The game industry has been more committed than ever to abusing its employees. The way the executives talk about it is corporate-speak mockery of the same people whose lives they’re upending. aftermath.site/microsoft-xb...

You Don't Have To Hand It To Microsoft For A Well-Planned Bloodbath

People are being laid off in a horrendous job market. You do not have to praise the muddled prose of the rich and insulated.

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Today's Formula 1 race, the British Grand Prix, is absolutely a race I would show someone if I wanted to convince them that F1 is a stupid waste of time. And I don't just mean the ending.

I like that MacOSX managed to copy Windows' behavior of media keys, where it's permanently unclear and entirely inconsistent which program will respond to Play/Pause/Forward/Backward.

I am so fucking tired of the word "agentic"

Did you know it costs nothing to wishlist up and coming indie games? It builds those creators up, then dashes their hopes most expertly when no one converts 😶

AI made nearly every part of a good PC too expensive to afford, but now you can make up the difference in quality from all the hardware you're excluded from using a shitty slop filter

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We spoke to multiple game devs and all of them hate DLSS 5: "What the fuck, Nvidia?!" One person currently attending college and studying game development, told Kotaku that after seeing DLSS 5, "it feels like there is no future for me."

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

George W. Bush may think that a war against Iraq is the solution to our problems, but the reality is, it will only serve to create far more.

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I’m still using DuckDuckGo but I don’t know why, I fucking hate this thing. I really need to try, I don’t know, Brave search or anything else.

I like apps that are continually asking me to enable their push notifications. Sure I didn’t do it the first hundred times, but maybe if we push the banner now it’ll work!

As much as CMake absolutely infuriates me in a hundred different ways, I have to concede it is at least a real functional build system that is fairly complete. This is unlike MSBuild, which is like a parody of a build system meant to mock those foolish enough to depend on it.

Honestly, my life in startup land is proving to be much more stable than most of my friends working at large established companies that can supposedly afford to think long term.

Fuck generative AI and all the game developers using it, btw

I finally traded in my iPhone 12, haven’t felt compelled to upgrade at any point but the carrier promotion was solid and I was tired of Lightning cables. Five generations seems to be a nice sweet spot for feeling like a worthwhile upgrade.

Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About

Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About

WASHINGTON—Having thus far caved on eliminating the filibuster, advancing an adequate climate change agenda, and protecting voting rights, congressional Democrats told reporters Wednesday they were si...

theonion.com

“I see one is missing a rear wing, did they make contact into T1? I’m concerned the papaya rules were not respected by their previous drivers.”

As I'm coming up on 1000 hours on Hitman World of Assassination, I could really use a new game with the same general vibe. Meaning it's not overly dependent on precision or reaction times, more planning oriented. But not an outright puzzle game. Accepting suggestions.

Well. Parenthood is quite the new adventure I’ve inflicted upon myself.

I am currently fascinated by how every single light in this hospital room (5 by my count) brings its own unique flavor of unpleasant depression.

Dude what is happening with Deus Ex, i am so out of this loop

I’m probably going to buy a new iPhone soon, but I hate that I’m doing it. IMO Apple has made nearly everything about the platform and OS worse to use, and fallen far behind Android’s other capabilities. But I see no way to get an Android without welding my data to Google and I just won’t do it.

Awesome to see GN get over this bullshit abuse by the entirely ethics-free assholes at @bloomberg.com

@gamersnexus.bsky.social · 11mo ago

We're fully operational after battling Bloomberg's illegitimate copyright strike. Here's what we learned about the process from within the YouTube strike system: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y_K...

I've got a new blog post for all of you fine folks! It runs through the additions to D3D12 since it was released, and finishes up with some of the things that have changed for me personally in my code. (And yes it's really been 10 years 👴). therealmjp.github.io/posts/ten-ye...

Ten Years of D3D12

For those of us that have been using it from the start, it can be hard to believe that Direct3D 12 has been around for nearly ten years now. Windows 10 was released on July 29th 2015, and D3D12 has be...

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I wasn’t planning on becoming an Orange fanboy, but this cab is thunder. Kinda makes a mockery of my Marshall 1960 actually. It’s the PPC 212 V, which is loaded with a pair of Celestion *Neo* Creambacks and a very relaxed 44 lbs of total weight.

Rec Room was fun, but had to lay off a lot of folks, so I am looking for the next opportunity. If you are looking for a senior graphics coder to solve all your rendering problems on any platform, either remote or in the Seattle area, I'd love to hear from you. Picture is purely for attention.

OneDrive is such a fucking piece of shit my god

“there was no ADHD in my generation” his generation:

Couldn't help myself

Really happy to see this starting to spread in our industry, hope there’s more to come! hard-drive.net/hd/video-gam...

Game Developer Union Secures Nine Day Work Week

SAN FRANCISCO — In a monumental win for workers at Rock the Boat Studios, the Boat Rockers’ Guild, a union made up of over 100…

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The slow realization that Pokémon is much, much bigger today than it ever was in my childhood is absolutely baffling. We considered a phenomenon 20 years ago. I like it, but how strange.