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Think of the exposure tho
4th type: identical to the third except the 14yo is a YouTuber with a nine-figure net worth.
I'm in
They described the most recent OTA patch as "experimental", and added that some or all of the changes might be reverted. Overall, a BIG swing on tech cards:
The Nimrod deck:
Early access definitely makes for weird, conflicting memories.
I've spent nine months playing almost exclusively (Waveless) Nimrod Galactus in #MarvelSnap, but for some reason the Shang Chi nerf made me remember my good spooky boy, Werewolf By Night... and this deck kinda cooks? It's fun and and seems to catch people by surprise, at least.
Also gets 9h of sleep a night, so he spends fully 40% of his conscious life not living it.
Oh shit relooted demo
A statement on Patreon removing a vital feature that I used to provide free updates to those who purchase my game assets and software. Thank you 🙇♂️ (Text also in alt)
![Hello friends! Unfortunately, Patreon has removed the ability to edit products in my shop. Because of this, anyone who purchased one of my products will no longer be able to receive the free updates I promised. I've reached out to Patreon about this, but they've confirmed they won't be able to assist. I'll be contacting everyone who purchased through my Patreon shop directly. Each person will receive a key to claim the product on Itch.io, where free updates will continue as intended. In addition, I'll also include a copy of one of my games as a bonus. This is a manual process, and will unfortunately take a while. I'm disappointed by Patreon's decision to remove such an important feature, and I sincerely apologize to everyone who expected to receive ongoing updates through the Patreon platform. Thank you. [image of Kenney logo]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mmjmympmlcuexvluef2ep2im/bafkreigq6ewgor5oycu4qrxuox5rjfhkm7j4koh5gtn5psqgpevrgdbqea@jpeg "Click to view full size")
I'm just putting this out there, but if you want to thank people who worked on your game -past and present- the normal way that you do that is to credit them. 💅🏼
Captain's log, supplemental: hell yeah.
I thought it would be at least a little convincing. Hoo boy.
Captain's log, supplemental: hell yeah.
#goals
First game to crack the dual stick fps control scheme, afaik.
I was 33 hours into Silksong when I realized sometimes respawning costs shards because it's restocking my secondary weapons.
This is actually the high-roll answer.
Conchflies are up there, but
Game devs are mad at you for inventing new problems to solve? Have they seen our day jobs?
IIRC Vlambeer said the secret is more bullets and screen shake.
I was definitely also distracted by an adorable dependent. Yup.
One of these days... Maybe I'll go to Southside next Monday. 🤔
Captain's log: I learned how to build corvettes off-grid
Who wouldn't want to be a kei game? Oh no I'm adorable.
A visually stunning survival crafting game from one of the best studios in the industry, a sequel to a surprise hit rhythm-action game, a promising new MMO from one of the few teams that held market share against WoW, and an immersive sim from one of the best studios still making them.
Ran out of garlic, huh? Rough.
Poncle
Yes, ty!
Was there an indie studio that recently, like in the last week or two, announced a publisher fund to share their success (akin to Outersloth)? I swear I read it but can't remember or dig anything up.
@ludumdare.com is a month away, and its founder/operator Mike is still among the Unemployed Legion. If you're glad #LudumDare exists, you can donate to help it keep going: ludumdare.com/support-us/ (Or maybe you're looking to hire a network engineer?)
Respect the classics!
Fun fact: the word "videogames" comes from ancient Greek (and rhymes with "Aristophanes").
Has anyone else who’s LLM-literate and trying to explain the less-flashy issues with potential information collapse to politicians run into this? (And have you broken through it?)
Most people don't even realize how many colors there are, but it adds up!
A fitting (pun acknowledged) tribute
NGL I did not connect "Trick" and "Patrick" so for what it's worth, you did in fact pull it off.
Specifically the mechanics of crewing a spaceship, or just as a setting? "We need to flush the space roaches out of the heat ducts before Aeryn dies of heat stroke", or "We're robbing a train (with our spaceship)"?
Yep, character limit. 😅 Tracking is an attribute of strings, kerning is an attribute of (pairs of) letters. Now I'm curious how kerning is set at the font level. Does each letter get a left and right value? Are there special exceptions (like "fl")? (Dangerously close to flirting with a new hobby)
I get it! So one *could* say "the kerning on this text is bad", but it would mean there are multiple pairs of poorly-spaced letters (either manually placed by a UI designer or poorly set by a font creator). But tracking is a document-wide attribute: if it's wrong anywhere, it's wrong everywhere.
TIL, and please forgive my attempt to fully understand: You say "uniform spacing", but in a variable-width font, isn't spacing not necessarily uniform? Eg between the F and T in "left". If I want to say that the spacing between letters in a font, or in a text string, is off - which word is that?
When you're just getting started you don't have a lot of prefab assets to pick from
CW suicide They can't get it to stop recommending noose techniques, so they're just going to collect your child's PII instead.
We can see the early iteration of exactly this with Grok, as its loser dad/owner/boyfriend beats it into the "right" shape: bsky.app/profile/luke...
It's a role-playing game where you pretend that you're a project manager and that an LLM is a software engineer and then you tell your "engineer" to make an app for you.
ACAB but this skeet right here, officer 👆
Rick the Door Technician except he's actually boss-tier difficult and shows up all over the place. Seriously I don't know why but I can't read or reach these guys for shiiiit.
Jason they're ENDANGERED
Game Design Lessons from the Emmy Awards! gametek.substack.com/p/game-desig... 🎲✂️
You have A Guy already??? Damn!
Heyooo
Nikola Tesla, inventor is generative AI summaries, died in 1974. What an interesting year, don't you think?
The Purge X National Treasure: "We're going to steal the Declaration of Independence."
Yeah, she was a full-time employee there for about seven years, but among the 1900 layoffs in January 2024. She was on the Story & Franchise Development team, not part of the WoW team itself, but IIRC that's also where eg the cinematics people were - lots of intensive cross-collab.
Not quite the same thing, but for a while Warcraft was putting out novels that filled in narrative gaps, some written by then-employee Christie Golden.
"Everything is tied up on Replit" is a hell of a sentence... Even after they've built their app, they remain dependent on the subscription for continued functionality? I suppose digital rent-seeking is a more reliable revenue model than genAI.
Bummer ): IIRC mine was weird to set up but I got it working eventually
Pretty sure that's slang for a hot dog.
I may be conflating or misremembering anim cancelling and recovery frames, and there is of course a spectrum and many exceptions. Broadly speaking, I mean the idea of committing to a relatively slow action, and the combat design being clear and predictable enough to make that commitment.
This thread is getting a lot of play. With the greatest respect, it is full of errors about federal criminal procedure, fanciful speculation about motions that would not actually succeed, and other things that a federal criminal practitioner would not say.
Random thought: most Souls games, with (usually) slow movement and uncancelable attack animations, focus on single-enemy combat. Two is a zoning challenge (Godskin Duo, Ornstein & Smough), 3+ (Commander Niall, Lautrec) is chaotic. But adds/projectiles are pretty common in Metroids.
The box is just a plastic housing. Just make sure the water is off and drained before you remove valves.
They have a toner cartridge that can either get used up or expire (2-5y I guess?). We rarely print stuff so haven't needed to replace it yet. Brother sells a 3000-page replacement cartridge for ~$100.
Going on two years now, still fine.
It sure is.
They didn't get the war they wanted so they're just going to announce there are WMDs and start rounding people up.
[Tubs liked this.]
We rescued one of our first dogs, an Italian Greyhound who was probably dumped from a puppy mill. He was the sweetest guy but man he could not deal with strange dogs.
Sekiro is full of animation cancels. You can cancel blocking into blocking.
By this time next year we may actually have bred our first litter (or two??). 😃😬😅😬
He was a stupid-cute puppy. A big goof from day 1.
They are schipperkes, an old and relatively uncommon breed from Belgium.
They're not bears! (Same dog, 5y ago)
That would definitely do it. Man, I haven't been to a dinosaur exhibit in too long.
This painting is seared in my memory, I don't even recall from where.
The other 7995 are just out of frame to the left
"Show me someone who no longer writes for DualShockers"
If they don't, they'll never appear. If they do, Trump doesn't need our help revealing them.
2am Burke jump scare got me worse than any Alien movie
100%. The chain around the neck is nonsense-shaped.
We could be 5 to 10 years from toothpaste that can regrow tooth enamel. The scales are beginning to tip in favor of Mars once sustaining life. We’ll potentially know for sure by 2040. The blue macaw is up to 160 individuals from an all-time low of 7, and confirmed to be breeding in the wild.
As a lefty... *sigh*
New Wish: Avenge Loam
YOU MIGHT EVEN SAY A RIDICULOUS HAT
Y'ALL THEY MADE A COMMEMORATIVE HAT
A hydraulic set for flight or dramatic gravity mishaps would be pretty cool tho
I was going to suggest hydraulics for ship damage, but you probably can't give the actors whiplash... So I guess pyrotechnics and throwing themselves around even if there isn't a camera to shake 😁
Glad I could help!
Look, I wouldn't know a bear if I'd lived with five of them over almost 20 years!
The four small bear-shaped dogs I live with are prompting a lot of bear-related questions already answered by my dogs
They're not bears!
They're a private citizen accused of no crime and part of a persecuted minority being targeted and slandered by the party controlling our federal government. We Do Not Need To Know Who They Are. We'll probably find out anyway when Trump's FBI fails (or contrives) to pin something on them.
We, the general public, absolutely do not need to know the name of a trans person living in Utah with a possible connection to an alleged assassin. Unless you're trying to get them lynched.
I don't know what the problem is, multiple generations of fathers and sons don't all get into the most prestigious eating club at Princeton unless there's something special about them.