Notices by Ron Gilbert #KamalaHarris (grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place), page 3

She's waiting for him to die. Reminds me of the scene in Breaking Bad.

He's talking about the Apple of today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3NASGb5m8s

The train stopped. I fear the worst.

People get real upset when you ask if you can drive the train.

First rule of Secret Garden Club is don’t have a sign to Secret Garden.

In Melbourne for a week. Going to go camping with some friends. They tell me it’s summer so there are no spiders.

Just to clarify, when I say "I stole my first Mac" I mean I stole the first Mac I owned, not that it was the first in a long history of Macs I've stolen.

Reminder: A company's real product is their Quarterly Report. What they make or service they provide is just collateral damage.

P.S. Eat the Rich

When playtesting your game the most import thing to do is shut the fuck up. Don't help them. Don't tell them how to solve their problem. Just watch. Study the things they tried. Do this for a long time. Live their pain and confusion. Then go back and address what they struggled with. I see too many devs that jump in and help, then never fix the problem. Live their confusion.

Our Flag Means Death is incredible. Can't wait for the 2nd season. It's as close as I want to get to a Monkey Island TV show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHCsauMyJk0

#OurFlagMeansDeath

Things that would have made no sense 20 years ago: "Oppenheimer will stream on Peacock in February"

@thomasfuchs When I was flaying in IFR there were also no "graphics" as all I could see the the thick grey of clouds. I had to fly a real plane with just those instruments.

I have a Netflix subscription... I have no idea how to play games on Netflix. I'm sure I could figure it out, but Netflix is failing in not making it obvious and easy.

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/netflix-reportedly-considering-in-game-purchases-and-ads

There is no capturable metric for enjoyment. What products/games can capture is engagement and that is then misinterpreted as enjoyment. There are a lot of products I engage with because I want that they produce, but I am unhappy.

I miss having to defrag drives. There was something therapeutic about watching it.

It's very important that we go out and bury really odd things in the ground to mess with future archeologists.

"Novice programmers both read and write programs significantly worse when intoxicated"

Really? Shocking!

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0164121223002820

Real or The Onion headlin... who am I kidding, it's real.

https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/22/nuclear_lab_hacked/

Don't let scurvy ruin your holiday fun!

#monkeyisland

The great twitter migration. Lots of math in here. I tend to believe things with equations in them.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-48200-7