ZachSCARY Johnson
@zachstronaut.com
Game and Network coder for @StageFrightGame.bsky.social by Ghost Town Games. Director of Joggernauts by @spacemacegames.com. Minneapolis creative dev (he/him). Salty. Cat selfie enthusiast. Visit: zachstronaut.com
Twin Cities, this is not a joke. This is a 100% accurate review.
ZachSCARY Johnson@zachstronaut.com · 19h agoThe Heights is doing a live theater Houdini seance thing. There are two more shows on Halloween, the 100th anniversary of his death. At one point a man escapes the police by dancing through and hiding in a kick line. When the cop tried to pursue him, the dancers kicked the shit out of the cop. 5/5
If LLMs could meet the hype then why haven’t we seen Universal Studios kick out an unusual number of bangers? Why hasn’t EA or Epic done that in games? And if Marvel could use AI to do even twice as many superhero films a year, who gives a crap? What consumer has the time or money?
Ok now say the same thing about money Sam, about how it's bad for individuals to horde it doing nothing but sitting on it and how it should be utilised maximally for everyone's benefit since it's supply constrained (You won't)
Micah@rincewind.run · yesterdaygo to hell
The Heights is doing a live theater Houdini seance thing. There are two more shows on Halloween, the 100th anniversary of his death. At one point a man escapes the police by dancing through and hiding in a kick line. When the cop tried to pursue him, the dancers kicked the shit out of the cop. 5/5
Install new kitchen faucet: 10 minutes Remove old kitchen faucet: impossible
I have a lot of M Health Fairview experiences where you wait 8 weeks to see a specialist and get a PA with 4 years on the job who says “I don’t know”
What if it is still the 1990s and I’m using the Ouija board, eyes rolled back white in my head, and my Jr High friends are all screaming. they can’t get the planchette to move to “GOODBYE” because my hands are frozen as the demon tortures me with visions of a thing it calls “the 2020s”
Had an extremely dumb and tiny halloween video game idea, but if I am being honest with myself I am gonna spend that time making another foam tombstone if I do anything at all.
All the art content creators ostensibly bemoaning AI by saying “and now one person can create a clone in just one day” are being paid by AI companies to say that. Because it isn’t even close to being true, but if you repeat it enough times…
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The black pit deep beneath Edinburgh where a ghost unclipped my tour lanyard, I shit you not. Usually there are not real ghosts on ghost tours?
I really enjoyed how every fifth person in Edinburgh is soft goth.
Perhaps Freya is not being bleak enough. If you look at assembling cars or houses you can clearly see that design/craft that does not synergize with the automation becomes unaffordable and rare. So creative agency gets pushed out in a feedback loop.
Freya Holmér@freya.bsky.social · 2w agoautomation is supposed to target things people within any given craft consider rote and tedious, things that have almost no creative agency but when you automate things those within the craft love doing, that help us grow as artists/thinkers/designers, you're removing humanity from the craft
🌼My new game is here!🥀 "She danced in the wind like a holographic dream before the world died." alienmelon.itch.io/flower A game poem and interactive fiction about The End. You play the very last flower left on Earth, bringing peace to long dead soil. #IndieGame #VideoGame #GamePoem #Game
Kenney hit the infamous "two billionaires with one post" achievement, remains very rare, also shows once again that money does not equal intelligence, capability, or insight: Kenney is obviously right.
Kenney@kenney.nl · 2w agoLast I'll post about this, but Elon Musk disagrees with me. This means I am onto something, and I feel more valid in my opinion than ever.
Indies: 1) Friends who listened, sometimes the whole local community 2) Family who puts up with your work. They maybe watched your kids while you traveled. 3) You maybe even thanked your kids. 4) Mentors 5) Your pets 6) Your local coffee shops and takeout places who now know you by name.
Raj Patel@rajio.bsky.social · 2y agoThose of you who have never shipped a game - I'm curious what you think it means when in a game's credits you read "special thanks"
Took me a long time to realize the blue in ROYGBIV is cyan and the indigo is blue.
Don't let billionaires convince you slop is the future. They're used to managing & directing, not making things themselves. Of course they can't see the difference. They don't understand your love for the craft. Keep making personal, beautiful games. You've got my support 💖
i judge for a few festivals, and i can safely say that the games that always stand out the most are ones with personal creative care taken in every aspect of the game. people say AI should replace this but you can’t automate intentionality or love. if you bank on that then you don’t understand art.
Kenney@kenney.nl · 2w ago
Nicolas Cage and Antonio Banderas will be the leads of ‘TRUE DETECTIVE’ Season 5. Filming begins next year.
Having a toddler appears to have made me immune to the effects of European jet lag, both directions!
"WE ARE ALL ILHAN" is what I say because if you're looking for paperwork my dad filled out on my behalf as a child in the 90s, I can't help you. Shouldn't you have that? I guess you'll have to raid my home.
