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Matthew Gatland

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me: if you go pee in the potty, you get one mini chocolate chip 2yo: chocolate! me: if you go poop, you get TWO chocolate chips 2yo: chocolate!! me: there’s a daily login bonus of 1 extra chip. every 3 months, if you upgrade to the ChipPass, all daily activities produce chips—


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welcome to heaven, glad you made it! this is our build machine, it's never broken. over here you'll find our design documentation that was recently refreshed. our groomed JIRA backlog is ov-- (regaining consciousness) WAKE UP, THE STAKEHOLDERS ARE ASKING FOR AN EXTRACTION SHOOTER


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every unreal designer i know has done this

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the sea of thieves principle: the fun factor of a game is inversely proportional to the amount of time trailers spend panning over its water visuals. so named because sea of thieves, a famously fun game with truly gorgeous water, spends 0 time ogling water visuals in its trailers


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there is a special place in heaven for engineers who say "so you wrote (completely unhinged and wildly unplayable thing) in your design doc, but i THINK you meant (very normal and good thing), so i just implemented that version instead"


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on riot slack there is a series of emojis you can paste which recreates a screenshot of an old email. the email reads "hey, I'm gonna set up a quick one on one because I think we are crucially misaligned in some important ways, see you in ten minutes, thanks." i miss it every day


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this shit is crazy @selentelechia we were talking abt this the other day, apparently it's widespread

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There are crystal structures that simply won't form anymore, even though they did a few decades ago. Real life Ice-9? Could make an incredible sci-fi book. en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti…



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was trying to get my 2yo to nap on vacation, so i offered her a cheddar square to nibble on and said “let’s lie down on our cot and read a book in the nice quiet darkness together.” since then she has been asking to “eat cheese in the darkness”


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1/ After only 5.5 months, the video game industry has set a tragic new record for in-year layoffs (10,900 versus the prior record of 10,500 in 2023, and the record before that, 8,500 in 2022). These layoffs span games that were canceled and scaled back, as well as studios that…

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The Tactical Breach Wizards demo is out now! store.steampowered.com/app/1043810/Ta… 🚀 From the @Gunpoint and @HeatSig devs 🧙‍♀️Try the Navy Seer and Freelance Storm Witch 🚦 Defenestrate a Traffic Warlock 🪄 Plus! A little something extra just for the demo... RTs much appreciated!


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the most entertaining thing about the new doctor who season is the cataclysmic database event that has been slowly occurring due to the bbc's insane decision to call it Season One


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So here's a story of, by far, the weirdest bug I've encountered in my CS career. Along with @maciejwolczyk we've been training a neural network that learns how to play NetHack, an old roguelike game, that looks like in the screenshot. Recenlty, something unexpected happened.

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There are four enemies nearby. You press lock-on. Which enemy gets targeted and why? A) Closest distance, off-screen B) Second closest, behind player C) Third closest, in player's line of sight D) Farthest distance, but nearest center of camera

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if your small game has hundreds of unique cases, each with slightly different logic and liable to change independently, then that's the complexity you're dealing with. you can do a lot worse than staring it directly in the face


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lots of people debating alternative approaches in the comments. i have been on teams that have tried every single permutation, so i created this helpful flow chart

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I wonder what group of long-dormant aliens/supernatural beings are being called together this time

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Looks like #FORTNITEOG landed at 9PM NZ Time. Largest peak traffic ever of the @ChorusNZ network. An extra 1.5Tbps of traffic from just one game - crazy. #nzrunsonfibre

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deus ex emails be like

There are crystal structures that simply won't form anymore, even though they did a few decades ago. Real life Ice-9? Could make an incredible sci-fi book. en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti…



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