Ben Zeigler | DoubleBuffered

Currently working inside the Venn diagram of Unreal Engine game programming and the Social Psychology of internet culture. They totally intersect, trust me

[Ben Zeigler | DoubleBuffered @JZig]

I'm officially done posting here because it sure doesn't look like it's going to get better. You can find me at https://t.co/rRJUn1TqjY or https://t.co/AzrhL8otJ8 where I can actually post about the psychology and gamedev stuff I'm working on

[Ben Zeigler | DoubleBuffered @JZig]

It's difficult to keep up with the volume of news this weekend, but Musk is attempting a technological coup and is mostly succeeding. This is very bad, and you should contact any political representatives to urge action https://t.co/J1UOvZEmvz

[Ben Zeigler | DoubleBuffered @JZig]

@RepDeborahRoss @NCAGO As you are my representative (I live in Raleigh), I urge you to take more public actions to stand against the recent law breaking behavior of the incoming administration. You are in a good position to do more, and must coordinate with others in the house

[Ben Zeigler | DoubleBuffered @JZig]

I wrote up my thoughts about the similarities between game programming and psychology. Basically, the brain works like a game engine because it generates interactive simulations of reality in real time: https://t.co/iGWJyIByY2

[Ben Zeigler | DoubleBuffered @JZig]

CrowdStrike's official response to taking down the internet is awful. I assumed it was some crazy data corruption issue but no it sounds like they just pushed buggy code without testing it properly: https://t.co/OsSaQidRC6

[Ben Zeigler | DoubleBuffered @JZig]

This essay does a good job of explaining how the Republican initiative of Project 2025 would likely be horrible for both developers and the creative freedom of the games industry

[Game Developer @gamedevdotcom]

Opinion: How will Project 2025 impact game developers?

https://t.co/mNVIQthN0l

[Ben Zeigler | DoubleBuffered @JZig]

@urinalcake I was right by there just last week! I went for a nice waterfall hike at the Deep Creek trailhead, and also stopped by the Cherokee museum which was interesting (but partially closed for remodeling)

[Ben Zeigler | DoubleBuffered @JZig]

I know some people are thinking about game dev contracting after recent events, so I thought I'd write up some of what I've learned over the last few years:
https://t.co/FzR2D5LzSF

[Ben Zeigler | DoubleBuffered @JZig]

I have several bsky codes available, if anyone followers want to escape this place. After a few months posting to both, bsky is more of a shitpost site while mastodon has been better for serious gamedev stuff

[Ben Zeigler | DoubleBuffered @JZig]

Okay so this site was half-ass renamed to X because Elon is upset that PayPal was a better brand name? I'm big into 90s tech nostalgia but this is ridiculous

[Ben Zeigler | DoubleBuffered @JZig]

@KayinNasaki It's having the secondary effect of reminding me that I don't actually need to know what people on squaredcircle think about everything that happens

[Chris Megerian @ChrisMegerian]

An incredible image — boxes of classified documents stacked next to a toilet in a gilded Mar-a-Lago bathroom

[Ben Zeigler | DoubleBuffered @JZig]

In my master's thesis I found that people support online harassment against other members of a group when the group's reputation is threatened. This post explains the results for people who don't already have a degree in Psychology: https://t.co/fDwR1dtLLJ

[Ben Zeigler | DoubleBuffered @JZig]

Now that I officially have a master's degree in #psychology, I wrote up the background research for my thesis about the causes of online harassment. I'll talk about the results next week, but this covers some of the relevant theories: https://t.co/LZOL94MpIJ

[@eliothiggins.bsky.social @EliotHiggins]

And to be clear, I don't think Musk knows he's lying, or that he's a Russian op, I just think he's an idiot who consumes garbage media and incorrectly assumes that makes him smart and well-informed, just like thousands of other idiots on this website.

[Ben Zeigler | DoubleBuffered @JZig]

I'm sure the algorithm will bury this, but if anyone I know happens to have an extra BSky invite I could use one. I'm about to start posting about what I did for my graduate degree and it would be good to do it somewhere else

[Jeff Jackson @JeffJacksonNC]

Last night, the GOP in our state House used a party-line vote to pass a 12-week abortion ban - in a bill that was made public less than 24 hours earlier.

They want to do this so fast that people don’t notice.

Let’s make sure that plan fails.

RT.

[Ben Zeigler | DoubleBuffered @JZig]

@dosnostalgic Batman Returns developers take a stand against spoiling games on Twitch

[Ben Zeigler | DoubleBuffered @JZig]

@neilcic @LydiaSn81289886 It's a really interesting book and one of the essays was very influential for developing the academic study of memes!

[Ben Zeigler | DoubleBuffered @JZig]

@MissQuickstep The technical definition is alignment with the goals of the specific people who created it, which is weird when there are thousands of creators. In practice I suspect AI will represent people about as well as corporations and governments do today (poorly)