Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 14/10/2026It's really hard to understate how much this is a homeschooled college dropout with no technical education who got rich because he and Zuck are dipshits who both love science fiction but failed English lit and think Snow Crash was an aspirational plan not obvious satire. 010
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I feel vindicated to have been early on the hate train for this untalented dipshit, but deeply disappointed that people in the game space like Carmack bootstrapped him into a position that he was so utterly unsuited for 000
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Having been around the Wall Street douches around the 06-10 period, you really can't understate how many of the guys who were running things were deeply stupid peter principle failsons, and I think that's a very plausible explanation for the last 2-3 grifty tech fads. 000
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I read a comment that continues to color all every AI story I read these days, which is that after the 09 crash/Dodd-Frank/etc., all the grifter Wall Street guys decamped for Silicon Valley because it had all the same grifting opportunity without the regulation. 100
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 12/10/2026People really don't appreciate how much the people in charge of this particular flavor of AI are some of the dumbest motherfuckers on the planet. Just brain poisoned moron smart guys. 000
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Like, to be in that position at all is a massive accomplishment, and to blow it is such a colossal failure. 000
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I'm so torn about the Eagles. On the one hand they're playing with a volume of injuries that no other team would be expected to overcome, and they almost won. On the other, the terrible last 8 seconds, the complete post-half offensive collapse, etc. still feel like such awful failures. 110
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The first line of the article literally says "Sen. Chuck Schumer Monday warned Democrats will block most of President Trump’s judicial and cabinet nominees" 011
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I'm not sure if I'm glad that I can still be shocked by things like "GOP steals slain military funeral funds to buy ads to fluff Trump", of appalled that they're still finding ways to shock me. 010
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I mean maybe, but I think even in his worst moments he'll have an animal recognition that someone else being president and the physical White House not being 'his' anymore is an intolerable injury for him, and I think those will be hard to hide. 010
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I could see them trying, but not being successful for the same reason I was sure Trump would run again, and am sure he will fuck up the 28 election for them: If presented with a choice of doing something dumb or letting someone else be more famous on tv than him, he will do something dumb every time 110
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 01/10/2026It's really something that a country this gun obsessed is incapable of killing someone quickly. 000
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Even if you weren't against the death penalty because you believe killing people is wrong, you have options like "we routinely find that we convict the wrong person", and "we can't execute people without clumsily torturing them first". 100
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I mean we absolutely know how to stop it from attacking any available surface (stop giving it stupidly excessive permissions), we just don't know how to stop it attacking any available surface without compromising the main bullshit salespitch (AI will autonomously do everything for you) 010
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Now I'm just imagining gameplay where you figure out where to shelve it. Is it in 591.1, or is this a 133.4 kind of situation. 011
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Increasingly I feel like the most surprising thing about Mace is that she held it together without looking obviously bugfuck insane for as long as she did. 020
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I'll also say that the first to discover that girls are horny too but in a different way than boys are horny, and that sex still sells will probably also net themselves some decent cash. Because, I'd bet money that it's not just boys that turned the Hades series into Thirst-trap the Roguelike 010
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 25/09/2026One day game development will learn that girl's money spends just as well as boy's money and it will prop up like 2-3 2k sized publishers, but today is not that day. 220
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The Venture Brothers being out of the top 20 would have made me skeptical, not making the list at all makes me think the people who wrote it don't actually like TV. 020
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 23/09/2026If you sell insurance do you want customers who make claims or customers who don't make claims? Asking for a friend 000
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Honestly, he's been the best guy on the field both games, we're just fucked because we broke our oline winning the super bowl and refuse to admit that at least two of the starters are irreparably broken turnstiles 000
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I just want to stop wasting downs throwing these brain dead bubble screens to Lemon. 101
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 16/09/2026It's so depressing that much of our economy is bound up in funding members of an insane sex cult made of people you would never ever want to fuck. 000
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I'd say I'm going to need someone to explain to me what animals are raping humans so often that they're denying us valuable FBI applicants, but I really REALLY don't want to know the answer. 010
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Seeing the people who were going after Talarico now going after McBride as a traitor for running for a caucus leadership position and I'm officially done. I'd been trying to keep an open mind, but this just seems like the same astroturfed republican wrecker stuff that showed up last election. 000
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I'll note that my hometown paper, the Philly Inquirer went a similar way a few years ago and is now a public benefit corporation owned by a non-profit. 011
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 09/09/2026The single most well established fact about LLM chat bots is that prolonged and extensive use absolutely cooks your critical reasoning abilities from spending all day with an indefatigable sycophant machine. People should keep that in mind when listening to the opinions of Anthropic/OpenAI people 010
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I increasingly feel like being at/near the blessing edge of AI research 20 years ago and then getting out of it completely has ended up being a positive. Even if I'm not completely up to date anymore, I got out before the brain poisoning started. 000
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 09/09/2026It is a reminder that humans will anthropomorphize and read intelligence into fucking anything rather than admit they don't understand it. 000
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 09/09/2026This is not to say that genAI won't cause large and persistent problems with our world (climate change, accelerating fascism, the death of the Internet), but neither Skynet nor HAL nor AM is coming for you 100
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 09/09/2026People believe the most ridiculous twaddle from brain-cooked genAI workers. We are not racing towards self improving super-intelligence and more than robotics is racing towards grey goo nanomachines. 191
Reposted by Nick EdwardsDjinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 01/09/2026This is a hanging crime 1454996
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Ok, reading more, it seems like Brutal Legend 2 is being put out there as basically an unreachable stretch goal, which, fine, whatever. But their actual game jam plan thing also seems unfortunately unfocused. 000
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 01/09/2026If you told me they were going to do this on a $10-40m budget, fine, but $100 million is bananas. That's 10x the cost of making Expedition 33. 110
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I don't even have anything against Double Fine, they make interesting games, but they do it by taking what could be a small AAA budget and turning it into a mid to low budget Indie game. 110
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 01/09/2026That ends one of two ways: a) a flop that kills the studio, or b) a life as Cloud Imperium come again where you keep raising ridiculous amounts of backer money to make each new game. 110
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I'm sorry, but this is a terrible fucking idea. You're going to blow $100 MILLION on a game with a niche theme in a niche genre that's a sequel to an 80s rated game from 20 years ago that's most well known for its stunt casting of celebrities? 211
Reposted by Nick EdwardsHannah MacLeod is looking for work @macleodholdfast.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Hi there! I'm Hannah MacLeod, a senior narrative designer/game writer coming up on 10 years in the game industry. I'm currently looking for work (remote or in CA)! I also have a cat named Booey who loves zoom calls, if that helps. www.linkedin.com/in/macleoh/ 416651
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 29/08/2026I'm not sure if I think this is Forest Gump or The Usual Suspects. 100
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 18/08/2026My last is Zenless Zone Zero, so honestly this worked out pretty well. Only a year means I don't have to deal with the long term post-apocalypse of it all, so it's mostly a year of living in an urban city, with only a very small chance of horrific scifi zombification. 000
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 17/08/2026I'm sure he'd be a decent speaker under a Dem president with policy vision and an understanding of politics outside the Capitol building, but he might be one of our worst spokespeople. 001
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 17/08/2026I continue to come back to the fact that Jeffries is, in many ways, Pelosi's heir. He is excellent at the politics of the house floor, he keeps his caucus together and whips his votes, but his politics are weak willed and he has the charisma of wall paper. 201
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 14/08/2026A conservative argument against taxing the rich is that we can't solve the budget shortfall with it. But I want to tax billionaires because in economics you tax things you want less of, closing some budget shortfall is just a bonus. 100
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 13/08/2026I have too many of these that most gamers would burn me in effigy for like: All Bethesda RPGs Every FromSoftware game Every Kojima game after MGS Dragon Age: Origins Every Zelda game 000
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Tom phrases it like this because if you accurately described his opinion as "adult citizens have no business voting in the district they live for the majority of the year" he would sound like a moron. 040
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Yeah, that was about my reaction to getting that text as well. I'm not against a big tent, but I have other, better, candidates to contribute to if she can't bring herself to pander to liberals as much as she panders to Republicans. 110
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 07/08/2026To be clear I think this is good effective local campaigning. Politics ain't beanbag after all. 000
Nick Edwards @nkedwards.bsky.social · 07/08/2026This is the second time I've seen AES so this, tarring a Republican with a state association that's dog whistle unpopular in Michigan (the other was Florida Mike for his opponent). It's the kind of dig Rs have often been so good at. 100
