Notices by Megan Fox (glassbottommeg@peoplemaking.games), page 2

So, #history question: I was taught that industrialization/urbanization, the move from farming communities into cities, happened because it provided a higher standard of living, no more starvation etc.

I'm pretty sure that was bullshit, given everything else I've read about the life of say, bakers in cities (and those who relied on their literal singular Daily Bread). Or how many holidays a Christian peasant apparently got.

How did that actually go down? Was urbanization better at first and only got so bad after? Was it because they were coming out of like, the black death or something? Just times were changing?

Got a #art / #gameart / #gamedev kinda question:

Let's say I have an artist who really likes modelling (and is quite good at it), but tends to get stymized at texturing. Not can't-do, just that isn't their favorite.

Hit with me aesthetics that are geometry-forward, that either minimize texturing, or favor broad-stroke texturing, or at least less focused texturing (so hard surfaces/generative akin to trimsheets or noise maps or auto-world-UV-texturing or etc)

It isn't that she can't learn to do it better, I just feel strongly that you should build around what your team is best at and most enjoys, and I mean. There's no particular reason we gotta shove down the default path here!

@mcc here's some doors that are working fine yep totally fine doors are never a problem in video games aaaaaaaaa

@demofox oh this is neat!

I mean it probably has applications for data centers and backup anyways, but also. Hrm. I wonder if we even can swing back toward physical ownership at this point?

It feels like a thing that should happen eventually, even if just as a stylistic rejection of all that came before, I'm just struggling to imagine the circumstances in which that could arise. I guess maybe if something something climate collapse something network speeds/reliability go down especially globally?

Seeing folks talking about BlueSky since it opened, but seemingly not realizing it's likely on a downward trajectory?

Now that it's public, it's the same as BeReal and the rest: a Twitter clone. Well, except it's worse than those, it's less featured. It's very likely toast.

Mastodon's got a unique selling point to at least keep interest funneling back. BlueSky had that, but basically fumbled the federation ball when they realized normies didn't care. They decided to just be Twitter—but then the normies went to Threads for their advert-algo slop.

EDIT: BlueSky is now basically a biodome for Weird Twitter / Terminally Online Shitposter's Club, and we'll see if that's self supporting. I am in that culture! But. Uh. Yeah.

Oh, huh- doing a quick check, apparently normies didn't go to Threads either? Threads apparently settled out to just, brands talking at brands, and a place for preexisting Instagram influencers to post text. lol.

Pretty sure normies shrugged and just went to TikTok, Instagram, or- you know, fucked off to meatspace to do normie things.

Holy crap, PocketPair (PalWorld) is currently paying $470k a month on server costs alone, because of uh. Interesting. Hiring/management choices.

(I try to avoid twitter image posting but <WHEEZE>) #GameNews #Gaming

new website, who dis https://glassbottomgames.com/

Lately I think a lot about the damage that conflating game making with game selling has done.

Tons of games made by hobbyists just because they wanted to make a game, but that isn't allowed- now the little voice in their head says they failed unless they made enough money to buy a house with it and. Just. Nah.

It's ok to just make games. Games don't gotta sell to make a difference. Many games that can make the most difference inter-personally are essentially market poison, but they should still get made!

That isn't an argument for Learning To Marketing Good, that's an argument for burning down billionaire houses until someone figures out basic arts funding a/o basic income again.

I'm... sorry, are we meant to be impressed by this? This sounds like a couple of AI news casters yelling clumpy oatmeal at eachother.

(AI voice background NPC bullshit for #gamedev from #ces2024 / #nvidia)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UamcBgWz0i8

So there's a big thing about Unity shutting down Weta and that sucks and etc but buried in the middle is this:

"Unity will no longer mandate that employees work from offices three a days a week and will reduce 'full in-office services' to three days a week in most locations, the company said."

Which amounts to a patent admission at a corporate level that (1) WFH is cheaper, and (2) Return To Office isn't worth pushing at a corporate level.

Wonder if the worker bees at other studios are just meant to ignore this. Cus, er. It's right there.

https://gamefromscratch.com/unity-layoff-3-8-of-workforce-weta-digital-closed/ #GameDev

Really love the AI enshittified web.

Just tried to find dilution instructions for a cleaner concentrate to spray bottle.

Picking at random, half didn't work as they were too weak (bucket dilution != spray bottle dilution), and half could actually kill a person!

(the solution - haw - was to search Reddit, but who knows how long that'll work)

More people should be following @llamasoft_ox, you just get to see a lot of sheep and other ruminants.

You think "ah hah it's marketing for the new llamasoft game!" and then gradually realize all the llama games were actually marketing for Morning Sheep Time with Jeff Minter.

@grumpygamer @ja2ke oh! Always wondered what the difference was for novel vs games.

Which means we could incorporate them into games via video? Weird thought. Until now wouldn't be sure how, but with Control and Alan Wake 2, well. Huh!

@ja2ke @grumpygamer right?

And even if they said no because it becomes an asset first, what if you did video based generation runtime? What if I pulled the Coke logo out of video with a shader and threw that around? Surely that flies.

Don't use real brands in your games/novels

Not because you can't, but because you often can in novels at least— but shouldn't, because you're giving mega corps free advertising.

I mean there's other good reasons too, like "inventing dumb fake brands is half the fun", but that's plenty reason already. Don't lick boots, even if they taste like Oreo.

Please do vote if you're in the US. Literally every school board/director up for us had a book burning type running, some more subtle than others.

I know it's boring off year stuff but holy shit those types can do damage en masse.

Just sitting here realizing that all the pay/login gates on articles are the single greatest force for archiving the web right now (since that's the best way to side-step them), heh

Good job, capitalists, you're accidentally helping!

The Internet is at a point where I trust the geocities-ass page that looks like a child made it more than any slickly produced modern web experience.

I crave your shitty blogs. Give me your UNDER CONSTRUCTION gifs.

If anyone was considering Kagi (premium search engine) but was put off the limits on number of searches, they dropped that entirely for most- the $10 tier is now just unlimited searches.

$10/mo for "a Google that actually works" is very worth it to me, though your mileage may vary.