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michael (blizzcon attender) @blastbody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

we'd have been better off by at least a little bit in this timeline, I think

michael (blizzcon attender) @blastbody.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

might have finally gotten traction on being able to publish my zig code and contribute to deps (I have a pile of changes for zgui, and a multi-context patch for sokol_imgui) 🥳

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Micah @rincewind.run · 21/09/2026

newsom and bonta let paramount threatening to pull out of california torpedo the entire lawsuit and this is going to be an abject disaster for everyone - including california, where they'll gut jobs anyway what a fucking disgrace

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Del @del.art · 20/09/2026

When a game studio ships a solid game, it creates TWO valuable products: 1. A solid game. 2. The team that spent years learning how to work together make a game. Because Western studios keep disbanding #2 while development cycles get longer; we will inevitably see less of #1.

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Kazuma Hashimoto @kazuma.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

with the help of my friends, I think my Emre Overwatch cosplay really popped off.

A photograph of an Emre Overwatch cosplay.

A photograph of an Emre cosplay from behind.

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michael (blizzcon attender) @blastbody.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Finally I can say it! We're working on Diablo V 😈

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michael (blizzcon attender) @blastbody.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I'll be at BlizzCon working the diablo demo Sunday morning, and also in hall B doing meet and greet right after the opening ceremony tomorrow Gonna be a good con, I think

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

👇👇👇👇

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michael (blizzcon attender) @blastbody.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

fucking around with my emacs config on labor day, because tweaking your init.el is probably the most anti-productivity thing you can do

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🎃 It’s the Mid Pumpkin, Emily 🎃 @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Please read this whole thread. It’s a very good depiction of how community care looks right now. Please be ready to show the same care.

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 07/09/2026

you don't get to wash away your guilt over Black families in Memphis poisoned by Anthropic and xAI DCs by saying, well, everyone else is doing it.

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michael (blizzcon attender) @blastbody.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty AAA Engine dev: *heavy sigh* Yes we can send fill_percent and viscosity params to vfx and audio, but no I suspect animation does not have budget for a new "drinking out of cups" animset. Talk to their producer if you really need that.

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Thomas Fortenberry @thomasfortenberry.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Mysteries for Modern Times

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michael (blizzcon attender) @blastbody.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Gotcha, thats what I figured, and I thought Sean was asking about stuff in-memory that doesn't already go to hit disk or doesn't have ready-to-go serialization I'm already a heavy Live++ user, the struct padding macro thing I was rambling about is an idea to get even more mileage out of it 🙂

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michael (blizzcon attender) @blastbody.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

It doesn't (unless he's cookin?) I've wondered about some kind of solution where you out a macro at the end of structs that adds padding and also does some offset checks to see how much you've used up since launching for each struct type Still need reload hooks for layouts that move/resize fields

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Raj Patel @rajio.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I do not want to download your app. I just want lunch. I do not want to create an account. I just want lunch. I do not want to setup 2FA. I just want lunch. I do not want to 'earn points'. I just want lunch. I do not want to add to my order. I just want lunch. I JUST WANT LUNCH!

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Max Nichols @maxnichols.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Long-shot: I will pay $500 for a recording or transcript, with slides visible, of the 2017 CEDEC “Field Level Design” Breath of the Wild talk by Hidemaro Fujibayashi and Makoto Yunezu, if you’re ok with me sharing it.

A screenshot of Breath of the Wild, with Link standing on a hill looking out at a wide vista. Overlaid on the screenshot are a bunch of highlighted triangular shapes, part of BOTW’s visual design language.

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michael (blizzcon attender) @blastbody.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

it used to be that a nice looking website or thorough readme for a code lib was a reasonable broad phase indicator of some baseline quality now it's mostly just a sign that they used an LLM to make docs. maybe it still is a good lib, but you can't quickly filter out mid ones, we've lost information

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michael (blizzcon attender) @blastbody.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Not to mention failure to account for lopsided player population distributions of the same game on-steam vs off-steam

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michael (blizzcon attender) @blastbody.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This affects open source contributions as well There are some projects I'd like to have contributed to in the past, but didn't want to burden said project with copyright assignment issues later on

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Shawn Alexander Allen @shawndoublea.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Beatdown City Survivors is STILL 25% off for a few more days! We've been getting so much love, and I want to thank everyone who's playing the game! If you own it, PLEASE leave a review! We're at 67 reviews & it would be amazing to hit 100! You can play the demo here: beatdown.city/bdcsrstm

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Save 25% on Beatdown City Survivors on Steam

Eradicate hordes of monsters in this survivors style roguelite set in a rotting, destructible city that hates you. Start fires, blow stuff up, electrify water, you name it. Upgrade & craft an arse...

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michael (blizzcon attender) @blastbody.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

im surprised old reddit even still exists but the new design has just never not been a horrific garbage fire

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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

movement in non-euclidean quaternionic space

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michael (blizzcon attender) @blastbody.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

inb4 IBM announces Rational Rose for Agents

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michael (blizzcon attender) @blastbody.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

wondering when zig leadership will learn to stop diet-linus-posting

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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Case in point: the staff of Blizzard Entertainment were told today that they won't hear how the reorganization impacts them until "further communications"

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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

FWIW I think it's a little strange that "Arkane's Blade is late and over budget" is becoming a lingering news story when the total number of big video games that were *not* late and over budget could be counted on one hand

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Jay Turner @silopolis.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I and a good number of very talented game devs were laid off by Obsidian as part of the Microsoft sacrificial rituals this morning. If you or anyone you know is looking for a Senior Writer/ND with more than two decades' experience in titles like Dragon Age and Mass Effect, please let me know!

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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Proud to announce our HARDSHIP FUND: uvw-cwa.org/hardship-fun... If you've been recently laid off and need support, we got you.

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michael (blizzcon attender) @blastbody.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Still employed for now I guess? I guess technically end of day is the safety line. BLT giving us zero info Anyway, Unions Are Cool ✊️

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michael (blizzcon attender) @blastbody.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

playin Skald, everything is fucked up with overwrought descriptions and anxiety-inducing swingy combat rolls and a sense that you're gonna be constantly hanging on by a thread it's got that good gnarly crpg juice

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Everyone’s enjoying the excommunication drama but there are also lessons for pro-democracy political actors. Decades of accommodating and appeasing this sect did not work and only emboldened them. You have to go whole hog. When you have power, break the back of the reactionaries. Shut them out

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Snipehunter @snipehunter.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

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michael (blizzcon attender) @blastbody.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Do they still assume we never try to write maintainable code or tests? Live service obsession has been bad for the industry but good for game programmers who want the skills to escape it

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michael (blizzcon attender) @blastbody.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

it is a virtuous play style thank you for playing 😈❤️

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michael (blizzcon attender) @blastbody.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Mel Brooks is 100 today. Drop a gif of your favorite of his films to celebrate. [I fucking love Young Frankenstein. My girlfriend wanted to watch the new Del Toro Frankenstein so I suggested we do a double feature: Del Toro, then Brooks. It was a great way to spend a Saturday.]

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Igor's Smile in Young Frankenstein

Alt: Igor's Smile in Young Frankenstein

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 25/06/2026

herculean levels of passive voice here for what has been a butchering of thousands of livelihoods over the course of years at the hands of incompetent executives. no shade to whatever poor community manager had to write this image lol

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michael (blizzcon attender) @blastbody.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

For me, if you establish the notion of a heal check in lead-up fights it feels like just another expression of the player's effort (ensuring they have a healer char leveled and geared) and mastery (knowing when to deploy the Big Heals or how to recover from an unexpected big hit)

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michael (blizzcon attender) @blastbody.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

didn't realize so many traders were hoping to buy a console-priced steam machine

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michael (blizzcon attender) @blastbody.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

im basically always craving hot pot, so yean

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