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Jon Renish

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Father, Game Developer, Generally okay person.

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Shout out to all the families about to be radicalized by Pokopai's main story and politics.

08.03.2026 22:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh wow, you'll be excited to know that both those games just had sequels released!

07.03.2026 18:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

After playing ~5500 games the biggest that I've learned is that ANYTHING design/mechanically will work and be compelling, *if* the creator(s) are willing to commit to the bit.

07.03.2026 14:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Petition e-7195 - Petitions

To my Canadian friends, an acquaintance started a petition to allow US transgender citizens to claim refugee status here.

www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

If you’re Canadian please sign it.
If you’re not, please share ❀️

06.03.2026 17:49 πŸ‘ 847 πŸ” 830 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 25

Even the "Ready Player One" trailer was less embarrassing.

06.03.2026 15:57 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We're only a few hours into Pokopia but my hot take is:

I hope the humans don't come back.

06.03.2026 13:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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My child requested Pokemon themed food to celebrate the release of Pokemon Pokopia today.

05.03.2026 22:54 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The issue has never been the volume of code being generated, in many cases it was too much being written.

Even if GenAI was viable (doubt) it won't solve the actual issues and problems faced by product development.

05.03.2026 22:26 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

When it comes to live services games people are treating them like a 'sprint' and pulling the plug in weeks when they should recognize they are more of a...um...err... [long amount of running thing]

03.03.2026 23:07 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Looking forward to trying this with Gameshare CoOp on Thursday with the kid.

03.03.2026 18:25 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Did I miss it?

03.03.2026 01:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Fidelity is killing the game industry.

02.03.2026 02:52 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

As the old adage goes, "The only perfect codebase is the one with zero lines of code."

01.03.2026 23:39 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Knee brace?
Hope you're recovering well.

01.03.2026 19:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Good shouts of games, I played a thousand last year and love finding hidden gems.

26.02.2026 02:42 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Did you normalize for egg weight?

24.02.2026 02:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Finally a computer for the rest of us.

23.02.2026 16:00 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah........

22.02.2026 20:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

KleptoVania

21.02.2026 17:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Wouldn't those be Theif-Likes?
Maybe Burglar-vanias?

21.02.2026 17:00 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Kerbal was euthanized this morning due to terminal illness. He was the best cat and friend I could have ever hoped for, and my heart aches from the loss.

20.02.2026 16:58 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

I've been in Wisconsin caves, once, never again.

18.02.2026 22:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Why is hunter so low?

18.02.2026 02:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Disappointed to learn that @steampowered.com 's 'Pup' fest has almost no dogs in it.

15.02.2026 02:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Looks more like a full-pipe with all those people.

15.02.2026 00:53 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

An Indie Dev watching the AAA+ publishers.

13.02.2026 13:51 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I did try sitting down once, didn't care for it.

06.02.2026 13:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Rude!

06.02.2026 03:24 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Worried about $1400 CND

05.02.2026 01:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I've always just called them 'Glyphs' most common use being button icons

04.02.2026 20:55 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0