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Katelyn Gadd
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.NET, Heaven Lens, Viramate, WASM spec, JSIL, Grim Fandango Remaster, Escape Goat 2, IMVU, Guild Wars, etc
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Sad to see some modders-made-good/heroes of the multiplayer golden age face the reaper, but also every second sentence of this article has at least one "that'd do it" moment so
November 26, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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"i hate writing NPC dialogue i don't wanna do it i need bobot to do it for me buhhhhh" you are like a little baby
November 26, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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This is insane shit. Yesterday when I saw that Open AI response to the suicide was to victim blame, I really thought that would be the lowest shit. But here, Google acknowledges AI is bad for kids but FUCK IT deal with it, parents. Trash company. They don't need to do this shit.
Computing going well, good computing everyone
November 26, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Yet another veteran games studio touched by the all-consuming hand of private equity. Two months after the buyout, they're stripped for parts.

Splash damage did a lot of good stuff over the years, and didn't get nearly enough love.
"Splash Damage places entire studio into consultation ahead of redundancies - All staff members affected, after UK studio stalwart was purchased by private equity in September" www.gamesindustry.biz/splash-damag...
November 26, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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This week I had the maddest bug I've ever had since I started doing porting of Unity games to console ...

... join me on an adventure of discovery of what it was and how we found it!

(thread!)
#unity3d #unitytips #gamedev
November 26, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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November 23, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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i cant stress enough that the 4th amendment factually doesnt exist any more, be careful out there
Police have access to massive surveillance networks that track the public whether they are suspects or not. That means probably for every 1 officer caught using the system to harass or spy on people they have feuds with, ex's, activists, journalists, there are probably 100 more we don't know about.
Georgia police chief charged with using license plate readers to stalk and harass people
A police chief in suburban Atlanta has been arrested on charges of using the city's license plate cameras to stalk and harass people.
apnews.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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In a last generational act of defiance, before everyone only ever cares about zoomers, millennials have finally ruined going broke.
stupid young people, stop buying a new phone every year if you don't want to be broke. wait no, not like that.
November 25, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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After publishing this article, I've heard from many that CR seems to be using AI to produce dub CCs. Now, thanks to a slip-up CR had with episode 6 dub of The Banished Court Magician, we can say that with 100% certainty: Crunchyroll is using the AI service Ollang.com for its dub closed captions!
November 26, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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i think tech and ai positive people are going to be in for a big shock when anti tech and anti ai sentiment becomes a major part of leftwing politics going forward especially as datacenters continue to destroy communities and raise electricity bills
Is this platform still massively against AI or has it moved more towards acceptance?
November 26, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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Steam is a notorious black box. They have content-affecting policies that they do not list and will not tell developers. They do not have spokespeople or contacts for studios to interact with.

Steam is a rent-seeking machine. You put game in, it sells game, and 70% of the revenue comes back out.
November 25, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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There's a growing number of games that have apparently fallen foul of Steam's 'No because we say so' rule that are still being happily sold on other major storefronts like GOG.

Also recently DreadXP-published game Vile was outright rejected by Steam too, despite containing *nothing* objectionable.
Vile Is Banned
Developer Statement: VILE: Exhumed is a game about searching through an old computer, uncovering dark secrets, and experiencing the horrors […]
dreadxp.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Worth noting this was before the Payment Processor nonsense, so this is the normal dev-hating Valve actions. Same shit that dings VNs for years.
November 25, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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there is almost no feedback I will reflexively ignore as a game developer but “you shouldn’t name something X because people don’t know that word” is one of them. oh no! You might learn a new word! God forbid you take away a piece of knowledge from a game that’s not a brand of gun or some shit lol
November 25, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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jyn erso, while everyone around her is being violently killed: i can't use those things together. i don't need that right now. hmmmm, there has to be some way to get the RED key card. i can't use those things together. there's no way i'm licking THAT! i can't use those things together.
November 25, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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if anyone needs any further convincing, this is the latest game by Digimeca Seisakusho, maker of GOTY 2023, the baseball/not-yugioh/brawler asset gumbo Jitsuroku Powerful Yakyuken Slugger Yamada

eternal happiness is just a dollar away store.steampowered.com/app/3431340/...
November 25, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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ICE kidnapped a 17-year-old U.S. citizen named Christian Jimenez. Jimenez, a high school senior born in Newberg, Oregon, was driving on his school’s lunch break when ICE/CBP agents stopped his car, smashed his window, and abducted him on November 21, 2025.

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
November 24, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Here's some cute bounding box functions for 2D shapes. A longer list here: iquilezles.org/articles/bbo...
November 25, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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they were "controversial" for murdering palestinians at their food distribution sites.
November 24, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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the breadth of what we get now ui/presentation-wise is so rad and interesting in a way that we did not get back then because publishing a game was like 100000x harder. we're feastin' better than ever (imo!) but the stuff at the top is without a doubt full of capitalist slop rot
November 24, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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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 10:23 PM
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Only by studying deeply the secret lore of the Clone Wars will you come to appreciate the role played in Galactic History by my favorite Star Wars character, Minball Pachine
November 4, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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November 24, 2025 at 7:34 PM