Notices by Ron Gilbert (GrumpyGamer) (grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place), page 2

Companies that suffer from data breaches that could have been prevented should be required to fire the CEO and that CEO gets no compensation. Companies don't take data security seriously because a breach doesn't really effect them. They just go on.

I forget. Are we supposed to set our clocks backwards or forwards on the New Year?

I'm going to schedule a vibe-meeting where all our AI agents just talk to each other.

Joking aside, there is a key to Death By Scrolling. The ? is the same letter.

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I'm sick of Holodeck slop.

When Twitter collapsed, it was great to see the flood of friends, game devs and other come to Mastodon. Over the next 9 months a lot of them vanished to Threads, BlueSky or just left. I want to thank all people who are still on Mastodon and make it a wonderful place. You know who you are.

I'm looking for 10 people to do preliminary playtesting of the new amazing Death by Scrolling update. New character, now biome, new music, new stuff. New new new!
If you already own and play the game, DM me for instructions. This first test will be limited to 10 lucky players.

People being amazed that AI can code is like people being amazed a chimp can ride a unicycle.

AI will destroy the world, not in the way it did in Terminator, but by a million paper cuts.

I'm not a Streamer so I don't know what Streamers need in terms of features to turn on and off to make streaming easier. I watched someone streaming Death by Scrolling and they wanted to turn off looping SFX because they got in the way of talking. If you stream a lot are there others things? Happy to add them.

#DeathByScrolling

I wish there was some kind of global internet-wide setting that says "I don't want to you use fucking passkeys, stop asking me".

One week until Death by Scrolling.

One. Week.

#DeathByScrolling #indiedev #pixelart

Stages of hearing about a new bug:

1) Denial - That’s not a real bug!
2) Anger - What are these testers thinking!
3) Bargain - I’m sure I fixed this before? Didn’t I?
4) Depression - I’m never going to fix all these bugs.
5) Acceptance - Fine! I’ll fix the bug and it turned out to be pretty simple.

I've been punching Nazis since 1989.

If you think video game shouldn't be political, then you haven't been paying attention while you play Battlefield.

Kind of frustrating that serval gaming outlets are calling the Oct 28 release of Death by Scrolling a "Windows PC" release while totally ignoring (forgetting) it also includes the native Mac and Linux. We worked hard to fully support all three platforms.

Death by Scrolling is coming October 28th.

https://www.grumpygamer.com/dbs_release_date/

I took a small vacation to the south island of NZ.

Make no mistake: Death by Scrolling is a biting commentary on runaway greed and exploitation by the rich.