Would be amazing if we could get a direct Hamburg to Brussels route during regular working days, rather than just a night service. Going via Cologne feels needlessly indirect every time I go that route
Yea, Sweden's probably winning Eurovision again
…is not quite at the same level yet, despite all our talents and skills.
…actual understanding of players and the wider industry dynamics. That’s the bit we too frequently miss. I’ve been in the industry 21 years now and this aspect of things has been true throughout. The games market is finally reaching full maturity, our ability to repeat success through creativity…
…and system dynamics, that lead to much more repeatable success. And that’s not to make devs sound dumb, they’re absolutely not, the knowledge alone that you need just to produce AAA production quality is massive, likely endless, but we invest more time into that than the our…
…people with the skill set required to repeatedly create great games over long periods of time, with repeated success, is incredibly rare, way more so than I think people realize. The industry over-indexes on personal perspectives that are less stable over time, than things like player psychology…
…market/demographic shifts or changes in player expectations and interests. But I think for many in the industry, especially on the investor and publishing side, it’s incredibly hard to differentiate ‘captured moments’ from genuine repeatable making of successful player experiences. The number of….
…of a franchise, later success is almost always a result of ‘brute force’, I.e. IP awareness, position as a large incumbent in the market, marketing spend potential etc. As long as you maintain production quality, that can take you a long way without needing to be super creative or understand…
I was just chatting about this with a colleague yesterday. I don’t think people realize just how many successful games of high production value are a result of ‘capturing a moment’ and not deliberate, repeatable design and creativity. And once you’ve captured that moment and have the origins…
Just your regularly scheduled share of this masterpiece by @tomgauld.bsky.social
this Jamaican / Cork accent viral thing is giving me life. the idea that there's a connection between Irish servants & educators in the Caribbean with modern day Patois is wild. I just hear a lad from Cork and all these Jamaicans are hearing their own tongue. awesome
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She fucking nailed it. 😆
It really is fascinating how overt it now is that there are certain - really not controversial - ideas that you aren’t allowed to say on television.
Setting education up as just a series of exams to pass, a horribly expensive necessity for jobs with little security, robs it of the joy of learning and the pleasure of seeking knowledge. Is it any surprise when tools like this appear that don’t need either
If you want concentration camps in the UK, people being grabbed off the streets, or murdered on them, five year olds being separated from their parents and locked up #VoteReform
Tfw you still have some edge cases to fix in your procedural locomotion system #gamedev
879 - With Nathan Collins coming on for Brentford, James Milner has now played in the same game as all 879 players to make 100+ Premier League appearances since 2002-03. Quirky.
UK ban on Palestine Action unlawful, high court judges rule www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
ICE agent wearing skull mask that is usually associated with the neo Nazi atomwaffen group
Fucking surreal that people dressed like this and carrying assault rifles are permitted to kidnap people off our streets
Dem leadership: changing this is a difficult process, you fool. You rube. You utter infant. Give us between $5 and $50
Mamdani, wiping grease off his hands: So it turns out there's a switch on this machine that puts it into either orphan-shredding mode or free school lunch mode. Just had to flip it
Wild that there was an open lane called "what if we just explain things clearly to people?" and he's the first one to ever fill it
"Safe to fail" and "fail fast" are not the same thing, even if they can overlap. It frustrates me that this isn't better understood when it comes to dev.
It’s worth noting that spending on ICE, DHS and state + local police is higher than the amount that China spends on its entire military.
NYT push alert: "A person was shot dead today during a struggle with federal agents in Minneapolis, according to officials."
By who? Who shot the person dead? You saw the video. We all know a federal agent shot a man dead who was prone on the ground. Also, it's not "according to officials." It's according to verified video seen with your eyes. Not saying what anyone can obviously see with their eyes is a form of lying.
Alex Pretti from his early days working at the VA
Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.
White. Hot. Rage.
