Lalo Martins
@lalomartins.info
Games, game design, board games, VR, languages. I wish we were on Fedi instead.
Languages: en, ja, pt, de, sv; pronouns: literally any is fine.
Heart: Ikebukuro, Japan. Body: Tallinn, Eesti.
Languages: en, ja, pt, de, sv; pronouns: literally any is fine.
Heart: Ikebukuro, Japan. Body: Tallinn, Eesti.
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Lalo Martins
@lalomartins.info
· Nov 25
Hello world. Can't believe y'all making me sign up for *another* corporate social network instead of figuring out Fedi 😿 ah well, you go where the people are.
Come on Steam, don't be down, I want to post a review 😓
December 24, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Come on Steam, don't be down, I want to post a review 😓
I'm increasingly warming up to the newly spreading perspective that economist is not a real profession and economics is not a real science.
Economists are to anthropologists and sociologists as quantum coaches are to psychologists and psychiatrists. They work on the same problems…
Economists are to anthropologists and sociologists as quantum coaches are to psychologists and psychiatrists. They work on the same problems…
December 19, 2025 at 12:58 PM
I'm increasingly warming up to the newly spreading perspective that economist is not a real profession and economics is not a real science.
Economists are to anthropologists and sociologists as quantum coaches are to psychologists and psychiatrists. They work on the same problems…
Economists are to anthropologists and sociologists as quantum coaches are to psychologists and psychiatrists. They work on the same problems…
Music school staff: “🤔 do we put up the Xmas deco or do we leave the Halloween stuff a little longer?”
The girl from the meme: “Why not both? 🤷♀️”
The girl from the meme: “Why not both? 🤷♀️”
December 15, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Music school staff: “🤔 do we put up the Xmas deco or do we leave the Halloween stuff a little longer?”
The girl from the meme: “Why not both? 🤷♀️”
The girl from the meme: “Why not both? 🤷♀️”
I'm sorry, but if you think Expedition 33 is a better game than Blue Prince, you clearly don't play games for the same reason I do.
Which is, of course, fine. But it's a thing.
Which is, of course, fine. But it's a thing.
December 13, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I'm sorry, but if you think Expedition 33 is a better game than Blue Prince, you clearly don't play games for the same reason I do.
Which is, of course, fine. But it's a thing.
Which is, of course, fine. But it's a thing.
Every now and then Epic manages to give away a game I don't want even for free 🙄🧙
December 12, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Every now and then Epic manages to give away a game I don't want even for free 🙄🧙
I should change my gaming handle to “Southern Ocean Death Ball” 😹
A 35-day deep-sea expedition in the Southern Ocean has uncovered 30 new species: from a carnivorous “death-ball” sponge to iridescent armoured worms, black corals and even the first-ever live footage of a colossal squid in its natural habitat. buff.ly/9uVWJvN
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
Armored worms and death-ball sponges among array of life newly documented from the deep sea
In the darkness of the deep ocean, where pressure crushes and light fails, an expedition has found an astonishing array of life, including a carnivorous “death-ball” sponge (from the genus…
buff.ly
November 24, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I should change my gaming handle to “Southern Ocean Death Ball” 😹
RIP Meta Quest, it was a good run (until it wasn't)
November 12, 2025 at 9:36 PM
RIP Meta Quest, it was a good run (until it wasn't)
Hot take:
Everyone who works in IT should read the Kanban book.
Even if your team is not going to use Kanban (and you probably should), there's a ton of useful wisdom in there to actually get things done.
Everyone who works in IT should read the Kanban book.
Even if your team is not going to use Kanban (and you probably should), there's a ton of useful wisdom in there to actually get things done.
October 16, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Hot take:
Everyone who works in IT should read the Kanban book.
Even if your team is not going to use Kanban (and you probably should), there's a ton of useful wisdom in there to actually get things done.
Everyone who works in IT should read the Kanban book.
Even if your team is not going to use Kanban (and you probably should), there's a ton of useful wisdom in there to actually get things done.
Hot take: if your web app is in react, except for extremely simple stuff, that's automatically 2 points down. If your desktop or mobile app is in react, that's like 10 points down, even for simple stuff. I mean come on people. My computer doesn't belong to you, there are other things I want to run.
September 30, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Hot take: if your web app is in react, except for extremely simple stuff, that's automatically 2 points down. If your desktop or mobile app is in react, that's like 10 points down, even for simple stuff. I mean come on people. My computer doesn't belong to you, there are other things I want to run.
Remember kids, Avery Quinn died for your sins. #NeverForget
September 20, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Remember kids, Avery Quinn died for your sins. #NeverForget
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Censorship of porn is just the test run. Age verification is going to kill the open web mashable.com/article/age-...
Porn censorship is going to destroy the entire internet
Age verification isn't just for adult websites.
mashable.com
August 18, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Censorship of porn is just the test run. Age verification is going to kill the open web mashable.com/article/age-...
Reposted by Lalo Martins
🚨 Age checks kill anonymity 🚨
🫣 IDs link you to every click
🫣 Centralized databases risk leaks & abuse
❌ No anonymity possible
Politicians want to trade #privacy for “protection.”
Read the article by @annaroseiovine.bsky.social : mashable.com/article/age-...
🫣 IDs link you to every click
🫣 Centralized databases risk leaks & abuse
❌ No anonymity possible
Politicians want to trade #privacy for “protection.”
Read the article by @annaroseiovine.bsky.social : mashable.com/article/age-...
August 19, 2025 at 8:33 AM
🚨 Age checks kill anonymity 🚨
🫣 IDs link you to every click
🫣 Centralized databases risk leaks & abuse
❌ No anonymity possible
Politicians want to trade #privacy for “protection.”
Read the article by @annaroseiovine.bsky.social : mashable.com/article/age-...
🫣 IDs link you to every click
🫣 Centralized databases risk leaks & abuse
❌ No anonymity possible
Politicians want to trade #privacy for “protection.”
Read the article by @annaroseiovine.bsky.social : mashable.com/article/age-...
Reposted by Lalo Martins
And relatedly: @adapalmer.bsky.social again, noting that worldbuilding has to be believable if you want people to read your story, while real history is often entirely off the rails
August 17, 2025 at 5:28 PM
And relatedly: @adapalmer.bsky.social again, noting that worldbuilding has to be believable if you want people to read your story, while real history is often entirely off the rails
Reposted by Lalo Martins
Fiction needs to be plausible, which real life does not (and usually isn't.)
~ @adapalmer.bsky.social
#Worldcon
~ @adapalmer.bsky.social
#Worldcon
August 17, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Fiction needs to be plausible, which real life does not (and usually isn't.)
~ @adapalmer.bsky.social
#Worldcon
~ @adapalmer.bsky.social
#Worldcon
Headcanon: pretty sure gelsacks are *delicious*. #subnautica
August 7, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Headcanon: pretty sure gelsacks are *delicious*. #subnautica
I mean tbh I'll take Abiotic's flavor of low poly retro over pixel art any day thanks
August 2, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I mean tbh I'll take Abiotic's flavor of low poly retro over pixel art any day thanks
Dear browser vendors, here's a summary of when I want to see a “what's new” tab after an update:
- Never
Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
- Never
Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
July 25, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Dear browser vendors, here's a summary of when I want to see a “what's new” tab after an update:
- Never
Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
- Never
Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
Subnautica 2 removed from wishlist pending further information on this dumpster fire.
youtube.com/watch?v=jUO-...
youtube.com/watch?v=jUO-...
Subnautica 2 OFFICIALLY Delayed To PREVENT Paying Devs $250 Million Bonus?!
YouTube video by Z1 Gaming
youtube.com
July 10, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Subnautica 2 removed from wishlist pending further information on this dumpster fire.
youtube.com/watch?v=jUO-...
youtube.com/watch?v=jUO-...
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Something I like about the study of the past is how it constantly keeps breaking down borders and categories that we in the current time have created or accepted.
June 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Something I like about the study of the past is how it constantly keeps breaking down borders and categories that we in the current time have created or accepted.
Wait, wait, they did what? (x5 more or less) #DoctorWho #TheRealityWar
May 31, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Wait, wait, they did what? (x5 more or less) #DoctorWho #TheRealityWar
After 14 months of dealing with Estonian car culture, sitting in the Yamanote feels like a massage on my soul 💚
May 16, 2025 at 6:06 AM
After 14 months of dealing with Estonian car culture, sitting in the Yamanote feels like a massage on my soul 💚