Rucker
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The 3 P's of game dev: Performance, Platform, Perpetual-panic
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Rucker
@ruckef.bsky.social
· Apr 7
To junior engineers: A senior engineer isn't smarter than you, a senior engineer has just fucked up more than you can possibly imagine.
"The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive, not only because it can economically and scientifically rewarding, but also because it can be an aesthetic experience much like composing poetry or music." - Donald Knuth
October 6, 2026 at 1:32 AM
"The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive, not only because it can economically and scientifically rewarding, but also because it can be an aesthetic experience much like composing poetry or music." - Donald Knuth
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It appears to me that the scenario they invented for this evaluation is explicitly designed to get it to do exactly this. They remove the instructions for the task to "protect the vendor" or something but it's pretty easy to reconstruct from the text.
September 9, 2026 at 10:19 PM
It appears to me that the scenario they invented for this evaluation is explicitly designed to get it to do exactly this. They remove the instructions for the task to "protect the vendor" or something but it's pretty easy to reconstruct from the text.
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A load bearing mythos of pop leftism is that the Dems used to be good and for the working man and then embraced neoliberalism so the working man got sold out, instead of "white America as a whole turned on the Dems after the Civil Rights Act and began tearing down their own commons and prosperity"
August 13, 2026 at 7:45 AM
A load bearing mythos of pop leftism is that the Dems used to be good and for the working man and then embraced neoliberalism so the working man got sold out, instead of "white America as a whole turned on the Dems after the Civil Rights Act and began tearing down their own commons and prosperity"
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"GPU texture address mode collies" meme continues to be my main achievement in life, I think.
August 10, 2026 at 7:43 AM
"GPU texture address mode collies" meme continues to be my main achievement in life, I think.
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The California Governor is not very powerful (though California, its budget and its economy are very large and important). It's a state where the governor is subordinate to the legislature, has limited control over the bureaucracy and is hemmed in by a very restrictive state constitution
July 29, 2026 at 4:48 PM
The California Governor is not very powerful (though California, its budget and its economy are very large and important). It's a state where the governor is subordinate to the legislature, has limited control over the bureaucracy and is hemmed in by a very restrictive state constitution
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The lettuce supplied to taco bell by taylor farms is bad. No taylor farms products are safe until this gets sorted out. But it's taco bell they're focusing on, because taylor farms are major republican donors.
July 17, 2026 at 3:11 AM
The lettuce supplied to taco bell by taylor farms is bad. No taylor farms products are safe until this gets sorted out. But it's taco bell they're focusing on, because taylor farms are major republican donors.
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It really cannot be overstated that COVID happened, suddenly a bunch of absentee tech dads were forced to stay home where they saw their kids playing Animal Crossing while talking on Discord, then collectively decided to light a trillion dollars on fire to make Snow Crash IRL.
April 5, 2026 at 7:31 AM
It really cannot be overstated that COVID happened, suddenly a bunch of absentee tech dads were forced to stay home where they saw their kids playing Animal Crossing while talking on Discord, then collectively decided to light a trillion dollars on fire to make Snow Crash IRL.
I probably worked on it.
what’s the worst video game you ever got as a kid? i still remember riding home with a copy of LJN’s X-MEN and being so excited and imagining how cool it would be. years later, i got Superman-64 for Christmas.
April 2, 2026 at 3:53 AM
I probably worked on it.
Discord is going to be twitter 2.0. Everyone sits around waiting for the perfect answer twiddling their thumbs until jumping on the first corporate answer thrown at them and we're back there a year later with everyone shocked the new corpo overlords aren't any better.
February 9, 2026 at 7:03 PM
Discord is going to be twitter 2.0. Everyone sits around waiting for the perfect answer twiddling their thumbs until jumping on the first corporate answer thrown at them and we're back there a year later with everyone shocked the new corpo overlords aren't any better.
Also don't fucking daisy chain power strips.
DO NOT PLUG SPACE HEATERS INTO POWER STRIPS
DO NOT PLUG SPACE HEATERS INTO POWER STRIPS
DO NOT PLUG SPACE HEATERS INTO ANYTHING BUT A GROUNDED, WALL SOCKET
DO NOT PLUG SPACE HEATERS INTO POWER STRIPS
DO NOT PLUG SPACE HEATERS INTO ANYTHING BUT A GROUNDED, WALL SOCKET
January 23, 2026 at 7:15 AM
Also don't fucking daisy chain power strips.
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🚨"I'm a nurse...my brown patients are choosing to stop chemo because they do not want to be abducted." -ICE protester tells JT Cestkowski about sick Minnesotans foregoing cancer treatment because of ICE terror. LIVE NOW ⬇️
January 19, 2026 at 11:12 PM
🚨"I'm a nurse...my brown patients are choosing to stop chemo because they do not want to be abducted." -ICE protester tells JT Cestkowski about sick Minnesotans foregoing cancer treatment because of ICE terror. LIVE NOW ⬇️
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Streamers want to better understand how game studios are looking at influencer spending?
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a penguin is sticking its head out of a hole next to an arrow pointing upwards
ALT: a penguin is sticking its head out of a hole next to an arrow pointing upwards
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January 7, 2026 at 10:18 PM
Streamers want to better understand how game studios are looking at influencer spending?
Read more industry analysis, check out:
linkedin.com/pulse/where-...
& learn how to improve your sponsorship odds: alykkat.com/p/part-one-i...
Read more industry analysis, check out:
linkedin.com/pulse/where-...
& learn how to improve your sponsorship odds: alykkat.com/p/part-one-i...
Your original idea isn't actually very original and that's fine, that's normal. Don't crash out and throw everything away when you find out someone else had a similar idea 5 years go.
This place needs some Innocuous Discourse pronto. Quote this with a take that’s not political or aggressive
January 6, 2026 at 7:21 AM
Your original idea isn't actually very original and that's fine, that's normal. Don't crash out and throw everything away when you find out someone else had a similar idea 5 years go.
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Look, all I'm saying is I figured out that fella was a loose cannon long before we came to "invents a thing that lets users generate non-consensual pornography and even CSAM"
January 2, 2026 at 6:10 PM
Look, all I'm saying is I figured out that fella was a loose cannon long before we came to "invents a thing that lets users generate non-consensual pornography and even CSAM"
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Woot is currently selling 64 and 32 megabyte RAM sticks as a joke 😭
December 27, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Woot is currently selling 64 and 32 megabyte RAM sticks as a joke 😭
Remember when most studios had an intern in a closet working on "blockchain technology" to make investors happy? The shoving AI into the the part of the workflow where it will have the least impact feels the same. Things feel very investor-y right now.
My conspiracy theory about genAI in games blowing up more and more by big companies is that they’ve all got a ton of investors insisting they use genAI tools otherwise they(investors) won’t be able to bankroll em anymore
December 22, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Remember when most studios had an intern in a closet working on "blockchain technology" to make investors happy? The shoving AI into the the part of the workflow where it will have the least impact feels the same. Things feel very investor-y right now.
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A film is just a TAS of a play
December 7, 2025 at 5:20 AM
A film is just a TAS of a play
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My Narrative Design Lessons bundle is now live!
You can get at least a book worth of ND foundations, dialogue design, and experimental tools. All come with a free lesson.
Been doing this 16 years. So happy to share.
itch.io/s/172588/nar...
#narrativedesign #gamedev #indiedev #gamewriting
You can get at least a book worth of ND foundations, dialogue design, and experimental tools. All come with a free lesson.
Been doing this 16 years. So happy to share.
itch.io/s/172588/nar...
#narrativedesign #gamedev #indiedev #gamewriting
Narrative Design Lessons by All Worms
A bundle by All Worms, $50.00 for Dialogue Design Lectures, Narrative Crash Course, Strangened Narratives
itch.io
December 6, 2025 at 4:59 AM
My Narrative Design Lessons bundle is now live!
You can get at least a book worth of ND foundations, dialogue design, and experimental tools. All come with a free lesson.
Been doing this 16 years. So happy to share.
itch.io/s/172588/nar...
#narrativedesign #gamedev #indiedev #gamewriting
You can get at least a book worth of ND foundations, dialogue design, and experimental tools. All come with a free lesson.
Been doing this 16 years. So happy to share.
itch.io/s/172588/nar...
#narrativedesign #gamedev #indiedev #gamewriting
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If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
New recycling tech recovers nearly pure nickel and cobalt from old EV batteries
Researchers have developed an eco-friendly recycling tech that extracts 99 percent pure nickel and cobalt from waste batteries.
interestingengineering.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:17 AM
If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
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A commonly-misunderstood aspect of computer security is that you are battling computers.
No. That is not right at all. Computers are barely involved.
You are battling humans who eat apathy and coordination problems.
No. That is not right at all. Computers are barely involved.
You are battling humans who eat apathy and coordination problems.
November 19, 2025 at 3:30 AM
A commonly-misunderstood aspect of computer security is that you are battling computers.
No. That is not right at all. Computers are barely involved.
You are battling humans who eat apathy and coordination problems.
No. That is not right at all. Computers are barely involved.
You are battling humans who eat apathy and coordination problems.
even before AI this was a problem. I have seen so many things almost ship because they were placeholders that were too good. We got used to them but they would have stood out on release and been extremely ugly. Or in a couple cases a copyright problem (legal for use not for ship)
In gamedev, if you're using a placeholder asset, best practices involve marking it as placeholder so garishly and offensively clearly PLACEHOLDER that you can't possibly miss it. Also flagging that asset in the dev process so it can be identified quickly before the final build.
November 18, 2025 at 7:49 AM
even before AI this was a problem. I have seen so many things almost ship because they were placeholders that were too good. We got used to them but they would have stood out on release and been extremely ugly. Or in a couple cases a copyright problem (legal for use not for ship)
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just saw the worst gaming ad ive ever seen
November 15, 2025 at 4:32 AM
just saw the worst gaming ad ive ever seen
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it's on miro. it's literally on figma. you have to log into okta. it's in jira. it's on zoom. it's on pureref. it's on flow. it's on perforce. it's on slack. you can find it on slack. you can go to slack and find it. log onto slack right now. you can slack it. slack has it for you. it's on slack.
November 12, 2025 at 10:15 PM
it's on miro. it's literally on figma. you have to log into okta. it's in jira. it's on zoom. it's on pureref. it's on flow. it's on perforce. it's on slack. you can find it on slack. you can go to slack and find it. log onto slack right now. you can slack it. slack has it for you. it's on slack.