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Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben.lubar.me.ap.brid.gy · 10h

huh I would say that it's a _very_ unconventional roguelike if it doesn't have the one thing that differentiates roguelikes from other kinds of games

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Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben.lubar.me.ap.brid.gy · 10h

"city builder"? all of the screenshots are just menus

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Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben.lubar.me.ap.brid.gy · 15h

somehow I don't think "Football Manager Auto Chess Chess" has the rights to use the Football Manager logo in their logo

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Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben.lubar.me.ap.brid.gy · 15h

following the trend of "video game key art of a woman looking bored" we have this game made by a developer who apparently thinks "game where you date a milf heterosexually" is the same as "female protagonist"

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Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben.lubar.me.ap.brid.gy · 15h

naming your video game that's a genAI Besieged clone "To Be Besieged" is probably not legal? but it's not like they're gonna get in trouble for putting misleading slop on Steam

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Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben.lubar.me.ap.brid.gy · 15h

if they put a subtitle before the title is it a supertitle

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Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben.lubar.me.ap.brid.gy · 15h

found one that's not self-published

it's some kind of remaster of a godzilla game published by atari

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Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben.lubar.me.ap.brid.gy · 15h

even genAI-powered asset flips are not immune to having genAI-powered asset flips made to try to trick people into buying slop rather than slop

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Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben.lubar.me.ap.brid.gy · 15h

this game seems to have had its design document written by a malfunctioning markov chain bot one that puts spaces around extraneous em dashes

Coilbound is a dark fantasy roguelike where every enemy is a card of hidden traits. Descend a coiling dungeon, read each foe's abilities, and choose your path one card at a time — strike or slip past. But some traits refuse to end: it doesn't die when it dies.

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Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben.lubar.me.ap.brid.gy · 15h

why would you release a game demo for this

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Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben.lubar.me.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

here, how much copper ore am I getting per hour? it's written in green at the bottom of the screen.

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Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben.lubar.me.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

Tim Sweeney thinks that 3D graphics are an improved version of 2D graphics and that EpicMegaGames, the company he owns, has open source software. (via @kenney)

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Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben.lubar.me.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

It'd be nice to feel wanted and not whatever this is:

Who does actually hold the IP? Is imposible to get a new development?

This franchise is perfect for a sequel right now, just move into the "Helldivers 2 treatment"

Just make an Alien Swarm Sequel in third person learning a bit map design from Dead Space and just add a procedural-modular-room system as innovation to make each map feel different each time... Some workshop functionality for triggers, custom room types, and weapons and 10 years of easy money... quite lot more if you get advantages of the Steam ecosystem like the hat and skin market.

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Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben.lubar.me.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

I think they might be generating their responses to me because nobody could possibly be this shit

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Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben.lubar.me.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

Steam forum user discovers new lifehack known as "shoplifting"

BUG

If I bug a game ,then I switch to offline mode.the same time I refund and I can play the game.when i get refund back,I switch to online

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Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben.lubar.me.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

well you have a runescape-themed idle game on your wishlist but there's a two in the title so uhhhhhh maybe you're interested in

Corruption of Champions II
Since you wish for Melvor Idle 2

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Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben.lubar.me.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

dunno what that word in the third line means but it definitely doesn't describe Adis

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Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben.lubar.me.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

the game "The Dressmaker" is a game that teaches people UV mapping

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Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben.lubar.me.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Marie Leroux what are you doing in this game about making dresses can you also fly and open a portal to the sun in this game

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Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben.lubar.me.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

random yacht reference because apparently tim sweeney can't stop thinking about how gabe newell owns an ocean research company that owns boats?

Programming is hard. So, instead of doing that, we vibe coded a new Epic Games Launcher that’s way faster and more responsive than the current one, and has a new look.

This first release is light on features. Think of it as a speedboat and not a yacht! Though it does have advanced digital commerce technology such as a shopping cart.

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Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben.lubar.me.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

interesting, the hash function for pointers is the same on 32 and 64 bit

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Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben.lubar.me.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

oh that's clever the wrapper classes store the object they're wrapping in their `this` pointer I guess I never thought about that

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Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben.lubar.me.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

this is the kind of job that a script could probably do more efficiently than I can just press enter on two processes and wait for them to say `(gdb)` and then compare the output before that and if it's different in ways other than nonzero pointer values stop and wait for me to check

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Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben.lubar.me.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

leaving a present for Tomorrow Ben Lubar

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Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben.lubar.me.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

I've seen a lot of accusations levied against game developers but "these canadian game developers in ontario started the wars in the middle east" is brand new to me

just as Americans don't support the wars you start in the Middle East.

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Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben.lubar.me.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

ok so this one is pretty great but I'm gonna need you to actually go to the page and scroll down to experience it steamcommunity.com/app/230410/discu…

to the game's creators

Hello! Heads up—this is going to be a long one!
Why doesn't the company have a competent economist with a proper degree? You imposed sanctions on players from Russia, but who actually loses out? Russians still

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Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben.lubar.me.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

here's someone who wants to improve the quality of game discussions by forbidding the topic of the discussion from being games

Suggestion: Posting Game Spoilers Should Not Be Allowed

There should be a Steam forum rule against posting spoilers for game stories on the Steam forums.

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Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben.lubar.me.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

you know what I feel like I've absorbed all the relevant information in this thread already

Forum thread that says "Blocked user - Show"

The visible first reply is someone saying "You are the reason you have so many problems". Two people have given this reply an award.

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Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben.lubar.me.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

youtube's asking me if I want to watch a video titled "Warframe EP:4 RAID THE CORPUS RESOURCE CACHES"

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Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben.lubar.me.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Warframe key art from March 25th update The First Descendant logo from May 21st Warframe key art from June 17 update The First Descendant logo from August 20th

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Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben.lubar.me.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

so are various games and videos that want to be horny showing a picture of a woman who is as bored as she can possibly be because they think that's horny or because they don't know what someone who's not bored out of their mind looks like here's the only […] [Original post on mastodon.lubar.me]

a promotional image for the video game The First Descendant showing a very bored woman wearing some kind of sci-fi cast iron bra holding some kind of melee weapon off-screen

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Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben.lubar.me.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

huh did a clean rebuild somehow it compiles now but it doesn't like something that's going on with threading

Linking Shared Library bin/linux/libmegalomanager.linux.template_debug.x86_64.so ...
Install file: "bin/linux/libmegalomanager.linux.template_debug.x86_64.so" as "/home/ben/src/megalomanager/bin/linux/libmegalomanager.linux.template_debug.x86_64.so"
scons: done building targets.
Godot Engine v4.8.dev.custom_build.0e4bb3f86 (2026-10-06 21:07:01 UTC) - https://godotengine.org

ERROR: FATAL: DEV_ASSERT failed "lazy_globals_must_be_first_used_from_the_main_thread" is false.
at: _maybe_init (godot4-cpp-ext/src/lazy_globals.h:39)
ERROR: FATAL: DEV_ASSERT failed "lazy_globals_must_be_first_used_from_the_main_thread" is false.
at: _maybe_init (godot4-cpp-ext/src/lazy_globals.h:39)
ERROR: FATAL: DEV_ASSERT failed "lazy_globals_must_be_first_used_from_the_main_thread" is false.
at: _maybe_init (godot4-cpp-ext/src/lazy_globals.h:39)
ERROR: FATAL: DEV_ASSERT failed "lazy_globals_must_be_first_used_from_the_main_thread" is false.
at: _maybe_init (godot4-cpp-ext/src/lazy_globals.h:39)
Illegal instruction (core dumped)

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Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben.lubar.me.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

ok so today is megalomanager day first thing I'm gonna do is get it compiling again because I somehow broke Squirrel even though exactly the same thing is being built by the spy cards online SConscript

my weekly schedule with alarms (that don't work because korganizer is broken) for meals and medicine and weekly all-day events for "monthly server maintenance" (second sunday of the month), "dev: spy cards online" (monday), "dev: megalomanager" (alternating tuesdays), "dev: nda 🔜" (wednesday), "dev: art" (alternating thursdays), and "dev: alien swarm: reactive drop" (friday)

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Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben.lubar.me.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

wow the intermediate states of the render pipeline are pretty

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