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Hey look, buddy. I'm an engineer, that means I solve problems. Not problems like "What is beauty?", 'cause that would fall within the purview of your conundrums of philosophy. I solve practical problems.
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For those who haven’t seen this MASTERPIECE in person yet, it is meant to be viewed from 3 angles: From below: map of CTA network From side: picture of bus From front: picture of train

Old as hell PC gamers pouring several ones out today

They're closing Monolith? Dang. Shogo, Blood, No One Lives Forever, F.E.A.R., Matrix Online, That Middle-Earth game with the nemesis mechanic. Also, oddly, the 1994 Canadian FMV game Maabus, prior to them creating Blood in 1997.

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Being lured to my doom by an idea for a new project. Meanwhile, my numerous existing projects cry out for someone, anyone, to finish them.

The problem with finding suitable quotes referencing the Butlerian Jihad, is that you sometimes get ones from Brian Herbert.

I joined a game jam, and this is what I was able to create in ~7 days. My ambitions were too lofty, and making it 3D was a grave mistake. raruler.itch.io/space-sweeper

at least the field of piracy is still holding up the standards of the day

Cool 🦎🦎🦎 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/s...

I will never stop thinking about this Gabe Newell quote

hello, fired American nuclear weapons experts, I have some questions about the Teller-Ulam design, hit me up in the DMs

the clippy instrumentality project is complete

@jeffgerstmann.com your description of how Avowed combat reminded me of how The Secret World wanted you to combine ranged weapons and a melee weapon to get unique combos and skills

I made this recently, quite good www.americastestkitchen.com/recipes/1586...

meanwhile, in "games industry news that is actually good as hell & one you wish would be an example to other companies", Valve just made the Team Fortress 2 SDK available for anyone to develop with non-commercially www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=...

The proliferation of tiny Canadian flags in the grocery store, and people cancelling trips to the US is a noticeable change in how this is all going on at the moment

Bippus Plumbing Co. Bippus, IN

Swan Boy 40K

(Large language model sees two numbers over 20 entering the context window): oh hell no

If you think about it, Z was the first auto-battler game. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_(vide...

I believe it was Andy Kindler who came up with the joke, maybe over the years ago, that there are balls of super hot gas in the cosmos not trying as hard as Kevin Hart to be a star

"You'll never be unhoused in America—if you're a car." There are a quarter of a billion cars in the U.S.—and 2 billion parking spaces. The nation now builds more 3-car garages than 1-bedroom apartments. 🅿️🧵

Thinking about FFX Columbo

Finished. I suppose I’ll end up with two, when I inevitably buy the new heavy support box.

real straightforward calculation finds that Cybertrucks are 17 times more likely to have fire fatalities than the Ford Pinto fuelarc.com/evs/its-offi...

Mark Rosewater, head designer for Magic: The Gathering, is sick and tired of your bigoted and transphobic shit. [via Blogatog]

Crap crap crap. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

doing an akira slide into the room on a horse, breaking all of its legs