I've been running gdcparties.com for a few years now. Some shitty company BlueberryAI decided they'd just take all the source code for the work I've done and reskin it, advertising it as their own. Jokes on them...it was still linked to my events spreadsheet, and now their website looks like this 😉
i will now stop trying to convince anyone that Godot Engine has been battle tested.
(that concurrent players number is insane!!) #godotengine
Hockey goalie problems: Don't tell your friends who are in kink communities that you're subbing in net for two teams in one night.
Or maybe do. I don't know what expectations you want to set. I'm not your boss.
Quick and rushed Figment fanart. Top text reads "Happy 43 Years" Artist signed "Imagination Station Art 2026"
Happy 43 Years To Figment! Here's to 43 more (at least) with a New Ride at EPCOT! Have a quick rushed doodle of the Lil Guy! #fanart #Figment
A big brown tabby stretched out on his side on a blanket window perch with a paw dangling over the edge.
Brown tabby sitting in loaf mode, looking at the camera
Happy 19th birthday to my sweet old man, Mr. Davis. Still as handsome as ever!
looking at the GDC talks for this year and this kinda sums it up, huh
our cat is constantly whining for box rides so we got him a wagon
Whenever someone says they're doing something for "no particular reason" I can never tell if they just earnestly want to satisfy their curiosity, or if it is a sly hint that they're up to something nefarious.
Most people don't know that the Q in LGBTQ stands for Ultraman
Sheesh. As a freshly looking for work game dev, one of my most IMMEDIATE sources of anxiety is “which 1000 hour genre that I love but am a few years out of date on / unfamiliar with the endgame of do I need to most rapidly skill up in for the purpose of interviews”
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a comic. panel 1: spatzle, a duckling, peeks through a doorway. “Are you crying?” she says. panels 2-4: her mother, sitting mostly shrouded in darkness, wipes her eyes and says, “yes.” panel 5: Spätzle approaches her. She is tiny while her mother looms large, huddled in the darkened corner. “What’s wrong,” Spätzle asks. Her mother says, “everything.”
a comic. panel 1: Spätzle’s mother says from the shadows, “I wish I never met your father.” panel 2: “I wish I never left my parents.” panel 3: “I wish I never came to america.” panel 4: Spätzle site on the floor by her feet. “I’m happy you did those things. If you didn’t, I wouldn’t be here.” panel 6: from the darkness, Spätzle’s mother says, “go to bed.”
a comic. panel 1: Spätzle and Fanlee sit together. Fanlee is reading and Spätzle appears to have been drawing, but she’s distracted. panel 2: Spätzle says, “hey real quick can you tell me you like having me around”
10PM on a Wednesday
sarah connor terminator movie smoking wearing hospital gown looking tired.
sarah conner in terminator movie wearing a gown talking to a doctor in a psych eval. her arms are crossed, he's seated, around them are clean clinical white hospital looking setting.
sarah at night in tank top striking a guard with a long heavy rod.
people trying to tell us to calm down and what's the big deal
"it's a distraction" = "i don't feel personally affected by this". also we're all one medical emergency away from living on the streets if we aren't already there so who the fuck is even needing more 'distractions' at this point. they aren't distracting you they just want to kill everybody
replacing my bluesky account with this bird toy set up to quote post everything on my feed adding "seems bad" (it actually involves a dozen of these bird toys very carefully timed and placed it's much more impressive than it sounds and quite a sight to behold if I'm being honest)
Thanks for the narration. I assume that Democrats in Congress will be issuing some strongly worded letters addressed to no one? Well Democrats not named Schumer at least?
I'm so mad. I'M SO MAD.
ONE. THIRD.
and countless lives destroyed because of it.
Really enjoyed his Illium/Olympos books. Alas!
arstechnica.com/culture/2026...
A new set of bats up on the shop! Reminder that you can join the mailing list if you want a notification when new bats are added.
wertle.bigcartel.com
Legitimately love this rendition of Toto's Africa where the lyrics are replaced with every country in Africa.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZThs6PRSB/
Hi, AAA dev here. This is a sucky take and I wish people would stop pitting gamedevs against each other.
I ran a workshop a few years ago on game AI - stealth patrols, pathfinding, race waypoints, alpha beta pruning, state machine behaviors - made clear on our page and promos it has nothing to do with LLMs. some clueless folks still expected chatgpt
new CEO of Microsoft Gaming: same level of clueless
Also, remember, if you want to help with the campaign, you can always donate/sign up for info/volunteer at www.kluweoc.com
It’s going to take all of us to beat back MAGA, but I’ve never been afraid of hard work.
"AI has long been part of gaming and will continue to be" is so heckin disingenuous. I've been a game AI engineer for almost 20 years, which has absolutely nothing to do with the current bubble of generative AI that is burning the world to solve no actual problems.
A group of four colorful bat plushies, two large and two small.
Speaking of my shop, I just added these four little buddies!
wertle.bigcartel.com
I set up a mailing list for when I update the shop with new bats! (Which I'm about to do soon)
wertle.bigcartel.com/mailing-list
Every time I’ve run meta ads for my business it’s been byzantine wackamole to keep genAI features turned off. They’ll just randomly turn some feature on to try to “prove” how good it is. This cautionary story from TikTok is exactly why this is a terrible practice.
“Make 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
Can't remember which day exactly that you're not supposed to clean your house to retain Lunar New Year's luck, so I haven't cleaned my house for the past week just to be safe.
The left tried for decades to pass green energy subsidies, passed them, the subsidies worked, and now literally the entire planet's electricity grid is going to convert to solar+battery. It just doesn't feel like "tech" because it mostly produces kinda boring blue collar jobs instead of billionaires
