Randy Tan
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I like birds. And it's not like I like cats or anything. peoplemaking.games/@oneseedfruit oneseedfruit.itch.io 🇲🇾ian in 🇬🇧
In Star Spark you battle your way through a tournament using combos and a deck made of attack, defense, and support actions. The Steam playtest is live! 🎮 If you try it, fill out the feedback form to get playtest credits 🙂 Steam page: s.team/a/3639950 #GameDev #IndieGame #WishlistWednesday
Why is the default "get a day job" rather than "start a business".
Had I not decide to be fiercely loyal and dedicated to a company for years because a "stable" job, and did what I wanted to do, I might have a couple games on Steam by now.
turns out finding out about all of the awful things going on in the world that you have zero control over every day is not good for you
Why be the CEO of a software company when you hate code so much?
there's an edtech SaaS company called Turnitin that has been claiming it can reliably detect plagiarism in student papers for over 20 years despite uh, not really any evidence that it can do that
Mike Masnick@masnick.com · 3mo agoHmm. I just took a ~1500 word piece that I wrote word by word the old fashioned way like the actual writer I am, and ran it through an AI checker just to see what it said, and it highlighted 13 separate phrases that it thinks were likely AI generated. *sigh* This seems bad.
No job. UK expensive. Welp. Time to make something maybe. I applied to 10000 jobs but got not a single response so I'm coding up a ...
Someone on here said that videogames offer a fantasy of predictable rewards for one's work, which in real life might not be rewarded at all. I think about it a lot!
violet allen@blipstress.bsky.social · last yr.I don't understand how video game market can support so many farming games. Do young people yearn for the fields?
I wanna make small silly games for no profit and be completely self sustainable somehow. How do I achieve this
You can do everything right, pass all the stages and even the final interviews, yet still get no offers. Meanwhile a $100B billionaire could fund 49,750 working-class people to never work again, each with $40K/year for 50 years.
friendly reminder that all institutions are not real. laws, governments, nations, borders, corporations. they only exist in our collective imaginations. a bunch of little stories we tell ourselves. fairy tales
"...the gravest sin you can commit, at least when it comes to games, is to look at games strictly as these commercial objects." Oh this video is the *good* shit Everything about games, and life, is better when we stop seeing art as functional products meant to deliver return on investment
Alien Bob but also@jeremyoduber.com · last yr.New video, in which I just... had to get something off my chest.
I develop software in primarily imperative programming languages from JavaScript to Python to C/C++ and I have a preference for gamedev. I dream of working at a well-paid remote-only worker-owned cooperative. If such a place does not exist, or out of my reach, I think I want to start one. Maybe.
CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%. Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?
i sometimes joke that social media is gamification of relationships for surveillance capitalism. i wonder how it would be if it was “ungamified”. does the numbers game make it addicting & keep us coming back? can *just* making connections with people, without that urgency for competition, be enough?
Getting slapped in the face at 9 y.o. ended up in having that pain in the back that is scoliosis in the 30s.
I'm slowly getting into astrophotography for fun. Here is M44 / NGC 2632 Praesepe a.k.a. Beehive Cluster in the Cancer constellation. Taken on a Canon EOS 550D with a 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 kit lens (already broke my bank with these, can't afford better equipment, so no star tracker too! 😂).
