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This is often awkward. I've worked on some big games but even with those, the probability of somebody having heard of them is inversely proportional to their connection with the games industry.
December 2, 2025 at 8:28 AM
This is often awkward. I've worked on some big games but even with those, the probability of somebody having heard of them is inversely proportional to their connection with the games industry.
There is a gremlin that lives in all windows installations that feeds off the panicked energy generated from specifically that situation where you're in a meeting with a person whose opinion of you can shape your future, desperately trying to figure out why the audio has chosen today to fail.
November 18, 2025 at 6:08 PM
There is a gremlin that lives in all windows installations that feeds off the panicked energy generated from specifically that situation where you're in a meeting with a person whose opinion of you can shape your future, desperately trying to figure out why the audio has chosen today to fail.
I'd completely forgotten about this one! I have fond memories of driller (even ran on a spectrum!) and 'Total Eclipse' running on the same engine. Their games had a unique feel.
November 9, 2025 at 1:27 PM
I'd completely forgotten about this one! I have fond memories of driller (even ran on a spectrum!) and 'Total Eclipse' running on the same engine. Their games had a unique feel.
I'm not sure if/when trumpers will learn that their bloc routinely accuse others of what they do or plan to do.
It's a childish form of rhetoric designed to deflect but it can be quite useful if you want to figure out what they really want.
Pizzagate was an example. Epstein files now, please.
It's a childish form of rhetoric designed to deflect but it can be quite useful if you want to figure out what they really want.
Pizzagate was an example. Epstein files now, please.
October 13, 2025 at 12:23 PM
I'm not sure if/when trumpers will learn that their bloc routinely accuse others of what they do or plan to do.
It's a childish form of rhetoric designed to deflect but it can be quite useful if you want to figure out what they really want.
Pizzagate was an example. Epstein files now, please.
It's a childish form of rhetoric designed to deflect but it can be quite useful if you want to figure out what they really want.
Pizzagate was an example. Epstein files now, please.
Then they pivoted to AI like every other corporate bastard because the essential *meanness* at its core appealed to them in a way that well crafted VR games never could.
Stick them all on an Elon Musk rocket and fly it into the sun.
Stick them all on an Elon Musk rocket and fly it into the sun.
October 12, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Then they pivoted to AI like every other corporate bastard because the essential *meanness* at its core appealed to them in a way that well crafted VR games never could.
Stick them all on an Elon Musk rocket and fly it into the sun.
Stick them all on an Elon Musk rocket and fly it into the sun.
Meta didn't listen to game devs, the made a bunch of boring, soulless beige corporate chatrooms because that's what's in their souls and called it a revolution.
Meanwhile, teams like 'Read at Dawn' were creating amazing games like 'Lone Echo' that showed what could be done.
Meanwhile, teams like 'Read at Dawn' were creating amazing games like 'Lone Echo' that showed what could be done.
October 12, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Meta didn't listen to game devs, the made a bunch of boring, soulless beige corporate chatrooms because that's what's in their souls and called it a revolution.
Meanwhile, teams like 'Read at Dawn' were creating amazing games like 'Lone Echo' that showed what could be done.
Meanwhile, teams like 'Read at Dawn' were creating amazing games like 'Lone Echo' that showed what could be done.
That's exactly what I felt about it - I was genuinely excited by the push for VR - that was nothing but a good thing for the games industry and creative work but they fluffed it by spending billions doing what a game dev team could do in half the time for so much less.
October 12, 2025 at 12:00 PM
That's exactly what I felt about it - I was genuinely excited by the push for VR - that was nothing but a good thing for the games industry and creative work but they fluffed it by spending billions doing what a game dev team could do in half the time for so much less.
Maybe, I'll see what they come back with.
October 9, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Maybe, I'll see what they come back with.
Oh totally, I've had quite enough of Unity's boardroom shenanigans: they've burned through an awful lot of loyalty and goodwill, it makes me wonder if the c-suite there undersands the concepts.
Tim Sweeney is a developer himself and has been there since the start, the difference is obvious.
Tim Sweeney is a developer himself and has been there since the start, the difference is obvious.
October 6, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Oh totally, I've had quite enough of Unity's boardroom shenanigans: they've burned through an awful lot of loyalty and goodwill, it makes me wonder if the c-suite there undersands the concepts.
Tim Sweeney is a developer himself and has been there since the start, the difference is obvious.
Tim Sweeney is a developer himself and has been there since the start, the difference is obvious.
I think the main thing is having a pressing need to do it - if somebody were to ask (ok, pay) me to do something in Unreal then I'd do a deep dive but so far I've really just tinkered. It's easier than Unity for getting nice visuals quickly though.
October 6, 2025 at 12:36 PM
I think the main thing is having a pressing need to do it - if somebody were to ask (ok, pay) me to do something in Unreal then I'd do a deep dive but so far I've really just tinkered. It's easier than Unity for getting nice visuals quickly though.
I've never got much further than exploring shaders and making test scenes in Unreal. It's on my list of things to learn but that list seems to grow faster than I can learn things.
October 6, 2025 at 12:28 PM
I've never got much further than exploring shaders and making test scenes in Unreal. It's on my list of things to learn but that list seems to grow faster than I can learn things.
Is unreal fighting you?
October 6, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Is unreal fighting you?
It's a nice thought but the needs of shareholders and the needs of customers and employees are, in the long run, antithetical to each other.
PLCs are a cancerous way to organise collective effort. They've managed to gain legal personhood but if a PLC has a personality, it's that of a psychopath.
PLCs are a cancerous way to organise collective effort. They've managed to gain legal personhood but if a PLC has a personality, it's that of a psychopath.
October 6, 2025 at 10:12 AM
It's a nice thought but the needs of shareholders and the needs of customers and employees are, in the long run, antithetical to each other.
PLCs are a cancerous way to organise collective effort. They've managed to gain legal personhood but if a PLC has a personality, it's that of a psychopath.
PLCs are a cancerous way to organise collective effort. They've managed to gain legal personhood but if a PLC has a personality, it's that of a psychopath.
It's not a hard message to understand and it's been shared many times but with less gross genAI, which is a tool the few (those who're rich enough to own data centres running plagiaristic genAI) use to disenfranchise the many (talented artists trying to earn a living).
September 29, 2025 at 7:42 AM
It's not a hard message to understand and it's been shared many times but with less gross genAI, which is a tool the few (those who're rich enough to own data centres running plagiaristic genAI) use to disenfranchise the many (talented artists trying to earn a living).
I'm 100% prepared to accept that trump believes in simplistic fairy-tale mysticism involving going to heaven for "being a good boy, the bestest boy ever, everybody's saying it, it's true" as this is much easier for a simple, gasping, narcissistic moron to comprehend than reality.
August 20, 2025 at 8:01 AM
I'm 100% prepared to accept that trump believes in simplistic fairy-tale mysticism involving going to heaven for "being a good boy, the bestest boy ever, everybody's saying it, it's true" as this is much easier for a simple, gasping, narcissistic moron to comprehend than reality.
And if you don`t love the work of it, it`s not the right work for you.
I don`t turn up to a 100m race on a moped and expect to be praised for it.
I don`t turn up to a 100m race on a moped and expect to be praised for it.
August 18, 2025 at 8:51 AM
And if you don`t love the work of it, it`s not the right work for you.
I don`t turn up to a 100m race on a moped and expect to be praised for it.
I don`t turn up to a 100m race on a moped and expect to be praised for it.
Yeah, AI is even worse.
July 26, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Yeah, AI is even worse.
At least that would have been painted by humans rather than this plagiarist garbage
July 26, 2025 at 6:31 AM
At least that would have been painted by humans rather than this plagiarist garbage
Exactly what I was thinking.
July 26, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Exactly what I was thinking.
It's not either or though, is it? It's cumulative.
There are currently around 100-200 rocket launches a year and there are ~2 billion AC units globally.
If you add them both together, you get a big number.
There are currently around 100-200 rocket launches a year and there are ~2 billion AC units globally.
If you add them both together, you get a big number.
July 14, 2025 at 2:14 PM
It's not either or though, is it? It's cumulative.
There are currently around 100-200 rocket launches a year and there are ~2 billion AC units globally.
If you add them both together, you get a big number.
There are currently around 100-200 rocket launches a year and there are ~2 billion AC units globally.
If you add them both together, you get a big number.