fastestdraw.bsky.social @fastestdraw.bsky.social · 14/10/2026So I guess my attempts at cleaner 80's style looks is like... 80's glam? Makeup trends do map really well. I guess I need to learn to model big hair and go the whole way. 000
fastestdraw.bsky.social @fastestdraw.bsky.social · 13/10/2026If the yandex thing has disrupted trawler traffic, as seems to be shown by individuals doing web hosting, then the data that was needed to track smaller FB pages/blogs/small x accounts to facilitate nudging (3-10 likes from bots on a random post to keep the person talking) should also be disrupted. 020
fastestdraw.bsky.social @fastestdraw.bsky.social · 11/10/2026We gotta ridicule anyone still into it until people can't say they like it in public. 'Oh, those books with all the mind control of children'. 010
fastestdraw.bsky.social @fastestdraw.bsky.social · 11/10/2026I really hope someone on the team has remembered seedtime exists. Green deserves its (actually balanced) time walk. 000
fastestdraw.bsky.social @fastestdraw.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Will be interesting to see where the liability lies when the instructions given were for an explicitly legal process to a machine that then almost certainly acted illegally. If this results in claude being sued for selling a defective product then I'll call it a win. 010
fastestdraw.bsky.social @fastestdraw.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Having read some of the code- gross project. Telling a single LLM to do a cleanroom rebuild and writing docs (kinda) describing a rebuild isn't the same as actually doing a rebuild. Just a vibecoded prototype with bad architecture, bugs galore, and likely legal troubles. 100
fastestdraw.bsky.social @fastestdraw.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Rust has a bunch of really great documentation, examples and tutorials, literally won't compile if there is something obviously wrong, and when it does that it returns an error message explaining the fault. Those features that were meant to make it good now make it easy to slop. 010
fastestdraw.bsky.social @fastestdraw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I am convinced that this is a way to trick people into saying or looking up an incel slur, thereby trapping them in recommendation hell because the algos can't tell the difference. 110
fastestdraw.bsky.social @fastestdraw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026True, but also... The people yelling about the fishing industry fuck up the fishing industry. We should be looking at protected fishing zones, pollution regulation and restricting trawling to increase fish stocks since the 90's. Same story with steel outsourcing. Make a problem, sell the solution. 030
fastestdraw.bsky.social @fastestdraw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Yeah. I prefer 'filler'. Its what we used to call it. Some people love filler episodes. Sometimes a filler episode turns out really good. They aren't what anyone is showing up to watch. 000
fastestdraw.bsky.social @fastestdraw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026What am I gonna build my state machine out of? Enums? Booleans in a fancy hat. A bool is 1 bit. It multiplies the slowest out of anything. I can use a thousand. Jokes aside, flowchart your game's state. Its fine not to have one big state machine, but state models are super useful. 010
fastestdraw.bsky.social @fastestdraw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Like, from a design perspective, yes. Double or halve until you get your numbers in the right ballpark. There is also something super satisfying about old LOL 1% crit rune toplane. Sometimes a really small number matters a lot, and it can be fun to offer that discovery. 001
fastestdraw.bsky.social @fastestdraw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026When interviewing the top artists in a given field, they are fairly consistent in their 'top spot' rankings (except when ranking themselves) and its order is consistent across experts. So the difficulty is probably that we aren't asking the best writers in the world about this. 000
fastestdraw.bsky.social @fastestdraw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Remember the news facebook was doing experiments on teenagers and drove a few to suicide, and everyone sort of shrugged and carried on using insta? It turned out that the big influencers and official outlets couldn't actually stop it, and now we have podcasts instead of news because they lost. 120
fastestdraw.bsky.social @fastestdraw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Its all in this space of 'you can do it, but its not profitable for the company because we can't run ads against it, so we'll discourage it aggressively.' That the people who didn't fold have been efficiently siloed away from public visibility shows how well this worked. 110
fastestdraw.bsky.social @fastestdraw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Soft censorship (limits on reach, monetization, putting your content out to bots or people that will act like assholes) has been shown on YT,FB,Twitter. Even indie websites have to contend with Google search flagging their content for safesearch. 100
fastestdraw.bsky.social @fastestdraw.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Hiding it as a sprite is pretty tricky with modern data mining, but writing it into shader code for one release is very doable. 110
fastestdraw.bsky.social @fastestdraw.bsky.social · 16/09/2026If the dollar goes to 0 what is trump gonna pay him in? Exposure? 020
fastestdraw.bsky.social @fastestdraw.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I love it when there is crunch that is properly supported by and supports its world. Mech engineer springs to mind, with the test range metal plate sound effects while you page through the bestiary trying to figure out damage/AP number optimization. Its not 'just there', its there for a reason. 010
fastestdraw.bsky.social @fastestdraw.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I hear you, but there is a lot of fun in creating optimization puzzles. Some people will just jam assemblers in factorio until the conveyors look full, and some will look up how much time it takes to make each component and really care about how a +10% speed changes factory ratio. Both are fun. 120
fastestdraw.bsky.social @fastestdraw.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I liked it in the newer XCOMs. Planning around 'what if I miss, how can I play the odds better' was the whole game. For that to work you have to have meaningful consequences for missing that aren't just 'everyone wastes time', and a fairly solid game design. 010
fastestdraw.bsky.social @fastestdraw.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The heritage foundation (the guys organizing the American Fascist movement) openly stated that the Trans rights talking points exist to roll back title IX (sex discrimination) protections. Politicians aligning themselves with the Fascists is the whole problem. 0171
fastestdraw.bsky.social @fastestdraw.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Do a settings screen popup at game startup, but right at the top include a 'continue from last save' button, and let players edit the INI while it loads. If you are feeling brave, record how long it took to load the game last time, and throw up an estimated loading timer. Instant QOL. 000
fastestdraw.bsky.social @fastestdraw.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Posting AI is just announcing 'these are my standards, and boy are they low'. People will block and move on. 090
fastestdraw.bsky.social @fastestdraw.bsky.social · 13/09/2026People that are big on AI are gonna have to start fresh social media accounts because of all the people who block them assuming their account is pure junk. If listeners want AI, they have AI directly. Being a middle man is a waste. 170
fastestdraw.bsky.social @fastestdraw.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Dawg its just not tagged as furry, and its big releases. You've got stuff like Mouse: P.I. For Hire, Frontiers of Pandora, black myth wukong, Timberborn, cult of the lamb, random stuff like cat mail... Scroll through the top sellers on steam and hit them before the third page on any category. 000
fastestdraw.bsky.social @fastestdraw.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Space optimists betting on space colonization acts as an incentive to sabotage space colonization efforts to win those bets. On a small scale this is marginal, but once a society as a whole starts betting on the future you end up actively funding outcomes you don't want. 020
fastestdraw.bsky.social @fastestdraw.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Speaking as someone that likes real solutions - tilt monitors on your mount so they tilt upwards, put box on desk, put keyboard and mouse on box, stand up. The rest is just finding the right size box, or sorting out monitor mounts if you're using ones you can't adjust. 111
fastestdraw.bsky.social @fastestdraw.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I think its just harder to tell an exec 'no, we shouldn't do that, its a bad idea' rather than 'the tech isn't there yet'. 110
fastestdraw.bsky.social @fastestdraw.bsky.social · 03/09/2026We know that wasn't the plan because later iterations of that formula (space games with a matching project brief) try for realistic distances... then have to cut 90% of those distances out with fast travel because POI are too far away from each other to keep people engaged. 110
fastestdraw.bsky.social @fastestdraw.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I think that if you look at the kind of AAA commercial release trying for realism, the technical limitations guided games towards good decision-making. Freelancer (03) was trying for realism but had to fight its tech pretty hard, meaning that star systems were flat and small, but dense with POI. 120
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fastestdraw.bsky.social @fastestdraw.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I am constantly reminded of casual xrays in shoe shores, so that you can see your bones all crunched up inside an ill-fitting shoe. Yes xrays are useful. No, you should not put them in shoe stores giving everyone foot cancer, no matter how profitable it looks. 000
fastestdraw.bsky.social @fastestdraw.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I OG nethack really hit on something with its randomized item descriptions and names, as well as secrets hidden in the documentation. Even with deep lore exploring and understanding your own playthrough is still a puzzle. I'm pretty sad roguelikes have dropped that aspect to become marketable. 010
fastestdraw.bsky.social @fastestdraw.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Men just got the legal argument that they are 'by default' being discriminated against, without consideration of the risk of harm. There is no way this ends well. 000
fastestdraw.bsky.social @fastestdraw.bsky.social · 01/09/2026The guidance now says that you can't deny men access to any mixed space because it is, by default, discrimination, regardless of how that space is labeled or used. This is a massive expansion of mens' legal right to access women's spaces merely by changing their legal label to mixed sex. 100
fastestdraw.bsky.social @fastestdraw.bsky.social · 01/09/2026The issue is that the guidance appears to ignore both high court judgement on the interim guidance and the EHRC, which means the guidance itself is out of line with UK law. goodlawproject.org/how-the-code...goodlawproject.orgHow the code of practice gets the law wrong | Good Law ProjectWe’re supporting a legal challenge against the government’s transphobic statutory guidance – here’s why 100
fastestdraw.bsky.social @fastestdraw.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I just bake my game state into save data, then map scene/system inputs/outputs so I can test them individually based on randomly generated saves. If I can load into a scene or run a system while missing something essential, then I add a sanity check and figure out where my state model broke. 010
fastestdraw.bsky.social @fastestdraw.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Sure, but we also got wizards to acknowledge pregnant Quintorius, so at least we got some laughs. scryfall.com/card/slz/4/g...scryfall.comGenerous Gift{2}{W} • Instant • Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Elephant creature token. • The Zeta Set (SLZ) #4 • Illustrated by MSCHF • Magic: The Gathering, MTG 010
fastestdraw.bsky.social @fastestdraw.bsky.social · 31/08/2026So, Godot has its own python-style scripting language called GDscript, which is straightforward to pick up (and export to html5) if you aren't looking to practice C++, so you should be able to dive right in. docs.godotengine.org/en/4.6/index... The Docs are well written and have good tutorials.docs.godotengine.orgGodot Docs – 4.6 branchWelcome to the official documentation of Godot Engine, the free and open source community-driven 2D and 3D game engine! If you are new to this documentation, we recommend that you read the introduc... 120
fastestdraw.bsky.social @fastestdraw.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Its almost as though media has tools to justify [wars, wealth transfer, regulatory capture, journalism capture, etc..] people internalized which when taken as a set have all the key ingredients for fascism. Lay out cake ingredients, turn the oven on, people start baking and get shocked at cake. 000
fastestdraw.bsky.social @fastestdraw.bsky.social · 29/08/2026The main thing I advise is to make a signalbus global in project settings->globals, keep your signals there, then use those to send data between nodes with signalbus.[your_signal).connect(callable) or .emit(data). That way each node can stay self contained. 000
fastestdraw.bsky.social @fastestdraw.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Gdscript is a great starting point. The cool part is each node is a separate, so you get to break the code down into small, manageable chunks and attach it to nodes so it feels less overwhelming. I often load up projects with just one node to test say, floating text, without anything else. 100
fastestdraw.bsky.social @fastestdraw.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I've had fun with it in CDDA where there is real challenge to keeping your character fed and healthy enough to fight zombies, but it is also buggy as hell. Also had fun with it in ostranauts. The problem is that you need really supporting systems that get in the way of most titles. 010
fastestdraw.bsky.social @fastestdraw.bsky.social · 25/08/2026No side quests, bring elements from the party's stories together in interesting ways -e.g. two old party enemies and they are working together with the town guard! And its important for them to face personal consequences, because trouble without consequences doesn't make a good story. 010
fastestdraw.bsky.social @fastestdraw.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I've had fun with them, and made them fun to play with, but they aren't 'default fun'. They work best when you have a story about responsibility and bad behavior. They suck when it becomes babysitting. The best use for them are when they are played to support other character's arcs. 110
fastestdraw.bsky.social @fastestdraw.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Consumer spend topped out around the end of the console wars, and the market is not just competing with this years releases but every game ever released, including live service games. Its just a really tough market overall. I foresee more art-project games and less commercial releases. 160
fastestdraw.bsky.social @fastestdraw.bsky.social · 24/08/2026The problem is that people that agree are also paid agents. Modern 'psyops' (firehosing, flood the zone) make identifying the truth so exhausting that people give up. Thats the whole point of them. In this way, engaging with psyops at all is fundamentally a losing proposition. 120
fastestdraw.bsky.social @fastestdraw.bsky.social · 23/08/2026I think if it was just twitter it would have worked out. By this point I can count the number of sites I used that didn't break trust on one hand. Can't really work up enthusiasm with that track record looming over them all. 130
