I'm not a #Valve or #Steam fanboy by any means, they deserve criticism where it's due, but critique for a fair market price is crazy. Remember, the console makers are selling at a loss and are getting their money back through subscriptions, over-priced games and accessories.
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Despite the price, the #SteamMachine will be a raging success and will be sold out for the rest of the year. Performance is not king, user experience is - and #Valve is providing the most playful, open gaming hardware that will attract a crowd of modders and tinkerers to make this something no other console could dream of becoming.
So the Masters of the Universe movie was not great. The best part was the humour, and the way the movie held a mirror up to our reality, showing that it is just as weird as Eternia, its inhabitants, and its rituals.
The truth about vibe and agentic coding is that it's still a lot of work to create something of value for other people. It made me realize just how much of the work is actually a back and forth on features and implementation details.
I recently updated my #Unity project from 2022 to 6.3 LTS and everything went absolutely flawlessly. Didn't expect that. Pretty impressive, I gotta say.
Everyone rightfully angry at #discord and #bigtech and searching for technical solutions, but remember what really makes them shit their pants: you talking to your neighbours again. #democracy #regulation
Bruce Sterlings speech from 1991 is a must-read for every #gamedev - still very relevant today. lib.ru/STERLINGB/stor… (Found it via a recent blog post by Cory Doctorow which is also great in its own right: pluralistic.net/2026/02/23/goo…)
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The Fairphone CEO put out a thoughtful article about diversity and then in the comment section, the social justice warriors tear him apart and are totally obnoxious, without even saying what they really criticise or would do different. fairphone.com/en/2026/02/05/…
From all the stuff I got rid of over the years, I don't miss anything, can even hardly remember any of it - except #books. There are so many books I miss, I could make a list right now. I now get why some people have these huge shelves at home.