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Xavier Torres

@xenarcade

Professional gamedev cat-herder. Formerly at Disney, Treyarch. Usually I'm the producer, or the PM, or the ops guy. I make sure games get made and my devs get paid.

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This right here - no one thinking beyond the sprint for the deliverable, no one giving a shit about maintaining it, and then the layers of technical debt build up over a shitty foundation

04.03.2026 23:18 πŸ‘ 57 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

Oh god, you're right.

Some Chris Kyle wannabe is gonna try and 360-noscope a high-value target

Fireteams will b-hop everywhere

Some dipshit in charge of ordnance will actually try to rocket jump

Just, a nation's entire military trying to do trickshots.

MLG-ass military

04.03.2026 23:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

this is going to end up with an aircraft carrier stuck in the suez, isn't it

03.03.2026 20:20 πŸ‘ 356 πŸ” 35 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 20

β€œmake league of legends illegal” is SO funny as policy though

04.03.2026 01:06 πŸ‘ 124 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 1
Heartwarming: The Worst People You Know Are All Fighting

Heartwarming: The Worst People You Know Are All Fighting

DoD/Anthropic spat in a nutshell

28.02.2026 04:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s like why all your favorite records were made for $35 in 5 hours and the ones that take two years and $750,000 to make fucking suck

28.02.2026 03:17 πŸ‘ 235 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 2

Yep, they've been lighting money on fire for years powering something that seems to only get more expensive as they scale up. The exact opposite of economy of scale.

In short: LOL. LMAO, even

27.02.2026 18:51 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Callers expected actual Spanish and got Jose the JalapeΓ±o on a Stick instead

27.02.2026 18:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh they're DEAD dead. Carve the tombstone and dig the grave now.

App developers would KILL for 5% paying users. That's about as good as it gets!

If they're not turning a profit now, they're NEVER going to.

27.02.2026 18:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Grim Reaper with the 1920s Warner Bros logo (looking suspiciously like Michigan J Frog) knocks on the door of Oracle, while doors labeled with the previous Warner acquisitions have bloody trails leading from them

Grim Reaper with the 1920s Warner Bros logo (looking suspiciously like Michigan J Frog) knocks on the door of Oracle, while doors labeled with the previous Warner acquisitions have bloody trails leading from them

26.02.2026 23:45 πŸ‘ 1082 πŸ” 304 πŸ’¬ 17 πŸ“Œ 37
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Stiff Little Fingers' 1979 debut album, Inflammable Material, was the first independent album to ever reach the UK Top 20 and is regarded as one of the most influential punk releases of all time.

Coming to the 33 1/3 series Feb 5th 2026. πŸ”₯Pre-order: https://bit.ly/4abmJ6r

25.02.2026 21:11 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Everybody thinks they're making Skynet, but their shit doesn't even measure up to WOPR

25.02.2026 19:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The actual reason is because these things were trained on stolen writing, and there's so much writing involving nuclear armageddon fiction.

25.02.2026 19:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This makes sense when you realize that every LLM involved has to have tic-tac-toe explained to it

25.02.2026 19:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

for some reason the left (goldman sachs) refuses to take AI seriously

24.02.2026 04:40 πŸ‘ 5253 πŸ” 921 πŸ’¬ 50 πŸ“Œ 13

KEEP CANCELLING NITRO

Until Discord says the words "We will stop the rollout for global age verification" KEEP CANCELLING NITRO

24.02.2026 16:24 πŸ‘ 572 πŸ” 323 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 3

Normally not a fan of cute names for bills but there are exceptions to every rule

20.02.2026 17:35 πŸ‘ 1657 πŸ” 367 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 5

Every billionaire in the Epstein files could drop dead tomorrow and the world would not only be fine, it would actually improve. The quality of our media would improve. Our environment. Our food. Our health care. Our technology.

20.02.2026 17:11 πŸ‘ 6372 πŸ” 2559 πŸ’¬ 46 πŸ“Œ 28
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Princess Awesome & Stonemaier Games v. Customs Jamey, Rebecca, Eva, Quent, Linda, Pete, and several others are suing the government in federal court for a refund on the tariffs they’ve paid and to restore their right to run their businesses free o...

Found it! There's no way this was the only lawsuit of its kind either, and with today's ruling it won't be the last.

20.02.2026 20:33 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I distinctly remember there was a class-action lawsuit or something to stop the tariffs that was filed last year. Did this happen, or am I misremembering?

20.02.2026 20:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Just walk out skeleton meme

If it sucks… hit da bricks

real winners quit

Just walk out skeleton meme If it sucks… hit da bricks real winners quit

important reminder for any remaining government lawyers staring down this nightmare case load:

real winners quit

20.02.2026 17:22 πŸ‘ 651 πŸ” 94 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 5

So.

A globally disruptive, economically unsound, and whim-driven tariff policy turns out to be unconstitutional.

Huh.

20.02.2026 15:08 πŸ‘ 2069 πŸ” 315 πŸ’¬ 80 πŸ“Œ 18
Prince Philip in a car, allegedly alive

Prince Philip in a car, allegedly alive

I rest my case

20.02.2026 00:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

All of these guys look like Bernie Lomax if he did cocaine and then nutted into a 14-year-old right before he died

20.02.2026 00:51 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Bugs Bunny about to give Elmer Fudd a very unflattering haircut in the Looney Tunes short "The Rabbit of Seville"

Bugs Bunny about to give Elmer Fudd a very unflattering haircut in the Looney Tunes short "The Rabbit of Seville"

Don't get me wrong, I know the real reason is because that's the Italian opera that Americans are most familiar with, for obvious reasons...

20.02.2026 00:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I find it funny that the US commercials for the Winter Olympics only use music from The Barber of Seville.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but that wasn't written in Milan, nor by a Milan native, nor for a Milan audience, nor did it even premiere in Milan?

20.02.2026 00:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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This local Wolfdog joined an Olympic ski event and triggered the finish-line camera. This is Nazgul. He snuck into a cross-country skiing sprint this morning and raced the homestretch with some competitors before being escorted home. 14/10 someone get him a medal

18.02.2026 17:48 πŸ‘ 23721 πŸ” 5066 πŸ’¬ 486 πŸ“Œ 642
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25 years ago today, ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US began its worldwide invasion on @newgrounds.com.

16.02.2026 14:20 πŸ‘ 2619 πŸ” 1418 πŸ’¬ 53 πŸ“Œ 260

The DOJ is out here arguing, "We can't investigate the Epstein files, this might open Pandora's box and bring down entire governments, whole economic systems!"

And I'm over here like, I can not stress hard enough how I have never in my life wanted it all to burn to the fucking ground more.

18.02.2026 02:07 πŸ‘ 220 πŸ” 63 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 6
FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST eyecatch/character card showing Dale Gribble from KING OF THE HILL

FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST eyecatch/character card showing Dale Gribble from KING OF THE HILL

FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST eyecatch/character card showing Dale Gribble from KING OF THE HILL’s alter ego, Rusty Shackleford

FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST eyecatch/character card showing Dale Gribble from KING OF THE HILL’s alter ego, Rusty Shackleford

[loud announcer voice] fullmetal alchemist!

[pause]

[quieter announcer voice] fullmetal alchemist.

18.02.2026 00:30 πŸ‘ 148 πŸ” 63 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0