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Them: You're the father of the xbox! Me: If it moves back in, it’s paying rent. theoretical physics | CEO | gastroegyptology | cacao | CHM trustee

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I mean…

10.03.2026 05:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I think we both know.

10.03.2026 03:13 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

@cypheroftyr.bsky.social you’re not missing jack shit at GDC either.

10.03.2026 03:06 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Sounds like a super guy 🤮

10.03.2026 03:05 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Shit is pretending to rotate a whole fucking planet but we all know it’s a scam.

10.03.2026 03:04 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

I cannot emphasize enough that these people are being laid off for failing to do things that are literally impossible

09.03.2026 15:51 👍 3050 🔁 1100 💬 11 📌 80

PINK FUCKING BUNNY SUIT.

09.03.2026 18:27 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Gamedev Unsung Heroes

I'd like to announce I have a new(ish) Podcast! It's called GameDev Unsung Heroes, and it's basically interviewing all the names in games you don't know about what they do, their career path, a few stories along the way. All free.

Here's the link gamedevunsungheroes.com

I could use re-posting :)

09.03.2026 18:21 👍 87 🔁 55 💬 4 📌 3

I used to- let me look for it.

And tell them I adore them.

09.03.2026 18:07 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

It’s superb.

09.03.2026 17:48 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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hey @seamus.bsky.social I did something cursed. Dashboard running natively on macOS (I'm so sorry)

09.03.2026 15:46 👍 99 🔁 19 💬 4 📌 0

Thank you, kind sir.

09.03.2026 02:29 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Two dogs sleeping synchronously in the afternoon sun. Bliss.

Two dogs sleeping synchronously in the afternoon sun. Bliss.

May I present the 2026 Champion California State Formation Napping team.

08.03.2026 23:19 👍 366 🔁 34 💬 16 📌 3

And also people who trademark their handle.

09.03.2026 00:39 👍 18 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

That’s the singles event though.

08.03.2026 23:20 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Two dogs sleeping synchronously in the afternoon sun. Bliss.

Two dogs sleeping synchronously in the afternoon sun. Bliss.

May I present the 2026 Champion California State Formation Napping team.

08.03.2026 23:19 👍 366 🔁 34 💬 16 📌 3
musician Gary Numan, born March 8, 1958, aged 68

musician Gary Numan, born March 8, 1958, aged 68

actor Gary Oldman, born March 21, 1958, aged 67

actor Gary Oldman, born March 21, 1958, aged 67

Happy Gary Retrograde everyone!

The next two weeks are the only two weeks out of the year when Gary Numan is older than Gary Oldman

08.03.2026 15:37 👍 4705 🔁 1395 💬 30 📌 72
Venus's copper hand mirror with handle or necklace with pendant. The cross-bar was added sometime after the 11th century. Women are fucking amazing. Happy Women’s Day.

Venus's copper hand mirror with handle or necklace with pendant. The cross-bar was added sometime after the 11th century. Women are fucking amazing. Happy Women’s Day.

08.03.2026 18:33 👍 97 🔁 11 💬 4 📌 0
Venus's copper hand mirror with handle or necklace with pendant. The cross-bar was added sometime after the 11th century. Women are fucking amazing. Happy Women’s Day.

Venus's copper hand mirror with handle or necklace with pendant. The cross-bar was added sometime after the 11th century. Women are fucking amazing. Happy Women’s Day.

08.03.2026 18:33 👍 97 🔁 11 💬 4 📌 0
It was going on one, two in the morning, and we were shooting what I felt was an important scene for me, when he makes an attempt to be quote-unquote straight, in a suit, and at the end of it he gets emotional and locks himself in the other room. And I felt like, I’m not getting what I want—I’m not happy with it. Mike was happy with it. He called me the next day and said, “I know you weren’t happy with the scene last night. Believe me, we wouldn’t have gone home if I had felt we weren’t getting it.” And then he sort of became my psychiatrist and said, “You find it difficult to be happy, don’t you? You find it difficult to enjoy things.” And I said, “Well, sometimes. Last night was about feeling too tired and not feeling I was reaching what I needed to reach for the scene.” He talked to me then about when he was making, I don’t know whether it was Virginia Woolf or The Graduate. He said, “I didn’t enjoy it for a second. I was worried about so many things.” And then he said, “You know, this is never going to happen again quite this way. You should try to allow yourself to enjoy this more. Take a minute a day, and then add a minute the next day, and another minute. Pretty soon, you’ll have hours of happiness.”

It was going on one, two in the morning, and we were shooting what I felt was an important scene for me, when he makes an attempt to be quote-unquote straight, in a suit, and at the end of it he gets emotional and locks himself in the other room. And I felt like, I’m not getting what I want—I’m not happy with it. Mike was happy with it. He called me the next day and said, “I know you weren’t happy with the scene last night. Believe me, we wouldn’t have gone home if I had felt we weren’t getting it.” And then he sort of became my psychiatrist and said, “You find it difficult to be happy, don’t you? You find it difficult to enjoy things.” And I said, “Well, sometimes. Last night was about feeling too tired and not feeling I was reaching what I needed to reach for the scene.” He talked to me then about when he was making, I don’t know whether it was Virginia Woolf or The Graduate. He said, “I didn’t enjoy it for a second. I was worried about so many things.” And then he said, “You know, this is never going to happen again quite this way. You should try to allow yourself to enjoy this more. Take a minute a day, and then add a minute the next day, and another minute. Pretty soon, you’ll have hours of happiness.”

The Birdcage opened thirty years ago today, so in its honor, I want to share one of my favorite stories about Mike Nichols that didn't make it into my biography. This is from an interview I did with Nathan Lane.

08.03.2026 16:29 👍 2727 🔁 596 💬 32 📌 38
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Humanity shifts an asteroid’s orbit around the sun New research confirms that NASA’s DART mission successfully altered the trajectory of an asteroid system, validating a key strategy for planetary defense.

Humanity shifts an asteroid’s orbit around the sun

gleam.news/stories/huma...

08.03.2026 04:49 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Three foot wide video game controller with twin controller sticks, 

The controller sits atop a bookshelf in the corner of a closet

Three foot wide video game controller with twin controller sticks, The controller sits atop a bookshelf in the corner of a closet

One great regret I've carried over the past twenty years was never conquering Steel Battalion. Time to haul this out of retirement.

#OGXbox #SteelBattalion

07.03.2026 17:34 👍 189 🔁 7 💬 14 📌 2

What a stunning shock.

08.03.2026 04:17 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Lovely!

07.03.2026 21:22 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It was illegal to say for many centuries.

07.03.2026 19:23 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yep.

07.03.2026 06:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Neolithic road bike saddle. These guys were unbeatable cyclists.

07.03.2026 02:42 👍 66 🔁 4 💬 7 📌 0

Neolithic road bike saddle. These guys were unbeatable cyclists.

07.03.2026 02:42 👍 66 🔁 4 💬 7 📌 0
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Hey #TeaseYaGame 👋

We are a small team making Knight George, a retro-style adventure where you solve puzzles, go through dungeons, fight large bosses and get to control small animals!

You can wishlist it here: store.steampowered.com/app/4305040/...

#indiegame #gamedev #gamemaker

06.03.2026 20:01 👍 66 🔁 14 💬 4 📌 0

My "real" 9 games that made me, as in the 9 games that influenced me the most, the earliest:

- Shamus
- Colossal Cave
- Star Trek (IBM)
- Pinball Construction Set
- Adventure (2600)
- Adv Civilization (AH board game)
- Energy Czar
- Pol/Econ (BBS)
- Divine Right (BG)

06.03.2026 20:07 👍 17 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0