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Tom Happ @axiomverge.bsky.social · 3h

Thanks

Tom Happ @axiomverge.bsky.social · 5h

I'm curious as to what the industry was like to work in during the early days. Today it seems like most of us grew up playing games and that's our motivation, but in the 70s and early 80s, was it more hoping you stumble on something people may like, not even knowing if you like it yourself?

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Scott Hanselman 🌮 @scott.hanselman.com · 18h

Minor medical situation on the flight and it’s cool that my wife is able to jump up and help out when they ask for a licensed medical professional.

One day someone will need a regular expression so I stay ready.

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Tom Happ @axiomverge.bsky.social · 23h

FR tho make sure your pencils don't have malware

Tom Happ @axiomverge.bsky.social · 23h

The Animal internet just has pictures of cute human hands reaching out for cuddles

Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 1d

I hope this little dude never outgrows the part of his personality that says “if you see an open human hand, that’s where your tiny face should go”. He does it literally all the time. If I present my hand to him and he’s not super hyper (even if he is sometimes), he just puts his head there.

A little ferret with his little head in my hand

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Gators Daily 🐊 @gatorsdaily.bsky.social · Aug 1

ITS FLAT FUCK FRIDAY

ROLL THE CLIP

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Tom Happ @axiomverge.bsky.social · 1d

Good luck!

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Dark Horse Comics @darkhorse.com · 2d

Take a chronological journey through gaming’s least linear format: the action RPG with The History of Metroidvania: Decade One—1980-1990, coming next march. Details: bit.ly/3KBaRk9

Dives into the gaming trends of the early 1980s and how those beginnings shaped metroidvania genre.

By Jeremy Parish

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 1d

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Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 2d

It's 48 hours since Little Rocket Lab launched, we've been top of New and Trending for the entire time, 94% rating on Steam, huge player numbers, big numbers on Game Pass, tons of streams and YT videos...

and we've still received next to no press at all

The press for smaller games is just dead.

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Tom Happ @axiomverge.bsky.social · 3d

One thing that tempers my desire to go wild is that I'm 98% old white cis dude and I don't want to misrepresent or appropriate other cultures and ethnicities. But any other culture than my own is so much more interesting to me, it's hard.

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Tom Happ @axiomverge.bsky.social · 3d

People have asked me before if I have compromised my games to appease the current political climate. I haven't. But sometimes I wish I had made things more inclusive back when I was designing the plot in 2011-2013-ish, if only because I am so tired of the same old same old.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 3d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Tom Happ @axiomverge.bsky.social · 3d

It's a thing, like, there are signs posted outside my son's school that say no bullying. They actively teach kids empathy and emotional intelligence and such. It's a pretty stark contrast to how things were 40 years ago.

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Tom Happ @axiomverge.bsky.social · 3d

Accurate

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Melo @letitmelo.bsky.social · 3d

Small Brain: Bob Ross is a great artist

Big Brain: Bob Ross' art style is basic, rudimentary, and prescriptive to the point that anyone can copy it

Large brain: if anyone can copy it then everyone can make art

Galaxy Brain: Bob Ross is a great artist

PBS News @pbsnews.org · 3d

Thirty paintings created by the bushy-haired, soft-spoken Bob Ross will soon be up for auction to defray the costs of programming for small and rural public television stations suffering under cuts in federal funding. https://to.pbs.org/4nEQMrw

Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to support public TV stations after federal funding cuts

All profits will help public TV stations with licensing fees for popular programs that include "The Best of Joy of Painting" and "America's Test Kitchen."

www.pbs.org

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 4d

reposting this because the replies contain such a wealth of amazing fonts! i'm still trying them all out, myself.

loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · Sep 7

who has favorite programming or other monospace fonts?

i do research periodically- some favorites (all free) include:
noto mono
ibm plex mono
roboto mono
consolas
inconsolata
courier new

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Tom Happ @axiomverge.bsky.social · 3d

This book is awesome, like a combo of browsing an old toy store and a gaming magazine at the same time. Unfortunately I missed volume 1 and 3 but I would love to have a whole encyclopedia of these covering gaming history.

Tom Happ @axiomverge.bsky.social · 11d

Excited to check out this bad boy, by @jparish.bsky.social

Cover of NES and the Console Revolution by Jeremy Parish

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Tom Happ @axiomverge.bsky.social · 3d

I somehow expected this, not because it's rational, but because there seems to be so many cases of "let's Bring Back a Shitty Thing" going on that it fit right in.
Same for any forthcoming calls to Bring Back Dysentery, Public Stonings, Lobotomies, Pistol Duels, Human Sacrifice, Trepanning, etc.

Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 4d

wtf is wrong with these people

NYT: A Campaign to 'Bring Back Bullying'

On social media, some are arguing that bullying deserves a second look. Trolling or not, the push seems to reflect a general turn away from sensitivity.

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Tom Happ @axiomverge.bsky.social · 4d

Aoc went off about how some maga guy looks

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Tom Happ @axiomverge.bsky.social · 4d

It's so long and she is just knitting forever and there is no way to scrub... I believe you though

Tom Happ @axiomverge.bsky.social · 4d

I feel very disappointed when someone I respected makes fun of someone by insulting their appearance or other qualities they can't control. It's tantamount to making fun of everyone who has similar qualities, regardless of whether they've done something wrong.

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Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · 4d

This is amazing; I very much agree with the how the report calculated value to society here:
www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

But for people excited about a *literal* profit machine, note that the real net fiscal cost was almost €72M. It made €146M due to the estimated value of gains in mental wellbeing.

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Tom Happ @axiomverge.bsky.social · 4d

It's really interesting to me that somebody actually calculated the monetary value of mental well being and this is a standardized thing people have been using. Like... How does the monetary benefit of mental well being stack up to tariffs? Could we use it to reduce taxes?

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 5d

I've tried to keep quiet about this angle per the simpsons observation that you don't win friends with salad, but yeah been vegan 23 years and seeing people who defend factory farming for flavor and tradition wondering if their teddy ruxpin can suffer and needs ethics consideration sure is something

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Tom Happ @axiomverge.bsky.social · 5d

Kinda bummed that Silent Hill F and Yotei released before I could even finish AC Shadows.

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