Erik The GameDev
@eriktheviking.bsky.social
Senior Designer and Generalist Programmer. MMO, Extraction, TTRPG, Strategy, Gacha, and Tactics Games; from AAA to Indie I've done it all! they/them
Has there been the documentary on how McDonald's became the so shockingly stingy? There was some massive corporate crackdown placing hard limits on squares and swapping out incorrect food orders. "I don't care how lactose intolerant you are that bacon McGriddle with cheese better be fully intact"
Activision Halo... Activision Halo... Activision Halo... Activision Halo... Why did Activision Halo... Activision Halo... Why did Activision Halo happen? Why is Activision Halo? So Halo just sucks shit forever now? The fuck is the Activision going to do with Halo???? At least Marathon exists
Anakin would absolutely say some shit like "from my perspective the Jedi are evil." It is perhaps the most naturalistic line of dialogue George Lucas has ever written
"Heartbreaking: Your favorite video essay channel's next video is on wrestling."
Folding Ideas Sneak Peek | PAX West 2026
YouTube video by PAX
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I hate video essay framing devices so much, I've maybe only seen it done well like one time and yeah there are some otherwise very good channels that do it constantly and it hurts my soul every single time
Who wants to start a ripoff of Half In The Bag but about anime with me? We can all it Akai Kanji Media
Fighting Games and MTG have the exact same combo problem lol. Your ability to execute longer combos than an opponent is it similar advantage to having better cards. Juggling for 79% hp in an FG and combining off in Magic are equally boring for the other player.
Google has this stupid thing where it gives you AI prompts to use based upon your history and it's just so sad and dumb. I knew the Tarkov one would be wrong and sure enough even though it's supposedly drawing info from those sources it's EXTREMELY wrong. Context searching is bullshit
I am so annoyed that AI has made speech to text so much worse than it was even like 10 years ago. I am so used to using it and at this point it's genuinely not even worth it anymore
"People thought smartphones and the internet would be useless too." No they did not, that is not true, you are lying.
'Semantic Search' is the sole remaining cited actual use case for AI so you hear the people that are very tepid AI boosters, the kind that you see on very anti-AI places like the tech report, talk about it like it's extremely useful and borderline revolutionary. In reality its use is extremely niche
I have rarely seen a video I hate more than this one. youtu.be/73_2gOAT7Ec?...
Is The West Wing Actually Star Trek?
YouTube video by Trekspertise
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First Marathon game in over 2 months, I still got it 😎 (My teammates were both over lvl 350 lol)
Destroying my reddit karma posting positive things about Marathon lmao. This is from like 4 hours
Super annoying being right about things like 2KXO so long before it falters and yet no company is hiring me as a consultant. Riot I could have saved/made you a lot of money but you won't return my calls
And for all the talk of all the boosters and all of the actual component programs that swear by it, we have yet to see a single good or even impressively scaled product come out of it. The way they talk about it you'd think someone woulda made a proprietary engine for a AAA scale game by now lol
GlaireDaggers🍉🏳️⚧️🎄@glairedaggers.bsky.social · last mo."Unparalleled by humans" and yet it makes *at least* one, if not several, absolute dogshit decisions every single day that are so bad that even a junior dev would probably avoid them. If I did that at work I would probably be shitcanned.
Deliberately exposing myself to Destiny lore out of morbid curiosity and realizing that it's basically a Sci-Fi version of The Silmarillion (derogatory)
And why do toilets ever have the god damn U shape?! Your dick can hit the rim! It's the most disgusting thing in the world and then you have to wash the tip of your dick in scalding got water for 17 minutes!!!
🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮@unormal.bsky.social · last mo.toilets so shallow your balls go in the water are such hostile architecture like please you have very few jobs this seems like one of them
Is it normal to watch Bojack Horseman and thing "Man I would be a killer agent."
I don't think we talk enough about how awful it is that the term AI has been completely co-opted by LLMs and shit like it (no I do not like the term generative AI). I see laymen all the time and unrelated video essay is going "AI isn't all bad, even video games have AI"
Kind of wild for @paultassi.bsky.social to make a video retrospective about his incredibly inflammatory Marathon article and just kind of go 'yeah I was basically right about everything'. Especially given he was more been willing to lie about the 'entire style' being stolen youtu.be/6yjQisEnAQg?...
Revisiting My 'It's Just Over For Marathon' Article A Year Later
YouTube video by Paul Tassi
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It's tempting to blame content creators but no way, Halo 5's story was awful on a level that's difficult to describe. The culture vultures rarely are able to sway opinion, but basically nobody liked Halo 5. A new thing can be bad entirely on it's own independent from nostalgia for the old thing.
Sam (ABeardedPanda)@abeardedpanda.bsky.social · last mo.At this point I think Halo is cooked and it's cooked because of content creators because those guys will never be happy with a Halo game unless it perfectly replicates the exact same feelings they had when they were 14 which is impossible because they're all pushing 40
Microsoft will buy bungie back for $100 then we'll make a very similar version of Marathon in the Halo universe and this time will make a billion dollars. It's like history it rhymes
Nothing lasts forever, even Roblox. You can't treat creatives just getting started in the industry like shit forever, eventually the kids who made all the things people like playing will grow up and move on. They coulda been less greedy and lasted longer but they didn't and now they'll crumble.
IGN@ign.com · 2mo agoRoblox blames falling player numbers and in-game spending on its push to recommend less slop to kids, and there being no replacement for last year's viral hit Grow a Garden. https://bit.ly/4yXf1HH
