there’s actually never been a better time to be a professional software engineer. we are in the midst of a Cambrian explosion of weird and stupid bugs you get to go and fix!

odd pain near my heart every time i breathe in 🤨

Today's as good a day as any to leave Substack, my dear compatriots!

brain hurt cos of life choices

first impressions of the Lego smart brick, before I do any actual tearing down: wow, I forgot how good they are at working with plastic. the injecton molding remains impeccable, at least for this specific piece (I know about their recent QC issues elsewhere)

BULLSHIT ARTIST: STOP BULLSHIT ON BULLSHIT

Every website’s design slowly turning into light beige background, tall serif font for titles, Inter for body copy 😞

"The player's pet dog will antagonize the neighbor and keep him away, but as the dog itself is vulnerable to the lawnmower, care must be taken not to run it over."

Early video games were ... different.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hover_B...

will no one rid us of this turbulent orange priest?

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I have been in the industry 14 years now and have been part of 14 games and many of them and my personal work can be seen on my portfolio and I'm available for environment work in the UK, Here is some work for 4 of them titles.
#gamedev #3dart

www.artstation.com/pikminman

[every "drunk guy at airport on police bodycam vids on youtube"] Too many? Naaaah!

Laughed at “prime specimen”, lost it at alt text 🤣

Skeptically looking at every new video game announcement that has voice acting, considering whether or not it was scab work during the strike. It's right about that time that those will start popping up all over the place.

this is environmental storytelling, and the story it's telling is "you're the bad guys"

LAPD officers arrest a protester dressed as the Statue of Liberty outside a federal building during a ‘Kings Day’ protest. (Connor Sheets/Los Angeles Times)

A remarkable photo from #NoKings in DTLA from Connor Sheets of @latimes.com www.latimes.com/california/l...

anime "great it's a book about drugs"

me reading American Psycho when i was 14

all preventable

Sigh.

Nojoule created a set of pixel-style portal effects in Godot, using sharp edges and broken patterns instead of smooth surfaces. 🌀

See how they did it: jettelly.com/blog/pixel-p...

#GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev

@pfrazee.com is The Team™ aware of video scrubbing issues in desktop Firefox? Audio de-syncs when skipping ahead or back in embedded videos in bsky

"Experiencing interruptions?" - yes, Youtube, I use an adblocker, cos otherwise your site is insufferable and unusable, you absolute donkeys.

Office life is just one long string of "ha, now it's *your* problem"

anyone need their horse rotated?

Did anyone ever figure out what updog actually is?

A comic strip titled The Amazing World of Tomorrow. A food delivery robot cooler drives down a sidewalk. It crashes into a rental scooter. It backs up. It crashes into the rental scooter again. The scooter wobbles. The scooter falls to the ground as the food delivery robot backs up again. A driverless taxi crashes into both the scooter and the food delivery robot sending them flying.

The Amazing World of Tomorrow

Got it, thanks!

Did you ever figure out what this was? Started happening in my Firefox about a week or two ago 🤬