Jeff Lake

Spaceman, game developer, podcaster, cargo shorts enthusiast

2023-02-25

@GWillow I may be insufficiently salty to participate here, but my take is: MLS produces more watchable games than the European leagues do.

The salary cap (holey though it is) generates more parity.

2023-02-25

#Pentiment was a joy. So specific and deep in detail, such a sense of place and character.

2023-02-25

Well... crap.

#mastodonfc #nffc

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2023-02-22

this is your regularly scheduled reminder

A viking, bearded and helmeted is pictured with the caption "Pick your battles. Pick fewer battles than that. Put some battles back. That's still too many battles" as if giving advice to someone shopping for battles.
2023-02-21

@v I've used "simulation boundary" for this.

As in, this wacky user interaction is outside the simulation boundary so the user won't be upset that we don't handle it well.

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Diabetic HeihachiDavBot@nerdculture.de
2023-02-18

@lashman
He was a skater horse
She said see ya later horse
He wasn't good enough for horse.

2023-02-18

What a result! #MastodonFC #NFOMCI

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2023-02-18

they call it d3d12 because that is how much damage it deals to you when you trying to implement it.

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Adam Conoveradamconover
2023-02-17

It is done. I have joined Butt, as the owner of a save file for The Second Quest.

What a game. I’m truly blown away by how great it was. So many moments that hit perfectly; so many design decisions that STILL slap. Just brilliant. I’m so glad I did this. Might write up more thoughts here or on Cohost at some point, but for now, just gonna sit with this hard-won victory. What a game!

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2023-02-16
Beverly: Computer, notify me if external temperature gets too hot.
Computer: Please define hot.
Beverly: Let's say 1.9 million Kelvins.
...Later...
Picard: Tea. Early Gray. Hot.
<and everything is on fire>
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Bethany BlackBethanyBlack
2023-02-14

Me *turns up in full Samurai armour*
Everyone: *stares*
Heavily pregnant bride: “*shot*gun wedding, Beth.”

2023-02-12

I found myself coming back to Ghost Song. The first impression was rough, since the combat feels very disempowering at first.

But it opens up, and the presentation is pretty fantastic.

#GhostSong #GamePass

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2023-02-12

Did you know there's a #fediverse alternative to Amazon-owned #Goodreads? #BookWyrm is a social network for tracking your reading, writing reviews, and discovering what to read next. You can follow and interact with users on different #BookWyrm instances and on #Mastodon. You can import from a Goodreads CSV export. You can create private shelves and curated lists. Join us at ramblingreaders.org or choose one of the other instances available #books #reading #bookstodon @bookstodon

2023-02-11

@Xibanya Wow, 5 years! How would they ever keep anybody?

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Adam Conoveradamconover
2023-02-07

I feel like I unlearned 30 years of game design today, and it was exhilarating. I've been trained to believe that every secret in a game is CLUED somehow. Instead, it never stops being shocking how many UN-clued secrets there are in LoZ. You just have to look for walls that COULD have an opening in them, and bomb them. I always thought this would be frustrating, but it's actually enormously freeing - secrets could be and ARE everywhere, right under your feet!

2023-02-06

@GWillow @anildash Austin has a mostly above-ground electric grid because we don't get a lot of extreme weather. 😐

We also have lots of trees that grow near and around the wires. This year, we had a long freeze, which iced up all the trees. A lot of the trees fell (maybe 5-10% from what I see in my neighborhood).

The trees fell on the grid, the grid went down. It's doesn't seem catastrophic, but it caused thousands of small breaks in the grid and overwhelmed the city teams responding.

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2023-02-06

Typical City #MastodonFC

Manchester City Charged With Dozens of Financial Violations nyti.ms/3Y5ncyQ

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Interior for new hull. I am going to post video regarding layered armor plates tomorrow, I had to finish this first.

#Precursor #screenshotsaturday #pixelart #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

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2023-02-05
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2023-02-04
Speaking of podcasts, I had missed how @pluralistic has recently written about exactly this.

"Where others were cautious, Spotify was reckless. It bought popular podcasts and podcast networks, then severely enshittified their programs by locking them inside Spotify's walled garden. Audience numbers plummeted, demoralizing podcast creators who were uninterested in the future date when Spotify and its Magic Underpants Gnomes would figure out how to wring more money out of the tiny cohort that stuck around."

Yes, even the Obamas broke off their deal with Spotify.

https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/27/enshittification-resistance/

#podcasting

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