Holden Link
@holdenlink.bsky.social
Making silly games at @TurboButtonInc.bsky.social. Bucket's dad. Occasional sports person. Opinions and content posted here are bad and should be ignored by everyone. (he/him)
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Holden Link
@holdenlink.bsky.social
· Oct 21
Hiya! I'm Holden, generalist gamedev and cofounder at @turbobuttoninc.bsky.social where I make silly VR games like Floor Plan. Before that, I worked on AAA stuff, motion control stuff, and weird game jam stuff. I play lots of RPGs and have a dog named Bucket who wishes I would play with him instead.
the key to a low spotify music age is to just listen to the clair obscur soundtrack on repeat
December 3, 2025 at 9:36 PM
the key to a low spotify music age is to just listen to the clair obscur soundtrack on repeat
that was the most Falcons thing I've seen the Bucs do in a while
November 24, 2025 at 1:48 AM
that was the most Falcons thing I've seen the Bucs do in a while
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Laughing at Donald Trump saying he'd definitely feel comfortable living in Zohran Mamdani's New York on the same day that half the consultant brain-poisoned Democratic party voted to condemn socialism
November 21, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Laughing at Donald Trump saying he'd definitely feel comfortable living in Zohran Mamdani's New York on the same day that half the consultant brain-poisoned Democratic party voted to condemn socialism
This is one of those rare VR games that justifies owning the hardware and reminds how special the medium can be. Playing roomscale is a must. Move your coffee table out of the way and spend the next 2-3 hours walking around your living room in circles. It's worth every minute.
Hotel Infinity launches today on Meta Quest & PS VR2!
It's a roomscale VR experience built around natural locomotion. Every step you take in real life moves you through the game
Meta Quest: www.meta.com/experiences/...
PS VR2: store.playstation.com/en-us/concep...
youtu.be/ixaSqmiYqyU?...
It's a roomscale VR experience built around natural locomotion. Every step you take in real life moves you through the game
Meta Quest: www.meta.com/experiences/...
PS VR2: store.playstation.com/en-us/concep...
youtu.be/ixaSqmiYqyU?...
Hotel Infinity - Launch Trailer (Meta Quest & PS VR2)
YouTube video by William Chyr
youtu.be
November 20, 2025 at 9:27 PM
This is one of those rare VR games that justifies owning the hardware and reminds how special the medium can be. Playing roomscale is a must. Move your coffee table out of the way and spend the next 2-3 hours walking around your living room in circles. It's worth every minute.
These kind of posts are the new "I do not give Facebook permission to use my photos" repost slop. That setting has been in Gmail for years and has nothing to do with Gemini, there was nothing "turned on" yesterday, etc.
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 9:08 PM
These kind of posts are the new "I do not give Facebook permission to use my photos" repost slop. That setting has been in Gmail for years and has nothing to do with Gemini, there was nothing "turned on" yesterday, etc.
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I first saw Microsoft's TV ad about "The computer you can talk to" during an NFL game. So I spent a week talking to the Copilot AI in Windows 11. Surely, it must be easy to replicate the specific tasks Microsoft wants millions of people to see...
Right? RIGHT??
www.theverge.com/report/82244...
Right? RIGHT??
www.theverge.com/report/82244...
Talking to Windows’ Copilot AI makes a computer feel incompetent
Hey Copilot, are you useful yet?
www.theverge.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:20 PM
I first saw Microsoft's TV ad about "The computer you can talk to" during an NFL game. So I spent a week talking to the Copilot AI in Windows 11. Surely, it must be easy to replicate the specific tasks Microsoft wants millions of people to see...
Right? RIGHT??
www.theverge.com/report/82244...
Right? RIGHT??
www.theverge.com/report/82244...
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“You know, fair use is fair use and we need to make sure that we’re not stealing people’s intellectual property and rights but..."
No! There is no "but" here! That statement ends with a period, not a "but".
No! There is no "but" here! That statement ends with a period, not a "but".
"Surely there's a middle ground here?" The CEO of Helldivers 2 studio Arrowhead says people "jump to extreme takes" when debating generative AI, and that there needs to be more nuance in the discussion.
www.videogameschronicle.com/news/surely-...
www.videogameschronicle.com/news/surely-...
‘Surely there’s a middle ground here?’ Helldivers studio CEO says people ‘jump to extreme takes’ when debating GenAI | VGC
“This is such a trigger point for big parts of the games industry today”…
www.videogameschronicle.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:30 PM
“You know, fair use is fair use and we need to make sure that we’re not stealing people’s intellectual property and rights but..."
No! There is no "but" here! That statement ends with a period, not a "but".
No! There is no "but" here! That statement ends with a period, not a "but".
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For a fraction of the cost, I can make placeholders for you that are guaranteed to slip through to final build and far beyond.
#indiedev #gamedev #GodotEngine
#indiedev #gamedev #GodotEngine
November 17, 2025 at 8:55 PM
For a fraction of the cost, I can make placeholders for you that are guaranteed to slip through to final build and far beyond.
#indiedev #gamedev #GodotEngine
#indiedev #gamedev #GodotEngine
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The annoying thing about the "oh we left a placeholder" generative AI slop excuse is that that is EXACTLY NOT how you should be using placeholders. Anything "not obviously terrible with a panicked hurried half-awake glance" is getting shipped.
In gamedev, if you're using a placeholder asset, best practices involve marking it as placeholder so garishly and offensively clearly PLACEHOLDER that you can't possibly miss it. Also flagging that asset in the dev process so it can be identified quickly before the final build.
November 17, 2025 at 6:33 PM
The annoying thing about the "oh we left a placeholder" generative AI slop excuse is that that is EXACTLY NOT how you should be using placeholders. Anything "not obviously terrible with a panicked hurried half-awake glance" is getting shipped.
can't think of a better example of how unserious the whole crypto industry is than coinbase choosing a sponsorship that required them to create a fungible token
November 17, 2025 at 12:03 AM
can't think of a better example of how unserious the whole crypto industry is than coinbase choosing a sponsorship that required them to create a fungible token
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😍 Penguin. Festival. Keeps. Getting. CUTER 😍
Check out the frankly adorable new trailer for this VR adventure game.
See it at VRGS: buff.ly/aqnMAIz
Check out the frankly adorable new trailer for this VR adventure game.
See it at VRGS: buff.ly/aqnMAIz
November 13, 2025 at 9:01 PM
😍 Penguin. Festival. Keeps. Getting. CUTER 😍
Check out the frankly adorable new trailer for this VR adventure game.
See it at VRGS: buff.ly/aqnMAIz
Check out the frankly adorable new trailer for this VR adventure game.
See it at VRGS: buff.ly/aqnMAIz
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Hotel Infinity launches today on Meta Quest & PS VR2!
It's a roomscale VR experience built around natural locomotion. Every step you take in real life moves you through the game
Meta Quest: www.meta.com/experiences/...
PS VR2: store.playstation.com/en-us/concep...
youtu.be/ixaSqmiYqyU?...
It's a roomscale VR experience built around natural locomotion. Every step you take in real life moves you through the game
Meta Quest: www.meta.com/experiences/...
PS VR2: store.playstation.com/en-us/concep...
youtu.be/ixaSqmiYqyU?...
Hotel Infinity - Launch Trailer (Meta Quest & PS VR2)
YouTube video by William Chyr
youtu.be
November 13, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Hotel Infinity launches today on Meta Quest & PS VR2!
It's a roomscale VR experience built around natural locomotion. Every step you take in real life moves you through the game
Meta Quest: www.meta.com/experiences/...
PS VR2: store.playstation.com/en-us/concep...
youtu.be/ixaSqmiYqyU?...
It's a roomscale VR experience built around natural locomotion. Every step you take in real life moves you through the game
Meta Quest: www.meta.com/experiences/...
PS VR2: store.playstation.com/en-us/concep...
youtu.be/ixaSqmiYqyU?...
Once Upon A Katamari probably isn't Game of the Year, but it's the game we need right now
November 13, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Once Upon A Katamari probably isn't Game of the Year, but it's the game we need right now
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Again, to every videogame writer who wrote funny emails to read in an immersive sim/etc. where I rolled my eyes and said out loud, "lol like anyone would ever email something this on the nose", again, sorry, I was wrong, life sucks, you nailed it
November 12, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Again, to every videogame writer who wrote funny emails to read in an immersive sim/etc. where I rolled my eyes and said out loud, "lol like anyone would ever email something this on the nose", again, sorry, I was wrong, life sucks, you nailed it
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85-year-old democrats negotiating with the jaws of defeat: hey bud you hungry?
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
85-year-old democrats negotiating with the jaws of defeat: hey bud you hungry?
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Our industry does have peer-voted awards, the most visible being DICE, Game Developers Choice Awards, BAFTA. There are scores of smaller developer-led awards too. We do have spaces to celebrate and uplift one another, please support and watch these shows! The teams work hard for the devs!
November 7, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Our industry does have peer-voted awards, the most visible being DICE, Game Developers Choice Awards, BAFTA. There are scores of smaller developer-led awards too. We do have spaces to celebrate and uplift one another, please support and watch these shows! The teams work hard for the devs!
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At least the degree to which everyone is pissed off right now is showing up at the ballot box. With shifts like this, did California even need redistricting to flip 5 seats in 2026?
November 5, 2025 at 6:15 AM
At least the degree to which everyone is pissed off right now is showing up at the ballot box. With shifts like this, did California even need redistricting to flip 5 seats in 2026?
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Great piece that drips truth & true love for LA:
“The ungovernability of Los Angeles and the beauty of its baseball make strange alchemy in 2025, the pride of the free city under siege. The big stars are immigrants while masked federal agents creep around the corner.”
“The ungovernability of Los Angeles and the beauty of its baseball make strange alchemy in 2025, the pride of the free city under siege. The big stars are immigrants while masked federal agents creep around the corner.”
November 3, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Great piece that drips truth & true love for LA:
“The ungovernability of Los Angeles and the beauty of its baseball make strange alchemy in 2025, the pride of the free city under siege. The big stars are immigrants while masked federal agents creep around the corner.”
“The ungovernability of Los Angeles and the beauty of its baseball make strange alchemy in 2025, the pride of the free city under siege. The big stars are immigrants while masked federal agents creep around the corner.”
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Mass exodus of Dodger fans when Blake Treinen’s name was announced.
One fan in my section “are you FUCKING KIDDING ME DAVE”
Why sit in parking lot traffic for 2 hours when ths Dodgers manager has conceded the game?
One fan in my section “are you FUCKING KIDDING ME DAVE”
Why sit in parking lot traffic for 2 hours when ths Dodgers manager has conceded the game?
October 30, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Mass exodus of Dodger fans when Blake Treinen’s name was announced.
One fan in my section “are you FUCKING KIDDING ME DAVE”
Why sit in parking lot traffic for 2 hours when ths Dodgers manager has conceded the game?
One fan in my section “are you FUCKING KIDDING ME DAVE”
Why sit in parking lot traffic for 2 hours when ths Dodgers manager has conceded the game?
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"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
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This picture is from the start of this game
Will Klein in a "Rapinoe/Kaepernick 2020" shirt
October 28, 2025 at 6:55 AM
This picture is from the start of this game
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"i want to go to sleep as soon as possible" same shohei
October 28, 2025 at 6:55 AM
"i want to go to sleep as soon as possible" same shohei
Oh my god, Dave Roberts is a madman
October 28, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Oh my god, Dave Roberts is a madman