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Jason Maltzen @jason.maltzen.org · 04/10/2026

AI is theft, and AI is destroying everything decent by doing absolute garbage like this.

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Jason Maltzen @jason.maltzen.org · 04/10/2026

AI is theft, and AI is destroying everything decent by doing absolute garbage like this.

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Jason Maltzen @jason.maltzen.org · 03/10/2026

The GPS-only generation will never understand the skill required to re-fold a paper map while driving or sitting in the passenger seat.

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Jason Maltzen @jason.maltzen.org · 03/10/2026

genAI is a 10x programmer, in that someone on the team using it makes any other programming or maintenance in the codebase 10x as hard and take 10x as long.

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Jason Maltzen @jason.maltzen.org · 02/10/2026

Or if you went with Fate, mental stress taken from the task. "This task is 4 points of mental stress. I only have 3 boxes, so that'll require a minor consequence."

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Jason Maltzen @jason.maltzen.org · 02/10/2026

And if you, a user, go into a developer Discord and tell them to "just use AI" for something - art, programming, writing - that should be an immediate ban from Discord for being a complete fucking idiot.

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Jason Maltzen @jason.maltzen.org · 02/10/2026

Or we can go back to the time when all hacking was classified as "terrorism" and ship them all to Guantanamo Bay.

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Jason Maltzen @jason.maltzen.org · 02/10/2026

I remember a time when hacking into a computer system came with punishments like never being allowed to use a computer system again. We should go back to that and restrict anyone who works for any of the AI companies from computer use over their "rogue agent" breaches.

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Jason Maltzen @jason.maltzen.org · 02/10/2026

And no, I will *not* stop calling your AI-generated pull requests "stupid" in the pull request comments.

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Jason Maltzen @jason.maltzen.org · 02/10/2026

Basically nobody goes into game development to make lots of money. People get into game development because they enjoy the craft. And those who use AI have given up on that craft. Those who think AI is fine for things outside their discipline are insulting the other disciplines.

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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you think an artist's style looks like AI but you can scroll back through their portfolio and see them doing the same work before 2020, congrats, you're not looking at an AI grifter. You're looking at one of the original victims whose entire style AI stole.

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Dr. Merri 🐸 @merri24.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I am going to hunt down this brewery and buy every can 😎

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Jason Maltzen @jason.maltzen.org · 30/09/2026

Ah yes, corporate data breach and compromise of user information settlement. You too could receive ... checks notes ... $5. Which will certainly cover any inconvenience that might result from the data breach, right?

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Jason Maltzen @jason.maltzen.org · 30/09/2026

So fucking sick of political text messages. Every time you stop one, two more pop up like a fucking hydra. The 30-a-day rate makes me want to throw my phone into the garbage disposal. Democrats can you please STFU about "My Decision" or "Tough Decision" or the fucking FEC deadline?

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Jason Maltzen @jason.maltzen.org · 30/09/2026

Literally a conversation this week: "What can we do to stop the griefers in the game?" Me: "Other than teach people not to be assholes to each-other, you mean? Because I don't think that will happen."

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Jason Maltzen @jason.maltzen.org · 30/09/2026

Periodic reminder that if you still use 1Password or Digital Ocean, you are supporting DHH and ethnic cleansing and may as well also be out buying Potter merch. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omarchy...

en.wikipedia.org

Omarchy - Wikipedia

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

This part of the muse privacy and security debacle manages to be worse than it agreeing to lowball offers in your name on marketplace, giving the buyer your address, and then telling them you're home when you're not; because this part? The "it reading messages you explicitly told it not to" part?…

appleinsider.com

Meta Muse AI reportedly read Mac Messages without consent

In a completely unsurprising turn of events, Meta's Muse AI is stealing Apple Messages, past and present, and uploading the contents to its cloud, even if explicitly told not to.

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Jason Maltzen @jason.maltzen.org · 26/09/2026

there too, though the OP here was FB using genAI of them for an ad.

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Jason Maltzen @jason.maltzen.org · 25/09/2026

If you haven't already, today is a really good day to go delete all your content from over there.

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Jason Maltzen @jason.maltzen.org · 25/09/2026

I'm now picturing the inner bag of holding becoming a reference to somebody else's bag of holding. They might pull out items you put in. You might get their items. It becomes more like a bag of many things.

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Please celebrate my birthday with me by reading my article and sharing it! I'm trying to pay down medical debt and the tips really help, so the more people who see it, the better!!

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Jason Maltzen @jason.maltzen.org · 22/09/2026

I can think of many options. Among them: repurpose RCS thrusters to replace gravitational force.

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Jason Maltzen @jason.maltzen.org · 21/09/2026

It was obviously the new stealth orcas, designed to target smaller vessels than yachts.

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Jason Maltzen @jason.maltzen.org · 21/09/2026

Largely "what I could get dad to buy at the local game shop" so I blame him. But then he was also a programmer and wrote competitive computer chess algorithms, so probably what I'd have bought my kid in his situation/time too. Dad had good taste in games.

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Jason Maltzen @jason.maltzen.org · 21/09/2026

Not sure there's just *one*, but some foundational PC games for me. Arcade games would be a different story. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starfli... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultima_... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizardr... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zork

en.wikipedia.org

Starflight - Wikipedia

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Jason Maltzen @jason.maltzen.org · 21/09/2026

"a U.S. citizen" "was taken to the hospital for injuries to his head, neck and teeth after [federal] agents drove off" If there is no due process for others, you do not have due process. This is not law. This is lawlessness.

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Jason Maltzen @jason.maltzen.org · 21/09/2026

The lesson of Ultima Online and "when is necromancy coming out?"

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Jason Maltzen @jason.maltzen.org · 21/09/2026

More Sunday-night-spent-the-day-debugging-live-service-issues-instead-of-relaxing-so-now-drinking-wine game dev lore:a whole generation of game devs was trained to never even *hint* at a system that them might be *considering* because that turns into promising delivery of a system.

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Jason Maltzen @jason.maltzen.org · 21/09/2026

What works fine for one person on a single dev server often doesn't work well with a lot of people on a large system of distributed servers.

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Jason Maltzen @jason.maltzen.org · 21/09/2026

And to the original post, MMOs are really big complex projects and no single dev really understands how the systems work together *without* experiencing them. The systems were made by anywhere from 20-300 people mostly working in silos, many only testing as a single player on a single server.

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Jason Maltzen @jason.maltzen.org · 21/09/2026

Bonus: if you stream a game made by a small dev team, some of them are probably watching your stream. They might even !unlurk if you ask.

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Jason Maltzen @jason.maltzen.org · 21/09/2026

Some game dev secrets from experience: * some of the devs secretly play your MMO with you * most of the devs don't really play their own game

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Jason Maltzen @jason.maltzen.org · 21/09/2026

Important lyrics for game devs to remember when working on their game design. This is basically everyone who will play your game: I want action tonight Satisfaction all night

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Jason Maltzen @jason.maltzen.org · 15/09/2026

Proposal for game devs: Users starting up "is this game dead" discourse should be cause for an immediate ban from discord servers, forums, etc. It provides no value and just alienates players. It's just pure toxicity.

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Jason Maltzen @jason.maltzen.org · 15/09/2026

JFC. DigitalOcean apparently saw the 1Password backlash and went "hold our beer"

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Jason Maltzen @jason.maltzen.org · 14/09/2026

I always wonder what kind of complete loser one has to be to spend time that could be use playing games going into game developer Discord servers and game forums just to post concurrent user numbers, which seems to be the new form of "is this game dead?"

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Jason Maltzen @jason.maltzen.org · 10/09/2026

I see Opus Magnum in the list. I think that qualifies as a "pretty/beautiful" programming game.

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

You’ve gotta use AI because it’s the future. But also it’ll take your job. But also it’ll create a paradise on earth and solve most of our problems. But also it’ll end humanity soon. But also you’ll get left behind if you don’t use it right now.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 08/09/2026

Global data centre investment has already surpassed solar PV, and will soon surpass all renewable investment combined sf-asset-manager.s3.amazonaws.com/97637/1139/8...

Data center investment rises sharply from near zero in 2015 to about $800B in 2025; chart also shows renewables and solar climbing steadily while oil and gas investments fluctuate at higher levels (2015–2025, USD billions).

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Jason Maltzen @jason.maltzen.org · 04/09/2026

The Democratic Party really need to figure out how to make its fundraising less terrible. I shouldn't be getting 4 texts in 3 days about 3 different candidates that are all "My Decision" or "A Tough Decision". You really need more fucking variety in your playbook.

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Jason Maltzen @jason.maltzen.org · 03/09/2026

New typo/terminology for when someone tries to use genAI on production code: "maintainted"

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Jason Maltzen @jason.maltzen.org · 30/08/2026

Mostly that really big word is "fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck".

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Jason Maltzen @jason.maltzen.org · 30/08/2026

+ Seize all of his family's assets to pay for repairing the damage he has done to public properties and the health and wellbeing of the country while in office.

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Jason Maltzen @jason.maltzen.org · 29/08/2026

I didn't really need to get up to the front bumper of my car laying on the ground in front of it. No idea what happened overnight, but I assume it was the fucking raccoons around here pissed off that the compost bin is empty so they can't keep dumping it on the ground.

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Jason Maltzen @jason.maltzen.org · 20/08/2026

AI bros would interpret that as a sign of sentience, where it has all the sentience of a couple pre-selected arrays of characters, a RNG, and like 3 lines of logic.

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