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Spencer Melnick @spoincer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Thanks Sam! I would also like to wish Butters (and you) the best 😁

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Spencer Melnick @spoincer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The vibes out here are pretty rancid, please send better ones

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026

Here's Amazon's two new planned fossil-fuelled AI data centres next to the ENTIRE POWER GRIDS OF SEVERAL LARGE COUNTRIES Together, the two gas-burning data centres will emit more than Spain's entire grid, if built

Bar chart comparing 2025 national grid CO2e emissions (grey bars) with two Amazon fossil‑fuelled AI data centres (red bars), showing the Amazon sites at about 33 and 17.5 megatonnes CO2e—higher than many countries' entire power grids.

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Spencer Melnick @spoincer.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

My aquarium is doing well! Just added some fish 🐠

An aquarium with lots of plants, logs, and stones. There are some red and white shrimp, and long black loaches visible.

A long black fish is resting on a patch of sand.

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Spencer Melnick @spoincer.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Had a friend help me set up an aquarium for the first time. Really happy with how it turned out so far! Just got some little shrimps in too 🙂

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Spencer Melnick @spoincer.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I'm a big fan of the layered approach. - System A that can spawn a guy - System B that can spawn a lot of guys using system A based on some behavior Want to just spawn a guy? Use system A. Want more complex behavior? Use system B. Make a system C for all you want. But never hide System A

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Spencer Melnick @spoincer.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

This is where I'm at right now 😕

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Spencer Melnick @spoincer.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

@dphrygian.com knows some things! (I also know some things but not as much)

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Spencer Melnick @spoincer.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

(I'd make the Simpsons meme but I'm too lazy) Should men stop thinking important jobs like healthcare and education are "girly"? No, it's the jobs that are the problem

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Spencer Melnick @spoincer.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Fwiw the actual amount in the article is pretty substantial 348,000 / 369,000 (~94%) jobs Which is not to say that the framing - "make girly jobs appeal to manly men" - isn't ridiculous (it absolutely is)

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Spencer Melnick @spoincer.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Life, Love, and Levity? Kinda similar categories

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Spencer Melnick @spoincer.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Basically every time I get new game industry news

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Spencer Melnick @spoincer.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

It's increasingly depressing how many people are okay with gen AI replacing _other_ people's jobs

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Spencer Melnick @spoincer.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Every once in a while I think about @freya.bsky.social's magic 480 Hz at 60 Hz video: xcancel.com/FreyaHolmer/... I'd love to try an experiment to render and combine subframes in realtime to simulate a higher refresh rate in an actual game and see how it looks one day

xcancel.com

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Spencer Melnick @spoincer.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Good article, but grass wearing away didn't exist in Wild World - it wasn't added until City Folk! nookipedia.com/wiki/Animal_... I remember arguing with my siblings, trying to make sure no one ran in City Folk (and being annoyed with the new feature)

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Animal tracks

Animal tracks are an environmental feature occurring in both Animal Crossing: City Folk and Animal Crossing: New Leaf where the grass in the player's town slowly...

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Spencer Melnick @spoincer.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

I choose to believe that he's slowly feeding it 12 inch subs like logs into a wood chipper I have no idea why you would do any version of this though

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Spencer Melnick @spoincer.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

To me there are a lot of things, how the training data was obtained, how much energy it takes, the intentionality of the algorithm (is it actually doing something you control or is it a magic black box) , etc. But at the end of the day I don't have a concrete metric and it's really a personal call

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Spencer Melnick @spoincer.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Oh, how is SDL_GPU? I started looking at it instead of trying to do Vulkan for a hobby project

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Spencer Melnick @spoincer.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

I saw you already had a solution, but if it helps you can use the child actor component to automate the spawning of another sub-actor. Iirc one benefit is that you can move the sub-actor in the viewport as well

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Spencer Melnick @spoincer.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Daisy was with me for almost 17 years, but she passed away earlier tonight. I'm really gonna miss you buddy 😢

A small light colored dog rests curled up on a green blanket with ladybugs and daisies. She's looking at the camera

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Spencer Melnick @spoincer.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Sorry - I'm not trying to pick a fight I just thought you misunderstood something

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Spencer Melnick @spoincer.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

I mean this in the politest way possible, but I think you've misread what @matthijs-den-daas.bsky.social said. They're saying that just because some disabled people beat a game that does not mean all disabled people can beat a game. They didn't say anything about gen AI

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Spencer Melnick @spoincer.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

If you're comfortable with C++, adding a custom picker to a property is pretty straightforward. @unreal-garden.com has a nice explainer here: unreal-garden.com/docs/uproper...

unreal-garden.com

All UPROPERTY Specifiers

Sample code, screenshots and comments for all specifiers, including undocumented ones.

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Bobito 🇵🇷 @bobito64.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Our #GMTK2025 submission "Circe" is a gallery shooter about banishing demons by drawing circles with your wand! Jump, dodge, and banish demons for free: sleepysunset.itch.io/circe #gamedev #GMTK2025 #GMTKJam #GMTKGameJam2025

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Spencer Melnick @spoincer.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Not even remotely correct. FF16 is not a competitive game, the whole goal is to destroy the crystals not steal them back, the main character is not the "True King"

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Jan Ochoa @janochoa.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Anytime I’m in a new social situation

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Spencer Melnick @spoincer.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

I like it, but I'm pretty biased since I worked on it 😆

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Spencer Melnick @spoincer.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Oh, yeah! If it's part of the premise or basic knowledge about the game (like DK getting costumes is a major feature!) then I don't consider it a spoiler, even it's a departure from the series.

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Spencer Melnick @spoincer.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Though maybe someone would be surprised that the final boss is DK's dad or something and that'd be a spoiler to them, I dunno lol

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Spencer Melnick @spoincer.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

But that's *generally* speaking. I don't think DK: Bananza will have any significant plot other than DK wants his bananas and Pauline wants to leave 🙂

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Spencer Melnick @spoincer.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

If Nintendo has a twist ending where Donkey Kong dies at the end of Bananza, and you told me before I played I'd consider that a spoiler

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Spencer Melnick @spoincer.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

I think every new game is its own thing and you can play like it's your first ever experience with the series - that doesn't preclude you from having the story spoiled

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Spencer Melnick @spoincer.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Like I'd consider it a spoiler if you told me at the end of DQ: 25 that the villain was actually your dad because if it's a meaningful twist within that entry's story, even if the story beats are the same as the other 24 entries in the series ...unless the villain in *every* game was your dad

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Spencer Melnick @spoincer.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

I think you can have spoilers within an individual story regardless of the series lore, though I guess it'd have to be a somewhat engaging story and I personally am not expecting any deep story within DK: Bananza

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Spencer Melnick @spoincer.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

"Hey boss, I fixed that issue where a random fault _might_ cause a crash?" "Oh good, so the car won't crash now?" "You're not gonna believe this, but..."

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Spencer Melnick @spoincer.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

I'm jealous! When did you place your order? I placed my order on May 10th and it's still stuck on "Preparing to ship"

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Spencer Melnick @spoincer.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

How's the taste? I'm trying to diet more and having a food that instantly fills you up sounds great

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Spencer Melnick @spoincer.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

If you like shoegaze at all, maybe My Love is Cool by Wolf Alice?

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Spencer Melnick @spoincer.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I hope it's not the price for all of the games!

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Spencer Melnick @spoincer.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

If they're going to be evil, better that they're incompetent I guess?

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Spencer Melnick @spoincer.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Unfortunately most of the genres you listed I don't play too much (and my backlog is so large that the only one I've play on this list is Stasis 🙃) but hopefully there's something there that looks interesting to you!

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Spencer Melnick @spoincer.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

In terms of lo-fi/retro cRPG's there's Space Wreck. I don't know much about it, but the few reviews I've seen look positive

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Spencer Melnick @spoincer.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

I've bought and haven't played either yet, but I've heard good things about Caves of Qud or Streets of Rogue. If you like indie point-and-click adventures, there's Stasis: Bone Totem. Caveat: it's in isometric 3D so I don't know how well it will run on older hardware

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