Martin Dubuque
@martindubu.bsky.social
TTRPG Designer https://martindubu.itch.io/ Avatar by @heytibo.eurosky.social
School of design that prioritizes "logical interactivity", lending itself to allowing creative problem solving. Or, just telling a designer "yes" when they ask "wouldn't it be cool if *logical thing*?" instead of "no, this breaks the stat ammo ability loop economy".
Dana Nightingale 🏳️⚧️@danaenight.northsky.social · 9h agoDefine what an immersive sim is without mentioning — stacking objects — 0451 — any game, genre, studio, or dev
Saw Supergirl and got flashbacks to how the Last of Us S2 wrote Ellie like she was still 12 years old. movieKara feels more natural at least compared to showEllie, but I miss the Kara from the comic it's pulling from. Less boyscout Clark, more eldest daughter Harrison Ford.
A lot of fantasy settings don't really explore (for various reasons) technology, military or otherwise. Pillars of Eternity still has a grab bag of weapons and armor from different eras, which is pretty fantastic, but I think if a world has the equivalent of Maximilian plate, they could have guns.
Sam (ABeardedPanda)@abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 3d agoFor us this was a long time period with a lot of technological and political innovation and it kind of speaks to how lazy a lot of the gunpowder fantasy attempts are that they never really explore any of that despite having even more space to do so with magic and fantasy races
Among other things AI really is the mask off, pants off machine for a lot of these wannabe MBA managerial types
Mitch Dyer@mitchyd.bsky.social · 6d agoAlso funny is "we're using it less and less because we don't need [AI]" in the same interview where you say you ask it for 75 variations because you don't have enough illustrators. You're using it less and less because you already used it to do the work, man!
do I really have to repost this part of A Pivot To Indie Won't Save Us once a month auratriolo.com/blog/2025/01...
Aftermath@aftermath.site · last wk.Balkanize the video game industry aftermath.site/aftermath-hour...
Col. Kusanagi (loving the new show - Ghost in the Shell)
Hard not to see this as the resurrection of the MCU, meanwhile the DCU is still how many years out from introducing any of the other big three
if you're reading all these articles as they come out and assuming the story is "these models are escaping containment and causing danger" and not "this is a PR campaign by companies desperate to build hype" I think you are very silly.
Alex Hanna@alexhanna.bsky.social · 2w agoIt keeps happening... It'd be great if these companies could spend a little bit more time on network security and a little less time vibe coding.
I totally forgot Sony trapped Michael Keaton in the Morbiusverse
Finally learning how layers and masks work.
Martin Dubuque@martindubu.bsky.social · 2w agoDefinitely an interesting process, paintover with gradient maps.
to the extent that there is a "male loneliness epidemic" it can be put down to the failure of men to play the co-op campaign of splinter cell conviction together, and to a lesser extent the failure of ubisoft to properly support that product
Definitely an interesting process, paintover with gradient maps.
Martin Dubuque@martindubu.bsky.social · 2w agoMessing around with 3d paintovers.
yeah sorry rfk jr starting a cooking show with a guy named "Mr. Gruel" is a step too far, I'm gonna need the weekend off
Dislike this trend in modern sound design for games where, to make the guns "realistic", they'll utilize real sound recordings of guns/etc... And so all the guns sound like the same little puppies sneezing.
The whole "we didn't want to just put Ali in a Blade costume and have him kill vampires" is so wild, if you hired an actual action director you could have in fact just done that. Can you imagine a Blade movie by The Raid director?
"Modern vernacular fantasy ideas get read backwards into a text that is perceived as having originated them but which doesn’t really contain them" is such a good way to put that phenomenon, holy shit. I've always wanted to find the right way to articulate that point.
finally got a link to share with people who try and say "oh you DON'T LIKE AI??? what about ALPHAFOLD!!!!" as if it has anything to do with any of this AI capex
Engadget@engadget.com · 3w agoDeepMind's award-winning AlphaFold team is no more.
I heard the new avatar is finally merging both main timelines, so this time there's a chance that the bald kid and the blue aliens meet
I'm putting together a bunch of my floating ideas into a comic project about hyper-violent, horny, goblinoids in space. Here's what'll probably be The Main Trio (Red, Jace, & Paddy), some concept art, and some doodles of them fuckin.
"Do nothing, win" seems like such a good strategy for any company when your opponents are desperately trying to make a Trillion Dollars a Day because some MBA dipshit told them they need to
I did also draw a quick Jimothy out of respect for the inspiration he gifted me
Matt Emmons @ SDCC EE-10@secondatbest.bsky.social · 4w agoFinally figured out the look for the pygmy goblins that are the villains for the next frog book, all thanks to Jimothy Now I just need to finish these current three books so I can get to that frog book
We saw how much you liked this little critter mascot so we thought what if you could kill him in Dungeons and Dragons(tm)
Dungeons & Dragons@dndbeyond.com · 4w agoA wild Jimothy appears! Encounter the beloved raccoon in your D&D adventures: dndbeyond.link/DnD-Jimothy
Something that gets me is Mamdani seems to understand the pace (and therefore short memory) of the modern world. He's constantly reminding you he's here and alive, something that's debatable for most other politicians.
