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jay, 3 days ago to gamedev

https://mstdn.ca/@haligonia/112404888561950586

I worked with some of the people at Alpha Dog Games way back in my Halifax days, between 2009 and 2015.

The blood just keeps flowing, doesn't it?

#gamedev

jay, 3 days ago to random

Hi. It's been a while.

Guiding multiple big AAA projects through various major milestones simultaneously is hard. Who could have guessed?

I'm getting much more visibility with the higher-ups due to my recent work and getting a lot of positive feedback. Being specifically called out under "went well" in a postmortem is an interesting experience.

A lot more staring at JIRA. The phrase "must-fix" being said repeatedly. Teams meetings, Teams meetings, Teams meetings.

The only way out is through.

heliomass, 1 month ago to Starwars

📺 “Beer Me, Obi-Wan!” https://kottke.org/24/03/beer-me-obi-wan

“When the Star Wars films aired in Chile, instead of cutting away from the movie for commercial breaks, the TV station ‘seamlessly’ inserted ads for Cerveza Cristal beer.”

#StarWars #beer

jay, 2 months ago to overwatch

So someone figured out an exploit through Blizzard's website to allow you to purchase skins for Overwatch 2 that are normally unavailable. Essentially, someone on Blizzard's side forgot to disable them and people discovered them by fooling around with the URLs. You still are very much paying for them with real money, not getting them for free or anything like that.

There's some fear that this will result in accounts being banned but I doubt it. This is an oversight by someone on their team, not something like item duplication. Also, the people who are buying these are the very people that make up the backbone of Overwatch's revenue, I would imagine. I'm sure Blizzard will be happy to wake up to a sudden influx of cash this morning.

I bought what looks to be an unused or dummied out development item that doesn't actually show up anywhere in game that I've seen. At this point, it's basically just a weird looking "TBD" type license on my account. I was just too curious to not give it a shot.

Anyways, I spent way too much money on Mercy skins this weekend.

#overwatch2 #overwatch #blizzard #blizzardentertainment #ow2 #gaming

saga, 2 months ago to random

Make no mistake, forced RTO is just a soft layoff. The AAA games industry is an absolute mess.

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/gta-6-reportedly-now-in-final-stages-of-development-as-workers-speak-out-against-return-to-office-plans/1100-6521477/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f&utm_source=press.coop

chirpbirb, 2 months ago to Steamdeck

i only play real video games

https://flathub.org/apps/com.github.k4zmu2a.spacecadetpinball

#SteamDeck #WindowsXP #Linux #Flathub

obrhoff, 2 months ago to retrogaming

Got this beauty as a birthday present.
#snes #supernintendo #retrogaming

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jay, 2 months ago to overwatch

Me (as :3 in the screenshots below): innocently playing #Overwatch as pink Mercy, healing peeps, having a good time.

Everyone else: RAHHHHHHORNY

Text chat log from Overwatch - [:3]: I get enough people asking me for my snap on OW, thanks. lol [LordDeez]: ight and im another

deurman, 2 months ago to retrogaming

I love #nightdivestudios and all, but €30 is just too much!

#retrogaming #pcgaming

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2292260/STAR_WARS_Dark_Forces_Remaster/

GIbiz, 2 months ago to random

10 Years Ago This Month, EA and 3DO founder Trip Hawkins posed a very provocative question, then offered a deeply unimpressive answer

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/are-games-too-much-like-pornography-10-years-ago-this-month

APBBlue, 2 months ago to random

Job interviews in 1 hour. Wish me luck. I'm really nervous. 😬 #JobSearch

gamepad, 2 months ago to random

The following server has been Suspended:

toot.poedelwitz.de

This is because:
☠️ It was a source of Spam
☠️ It was running an insecure and outdated version of Mastodon
☠️ It has been abandoned by the administrator

#fediblock
#MastoAdmin

gunchleoc, 2 months ago to random

Script to identify abandoned versions of Mastodon and create a blocklist for manual upload: https://codeberg.org/GunChleoc/mastodon-scripts/src/branch/main/old_versions

I have some ideas for extra features, but this should do if you're still being hit by the current spam wave.

#spam #Mastoadmin #FediAdmin

vriska, 2 months ago to random

Need star wars battlefront classic

burrito, 2 months ago to Steamdeck

SOUND VOLTEX, now on your Steam Deck. The complete guide to getting SDVX Konaste/e-amusement Cloud working portably.

🔗 https://sdvx.burrito.software

#SDVX #SteamDeck #Arcade #RhythmGames

jeremyjackson, 2 months ago to languagelearning

I'm relearning French in my free time, right?

So last night I decided I should find a French gaming/nerd site to read here and there. I found https://www.jeuxvideo.com and added it to my RSS reader.

This morning the first article I saw was titled "DBZ: Le Super Saiyan légendaire de Dragon Ball existe vraiment, mais ce n'est ni Son Goku, ni Broly et encore moins Vegeta si on croit cette interview de Akira Toriyama!"

So I guess I made the right choice.

#languagelearning #francais #dbz #jeuxvideo

jay, 2 months ago to gamedev

Very #gamedev things: https://mastodon.social/@fesshole/111964265046630682

#nintendo64 #nintendo #retrogaming

eniko, 2 months ago to random

"elon destroyed twitter", come to fedi

"reddit CEO sold out reddit communities", come to fedi

"tumblr CEO is heading transphobic harassment campaign", come to fedi

idk man i just feel like shit like this is gonna keep happening. and shit will go down on fedi too. difference is on fedi you can move when some little tyrant gets their head too far stuck up their own ass

jay, 2 months ago to Nintendo

Pretty incredible story about how some of the lost F-Zero games were restored from broadcasts on VHS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDcrM706gws

#fzero #nintendo #gaming #retrogaming #romhack #snes

stephensmith, 2 months ago to random

The new Overwatch update, after waiting about 45 minutes to download it, then comes with a ~3 minute unskippable intro. Have we learnt nothing???

jay, 3 months ago to overwatch

Every single time I open my mouth at the start of a match in #overwatch2 almost without fail, something like this directed at my voice (I'm playing Mercy).

#overwatch2