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Daniele Giardini (Demigiant) @demigiant.com · 26/09/2026

and if you put pasta in a supplì the law allows to have it a 4th time as a snack \o/

a carbonara supplì, aka an elongated ball of fried breadcrumbs painted in egg which contains more egg (cooked but liquid), bacon, parmesan and overall awesomeness

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Daniele Giardini (Demigiant) @demigiant.com · 24/09/2026

on a side note, have you seen Sharp Objects? I just finished it and it's jesus fucking amazing

poster for the Sharp Objects limited series

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Daniele Giardini (Demigiant) @demigiant.com · 23/09/2026

had to go and check my review on goodreads and it's maybe the only (or one of very few) books that I gave one star to 😅

a harsh review of the Dark Matter book:
"By jove this was really bad.
The idea behind it could've been interesting, but the author delivers it blandly and with no depth, forgetting stuff along the way and showing in various occasions that he didn't understand the logic (I'm not even mentioning the scientific side) of his own concept; and the rest is even worse. The characters are dull, shallow and incoherent, the dialogues are bland and often silly. But the true horror is the writing style. It's bad on many sides, but what drove me crazy is that the author thinks that every period deserves a line break—or he was just using cheap tricks to fill more pages, which would be even more maddening. I mean, yeah, everything can work, even be powerful, if used well, but in the hands of a mediocre writer it just becomes embarrassingly obnoxious.
I know I sound pretty harsh, but this book really, really, annoyed me."

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Daniele Giardini (Demigiant) @demigiant.com · 03/09/2026

Drawings for one of those billion personal games I start and usually never finish, but we'll see

A god-dess being smug and pointing to their nipple with a magic wand

A combat android showing off their sharp knives, one in each hand. Wouldn't it be better to use them on butter rather than to cut people as?

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Daniele Giardini (Demigiant) @demigiant.com · 02/08/2026

I'll admit that assigning the right unicode symbol to the logs of my main game managers is a lot of fun to me (yes, I know it's a waste of time, but also not: helps reading logs much faster 👀) (and yes: Unity's console supports almost all colored symbols) (and sure: I strip them away in builds)

A series of Unity logs that are nicely colored and with pretty symbols in front of them

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Daniele Giardini (Demigiant) @demigiant.com · 25/07/2026

this is incredible (public hospital built during communism)

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Daniele Giardini (Demigiant) @demigiant.com · 25/07/2026

The Last of Us Serbian Edition (these are actually from a place called Niška Banja, which is very nice: nature, cats, some cool ex-communist buildings and some cursed abandoned ones)

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Daniele Giardini (Demigiant) @demigiant.com · 14/07/2026

Artists, quote-post with something that's a circle

The main Risk of Rain character walking towards the camera, with a corrupted planet/wormball/brainhole behind them

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Daniele Giardini (Demigiant) @demigiant.com · 23/06/2026

once again, it's very simple: an AI is not a human ffs 👀

a screenshot of a person excusing AI theft by comparing AI (a tool that is first and foremost for the advantage of corporations) to humans

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Daniele Giardini (Demigiant) @demigiant.com · 12/06/2026

the things is: quote with your yellow art

Penelope looking smug towards the camera, though smugness is always a facade and there's probably more to it. If only we could see the full picture

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Daniele Giardini (Demigiant) @demigiant.com · 16/03/2026

I always thought that pure photorealism in games showed a depressing lack of style but I take it back, plain photorealism is stylish af compared to the mind-dumbing ex-twitter verified user on the right

A comparison between plain rendering on the left and the new DLSS5 one on the right, which looks flatter thanks to some out-of-nowhere "hello I'm an influencer" lighting and, anatomically, more generic. So that it looks like every AI generated image ever because personality is now a sin, I guess

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Daniele Giardini (Demigiant) @demigiant.com · 18/02/2026

Just what we needed from a gamedev engine: a way to fill the market with even more slop, as fast as possible. Unity, why would you focus so much on things whose only yield for us gamedevs is a sinking depression? It seems like you really don't like us anymore

Article title: "Unity says its AI tech will soon be able to prompt full casual games into existence"

Article excerpt: "AI-driven authoring is our second major area of focus for 2026," said Bromberg. "At the Game Developer Conference in March, we'll be unveiling a beta of the new upgraded Unity AI, which will enable developers to prompt full casual games into existence with natural language only, native to our platform—so it's simple to move from prototype to finished product."

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Daniele Giardini (Demigiant) @demigiant.com · 01/02/2026

I like my logs colored (but I do have a custom log system that strips html tags from builds, otherwise they would be unreadable)

A Unity console log with pretty colors and icons

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Daniele Giardini (Demigiant) @demigiant.com · 31/01/2026

Ok, yes, I exaggerated with this dynamic color tool I made (but I like it ^_^)

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Daniele Giardini (Demigiant) @demigiant.com · 18/01/2026

I went a little crazy doing this Unity color tool, but I like it 👀

a cryptic and confusing image of a color tool window next to a button whose colors were assigned by said color tool

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Daniele Giardini (Demigiant) @demigiant.com · 12/01/2026

making a color utility for a Unity game and just made so that right-clicking a color gives you a lot more copy (and paste) options than the default ones

the context menu of a color field, from a custom Unity editor tool

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Daniele Giardini (Demigiant) @demigiant.com · 08/08/2025

Pixelarty thing for a horror gamey thing (maybeee)

A naked man standing quite creepily on the left, and his silhouettes evidencing parts of his inner body systems on the right

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Daniele Giardini (Demigiant) @demigiant.com · 15/07/2025

Becoming Saint by @peterpunk.bsky.social and friends is out; and you can try to become that and live in the posthumous, or give up and live in the present, I assume. It's all strategy after all. Here: store.steampowered.com/app/2643010/...

A "pick your pet" screen where you can choose a cat, a sheep or a wolf, in what might be a metaphor for your followers and for modern social media. Or not

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Daniele Giardini (Demigiant) @demigiant.com · 30/04/2025

Space mama (final vs sketch), for a scifi game with @gua-le-ni.com, @amidos2006.bsky.social and Irina Tomova

A bulbous space station swallowing (or giving birth to) a space truck

like the previous one but in black and white

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Daniele Giardini (Demigiant) @demigiant.com · 27/04/2025

more things about my next game (maybe)

Hand drawn text says: "There is a kid, and in the kid there's a tree".
In fact there's a tree, and under the ground, where its roots are coming from, rests a small skeleton

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Daniele Giardini (Demigiant) @demigiant.com · 20/03/2025

best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only

Patrick Swayze holding Jennifer Grey in the Dirty Dancing finale, while the rest of the dirty 60s Star Trek crew admires the fact that they didn't fall and die (probably because neither of them is wearing a red shirt)

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Daniele Giardini (Demigiant) @demigiant.com · 11/03/2025

it's me, Fabio. (in-game poster) (if you don't know Fabio, he's an Italian model from last century who posed for tons of US romantic book covers, and once apparently killed a goose with his face)

fake poster for a game called Fabio Kart 3. The silhouette of a muscly man is racing on a kart and destroying a goose with his face

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Daniele Giardini (Demigiant) @demigiant.com · 09/03/2025

in-game poster, maybe a little too realistic considering our current times (for a scifi thing with @gua-le-ni.com, @amidos2006.bsky.social and Irina Tomova)