Ruud @ Engine 🔜 GDC

At the airport. See you soon San Fran!

This will be my 23rd GDC, and every year my hopes are meeting new interesting developers and hear enthusiastic stories about what they are building. The "amongst peers" vibe is what made GDC my favorite event, which it has sadly lost for a large part.

Biz wise, it's looking like a 50% uptick so 👍

I comfort myself with the thought he will be a case study for abhorrent behavior by a silver-spoon-fed rich white guy for centuries to come. He will not be remembered how he thinks he will be.

People stifling independent contractors on their invoices is not welcome in my industry. "I'm not going to pay you because you can't sue me" is Trump-level abhorrent behavior. We've seen where that leads.

In the games industry but I deleted my LinkedIn account years ago when it became "Facebook for self-important posers" instead of a professional database for networking within your field.

But, to paraphrase Peter Dinklage: "I drink wine and know people" so I'll make sure it is known.

"You watch birds taking flight..."
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After defeating a demon overlord and saving the world, you watch birds take flight in an autumn forest surrounded by surviving members of your group. Not everyone made it, but they will be remembered.

That covers the "epicness" of the track more 😁 great work!

I missed your response for some reason. So yes, quite a few are very angry but I am seeing way more celebratory posts out of Iran / from Iranians than I expected.

No argument about the illegality, that is obvious. But since near everything Trump has done has been illegal, I don't think he cares.

Reasons I love my wife, #37

She comes home from work, tired and ready for bed. Goes to the bathroom while I make her a snack and while I'm in the kitchen, I hear her get out of the bathroom and loudly exclaim: "BEGONE, VILE CLOTHING".

A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.

Like Trump has ever bothered with rules.

The really weird thing is that everyone in the US and most of the world condemns this attack, except Trump, Netanyahu and the people of Iran. From what I hear (from Iranians) they are celebrating the death of Khomeini.

Looks like British Columbia is showing us the path forward.

So that's what was meant with "looking out for the little guy"

😁

I haven't seen this in 10 years and can still sing it by heart lol.

What dots? You think people in Dubai are peddling pro-America propaganda? No one in the middle east outside of Israel is happy with these attacks, especially my Arab friends in Dubai. I'm just saying that the people of Iran want to get rid of the oppressive regime and they hope this will do it.

From generally well informed people in Dubai whose family is Iranian.

I hear from people on the ground that the average Iranian civilian is cheering for the attack, because they think they are getting liberated (they aren't).

This was before it was clear 108 school girls died though, that might change some things.

Currently the US is operating as a rogue terrorist nation lead by a tin-pot mentally unstable dictator. A preemptive strike is not 'defending yourself', it makes you the aggressor. It is the same excuse Vladimir Putin used to invade Ukraine.

I don't think the Canadian people agree with you here.

Your first sentence seems to be two words too long Robert.

Donald Trump cannot be trusted to lead America. (<-period)

Which is directly derived from the even shorter "Donald Trump cannot be trusted."

Fix your shit Americans.

An attack by two sovereign nations on another sovereign nation is an act of war? I don't know why that needs explaining.

My (American) wife today just before going to sleep: "I am beginning to feel a lot like we're Russia."

I didn't have a counter argument to make her feel better.

$0 because of the misspelling of his name. 😡

I swear memes make these typos on purpose, I don't see any other reason all memes have spelling errors.

I know I know, I am unusually bothered by spelling mistakes, it just seems unintelligent to me. Sorry! 😂

I once made a sticker like that for a sexually explicit peep show 'store front' that said MasturCard.

AI is not gonna come up with that kind of smutty joke!

Sweet! Just ordered a bunch since they will make great gifts for my old MSX buddies 😅

I realize this is probably just an 'old man yells at cloud' moment, but I am baffled by all these tiktoks/reels where people talk to you - the viewer - while holding a microphone. Sometimes a weird tiny thing with a fuzzy on top, sometimes a while desk-mic thing (with stand!). It's weird to me.

Best argument I have ever heard use in the bathroom discussion is "So when has a trans person made you feel uncomfortable in a bathroom?".

Never. The answer is never. While statistically speaking, it's very likely you have been in a public bathroom with a trans person.

Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses "The legislature did not include a grace period."

I fail to see how a gender-identification marker has any relationship to "being able to safely and legally operate a motorized vehicle". This law has no application, and therefore shouldn't exist.

www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

I never understood this sentiment to begin with. Any presidential candidate that will run on "people are people, they all have the exact same rights" should win in a landslide in the current political climate.

Well that movie was prime Beckinsale in tight black leather...

I was definitely head over heels for Selene.

Nothing like an announcement of an announcement to get the blood flowing 😄

In all seriousness though, I hope it's something good!