It's a "listen to Fujii Kaze and manually plough through hundreds of MeetToMatch profiles to plan for Gamescom" kinda day

My biggest pet peeve is that there's a ton of scam websites that are "Free QR Code Generator"s then the QR code stops working after a few days and then redirects you to ask you to PAY to re-activate it. I made a page on website for making ACTUALLY FREE QR Codes. Enjoy. konig.games/QRCodes/ #QRCodes

Could an empire in decline do THIS? *launches deeply unpopular invasion cementing status as lunatic-led pariah state, its not clear what kind of move i was trying to do*

I hate pretty much everything about what's going on in this modern world, but I'm also kind of honored to be able to be a living witness to what surely has to be the stupidest period so far in all of human history

Look, I know this is nitpicking and likely only interesting to a handful of folks, BUT... Somehow, in the key art for 007 First Light, James Bond is actually wearing his specially designed Omega watch upside down 🙃

oh yeah, in terms of good news- I haven't seen anyone talking about this??? In short- worst case scenario of 4C warming by 2100 is no longer possible, new worst-case is 2.8C now DOES NOT MEAN we just relax- the only way we got here is through hard work- but it means THE HARD WORK IS WORKING

We just made the Midgame Fund agreement public. midgame.fund/terms The money TL;DR is: - Devs pay investors back from the game's revenue after it releases (if ever). - 75% of revenue pre-recoup. - 25% of revenue post-recoup, until 6 times the investment or 5 years after release.

Midgame Fund - what the deal is

We give you money to make the game, and you give us a share of its revenue.

midgame.fund

👍

Joel is on to something here. My brother and I watch a ton of horror movies together, and most of our absolute favorites hover around a 7 on IMDB.

Joel Morris@gralefrit.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Really great psychological or arthouse horror films - or anything that subverts genre - can only ever get three stars on aggregate. It’s a glitch.

I spent 6 months working for a Swiss NGO researching the tactics used by Big Oil and how similar they are to Big Tobacco’s tactics, and I can tell you that the ones used by ‘Big AI’ are virtually identical.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3mo ago

“If you ask tobacco companies to help write your school’s policy on cigarettes…you’re going to end up with guidance on how to smoke responsibly in school.”

Israel destroying entire villages in Lebanon. Please read that again until it sinks in. Taybeh, Naqourah, Aita al-Shaab.

Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول@faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 4mo ago

All that remains of the southern Lebanese village of Aita al-Shaab.

Social media apps as Lord of the Rings characters, a thread: Twitter: Twitter is Gollum. Began as a normal halfling. Overexposure to evil left it thin and stretched and bitter.

a close up of a gollum from the lord of the rings with a very angry look on his face

Alt: a close up of a gollum from the lord of the rings with a very angry look on his face

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Me and Asher for a double dose of crowdfunding and games in the @dringo.bsky.social podcast/newsletter.

The Game Business@thegamebusiness.com · 4mo ago

More video games are turning to crowd-funding than ever. But the numbers remain low. Considering the investment landscape, why aren't more developers trying it? We speak to Kickstarter games boss Asher McClennahan and crowd-funding expert Thomas Bidaux www.thegamebusiness.com/p/why-arent-...

This is so, so well-articulated.

Minas Karamanis@minaskar.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Hey, I wrote a thing about AI in astrophysics ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...

This is why I keep it out of my classrooms. This is why I teach my students to be careful/critical in their consumption of gAI. This is why universities shouldn't be so bloody ridiculously uncritical in forcing gAI on faculty, staff and students. We're inculcating dependence on a catastrophic scale

T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦@tryangregory.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We? www.forbes.com/sites/leslie...

"Existing brain drains like social media and email reduced our ability to think before generative A.I. arrived, making us more willing to use this new tool to avoid mentally demanding tasks [...]. At the same time, the more we use A.I. [...], the more our cognitive fitness will continue to degrade."

Tobias Wilson-Bates@phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 4mo ago

What he said www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/o...

DEATH OF THE MIDDLE.

Jason Schreier@jasonschreier.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Exact budgets of video-game productions can be tough to corroborate (more transparency from publishers would be nice!) but the numbers I've heard floating around AAA game dev these days are $300 million or more — sometimes much more! — which I think helps explain the current state of the industry

If you were someone pinging critics with ‘it’s just lighting cleanup’ a few days ago, I need you to use this as a jumping off point to thinking about your susceptibility to talking points and marketing rhetoric more generally. It was right there in front of all of our faces.

IGN@ign.com · 5mo ago

Nvidia has confirmed that the new DLSS 5 algorithm is redrawing games based on a 2D image input and motion data. https://bit.ly/4smPOCx

My brother has made the ultimate Sudoku app for the playdate, so if you happen to own one and like sudokus you know what to do!

@dennens.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Coming soon to Pencil Marks, the @play.date #sudoku app: Undo/redo and automatic candidate elimination! Check out Pencil Marks on the playdate catalog, and get it at a 16% discount until March 19th! play.date/games/pencil... #gamedev #indiedev #playdate

Look I just woke up, and saw the flood of memes, but let's be serious here: that DLSS5 tech is dangerous and overrides art direction to impose a hegemonic white western cis-het male gaze, based on years of systemic societal biases in all media forms.

The extent to which every single one of these guys has absolutely no idea what the fuck they're talking about is frankly stunning. You should be embarrassed to go out in public and spout shit like this. It should scar your soul and make you weep in shame, but that requires introspection, so...shit.

Dave Lee@davelee.me · 5mo ago

Where to begin with this

I ask you to take 3 minutes out of your day to read this, as a reminder of what true evil looks like. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Israeli soldiers shot a Palestinian boy and stood around as he bled to death, video shows

Israeli forces blocked Palestinian ambulances while a 14-year-old lay bleeding for at least 45 minutes.

bbc.com

The new Lancet study on the genocide in Gaza finds that total deaths were 1.71 times higher than reported by the Gaza Ministry of Health as of January 2025. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Violent and non-violent death tolls for the Gaza conflict: new primary evidence from a population-representative field survey

This first independent population survey of mortality in the Gaza Strip shows that violent deaths have substantially exceeded official figures whereas the demographic composition of casualties aligns ...

thelancet.com

Today's Load-bearing Tomato addresses the age old question: "why don't the devs just [SOCIAL MEDIA OPINION]" It turns out, "a lot of reasons", but if you never have to test your ideas, you never have to discover why they're not any good. loadbearingtomato.com/p/why-chasin...

Why chasing twitter's approval doesn't work

The opinions you believe are universal are being fed to you by an algorithm designed to show you what you want.

loadbearingtomato.com

Ask and you shall receive

Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James@adashtra.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I need the JoJo video edit set to the Yes ending theme expeditiously