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nickbell 🆗️ @nick.aetheric-games.com · 28/09/2026

listen, Nigella, we all know this is my recipe and you stole it

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nickbell 🆗️ @nick.aetheric-games.com · 28/09/2026

I wish someone would give me a meme to grow on.

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nickbell 🆗️ @nick.aetheric-games.com · 27/09/2026

that's not a chibi anime andy burnham it's an AI-slop chibi anime andy burnham cosplaying jon snow

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nickbell 🆗️ @nick.aetheric-games.com · 26/09/2026

a couple of years ago, at the end of a long and strung-out day, in a dark and overwhelming room, I encountered the face from The Exorcist (the demon, not the girl) printed garishly over the full height of a guy's hoodie back, which laster inspired the most vivid nightmare I've had since I was like 6

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D.W.A.P. (Ben) @andwap.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

When your gamedev friend shows you progress on their new engine.

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nickbell 🆗️ @nick.aetheric-games.com · 25/09/2026

(the game does look cool though. wishlisted!)

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nickbell 🆗️ @nick.aetheric-games.com · 25/09/2026

That is possibly the most authentic feeling bit of set-dressing I've ever seen in a video game. Astounding that anyone would call it out as a negative.

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nickbell 🆗️ @nick.aetheric-games.com · 24/09/2026

naa, that's the icon that tells you when to just saw through the power cable with a bread knife

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nickbell 🆗️ @nick.aetheric-games.com · 23/09/2026

You can buy code assets on the asset store. The thing that makes it an "asset" is that it's a good you can own, use or sell.

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nickbell 🆗️ @nick.aetheric-games.com · 23/09/2026

With general purpose game engines you could make a goblin enemy class for a CRPG, take that .cs file and put it a project folder for a racing game and, with some work, have him run around the track. Not necessarily easy or desirable, but possible. That makes gobbo.cs an asset.

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nickbell 🆗️ @nick.aetheric-games.com · 23/09/2026

I was just about to go off on that too. (also lit major 😅)

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nickbell 🆗️ @nick.aetheric-games.com · 22/09/2026

Everyone who ever created anything.

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nickbell 🆗️ @nick.aetheric-games.com · 21/09/2026

there's no controversy. "bigots are doing bigotry" is not controversy.

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nickbell 🆗️ @nick.aetheric-games.com · 21/09/2026

Same. It was the 32-colour, text-UI Amiga version, but when Guybrush went along the dock and into the Scumm Bar it was like I'd wandered onto the Holodeck.

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nickbell 🆗️ @nick.aetheric-games.com · 20/09/2026

actually, to tell the truth, my second thought was "wow, this archaeological site has a classy looking gift shop"

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nickbell 🆗️ @nick.aetheric-games.com · 20/09/2026

At first I was like, "oh, a 'zara' - that's obviously greek for rubble, or maybe a farmhouse" and then I saw the clothes 😅

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nickbell 🆗️ @nick.aetheric-games.com · 20/09/2026

Raw dogged til 40, then a few years medicated. Now I've had to raw dog again for a few months. I have an Appointment coming up and my other half has suggested I write down all my recent mishaps and hilarious blunders, because otherwise I will go in there and mask like a mofo, and she is 100% right.

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nickbell 🆗️ @nick.aetheric-games.com · 19/09/2026

he looks like he's imagining a really good burger

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nickbell 🆗️ @nick.aetheric-games.com · 19/09/2026

It's not that the study was faulty, it was misrepresented in the media. The study asked "Do brains stop developing after adolescence?" The answer was: "No, they keep developing." It didn't say that they stopped, but people misunderstood it. More recent studies have shown that they don't stop at all.

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nickbell 🆗️ @nick.aetheric-games.com · 19/09/2026

need to add 1000 racks of unaffordable GPUs to that

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nickbell 🆗️ @nick.aetheric-games.com · 18/09/2026

(I've encountered it in education, but tbh I think I encountered it in game design first)

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nickbell 🆗️ @nick.aetheric-games.com · 18/09/2026

this! I was gonna say "that's called cognitive load" :D

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nickbell 🆗️ @nick.aetheric-games.com · 18/09/2026

Heh, good point. I mainly just wanted a reason to grumble about the 10ths, coz I've never noticed it before. (Here it would say 3.899)

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nickbell 🆗️ @nick.aetheric-games.com · 18/09/2026

they could just rightshift into the "/10" spot. it's redundant anyway

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nickbell 🆗️ @nick.aetheric-games.com · 17/09/2026

Programming is Design; Design is Art. It's such a bizarre line they draw to say programming is different somehow.

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

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nickbell 🆗️ @nick.aetheric-games.com · 17/09/2026

I sometimes catch the exact smell of a freshly opened big-box PC game from the 1990s. I bet it's the same smell.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

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nickbell 🆗️ @nick.aetheric-games.com · 13/09/2026

I guess that's what JRRT was getting at with Saruman getting the nickname Sharkey.

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nickbell 🆗️ @nick.aetheric-games.com · 12/09/2026

24 years in development?! hope they release soon! (thank goodness for your shorter side-projects)

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nickbell 🆗️ @nick.aetheric-games.com · 11/09/2026

I'll raise you one: animatronic taxidermy

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nickbell 🆗️ @nick.aetheric-games.com · 11/09/2026

And as I'm fond of pointing out: genies do go back into bottles. They're famous for it, in fact.

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nickbell 🆗️ @nick.aetheric-games.com · 09/09/2026

the greeks totally had a solution for this

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nickbell 🆗️ @nick.aetheric-games.com · 09/09/2026

the Ocarina of Time remake looks fine. shut up about it. it doesn't look mind-blowingly beautiful. aesthetically interesting in places, but not ugly. it's fine. shut up.

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nickbell 🆗️ @nick.aetheric-games.com · 07/09/2026

In agreement and support of your post, I offer that it *is* Luddism, and that the Luddites were exceptionally cool actually and not anti-tech. We should be proud to be Luddites. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddites

A screenshot of the linked wikipedia article. It says, "The Luddites were members of a 19th-century movement of English textile workers who protested the usage of certain types of automated machinery owing to their concerns over worker pay, labour savings, child labour, working conditions, and output quality."

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nickbell 🆗️ @nick.aetheric-games.com · 06/09/2026

You want Tuvix? Because this is how you get Tuvix. Or, at least, this is how you get Uhulu and Chott.

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nickbell 🆗️ @nick.aetheric-games.com · 05/09/2026

something about the sky and the ruins feels like Melee Island 💙

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nickbell 🆗️ @nick.aetheric-games.com · 05/09/2026

I mean, I guess it's still a you-problem, but you can blame the pot.

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