if I never see the Unity IDE for the rest of my life it'll be too soon...and yet I know I'll have to see (and maybe even USE) it again eventually. "Once more unto the breach," as Billy the Bard would say.
How are you, by the way? It's been awhile.
“The Chronicle of Higher Education is the Reddit of higher ed.” - Me, just now, talking with my advisor (who nodded in agreement)
Live service games are especially rotten about it, as are a lot of RPGs. That does make some sense, but it still doesn’t change the fact that I’ll probably never get around to playing, say, Baldur’s Gate III because 136gb is a prohibitively large download for a 250-500gb SSD.
Not to get all tinfoil hat-wearing about it, but it does make me wonder whether those textures are just a scapegoat or red herring at some point — like at what point does it start becoming a problem of pricing people out of even (and especially) “free”-to-play games altogether?
At the risk of sounding like I’m trying to signal outrage or whatever (spoiler: I’m not), lately I’ve been thinking about how game download sizes have ballooned over the years. Sure, hi-res textures take up space, but it’s to the point where a single game can take up a single drive of space.
My first game studies textbook was Understanding Video Games: The Essential Introduction (the second edition, if memory serves): www.routledge.com/Understandin...
Me, c. January: "Sure, I'll take this Virtual Worlds class, even though I have no experience working in Unity or other major game engines. What could possibly go wrong?"
Me, c. Now: *sneezes* OH GOD EVERYTHING BROKE AGAIN JESUS CHRIST WHY DID I SIGN UP FOR THIS
Microsoft Office is to me what weapons are to Beowulf…it always fails me.
This weekend I'll be presenting at @rpihass.bsky.social's Critical Game Design Graduate Conference, and a fellow UB student will be demoing his board game at GameFest! I'm definitely looking forward to it!
RFK Jr.'s voice is indistinguishable from the corpse held together by insects that tells the survivors in Prince of Darkness to pray for death.
i noticed a lot of the various american "fuck around and find out" types don't seem to be internalizing that they also live in america and will also be finding out
A stressed out Lois Griffin (symbolizing Congressional Republicans) looking over at a pill bottle labeled "25th Amendment"
JUST POP THAT LID ALREADY
WE ALL SAW YOU EYEING IT WHEN JOE WAS STILL AROUND
Happy to announce that I'll be starting coursework at the University at Buffalo in Fall 2024! I'm excited to return to academia after a fourish-year hiatus!
I truly say this as someone who enjoyed early Marvel and has nothing against superheros as a genre: I am so glad that superhero media is struggling. holy shit it's a relief. please create air in mainstream culture for other types of storytelling please god
Going to Ohio to get exactly this high
That's why I search for them! To spread the dankness!
Huzzah! I've finally made it out of the clutches of the Former Bird App!