Hex.EXE
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chaotic good security analyst, former network engineer hobby game dev / gunpla / embarrassing nerd stuff most posts are temporary - get 'em while they're hot make stuff with intent and care www.ghostgate.net
If Path of Exile 2 didn't win it by default by releasing in December, Galactic Racer would be my GOTY
Every "AI" coder I talk to insists that it's only everyone else who is using the "AI" wrong, and they're the one true non-slop slopcoder
In 2002, Blizzard nailed the incredible art design of WarCraft 3. The impact of that game has resulted in nearly 25 years of shameless mobile games, F2P games, and now AI slop games all doing a worse version of that same style.
Square Enix "relaunched" its 'Square Enix Collective' co-publishing/funding operation with BetaDwarf's 'Vaultbreakers', a game developed with generative AI:
Love is real and it's two strangers in an MMO jumping up and down.
every company using "ai" has split its workforce into two groups: those who are useless hacks and those who suddenly want to kill themselves
there's a lot of corporate employment tropes that people rightfully loathe but I feel the one I hear the least about that is pretty high on the scale of what makes that environment so fucking dreadful is being surrounded by people who are deeply incurious and incapable of helping themselves
thank you!! @lmaonadestand.bsky.social for drawing one of my elves after a long day of fightin' robots
I’m increasingly of the belief that we’ve never truly left the Great Financial Crisis. Everything we’re dealing with today started there, and every excess and problem stems from the US government’s failure to contain or eradicate its causes.
unfortunately I'm back in the pit of despair and so all of my personal projects have come to standstill until that changes
It would not be an exaggeration to say Microsoft has singlehandedly obliterated a large % of the North American AAA industry at this point
I think the biggest part preventing me from enjoying most of the NES library is having grown up with so many Flash games that may as well have been NES games, anything that doesn't exceed the length or complexity of something you would find on Albino Blacksheep in the 00's leaves me uninterested
Bungie really doing the legwork on finding out how many times a single company can ask for a second chance
"learn blender?" Umm yeah i throw tha fruits in there and press smoothie LOL
"there is no ethical consumption under capitalism" seems to create two parties: the "...therefore, i should do my best to avoid the most unethical things" type, and the "...so it doesn't matter and i'm free to do whatever" type
god i love videogames. have you heard about "places"? they are called locations
fascinated by the modern narcissus, the fool that makes language that can write itself and ascribes it to some animating spirit
I finally finished painting this Dark Revenant, strength build version:
Beer isn't addictive. It makes you more sociable and is a great way to spend time with friends. That's why I have eight of them a day: because I love talking to my friends so much
walking around on foot is the most valuable function a video game has
My daughter’s latest masterpiece
yeah I don't think I'm gonna hit my (admittedly very hopeful) October demo timeline lol