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Andrew Henninger @databyss.com · 07/08/2026

Another blue sky for Bluesky

A bright blue sky with a 1/3 moon crescent circle

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Andrew Henninger @databyss.com · 23/07/2026

Working in Big Video Game and existing online...

An image of silver text that says "I HAVE NO MOUTH AND I MUST SCREAM"

Before that is a drawing that looks like a circuit board around a square that has a partial man's face on it. The face is half covered by more circuit board looking elements.

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Andrew Henninger @databyss.com · 20/05/2026

I found a new ai-nus logo via Manhattan billboard this week.

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Andrew Henninger @databyss.com · 13/05/2026

My 6yo made a SpongeBob meme. SpongeBob I'm standing in front of his pineapple house and says: "I'm an idiot for no reason" Patrick: "Oh"

A pencil drawing of SpongeBob and Patrick. There is dialogue that has SpongeBob saying "I'm an idiot for no reason" and Patrick replies "Oh".

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Andrew Henninger @databyss.com · 12/05/2026

Ouch, makes me think back to my days on Ok Cupid...

An image of text that says "eBay rejects GameStop’s $56 billion offer, calling it ‘neither credible nor attractive’"

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Andrew Henninger @databyss.com · 24/04/2026

Oh oh... Sorry... Uh I MEANT to post this one from the uh... hit game "Phone House Look-At-Em". Yeah. Ignore the Palia one.

A poorly drawn picture of a horse with red on a black background.

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Andrew Henninger @databyss.com · 24/04/2026

Palia just announced they're adding horses soon. In their announcement video they mentioned studying real horses to make the movement authentic for equine enthusiasts.

Video game screenshot showing a white house with a brown horse walking behind in. They are in a stable.

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Andrew Henninger @databyss.com · 05/03/2026

I just wanted to play and differentiate it from my kids names. I didn't think this name through...

A picture of a video game where a large white spaghetti Pokémon named Professor Tangrowth is talking to my player character named "Daddy", and says "Please, Daddy! Figure out what the PC wants!"
In the background is a ruined dried up old Pokémon town with crumbling buildings.

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Andrew Henninger @databyss.com · 12/01/2026

FWIW, I do see it in my browser, in the US.

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Andrew Henninger @databyss.com · 09/01/2026

I love Verizon, great customer service!

A text chat with Verizon support.

I am asking them to talk to a real person, and then their AI support essentially says "Oops, sorry I can't do that."

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Andrew Henninger @databyss.com · 04/12/2025

I have spent so much of my very precious free time over the past few days trying to setup this neat data-api thing for my static web app on azure and getting nothing but odd errors... Finally, after searching through several layers of help, I come across this...

An image of text that says:

Before you begin

The Azure Static Web Apps database connection feature will be retired on November 30, 2025. The recommendation is to migrate to a self-hosted Data API builder instance on Azure Container Apps.

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Andrew Henninger @databyss.com · 14/11/2025

I was initially talking about Anno, but CoD:Blops 7 coming in with a perfect example. There's not a single game dev at Treyarch or Raven Software who had this as their creative vision. This is all exec pushed slop.

A screenshot of Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 showing an AI slop cartoon of a scared guy running away from some sort of monster.

It has the heading "NO WALK IN THE PARK" with a subheading that reads "In Endgame: complete 15 Assignments in Zone IV"

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Andrew Henninger @databyss.com · 10/11/2025

Even in the darkest of times, everybody deserves a little self-care.

Screenshot of a dialog in Age of Imprisonment that reads:

"
Quest Complete
Delivery to the Depths

The steward construct at the entrance to the Depths delivered the food to Lady Mineru - and when she emerged a few days later, she had quite a radiant smile on her face. Apparently, she found yet another use for her Zonai devices!
- Lenalia's Journal

Reward
Mineru Upgrad Basic Actions
"

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Andrew Henninger @databyss.com · 15/10/2025

In the @sidmeier.bsky.social biography. There's a great line that I feel highlights why gen AI stuff will never be good at making anything of value. "coding is the easy part; it's like drawing a picture of something after you've excavated it. The sweat is in the digging, not the documentation."

A passage from a book that reads: "Virtually none of the data would have been useful on whatever computer replaced it, but it wasn't a big loss, because I build most major revisions from scratch, anyway. The coding is the easy part; it's like drawing a picture of something after you've excavated it. The sweat is in the digging, not the documentation."

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Andrew Henninger @databyss.com · 17/09/2025

This morning's blue sky for Bluesky.

A photograph of a bright blue sky with a smattering of whispy white clouds.

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Andrew Henninger @databyss.com · 19/08/2025

Masahiro Sakurai is all of us.

A picture of a Japanese man, Masahiro Sakurai, sitting at a wooden desk with a wood panelled wall behind him. There are a few shelves on the back wall displaying a few plants, books, pictures, and other things.

Text overlaid on the picture reads "Why is making a game so hard?"

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Andrew Henninger @databyss.com · 31/07/2025

Love to see the support for organized workers from @twinsunscorp.bsky.social www.twinsunscorp.net/projectoctav...

*We support workers union card holders.

Voice Cast and Support (so far)

Elena Hurst ...as... Adelita - "Soldadera"
Kat Wenske ...as... Margaret Alexander - "The Matriarch" (Pre-Alpha Trailer)
Kate Sánchez - Narrative Collaborator for Adelita

*We also support SAG-AFTRA and all voice talent.

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Andrew Henninger @databyss.com · 29/07/2025

Looks like the cloud printer is running low on ink.

A photograph of a blue sky with clouds forming distinct horizontal lines.

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Andrew Henninger @databyss.com · 27/07/2025

Reclaiming my heritage. (I spent many years doing construction, working on irrigation systems, before I was ever paid to do computer stuff.)

A photo of the ground, looking at a new sprinkler head being installed in a round hole with the broken head laying on the grass above the new one, and a wooden shovel with a bright orange blade to the right.

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Andrew Henninger @databyss.com · 24/07/2025

For reference, this is an equal area projection of the US, with Montana highlighted in red. That's roughly the size of Germany.

An equal area projection map of the United States, including Alaska and Hawaii in their relative locations. The US territories are an olive green color, non US territories are pink, and the US state of Montana is highlighted in red.

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Andrew Henninger @databyss.com · 17/07/2025

This is like when some guy said they hope GTA 6 costs $100 and then we had to deal with this slop and everybody assuming this was legitimate information.

A list of google search results, showing headlines from many news outlets, talking about a wish from some guy that GTA 6 would cost $100.

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Andrew Henninger @databyss.com · 26/06/2025

Some neat rolling clouds this morning. Probably would've made a cool time lapse.

Photograph of a Manhattan skyline with varied rolling clouds in the sky.

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Andrew Henninger @databyss.com · 11/06/2025

People are saying this place is a big Ecco chamber and honestly that's why I give it rave reviews.

A screenshot from Ecco the Dolphin, a Sega Genesis game. There is a pixelated dolphin under blue water, and in the background there is all ocean with a grassy island with a rocky structure on top of it.

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Andrew Henninger @databyss.com · 10/06/2025

Hello, friend. Will you be my best friend?

A stylized image of a duck wearing a flannel covering with a leather bib and leather hat walking toward the right. In the background is a scene of a autumn themed workshop run by one of the dwarves.

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Andrew Henninger @databyss.com · 24/05/2025

Yeah, there is a lot in there, and I am genuinely not really versed is this output. It does look like all the timing data is in the last... thousand or so lines :) I see a project performance summary section which has some good higher level info:

A bunch of output from a verbose dotnet build command.

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Andrew Henninger @databyss.com · 23/05/2025

Gray sky for Bluesky this morning.

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Andrew Henninger @databyss.com · 19/05/2025

I feel like some folks here would enjoy this.

A box truck with the phrase "Prime Lube" and "bluesky" on the back and side. The truck is driving on a highway with a concrete barrier on the side.

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Andrew Henninger @databyss.com · 02/05/2025

The average American has three friends.

A stylized drawing of 3 characters from Red Dead Redemption 2. Sadie Adler, Arthur Morgan, and John Marston. The three characters are dressed in outlaw outfits holding weapons, and imposed over a red/yellow sunset background.

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Andrew Henninger @databyss.com · 24/03/2025

Post a ship that's not Star Wars or Star Trek.

A picture of a "Ship of the Line" class ship from Sid Meier's Pirates! video game. A large 3 mast ship with 15 sails and 2 black and white skull and bones pirate flags.

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Andrew Henninger @databyss.com · 18/03/2025

A morning blue sky for Bluesky.

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Andrew Henninger @databyss.com · 15/03/2025

post knives for ides of march

A cartoon image of Knives Chau from the Scott Pilgrim comic juggling 3 daggers. She's dressed all in black with a long grey and white stripped scarf tied around her neck and draped down her back.

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Andrew Henninger @databyss.com · 19/02/2025

I had been getting a bunch of spam email from a certain shoe vendor, so I did the unsubscribe thing, but I still get the emails. Gmail has now decided that these are incredibly important for me to get because "magic", which I assume is it's janky AI slop.