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Ben Lubar (any pronouns)

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I (along with a bunch of other people) make Alien Swarm: Reactive Drop and DFHack. It would be cool if you could play Spy Cards with other people online. 🌉 bridged from mastodon.lubar.me/@ben on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy

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Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben.lubar.me.ap.brid.gy · 48m

Protea has guns but I wouldn't describe her as "pulling" them

Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben.lubar.me.ap.brid.gy · 52m

oh, Lettie pulls a gun on Eleanor that counts I think

Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben.lubar.me.ap.brid.gy · 54m

are there any scenes in Warframe where a woman pulls a gun and it's impactful most of the important women characters don't use guns

Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben.lubar.me.ap.brid.gy · 55m

or when Brysko--

Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben.lubar.me.ap.brid.gy · 1h

like when Loid pulls out a Zylok Prime or when Kahl-175 pulls out a Corinth Prime or when Albrecht pulls out a Lex Prime

Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben.lubar.me.ap.brid.gy · 1h

It's incredible how "man pulls out gun" can be so impactful in a game like Warframe

Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben.lubar.me.ap.brid.gy · 1h

**Aoi Morohoshi:** Arthur! I can't! I can't! Arthur! Ar-! **Amir Beckett:** I was... Too. Slow. **Albrecht Entrati playing chess 10 moves ahead:** He's ash in seconds. No need for misery. Come. Now. **Albrecht Entrati playing chess 9 moves ahead:** Murmur expelled. Tau is in sight. They've […]

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@mjdxp they tried that at Radio TV Solutions www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIZJaJNP7UM

Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben.lubar.me.ap.brid.gy · 2h

notable that personality cores are _not_ people there wasn't a person who became wheatley there wasn't a person who became the adventure core or the space core or the intelligence core they're just robots GLaDOS and the giant metal head they put Cave Johnson into are "real" AI, the rest are […]

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Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben.lubar.me.ap.brid.gy · 2h

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

Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben.lubar.me.ap.brid.gy · 2h

"valve should make a real AI assistant themed on the portal series" buddy did you play those games do you remember literally anything about the point those games were trying to make especially the second one which is a story about you giving full control of the facility to an LLM and then […]

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Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben.lubar.me.ap.brid.gy · 2h

and then in the new Prologue to Tau: Lua quest the Drifter goes one step further than that and aborts a cutscene the way that Legend of Zelda speedrunners do when they want to load the title screen into the game or whatever

Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben.lubar.me.ap.brid.gy · 2h

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

Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben.lubar.me.ap.brid.gy · 2h

and then later on with The Old Peace it's revealed that the Drifter can time loop even when time isn't involved

Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben.lubar.me.ap.brid.gy · 2h

This is probably the single biggest reveal about the Drifter other than them existing at all. The fact that they can time loop outside of Duviri.

Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben.lubar.me.ap.brid.gy · 2h

youtu.be/VG1ZRokXubg?t=7751 The biggest reveal in the quest happens in a room full of characters, all of which are dead.

Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben.lubar.me.ap.brid.gy · 2h

Thinking about how The Hex ends with a scene where the biggest reveal in the quest happens, and there's not a single word of dialogue spoken about that big reveal in one of the most dialogue-heavy scenes in the game.

Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben.lubar.me.ap.brid.gy · 2h

@cxberger really funny how so many people get confused by things that are super well telegraphed saw a lot of that with The Hex

Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben.lubar.me.ap.brid.gy · 3h

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

Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben.lubar.me.ap.brid.gy · 4h

The Steam API follows my favorite trend in computer programming where everything is named wrong like in DFHack where the function to check whether a dwarf is homosexual returns true for ace dwarves and false for bi dwarves anyway in the Steam API there's a flag called […]

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

kinda wild that someone could pick up on the gay marriage theming of The Old Peace but not the thousands of other super gay things in the game before they played it for two thousand hours

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

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

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

there's a lojban word for this, gleua (literally "giving fucks") if you have limited fucks and you give them all in one category, you're going to be awful in the other categories if you give the maximum amount of fucks in every category, you're gonna need a lot of fucks to give and if you […]

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

but be warned! you can also care _too little_ about aspects of your game and become tim sweeney

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

you can either put your entire budget into the graphics, resulting in a bad video game, or you can put an infinite budget into the entire game, resulting in a very expensive (to make) but very good game or you can just not care so much about graphical fidelity like 99% of the games considered […]

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

there's two different ways that video games that are proud about their graphical fidelity can go one is Graveyard Keeper 2, where the game runs really slowly because it's doing all kinds of complicated lighting calculations in what looks like a 2D game and the development was mostly centered […]

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

video games were better back when screen resolutions were low enough that the majority of the work went into the mechanics rather than the graphics especially back before screen resolutions got _so_ high that graphics card companies started making genAI slop machines to pretend that the game is […]

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

combine soldiers in half-life 2 have radio chatter that's procedurally generated word by word and actually describes their current tactical state including where they think the player character is (with a name that changes over the course of the game as gordon becomes more notorious in the eyes […]

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

I think anyone who refers to genAI as "AI" in order to make some kind of assertion about it is doing something similar to someone who walks into a restaurant and starts loudly complaining that the objects they ordered from the restaurant are too spicy and that this is a characteristic of objects […]

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

it's a very long name which hurts sales

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

programming is hard which is why I'm introducing my new product called "ben lubar's game that was made over the course of 20 years and has about 3 months worth of good work put into it in total"

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

[Presented without comment: the thing Cloudflare shows me in the control panel to try to convince me that I need to be nicer to genAI bots] Most visited pages Understand what content is used in AI answers. (note: I'm only listing entries with more than 10 requests here because otherwise there […]

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

also an image generator that always sleeps for 10 seconds and then replies with a blank rectangle of some predefined color

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

then, if any search engine does _worse_ at providing factual information than that, they are issued a fine

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

they should make a search engine that just responds to every request with "nobody knows"

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

also a lot of Gamers on the Steam forum getting really angry that the writers don't have a bunch of scenes where the characters sit down at a table and have boring discussions about how they're going to contact Praghasa or whatever or maybe that's just the one guy who also was angry that […]

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

it's weird that they made the alerts not happen for defense, infested salvage, or interception missions but they _did_ make them happen for the capture and rescue nodes and overrode the mission type to mobile defense

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

also calling the company that banned you for being a bigot "power-hungry furries" isn't a great start

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

steamcommunity.com/app/230410/discu… "we should all spam their support email to ask to get unbanned after they banned me for (somehow) both cheating AND saying the n word in public chat" (which is my guess based on my experience with what people who complain […]

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

so a pun is supposed to mean at least two things and that's what makes it a pun which is why I would say that OnlyFans is the social network that gets the worst attempts at punning it in video games because every time I've seen it happen it's meant _zero_ things it's a word that vaguely […]

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

most of my examples of good video game puns come from Two Point Hospital "Piste Off" is so good not to mention all the visual puns like "Eye Candy" and "Under the Weather" and "Pandemic" or naming the first disease you encounter "Grout" because it's gout you get from bathroom tiles and the […]

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

I think most video game authors attempting to make a pun fail at step 1 by not making it a pun like I love Celeste but "InstaPix" is nothing

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

I feel like I've definitely seen one but it was definitely an outlier

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

I wonder if any author has ever made a good social media website name pun

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

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

"oh no! I'm fucking and/or getting fucked by THE ECONOMY"

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

pornography for politicians where one actor is wearing a sign board that says "THE ECONOMY" or some shit like that

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

[moments before DAD 3 is obliterated]

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

DAD 1: gave himself space dementia as a sacrifice to allow the universe to continue to exist DAD 2: coached through making sweet brisket and spicy potatoes for his 1-4 sons by his dead wife DAD 3: fell asleep I guess? I think he's completely fine