Jerry Belich
@jerrytron.com
he/him - senior narrative/content designer @ Squanch Games | creative tech making award-winning escape rooms & alt ctrl games, Choosatron, MFA in experience design, ping me for design/hacker/maker stuff - https://jerrytron.com/projects
The main way in which AI has negatively impacted games industry jobs is not through actual automation of those jobs or even untrue claims about automation. It's by making capital unavailable because it's tied up in AI investments while also destroying the consumer base for video game hardware.
I'm definitely NOT celebrating that someone is alive. That's ok right? It's Mitch McConnell.
I don't celebrate their death, I'm just glad they can't continue making the world worse. I guess I'll just keep posting this message as they fall. (But also, 🎉)
It must be hard to be an executive, having to live up to unsustainable infinite growth which turns into a cycle of copy pasted "hundreds of you are going to be real sad when you read this". Between the shareholder boot licking & having to make sure to change the project or studio name in the memo...
If I had a superpower it would be knowing the story behind arbitrary objects. Like why was there a new set of windshield wipers sitting on top a garbage by the tram station? Or an unopened banana sitting on top a perfectly trimmed hedge? I need to know!
Happy to see the Cosmo installation I worked on like 16 years ago is still going strong!
That horrifying moment when traveling and you realize it's the first time you've pooped outside your house in like six months because the uncivilized world outside doesn't have a bidet on the toilet!
Been a whiiiiile since I've put together a slide deck. I hate making slides, but it was nice remembering I used to have a process and it actually works. Still wish I had more time to practice but cheats should get me through the pitch! Back in the saddle!
It's been pointed out to me that a lot of my game design is very hostile towards the players. Ghost Dentist (self dentistry VR), escape room in HoL 2 (trapping & misleading), even my actual escape room Utopia (normal ending is a loss, plus you can burn alive). To that I say, have you met players?
I find a lot of YouTube videos exhausting because evidently editing style over the years has 'evolved' into any pauses being unacceptable. If there's a pause, you cut! And of course the awful 'cheeky' cut zoom often multiple times like the YouTuber is giving you an aside.
A still from an old home movie at least 45+ years ago I was watching. I believe this means I die in seven days, no?
Ahhhhh if you work with ESP32 its variants this ESPConnect tool is flipping nuuuuuuuts - buy them coffee: github.com/thelastoutpo...
GitHub - thelastoutpostworkshop/ESPConnect: Zero-installation web application that lets you explore, back up, and manage your ESP32… right from your browser
Zero-installation web application that lets you explore, back up, and manage your ESP32… right from your browser - thelastoutpostworkshop/ESPConnect
github.com
Reading The Raw Shark Texts & it, like many other stores/media, brings up the "every 7 years all your cells have been replaced" trope which I've resisted looking up because I like being a Ship of Theseus... & assumed it was less than true. Sadly I caved & it is wildly inaccurate as I feared. :(
The beginning of a month off. Organize a lot of digital life, and took a box of deprecated microcontroller and gave them new life with CircuitPython. Should be fun for some quick turnaround tinkering!
It's incredible how many people are using approximation functions as therapists. It's absolutely unsurprising how poorly this is turning out.
The game I've been working on for the last few years, released today!!! Please enjoy High on Life 2! Also, please enjoy the Frasier Crane Machine, my pride and joy. ♥️
Fuck ICE and fuck Nazis. My heart is with the wonderful communities of Minnesota, especially those standing against fascism.
Good morning. ICE is a combo Klan/Gestapo. They cannot be redeemed. Abolish them.
Stand With Minnesota
A directory of places to give to as Minnesota defends itself from ICE occupation
standwithminnesota.com
Are there smart watches for people that don't really care for exercise?
STOP LETTING YOUR BABIES OR YOUNG KIDS WATCH YOUTUBE YOU PSYCHOS. If you allow this I am absolutely judging your parenting. You're probably better off leaving them in front of The Wire. STOP IT.
I'm so confused. Do we pardon drug traffickers or blow them up? What are the rules here??
AI in games is great! It really helps me reduce my choice paralysis by providing an entire group of games I can just avoid entirely.
If the Democrats were as united as the fascist Republican regime, we might actually accomplish something.
The president is furious that the poor might get fed. Super cool.
Throwing a sandwich at a fascist should be the patriotic right of every American.
How do people have children and NOT become more empathetic people??
