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Federal Reserve Board - Proposal Details The Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington DC.

The government is asking for public comments on whether banks should be able to deny you from buying legal goods at their own whim (i.e. how they're cracking down on art)

Tell them you don't want to be told how to spend your money

www.federalreserve.gov/apps/proposa...

11.03.2026 16:23 πŸ‘ 5985 πŸ” 5944 πŸ’¬ 119 πŸ“Œ 316

kind of not ideal that the world economy is run by a cabal of pedophiles but also the two corporations that control all consumer spending think that if you jerk off you should be unbanked

11.03.2026 05:26 πŸ‘ 1767 πŸ” 591 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 3
Essential gamedev math function: atan2
Essential gamedev math function: atan2 YouTube video by FriendlyCosmonaut

How do we look at another object... a very simple and classic gamedev question. The answer is atan2! youtu.be/qFSAcCwQS0E
#godot #gamedev

07.03.2026 08:50 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You better wake the fuck up now. If we don't make their lives ABSOLUTELY FUCKING MISERABLE, we're going be the ones who get shafted. And HARD.

You best believe that everything about the Internet we know is going to die and everything we know and love with it.

I've made my calls today. You need to.

06.03.2026 04:42 πŸ‘ 2786 πŸ” 2972 πŸ’¬ 23 πŸ“Œ 14
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The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.

🧡 1/5

06.03.2026 08:53 πŸ‘ 1542 πŸ” 883 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 132

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

05.03.2026 05:17 πŸ‘ 17441 πŸ” 5768 πŸ’¬ 129 πŸ“Œ 101
Steam community requesting additional body types for added immersion.

Steam community requesting additional body types for added immersion.

A large block of sentient tofu

A large block of sentient tofu

Steam community: β€œCan we play as a male character?”

Me (indie dev in this economy):
β€œBest I can do is sentient tofu.”

03.03.2026 14:18 πŸ‘ 6641 πŸ” 1885 πŸ’¬ 114 πŸ“Œ 105

Nice opinion on trans people, did a billionaire pedophile give it to you?

01.02.2026 22:21 πŸ‘ 4775 πŸ” 1506 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 14

having written about how banning web scrapers from a code forge i host made it usable again and saved ~60€/y in power bill, let me tell you:

you cannot fathom the offloaded cost of GenAI on small web hosts. it is a veritable distributed denial of service to the entire web. Every web admin sees it.

27.02.2026 18:10 πŸ‘ 1112 πŸ” 714 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 11

It’s funny if you call PayPal or visa lines and bring this up asking why they claim β€œadult illustrations” is against their regulations but betting on the death of kids is totally fine. They don’t have an answer.

In fact yall should call them at least once a day with this :)

01.03.2026 22:52 πŸ‘ 9364 πŸ” 5455 πŸ’¬ 18 πŸ“Œ 3

The UK government is looking to make legal for AI companies that which any ordinary citizen could be taken to court for. It is on the cusp of approving theft *only* in this case, a truly unequivocal β€œrules for thee, not for me” scenario.

That AI needs such special treatment indicts it utterly.

02.03.2026 16:36 πŸ‘ 1218 πŸ” 569 πŸ’¬ 21 πŸ“Œ 7
02.03.2026 16:55 πŸ‘ 4711 πŸ” 1592 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 5

Oh and just remember - once you’ve decided a minority’s human rights are up for debate, you’ve decided HUMAN RIGHTS ARE UP FOR DEBATE.

To everybody who framed all of this as β€œThe Trans Debate,” well done! You’ve opened the door to The Anybody Debate.

01.03.2026 23:44 πŸ‘ 1649 πŸ” 544 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 3

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

28.02.2026 12:42 πŸ‘ 16439 πŸ” 5095 πŸ’¬ 128 πŸ“Œ 103

anyone choosing this moment to be all "here's what you get with republicans: bombs in the middle east" needs to grow up rapidly, considering what the last dem admin did in gaza & their current support for trump's actions right now. this is what you get with (wholly bipartisan) american imperialism

28.02.2026 18:53 πŸ‘ 3542 πŸ” 857 πŸ’¬ 49 πŸ“Œ 9
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Israel responsible for two-thirds of record 129 press killings in 2025, says CPJ Committee to Protect Journalists report says Israel also to blame for 81% of β€˜intentionally targeted’ journalist killings

"[2025] was the second consecutive year in which killings of members of the press reached unprecedented levels, and the second year running in which Israel was responsible for roughly two-thirds of the total."

www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

27.02.2026 00:54 πŸ‘ 169 πŸ” 58 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
a wonky looking skitty plush frolics in front of a trans flag

a wonky looking skitty plush frolics in front of a trans flag

hang in there 🩡🩷🀍🩷🩡

27.02.2026 02:10 πŸ‘ 788 πŸ” 216 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
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Friendly Cosmonaut | Patreon Games and tutorials

I also have a Patreon if you want to support me making more videos like this! There's early access to videos, code repositories, voting on videos, code help, etc.
www.patreon.com/c/FriendlyCo...

27.02.2026 04:26 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is a Nazi move. Stripping people of rights, invalidating their IDs, setting them up for criminalization and imprisonment.

If you don't support trans rights, you support fascism.

26.02.2026 05:18 πŸ‘ 8284 πŸ” 4022 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 44

if steam is asking developers to put in an AI-generated content disclosure, i should be able to filter those "games" out of searches because trudging through next fest demos is miserable now

23.02.2026 19:24 πŸ‘ 2522 πŸ” 726 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 0
What are materials in gamedev?
What are materials in gamedev? YouTube video by FriendlyCosmonaut

A very beginner-focused #gamedev tutorial, with a little bit of #godot as usual - What are materials? youtu.be/l14ryz3OdN8

21.02.2026 10:20 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
β€œMake bad game? Fired. Make good game? Fired. Make incredibly successful game? Believe it or not, also fired.” Original source of meme is from Parks and Recreation.

β€œMake bad game? Fired. Make good game? Fired. Make incredibly successful game? Believe it or not, also fired.” Original source of meme is from Parks and Recreation.

the video game industry is a mess

20.02.2026 01:02 πŸ‘ 10563 πŸ” 2599 πŸ’¬ 54 πŸ“Œ 53

Reminder: under no circumstance should you give discord your ID.

It is gonna -suck- trying to set up alternatives, and this whole fiasco is going to damage communities, but you CANNOT give them your info

18.02.2026 22:18 πŸ‘ 4122 πŸ” 3213 πŸ’¬ 31 πŸ“Œ 12

People who hold the purse strings in games - here's an easy way to make me buy your games:

17.02.2026 09:32 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Godot's GitHub has increasingly many pull requests generated by LLMs and it's a MASSIVE time waster for reviewers – especially if people don't disclose it. Changes often make no sense, descriptions are extremely verbose, users don't understand their own changes… It's a total shitshow. #godotengine

16.02.2026 09:03 πŸ‘ 1393 πŸ” 312 πŸ’¬ 31 πŸ“Œ 36
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Do not give your ID to Discord Current age-verification processes are dangerous to anonymity, free speech, and access to information. Period.

You probably shouldn't trust Discord with your anonymity.

www.rogue.site/news/do-not-...

16.02.2026 17:51 πŸ‘ 263 πŸ” 134 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2
What assets can I actually use? | Importing Assets to Godot 3D
What assets can I actually use? | Importing Assets to Godot 3D YouTube video by FriendlyCosmonaut

What assets can we use in gamedev? This video covers common licenses (creative commons, MIT, public domain - permissive, restrictive, and open source) and file types of assets (FBX, glTF, OBJ, blend), and their impacts on our creative projects.
youtu.be/gPxZzoAM0Vk
#godot

16.02.2026 00:53 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Morgott, the Grace-Given | Boss Designs of Elden Ring #18
Morgott, the Grace-Given | Boss Designs of Elden Ring #18 YouTube video by T B Skyen

NEW VIDEO: Morgott, the Grace-Given | Boss Designs of Elden Ring #18

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWj7...

14.02.2026 19:26 πŸ‘ 221 πŸ” 94 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 4

if you asked me to diagnose the western game industry's current problem it would start with "landlords have absorbed basically all disposable income"

15.02.2026 08:03 πŸ‘ 5633 πŸ” 1619 πŸ’¬ 44 πŸ“Œ 57

In this story, there is a lot of support for trans people that you rarely see covered in the media unless they're being attacked. Businesses and individuals all standing up and saying 'I will not be a part of this' and I think that needs to be highlighted because it can feel lonely out there.

14.02.2026 18:25 πŸ‘ 1031 πŸ” 379 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0