Yeah, I think an in-person convention is always valuable, there’s a lot of side table chats you can’t get anywhere else. But if downsizing keeps them around without losing their core purpose, I figure it’s worth it

“When I founded it, there was no way for game developers to share their ideas; I created it to permit that idea-sharing that is so important. Nowadays, there are lots of ways for people to share. There are plenty of social forums for discussing just about every aspect of game design. We have interactive video for pulling people from all over the world together.”

While we certainly have a lot more options now, I’m not sure any of them compare to the technical depth and expertise you see in GDC talks. There’s far more actual experience and proven real world results compared to the average game dev forum or channel.

Though escalating costs (and the dangerous US situation) certainly means the current organizers should consider paring the conference down or perhaps moving it online. The point of it is to provide a platform for devs to share knowledge with each other, everything else can be cut out

You forgot, step 5: Profit

As part of Take-Two’s annual financial report for the year ended March 31, 2025, the company said it was still projecting about 5 percent growth revenue and net bookings (consumer spending on digital goods)

One of my favorites. And doesn’t even need to use words for a punchline

I don’t know about others, but when I’m getting an indie game I want to know that my money is going to them and not just throwing money into a subscription with no way of knowing how much the devs get

I’m just a little sad at the idea of having to abandon every online space because tech bros refuse to turn off their plagiarism machines. The internet is not all good but there’s a lot of little places where things shine through that wouldn’t be feasible in real life

But how do you prevent those smaller spaces from being encroached on by LLMs? If they can write fake reviews they can write fake user profiles, and small spaces often have tiny mod teams that can’t react quickly to rapid nonsense machines

So this pineapple… Lives under the sea?

I tried this game on the Wii U because I wanted to run around in a mech, but I bounced off the combat hard and never even got to the point where I got a Skell. Any tips for combat?

Sorry to say this, but this feels like AI with the way the dragon spines line up along the back and right behind the head

In the 1970s, Dr. Roy Sawyer discovered two adult specimens in a pond located in French Guiana. One of these leeches, dubbed Grandma Moses, founded a successful breeding colony at UC Berkeley. This specimen produced 750 offspring.

Oh god it’s like Jurassic Park but infinitely more horrifying

Love seeing things come full circle with Asa grabbing Denji this time.

It’s interesting to see that Denji’s actions in the beginning of this story (saving the cat over humans) haunts him the same way the death of the Yakuza bosses did in part 1 with Katana Man. Fujimoto is great at making even seemingly throwaway moments pivotal

Need more places that sell this in the US

I’m a sucker for bourbon, blackberries and balsamic so this cocktail sounds like a dream come true

Amazing how all these billionaire apocalypse preppers think there’s gonna be a catastrophe and not only do nothing with their massive wealth to try and prevent it, but they’re actively making it worse

Historically baseball was more popular but nowadays it’s far behind American football. Basketball and soccer are more popular than baseball among younger people as well. Though this really only ranks Americans one favorite sport to watch, not sure how it splits up if all sports they watch or play are included

What in the AI hell is that image?

Did some more messing around in Cassette Beasts after the update and worked on Neo The World Ends with You after not playing for a while

Though I’ve been seeing a lot of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and man does it like good. If I get some more free time this month I definitely want to pick it up

1. One moderator from fosstodon is not 100% aligned to the prevailing ideology on Fedi.

For clarity’s sake, the views the mod expressed were:

• Calling criticism of Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest and transfer to Louisiana “yellow journalism” for using the phrase “disappeared”
• Defending the striking down of a school privacy policy that requires teachers get consent from LGBTQ+ kids before outing them to their parents
• Removing posts about surveillance of LGBTQ+ people in r/privacy for contradictory or unexplained reasons

3. The mob went on to presume that someone that is not 100% aligned to their prevailing ideology is unfit to be considered human - let alone a moderator - so they went after the admins.

Is all criticism now a “mob” just because they don’t want people with anti-immigrant and anti-LGBTQ+ views to have the power to censor others?

4. The admins claimed to have reviewed said mod actions, didn’t find anything out of the ordinary, but still got rid of them.

From what I saw, the admins actually said that they were fine with keeping him on the moderation team and the mod deleted their own accounts

6. Less-principled users of fosstodon are now just leaving the instance, for fear of being associated with them.

Are they? The most I saw was that people were considering leaving because other instances were going to start blocking Fosstodon

What is with the concealing and downplaying of the mod’s views and then exaggerating the “outrage” of the “mob”? Yes the Fediverse can be drama-prone but most of the fanning of the flames seems to be coming from the people complaining about Fedi users genuine criticisms of the mods/admins on Fosstodon

I don’t think it’s unreasonable to remove mod privileges for these kinds of views if you’re trying to run an inclusive space. There’s supported suspicion that they’ve used their mod powers to censor information on minorities already, just because they haven’t done it yet on this platform doesn’t mean you let them lie in wait to do it. Makes me worry that Fosstodon admins don’t see any issues keeping someone like that around

Would this get the same kind of backlash had the mod been kicked out for tankie views?

Wish their voting habits would follow that lead as well