ProgramTheBoy

To Let The World Be. I mostly just 'Like' and 'Retweet' things. I barely know how to use Twitter. I don't know why anyone would follow me.

[ProgramTheBoy @programtheboy]

Ludens and Sam 🫥
@Kojima_Hideo @HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN @KojiPro2015 @KojiPro2015_EN
#KojimaProductions
#DeathStranding

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

[ProgramTheBoy @programtheboy]

Damn, I miss when these dudes made movies, series, and games that would come out every couple years... Those were good times. Awell, glad they're keeping on I guess. Bleak times...

[PRADA @Prada]

Prada presents Prada Mode New York, June 3–7.
The multi-day event will build on Danish film director Nicolas Winding Refn and Japanese game creator Hideo Kojima’s previous collaboration, Satellites, an exhibition exploring the connection between love, language, and creativity through the friendship of the two artists, which was presented at Prada Aoyama Tokyo last year.
Satellites II extends across New York through site-specific installations, screenings, artist conversations, and special programming, from the Hotel Chelsea to Katz’s Delicatessen, Prada Broadway, The Shack, Angelika Film Center, and The Lure Fishbar.
Register to attend from June 5–7: https://t.co/eYdFvpvoa9

#PradaMode #Prada

[ProgramTheBoy @programtheboy]

@CultureCrave 🙃😵‍💫🥴🫠

[SciFi Art @retroscifiart]

Rest in peace the legendary John Blanche (1948 - 2026)

[ProgramTheBoy @programtheboy]

@Wario64 In 2019, I paid extra for the steelbook when Control came out. The game looked and ran AWFUL! Then, they released it for PS5, the console it should've come out on. The free upgrade only applied to certain digital versions. I had to pay all over again. I'm going to wait this time.

[MVG @ModernVintageG]

Happy to announce I'm a developer on Toy Story 3 remaster team. Really proud of the work and collaboration that Digital Eclipse has done to make this happen alongside the collection. I can't wait for everyone to play this amazing game on October 15 on consoles and PC!

[🔪 American McGee 🖤 @americanmcgee]

This is essentially how I left EA. When we finished development on the first Alice game, I went traveling. While on vacation in India I got the news that EA had laid off my creative partner, RJ Berg. And that they'd pulled the console development contract from Alice developer, Rogue Entertainment (which killed the studio).

I was asked to come back so that I could begin my next phase of existence at EA - being put into some sort of VP training program. Onward and upward!

It was "We're firing all your buddies and promoting you."

So I quit. Left San Francisco entirely. Just said, "I'm done."

Many (MANY) of my friends at EA at that time called me to tell me I was "insane" "crazy" and demand I explain wtf I was doing. For a lot of them, explaining that I felt moving up the ladder on the backs of my fired friends was unacceptable, just made no sense. "That's how the game works." "Stick around and you'll be rewarded."

Well, the reward is that I am sitting here 25 years later not feeling like a jerk for taking the wrong path.

[Ray Bradbury @raybradbury]

"The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are." - Ray Bradbury

📖: Fahrenheit 451

[Guillermo del Toro @RealGDT]

I seldom- if ever- post the process of Sunday model assembly and painting but these are a few recent ones...

[GKIDS Films @GKIDSfilms]

Own the cult classic TEKKONKINKREET in 4K for the first time ever! 💥

This edition comes with the film on both 4K UHD and Blu-ray, behind-the-scenes footage, director commentary, and a 28-page art booklet.

Available September 1.
🔥 Pre-order now: https://t.co/gEOOrAD0F3

[Catsuka @catsuka]

"Tekkonkinkreet" 4K Remaster on UHD + Blu-ray (USA)
Pre-orders >> https://t.co/vwv2s7P3yd

[Kevin Parry @kevinbparry]

My personal experience with AI is that most of the gen AI companies have offered me buckets of money (house money!) to publicly endorse their tools and claim they are central to my creativity (have turned them all down).

What's interesting is that there are SO many people who are hyped about these tools who should be getting the bag instead of me. So all I can gather is that these companies are throwing money around to control the story about who their tools are for. Seems like they'll pay anything to have non-AI folks endorse the AI tools.

[Zack Stentz @MuseZack]

I feel terrible for all the Blue Origin people (and relieved no one was hurt) but no lie, this is one of the greatest explosions I've ever seen. VFX departments are study and imitate it for years to come. Michael Bay is somewhere saying "Damn, not bad."

[David Szymanski @DUSKdev]

Good chance to reaffirm my belief that reducing a human being and their worth to the sum of their chemical and biological functionality is, and always has been, an evil worldview that rots everything it touches.

[ProgramTheBoy @programtheboy]

@StarfieldGame I didn't think Starfield could get any worse... Then you started to make these terrible short videos lol. They genuinely make me hate parts of the game I actually enjoy playing. Lame insulting herpyderpy waste. Worst part of this game & advertising imo.👎

[Heavy Metal @HeavyMetalInk]

Todd McFarlane’s Spawn is an animated series for 1990s television. Premiering in 1997 on HBO and based on the comic created by Todd McFarlane, the series brought the Spawn universe into a much darker, more violent, and psychological territory than any superhero adaptation of its time.

With a gothic aesthetic, expressionist animation, and a mature narrative filled with urban horror, corruption, and supernatural conflicts, the series followed Al Simmons, a former government assassin who returns from hell transformed into Spawn. Unlike other animated productions of the era, HBO allowed the show to retain the brutal and disturbing tone of the original comic, including explicit violence, adult language, and existential themes.

The series ran for three seasons between 1997 and 1999 and won two Emmy Awards. Decades later, Spawn is still regarded as one of the most influential and darkest animated adaptations ever made within the superhero genre.

[Spectra @spectraimsim]

interesting development where i am playing LA Noire not for the gameplay, but to walk around its slavishly recreated 1947 Los Angeles harvesting building references

[🔪 American McGee 🖤 @americanmcgee]

Speaking of Engine Rooms, during the development of Madness Returns, we lost ours for a few days. Well, sorta. About mid-way through production, we went on a long weekend holiday (May Day I think it was). And I was the first one back to the office after the holiday.

As soon as I walked in the front door of Spicy Horse, I knew something was wrong. Lights were flickering on and off. And from the server room, I could hear a strange cyclical whining of all the cooling fans - running to max speed, and then back down to zero over and over again.

"Oh, shit." We COULD NOT have downtime. Because we were funded not by EA but by a bank in Los Angeles. And the structure of our development deal (called a Bond Finance Deal) did not allow for us to slip the schedule - if we slipped the schedule, we handed EA control of the project.

I called the grunt-level electrician. He poked around, shined his flashlight here and there, probed a few electrical panels. Looked concerned. Called a local-level government electrician. That guy poked around. Looked more concerned.

Eventually the guys from State Grid showed up. By this time the show was outside, in the alley between the two Spicy Horse buildings. There it was discovered that someone had STOLEN one of the power lines leading into the building. A copper thief! Wtf.

Back in the day, this was a thing. People would steal copper and other metal. Lots of stuff would get stolen - bikes, laptops, scooters, etc. I think I went through 4 or 5 bikes in my first 5 years in Shanghai.

Anyway, a new line was installed in a few days. With power restored, we made up for lost time and stayed on schedule. Thankfully, that thief did not inadvertently hand EA control of the project.

These days that sort of stuff doesn't happen anymore in China. People certainly don't steal power lines. Ha. But all the other kinds of petty theft have practically gone away as well. Plenty of videos on YouTube showing people leaving laptops, phones, and bags unattended in public without issue.

But, yeah, that was the time a copper thief almost handed EA control of Alice: Madness Returns 😂