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Ben Lubar (any pronouns)

@ben.lubar.me

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Game developer at Reactive Drop Team (@reactivedrop.com), Ben Lubar (@megalomanager.com), and Spy Cards Online. DFHack contributor. I play video games sometimes too.

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Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben.lubar.me · 4h

pretty sure every being in your house is some form of immortal undead

Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben.lubar.me · 1d

Normal Loops

Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben.lubar.me · 2d

Microsoft, Google, et al. refusing to cut their losses after finding out bitcoin wasn't the next big thing and all the GPUs they bought won't make them money.

Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben.lubar.me · 2d

you could *think about* opening a ramen stand and still have a better ROI than GenAI

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Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben.lubar.me · 2d

the information

Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben.lubar.me · 2d

valve made a little guy who plays games

Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben.lubar.me · 2d

What I really need is a computer program that relaxes on the beach for me so I don't have to do that.

Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben.lubar.me · 2d

I love when it says something along the lines of "only backgrounds, characters, and text were AI-generated" when it's a game that has nothing but backgrounds, characters, and text in it.

Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben.lubar.me · 2d

Proudly announcing that I made heavy use of autocomplete while writing my story as if that doesn't mean I'm writing the most bland generic thing possible.

Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben.lubar.me · 3d

Trying!

Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben.lubar.me · 3d

It was so funny seeing this elaborate animation only to have the exhibit that came out be the lowest possible quality on the stream.

Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben.lubar.me · 4d

They keep trying to make this operating system real www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/pet...

DM's Esoteric Programming Languages - Petrovich

www.dangermouse.net

Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben.lubar.me · 4d

but it hard to do

Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben.lubar.me · 4d

he's called xbox 360 nokko because he grabs his sister's arm and rotates 360 degrees and then grabs her other arm and rotates 360 degrees the other way xbox

Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben.lubar.me · 4d

You Know, All Things Considered, This Is Probably One Of The Better Nights To Have A Curse

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Adam @arbiterw.bsky.social · 5d

The clown is the one with the psychology degree btw

Sera @serageranium.bsky.social · 5d

🎯Critical Hit on Woolie 🎯
@wooliewoolz.bsky.social @patstaresat.bsky.social + guest star Edmund McMillen

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Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben.lubar.me · 6d

How does this differ from what's built into RichTextLabel (asking as someone who is also making something on top of RichTextLabel)

Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben.lubar.me · 7d

I played four versions of pokemon and then stopped playing nintendo games entirely when I realized I had just paid for the same game four times and two consoles dedicated to just playing those games (where weirdly the L button got loose on both)

Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben.lubar.me · 8d

if you want to then why are you asking us

Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben.lubar.me · 9d

We're not even halfway through the month yet!

Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben.lubar.me · 10d

I don't think this post about a phone number on a bus has that many layers of indirection.

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Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben.lubar.me · 10d

A pegasus is a winged horse, not a horned horse.

"Pegging" is something completely unrelated.

Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben.lubar.me · 10d

E stands for eleven percent

Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben.lubar.me · 11d

Valve already provides moderation services to any game hub that doesn't explicitly opt out.

Either that, or they're providing moderation services to my game that makes no revenue and I'm special somehow.

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Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben.lubar.me · 12d

everybody come in
everybody to the party
everybody to the limit
the cheat is to the limit
everybody come on fhqwhgads
join us, embrace us, don't ever erase us