Notices by Ron Gilbert, Esq. (grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place)

Serious questions someone should look into.
1) How much of the Enterprise warp core energy is using to train AI models?
2) Does the Enterprise have a privacy policy?
3) Does the Enterprise computer listen into conversation without the "computer" wake word?

I got a new attorney for my company dealings in NZ, he asked what the game was I was working on so I sent him a Steam key. He then played all weekend and sent me a list of bugs and feedback. I assume I wasn't billed $300 an hour for this.

Thimbleweed Park released 8 years ago today. A damn fine game, if I don't say so myself.

If you haven't played it, add it to your bucket list today. Also available on Switch, Xbox, PS, iOS and Android.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/569860/Thimbleweed_Park/

When I first started at Lucasfilm, George shaved his beard so he could go watch the rerelease of StarWars and not be recognized. So the first time I met him he didn't have his iconic beard, I felt ripped off.

Welcome this episode of "Ask Mastodon".

I'm looking for a good web based RSS reader.

1) Web based
2) Not Feedly
3) Not self-hosted
4) Not filled with AI bullshit

Please read criteria carefully before replying.

Isn't it obvious what Trump/Musk are doing with Canada and tariffs? He's trying to make Canadians miserable so they elect a conservative leader who promises to fix everything. People are idiots so it will work.

More blogging. You remember blogging?

https://www.grumpygamer.com/deathbyscrolling/

I knew the idiot Elon Musk was a horrible human back when he called the guy who helped rescue those kids from the flooded cave and pedophile, simply because they wouldn't use his tech-bro solution. I wrote Musk off back then. Musk is a horrible human. Always has been. He has no redemption arc.

Any sufficiently advanced pile of shit is indistinguishable from artificial intelligence.

I'm starting to realize we're the ones in the Mirror Universe.

Not good news to wake up to.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/jan/16/david-lynch-twin-peaks-and-muholland-drive-director-dies-aged-78

What would you name a power-up that did nothing but cost a lot of gold to poke fun at the player for buying it.

I dislike git blame. It's hostile. It assume there is someone to blame. That someone did something wrong. That someone is at fault.

@thanius I had New Years hours ago.

Every year I say: "this is a year I finally use VIM". It last about 1 day. It's the model-ness that messes me up. I'm in command mode and I start typing like I'm in insert mode and bad things happen.

Merry Southern Hemisphere Christmas.

I walked up these stairs yesterday and today my calves are destroyed. That's the last time I get up from my computer and "go outside".

I'm fully behind a peasant revolt. We live in a world where if you're not a billionaire, you're a peasant.

This is how you'll install my latest game. I'm going full retro.

Breaking news: I've decide to put RPGTBD on hold for a bit. As a lot of dev friends told me, making an open world rpg with 3 people is crazy-talk. I've resurrected another game I started years ago after a recent design epiphany. @vampiress will continue to help with design and the RPGTBD artist will continue as well. Good news is we're planning on releasing it in the next few months.

@vampiress and I have been working on ways to simplify RPGTBD so it should make a comeback.

Haven't given up.