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@gothpink.bsky.social
Keeper of useful sarcasms. Spooky Gamedev Doll.
Currently making Southwoods, a surreal co-op horror game.
Also building the Revenant game with @luigiyagami.bsky.social and friends.
Give me your money: https://ko-fi.com/skull_issue
Currently making Southwoods, a surreal co-op horror game.
Also building the Revenant game with @luigiyagami.bsky.social and friends.
Give me your money: https://ko-fi.com/skull_issue
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@gothpink.bsky.social
· Aug 28
It's very much a work in progress still, but the new title scene for our upcoming game Southwoods is coming along pretty well I think. The music is a temporary choice from our in-game background tracks, but I kinda think it suits, don't you?
#gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #horrorgames
#gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #horrorgames
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It's not amab / afab
It's cockborn / vulvakin
It's cockborn / vulvakin
November 25, 2025 at 11:21 AM
It's not amab / afab
It's cockborn / vulvakin
It's cockborn / vulvakin
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Spoke to my source familiar with internal workings at Mastercard. The holiday call campaign re payment processor censorship is working, there is a lot of pressure being felt from your calls. This is resulting in increased response times at a core moment for Mastercard due to the holiday season
November 24, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Spoke to my source familiar with internal workings at Mastercard. The holiday call campaign re payment processor censorship is working, there is a lot of pressure being felt from your calls. This is resulting in increased response times at a core moment for Mastercard due to the holiday season
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yearning? you mean you're self-shipping with a real person you know?
November 25, 2025 at 3:02 AM
yearning? you mean you're self-shipping with a real person you know?
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We even credited everyone who worked on localization - yes, including temporarily trade show localization that didn’t ship in the final game. Crediting people is super cool and very legal you should do it too!
We did something different with the credits for Demonschool. We used this format: name, title, lengthy description of what they did. Often you see credits in games where you don't know what the credited developer was actually responsible for. We wanted to give people proper, actual credit.
November 24, 2025 at 11:59 PM
We even credited everyone who worked on localization - yes, including temporarily trade show localization that didn’t ship in the final game. Crediting people is super cool and very legal you should do it too!
I just heard the steam machine called a GabeCube and, lmfao
November 25, 2025 at 2:25 AM
I just heard the steam machine called a GabeCube and, lmfao
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I spent more time tinkering with the melee system I'm building for use in both Southwoods and Revenant's game.
Still work to do, but i'm much happier with how it's feeling.
Inspired by Dragonball FighterZ's autocombo system, it chains moves based on button tap/hold, and target distances/heights.
Still work to do, but i'm much happier with how it's feeling.
Inspired by Dragonball FighterZ's autocombo system, it chains moves based on button tap/hold, and target distances/heights.
November 23, 2025 at 11:52 PM
I spent more time tinkering with the melee system I'm building for use in both Southwoods and Revenant's game.
Still work to do, but i'm much happier with how it's feeling.
Inspired by Dragonball FighterZ's autocombo system, it chains moves based on button tap/hold, and target distances/heights.
Still work to do, but i'm much happier with how it's feeling.
Inspired by Dragonball FighterZ's autocombo system, it chains moves based on button tap/hold, and target distances/heights.
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Engagement KPIs have been responsible for infinite scroll UI traps, RecSys radicalization spirals, public shame brigades, and basically every modern ailment novel to the past decade. At some point, you have to recognize that the problem isn't any one technology, it's the metric.
The company essentially turned a dial that made ChatGPT more appealing and made people use it more, but sent some of them into delusional spirals.
OpenAI has since made the chatbot safer, but that comes with a tradeoff: less usage.
OpenAI has since made the chatbot safer, but that comes with a tradeoff: less usage.
November 23, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Engagement KPIs have been responsible for infinite scroll UI traps, RecSys radicalization spirals, public shame brigades, and basically every modern ailment novel to the past decade. At some point, you have to recognize that the problem isn't any one technology, it's the metric.
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My friend just fuckin showed up with a corncob pipe & that’s when it hit me that we are all in our 40s which means we get one new accessory slot
November 23, 2025 at 9:11 PM
My friend just fuckin showed up with a corncob pipe & that’s when it hit me that we are all in our 40s which means we get one new accessory slot
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turning stories into lore by removing its art (context) is bad
the databaseification of things is late stage entertainment where
[marketable empty pleasure] > [nourishment of the self via meaning]
slop too is about entertainment and is allergic to being art
hence art cleanses the world of slop
the databaseification of things is late stage entertainment where
[marketable empty pleasure] > [nourishment of the self via meaning]
slop too is about entertainment and is allergic to being art
hence art cleanses the world of slop
“Consuming media purely to make fan wikis” type behaviour on their part
November 23, 2025 at 1:57 PM
turning stories into lore by removing its art (context) is bad
the databaseification of things is late stage entertainment where
[marketable empty pleasure] > [nourishment of the self via meaning]
slop too is about entertainment and is allergic to being art
hence art cleanses the world of slop
the databaseification of things is late stage entertainment where
[marketable empty pleasure] > [nourishment of the self via meaning]
slop too is about entertainment and is allergic to being art
hence art cleanses the world of slop
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y'know, if tech companies weren't so fired up to call every single thing "AI" it would be a lot easier to distinguish "ML spam filter that is well-sandboxed and tuned on your emails" from "giant context and IP-eroding foundation model that makes people paranoid and unhappy"
since the "google is now training gemini on your email contents" thing keeps bumping around here: it's _not happening_. I say this not to defend google but because I know a lot of people that have broken their filtering and made their lives much more annoying from sheer misinformation.
The malwarebytes Google opting-your-emails-into-ai-training thing is not true. The post is based on one bad tweet.
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
November 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM
y'know, if tech companies weren't so fired up to call every single thing "AI" it would be a lot easier to distinguish "ML spam filter that is well-sandboxed and tuned on your emails" from "giant context and IP-eroding foundation model that makes people paranoid and unhappy"
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The “google is using your email to train AI” debacle is imo most instructively seen as tracer dye for multiple failures: many people are instinctively skeptical of tech companies now; and many outlets that should have had experts able to cogently weigh in and go “wait a minute” simply don’t anymore.
November 23, 2025 at 6:54 AM
The “google is using your email to train AI” debacle is imo most instructively seen as tracer dye for multiple failures: many people are instinctively skeptical of tech companies now; and many outlets that should have had experts able to cogently weigh in and go “wait a minute” simply don’t anymore.
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dont think i ever reposted my zelda 2 link - i dont think this look is gonna change much
November 23, 2025 at 6:48 AM
dont think i ever reposted my zelda 2 link - i dont think this look is gonna change much
emotional support GIF
November 22, 2025 at 11:41 PM
emotional support GIF
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I love this one a lady did about punctuation marks
November 22, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I love this one a lady did about punctuation marks
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Like, forget canon alternate reality games – I want to write a mythos-heavy TV show where the links between individual episodes can only be understood in the context of the patch notes of a licensed mobile fitness app.
November 21, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Like, forget canon alternate reality games – I want to write a mythos-heavy TV show where the links between individual episodes can only be understood in the context of the patch notes of a licensed mobile fitness app.
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you are in a dark room.
a computer is here.
>use computer
the computer swallows you whole.
a computer is here.
>use computer
the computer swallows you whole.
November 22, 2025 at 1:47 PM
you are in a dark room.
a computer is here.
>use computer
the computer swallows you whole.
a computer is here.
>use computer
the computer swallows you whole.
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Google has started automatically opting you in to let it read your stuff to train AI. You need to turn this off in SEVERAL places in your settings (not just for Gmail), if you want to maintain privacy and confidentiality.
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.
www.malwarebytes.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Google has started automatically opting you in to let it read your stuff to train AI. You need to turn this off in SEVERAL places in your settings (not just for Gmail), if you want to maintain privacy and confidentiality.
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
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STOP. this is a selfie checkpoint. you must repost with a cute selfie to proceed
November 22, 2025 at 7:50 AM
STOP. this is a selfie checkpoint. you must repost with a cute selfie to proceed