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Niels NTG
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🍅✊🇳🇱🇪🇺 Senior Developer and UX designer at Learnbeat.nl + Researcher of PCG & Computational Creativity. Passion for art, technology, games and science. Personal website: nielspoldervaart.nl
This was, is, and always will be a brilliantly shit illustration of how stupidly self defeating business people can be. Forgoing the universal positive of a staff self-training on their own time, because of the vague fear that one in a hundred might make some money.
Chris Kerr@kerrblimey.bsky.social · last wk.NEW: I spoke with multiple video game developers and a U.S. employment lawyer to learn more about restrictive side clauses that often prevent employees at major companies from pursuing hobbyist work or personal projects. In an industry renowned for creativity, why are we stifling it?
Maybe this is why Radiant Star is my favourite Imperial Radch spinoff book. That, the spicy family drama and organised religion shenanigans.
Ann Leckie@annleckie.com · last wk.The number of posts I see of folks reading Radiant Star and going "But I actually DO want to know about the city's water purification and reclamation system!" is giving me life. Y'all were the reason I put that sentence in. It was just for you, my gift. I was thinking of you as I wrote!
So glad I signed up for the transhumanism upgrade subscription plan. I wonder what new features will be installed in my DNA this time?
Wrote a quick song about how those meta glasses have ruined my whole look
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.
There’s literally no way this isn’t a Source engine screenshot with a floating can placed by a careless artist.
c0nc0rdance@c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 2w agoTwice a year, Hawai'i experiences a strange moment where the sun appears to be exactly overhead & anything that is completely vertical casts no shadow. Let's learn about Lāhainā Noon, subsolar points & 'Kau ka lā i ka lolo', meaning "the sun rests on the brains."
The Luddites' actual argument was that automated looms meant expensive, skilled workers were being replaced with literal children, who were then getting maimed and killed, and maybe this is bad.
SlacktivistFred@slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 3w agoThe Luddites were “clinging to horses and carts” because it was the early 19th century and cars hadn’t been invented yet.
Today I found out about PS2IODB, an open database website where you can view every PS2 save game data icon model, which somehow really brightened my day ps2iodb.com
Hey, so, I was so angry today that, for once, I blogged it instead of posting about it. Games media, especially mainstream games media, cannot keep abdicating responsibility in how it talks about these things an-evening-at-the-inn.ghost.io/video-game-s...
Video Game Studios Aren't Monoliths
I'm just going to come right out and say it this time - treating video game studios like some kind of fantasy football draft, in the wake of mass layoffs no less, is sickening. The last three years, ...
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Always remember that loudly calling something shit and evil and bad still has power, however diminished in this era of shamelessness.
Kashmir Hill@kashhill.bsky.social · 3w agoDid not even last a week. The fact that this made it out the door means the privacy department now works in a basement with no computers and a single stapler. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/t...
Lepel is het asfalt Spoon in the tarmac maps.app.goo.gl/vTg7CSox67Tb... No doubt this is going to be an UNESCO World Heritage site and will finally make Ghent a city worth visiting
A risk-averse video game industry is failing marginalized developers
A risk-averse video game industry is failing marginalized developers
Nazih Fares has been inundated with praise when pitching 'spicy' card battler The Arab League of Misfits, so why has funding yet to materialize?
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I think if you needed any more evidence that the cuts are shortsighted and focused on cutting as deep and as fast as possible with little regard for the future, this is pretty definitive. That engine felt like magic in some spots. A colossal waste of talent and resources.
Sami(14 days til 🎂)@samitron.bsky.social · 4w agoTHIS STUDIO MADE THE FAMOUS IDTECH ENGINE AND YOU'RE FORCING THEM TO USE FUCKING **UNREAL**??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? FUCK YOU
This is horrifying and so important. Israel's continued massacres, child murder, genocide, forced starvation, concentration camps, targeted and structured destruction of life, and ethnic cleansing continues. It's easy to not see the full scale of this unparalleled evil. archivegenocide.com
Betrayal at Club Low is for dice sickos (complimentary) and people who like when RPGs surprise them, which this one does constantly. Also you can beat it in 2-4 hours, which is nice. store.steampowered.com/app/1885750/...
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Tonight you're on a rescue mission, infiltrating a nightclub that was once a coffin factory. Will you succeed? Will you fail? Or will your night take an unexpected detour? Roll the Pizza Dice and find...
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what if the real video games industry was the people who made the games along the way
TODAY is SUBMISSION DAY!!! If you want to participate in the AI Settlement Generation Challenge this year, you have until the end of the 1st of July to submit your entry. gendesignmc.wikidot.com/wiki:2026-se...
Every once in a while I try the Zed code editor again and every time I'm unimpressed. I don't get the hype.
This mirrors my own views over time pretty much exactly
Freya Holmér@freya.bsky.social · last mo.me late 2022 vs early 2023 vs 2026, increasingly
I think what is happening, is that AI is devaluing the entire concept of truth, knowledge, and craftsmanship we're probably in for an informational dark age of absolutely unprecedented mass alienation and detachment from society
That's enough Death of the Author. It's time for Death of the Audience. Start running fools