Alexander Bruce

On my waymo!

Gonna try my best… may end up just arriving a bit later than 7 if need be, but at least I am tired and in bed at a decent hour!!

I should play the climbing game. You’re the second person who recommended it for the same reasons!

Same to you! Enjoyed our conversation!

I have arrived in town for GDC, for the first time in a long time!

Well, 7am is definitely early on my watch, but I'll also be jetlagged, so hopefully I'm actually waking up at 5am and raring to go by this hour! :)

Ohhhhh, Bouldering you say? I do like me some bouldering! I should definitely pack some climbing outfits!

I particularly liked this part: "You turn down that piece of work you wanted to do, and none of this is hard exactly but god, it’s tiring, isn’t it? You do some things “wrong” and some things “right” and the impact on the world seems about the same."

May as well ask "What is the best colour" and then have a debate about that.

Aye I know of BitSummit also.

There's a bunch of US friends I've not seen in a long time that I'd still like to check in on :)

I've decided to make my way to GDC this year. Haven't been since 2019, and I figured I'd give myself another event to work towards, to keep getting my game into shape.

Here's to 365 days

Looks cool.

Love the responses saying "Curate your feed better". Platforms are actively hostile towards you doing this (algorithms and systems designed to show you more rage bait, ads / promoted / incentivised posts, etc.). Even if you try to curate a better feed, the environment itself has changed.

Saw you and Ricky both recommend it, so now I have also purchased it.

AI feels a lot like this again. "Instead of having to find information, let the AI do it for you! Then, when you no longer know how to search for things yourself, just accept the products the AI shills!"

I have struggled for a long time to take the benefits of most technological advances seriously, because every new wave began to feel like "This is just another way for companies to show you more ads".

This was a very engaging read. I particularly liked this line: "To watch the storm was to be a party to a power much greater than myself. As one gets older and more experienced, novel encounters become more precious."

Sorry the aftermath also sucks. It all just makes a bad situation worse.

Thanks for linking. I love hearing Adam talk about design and process.

Adam Saltsman just gave the best talk about the process of game design that I’ve ever seen. Bravo.

Incredible investigation of the journey an idea goes through, and smart breakdown of the intrinsic and extrinsic forces tugging on the project. A must watch.

I approve of what I'm being shown here

You're suggesting that in order to have more polygons and power, you must have a worse user experience as the tradeoff. That is the part that is false, which people are pushing back on.

Artists creating models and engineers pushing polygons have nothing to do with the people making user interfaces.

Yeah I'm with Ian. I used to put a game into a GameCube, and it would load that game. You put a cartridge in the SNES and turn it on, and you're playing that game. It wasn't always like this at all.

Companies add friction and squeeze users thinking they're completely captive. This is false.

I love the idea of it seeming unfair that candidates are using AI to pass their interviews when the employers are using AI to screen their candidates.

I don't particularly care for a lot of US political stuff (I'm not from the US!) but I enjoyed this piece. It's very clear and practical.

Human error like... agitating the spider and having it angrily run around and you're like "ahh fuck catch it be careful don't get bitten!!"

Oh cool. We just have a plastic cup we call the spider cup, and we place it over the spider, then slide a piece of paper or cardboard underneath to seal it off... flip it upside down, shake it side to side if the spider tries to climb up... walk outside, and dump the spider outside.

How does this device work?

Yeah see, normally if I want rice to stick together, I'm all about Jasmine (or Sushi Rice if I'm making Japanese or Bibimbap or something and care about smaller grains), but brown rice in Cuckoo is just different... not the same as "rice cooker" rice in general. Different taste / texture entirely!

I like brown rice cooked in my Cuckoo Rice Cooker. It's very fluffy and yummy. That's my main opinion about rice.