stuff I have done.