Turfster
Coder, pun perpetrator
Grumpiness elemental
Hyperbole abuser
Don't put words in my mouth
It's not my fault you can't perceive tone and context
(TurfsterNTE off The Bird Site)
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- Cable company: "yeah we're switching away from TV over cable, here's your new TV Hub that you connect to the internet instead!" TV Hub: *is a "hey google" spy box* Me: *digs through the company's website to find the "how do I stream TV to my Computer" help page* Fuck that noise.
- Reposted by TurfsterGundam Fans watching Gquacks are clapping and gasping and leaning over you to say "That's Bulk Grumman!" and when you're like oh cool he just likes like some random old dude, is he good, they say "oh no, definitely not" and start listing all the war crimes he committed.
- Reposted by TurfsterRespectfully. If I see any generative AI in a videogame even if it's just one asset, well acclaimed or just getting kickstarted, then unfortunately no, they're not getting my time or my money. Solidarity with creatives means maintaining that integrity no matter what. Our work is not a freeforall
- Reposted by TurfsterIt's specifically because 1) you're not a lawyer and 2) you have no idea how things you say might incriminate you for things you possibly didn't even do That you shut the fuck up and say "I want to have a lawyer with me for a police interview and won't comment without one".
- After over 4 decades, there is *still* a part of the population that thinks you type "gimme a cool game" into the computer, and it'll just happen! That's Not How It Works. That's Not How Anything Works. And it never fucking will, you doofuses.
- Don't get upset, it's just a syntax error. (Source.)
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- Jesus Fucking Christ Do parents just not do the "And if all your friends jumped off a building, would you jump too?" thing in this century or what? (I'm not going to go into the Well-Established Failures Of The US Education System part of this, just sigh and shake my head)
- God damn it Please don't let this negatively affect how accessibility advocates are seen in general
- I've been researching allegations regarding the founder and leadership of AbleGamers. From alleged abuse and harassment, financial mismanagement, and failure of leadership to protect employees, sources recount a hostile environment. Read my latest @ign.com story here: www.ign.com/articles/for...
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- Me a while ago: "I hope I get the Maelle Nuke Build soon. I just want to experience the story, fuck these fights, I don't care about them... but I have to put the game down for now. At least I have that to look forward to." The patch notes, 4 days ago, apparently: "LOL we nerfed Best Girl" Me: 👿
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- Yes. As it should be. But we need more of this. Shame this garbage out of existence.
- It's teaching them *those* two? What do they want those kids to be when they grow up, cops?
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- The problem with Cool World in the movie Cool World is that it is neither Cool nor a World, so no, I think I Jolly Wouldn't, thank you. In this TED talk, I will...
- Reposted by TurfsterWent to write up the story about Moon Studios being about to close after review bombing. Discovered that there wasn't any review bombing, and that they aren't running out of money, and that Mahler wants to prove he's not a Nazi by being shitty about trans people. kotaku.com/ori-moon-stu...
- Thread of truths
- Reposted by TurfsterNew article! NEW ARTICLE!!! Let's talk about the ways that plagiarists and AI are trying to automate sociopathy and why copyright might actually be a powerful tool to fuck with 'em. And, how do we make a world where even copyright is no longer necessary? docseuss.medium.com/copyright-ru...
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- Reposted by TurfsterEU folks: There is one week left to sign the EU citizen's initiative against "conversion therapy" of LGBTQ folks. I don't think it can hit the total threshold in that time but Spain just hit the country threshold, and Belgium and the Netherlands could still make it: eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...
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- Reposted by TurfsterHappy birthday to me 🥳🎉 Please check out our gay fox girl Mario 3 game people like it a lot and you might too
- tomorrow's my bday and as such kitsune tails in 25% off only on itch itch.io/s/152818/kit... not only that but if you pay a single extra dollar for the bundle you also get the prequel, kitsune zero!
- Old & Busted: Mrs Potato Head New & Shriven: Old Tumaten Woman
- Sometimes you wonder¹ what brainworms business people have that they thought that Francis Lai's Theme From Love Story needed lyrics. And then picked *those*. Does this need lyrics? youtu.be/-tb5M0C0NGA No. ¹ not really, it's because they wanted extra money from the billboard charts, same as ever
- *looks up from checking this last week's news* Oh hey, I just remembered the fash bribe for the venal sultan in The Last Crusade was a Rolls Royce. Wild.
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- Reposted by Turfsterin a just world, this would get people fined to a degree that they could never work in technology ever again
- Reposted by TurfsterFUN FACT: Helen Hunt is a stage name, her given name is The Iliad
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- Tales of Thrilling Terror Theatre Presents: The Pikachu of Satoshi, or: the Boy Who Stayed 10 Years Old For 25 Years
- One, two, three fabulous flyers! What, nothing? Nothing happened? Isn't three the number of the week? Oh, we're not finished counting! Four submerged boats! I mean four beautiful planes! The number of the week is four! Blub blub blub blub
- Reposted by TurfsterThis. Is. Infuriating. The refusal of treatment centers to require masking around immunocompromised people is absolute medical malpractice and, not to mention, brutally cruel and unethical.
- CNN: 'Jeff Bridges says he’s ‘feeling good’ nearly 5 years after cancer diagnosis, but dealing with ‘long-term’ Covid effects' Bridges: “My dance with Covid makes my cancer look like a piece of cake." www.cnn.com/2025/05/10/e...
- Reposted by Turfsternew blog post: turned my gdc 2025 level design theory talk into a blog post www.blog.radiator.debacle.us/2025/05/spac...
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- Reposted by TurfsterThere's this clip of early Facebook engineer Ruchi Sanghvi talking about implementing the aggregated news feed - the UI that would become the basis for every algorithmic social media feed - in which she talks about waking up the day after launching the feature...
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- Reposted by TurfsterAs an autistic and trans person, I’ve always found it strange—unsettling, even—how so many people accept arbitrary laws and institutional norms as if they’re carved from the bones of the universe, immutable and absolute.
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- They should drop all the cardinals on an island with paintball crucifixes. Last cardinal "alive" wins... except not! Because the first will be the last and the last will be the first!
- Congrats on being the new pope, Jonathan
- Reposted by TurfsterI LOVE WHEN GAMES SAY THE THING
- He's just like me fr (2 images from Columbo S02E06. Lt. Columbo is at a garage crime scene, with a bunch of cops in the background. He's looking as rumpled as ever, holding an egg, his breakfast. Another cop, B, greets him with "Hey, you look tired." Columbo looks back at B and replies "I am.")
- Not sure how well the show's humour holds up, but this ED still cracks me up
- Anime: Excel Saga Style: Ending Track: Menchi Aishou no Bolero Artist: Excel Girls Year: 1999 Studio: J.C.Staff #Anime #Animesky #AnimeThemes #AnimeEnding #AnimeED #ExcelSaga #HeppokoJikkenAnimationExcel♥Saga
- Don't put fucking "AI" apologist asshats on my timeline, especially when they're white knighting for it by saying things that have environmental impact can be good too. They should all choke on a Funko Pop.
- Reposted by Turfster“Sir, how many of these things are we going to just roll off the deck into the ocean?” “This was the deal we made with the orcas to stop sinking rich people’s yachts. Now do you want Poseidon’s favor or not?”
- CNN - Another F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet from the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier has been lost in the Red Sea, the second jet lost from the carrier in just over a week. cnn.com/2025/05/06/politics…
- Reposted by TurfsterOne estimate found that a single ChatGPT search uses 10 times the energy of a normal Google search. In this op-ed, politics editor @leximcmenamin.com addresses the environmental costs of AI that not many seem to be talking about ⤵️
- Reposted by TurfsterYou could probably have programmed something on your fucking Gameboy to crack the Enigma Code, and instead of boiling our oceans away it would just use up some Double As. And even then that wouldn't be noteworthy, just kinda weird.
- Reposted by TurfsterThis kinda thing is so funny to me because it's never been more clear that the higher ups at the paper said "we need you to write a fluff piece for AI, make it seem cool and useful" and this is all they could think of
- GREAT. It's about time. We'll finally have Hitler on the ropes. why is this news? Modern technology being able to beat up less-new technology is not impressive and is not related to any of the reasons that this particular technology is noteworthy or criticized www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
- ... that doesn't sound like Mark Hamill. Why do an unnecessary dub if you're not going to have continuity with the OG PS2 dub? Seriously, the 2 extra sales from random xenophobes that Hate Foreign Languages can't be worth it, because this whole game is Too Foreign for those shitbags anyway!
- Yakuza 0 Director’s Cut – Goro Majima English Dub First Look www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jRN... Kazuma Kiryu English Dub www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXj5... Theme Song “Bubble” by Shōnan no Kaze www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nl0...
- Reposted by TurfsterThe lesson to be learned from the development of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is very similar to the thing you can learn from Baldur's Gate 3, which is that if you were exactly that group of people at exactly that moment in time doing exactly that specific thing, it'll work out for you.
- Reposted by TurfsterI've been using this and he did a great fuckin job. I spent 10 years trying to get folks to focus on level design tools and thanks to this guy I don't have to anymore, Scythe rules
- I wish the transmedia company that insists on creating "AI" comics a very Die In A Dumpster Fire Like The Trash You Are. Nobody's going to give you *money* for *slop*, you fucking brainwormed dipshits. People buy manga because of the craft and humanity that goes into them.
- Reposted by TurfsterThis is so, so bleak. (Source: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...)
- Reposted by TurfsterGood thread. The reason Nanite, or Control's hard surfaces / ray tracing, is important is NOT that it looks pretty. That's mostly an accident. What it does is lets AAA make stuff that looks about the same, but without baking tons of intermediate assets / making environments incredibly static.
- Reposted by TurfsterThe developer for this game is a voyeuristic creep so this checks out honestly www.rockpapershotgun.com/inkonbini-is...
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- "In today's madcap rat race world, only our insane rats will bring you the security and peace of mind you crave even more than the cheese you make"
- All Games Are Replayable Games If They're Games That Speak To You
- Reposted by TurfsterToday I released Scythe 0.4.0 which brings Hotspots to Unreal 5.5: 🧵(1/9)
- Counterpoint: intellisense *would* be an unbelievably powerful tool, and it *was*, but they can't stop making it worse and less useful Also: package managers are a disgusting threat vector
- Reposted by TurfsterIndia is bombing Pakistan. UAE is bombing Sudan...and that's just the beginning. The whole world has watched Israel get away with pissing on the Geneva Convention for 18 months straight, only a fool would assume this won't inspire other genocidal nations.
- You're laughing, but aircraft carriers only dump their charges like this when they're in great distress
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- Reposted by TurfsterI used to hate proving triangles in trigonometry, but looking at the AI wasteland today, it really is a valuable lesson in not taking things at face value. Anyone can throw a picture of similar triangles in a book with some numbers, and if you don't know trig, you might accept lies as eternal truth
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- That "Amazingly" better be as sarcastic as it would be if *I* said this, because *everyone* knew this, except for the dumbfucks enthralled by the jangling keys. All Hail Mammon, am I right?
