I also come from a position of privilege here though- I do work in the industry. So there's no "breaking in" in the back of my mind. Just a thing that's my creation, with me as the only person I have to answer to, and I can follow whatever whims I want and learn along the way.

This is the approach I've taken with my hobby project and it's incredibly rewarding. I do think I'll probably sell it when it's done, but treating its development as fun leisure time is basically the only reason I've been able to stick with it. The amount of learning has been immense.

I'm pretty sure I saw this as an swf on a website back in 2004.

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Bluesky is the vaping to Twitter’s smoking.

The phase of vaping when people thought it was a way to satisfy their cravings without as many health downsides.

Before the new and different health downsides were well known.

To be fair, they did with Obama too.

Having a whole console and nothing but the worst possible game for each professional sport, a knock off of some popular franchise, and one licensed game.

He was the mayor when I was a kid, lol. The first and only mayor I can recall from my childhood.

In retrospect, it was probably a formative experience for me. I loved this kind of thing and put a lot of thought into my stories, and how to integrate her critiques. I wonder if she realized she was emulating a type of work environment (not game dev, but creative work in general).

Just remembered that my grade 5 teacher had us write drafts of short stories, then go over the draft with her (she'd critique), and then we'd turn them into illustrated picture books.

It's a lot like doing creative game dev work, right down to everyone needing the time and attention of one person.

It is always time for Klax, and thus it will forever be the 90s.

It is sad though, that even when you try your best to just let them like what they like… they might see other kids and adjust to conform. Happened with my son in Kindergarten.

He’s a very “boy” boy, but liked a few slightly “girly” things. About 3 months into K he was suddenly anti-girly stuff.

Libby interface showing “The Amber Spyglass” by Philip Pullman, 100% completed.

Some children’s fantasy novels are good, such as this series I just finished for the first time at age 37 (via audiobook, because I needed it read to me).

Some world leaders need to reach the fail state of a video game, but in real life.

I have not seen it, but I absolutely love that game so I'm happy that whatever Terry did got the job done.

you know. 'vibe coding' was a cute term that kinda fit my method of throwing math around until i zeroed in on a working function but now its RUINED. ai is coming for us all.

'this game is kinda buggy did an ai write this' no i am just Bad

Weird/bad code that somehow works, and feels good in the hands of its creator through sheer brute force iteration, is just the human grit that AI can never replicate.

Any truly great game will have at least one solution to something that makes other game devs wince when they hear about it.

Not a demolitions expert in sight.

I do feel the concept of a very thin plot thread pulling characters through a world/galaxy with rules we don’t quote understand is good/fine. I think they just didn’t stick the landing. I feel an attempt at some heartfelt interpersonal drama may have actually detracted from it.

The Mario Galaxy movie was decent. My kids loved it, and I got to see references to stuff I like. The story was fine for what it is. My main criticism is the climax was underwhelming and some of the stuff that happened related to that felt even more random than the rest of the movie.

A top 5 reasons the books work for me is a runty preteen that talks like an old timey chimney sweep lying and manipulating people to save her friends. I like that it’s played straight in the first book, then in the second book we see her through the eyes of a new character and she seems ridiculous.

I also feel like this Lyra is distinctly NOT the Lyra of the books, but she’s fine. I think that without an internal monologue, she kind of needs to act/speak in a way that reflects her intentions and the show character achieves that. Loses some personality though.

I’ve been listening to the His Dark Materials trilogy. Still need to read the last book, but in between library holds I decided to check out the HBO series. It’s decent so far, but also features Lin Manuel Miranda taking the levelheaded Texan adventurer and playing him like singing steampunk Obama…

This is so, so well-articulated.

I should have given you more credit in my reply and not treated you as a generic voice saying "no a-listers = not good enough." Sorry about that.

Ah, makes sense.

I think “I haven’t heard of these games” would only be a valid criticism if this was something with a big money push behind it or organized by successful indies or something.

I want to go to False Berlin.

In a weird way, I’d say I love making video games (and/or fantasizing about making them) so much that I play them sometimes too.

AFI - Silver and Cold of course