David
@sighingcorvid.bsky.social
Planes, trains, automobiles, big boats, little boats, music, books, giant robots, videogames, parenthood. Not necessarily in that order.
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I'm old.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
November 27, 2025 at 4:21 AM
I'm old.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
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Reminder - this is the same guy who got his start making ZZT - a program that made it easy for everyone to make simple ascii-graphics videogames and share them with others. That was about as far away from "Just use AI" as you could get.
Epic CEO says AI disclosures like Steam's make "no sense" because AI will be involved in "nearly all" future game development
https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/1p7eh60/epic_ceo_says_ai_disclosures_like_steams_make_no/
https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/1p7eh60/epic_ceo_says_ai_disclosures_like_steams_make_no/
Epic CEO says AI disclosures like Steam's make "no sense" because AI will be involved in "nearly all" future game development
r/pcgaming
www.reddit.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Reminder - this is the same guy who got his start making ZZT - a program that made it easy for everyone to make simple ascii-graphics videogames and share them with others. That was about as far away from "Just use AI" as you could get.
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Gotten a few heartfelt e-mails from developers lately asking me to check out their game, including a key in the e-mail... and then I check the Steam page and find this kind of AI disclosure. Makes me question if the e-mail I thought was heartfelt was even written by the dev. Truly toxic to your game
i take frenzy damage every time i see someone go "well i just use it for the boring stuff". what are you TALKING about? if it's boring or unimportant, why are you putting it in? NPC dialogue is fertile ground for worldbuilding, creating verisimilitude, conveying important information, and hijinks!!
Buy a solo indie dev's game because I want to support them.
Find out it uses OpenAI to write "non-important NPC dialogue".
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Find out it uses OpenAI to write "non-important NPC dialogue".
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November 27, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Gotten a few heartfelt e-mails from developers lately asking me to check out their game, including a key in the e-mail... and then I check the Steam page and find this kind of AI disclosure. Makes me question if the e-mail I thought was heartfelt was even written by the dev. Truly toxic to your game
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The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time ~ ゼルダの伝説 (でんせつ): 時ときのオカリナ (1998)
Developed by Nintendo EAD.
Developed by Nintendo EAD.
November 27, 2025 at 7:43 AM
The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time ~ ゼルダの伝説 (でんせつ): 時ときのオカリナ (1998)
Developed by Nintendo EAD.
Developed by Nintendo EAD.
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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 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
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 did a lot of good stuff over the years, and didn't get nearly enough love.
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I will definitely steal this. Why not?
November 26, 2025 at 12:49 PM
I will definitely steal this. Why not?
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“Next year Voyager 1 will be one light-day away from Earth”
November 26, 2025 at 7:18 PM
“Next year Voyager 1 will be one light-day away from Earth”
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New Ever Given just dropped.
So this happened in Oslo yesterday. Four articulated buses got stuck in a roundabout.
November 26, 2025 at 4:21 PM
New Ever Given just dropped.
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The East LA level in Tony Hawk's American Sk8land has an elaborate secret involving an invisible rail that clips you through geometry to an out-of-bounds section of the map, revealing a message telling you to hide in the bushes in the Beverly Hills map.
When you do so, the game plays a fart noise.
When you do so, the game plays a fart noise.
November 26, 2025 at 8:35 AM
The East LA level in Tony Hawk's American Sk8land has an elaborate secret involving an invisible rail that clips you through geometry to an out-of-bounds section of the map, revealing a message telling you to hide in the bushes in the Beverly Hills map.
When you do so, the game plays a fart noise.
When you do so, the game plays a fart noise.
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If you live around Delaware and that Giant or Trek you got sold just doesn't feel right, pop over the river and hit up Halter's Cycles in New Jersey, they do proper bike fits!
Tough times for bike shops in the US right now.
Here's an impassioned plea from the owner of one of the best stores in the tri-state area, if not the USA...
#HaltersCycles #NewJersey #bikeped #bikesky
#localindependentbikestore
Here's an impassioned plea from the owner of one of the best stores in the tri-state area, if not the USA...
#HaltersCycles #NewJersey #bikeped #bikesky
#localindependentbikestore
November 26, 2025 at 2:43 PM
If you live around Delaware and that Giant or Trek you got sold just doesn't feel right, pop over the river and hit up Halter's Cycles in New Jersey, they do proper bike fits!
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Yeah mate they're saying the album released to commemorate ten years of Girls Aloud is thirteen years old today. Yeah they're saying time marches on relentlessly. Yeah apparently it doesn't care about your feelings about that. Yes mate I know
November 26, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Yeah mate they're saying the album released to commemorate ten years of Girls Aloud is thirteen years old today. Yeah they're saying time marches on relentlessly. Yeah apparently it doesn't care about your feelings about that. Yes mate I know
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"The biggest proponents, who often have the most to gain, treat an imagined AI future as today's reality and incredulously question why everyone else hasn't had the same, almost religious vision."
www.gamesradar.com/games/opposi...
www.gamesradar.com/games/opposi...
Opposing Steam's AI disclosures, Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says game stores should drop "the AI tag" because "it makes no sense" when "AI will be involved in nearly all future production"
Steam has actually made AI disclosures even more prominent
www.gamesradar.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:57 PM
"The biggest proponents, who often have the most to gain, treat an imagined AI future as today's reality and incredulously question why everyone else hasn't had the same, almost religious vision."
www.gamesradar.com/games/opposi...
www.gamesradar.com/games/opposi...
Just the one good game on plus for December is it?
Here are our PS Plus monthly games for December www.eurogamer.net/here-are-our...
November 26, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Just the one good game on plus for December is it?
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I think "class traitors" is up there with "idea landlords" on the reality disconnect scale.
Just saw someone claim that authors who want to be paid for their work are "class traitors" because we "only let the wealthy" read our books, and I think I need to go into the woods to scream into the night for a bit.
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
November 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
I think "class traitors" is up there with "idea landlords" on the reality disconnect scale.
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Sloppers have no more place in retro than do bigots and prudes. We don't need AI-generated booth babes.
And, as luck would have it, my phone suggests a Commodore YouTube channel to watch of which I'm not a subscriber.
The gaudy thumbnail confirms that Commodore fans are really not ok.
The gaudy thumbnail confirms that Commodore fans are really not ok.
November 26, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Sloppers have no more place in retro than do bigots and prudes. We don't need AI-generated booth babes.
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Society is a construct. You can just ask someone to do a ska cover of Faith of the Heart and they'll say "$300 please" and you give it to them and then you have it.
Everyone, give
@skatunenetwork.bsky.social
your money. They deserve it.
Everyone, give
@skatunenetwork.bsky.social
your money. They deserve it.
November 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Society is a construct. You can just ask someone to do a ska cover of Faith of the Heart and they'll say "$300 please" and you give it to them and then you have it.
Everyone, give
@skatunenetwork.bsky.social
your money. They deserve it.
Everyone, give
@skatunenetwork.bsky.social
your money. They deserve it.
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In the popular end-of-year tradition, here's a thread of what you might have missed in Fallen London in 2025, and some plans for what we'll be doing in 2026.
November 26, 2025 at 1:16 PM
In the popular end-of-year tradition, here's a thread of what you might have missed in Fallen London in 2025, and some plans for what we'll be doing in 2026.
There's been a lot of talk about pirating books. While I'm generally pretty pro piracy if it's impossible to buy the thing, the bottom line on pirating books is: don't.
Libraries exist, are free, and the author gets paid when you borrow their books. Everyone wins.
Libraries exist, are free, and the author gets paid when you borrow their books. Everyone wins.
November 26, 2025 at 7:59 AM
There's been a lot of talk about pirating books. While I'm generally pretty pro piracy if it's impossible to buy the thing, the bottom line on pirating books is: don't.
Libraries exist, are free, and the author gets paid when you borrow their books. Everyone wins.
Libraries exist, are free, and the author gets paid when you borrow their books. Everyone wins.
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Okay, it's been a week since release. Reception has been AWESOME, much much more than I expected for such a niche thing! Thank you! ❤️ A few thoughts (thread).
November 26, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Okay, it's been a week since release. Reception has been AWESOME, much much more than I expected for such a niche thing! Thank you! ❤️ A few thoughts (thread).
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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
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.
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I studied journalism for four years www.gamesradar.com/games/open-w...
Genshin Impact fans rush to defend femboy god Venti and crop-topped male lead Aether after they're criticized on Turkish news channel: "They think he is a girl lmao"
Venti did nothing wrong, as ever
www.gamesradar.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I studied journalism for four years www.gamesradar.com/games/open-w...
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Really wild situation here: a celebrated and well-regarded indie dev and publisher is facing shutdown because Valve banned their game from Steam and won't talk to them about it, at all.
www.ign.com/articles/uns...
www.ign.com/articles/uns...
Unsettling Horror Game Horses Banned From Steam, Leaving Studio With 'High Risk' of Closure - IGN
Indie horror game Horses is preparing to launch on December 2, on the Epic Games Store, GOG, Itch.io, and the Humble Store. But one place it won't be is on Steam, because Steam has banned the game for...
www.ign.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Really wild situation here: a celebrated and well-regarded indie dev and publisher is facing shutdown because Valve banned their game from Steam and won't talk to them about it, at all.
www.ign.com/articles/uns...
www.ign.com/articles/uns...
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Sweet, a whole new 100% complete (or at least release candidate ready) N64 game.
Looks pretty solid too. Ridiculous that it was fully completed and just never released.
Looks pretty solid too. Ridiculous that it was fully completed and just never released.
They found and dumped the completed game! Absolute shame this never got released, because it looks pretty awesome. Did you see the news yet @quest64official.bsky.social
youtu.be/jNsx4zSvo3U?...
youtu.be/jNsx4zSvo3U?...
FOUND! Viewpoint 2064 - FINAL VERSION preserved (N64)
YouTube video by Hard4Games
youtu.be
November 25, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Sweet, a whole new 100% complete (or at least release candidate ready) N64 game.
Looks pretty solid too. Ridiculous that it was fully completed and just never released.
Looks pretty solid too. Ridiculous that it was fully completed and just never released.