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my friend left some NA beers here and it's kinda fun ripping through cold canned drinks that look like beers while I'm technically at work hahahaha. I don't ilke the taste of NA beer but this one is super tasty actually, "best day brewing electro-lime mexican style"

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Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 5h

just had an ai bro backtrack on what he was saying in his video talking about how he "uses AI to playtest games" lol. Like, playtesting isn't about any specific metric. it's about the player's fun, there's literally no way something that isn't actually playing the game can tell if it feels good.

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Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 30/09/2026

me and my friend drew are playing a show in san diego ca at black cat on oct 3, we go on first! also before anyone asks how i made this masterpiece, i edited the video using reaper and aseprite hahahaha

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Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 28/09/2026

I would have assumed people using these AI apps to do stuff for them would be surrounded by other people doing that, and be able to see that the game they're "making" looks exactly like the ones their friends have, and have a lightbulb moment, but... I guess they actually just don't have friends?

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Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 27/09/2026

ok i love the love for ms rachel but a lot of posts are like "she's on the tv all day at the house" and like... please don't have the tv on for your kids all day hahaaha. I don't think she'd want that either

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Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 24/09/2026

who exactly is the target audience for meta muse? from what i gather it's a new take on the "agentic ai" that's designed... to spend your money for you? like, in this economy? must be nice havin the cash to let your computer buy stuff with your money and not worry about overdrafting your account lol

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Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 24/09/2026

How good would a game have to be for you to tolerate this? Like I think I'd actually prefer never playing a videogame again than interacting with this concept hahaha

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Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 23/09/2026

I fell into the accidental algorabbit hole of watching magic the gathering vintage pack openings and now it's all I get fed and I am unfortunately here to report that the magic cards I sold to buy a lot of the music gear I was using starting out are probably worth like over $100k now. :( hahaa

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Adriaan @adriaan.games · 17/09/2026

Godot contributors and Godot Foundation people are really good people, ya’ll. There’s so much goodwill and best effort action, many of their efforts unpaid, under-appreciated, and invisible. Please continue to send them kindness. And donate a bit of what you can spare. fund.godotengine.org

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Godot Development Fund

Join the Development Fund and support the Godot Foundation to work on Godot Engine.

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Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 16/09/2026

What a great deep cut. Evokes so many childhood memories for me www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL-T...

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Stephen Oliver - Lord of the Rings Full Soundtrack (1981)

YouTube video by Tenebrarius

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Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 16/09/2026

jeez i was today years old when i realized all i had to do was make an account on wikipedia to enable dark mode

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Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 16/09/2026

I'm playing a show at Black Cat Bar in San Diego on Oct 3. Synthesizers abound

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Chet Faliszek @chetsucks.com · 16/09/2026

Why has Silicon Valley gotten so crazy right wing and loony? You taught them they could, as there is nothing, nothing Elon Musk can do to get so many of you to not buy a Tesla or god forbid not use Twitter. They look at what he can get away with and think they deserve that as well.

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Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 16/09/2026

Had this insanely deep cut stuck in my head randomly. Any Lord of the rings fans out there who are also fans of the 1981 bbc radio version of the books remember this? I had this on cassette and listened to it so much as a kid youtu.be/qWBecwqNGkM?...

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Stephen Oliver - Gil-Galad (from BBC Radio's adaptation of "The Lord of the Rings")

YouTube video by AntPDC

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Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 14/09/2026

blasting enya and drawing 2d assets for my game, hell yeah kinda day

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Emily Hare @emilyhare.com · 10/09/2026

Since it's my 50th time round the sun, would you care to share my art around? That would be a splendid gift, thank you! 🥰 emilyhare.com #dragons #fantasyart #watercolour #creatureart #unicorns

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Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 10/09/2026

Man this "AI will take over the world" and "AI will kill all humans" shit is beyond insufferable. Like stop building it if you believe that, and since you obviously won't stop building it please shut the fuck up and stay in your lane. It's genuinely the most annoying marketing I've ever seen

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Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 09/09/2026

Finding out it costs like, hiring an employee level money to use these AI apps the way that tech bro influencers are talking about them is insane. Cool reskin of space invaders, took a week and thousands of dollars? Anyone who has ever done a game jam can do it better in a weekend lol

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Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 08/09/2026

Zoom is such awful software, BUT why don't very many other video call programs have markup/annotation features? I pretty much always want to be able to turn on the ability to draw on someone's screen

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Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 07/09/2026

People talk about how "AI" products "steal" creative work in order to function, and that is usually framed as something that happens as part of the material used to "train" the model. What I've noticed usually getting left out is the much more direct way in which ideas are stolen. (1/5)

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Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 05/09/2026

ACE studio ai WILL NOT STOP CONTACTING ME. I blocked them and they're contacting me through an intermediary agency offering me "approximately $54.80 to $164.41" per video promoting their slop machine. my previous email literally said "fuck off" no caps just like that hahahha.

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Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 05/09/2026

Dang the new openai product's *cinematic advertisement* doesn't even contain stuff that's exciting or scary. Everyone's like "game dev is cooked! it can connect to blender and make space invaders clone with a 3D model based on your prompt!" Like nobody actually wants to buy that lol

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Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 05/09/2026

I fuckin love this game. (Ark Nova if you don't recognize it)

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Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 03/09/2026

The transition from Enya's "May It Be" to the Shire theme is probably the best ultra-hollywood emotional payoff you can do in film. absolute master class in basic "V is related to I" music theory just absolutely sent home with beautiful melodies and orchestration. 10/10 no notes

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Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 03/09/2026

hire me to do audio stuff for you (or just send me money so i can work on my own game without getting distracted by paid work hahahaha)

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"Will scenes like this ever appear in a video game? We discuss..." 📖: PSM, September 1999.

A photo of a page in our copy of the issue, with an porn vibes illustration of Cloud and Aerith naked, with Cloud standing with his buster sword extended to censor Aerith. She's holding up materia to strategically censor her nipples.

Aerith: "So, Cloud, what do you think of my materia?"

Cloud: "Don't wake up... don't wake up... don't wake up..."

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Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 31/08/2026

non-regular reminder to politely but firmly ask people to leave the function if they are wearing smart glasses. You don't need to make a scene unless they turn it into a problem. people need to know they are unwelcome in public wearing those things

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Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 30/08/2026

I'm starting to see a new version of AI-driven mental health issues that's distinctly different from AI psychosis. It's like people who use it lamenting that it's making us dumber, and talking about that like *everyone* is using it the way they are. Like dawg YOU are getting dumber, I'm not hahaa

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton's family asked that, in lieu of flowers, fans make a donation to the singer's Imagination Library. Here's what the charity does ⬇️ www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

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Turning Pages: Inside Dolly Parton's Imagination Library

Core team of 15 staff and thousands of volunteers and partners help the country-music philanthropist deliver books to kids around the world.

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Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 26/08/2026

Why do the ads for AI products feel like the ads on porn sites "curious about ai? Sign up to try for free" like no I don't need your fake sexy milf book burning software

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Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 25/08/2026

I've found that I've started genuinely not believing stuff people say or write if I know they interact with language models a lot. It's like a boy who cried wolf thing, they're always so dismissive when it turns out the thing they said is incorrect, i just can't take them seriously

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Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 20/08/2026

damn the original LotR trilogy has one of the best sound mixes in film history

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Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 19/08/2026

I've been saying this. If you made it with AI, then, well, then I can too, right? So your product essentially holds no economic value. And if you think your prompt is "special" I urge you to look into other products or services made by other people using the same model you use. Indistinguishable.

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Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 19/08/2026

Man it's crazy that everyone suddenly has the same game idea with the same uncredited concept artist and web design for their pre-alpha project. I wonder how that possibly could have happened and why their game's branding looks just like every would-be engineer's claude product. weird. crazy.

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Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 13/08/2026

trying to decide between joining the ink jam or the godot wild jam next week (or just not joining a game jam and having time to myself)

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Kars @karoshimyriad.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Twitch has added a setting that allows Amazon to use your channel content as training for generative AI. This setting is on by default. To disable this, click your channel profile -> Settings -> Security and Privacy -> scroll down until you see Training for Generative AI -> disable setting

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Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 12/08/2026

man some of y'all are making some gorgeous indie games, but something i've noticed is that a lot of it is indistinguishable at a distance, like i'll see gameplay from a game i'm following and realize it's not the same game, just another pixel art precision platformer metroidvania with similar art

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Elle is… 🌌 @whinemixer.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

no Nintendo Power Glove, no Nintendo Power Love

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Stein Makes Games @steinmakesgames.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Daily reminder that GDscript supports the Sumerian clay table alphabet, Akkadian cuneiform of ancient Mesopotamia. This is perfectly valid code you can write in your game:

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gabby @fullmoon.id · 28/07/2026

I'm beginning to think of agentic coding's niche as "3D printing, but for software" In other words, it helps when you need some functionality that's not easily available off the shelf and you don't care if it's scuff. However, it's less well-suited to industrial-grade automation

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Game Maker's Toolkit @gamemakerstoolkit.com · 27/07/2026

Well, it finally happened! After 9 years of Unity dominance, Godot was the most used game engine for GMTK Game Jam 2026 submissions. 🤖 Godot - 47% 🎮 Unity - 34% 🛠️GameMaker - 5% 🚀 Unreal Engine - 3% ✨ Other - 11%

Pie chart showing game engines used to create 10,511 GMTK Game Jam games in 2026. Godot has the largest slice with 47%. Then Unity with 34%. Other with 11%. Game Maker with 5%. And Unreal Engine with 3%.

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Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 28/07/2026

had a weird dream that i was in a cover band at a residency gig fronted by david lee roth. i was the bass player and the guitar player was a bass player friend of mine. he was stressing about the guitar parts and i was stressing about the bass parts since we knew all of each others parts

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Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 27/07/2026

This was the marker for the non-player cities

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Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 27/07/2026

the "player" city marker was a last minute addition to the game board, I love how it turned out.

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Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 27/07/2026

Although I don't think my entry to the jam was terribly fun, people really seemed to like the presentation and I ended up getting 6th place in graphics and 15th in audio (out of 254 entries) so I'm sharing the audio and art I made for the game for others to use! f-c-r.itch.io/dyers-lice/d...

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uploaded assets!

I had a great time joining the Godot Wild Jam #95! I was pleasantly surprised by my final ranking. Since folks seemed to really like the original artwork, music, and sound I did for the game, I've dec...

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Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 23/07/2026

any recs for good free side events at SDCC this year? as in, no pass required. there's usually stuff like a pinball room or art gallery with great stuff, point me in the right direction!

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Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 22/07/2026

I've had a fantastic experience joining the @godotwildjam.bsky.social for the first time, seems like a really great community. fun challenge to build one and very fun trying all the games (ok i don't have time to try all 255 entries but I did play a very sizeable chunk!)

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Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 19/07/2026

made a silly lil browser game over the last week for @godotwildjam.bsky.social. i wanna do this again but next time i'd like to join a group and just handle like, one or two parts of development instead of everything hahaha f-c-r.itch.io/dyers-lice

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Dyer's Lice by francis

Retro in terms of both 1500s and 1990s for Godot Wild Jam #95

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Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 15/07/2026

i made this little splash screen for a game jam game i'm working on, then i accidentally came across @godotengine.org logo usage page and think maybe i'm not supposed to use a stylized version of their logo? anyone know if this is allowed or if i should remove before putting the game up on itch? thx

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