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jay, 2 days ago to food

Went to lunch with my bosses to a restaurant nearby the office. Scanned the QR code to see the menu (ugh). Noticed that the chef is apparently having a good time naming his menu items.

#food #restaurant #montreal #funny

jay, 4 days ago to SuperMario

Some incredible stuff from various fan communities out there these days. Mario Builder 64 is essentially a Mario Maker type game for Super Mario 64 that even allows you to download levels other people have made.

So many really talented folks out there, I hope it doesn't die an early cease-and-desist death from Big N.

Check out the release trailer here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUFL5ObkxCY

#mario64 #supermario #mariomaker #nintendo #nintendo64 #supermario64 #romhack #retrogaming #emulation

jay, 10 days ago to AssassinsCreed

The big reveal for one of the games I've been working on for a little while is happening in about 40 minutes. Excited to see it and what the reaction is going to be. (Yeah, I haven't seen the trailer internally myself yet.) You can find that happening over here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vovkzbtYBC8

#assassinscreed #acshadows #assassinscreedshadows #ubisoft #gaming

jay, 11 days ago to Kubernetes

Decided to sit down and try to learn #kubernetes despite the fact that I don't have any real need for it on my little home server. Still, it's been interesting and - I won't lie - a bit frustrating at times. It's very much like using a chainsaw to butter my bread for my use case, but I had a nice feeling of satisfaction when I succeeded in getting #owncast set up through it. I've had some odd issues with Docker failing to launch certain containers through containerd that I have not been able to figure out, however.

I was putting thought into maybe redoing my server setup with kubernetes but I sincerely worry that I'll run into this same containerd issue with some of my other apps.

#selfhost #selfhosting #linux

jay, 3 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

jay, 3 months ago to Playstation

Nice video covering some of the fan translation patches released for the PlayStation in 2023: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maxSrXeHzWI

#PlayStation #Sony #hacks #romhack #fantranslation #gaming #retrogaming #PS1 #PSX

jay, 3 months ago to gamedev

A peek into my LinkedIn newsfeed as an average random #gamedev right now:

"I was just laid off"
"I was just laid off"
"I was just laid off"
"I was just laid off"
"fuck you snowflakes showing empathy for laid off gamedevs"
"i was just laid off"
"I was just laid off"
"I apologize for being insensitive to fellow gamedevs that were just laid off, I'm so sorry but not really because I still stand behind my point of view on this, also, people in my comments are pointing out that I'm an anti-trans asshole on Twitter, ain't I a stinker?"
"I was just laid off"
"we are really interested in your profile for our latest blockchain sports game!"
"I was just laid off"
"I was just laid off"

jay, 4 months ago to gamedev

Monday morning, in game development studios around the world, game designers will walk into a meeting and say simply, "it'll be Palworld but with emergent gameplay!" and everyone will give a thumbs up, pat him on the back and it'll get canned in 3 weeks.

#gamedev

jay, 4 months ago to random

Looks like I need new goals for the new year as I just smashed my last goal this morning. Starting at 540 pounds almost 2 years ago, I'm now down to 269 pounds, making for a loss of 271 pounds, just breaking the 50% mark from my heaviest.

You can do anything if you are properly motivated. If you are looking to make changes in your life, you can do it too. Every journey starts with a single step. Start today.

#weight #WeightLoss #happynewyear #happynewyear2024

jay, 5 months ago to Xbox

We're almost in the year 2024 and brand new wireless #Xbox controllers still require AA batteries. Feels like a relic from the stone age or something.

#gaming

jay, 5 months ago to Zelda

I'm probably late to the game on this but just noticed a Link's Awakening PC port which looks incredible!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXgXwDAwRaU

#zelda #nintendo #linksawakening #port #retrogaming

jay, 6 months ago to Mario

Perhaps one of the most inventive ROM hacks I've seen, which sounds really simple but has all sorts of interesting implications. What if we gave Mario in Mario 64 a shotgun?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5TrXhAXlX0

#mario #mario64 #n64 #nintendo #romhack

jay, 6 months ago to random

I receive a JIRA ticket this morning from someone saying that he cannot access JIRA.

THE CALL IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE.

jay, 7 months ago to random

So apparently there's some api called fedicrawl that some instances out there are using to catalog and tag instances they don't like, I suppose in retaliation to the use of the fediblock tag. Someone out there realllly does not like me, lol.

Here's a list of the things they tagged me as and the link they used as the receipt, which is me reporting a spam bot?!

I post about games, game development, arcade stuff... so this is hilarious to me.

jay, 7 months ago to EliteDangerous

Layoffs happening at Elite Dangerous studio Frontier Developments. The endless number of layoffs happening both in gamedev and outside of it is disheartening right now.

https://www.pcgamer.com/elite-dangerous-studio-frontier-developments-announces-layoffs-following-a-period-of-disappointing-financial-performance/

#layoffs #elitedangerous #frontierdevelopments #gamedev #gaming

jay, 7 months ago to AssassinsCreed

Assassin's Kitty.

#ubisoft #assassinscreedmirage #assassinscreed #cat #cats #catsofmastodon #gaming

jay, 7 months ago to random

My sweet baby is gone.

jay, 7 months ago to gamedev

Looks like Activision has had a data breach with employee records, apparently nothing sensitive but that's a matter of opinion, really.

https://infosec.exchange/@haveibeenpwned/111169870141551958

#gamedev #gaming #activision #activisionblizzard

jay, 7 months ago to gamedev

Looks like Team17 are having a round of layoffs, yet more layoffs in gamedev these days. This is 2 weeks after they just announced a 31% increase in revenues year over year.

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/team17-reportedly-suffers-layoffs-during-company-restructure

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/team17-h1-2023-revenue-grew-by-31

#gamedev #team17 #layoffs #gaming #worms #gamingnews

jay, 7 months ago to GenshinImpact

So I started playing Genshin Impact a few days ago, mainly due to a friend of mine being really hardcore about it and wanting to play with them a bit and have another game to play together.

Still only a few hours in, my adventure rank is currently 9 and I think it takes level 16 to unlock multiplayer. To this point, I'm actually kind of enjoying chilling out and exploring around for treasure chests and such.

The game is obviously really trying hard to get you to part with your cash especially with the whole gacha aspect of earning new characters through straight up gambling. It's a bit of a shock after last playing Phantasy Star Online 2 which was probably on the other extreme in terms of fairness where you essentially only paid to get some quality-of-life upgrades like more item storage.

It's pretty, it's large and there's a ton to explore, and since I have zero intent on ever dropping a dime on it, I'm quite happy with the experience of playing it so far.

For what it's worth, it also runs extremely well on the ROG Ally at the standard settings at 1080p, which is how I am playing it. I've heard that it can be a bit rough running on the Steam Deck, but can't say I've tried it there myself.

#GenshinImpact #gaming #rogally #phantasystaronline2 #pso2global #pso2ngs #SteamDeck #gachagames

jay, 7 months ago to epic

Epic apparently laying off over 900 employees. #epic #epicgames #gamedev #fortnite #unreal #layoffs

jay, 8 months ago to gamedev

And now off to my studio mandated 40% return to office time, where I will sit on Teams and have the exact same meeting I would have had at home but on worse equipment, hardware, internet connection, etc, etc, etc...

#returntooffice #RTO #gamedev

jay, 8 months ago to gamedev

Regarding the last boost, Glen Schofield is the guy that made this dumb little tweet about overworking his team. Sure was worth it, eh?

People like this need to leave our industry - and every industry - forever.

#gamedev #gaming #CallistoProtocol #burnout

jay, 8 months ago to threads

As someone that worked on Hyper Scape... I think I'm okay with these shots being fired.

#Threads #hyperscape #gamedev #gaming

jay, 8 months ago to speedrun

SummoningSalt's look at Super Mario Bros 2 J/SMB The Lost Levels speedrunning of World 5-2.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udQ_XUJt34M

#smb #SuperMarioBros #speedrun #lostlevels #nintendo #retrogaming