Hey man, we cool? I just noticed that when I look at you the reticle turns red.

This has been my experience with the Game Development industry too

Where and when

Tell me "Malloc" is a word in mortal tongues

What is your absolute Omega cursed ultra forbidden snack while high?

Mine is Italian dressing right from the bottle

System designers define the verbs and content/level designers create the nouns, and if they're not working with narrative then the story and gameplay are going to feel like awkward roommates instead of two parts of a whole.

Waiter, there is a vibe in my code!

As a Starbucks Barista, people already try to order AI drinks, and it REGULARLY makes up ingredients we simply do not have. I tell people that we don't carry that ingredient and never have, and they're shocked. It's bleak already.

the worst coffee in the world thinks a water-killing machine can design even worse coffee for you

Yeah I've been effectively pushed out of the industry because of stuff like this. I have to work a shit job with shit pay, I don't have the time and energy to do all this anymore.

kids are treated as property which means teens on their own have stolen themselves

George Bush standing in front of a "mission accomplished" banner

Great news everyone

I love ALIEN’s vision of the future. Yes, everyone is still working shit jobs for shit corporations for shit pay. But the good news is they’ve successfully made robots full of milk that are bitchy little fruits

"My rights are more important than yours because mine don't affect anyone else!"
It was less than 10 years ago that they were talking about if YOU existing in public and wanting cakes at your wedding was "affecting someone else"

How are these people so gullible

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

Roger Ebert:

Bex and Ted's excellent adventure

Changing meds is always a fuckin adventure

The fundamental problem with algorithmic content suggestion is that it interprets watching a Warhammer 40k lore video as a desire to watch more Warhammer 40k lore videos, and not a cry for help.

Gamers don’t even post those anticipated game lists and say “My wallet is crying” anymore

True recession indicator

This take but for TTRPGs

I had to take "AI programmer" off my resume for this reason

So playstation had a price hike, Xbox is implementing commercials into game pass and switch 2 and it's games are basically rentals according to Nintendo is there a console war to see who can make the most dogshit decisions

"restored to the way the developers originally intended it" / "remastered to the style the devs envisioned but wasn't technically possible at the time" is a fantasy

There is no platonic ideal. Every game is constructed out of the choices its developers made. Changing that makes it a different game

Birdwatching is the thinking man's hobby

Art of a mexican standoff, three men pointing guns at each other, each labelled Animators, Game Devs and Comic artists, each saying "My industry is so fucked." Arty by Rowan Dodds on Artstation.

This has been my whole feed basically since I joined Twitter a decade ago.

I think we need to celebrate the death of Sora a bit more. This is a technology that, just MONTHS AGO, we were being told was going to literally destroy Hollywood and Disney was going to give them a BILLION DOLLARS and NONE OF THAT EVEN REMOTELY HAPPENED

That is, it's not a desirable trait, but I was born and bred for this shit.

I'm hard wired to love civ the same way heading dogs are hard wired to snap at heels.

Everybody's trying to be Fortnite and if you don't make a Fortnite then everybody gets laid off, but it ends up even if you do make a Fortnite then everybody gets laid off