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"yeah you know Bob in accounting? The one that didn't know not to put Fish in the microwave? He just said he was able to refactor our entire codebase, lucky us!"

I don't understand why these vibe coders are like "yup, push this shit to main" Like if you wanna overhaul so much shit, just fork it, Or fork off

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Ha! That's actually the next one up from what Im using now, I actually have a spare a16 because it came free with my Internet plan (it was legit cheaper to just buy a phone line with it, at least for the year) I didn't switch to it because the a15 still has a headphone jack, but the a16's not bad

It's like a reputable brand one right?

I would say start looking into the replacement so that if your phone dies on you, you know what to get The worst thing is if your phone breaks in a way that makes it hard to transfer all your apps and accounts to a new one

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@tetronimike.bsky.social, @skrimbus.bsky.social, and I are building a working movie theater for our upcoming video game. Other things we're building for it: * A bookstore * A set of impossible shapes * A fountain * A carnival game * 100 keys * Etc. #gamedev #indiedev

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Florence @justflorence.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

what do you MEAN the developers of Cookie's Bustle contacted every person who registered their copy by mail 25 years ago and invited them to a secret Cookie's Bustle party with live music and merch???

A Cookie's Bustle "25th secret event" Cookie Blair bear

A Cookie's Bustle t-shirt, featuring Cookie Blair flying in the air

Musicians playing instruments alongside a mascot of Cookie Blair, a teddy bear girl

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Alec S // Renegade Sector Games @renegadesector.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

And All Would Cry Beware is 80% off in the Steam Autumn Sale! Step through a mysterious portal to another world and discover the fate of the lost expedition in this old-school FPS Metroidvania! store.steampowered.com/app/1071510/...

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maxjk0.bsky.social @maxjk0.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's a damn level design tool, you think I chose level design out of a passion for building shit from source!?

maxjk0.bsky.social @maxjk0.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"ah cool what's this? NextBoom, people trying to make a new fork of trenchboom without the slop? Great!" "Sign up for this external thing to grab some code to put in the directory" ...come on what are we doing

maxjk0.bsky.social @maxjk0.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There are like five separate projects I found incredibly interesting very recently, and because they all required the end user to build it from source themselves, I only ever ended up getting one of them working

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maxjk0.bsky.social @maxjk0.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The EQ on the audio is fixable in software but like, that brightness on the fingerprint scanner is unforgiveable, and it's shit I knew they did back on the Pixel 6 and it's a main reason I did not go with that piece of crap

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maxjk0.bsky.social @maxjk0.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Like this is just bad, It bothers me so much

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maxjk0.bsky.social @maxjk0.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Modern phones absolutely depress me Girlfriend is looking for a new phone, she did a bunch of research and landed on the Pixel 9 The EQ on the speaker seems to just be like, atrocious, and the fingerprint scanner is in the middle of the screen and makes the screen go to full brightness???

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maxjk0.bsky.social @maxjk0.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Interactive Software? Multimedia Soft? I feel like if we start mashing words together too badly it's just going to sound like existing company names

maxjk0.bsky.social @maxjk0.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Or that it's got "Graphic Content" that's not suitable for all audiences

maxjk0.bsky.social @maxjk0.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I think you're close, "Work of Interaction Fiction" I think has a bit of lightheartedness to staves off the pretentious aspect to it a bit, and it's a term that is already used in the space

maxjk0.bsky.social @maxjk0.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ive found the topic extremely difficult because we don't ultimately know all of the details, yet we also really shouldn't be entitled to them either. This isn't to say that we don't know enough to make plenty of valid points on the topic, it's just, it screws with the way my brain wants to work

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maxjk0.bsky.social @maxjk0.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

So what you're saying is we need to make the moon fight really convoluted and difficult?

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maxjk0.bsky.social @maxjk0.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Testing out a new game engine, "Chisel", which aims to be very similar to source in terms of the editor experience. It's really early at the moment, but I love it so far!

Quinn K. @quinnkdev.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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the first game i worked on extensively, "An Outcry", is on sale at a low 50% off with the Steam autumn sale! it's got those autumn-night colors, takes place in october, and has some jack-o-lantern type birds! (don't worry about the birds.) store.steampowered.com/app/1817470/...

A flurry of silhouetted cars with red taillights, bumper on bumper, streaming down a busy road. On the left of the road is a tall building - a subway station - built by Otto Wagner. On the right, there is an apartment building, and a tiny person in purple. There is text at the top, which reads: "The Vienna city belt."

A rotten, soot-covered political poster for a political party called "AFP", in front of the Austrian flag. The candidate's face is scratched and burnt away. Text at the top reads, decoding the poster: "'We will not be silence!' (Our crimes should go unpunished.)

A man-sized, raven-like being with a black mask and glowing, burning insides, opening its beak and jovially holding up a beer-bottle while smoking a cigarette. A textbox at the bottom of the screen, spoken by this being, reads: "settle down among your kin, have a drink, kid, settle in!"

The courtyard of a Vienna apartment building, covered in grey birds with glowing orange eyes. Most of the screen is bathed in darkness; only a spotlight shines on the person who emerged out into it, a bald person with a bandage around their head and a black censor bar over their eyes. Text at the bottom of the screen reads: "Your curtain may be calling. Breathe, unnamed. Know what you have to do."

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Luke Vincent | Automaton Heart @lukewasthefish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My 3D Zelda-like 'Automaton Heart' is on sale this week!

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maxjk0.bsky.social @maxjk0.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's crazy because there really was a time when it was somewhat common (or at least, not uncommon) to see that in PC games, like iirc System Shock 1 has a similar thing going on

maxjk0.bsky.social @maxjk0.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Level Design is actually a place You can find it It's in Pennsylvania last I heard

maxjk0.bsky.social @maxjk0.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Of course it's a joke Nintendo is famously PRO vaping

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maxjk0.bsky.social @maxjk0.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Oh okay so my method of just guessing and checking in highschool was just like, the right way of doing it?

maxjk0.bsky.social @maxjk0.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

4*4 is 16, which can also be called 4 squared Square root of 16 is 4 what I don't think I ever understood: how the fuck do you find a square root without just like, knowing what the answer is ahead of time

Houseplants in Videogames @houseplantsinvg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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had to make a video for this one because it's pretty wild visually. love that you can zoom in and out so far with these vector graphics, neat stuff! (music is unrelated because i couldn't get the in-game music working right and it was pain inducing lol)

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maxjk0.bsky.social @maxjk0.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Now if you knock em down stairs, do they keep going?

maxjk0.bsky.social @maxjk0.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It appears that despite telling it not to go in my room which has a mess of cables, Shodan (my Roomba) has tried to kill my 3DS

Robot vacuum on floor, stuck in a mess of wires, 3DS knocked off the table

👻 YSUBoOoOooOooo 👻 @bassoonysu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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Guys, if you aren't already supporting the Internet Archive, please consider doing so. They are way more than just the Wayback Machine. They have a massive library of texts, audio, films, video games, and more media available. I'm downloading the 1933 OED right now as pdfs. It's insane.

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maxjk0.bsky.social @maxjk0.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's like they were like "we need a term to virtue signal on the right that you use AI and are also on *my* side" Meanwhile I'm over here on the left going "if you use AI, you're not on my side"

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maxjk0.bsky.social @maxjk0.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's funny that they created a new term for AI to try to make a culture war divide on how people talk about AI, as if there isn't basically already one on "do you use AI at all?"

maxjk0.bsky.social @maxjk0.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Plus you have to think about blocking someone "Did i make some good points here? Do I really wanna shut down this thread?" Though maybe I'm an outlier in that dept

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maxjk0.bsky.social @maxjk0.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Like yeah sure that original poster often times deserved to get dunked on a little bit, but you could also just be exposing one guy to a whole community to validate stereotypes or bully them I like how you can just like, shut it down

maxjk0.bsky.social @maxjk0.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm 50-50 on it On one hand I don't like the context loss, however I do like the fact that it prevents excessive dogpiling It was always a thing on twitter where someone would repost a thread they were mad at, then suddenly they get so much more hate than anyone could know what to do with

maxjk0.bsky.social @maxjk0.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And eventually, all it takes is for you to say something that happens to be the exact topic that was causing someone else a bunch of strife, or the exact topic they happen to be an expert in, and are only presented the middle post in a thread of 30 because the algorithm only wanted to feed them that

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maxjk0.bsky.social @maxjk0.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And it invites less nuanced context Tumblr has much less of this kind of problem because posts can be however long But an app like this? We're communicating in short posts, that are very easily displayed out of context, even if threads are used

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maxjk0.bsky.social @maxjk0.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's unfortunately a byproduct of this format of app basically being a large scale no-topic-forum It becomes very much "could I interest you in everything, all of the time?"

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Mega Cat Studios @megacatstudios.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Once upon a time, a game was made in a basement, bedroom, garage, or wherever the magic happened. Now it has 2 DAYS LEFT to reach #SuperMAGFest. Submit your #Homebrew game to the #IndieRetro Showcase: bit.ly/MCSIR27S Submissions close: September 30th, 11:59 PM EST

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maxjk0.bsky.social @maxjk0.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Im not trying to downplay anything, just looking for silver linings is all

maxjk0.bsky.social @maxjk0.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think I came at my point at a bad angle here This is like, net bad, I just meant to say "I'm glad they're dumb and went for the obvious and shiny toy they heard about, making it so thankfully, they could only get 4, when there are cheaper, more evil bots that I'm glad they didn't go for"

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maxjk0.bsky.social @maxjk0.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

True, but what I'm saying Is that I don't think these are actually good at being really scary police machines, The things they'd be better at is like, moving heavy shit up and down stairs in locations not actually built for robots Which still has ways to be evil, don't get me wrong

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maxjk0.bsky.social @maxjk0.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Like yeah they're robust, but from my understanding with these things, they are better for navigating and doing tasks in known, controlled environments There's a reason that many of the robots you see in the Ukraine war are just like, big-wheeled RC cars with shit attached to them

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maxjk0.bsky.social @maxjk0.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The only positive here is that, from my understanding at least, the Boston dynamics dogs would be overkill for what they're using them for, so effectively they did waste a ton of money. Bad they got it, good they can't do research / aren't operating with any real efficiency

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maxjk0.bsky.social @maxjk0.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My healthcare? Yeah it's worse than when I was more gainfully employed, but My overall health? Better, I actually like, get sleep now. Im not constantly stressed about going to a job I hate anymore

maxjk0.bsky.social @maxjk0.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The frustrating thing about the industry I work in is that I currently make *almost* enough money And by that I mean it's like, not a lot, but I can stretch a budget pretty well all things considered. But like, almost isn't necessarily *enough*, I'm still at a deficit here -_-

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maxjk0.bsky.social @maxjk0.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yeah that's for making maps, although nextbroom seems to be what the pivot will be in the near future because of the vibecoding going into trench But outside of maps, I don't see like what angle I'm supposed to attack like the menus, enemy behavior, or weapons