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Software Engineer. Shipped a bunch of video games. Currently working in VR research land. Blog: https://www.forrestthewoods.com/blog/

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I'm a game design genius

01.03.2026 05:03 πŸ‘ 6920 πŸ” 978 πŸ’¬ 90 πŸ“Œ 18

It’s was untrained staff taking forever to check bags. IMHO.

25.02.2026 21:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Lines were worst I’ve ever seen. But imho it wasn’t because of the 30 minute thing. It’s because the bag checkers had absolutely no idea what they were doing and took foreeevvvveeerrr.

23.02.2026 04:56 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Omg I never even thought about what K/DA meant….. fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu

20.02.2026 01:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Such a good song in Beat Saber

19.02.2026 07:50 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

There is nothing that Reddit mods hate more than original content.

12.02.2026 18:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it

11.02.2026 22:03 πŸ‘ 12080 πŸ” 4011 πŸ’¬ 78 πŸ“Œ 192

What the 10M? Team revenue from leagues cup run?

I’ve always wondered what the margin on game day tickets was. No idea how much facility and staff costs are…

03.02.2026 04:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Announcement: STEAM DEMO OUT NOW!

The early dungeons of Forbidden Solitaire are now open to those bold - or foolish - enough to explore them.

How badly do you wish to live forever? πŸ‘οΈπŸ©Έ
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store.steampowered.com/app/3414580/...

Please wishlist and share - thank you!
#indiedev

16.01.2026 16:27 πŸ‘ 525 πŸ” 274 πŸ’¬ 39 πŸ“Œ 65

Or actually. Looks like their trick is β€œloan with purchase option” so they can back channel money to the other club not the player.

Very sneaky.

07.01.2026 04:27 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The real question is how many no-show sponsorship deals with AspiraciΓ³n does he have

07.01.2026 04:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Is it possible to wire up Claude Code for Web so that it can make comments on GitHub issues? I want it to be able to record plans, notes, and questions directly in issues. (For my personal repos)

30.12.2025 21:33 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It would be interesting to compare with Clang vs MSVC.

19.12.2025 08:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This shit is miserable. I’ve yet to find a good library that β€œjust works” for IPC that supports Linux+ Windows and doesn’t have a gajillion gotchas and edge cases and failure conditions. It’s super frustrating.

18.12.2025 18:40 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Tools help people think and conceptualize faster. Pinterest mood boards are pretty common!

Exploring ideas takes a lot of time. Tools that help you reach your destination faster are good.

I remember back when β€œreal artists” violently opposed fake digital photoshop artists. Good times!

16.12.2025 21:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Feed a text file with everything you’ve ever written and ask it to mimic that style. I imagine that would work β€œbetter”

16.12.2025 17:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

IIRC she was around the office and dev team quite a lot. She wasn’t a distant spouse. She was around and regularly interacted with folks.

I think. Vague recollections of many folks on the project speaking fondly of their regular interactions with her.

But I could be mistaken!

14.12.2025 09:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Follow your nose to rescue lost sheep in the atmospheric world of The Free Shepherd.

Coming to PlayStation 5 and Steam in 2027.

Learn more: thefreeshepherd.com

12.12.2025 00:53 πŸ‘ 128 πŸ” 46 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 9

Always a good idea!

30.11.2025 00:20 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Reddit isn’t real life. ChatGPT has like 800 million weekly users. Probably 95% of high school / college kids use LLMs.

All the normies loved Ghibli photos for two weeks.

People do mostly hate slop though.

27.11.2025 21:58 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

At the same time, to your survey, I think almost everyone is extremely uncertain about what the future holds. People are very uncertain what their career prospects will look like nevermind their children’s.

Enjoying ChatGPT and being uncertain about the future aren’t mutually incompatible

26.11.2025 20:39 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

ChatGPT has like 800 million weekly users. Weekly! Thats a significant percentage of the non-China internet using global population! Like a very meaningful percentage!

So no I very much don’t think the average Blueskyer is similar to the average human.

26.11.2025 20:37 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I think that people downloading apps is a pretty accurate proxy for people using said apps!

And I think most people are either no opinion or quite comfortable using ChatGPT. I’d wager the usage of LLMs amongst high schoolers and college kids is upwards of 90%

26.11.2025 20:35 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Facts!

But at least in my social circle I’ve never seen β€œmy people” swarm like piranha like they do on AI.

thread on Mastadon had a negative reaction but it was an actual conversation and exchange of perspectives. A bit semanticy but still interesting.

BlueSky is just rasasggrrrggh evil bad!

26.11.2025 20:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If by β€œvery very prevalent feeling” you mean millions of people then sure. If you mean β€œa majority of people who hold any opinion in the topic” then I think you’re just wrong.

The #1, 2, 7, and 11 apps on US iOS App Store are AI apps. ChatGPT, Gemini, Sora, and Grok.

So… respectfully, no.

26.11.2025 20:25 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Amazing.

LinkedIn has a particular intro flavor to get people to click to expand. The first sentence and a half needs to be on a cliffhanger.

Ian was my best employee for years. On Friday I fired him.

β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€” CLICK TO READ

26.11.2025 18:54 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah this platform sucks. It’s a very very non-diverse platform. So it’s more of a mono-culture and people feel empowered to be aggressive to those who don’t tow the party line

26.11.2025 18:33 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 0
Screenshot of CyberLink PowerDirector 365 New Project screen, doing nothing

Screenshot of CyberLink PowerDirector 365 New Project screen, doing nothing

This windows looks innocuous enough - there's no animation so presumably this app is consuming no CPU time. And let, my laptop's fans are audible. What's up?

26.11.2025 04:07 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

An interesting analysis would be how many games at what kickoff temperature for different season schedules. Ie how many games >70 degrees or <50 degrees etc etc.

How many β€œnice” games vs non-nice. For some made up definition of nice.

11.11.2025 19:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Wait does anyone actually for real think she has good policies and will make good decisions? Or is this just an β€œanybody else” vibe? I am genuinely bewildered

11.11.2025 06:28 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0