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they/them -📍Adelaide, South Australia Writing award-winning and critically beloved games since 2012: Eternal Strands, Necrobarista, Hacknet Labyrinths, and many more. https://damonreece.com

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Daniel Benneworth-Gray @danielgray.com · 4h

Today in image research discoveries: Members of NASA's Lewis Research Center’s Educational Services Office pose with one of the center’s Spacemobile space science demonstration units, 1964.

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Stacey Mason @stcymsn.bsky.social · 11h

Tapping the sign.

Stacey Mason @stcymsn.bsky.social · Aug 4

Wow we’re having “games are art” discourse again! Just gonna leave this here.

From my dissertation:

2.1 Lenses, Not Boxes
I wondered whether this section was necessary, but games discourse seems to repeatedly find itself adrift in questions of whether _ counts as a _. We have seen
the question repeatedly: Do games count as art? Do games without goals count as games? Is The Sims a game? Are hypertexts interactive fiction? Are
Twine pieces literature? In fairness to the researchers cited here, all of whom I respect immensely, many of these sources pose or imply the question rhetorically. Still, the necessity of such a framing frustrates me.
"Is _ a _?" is, in my opinion, a fruitless question. The question can never be answered to anyone's satisfaction, and it often serves as either a provocation
to espouse politics or as a cover to institute gatekeeping. Its agenda is usually opaque
to onlookers and bewildering to those trying to advance the field from across disciplines.
We should be thinking in lenses, not boxes.
It is always more interesting to ask "If we think of _ through the lens of _, what do we learn?" We know it is more interesting to ask "What do we learn
by considering Tom Stoppard through the lens of poststructuralism?" than to ask "Is Stoppard's work poststructuralist?" And while some works may be more or less fruitful when examined through different lenses, sometimes the most unlikely pairings of lenses and objects are the most rewarding. Certainly any of the questions above would be much better served by reframing them in this way.

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Damon @damonreece.com · 19h

absolutely banging shit right there

Damon @damonreece.com · 1d

🤝

Damon @damonreece.com · 1d

totally get it. From the outside I think it looks like you guys are in a good place, at this point it's basically out of your hands and you gotta just focus on getting through it on a human level. Been keeping you all in my thoughts!

Damon @damonreece.com · 1d

lol yeah the rates on necro were awful

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isyourguy @isyourguy.com · 1d

so many australians wish they were yanks. i cannot even begin to imagine the rot inside their minds. truly pathetic.

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Damon @damonreece.com · 2d

people drawing fanart inspired by conversations I wrote is the most unbelievably wonderful compliment, I hold these close to my heart on cold and dark days

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gleeson ◦ @gleeson.dev · 3d

Working on an update for Kingdom.

New numeric glyphs to make them more readable, consistency tweaks, and *lots* of kerning updates (truly endless).

Should be out in a few days!

Kingdom - A Gothic Blackletter Pixel Font. Made by me!

Excerpt from The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka). Showcasing the font 'Kingdom'.

Pangrams from English, Czech, Serbian and Russian, using the font 'Kingdom'.

New numeric glyphs for 'Kingdom'. The goal is to make them more readable and distinct from each other.

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Abdoulaye Diack @diack.bsky.social · 3d

Competitor enters a major AI competition (RNA folding)
GPU poor so can't train an AI
Builds a "classic" eng pipeline instead. (90s tech)
Wins and beat everyone using DL 💀
Their winning "hybrid" model had an AI in it. Their original one did not and had a higher score
So they won despite the AI 😂

Kaggle @kaggle.com · 3d

While many teams relied on deep learning, the winning team (jaejohn) surprised everyone with a highly optimized pipeline that revived classic template-based modeling. 👇
www.kaggle.com/competitions...

1st Place Solution | Kaggle

Hybrid TBM + DRfold2 Approach

www.kaggle.com

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Damon @damonreece.com · 3d

It's Legal.

Damon @damonreece.com · 3d

This would be an even more painful decision than their call to release the first chaotic alliance raid on December 24th, 2024

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The Beelzebub Of Bobbins @fishwithlasers.bsky.social · 3d

It’s not even the answer anyway. There’s a fuckton of games you can play right now with the budget range starting at zero, the cost of it starting at zero, and some with graphics, some without, and just all manner of videogames currently existing. Go and play them. They’re right fucking there.

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Damon @damonreece.com · 3d

I am on my knees begging Square Enix Creative Studio III to not release the next savage raid tier on December 23rd

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Damon @damonreece.com · 4d

the details are soooo good and I love how it’s a bit cloudy. definitely makes me consider eating it

Damon @damonreece.com · 4d

yet another banger

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im rob @bobacupcake.bsky.social · 4d

blue mage 🔷🐟 #ffxiv #art

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Bruka Jones @brukajones.com · 4d

There’s a free application, shutup10++, that lets you disable all the shitty windows stuff with a series of checkboxes.
It even tracks if windows rolls anything back between updates and lets you reverse the changes with a click.
I can personally recommend shutup10++ if you need to stick with windows

Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 5d

This is the future of Windows. Microsoft wants to rewrite Windows to turn computers into AI PCs that you talk to. It's now bringing AI features to all Windows 11 PCs today, in a bid to convince you to talk to your PC and let AI control it. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/799768/...

Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it

Copilot Voice and Vision are now rolling out.

www.theverge.com

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Damon @damonreece.com · 5d

should drop some grapes onto his roof

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Damon @damonreece.com · 5d

your use of “broadcasting” here is truly inspired

Damon @damonreece.com · 5d

folks: anyone need words in/for/around your videogame? I’m struggling bigtime out here lol

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Old DeuTaranomy 🧶⚒️ @kindofstrange.com · 5d

For those that left #gamedev to do something else:

What was the tipping point?
What did you go on to do?
Any other insights to share?

Reskeets welcome and appreciated!

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Damon @damonreece.com · 6d

😥

Damon @damonreece.com · 6d

mundaneposting is the truest posting

Damon @damonreece.com · 6d

honestly don’t know how you could be sad about seeing an inchworm

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