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Sophie

@sophies.games

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Programmer, game developer. Always using the correct amount of cynicism. https://sophies.games Wishlist ROBOT RECKONING: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3174820/ROBOT_RECKONING/

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Sophie @sophies.games · Nov 1

#PitchYaGame ROBOT RECKONING is a hardcore physics-action game that rewards skillful maneuvering, tactical thinking, and creative ability combos, with satisfying robot-smashing action.

Steam page should be live very soon, hopefully.

#gamedev #indiegame #godotengine

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Sophie @sophies.games · 23h

sounds like I should probably get around to watching Peacemaker once I'm done with Long Story Short

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Sophie @sophies.games · 23h

another great ep of the backdrop. did not pick up on that metaphor in Superman at all lol. random question: has the extension of that metaphor into Peacemaker changed your opinion on Superman at all?

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Sophie @sophies.games · 1d

there's also other circumstantial factors; Hades 1 launched during the panini, so everyone was gaming more and probably looking more actively for games to play, and Silksong came out just a month ago, and a lot of people are still working through that.

Sophie @sophies.games · 1d

I think Hades 1 managed to reach a new audience for Supergiant at 1.0 which gave it a big launch, whereas all those people were already aware of Hades 2 at the point it went into Early Access and have probably been playing it already, so reception has been a bit more muted.

Sophie @sophies.games · 1d

the "you" here is more "you, the company" not so much "you, personally" since as company leadership you're ultimately responsible for all decisions the company makes even if they aren't made by you personally

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Ethan Landes @ethanlandes.bsky.social · 1d

The UK is within spitting distance of having more murders portrayed annually on TV shows and movies set in the country than occur in real life

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d

It's so incredible how low homicide rates are in Europe. The UK, with a population of 70 million people, had fewer than 600 murders in 2023.
www.connexionfrance.com/news/double-...

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Sophie @sophies.games · 1d

Death to Chronos!

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 1d

when I was defending itch I heard from a lot of - frankly to my shock - other queers who were like "it's a platform, platforms are the enemy" and until we're able to distinguish _as users_ the ways in which worker owned services aren't your enemy and deserve grace, we won't be seeing very many

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Sophie @sophies.games · 2d

Not nearly as much as your chat history would give away, but more to the point, banks have both the money and the incentive to set incredibly high security standards, which the average chat app does not have. In contrast, e2e is relatively cheap to implement and is bulletproof.

Sophie @sophies.games · 2d

feels like there's a real gap in the market for a subscription based service run by grownups who give a shit.

Sophie @sophies.games · 2d

the people at Snapchat seem to care to be fair, but they're stuck between a rock and a hard place trying to monetise a userbase of broke teenagers.

Sophie @sophies.games · 2d

something this whole Bluesky episode has made me realise is that there isn't a big social media site run by people who care about running a good social media site. I thought Bluesky was it, but they primarily care about the protocol. Zuckerberg and Spez care about money. Elon cares about his ego.

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boo-atrix 👻 @beatrix.bsky.social · 2d

Lying extensively in a professional context is a huge red flag for personal integrity but also the pursuit of credentials above competence tends to either incentivize lying or just straight-up reproduce existing class divides.

boo-atrix 👻 @beatrix.bsky.social · 2d

I will go slightly further and say that a lot of people in a white-collar milieu (myself included) tend to assume that credentials correlate with competence or aptitude in a way that they just don't.

utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 2d

Look, I am not going to die on the hill of allowing superintendents on false credentials but we live at what must be a zenith in American white collar education and the consolidation of elite credentialism in public/private life… and yet we are more often ruled by incompetent and amoral charlatans.

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Sophie @sophies.games · 3d

I dunno. I'm kind of with you but also when corporations start trying to replace everything that makes life worth living - work, human connection, creation of art - with their machines, *and they're kind of succeeding* I can understand why it makes a lot of people lose their minds.

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Sophie @sophies.games · 3d

is it elitism, or just "words should mean things"?

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 3d

Watching corporations exploit human longing and use marketing to project hope that string generators are people is… well it’s not the worst crime but it’s top 10. Someone on here said to me that these things have ‘more emotional intelligence than the average human’ and it bummed me out for hours

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Sophie @sophies.games · 3d

When people first moved over and there was a lot of goodwill towards them, they said they planned a subscription for bonus features and stuff. Given they've been burning goodwill since then I doubt they'll move forward with it.

Sophie @sophies.games · 4d

obviously don't harass people but you really shouldn't be surprised when, as the de facto leader of a community, being childish and obnoxious to people only encourages them to do that back to you.

I'm not sure how much systemic changes help things if you can't lead by example.

Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 5d

Harassing the mods into banning someone has never worked. And harassing people in general has never changed their mind.

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dylan's sin (優) @koybz.bsky.social · 4d

oh its the thing everyone said was going to happen when this got brought in and it immediately happened

The Verge @theverge.com · 4d

Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs

An “unauthorized party” may have accessed the names of users, the last four digits of credit card numbers, and more.

buff.ly

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Sophie @sophies.games · 6d

Everyone else gets to be annoyed about off-topic replies because none of us get to make those kinds of decisions. And that kind of power is a privilege! Act like it!

And like I said yesterday, don't be flippant towards people who are harmed by a decision, even if you think it's a net good.

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Sophie @sophies.games · 6d

Off-topic replies are annoying, but if you run a website and people are mad about a decision you've made, people *are* gonna get in your mentions about it, and you're *always* going to make some decisions some people get really mad about.

That's the gig. If you don't like it, log off or resign.

Paul Frazee @pfrazee.com · 6d

There's the substance of the signal issue, and then there's the pattern of behavior that jay was responding to -- the constant, _constant_ off topic responses that make this tedious.

On the substance, it's really just that the guy didn't violate the ToS. I'm sorry, that's just it

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Sophie @sophies.games · 6d

thinking about Davinci Resolve; it's a real baller move to, as a *side project* to your hardware, make the best video editing software on the market and price it cheaper than everyone else's

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Sophie @sophies.games · 6d

I sort of feel like "The War On Science" is too obviously bad to merit the IBCK treatment

Sophie @sophies.games · 6d

this isn't even the only reply in that thread where she's being snarky to someone, either. just very strange behaviour for a CEO.

but also it's not like anyone has ever done a good job of being a social media CEO, so it's unsurprising she isn't an exception. I just kinda thought she was until now.

Sophie @sophies.games · 6d

and in the larger context of the thread, it's a real galaxy brain move to try to fix the users of your website being too antagonistic by antagonising them.

like I said I get that she has a tough job but this is a really obviously bad way to go about it.

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