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Twitter is dead and my engagement with its decaying unburied corpse is reduced. Find me on gamedev mastodon (best) or bluesky (meh) for more frequent updates.

[RCL @RCL]

This was an insightful read that improved my understanding of the current "implementation details" of LLMs and also demystified it somewhat.

https://t.co/yZYogkIfJn

[RCL @RCL]

@NOTimothyLottes Very true, but remember the troubles the game industry started to have with too custom hw, like not finding enough talent to exploit it?

Also, for a plat owner, it cuts both ways: if your platform is dominant, you get an incredible moat. If not, you get subpar quality ports.

[RCL @RCL]

@eoflynn1 You're looking for @RoyalCaribPR or some such. I am a different kind of RCL

[RCL @RCL]

I ported the famous GOA 4K intro from the ZX Spectrum to #ZXSpectrumNext

Enjoy the 50Hz action in 16 colors (btw it also supports 60Hz):

https://t.co/IsAcrIni7l

50 Hz video here: https://t.co/3SFb1XFsc9

[RCL @RCL]

Google Health's new UI is wasting screen real estate with AI-generated blabber. I want a dashboard full of metrics, but instead I get 5 metrics at once (need to scroll for more) with another screen half taken by a feed of sorts.

[RCL @RCL]

Idea: a Gentoo-like Linux distro where software is modded to your specific needs / wishes / hardware before compiling. Not just flags or options, actual code edits like "rewrite all apps to use GTK".

[RCL @RCL]

Mmmh

[RCL @RCL]

AI drift in action :) Duolingo's AI forgot what language it was using after giving me a tip.

[RCL @RCL]

Generative AI on 1982 hardware. Z80, 3.5MHz, 40KB size. Someone else came up with this gem, I just ported it to the old good rubber Speccy.

If you want to grab the .tap file or peek at the source, https://t.co/20hRdo8Lem

Model/training questions please direct to the org author.

[RCL @RCL]

The largest US demoparty.

[Filipe Cruz @psenough]

Interview with Demosplash organizers https://t.co/9WvOawGYob

[Next Indie @nexindie]

Limited-time demo is now available for 'Cloudheim', a 1-4 player third-person co-op action adventure game.

Early Access launching later in 2025.

Steam page: https://t.co/T4KYq0yKtE

[RCL @RCL]

How much longer ppl can keep dying for a Czar who denies them Youtube?

What are they fighting for? For their own version of globalization? To fulfill the ambition of becoming the "third Rome"?

They are killing their own future just to spite the West.

https://t.co/6vIfMrHQ56

[Sergei Smirnov @ssmirnov_dev]

I made a game for the #zxspectrum. Again :)
This is the first-ever 3D platformer for the Spectrum, featuring mind-blowing labyrinths and logical puzzles. The game has 6 unique levels, cool gameplay mechanics, and excellent responsive controls.
Please vote! https://t.co/rLMG72qduz

[RCL @RCL]

ZX Spectrum Next Kickstarer 3.0 starting within hours - don't miss it if you are a #zxspectrum (or #sinclairql or even #Commodore64 fan). It is a pretty decent retro machine (not an emulator!) with a native HDMI output which makes it easy to use.

https://t.co/eG4RMxLhNl

[RCL @RCL]

Software development should be classed as manufacturing. Modern, large scale sw dev definitely is one. It is about creating new functionality, giving people new tools, it is not "service".

It also no longer requires advanced skills, there is a lot of "conveyor belt" jobs in it.

[RCL @RCL]

@real_Miroslav @bkaradzic @KitKlarenberg I read a lot about that. Sadly Russia has not yet adopted consensual rule, neither in internal, nor in foreign affairs.

It rules by blunt force, disrespects and often exploits or colonizes weaker polities.

Which is why Russians always feel a danger of a rebellion / collapse.

[RCL @RCL]

@real_Miroslav @bkaradzic @KitKlarenberg Wait what? Look up, we are in a thread about Serbia.

Exceptionally, that country largely benefited from its relations with Russia, and it is not its neighbor, so they like it.

But no neighbor of Russia is that way, sadly, because they all had been bullied or outright colonized.

[RCL @RCL]

@real_Miroslav @bkaradzic @KitKlarenberg Serbia just happened to be far enough to not be affected.

Otherwise you'd be quickly renamed Yugorossiya and asked to drop that version of archaic Russian that you're speaking over there.

Maybe that's what you need to experience to get the point.

[RCL @RCL]

@real_Miroslav @bkaradzic @KitKlarenberg By what definition? Mind you, in Soviet times Soviet historians were not afraid to use the formulation "colonialism of the Czarist regime" (example: https://t.co/UHjPtCxPWn)

So you now want to dispute Stalinist historians? Modern neoimperialists are schizophrenic.

[RCL @RCL]

@real_Miroslav @bkaradzic @KitKlarenberg Of all colonial empires, Russia was the worst and it is still refusing to stop getting unwilling people under its control by sheer force (see Ukraine, and Chechnya earlier).

[RCL @RCL]

@real_Miroslav @bkaradzic @KitKlarenberg Juat like other northern peoples further east, they were relatively untouched by the colonization because Europeans didn't settle there en masse, that's why.

Again, NA colonization was bad. Just as colonization of Caucasus, Siberia, Middle Asia, some of which is still ongoing.