mastodon 4.7.3Game designer, mostly. Knows how to make a custom editor in Unreal, write jokes in a foreign language, track police movements across a large city, and publicly scold an abusive party leader.
You've already heard such Polish bangers as "kurwa" and "not my circus, not my monkeys", but have you heard of "to jebnie"? Pronounced "toe yebnyeh", it describes the feeling of dreadful anticipation when someone has fucked around and is just about to find out.
(don't use in front of your babcia)
Current US regime is a WH40k Chaos cult. Epstein files? Slaanesh. All those random attacks on other countries that make no strategic sense? Khorne. RFK Jr.? Nurgle.
@pare@kamu.social @angusm@mastodon.social @cstross@wandering.shop Given how clueless authoritarian decision makers can be about reasons why regular people have kids, I wouldn't be surprised.
Here in Poland the authoritarian right is convinced they can make people have more kids by simply paying them to do it.
(plot twist: no amount of money works when abortion is banned, housing is expensive, and jobs are insecure)
Things I like about my job: coming up with new gameplay, implementing features, composing assets, fiddling with the balance, watching the players enjoy the result.
Things I hate about my job: that moment when the initial version is done and now I have to test it and find out that it doesn't work.
In our Discord server, one person remarked our frequency of patches makes them think we're Borg, and another person answered that no, we're just German. Obviously this is all just goofing around, no harm done etc., but still: should I tell them that I'm Polish and our main QA guy is Italian? Or should I tell them that this German team is being led by an Austrian?
Mini Metro is a power fantasy of being able to move the tunnels under the river around at will and at no cost.
@rayckeith@techhub.social This article seems to be from almost six years ago. Is there a follow-up?
Against my better judgement, I bought Europa Universalis 5 without waiting for a month, and now I'm stuck with a bugged saved state after I restarted from an earlier attempt where I had to put up with at least two other annoying bugs.("at least" because with Paradox it's sometimes hard to tell a bug from a feature). Now I have to wait a week for the first major patch.
Testing the feature I'm currently working on requires me to have as many bad random rolls as possible, which is perhaps why I keep getting a higher than expected number of good ones.
Twitter incels: some old guy in his late 20s told us big boobs are sexy, so now we're going to throw a tantrum every time a video game character doesn't have them.
bsky HoMs: hooves. cat ears. belly fat. all hairstyles you can imagine. tattoos. piercings. muscles. more muscles. hips that could birth an aircraft carrier. and also boobs