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northernlion was reading out a sweet note his daughter wrote him in kindergarten that said "i know my dad loves me because he's my favorite person and i'm his favorite person" and someone commented "circular reasoning"

disco elysium dialogue tree

as ethical concerns evolve it's possible that wasting someone's very limited time on earth will come to be seen as comparable to any form of personal harm. as someone who's been credited for a whole genre of timewasters i fear i may one day be regarded as some sort of online thomas midgley jr

i'm very happy with cookie clicker's success of course but it's difficult to tell if it was a freak fluke or if there was some sort of unsuspected secret sauce at play. could i do it again. modesty aside somewhere in my hundreds of design docs for other game ideas there could be the game industry equivalent of a nuclear bomb. i must tread lightly

Is this about how ppl born in the late 20th century have a unique and fluid experience of navigating barriers to information access and its our responsibility to teach the younger folks how to tinker with technology to avoid being spoonfed everything we experience in order to have critical skills that keep us informed, autonomous, and able to hold power despite looming threats of authoritarianism or..........???

i love love lOVE the additional element of “the only information that’s free is the ‘how we’re going to hell’” BS. Chef’s kiss.

never seen anyone fucking kill a man on reddit

have you seen the lord of the rings movies? the practical effects look great, but there's also an amazing digital serkis

i need to mention that while i did get a lot of planning done for a possible neverending legacy rework in the last few days i'd like to dip back into that audio program i've been making before i get started on any big game stuff. rationale being that once it's usable i can produce all the sound effects my games will ever need and ooo perhaps low-bandwidth in-browser sequenced music too

particularly excited to no longer have to rely on other people's software for audio stuff. please i just need to reinvent one more wheel. just this one wheel and it's gonna be so good it's gonna be the best wheel because it's gonna be mine #mywheel

SMOKED SALMON IS THE ONLY THING THAT NUMBS THE PAIN