It's sorta sad but it's gotta be said: A lot of the "indie" games biz right now feels like vanity publishing

The problem with "technological revolutions" is that their premise is the ubiquity of the best progress from a new technological paradigm, but in reality we always get the worst one. Right now we're in the smog-filled, cholera-infested workhouse era of the digital revolution. Hoo-fucking-ray.

Affinity suite has some problems, sure, it has gotten a lot slower and particularly the icon packs feature is a disgrace, adding literal minutes to startup time and taking tens of seconds to complete searches, but at least the rest of the experience makes sense and is relatively snappy.

Using Photoshop again for the first time in half a decace, and am not exactly shocked to discover that yep, it's actually worse now.

Dog slow, eats RAM like popcorn, sloppy and dysfunctional UX, even the goddamn fucking layer selection tool doesn't work properly. Export tool opens Win95 dialog box.

"Hidari" stop motion feature film is still in the works.
Directed by Masashi Kawamura using wooden carved puppets.
Produced by Dwarf, Whatever Co & Tecarat.
Completion expected in 2029 (+ new preview at Cannes Film Market next month).
variety.com/2026/film/gl...
www.catsuka.com/news/tag/mas...

Marathon is clearly the more finely crafted, intentional game experience. It's actually quite marvellous, one of the finest pieces of game craft in the last five years, but Arc Raiders is just a great way to hang out with your buds.

Been playing Marathon for a while, but none of my friends play it. Popped back into Arc Raiders, and boy, what a difference. Marathon is an intense sweatfest for no-life kings, while Arc Raiders is a chill compstomp that keeps your hands busy while you catch up and shoot the shit with your mates.

Another lost art: four-texture-channel terrain with no bombing

I can probably assign some outright sinister motives concerning surveillance, information control, the multipolar moment, the problem of surplus labour, slowing growth, declining populations and demographic traps but that whole part of the picture is more a vibe than something I can argue right now.

If we assume that politicians are mostly on some spectrum from ruthless and ambitious to venal and corrupt, they know they need to curry favour with the tech industry in order to get ahead. Best way to do that is to offer access, run interference, shill their products and open lavish budget posts.

In short, lots of time and money is being wasted because it's easy to get on the bandwagon and a lot of people hope to extract benefits from doing so.

Another part is that big tech has extremely well-oiled lobbying machines now, and politicians know they are the most powerful entities in the world.

Part of it is simply that the big tech companies are already part of institutional procurement systems by now because of all the laptops, tablets and cloud services consumed. When the AI hype started, institutions could look cool and with-it by just checking a few boxes in their service plans.

Born in 84, so I watched the world gently resist computers for most of the 90s and 00s. I'm extremely suspicious of how quickly fundamental institutions like education and healthcare have at least announced that they are adopting "AI", this stuff took literal decades with PCs and the internet.

Max Cooper - True Under Certain Conditions (Official video by Frederik Vanhoutte) YouTube video by Max Cooper

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwqP...

Had a very Boring Cyberpunk thought the other day:

Why do the big press outlets use the passive voice and seemingly underplay absolutely every major world event in their headlines?

Maybe it's to prevent all the HFT swarms reading the news from getting too excited and hosing the financial system!

Announcing COMBOLANDS, a deckbuilder where your cards are buildings and the map is your deck. From the designer of Terra Nil!

🃏Stack combos
🏛️Grow your settlement
💥Break the game

Demo out now! store.steampowered.com/app/4075620/...

thank you so much for ✨ 40,000 WISHLISTS ✨ in 24 hours!!

that’s almost how many wishlists our previous game, 1000xRESIST, gained in two years!

we’re so happy to be able to continue making narrative-first games, with the support of players who love them 💖

Cultivation II, 260413

Art heist involving a retired spy who keeps having his plans spoiled by giant robot security?

Hi. I'm still looking for work! I'm a games generalist programmer that has done tons of different things over the past 15 years:
- game design & engine development
- audio programming for music games & board games
- graphics programming & tools engineering
- ui work

someone must have a lead for me?

Noone:
Me, an intellectual: The Gig Other.

The Offspring - Cool to Hate (Official Music Video) YouTube video by The Offspring

The two-minute hate is good and cool actually

Spain is pretty cool actually

Spain closes airspace to US aircraft involved in Iran war It follows a decision by the Spanish government to deny the US use of the two jointly run military bases in Andalusia.

Spain and a couple of other southern European countries are refusing US planes in their airspace, but that's all I've heard of

www.bbc.com/news/article...

The secret is that you actually need to play it to feel what it is supposed to make you feel

feeling the weight of being the family password

Learn to code, indeed

It's gonna be so fucking funny when the only jobs that get replaced by AI are CRUD dev jobs for big tech

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