Notices by David Amador (djlink@mastodon.gamedev.place)

lmao. honestly I only opened this article because I wanted to see what he ditched YouTube for and I’m not sure what I was expecting.

Millions of books were destroyed in the process of scanning them to feed “AI” databases. You have no idea how upset this makes me. I love books, they kept me company during my childhood/teen years while figuring out myself (although still am) https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/anthropic-destroyed-millions-of-print-books-to-build-its-ai-models/

What the heck I didn’t know this was a thing!! https://www.timeextension.com/news/2025/06/physical-collectors-should-plug-in-switch-3ds-and-vita-game-cards-every-5-10-years-to-avoid-data-loss

There was a time in Hollywood where all the movies would solve a problem with “let’s Nuke it”.
Earth core stopped? Bomb
Asteroid? Bomb
Sun dying? Bomb
Aliens? Bomb

So this looked like the plot of one of those movies tbh

Ohh I get it now

https://www.theverge.com/news/673938/gabe-newell-valve-founder-brain-computer-interface-first-chip-starfish

Rockstar confirmed GTA 6 is launching May 26 2026. So still a year out. https://www.rockstargames.com/newswire/article/258aa538o412ok/grand-theft-auto-vi-is-now-coming-may-26-2026

wow exciting news, Apple engineering team is now contributing to Godot by adding native VisionOS support. https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/105628

SNES also had a mouse joycon. speaking of which, I hope they make a new Mario Paint

Ohhh nice they got Paul Rudd to do a new Nintendo commercial, addressing the old one right away was a nice touch

SNES 1991 commercial: https://youtube.com/watch?v=xYhGL5y4DPQ

Switch 2 2025 commercial: https://youtube.com/watch?v=3uGXvdbL1ys

Why does everything has to be a battle royale/moba/season pack/etc these days.

They could be making
a new Rayman, a new ZombieU, a new Prince of Persia, Splinter Cell, Might and Magic, Driver, Red Steel. There’s more genres they could revisit/revitalize

https://www.pcgamesn.com/ubisoft/battle-royale-game-apex-legends-rival

8-9 years ago during a live round-table, I said that game devs had a social responsibility especially towards children, to not put gambling-money-related spending incentive in videogames; and it was dismissed. I was right, this kind of stuff isn't good.

https://automaton-media.com/en/news/almost-19-of-japanese-people-in-their-20s-have-spent-so-much-money-on-gacha-they-struggled-with-covering-living-expenses-survey-reveals/

needed to record a quick audio and didn't had anything at hand so I thought "good old windows voice recorder, that will do it"
The voice recorder:

React builds were failing in India only because the government blocked a website so it would make gradle fail to build. I often think about this, frameworks can be nice but as they have freedom to pull other packages when needed it can break for any sort of unrelated reasons
https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/49115#issuecomment-2634609323

Love how cats be like “f yeah this tiny grass will make me invisible”

@sinbad @on_code yeah salaries in gamedev are bad, and there's tons of talent there, it's a very punishing field and most do out of love for it.

I dunno ... I guess maybe they optimized the code? or wrote smarter code?
Remembering that gamedev era of time when PCs could barely scroll a background and underdog id Software came around and "just" made 3D stuff by approaching things differently.

I like to pause code in TV shows, noticed this Youtube ID on Gilfoyle's computer in Silicon Valley, and yeah I don't know what I was expecting

wow so Tiktok was actually banned huh. Instead of asking for a revert I'd say just throw in Facebook and Twitter in there too, globally! But that would never happen.

@sinbad interesting, I wonder if it was one particular game or a couple of them that made that fun and now the ones you are playing don’t make it as enjoyable? Or even going back to the old ones?

@sinbad ohhh just in perfect time, my sculpt died last week and I'm using a temp kb which I don't like that much. thank you!!!