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@giwake.bsky.social

she/they, girlthing 20something game dev programmer by necessity. trying to get the hang of this posting thing. profile picture by @thewaether.bsky.social

ever since i've been around this space there's been a narrative of "(x viral success) proves The People want innovation!" and it almost always just leads to a series of increasingly craven imitators. you can't build a whole industry out of people trying to win the lottery. it's absurd.

headfallsoff@headfallsoff.com · 4d ago

i love how common the we need more games like [massive longshot million to one success] to save The Industry is as a take. sounds both sustainable and possible to plan for

that one big article about how a bunch of americans were taught how to read wrong changed everything for me. now when i get a comment about something i never actually said i think oh, are you one of the kids that got taught three cueing instead of phonics? are you half guessing what i said

found out that FANTAVISION 202X was pulled from the playstation store after only three years, so i fired it up this morning to see if i could get to the end credits. this game is super fun and honestly makes me drool a little. there are a lot of pretty colors to get lost in… 🤤

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my final chost before cohost shut down was kind of cheesy as fuck but I stand by it 100%. Everything's hard and it's so easy to get swept up in the nightmare, but there's things that make life worth living.

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congratulations, with the help of Claude, now this game that you used to have to run through an emulator can now be run as a windows executable. aren't you so glad you can run pepsiman from an exe file instead of through an emulator now? wasn't that worth it? to have pepsiman.exe????