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I make videogames and talk about them. Currently with Epic Games. Giant Elder Scrolls nerd. Opinions don't represent employers.
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AI weirdos can pry em dashes and sparkle emojis from my cold, dead hands

Thanks for tuning in to The Witcher 4 — Unreal Engine 5 tech demo and joining us during the State of Unreal 2025! #UnrealFest The full presentation will be uploaded and shared with everyone later today, but in the meantime, here's four screenshots straight from the demo to tide us all over. 😍

Pride month begins, so let's all be as loud and proud as possible ! #warhammer40k #warhammercommunity #lgbt

CDPR will be at State of Unreal with 'The Witcher IV' on June 3th.

Plot of Dr.Who finale is just this meme

BREAKING: We have reached a historic first tentative contract agreement with Microsoft! cwa-union.org/news/release...

the techbros who are pushing genAI want everyone to feel like it's an inevitability because so far they are losing billions of dollars this is because it generally sucks shit at doing anything useful we do not need to surrender to a garbage future

We are so back/it's so over, Expedition 33 edition

How to professionally estimate your tickets

hey folks, my team is looking for a Principal Producer for our (exciting!) unannounced project. I can't say anything that's not in the req, but I am very excited about this team and what it can make, so encourage you to check it out if you might be interested: careers.blizzard.com/global/en/jo...

Crowdsource: I need a Photoshop replacement that: 1) has the same hot keys (or can be remapped) 2) has the equivalent of Actions and Batch processes 3) can make gifs Or maybe I dust off that CS6 code...

"AI" uses em-dashes because the writers whose (appropriated) work it's trained on use them. I use them a lot, personally, and of course just about everything I've ever written was chucked into the training bin without my consent or assent. So, you know, whenever you see an "AI" em-dash, think of me.

As we wind down the andor posting i would like to note the beautiful symmetry of Nemik's manifesto boiling down to "i have friends everywhere" while the isb eats itself and the conference room gets emptier and emptier

Held it together until the very last scene in Andor before I started crying. Not enough praise in the world for how good this show is.

WHO NAMED THIS

hey just some quick feedback. the groceries -> cooking -> washing up loop feels too tight, it’s like I’ve only cooked a few times before I have to start over again. it’s a reliable resource sink for sure but it would be great to not have to do it so often. can we do a tuning pass

It’s frustrating that the Clair Obscur team has been nothing but open about “we’re not just 33 people, we have hundreds of contractors” and a budget in the tens of millions (as should be obvious from playing it) and yet people are angry at them instead of the folks who pushed the “small team!” story

I have told this advice to every friend I've ever had. If you don't pursue opportunities, there's someone out there twice as dumb as you who will, and successfully.

Treating this like an insane scoop just shows the crisis games are in. Someone convinced ppl indies somehow produce insane quality for pennies...because AAA is too dumb to? Quality costs money, but the environment is that of indies budgeting as low as they dare to in order to have a game at all

Mailing a copy of that speech to every congressperson

ANDOR AAAAAAAAAaaaa

Did you know the “weekend” and working only 8 hours per day used to be considered a radical, liberal idea? 139 years ago today, in Bay View, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 7 workers (including a 13 yo) lost their lives to advance this revolutionary idea. A 🧵

If you're not watching Andor, I dunno. You're missing one of the best shows of the decade. Full stop.

(tired and drunk while playing Clue) Fuck I dunno...

Andor is incredible as usual tonight but special shout out to the pigeon casting

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NEVER AGAIN FOR ANYONE

To prevent deer from being hit by cars Finland has tried using reflective paint. (https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/avoid-deer-strikes-finland-painting-deer-antlers-reflective-paint-180949792/) File this under "solutions to modern problems that summon the old gods."

Andor season one didn’t have to go so hard as a dense, methodical political drama laying out the ways fascism creeps and authoritarianism takes hold, but it did. If you understandably dismissed it as just another Disney+ Star Wars show, it very much is not, and it will hit extra hard right now.

Detail from a Lombardic radiate-headed bow brooch. Dating to the early 7th century AD, the brooch was found in a cemetery at Nocera Umbra in the Province of Perugia, Italy. Now part of the collections at the Museum of Civilisations in Rome. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #Archaeology

This should be the easiest boycott ever and if you can’t even satisfy this baseline level of solidarity then you have no right to question why we are all now under the gun.

I have gleefully learned my talk isn’t paywalled! Please enjoy! 🔥

Going to start naming my in-game characters based on the way fast food places mishear my name

We've reached the point in our descent into fascism where the Jewish governor's house getting firebombed on Passover by a guy trying to bash his head in with a sledgehammer is overshadowed by the story of the President saying he wants to build foreign gulags for US citizens.

The Road to Summerfall - Part 2 I guess the best place to start is with leaving BioWare. Right off the bat, I'll say I enjoyed working there - a lot. Until I didn't. I started in 1999 with BG2 and ended in 2016, 2 years after shipping DAI and after spending a year on the game which became Anthem.

My politics are simple. I want everyone to have the best possible quality of life while I get to collect the greatest amount of video game items There should be free school lunches and well-funded cancer research labs, and meanwhile I’m shattering a vase to collect 500x gemstonium

Roguelite indie puzzle game where you wake up every morning, log on bsky, and have to figure out who the vague posts are attacking/defending

I left my chair for a few minutes and it was immediately coopted