Asking in earnest here, does anyone else get the impression that the moderators and administrators of various online spaces are now in the age bracket where they grew up in a school system with that "zero tolerance" nonsense, so they're rather explicitly disinclined from actually finding a culprit?

I still remember my mom's reaction circa 2010 to finding out I'm a furry, which was "I talked to a colleague at your former uni who explained it's a social venue for many folks, and wouldn't you want him doing that more than, say, drugs or car theft," and it's amazing how far society has backslid.

If you really think about it, "High Commissioner" sounds more like a strain of bud targeted at the furry community, and not what it actually is - a brand of blended Scotch Whisky.

@oxizn.bsky.social A friend (Jamie) sounded like I should add you as a friend here, so I'm doing that. Given that you were making history when I was still working on my Bachelor's, I don't think my usual "Hey, I've been a game developer for 20 years" line really works here...

@marc-irl.bsky.social Anything to say about this "shangxi888go_501" person who's been hanging out on the Minecraft Feedback Discord server for the past 3 days, phishing people, and the moderators are seemingly doing nothing? Is this what passes for community outreach these days?

On my way to train station after work today, on a crosswalk, some familiar-looking moustachioed person on a bike waved at me and said, "Hey, Ryan!" I gave a nod and a polite "Hey" back, but I can't place his face, and I feel like a colossal asshole. 😭

Emulator developer for a quarter-century, member of the furry community for equally as long. Four more years and I can say the same about my game-development career as well. It's just like Mr. Smashmouth Eat The Eggs once sang: The years start comin', and they don't stop comin'.

WTF?! I've poured 25 years of my life into this project! Now they're going all AI-slop?! Where can I get a refund?! www.mamedev.org?p=562

If your main page on YouTube seemed conspicuously *different* for the past 3 days, then mysteriously went back to normal today, I want to hear from you. I don't want to be all tinfoil-hat, but it's STRANGE how all politics-related channels exited my feed for 3 days starting March 28th.

I can't even begin to describe how relentlessly fucked things have gotten with Google these days. I've forgotten my account password - to their credit, I'm still logged in on my existing devices - but I just waited out the 6h delay on recovering my password, only to hit another 6h block. The fuck?

The "how much is acceptable" questions really tilted me. "None" across the board. AI is fine for something like rapid-prototyping, but when you're in production, fuck the clankers

Mike W@gekido.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Games industry dot biz is asking how you are using AI, do your thing! survey.alchemer.com/s3/8679343/b...

If I hear one more time how I can just put my search in the address bar, I'm going to snap. I didn't spend my formative years from the mid 90's up to the aughts, where an address bar was just that, to be lectured on how it's no longer an address bar. Just let me be old as fuck, and get off my lawn.

Something I hope the @hytale.bsky.social devs address: Gamma slider. A friend I play alongside can sail through most caves because he sees things I don't. It's not my eyes, it's my TV. Even in Monitor mode, it has a super-dark low-end. Photos don't work, because phone cams invert the gamma curve.

That @hytale.bsky.social has progression gated by tier upgrades on workbenches, with the upgrades requiring resources that require the specific tier you're about to unlock, to unlock, to encourage exploration, is so genius I'm not convinved Hypixel's designers aren't space aliens from the future.

First customizable worldgen, now rabbits. Lowkey feels like Microsoft are trying to gradually erase the history of my involvement with Minecraft. If they could get rid of mutton, stained glass, wood-specific doors, craftable cracked stone brick, and block models as resource packs, I bet they would.

As a fmr. Minecraft dev - dude who added mutton, stained glass, worldgen customization (RIP), & rabbits (upcoming new anims and models, RIP), the folks behind @hytale.bsky.social have made something really fucking special. I haven't felt like this since 2010, when I discovered Minecraft. Kick. Ass.

Rumor is, Steve Ogg has regrets about being typecast as Trevor, from GTA V. My perspective? You can't make that call. We all have our sins that we'd prefer not to be typecast by. I'm an aspiring VA, every job I've ever hard, my colleagues ask if I've considered a VA role. Yeah. I fucking have.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2o-... Merry shmup-mas. Boogie Wings is the most insane horizontal shmup to ever exist. The entire thing is like a fucking fever dream. A designer at Data East goes "You know what this level needs? A dog that chases the player and barks at them the whole time" OKAY, DO IT

Boogie Wings Merry Christmas level - MAME arcade game - digituba

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A friend, Sunday: "Getting over pneumonia, dropping your Christmas gift in the mailbox." Wednesday: "Checked your mail?" WHAT THE FUCK THIS DUDE He found someone in Czechia to custom laser-engrave my favorite moogle design for a custom box and whisky tumbler. Just Holy shit 😭

TBH it was seeing the sheer number of people who genuinely do *not* get it when it comes to the rhetoric in Helldivers 2, so I felt like giving the hornet's nest a good ol' poke by turning the character-customization menu gender-agnostic. Somehow this completely failed to piss off most fascists.

Bits@bitshammer.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Folks're discussing the best furry partners for 2025, but with the ongoing DLC updates to Helldivers 2, Terminid queens deserve an honourable mention. Advantages: - Great mom - Defensive of young - Prolly feeds kids better than most folks nowadays - Oviposition Disadvantages: - Possible evisceration

Can I just say that it is deeply annoying to be so 'in' with old game studios that've sold out that it becomes annoying to interact with folks who actually have a decent about of histoircal panache

Honestly, it seems like most folks aare keen to still wanting to associate @macaulayculkin.bsky.social with some stuff he did in the past, but honestly, dude is excellent when it comes to actingt. The hell? Drryvers was a serious hell of a thing.

What's it going to take for @timsweeneyepic.bsky.social and other Epic folks to go chat with @macaulayculkin.bsky.social about gitting him - adult him - into Fort-something? It's the holidays, dammit. Best possible time for folks to be the chaos that exists within them.

@developer.chrome.com "Wouldn't it be nice if you used Chrome," says your browser, which I should remind you is called Chrome, when I have the temerity to pull up google.com because I want to search for something outside my address bar, you inept fucks

This is your reminder that while Final Fantasy VII Rebirth moogles may look like a muppet fucked a shut-in WoW player's cum-sock, they are NOT off-model, because for there to be an off-model moogle, one would have to be on-model. And moogles have changed appearance with literally every game.

Insert 20-page essay about the late H.R. Giger's designs for the Alien xenomorph and facehugger were rather explicitly intended to be overtly sexual in nature, so this is not even slightly unrealistic when you get right down to it

GnollBreath 🍖💦GOING➡️MFF 2026!!@gnollbreath.bsky.social · last yr.

Men in black, but it's actually just 2 dudes that really, really, really like fucking aliens. And they wear black turtlenecks.

I'm presently trying to emulate the Nikko digiBLAST media/gaming handheld. It runs Linux on a 180MHz ARM system-on-a-chip, and its controls work via an OHCI USB host, so I need to emulate a USB host. It is proof beyond denial that there is indeed a God, and he is vengeful and angry at our hubris.

God help me if I ever hit Sandy's level of big-fish-ing past glories. I just *can't* overblow past work. Yeah, I added rabbits to Minecraft; my texture work sucked and the AI sucked, thank god other folks helped. Meh, I made Helldivers 2's armory gender-agnostic, and did some other UI shit. etc.

Mysterious Z (DATE OF BIRTH AUGUST 2ND)@mysteriousz.bsky.social · 11mo ago

HI SANDY HOPE YOU'RE DOING WELL

Reminder: Once you're done with the turkey hangover later this month, you're legally obligated to bring Freezeezy Peak and Hailfire Peaks up on loop on your local sound system until the holidays have passed. Hey, I don't make the rules.