drew graham @drewgraham.bsky.social · 10/10/2026me buying PS1s with broken disk drives to mod with ODEs 000
Reposted by drew grahamghoulnoise @ghoulnoise.com · 02/10/2026Deeply disturbing police brutality against an anti AI protest in Montreal, Canada a few weeks back. At this point, if you use AI and LLM, save the little white justifications you make to yourself. This is what you align with, like it or not. williamwilsonphotography.substack.com/p/montreal-p...williamwilsonphotography.substack.comMontreal Police Beat and Hospitalized a Photojournalist (me) at an Anti-AI DemonstrationI was diagnosed with a concussion, lacerations and swelling. Police have opened an investigation into the incident. 219286
drew graham @drewgraham.bsky.social · 30/09/2026DMC was my first one and i loved it. people were mean to him 020
Reposted by drew grahamStacey Mason @stcymsn.bsky.social · 15/10/2024Formal affordances are the elements that pull a player toward certain actions, they “cry out” for the player to take those actions. Material affordances are the actions a system actually allows the player to take. Agency occurs when the two are in balance. (Mateas 2001) 6930357
Reposted by drew grahamJill "Bury a Friend" Pantozzi @jillpantozzi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Last month, a Google alert directed me to an interview I did with cartoonist Matt Furie—creator of Pepe the Frog…only I haven’t done any interview and I’d never even met Furie. So I clicked. "None of this is true": AI, content farms, and one completely made-up article. bsky.app/profile/then... 12733383
drew graham @drewgraham.bsky.social · 27/09/2026aftermath.site/assassins-cr... > Wooded paths in Assassin's Creed Shadows feel appropriately claustrophobic without being artificially walled in. the game is okay, it’s a fine turn-your-brain-off stealth gameaftermath.siteAssassin’s Creed Shadows Gets Nature Right - AftermathAssassin's Creed Shadows makes a star of the seasons, and the rolling hills of Japan have never been more beautiful in a video game. 030
drew graham @drewgraham.bsky.social · 22/09/2026if only running a tiny website was as easy as making a tiny flower vase… 021
drew graham @drewgraham.bsky.social · 20/09/2026yesrs ago when i called gamestop to preorder my ps4 they recognized me by voice and saved me a slot… “you’re that kid who bikes here every week right?” 250
drew graham @drewgraham.bsky.social · 19/09/2026last year i bought a dinky little HP EliteDesk Mini for $30 from a weird guy in a parking lot, it’s good enough for plex and home assistant. i wonder how much that would run me now… 030
Reposted by drew grahamloren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026part of doing a large project is just managing your own belief that the thing you imagine can exist, will exist, that somewhere within what you're making it already is. 51038
drew graham @drewgraham.bsky.social · 17/09/2026oh you gotta try the Dubliner cheese sticks, they go so hard!! i literally had a dream last night about getting them at the grocery strore 110
Reposted by drew grahamCourtney E. Smith @thecourtneyesmith.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Good morning and I hope you’re having a great day. I am about to ruin it with this long form story I did on how private equity is ruining cookies but also people are building shit cookie companies to get money from private equity on @weareravenous.com. www.weareravenous.com/the-curious-...weareravenous.comThe Curious Case of the Soulless Private Equity CookieIf you’re going to pay more than $5 for a single cookie, it should at least have some soul. 921728414
drew graham @drewgraham.bsky.social · 05/09/2026worth noting that unreal + unity being free to use (until you hit the profit thresholds) since 2015 has made it much easier to break in. that’s exactly when i started learning and it made a world of a difference 000
drew graham @drewgraham.bsky.social · 05/09/2026true but slop is cheap, and oversaturation + lack of curation is a net negative on the environment. you’re right that the open floodgates make it easier to submit your work, but the publishing drought can’t be ignored and cost of living makes self funding tougher 110
Reposted by drew grahamvideogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 05/06/2026phantasy star II, manual screenshot, genesis (1990) segaretro.org/images/3/37/... 632277
drew graham @drewgraham.bsky.social · 04/09/2026this is very not true, publishers are generally closing their checkbooks and only funding safe bets pitched with a vertical slice. consumer perspective != developer reality 1180
drew graham @drewgraham.bsky.social · 31/08/2026i guess you’d have to incorporate paywall systems somewhere yeah. not ideal for a business 010
drew graham @drewgraham.bsky.social · 31/08/2026how do you like bearblog.dev? your blog looks cool, and i wonder if you can just roll it into a mailing list separatelybearblog.dev 110
drew graham @drewgraham.bsky.social · 31/08/2026if you’re savvy enough to prop up a site on Github Pages and upload markdown files, you can operate for free (or $12/yr if you want a custom domain from cloudflare/whatever). it’s not too hard and you could figure it out on a sunday! 010