Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 16hIn Achaea MUD a couple of days ago a couple of in-game friends suddenly retired (gave up adventuring life; that character can no longer wake up). A bunch of us are sad. :(( Game grief of never seeing a friend again. 😭 100
Reposted by Moos-a-dee 🫎Sam Stokes @five-eights.com · 07/10/2026Coding agents reduce software development to a simple matter of: * specifying requirements * verifying correctness and quality * maintaining and operating software you didn't write As we all know, those have always been the easiest, most well-understood parts of the craft, so everything is fine! 111973
Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 21hNote to self: fix some CSS for presentation today. (I don't have Signal on this phone so I don't have my "note to self" handy 😭) 000
Reposted by Moos-a-dee 🫎Hacker Memes @i0null.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026trying to explain to normies how it's possible to be both a complete nerd and a total luddite. 5416
Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026Something I'm having to convince myself to internalize is... "No, you DON'T have free time to take on xyz thing... If it's making it so you don't have time to cook and eat well, to go for walks, to tidy the house, then you don't have free time for it. If it's making it so you don't have time […]mastodon.gamedev.placeOriginal post on mastodon.gamedev.place 000
Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026I really wish websites were less bloated. Shit should be so lean when surfing on mobile. 🫠 100
Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026Just let me buy a pack of 100 of: - Good brand lip balms - Socks - Hair ties - Nail clippers - USB cables - Glasses cleaning cloths Stop making me buy these tiny baby packs of things, ugh. 000
Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026A dark pattern I fucking hate on the cookies popups on websites: First view is "Accept all" or "Customize". Click customize. Uncheck all the "unnecessary" things. At the bottom the COLORFUL button that you would EXPECT would be the "save preferences" button is just the "Accept All" button so you […]mastodon.gamedev.placeOriginal post on mastodon.gamedev.place 000
Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026Dog sitting 3 dogs until next week. Working on managing my sensory issues. 000
Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026I was giving a talk yesterday about how LLMs are trained and how quippy misinformation that shows up a lot causes greater weights in favor of that. But I misspoke and I said "Autism causes Vaccines" and I paused a moment and said, "Well, that's actually probably true." 010
Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026I just feel this a lot while listening to people talk about their AI use. 021
Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026A generally AI-critical YouTuber posted a video where he's a believer in AI now. In particular, I grabbed some of his quotes from the video and posted a comment: > 2700 lines > How long to take "him" to build? > I don't think a single person could handle this spec because first you'd have to […]mastodon.gamedev.placeOriginal post on mastodon.gamedev.place 110
Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026Thinking about how GenAI is a "blackbox" where you don't know how it's getting to where it arrived, but wondering how many average people see traditional software also as a "blackbox", and if that maybe makes them less critical of GenAI. 200
Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026On my drive to KS this morning, listening to the book Artificial Intimacy by Sherry Turkle, I put together a feeling I have had but didn't have the words: The repulsion I feel regarding people having chatbot lovers - it not needing attention, having its own problems and needs, and so on - […]mastodon.gamedev.placeOriginal post on mastodon.gamedev.place 100
Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026Also I think I have a sinus infection from the cold I had three weeks ago. So, just having a great time. 000
Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026I am hoping that after I give my talk on Open Source alternatives next week that my workload lightens up. I've been putting in long hours of hyper-focus to catch up on grading, presentations, reports, emails, and so on. I'm fucking exhausted. 000
Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026The year is 2026 and I'm still encountering UI issues where I go to click an item but suddenly more of a list is loaded, it displaces the thing I was going to click, and I click the wrong thing. This used to be a problem with images on webpages, but now it's just "we've loaded more content […]mastodon.gamedev.placeOriginal post on mastodon.gamedev.place 010
Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026Thinking of how to include Ouija Boards (oops, was just humans actually) and Magic 8 Balls into my talk about AI. :T 000
Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026To buy another librofm audiobook, or to not buy another audiobook... Hmmm... 000
Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026It's always "What can Rachel do for me?" and not "I have a free doughnut to give to Rachel!" 010
Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026Do any other open source peeps feel like they always want to make their own non-software-thing? Like no purse or pencil case is ever good enough to how *I* would design it. Or if I make my own, I could keep expanding it as needed. I just need time to set up my sewing machine and go buy some […]mastodon.gamedev.placeOriginal post on mastodon.gamedev.place 110
Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026Third week of coming to campus by 6 or 7 am to knock out a bunch of work before people wake up and start emailing me. Maybe next week I'll be ahead and not have a backlog of things people want me to do. :P 100
Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026I am so tired of hearing about AI and talking about AI. Every ad I hear touting using AI just translates in my mind to "New! Shit doesn't work!" Or "There is existing software to solve this thing but we're using something unreliable instead!" 010
Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026Any time I try to rely on a proprietary tool it ends up backfiring on me. I don't know how normal people even deal with computers anymore. (Maybe they don't.) 000
Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026It's kind of bonkers how much of a time investment it is to write and fix syllabi. And always a new template to deal with. 🙄 001
Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026I see no obvious way to get a list of all of the "Color and Contrast" accessibility issues in Microsoft Word. Just the little "previous/next" button, and any time I come back to it, it starts me at the beginning. Clicking "next" in this chunk of […] [Original post on mastodon.gamedev.place] 100
Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026I do really hope students are engaging with my class' discussion boards and not just using a chatbot to answer. For the Deadly Errors discussion board I have them choosing to read up on the Therac-25, Tesla self-driving car accidents, Boeing 737 MAX MCAS, or one of the chatbot-related suicides. 000
Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026Companies that elect to use AI are the Stockton Rush of business. 000
Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026All I do is teacher-day-job and play Achaea. m.youtube.com/watch?v=B2UO-GR_cfs #MUD #Achaea 000
Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026Ugh, meetings don't just utilize the time OF the meeting itself, there's also the buffer time before ("well I can't start on anything now because I have a meeting in 20 minutes") and after ("wtf was I doing again??") and it's so aggravating. 100
Reposted by Moos-a-dee 🫎jonny (nonvenomous) @jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026RE: mastodon.sdf.org/@doragasu/11732469… Not only confirming this, its extremely easy. Almost no prompt injection resistance lmao 516127
Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026Bad Game Ideas, your once-a-year, 15-minute podcast of bad game ideas! www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXKjT4rD7yk #gamedev #podcast #BadGameIdeas 0101
Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026I mean to finish up some work tasks this afternoon but I got sidetracked by constructed languages - my weakness. 100
Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026m.youtube.com/watch?v=whqDsYhCl0s Really good interview this morning: 404 Media speaking with Sherry Turkle about her new book Artificial Intimacy: Who We Become When We Talk To Machines. 000
Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026I'm looking for an overview of that Hugging Face hack but without all the anthropomorphization that lots of reporting likes to do.. 000
Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026Imagine if I got to spend as much time and energy on ACCESSIBILITY for my courses instead of all the reading, listening, and talking I do regarding "AI" at work. I get interviewed, I get pulled into task forces, I get asked to give presentations. 000
Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026Grants dept at school wanted to have a meeting with me to brainstorm ideas for grants they could search for relating to AI and education so my suggestions were 1. Money for teachers for all the course and assignment redesign they've ALREADY BEEN DOING to build AI-cheating-resistant stuff. 2 […]mastodon.gamedev.placeOriginal post on mastodon.gamedev.place 000
Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026Am I doing example code right? :T 200
Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026I would really like to see a University start a LMS (Learning Management System) that is Free, that other colleges can use and contribute to, that we could all self-host. "Eat your own dog food" is the idea to actually USE the software you develop, and NO LMS I've used felt like they were doing so. 004
Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026"use LLMs to do the grunt work in programming" Or what if we designed and built tools in such a way that reduced the need to handwrite boilerplate? I wonder if "grunt work" is a symptom of us inventing new web frameworks all the dang time and not focusing on improving existing languages and […]mastodon.gamedev.placeOriginal post on mastodon.gamedev.place 111
Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026Thinking about the video game crash of the 1980s and how consumers got tired of video games they'd buy, take home, and then discover it was just "slop". 054
Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026Idea in a video game: USB drives are like video game keys - use them once and then they disappear. Because realistically, I can't ever find one when I need one and end up having to buy a new one each time. 000
Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026How come whenever I have the urge to install Linux on something I can't ever find a USB drive? 000
Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026Does anyone else ever look in a program's folder and just think to themselves, "that is too many files." ? 200
Reposted by Moos-a-dee 🫎David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026a list of games, developers and studios to boycott. handy! store.steampowered.com/curator/4628… 61830
Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026I do not understand why people bother backing into parking spots. I find it kinda of rude, actually. We all need to get to class and I got stuck behind two backer-uppers. I'm normally much earlier but my carpoolee is a 18 year old girl and is not our the door at the time I said so, otherwise […]mastodon.gamedev.placeOriginal post on mastodon.gamedev.place 100
Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026Something I'm noticing this semester since I've moved my class content to a Google Doc (from the original orgmode -> HTML or orgmode -> PDF format I was doing) is that I've had several students now say they can't "find the textbook", thinking that this […] [Original post on mastodon.gamedev.place] 100
Moos-a-dee 🫎 @moosader.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026"No Data Center" lawn sign in Eudora, KS. 010