John “Fred” Connors
@johnfredcee.bsky.social
Senior Programmer at Double 11. https://johnfredcee.github.io/
🕹️ Gears: Tactics, Dirty Bomb, Bang Bang Racing, Driver: Parallel Lines, Stuntman, T-Mek, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
I was shipping games when you were shipping nappies! He/Him.
🕹️ Gears: Tactics, Dirty Bomb, Bang Bang Racing, Driver: Parallel Lines, Stuntman, T-Mek, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
I was shipping games when you were shipping nappies! He/Him.
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The games industry brings in 300 billion dollars a year. The guy who made DOOM gets his projects canceled, the guy who made Katamari Damacy is broke, everyone in your feed is begging for a job and there are 50 new games coming out on Steam every day all going towards buying Gabe Newell's next yacht
Keita Takahashi (Katamari, Wattam, Noby Noby Boy) has moved back to Japan, and says he may be forced to quit the games industry due to To a T underperforming.
He also says he'd love to work on Katamari again, and for someone to invest in his studio.
(Read more at GamesRadar)
He also says he'd love to work on Katamari again, and for someone to invest in his studio.
(Read more at GamesRadar)
December 15, 2025 at 12:57 PM
The games industry brings in 300 billion dollars a year. The guy who made DOOM gets his projects canceled, the guy who made Katamari Damacy is broke, everyone in your feed is begging for a job and there are 50 new games coming out on Steam every day all going towards buying Gabe Newell's next yacht
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Wow! I feel like this could have also been an Advent Calendar. A Doom map a day.
So if you're going to be doomscrolling today, at least make it a journey through decades of community creativity that helped shaped gaming as we know it.
Maybe something you made is in here?
doomscroll.cx
Maybe something you made is in here?
doomscroll.cx
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December 14, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Wow! I feel like this could have also been an Advent Calendar. A Doom map a day.
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Douglas Adams predicted crypo by writing that the worst people would make leaves currency then burn down all the planet's forests to increase the unit value.
He was also right about towels.
He was also right about towels.
December 13, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Douglas Adams predicted crypo by writing that the worst people would make leaves currency then burn down all the planet's forests to increase the unit value.
He was also right about towels.
He was also right about towels.
I guess it’s finally time to learn Rust. Full citizenship in the Linux kernel is a sign you have made it as a systems programming language.
December 10, 2025 at 6:07 AM
I guess it’s finally time to learn Rust. Full citizenship in the Linux kernel is a sign you have made it as a systems programming language.
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
I have the sinking feeling that I have broken my linker in a new and intense way.
December 7, 2025 at 9:35 PM
I have the sinking feeling that I have broken my linker in a new and intense way.
Epic use 256GB Threadrippers for engine development, apparently. Their DRAM bill is going to get interesting!
December 6, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Epic use 256GB Threadrippers for engine development, apparently. Their DRAM bill is going to get interesting!
Time to confess a horrific truth. I still can’t take the 6502 seriously as a CPU..
December 6, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Time to confess a horrific truth. I still can’t take the 6502 seriously as a CPU..
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a coder who has written a sufficient amount of assembler will be in want of a debugger.
Any recommendations for a 32 bit DOS debugger?
Any recommendations for a 32 bit DOS debugger?
November 30, 2025 at 4:55 PM
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a coder who has written a sufficient amount of assembler will be in want of a debugger.
Any recommendations for a 32 bit DOS debugger?
Any recommendations for a 32 bit DOS debugger?
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timeline cleaning
November 26, 2025 at 8:41 PM
timeline cleaning
Currently re-reading Elric of Melinboné again after 20 years, because why bother with Grealt when you can go straight to the source material.
November 22, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Currently re-reading Elric of Melinboné again after 20 years, because why bother with Grealt when you can go straight to the source material.
I am sure some vestigial hibernation instinct has kicked in, I just want to sleep!
November 15, 2025 at 8:41 AM
I am sure some vestigial hibernation instinct has kicked in, I just want to sleep!
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Daily bunny no.3138 going apple-picking
November 14, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Daily bunny no.3138 going apple-picking
It’s the week after you reached the goal at work you have spent the last six months trying to reach..you wake up early and consider your life choices..
November 11, 2025 at 6:00 AM
It’s the week after you reached the goal at work you have spent the last six months trying to reach..you wake up early and consider your life choices..
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![Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows:
[scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech]
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CHURCHILL:
The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us.
2
CHURCHILL:
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war.
3
CHURCHILL:
If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free
and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun-
BBC PRESENTER:
Thank you prime minister
4
BBC PRESENTER:
Mr hitler, your response?
5
HITLER [in the studio]:
Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill
6
HITLER:
What we are proposing -
CHURCHILL:
Hang on
7
HITLER:
Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement -
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CHURCHILL:
What's he doing here
BBC PRESENTER:
It's important we hear both sides of the debate
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CHURCHILL:
This isn't a debate
You don't debate fascists
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HITLER:
Oh here we go with ze Godwins law!
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HITLER:
Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'...
CHURCHILL:
Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit-
12
HITLER [standing up, saluting]:
RAUSS!
BBC PRESENTER:
*Please* Mr Churchill let him speak
[ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreibw4ldc3fhslbvxgy2oqrof2oys5kpgh7zu6a5f3usmx3lf4547qm@jpeg)
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Please could you spread this?
I lost the framed original of this while I was going through St Pancras on Sunday Nov 2nd around 3pm. Would love if it had been found by anyone?
November 5, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Please could you spread this?
So much of game development boils down to “Where the hell did my texture go?”..
November 4, 2025 at 3:47 PM
So much of game development boils down to “Where the hell did my texture go?”..
My feed is full of baseball. My feed is obviously following too many Americans. Time to cancel the USA.
November 2, 2025 at 6:56 AM
My feed is full of baseball. My feed is obviously following too many Americans. Time to cancel the USA.
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please buy the gay fox girl game so i can pay my rent
kitsune tails is 30% off on steam and itch! get the gay fox girl jumping game on either platform via kitsunegames.com/kitsunetails
October 31, 2025 at 7:19 AM
please buy the gay fox girl game so i can pay my rent
So it looks like I am going to be watching Midnight Mass and the second season of Hazbin Hotel side by side. Interesting vibe..
October 31, 2025 at 1:21 PM
So it looks like I am going to be watching Midnight Mass and the second season of Hazbin Hotel side by side. Interesting vibe..
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nobody with any creative control or financial power in the commercial games industry has any fucking idea what people like anymore
October 27, 2025 at 10:10 PM
nobody with any creative control or financial power in the commercial games industry has any fucking idea what people like anymore
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"journalist" should be a protected title, like "engineer". that if you misrepresent things, you lose your practice
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 19, 2025 at 1:43 PM
"journalist" should be a protected title, like "engineer". that if you misrepresent things, you lose your practice
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The frogs (and unicorns and dinosaurs) will be defining ideographs of this period of struggle.
October 19, 2025 at 1:50 AM
The frogs (and unicorns and dinosaurs) will be defining ideographs of this period of struggle.
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