Etienne de Martel @piment.gay · 06/10/2026Isn't there a significant overlap in function between numbers 2 and 3? 020
Etienne de Martel @piment.gay · 05/10/2026The year is 20XX, all software UI is bento boxes and tiles. All rounded corners and drop shadows, not a single sharp edge in sight. Contrast is dead, all text uses the same font. 80% of a website's content is a single incredibly long front page that tries to upsell you a premium plan. 000
Etienne de Martel @piment.gay · 05/10/2026When I first learned that the midwest had access to cheese curds my reaction was "huh, so they can actually make poutine". 020
Reposted by Etienne de Martelpixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy 167123902643
Etienne de Martel @piment.gay · 02/10/2026League succeeded by being the friendlier, more casual alternative to Dota, which set them apart from the competition. So, naturally, with 2XKO they set out to make a game aimed at hardcore enthusiasts of the genre, ensuring that they only find a tiny audience. 1320
Etienne de Martel @piment.gay · 30/09/2026I think Miéville struggled with the constraints of the source material. I've read nearly all of his works and Elsewhere was by far my least favourite. 100
Reposted by Etienne de MartelJulia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026yes my bull went rogue in your china shop but I think we can all agree there’s no liability here it’s an agentic being 202715412
Reposted by Etienne de MartelJW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se... 3234071270
Reposted by Etienne de MartelJoe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 20/09/2026no game dev skill is more important than making up your fuckin mind 393089658
Etienne de Martel @piment.gay · 20/09/2026Those liberals are gonna put those fascists out of a job by doing their work faster and more efficiently! 082
Reposted by Etienne de MartelJared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026This fantasy that “AI is out of control” provides cover for powerful people and corporations to simply program systems to carry out actions and then shrug. And if that is brought into the larger scheme of operations, the powerful will shrug and blame the tool they control. 221151
Etienne de Martel @piment.gay · 09/09/2026The last metroids get destroyed in Fusion, so in order to avoid renaming the series they made her a metroid. 010
Etienne de Martel @piment.gay · 09/09/2026Nintendo saw the Metroid Bread memes and decided to embrace the food theme. 000
Reposted by Etienne de Marteltef @tef.bsky.social · 06/09/2026yes, i am a bit "my 'velocity makes the structural problems worse' tshirt has been raising questions already answered by my tshirt" still, i am capable of having a nuanced conversation about modern programming tools, albeit only with people who don't call me ignorant or threaten me with the rapture 1575
Reposted by Etienne de Martelinnes mck @innes.bsky.social · 19/08/2026again i am just not that interested in debating whether human rights should theoretically extend to robots and ai when we currently don't even extend them to all humans 3356161769
Reposted by Etienne de Martelmattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 01/09/2026hey homie how’s it going. me and the guys were just debating whether or not you had a theory of mind 1264992
Etienne de Martel @piment.gay · 31/08/2026It's convenient that the only solution to a problem that he perpetuates (I'm sure those xAI gas turbines aren't helping) involves giving him even more money. 020
Reposted by Etienne de MartelJacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 25/08/2026back before AI, video game developers had to make every digital woman look the same through hard work and artistry 2967001539
Reposted by Etienne de MartelDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/08/2026I hope everyone caught this Lancet study confirming that Elon Musk & DOGE are responsible for genocidal levels of suffering & death.thelancet.comEvaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysisUSAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a... 5435191809
Reposted by Etienne de Martelkat cosgrove @kat.lol · 21/08/2026Before you say positive things about DHH because of Omarchy, a reminder that it's been like 3 weeks since he published a blog that compares Roma people to the wolves Denmark eradicated in the 1800s. He's an open, virulent racist and always has been. Everything he touches should be radioactive. 19487119
Reposted by Etienne de MartelMelissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 19/08/2026In Montréal, what started as an emergency pandemic response has evolved into the continent’s most ambitious car-free scheme. Across 9.3 kilometres of 11 commercial arteries in seven boroughs, entire corridors have been handed back to pedestrians, helping some 2,100 businesses thrive in the process.🧵 7371120
Reposted by Etienne de MartelBryant Francis @bryantfrancis.me · 06/08/2026Holy shit this blog is amazing.productionalchemist.comI Have Never Seen a Game Fail Because the Artists Were Too SlowAI is optimising the cheapest part of production 327585
Reposted by Etienne de Martelwarrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Every dollar spent on social services is, in some sense, a theft from the weapons industry 232801408
Etienne de Martel @piment.gay · 29/07/2026I've come to accept that I buy games not to play them but to support the developers. 020
Etienne de Martel @piment.gay · 26/07/2026I think it's just the capitalist mindset of endless growth that makes us think that stagnation means death. 010
Etienne de Martel @piment.gay · 25/07/2026Or they are fully aware, and they think that by getting rid of physical media, all those people lending and gifting are going to have to buy the games instead, leading to increased sales. 000
Reposted by Etienne de MartelShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 12/07/2026counterpoint: the dead should make it harder for me to speak ill of them 61107142297
Etienne de Martel @piment.gay · 08/07/2026Nobody knows how the algorithms work, they're all proprietary. This is just superstition, people trying different incantations in the hopes of keeping the evil spirits at bay. 100
Reposted by Etienne de MartelJohn Romero @johnromero.bsky.social · 07/07/2026I’m so sorry for everyone at id Software affected by these layoffs. I know what it feels like to leave id while id goes on. It’s a strange and painful thing to step away from a place that holds so much of your work, friendships and history. 1/5 234159983
Reposted by Etienne de MartelFrank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social · 01/07/2026As the director of a historical video game preservation institution, and someone who has dedicated his entire adult life to this cause, this is accurate. We have attempted to work with the industry's trade organization to find a legal path forward, but they refuse to offer a meaningful alternative. 53100453968
Reposted by Etienne de MartelGame Developer @gamedeveloper.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Opinion: Everything hurts and no one knows when the pain will endgamedeveloper.comOpinion: Everything hurts and no one knows when the pain will endAs mass layoffs continue in the game industry, developers must reckon with how to handle the uncertainty and pain of the moment. 10449138
Reposted by Etienne de MartelRami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 25/06/2026Our games industry is people. Our studios are people. Our teams people, our games by people for people. Our games are made by people, in groups of people, in teams of people, making people things for people. The magic is people, and the people deserve so much better than all this. I am so sorry. 1544101246
Reposted by Etienne de Marteltaylor robin @taylor-robin.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Wacom recently asked me to talk about why I make queer comics, and given there are multiple bills right now floating around in congress that are effectively "we will kill your livelihood if we get a sniff of queer" I had some pretty strong, simply feelings to relay. 58134985781
Reposted by Etienne de MartelJason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 15/06/2026New: Researchers have quantified how easy AI search is to manipulate. Just 13 words buried in a random Reddit comment can poison AI search results. They suggest this is not easy to stop: "The way you can attack these systems is so much dumber than you think it is" www.404media.co/it-is-trivia...404media.coIt Is Trivially Easy to Use Reddit to Manipulate AI Search, Research Suggests"We show that a tiny snippet—just 13 words—of retrieved text on a UGC website like Reddit, Wikipedia, Quora, or Facebook can change AI agents to output spam / scam content pretty consistently." 5029761170
Reposted by Etienne de MartelThe Kotzer From The Zack Lagoon @zaaack.bsky.social · 12/06/2026we at xbox are coming to terms with the AI-fueled hardware crunch, which we helped create, failing to meet profit margins, that we made up, declining software sales, because we're self-cannibalizing our games specifically, and also everyone hates us which, believe it or not, also our fault 31590480
Reposted by Etienne de MartelShayna MoooOOOooon (she/they) @themoonis.gay · 15/06/2026The value proposition of working at an AAA studio was that you were trading independence and agency for stability, and that if the game did well, you would keep your job, and if the game did badly, you might lose it. Obviously it wasn’t that cut and dry, but you get it. Now? You just lose your job. 71161269
Reposted by Etienne de MartelJoe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 08/06/2026OH MY GOD I GET TO TALK ABOUT MY THESIS I specifically studied the instance of election fraud within a 1/2 point margin of victory. I'm calling them whisker thin elections. Fraudulent elections are proportionately less likely to be whisker-thin than other close margins of victory. 1/ 419381
Etienne de Martel @piment.gay · 08/06/2026I think we tend to assume that whatever shipped a game was good enough, and so we never stop to consider that maybe we were just lucky that time, and we would have done things differently. 000
Reposted by Etienne de Martelʟᴜɪs ʜᴇʀɴᴀɴᴅᴇᴢ ⚡ @beetlenaut.bsky.social · 07/06/2026my one big takeaway from this years pile of Showcases is that Unreal Engine 5 has co-opted or sort of, I dare say, polluted the visual language of games, where nothing stands out theres a kind of mediocrity that comes with being "photorealistic I guess". PBR substance everywhere, but not distinct 3854378
Etienne de Martel @piment.gay · 02/06/2026That's clearly an attempt at testing the waters with a new art direction and tech they can reuse for future games. Basically, they don't take on too much risk all at once. If that's a success they can then try different ideas with the same style. 000
Reposted by Etienne de Martelda share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 26/05/2026DATA CENTERS - dashare.zone ADMIN 027741089
Etienne de Martel @piment.gay · 25/05/2026And if that second referendum goes, it'll have to go through the Clarity Act, meaning Smith can blame the federal government if needed. 100
Etienne de Martel @piment.gay · 17/05/2026I'm sure this has nothing to do with the fact that VFX is the one part of cinema and TV that isn't heavily unionised. 020
Reposted by Etienne de MartelUnited Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 15/05/2026📣 GAMEDEVS 📣 Did you know the @gameworkerscon.bsky.social is officially ONE WEEK FROM TODAY? ...And that it's FREE and ENTIRELY REMOTE? 👇👇👇 gameworkersconference.orggameworkersconference.orgGame Workers ConferenceThe Game Workers Conference is an entirely new game industry event made by and for the countless workers who make this massively influential industry and artistic medium succeed. The first iteratio... 27448
Etienne de Martel @piment.gay · 12/05/2026We should rightfully scorn DHH for being a fascist but I think he doesn't get enough flack for the irreparable damage he's done to our industry by making Ruby appear production-ready. 000