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Brian in Detroit

@kanoki.net

Adventurer Game industry community veteran seeking my next gig. Former Xbox and Unity. Currently helping out at @InfiniteBacklog.net My silliness about gaming, grief, fatherhood, non-monogamy, politics, sex work, Detroit, food, Linux, and other nerdery πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ

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Thank you, it truly means a lot to me that this resonated with you. Kyle was an avid bicyclist and the bicycle community has really been there for my family through all of this.

11.03.2026 05:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you, I appreciate that ❀️

11.03.2026 05:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Filmed two miles from where I grew up. The feelings that movie conveyed are extremely familiar to me.

11.03.2026 01:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I am sick and tired of struggling and of my family struggling and everyone I know struggling and all the worst people on the fuckin planet having it easier than any of us will ever know

11.03.2026 01:08 πŸ‘ 357 πŸ” 36 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0

If I stepped into this conversation, I would be banned from LinkedIn.

Here's what I wrote about suburban "engineering"

11.03.2026 01:07 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

Not only is it real: These are the people in charge of this entire planet

11.03.2026 01:04 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

MaLE LOnLiNeSs EpiDemIC

11.03.2026 01:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Me in my

20s "My mind says yes my body says yes"

30s "My mind says no my body says yes"

40s "My mind says yes my body says no"

I guess my 50s will be no and no 🫩

11.03.2026 00:07 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
PokΓ©mon Pokopia – Launch Trailer – Nintendo Switch 2
PokΓ©mon Pokopia – Launch Trailer – Nintendo Switch 2 YouTube video by Nintendo of America

Straight from the source: 3:03 mark www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zpr...

10.03.2026 23:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I really hate this

10.03.2026 22:51 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The first phone call was made 150 years ago today!

Sadly, the last legitimate phone call happened today in 2021.

It was a good run.

10.03.2026 22:51 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The worst cabinet in American history And it's not even close.

A cabinet with one or two catastrophic picks like Noem, Hegseth, RFK, or Bondi would be among the worst in American history. All of them at the same time? Unlike anything we've ever seen.

My latest at Public Notice: www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-cabi...

10.03.2026 13:23 πŸ‘ 936 πŸ” 214 πŸ’¬ 48 πŸ“Œ 27
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Watching a demo of how you can turn every NPC in your RPG town into somebody who says "That's right β€” you *are* the four LIGHT WARRIORS. You make a great point! The bridge to the main continent *does* need to be repaired, and you're just the person to do it."

09.03.2026 18:44 πŸ‘ 1934 πŸ” 263 πŸ’¬ 104 πŸ“Œ 241

I've never seen anyone talk about him outside of the context of that one singular video that got shared around my friend group, which is wild.

I'm not on either of those platforms so it's a blindspot for me.

10.03.2026 05:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

stapling this to the wii update day video for anyone unfamiliar with the content

10.03.2026 05:01 πŸ‘ 41 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2

Not enough people know about I Made You A Sandwich dude

10.03.2026 05:30 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Sony truly used to mean quality

10.03.2026 01:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Honestly, AI slop PRs are becoming increasingly draining and demoralizing for #Godot maintainers.

If you want to help, more funding so we can pay more maintainers to deal with the slop (on top of everything we do already) is the only viable solution I can think of:

fund.godotengine.org

16.02.2026 15:33 πŸ‘ 1984 πŸ” 885 πŸ’¬ 53 πŸ“Œ 45
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Online Forums Get Flooded With Similar Reports of Sony WH-1000XM5 Hinge Issues The number of users reporting almost identical hinge issues with their Sony WH-1000XM5 keeps rising.

It Happened To Me: a Sony Headphone Owner Autobiography

As if I needed one more shitty piece of annoying garbage to happen in my life, my headphones just snapped exactly like everyone else's today. Sony WH-1000XM5 headphones are defective, but there's no class action lawsuit. Fix? $99.

10.03.2026 00:35 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I think I want to try reading a YA novel en espanol. Something at the middle school level that is engaging enough for an adult to stick with.

Struggling to read it in Spanish will help me learn Spanish faster and better, I think.

Any recommendations from #booksky? Please no Amazon links.

09.03.2026 20:35 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The US and Israel made a martyr out of an 86 year old man with prostate cancer on deaths door and destroyed the momentum of the opposition inside Iran, lost global standing, failed to protect its bases in the region, endangered all allies; in no way was this a victory.

09.03.2026 20:14 πŸ‘ 926 πŸ” 272 πŸ’¬ 30 πŸ“Œ 6

Heeey, look, it's me!

I'm super hyped to announce that @bsky.app have given me a grant to work on the standards for the Federated Credential Management API (or FedCM) to make them really work for all decentralized web applications.

09.03.2026 18:29 πŸ‘ 433 πŸ” 79 πŸ’¬ 40 πŸ“Œ 10

We knew this would happen some day; step one of the enshittification of this platform... BUT: the real power is in the protocol behind it, atproto, and that's where the future lies. Bluesky gives us the very tools to escape the prison they are inevitably building.

09.03.2026 19:33 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A very awkward photo of two masc people, standing strangely close to each other with the one on the left having a dead-eyed smile that looks utterly forced and uncomfortable. The other person is standing very close to the first, facing them. It looks like they're laughing but also like they wants to take a bite of the person on the left. It's ominous and vaguely threatening but maybe it was supposed to make it look like they like each other?

Also the person on the right is wearing a t-shirt with writing on the back, and it is cropped and folded strangely and the only words we can see are "no homo" along with "no vi" "no R" "No" "yes" "Y-s"

A very awkward photo of two masc people, standing strangely close to each other with the one on the left having a dead-eyed smile that looks utterly forced and uncomfortable. The other person is standing very close to the first, facing them. It looks like they're laughing but also like they wants to take a bite of the person on the left. It's ominous and vaguely threatening but maybe it was supposed to make it look like they like each other? Also the person on the right is wearing a t-shirt with writing on the back, and it is cropped and folded strangely and the only words we can see are "no homo" along with "no vi" "no R" "No" "yes" "Y-s"

WHAT is this photo on my doctor's office website????

09.03.2026 19:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

WHAT IS THIS GIF LMFAO

09.03.2026 18:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œIt doesn't feel safe”—Many international game developers plan to skip GDC in US Stories of border issues lead to pervasive travel fears across the worldwide industry.

As GDC starts this week, I published a story summing up the overwhelming fear stopping many international developers from coming to San Francisco this year. arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/...

09.03.2026 14:11 πŸ‘ 213 πŸ” 82 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 15

The sophistication of AI bots has pushed accuracy through the roof. It's really hard to tell on an individual account level, but taken in aggregate as a pattern, a clearer picture starts to emerge.

09.03.2026 18:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I think it's a bot farm

09.03.2026 18:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

No, that's pretty much exactly what I mean.

The point I failed to make is that there are SO many people who dream of making games for a living, but indie games struggle while the same AAA game gets released every year and makes billions.

09.03.2026 17:52 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

See we have to put it in terms of Number of Football Fields of Oil for Americans to understand it

09.03.2026 17:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0