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@tunaculosis.bsky.social

31 year old office worker in Cincinnati, OH. Call me a fraud if I ever retweet text, we're doing original posts, art, links, and promos ONLY. I occasionally put stuff on https://tjd994.itch.io

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TN@tunaculosis.bsky.social · 5m ago

A lot of solarpunk stories being post apocalyptic always rubs me the wrong way because it feels a little accelerationist. My dream solarpunk story is one where one of the architects of the apocalypse awakes from cold storage, sees the world around him, and declares "you're welcome!"

Doc Vivi Leandra【 VTC 】- Real-Life Scientist VTuber 🧬🖥️@docvivileandra.bsky.social · 2w ago

Every piece of "solarpunk" art I see is just reactionary pastoralist fantasy with solar panels added No one in this "movement" has bothered to think critically about suburbia or monocrop agriculture or any of a billion other ecologically unsustainable things they uncritically include

Jocelyn Leitzinger@jocelynl.bsky.social · 21h ago

Gary, IN has been abandoned just like so many other predominantly Black cities have been when disaster strikes About 40% of the city's 67,000+ residents have been without power for over a week. No refrigeration or AC during the heat of summer - I can't see this happening in a majority white town

‘I can’t take it’: Thousands of Gary residents go over a week without power after deadly storms

Residents in Gary, Indiana and surrounding areas are struggling to stay cool, fed and connected after storms cause prolonged power outages.

thegrio.com

🃏 Clip 🃏 (🎂8/28)@clipthejester.bsky.social · 19h ago

Slightly disappointed this ad doesn't include maybe the single funniest series of bullet points I've ever seen

A cropped image taken from an advertisement/press release for the unreleased NES game, Drac's Night Out. "Powerful theme: -Dracula theme provides instant recognition; several new movies in 1991 will feature Dracula -Drac wears hot athletic shoes, THE PUMP™ by Reebok®, that give him special powers"
Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social · 21h ago

Continually fascinated by Parker Bros. making its dramatic return to video games in 1990 with a New Kids on the Block game that never got finished and Drac's Night Out, a game about Dracula wearing literal, ad-placement Reebok Pumps that he wears while going into people's homes to murder them.

Promotional flyer for Parker Brothers Video Games featuring Heavy Shreddin', Drac's Night Out and New Kids on the Block.
Katie Drummond@katie-drummond.bsky.social · yesterday

Flock has told the public for years that its technology “cannot recognize, identify, or track individuals.” The company has now built an AI system that does both. And @wired.com got the system's code -- allowing us to reconstruct it, and learn exactly how Flock's new tool is supposed to work:

Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code

Flock’s surveillance cameras have already sparked outrage. WIRED reconstructed its next-generation AI system, already in use by some police, to confirm it goes much further than tracking license plate...

wired.com

TN@tunaculosis.bsky.social · 2d ago

I've always thought it was awesome that Civvie 11 reviews old videogames and is, himself, a throwback style of youtube channel.

sarah zedig 🐐@hmsnofun.bsky.social · 2d ago

this does a fantastic job getting to the root of the issue, but i also just think it's very funny that former-ish video essayists (myself included) are increasingly focused on intentionally limited back-to-basics early 2010s style youtube videos. retvrn but for a sustainable production model

Edmond Tran@edmondtran.bsky.social · 4d ago

This is such an incredibly fun and fascinating read from Jamie, the best kind of shit you can get up to on a non-commercial reader-supported videogame website like this week in videogames dot com!!!1

This Week in Videogames@thisweekinvideogames.com · 4d ago

In the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean, there is an island. It's 1,700 miles from the nearest major city. The population is 220 people. There's one Steam account. @jamiehore.bsky.social set himself the ridiculous task of finding the most remote gamer in the world. This is their story:

Dan Johnson will design games for food@coil.bsky.social · 3d ago

If you haven't worked in the industry in the last two years because you've been unable to find a job, it'll boot you out of the survey. So say you're self-employed.

"Why do you see yourself leaving the game industry [in the next twelve months]?" AAA layoffs are decimating institutional knowledge and making a stable career impossible. Greed-first financial climate makes AA funding precarious. The job market is impossibly competitive. A lack of functional marketing systems makes indie success a coin flip at best. And cost of living in "industry cities" is too high to bear a long unemployment spell."What considerations or values guide your decisions about if, when, or how to use generative AI tools in your work?" Personally: it short-circuits any learning process and atrophies personal skill. Discipline: It's unsuitable for the work I do (design). Professionally: genAI output is not protected by copyright and may expose me to theft/plagiarism liability. Industry: it's being over-deployed for work it can't do and used as an excuse to lay off, under-hire, and overwork workers. Societally: the genAI industry is vacuuming up investment money and starving other industries, including games. Morally: LLMs and image generators are trained on creative work taken without declaration, consent, or compensation.
Raj Patel@rajio.bsky.social · 3d ago

They haven't posted about it yet but this year's GDC State of the Game Industry Survey is available to fill out should any of you desire. You've seen all the articles and that the results end up driving, so may as well make them reflective of your contributions too. gdconf.typeform.com/SOTI26eoy

Christopher Mathias@letsgomathias.bsky.social · 3d ago

The architecture of anti-trans panic is built, in part, by parents who refuse to accept their kids as trans and then become anti-trans pundits. Wrote about this phenomenon via a profile of Renton Sinclair, the trans son of an anti-trans influencer www.huffpost.com/entry/trans-...

He’s The Trans Son Of An Anti-Trans Influencer. It’s His Turn To Speak.

Renton Sinclair’s mother is a former Miss Illinois who wants to force trans people out of public life. That’s exactly what makes her a rising star in MAGA World.

huffpost.com

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 3d ago

lol come the fuck on

Cutting Your Parents Off Isn’t the Answer