Rob "Xemu" Fermier
@xemu.bsky.social
He/ Him. Making games since 1993. System Shock 1&2, Age of Mythology, Heretic Operative, Millennia, and lots of others. MIT grad, founder at Irrational Games & C Prompt Games. Next project: TBD!
Getting real sick of slop midwives pleading for a 'respectful discussion' of AI as relates to the arts. Your use of AI to 'make art' is not respectful. It benefits from stolen art, destroys the planet, and does not make you an artist any more than someone driving 26.2 miles is a marathoner.
I absolutely adore the cheeky 4th wall commentary in the Ostranauts tutorial...
Been holding off on Ostranauts until it went 1.0 but it seems like it is a game very much designed for crazy sickos like myself who want super complex diegetic UIs. Very happy.
Call me crazy, but if a Democratic president had 350 accounts closed by their bank for money laundering it’d be more than a blip in the media
Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss Cover Art by Denis R. Loubet
Gamers only want one thing, and that is to build a farm to produce grain, then a mill to produce flour, then a bakery to produce bread, and then a marketplace to distribute it to the people
I'm all about that Odyssey..... that's right, that Etrian Odyssey
Marvel lent their IP out to a handful of what people describe as top tier games that they apparently had zero marketing or promotional strat for while DC has just…given up? After the Rocksteady and Telltale Batman games were both critical and commercial successes?
Hey! It's Gamescom month! Summer is in full swing and I bring you a list of 97 notable gaming releases! Including games like Star Wars Zero Company, Grim Trials, Marvel Tõkon, Mortal Shell II, Brigandine Abyss and more! What's your most anticipated game of the month? 5 pages:
the next balatro is, like the first balatro, A GAME NOBODY HAS MADE BEFORE
Corsair Cove is very cool, but getting soft locked in the tutorial = not good :(
Q: Is J. D. Vance the first person in the White House since Nixon to face the supernatural threat to our nation's security? A: No. The Clintons were far too curious about what Nixon had buried beneath the Oval Office. The situation quickly got out of control. SOMEBODY PLEASE PAY ME TO WRITE THIS
Lisa Kadonaga@tapirtrouble.bsky.social · 3w agoHas he been reading @grossman.bsky.social 's book? Maybe Nixon won't be the only VP who learns about the eldritch history of the Outworld Horror Kings, the pine men, and the Great Worm in Tunguska.
Ah, I'd almost forgotten the "fun" of having a WoW Raid Finder group (finally) pop, one person rejects, and then you're kicked all the way back to having no one else in your matchmaking fragment.
"why are we in crisis" asks industry that consistently and aggressively rewards leaders for failure
It's astonishing that at this time in American history it is conceivable that the U.S. Supreme Court might help a convicted felon steal an election.
Finished "The Incident at Galley House" with the family over the weekend. A few hours in, I really liked it. By the end, I absolutely LOVED it. The original story & concept from Type Help is great, but the "radio drama" execution is nicely done as well. store.steampowered.com/app/3641000/...
The Incident at Galley House on Steam
In 1936, something terrible happened at Galley House. Decades later, with a strange contraption that reveals echoes of the past, you must uncover the truth behind this grisly mystery.
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Bully just landed perfectly for me when it came out. That soundtrack is still one of the best and most unique game OSTs out there but the whole game was just it's own incredible vibe.
GamesRadar+@gamesradarplus.bsky.social · last wk.20 years later, Bully is still "unlike any other" open-world game, says Rockstar co-founder and GTA veteran Dan Houser www.gamesradar.com/games/open-w...
Once more: Mamdani understands that you can't just do things in politics and expect voters will notice on their own and thank you for it. You've got to work just as hard selling yourself to voters once you're in office as you did selling yourself to them to get into office. This is the way.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · last wk.Now serving: a new era for small business.
Finally getting around to checking out Dragons Dogma 2 - it’s really good though not afraid to put its jank right out on full display.
by trying to do [something] using long-range strike alone the u.s. has used a bunch of valuable weapons meant for much more capable adversaries and burned through stockpiles of air defense interceptors that it really didn't need to. the owniest goal that ever own goaled
Sorry. I don't care who used the plagiarism machine. It was put on a SLIDE at a major event convention and presented to the world. Someone fucked around and now everyone gets to find out. It's poison. Do not use it. Ever.
Once againc all of this is wildly illegal under the WTO & multiple other signed, ratified preferential trade agreements. And once again, journalists have decided that including that information in their articles is not news. It’s maddening. Perhaps even more so than the actual authoritarianism now.
PBS News@pbsnews.org · 2w agoPresident Donald Trump is going ahead with new double-digit tariffs on dozens of U.S. trading partners just as the clock runs out Friday on stopgap levies he imposed after a stinging defeat at the Supreme Court. https://to.pbs.org/4wZrclo
I have now watched Saw II. I kinda love how many of the puzzles have obvious solutions that are just never grasped? It really is game design to do a bunch of obvious signposting that people straight up do not read
Sam, it’s die-hardman. You’ve probably noticed that you can become your own bloodboy. That’s so you can test therapies on the clone. Now, if you grow the organs for transplantation they’ll help you develop new treatments. Press A to inject new cells when you’re ready. We’re all counting on you.
This is a note you'd find in a Resident Evil game.
worm@rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 2w agoextremely normal guy voice: I cloned myself so I can become my own blood boy.
Sirens, huh...? If only there were a way I could listen to their song *without* walking into the sea... Hmmm, maybe I could listen to their song *without* walking into the sea... Maybe this rope could help... but how...? I want to listen to their song, but if I do, I'll walk into the sea...
