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Jeremy Statz @jstatz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hey, real question, is there a calendar you use to find those?

Jeremy Statz @jstatz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

These are really nice, but the macro/programming buttons being on the face where they are, is the big negative to me. If you're going by touch they're very easy to confuse with start/select. They aren't something you use constantly, I wish they were on the bottom edge or someplace out of the way.

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Jeremy Statz @jstatz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Posting a quick pic of Puzzle Rogue! Renala the mage uses an ability that breaks a green gem and its neighbors! The player's party faces down a bat skeleton and two fire elementals! Add us to your wishlist on Steam! Thanks for #TurnBasedThursday !

An 8x8 board of gems shows the green ones highlighted, and the player selecting one to break. The player's party is on the left, and the enemy party is on the right.

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Jeremy Statz @jstatz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The crazy thing is how hard it would be to follow up. They were in early access for YEARS. They iterated forever. Can you imagine a corporate-assembled team from Hasbro being able to do that? Borderline impossible for a non-independant team who had to set milestones three years ago.

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Jeremy Statz @jstatz.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

They're not the same, but I will say, I think the prequel's underrated. It goes too sci-fi big in the last act but taken on its own it's pretty cool. Uses a lot of the same tropes and they work.

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Jeremy Statz @jstatz.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I never thought I'd trust somebody less than "people who make smart TVs", but then the AI industry arrived. We use Freedcamp for task tracking, which has been fine, but they added AI bullshit a month. I had to go through customer support to get it disabled for our organization. Nothing in the UI.

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Jeremy Statz @jstatz.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Sprawl was sweet, looking forward to it!

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Jeremy Statz @jstatz.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

These pictures remind me of Oblivion, where they had normal maps for the first time and everything feels so overdesigned.

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Jeremy Statz @jstatz.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Varog has a trinket called a Guard Seal, which will share defense with all allies when it maxes out. Krinn has Blue Aegis, so he can spend mana to give an ally defense. Syrin can buff all shields on the board to give double defense. It takes some attention but you can keep everybody fully protected.

A screenshot from Puzzle Rogue, showing all characters with their Defend maxed out! Wishlist on Steam!

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Jeremy Statz @jstatz.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Appreciate the hosting! We're aiming to be in the next NextFest, and are working on Puzzle Rogue, a match-3 roguelite inspired by the original Puzzle Quest! Add us to your wishlist! store.steampowered.com/app/4221560/... Check out the map!

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Jeremy Statz @jstatz.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A Garth Merenghi for the youtube generation.

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Jeremy Statz @jstatz.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I mean, there's people who'd pay you for that, Sauron.

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Jeremy Statz @jstatz.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

@civvie11.bsky.social I very much want to learn more about this, but not actually suffer through it myself.

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Jeremy Statz @jstatz.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

One Last Kill is so over the top violent that it doesn't even feel like a modern movie. I kept thinking that this is what Cannon wanted the Death Wish movies to be, if they had a star that wasn't ninety years old and a way better budget.

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Jeremy Statz @jstatz.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I genuinely want to know what percentage of usage is fraud. Not even like, pseudo-fraud like astroturfing, which is clearly plenty. I mean like actual, send an message to your mom pretending to be a long lost cousin in need, leave a fake voice mail, here's a fake business deal, literal fraud.

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Jeremy Statz @jstatz.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I've always thought these orange rubber guys look like Mike Pence.

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Jeremy Statz @jstatz.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Which is just Pascal's Wager for tech dystopia guys.

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Jeremy Statz @jstatz.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I can almost believe that Todd McFarlane has convinced himself Spawn is famous for its minimalism and small, tightly focused storytelling.

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Jeremy Statz @jstatz.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I've never seen this before, what an interesting technique.

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Jeremy Statz @jstatz.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I watched a YouTube video breaking down the implementation of this level, once, and the collision on your character vs the vines is incredibly misleading. I would think you keep the box smallish and center of mass on the character. NOPE.

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Jeremy Statz @jstatz.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Ellison as the voice of AM is such a crazy decision.

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Jeremy Statz @jstatz.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

There's an unsaid thing here that I do legitimately wonder about: What was going on, from the inside perspective, that Sandy thinks 90's id Software was operating on a shoestring? People were buying F40s.

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Jeremy Statz @jstatz.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I think you probably can, but it certainly will not be a nice tidy little media-center box. And it won't be a slam dunk, just somewhat cheaper.

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Jeremy Statz @jstatz.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

One of my favorite game development stories is actually about exactly this, but it's long and alas, doesn't have much of a punchline. Was pretty much this happening though.

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Jeremy Statz @jstatz.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

First one was okay-ish, second one was a little better, then the third one is 90 minutes of naval-gazing stoner philosophy.

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Jeremy Statz @jstatz.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I run a studio that specializes in multiplatform development, handles porting work etc. It's interesting that half the Unreal projects we encounter are still on 4.27.

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Jeremy Statz @jstatz.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

A coworker of mine was one of the early adopters of the Afterburner: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afterbu...

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Afterburner (modification kit) - Wikipedia

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Jeremy Statz @jstatz.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

They eventually went to a single window mode, but this stuck around even in Windows for ages. Ironically, they almost certainly did this originally because that's how Photoshop for MacOS acted.

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Jeremy Statz @jstatz.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I do feel like Gimp is a bit of whipping boy as far as this goes. It's kind of janky but the UI is pretty bog-standard paint program stuff, then people talk like it's unusable. That said, Krita exists and seems like the nicer quality product overall.

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Jeremy Statz @jstatz.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Hire us and I'll make Piñata Mystery Island.

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Jeremy Statz @jstatz.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Looking up polling from May: Bass was at 26%, Raman at 25%, and Pratt was at 22%. Reality shows Bass overperforming a little but the proportions aren't that far off. I guess these guys live in such a bubble they think this is unprecedented?

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Jeremy Statz @jstatz.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Give it a name like "Hulk Hands".

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Jeremy Statz @jstatz.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Cards like that don't tend to sound that exciting on the surface. Making them crazy turns them exciting.

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Jeremy Statz @jstatz.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

I've never seen this before, that is rad as hell.

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Jeremy Statz @jstatz.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Super Rare Games as done this sometimes, at least. Some of them designed to look like retro media like cassettes.

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Jeremy Statz @jstatz.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Working on a project where the client uses Teams, and wanted to use that for comms. Okay fine, bookmark the page and visit to give updates, etc. Eventually, I post a pic in the chat as part of an update. One minute later I get an e-mail from Microsoft thanking me for opening a OneDrive account.

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Jeremy Statz @jstatz.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

When you run, he hops onto it like a flying surfboard.

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Jeremy Statz @jstatz.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

There's a hole in the market now that Ask Jeeves is gone.

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Jeremy Statz @jstatz.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I've seen this illustration before and somehow never noticed that the dragon has both two arms and four legs. An unusual body layout. Fifteen years later we'd see this design again, in Dark Souls. If this guy represents blazing, I guess the Gaping Dragon represents munchies.

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Jeremy Statz @jstatz.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Whisker Squadron is pretty good and I put about a dozen hours into it a while back. I got close a couple times but never got to the end of a run successfully.

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Jeremy Statz @jstatz.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

It's got a more forgiving sequal called Blazing Star, that I think is a sleeper gem.

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