fuck sam altman forever for taking away the last places where we could engage in good faith: the creative arts, which should be a testament to human ingenuity. i am so mad that everything i read or listen to or admire is now tainted with doubt. do you understand? he is a thief of joy and i HATE HIM

There is no such thing as the right time, only the right place, and to them, that's somewhere far removed from them where they can safely ignore it. And to them, the right place becomes the wrong place the moment they show up. I'm glad telling them to fuck off is becoming the mainstream opinion

One thing I've learned with these types is it's never the right time. During the day is the wrong time because "We're dealing with the stress of work!" During the evening is the wrong time because "Can't we just relax?" During our personal time is the wrong time because "I'm trying to escape that!"

I'm not a tech artist so unfortunately this is beyond me but I just wanted to say the use of "skrungle" here was absolutely cromulent

I've been gettin' a kick out of all the memes. You know, when they actually load

BLUESKY IS A WEBSITE THAT TURNS (post by jay.bsky.team claiming that bluesky is made with AI) INTO (picture of bluesky not working)

Dagoth Ur on a very emasculating throne exclaiming that "Your AI slop bores me"

I turned my watch history off like a decade ago and haven't looked back since. I find it makes the recommended videos way more consistent, but I'll also admit it's not typically the way I discover new YouTubers (usually word of mouth) so I might just be ignoring how awful they still are lol

You to? Got woken up around midnight last night from the sirens lol

Spending 3 weeks to make just the graybox of a tutorial area knowing the next area needs to be at least 4x the size is certainly a feeling. And there are 5 more areas to do after that. Damn, makin' games is hard, why didn't anyone tell me

Then a lot of them will act like you were supposed to educate them as though we haven't been shouting it for ages, they just didn't give a shit until someone they actually cared about said it

I FREAKIN' LOVE PURPLE

I make video game because I want to make story that is also toy

The teeth dreams are the worst. I'm always freaking out a little after I wake up

It's hard to explain, but I think what helped me was realizing I needed to treat backgrounds the same way as characters, if that makes sense. Like, the background is essentially a character on its own, and you can break it down into as many individual "characters" as you want

Yeah, I've noticed that too! Often when looking back I realize I was being way too hard on myself. I guess the eventual emotional detachment helps get a "realer" perspective of it and you realize most of the stuff is actually fine, just needs some fixin' up

I dread looking at it the next day because suddenly every flaw will become apparent lmao. I've realized I probably need to loosen up a bit and let the flow carry itself, something I feel like I'm far more likely to do after breaks. That and realizing it'll always be hit or miss since drawing is hard

An image of the player standing on top of a red fort looking outward towards the yellow, blue, and green forts. The map is an emulation of Block Fort from Mario Kart 64.

Sometimes you gotta bust out the classics when testing your multiplayer

A man presents himself as drinking coffee to his unsuspecting victim, but alas, it was all a joke on this most foolish day of April. The man did not, in fact, like coffee, and never had plans to drink it. Such rambunctious behavior leaves his victim dazed and confused, wondering who the fuck this guy even is.

okay so AI is absolutely cratering imminently and I need all of you to PROMISE me you won't take the high road, and will laugh and rub it in their faces as much as possible. I need you to laugh and go 'WE TOLD YOU SO, BITCH" at every opportunity, PLEASE be extremely mean and ruthless

Morrowind lore: and it's a bunch of cool shit Morrowind gameplay: and it's reading which is for nerds

Relatable. It feels like once you got A and B down everything else in between just comes naturally, but damn is it so hard to find compelling character motivations to tell the exact story you want, especially when it feels like that keeps shifting over a decade+ of...well, everything

Screenshot from Resident Evil 4. Leon and Ashley in the water room

Gotta love when you’re replaying a game and you realize you’ve arrived at That Room

"God, I hate the convenience of everything I want being within a block of my home. I wish I lived somewhere where I needed half a tank of gas in my oversized truck I never use the bed of just to buy groceries, that's real manly man shit"

Like, make no mistake, a lot of them know what they're doing, but knowing what you're doing doesn't automatically mean you're smart. You can know you're doing something without understanding the full repercussions. I feel your videos do a good job of highlighting that

I always viewed your political videos as more of a demythologizing of the right, something even a lot of leftists fall victim to believing. For instance, the "These people are actually evil geniuses" take is something I see all the time still when in reality, uh, no, they really are just dumb lol

Two ogres block the player’s access to the gender-changing coffin.

this really is what it’s like

Things are really bad at the moment and we can feel powerless to change it, but it's important to remember that we aren't supposed to change it alone. Community is what we fight for, and we fight as a community. Things have been extremely bad before but gotten better. We can always do it again

It’s so fucked up that for things to get done you actually have to do them

Every once in a while I remember The Midnight exists and it's just over for my music selection for the next few days