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I make popular video games. King of the coding dinosaurs. Engineer, computer scientist, game designer, director of engineers. Wrong at the top of my voice.

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It is the worst

13.03.2026 00:42 πŸ‘ 391 πŸ” 66 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 8

For Sale: Trump Shoes. Worn.

11.03.2026 15:11 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

[Exit Murderer.]

05.03.2026 18:25 πŸ‘ 5473 πŸ” 1274 πŸ’¬ 46 πŸ“Œ 45
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Going through old photos and this surfaced. A useful reminder that the games industry β€˜good old days’ were a mixed bag, same as it ever was.

17.02.2026 11:43 πŸ‘ 32 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1
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Half-Life 3 Nears The Finish Line, As Developers Are Reportedly Moving To Other Projects "HLX development has reached a point where it no longer requires all hands on deck."

Ah yes that classic moment in game development as you near shipping that you have less people on the project and just a mere skeleton crew getting it over the finish line while others cheer from the sideline.

Yep, that’s exactly how it works! Crack reporting!

www.thegamer.com/half-life-3-...

02.02.2026 18:22 πŸ‘ 179 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 1

Just watched @stepickford.bsky.social 's interview at Crash last year, and reminded just how brutal, and frankly shit, the games business was during the 90's and 00's.

Predatory publishers forcing devs to go bust so they don't need to pay their final milestones. I had the same with THQ.

31.01.2026 18:11 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
Dog with comic book. In obligatory proof of delivery post.

Dog with comic book. In obligatory proof of delivery post.

@tomtomorrow.bsky.social my dog has received a copy of your excellent book.

27.01.2026 03:10 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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a stuffed animal with a long tongue and big eyes ALT: a stuffed animal with a long tongue and big eyes
18.01.2026 17:25 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Dear John, you spoiled little privileged bitch, people left because they have a set of ethics and believe in human rights, not platforming hate and making claims like there are only two races, whites and everyone else… plus posting work on twitter gives it to Xai to do with as it pleases

Fuck you

08.01.2026 18:42 πŸ‘ 148 πŸ” 31 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 0

ah, time to take a big sip of coffee and check the morning news, as is my daily tradition

03.01.2026 13:56 πŸ‘ 370 πŸ” 26 πŸ’¬ 28 πŸ“Œ 0
25.12.2025 02:12 πŸ‘ 3528 πŸ” 635 πŸ’¬ 35 πŸ“Œ 6

Failed to persuade my mother-in-law that Hellraiser is a Christmas movie. They watched the horror movie Love Actually instead.

24.12.2025 18:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Kung Fu Panda was on the 360 Christmas hardware bundle! I still have that box.

17.12.2025 13:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Pundit floor exercises to reduce accidental voter leakage.

03.12.2025 03:05 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh no, is that an AI recruiter?

27.11.2025 14:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

And the experience is better for it. I hadn’t realized how much of their feature adds detracted from usability.

21.11.2025 00:14 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

There are two wolves beside me. One is hassling for a bit of my sandwich, the other has let out the rankest of farts.

08.11.2025 20:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Your cartoons capture the historical moment better than anything else. The efficiency with which you do this is always amazing.

05.11.2025 20:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My wife had a Scott Bessent interview on CNN up on the TV. I sure hope @colbertlateshow.bsky.social introduces a ventriloquist dummy of him. Leaning backwards.

02.11.2025 22:28 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Or maybe we should provide a universal basic income for ALL humans, no exceptions, no means tests (just take it back from the billionaires at income tax time).

Humans shouldn't need to work to live.

We are not work machines!

02.11.2025 21:26 πŸ‘ 404 πŸ” 99 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 4

In video games many bugs are filed with a suggestion of how to fix them. Those suggestions are never really right, but indicate a problem that should be addressed. QA pros just describe what went wrong. Execs aren’t QA pros. Be kind.

22.10.2025 03:21 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œI hear that you want to hold big balls. The biggest balls of all.”

21.10.2025 03:09 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I am surprised that Amazon hasn’t made a show about the cats of Queen BerΓΊthiel yet.

19.10.2025 04:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

There is no real going back. Though I may come to the Shire, it will not seem the same; for I shall not be the same. I am wounded with knife, sting, and tooth, and a long burden. Where shall I find rest?

07.10.2025 03:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
True Crime NYC poster with CA β€œI Voted” sticker on it. #yeson50

True Crime NYC poster with CA β€œI Voted” sticker on it. #yeson50

05.10.2025 00:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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This is Jade. She just met the biggest dogs she's ever seen. But quickly learned they have the biggest hearts too. 13/10 for all (TT: catimtins.pscal)

23.09.2025 23:10 πŸ‘ 12043 πŸ” 1431 πŸ’¬ 171 πŸ“Œ 106

In the 90s I had push back about having 4 fingered cartoon characters from Japanese game publishers because, β€œit is associated with gangsters.” Checks out.

02.09.2025 23:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Justice Jackson, essentially citing Tom the Dancing Bug in her dissent. "This is Calvinball jurisprudence"

22.08.2025 22:24 πŸ‘ 130 πŸ” 39 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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James Dobson, the homophobic leader of Focus on the Family, dead at 89 Dobson was notoriously anti-LGBTQ+ and helped catalyze the religious right movement.

I spent several years working on a screenplay about the last week of Ted Bundy's life in which Dobson featured prominently, requiring mounds of research.

Imagine writing a scene between someone and Ted Bundy knowing that Bundy wasn't the worst person in that room.

www.advocate.com/news/james-d...

21.08.2025 16:09 πŸ‘ 1139 πŸ” 205 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 26

MS PAC-MAN

19.08.2025 00:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0