"Where did we lose really badly last time" "Liberal southern England and illiberal working class voters going Reform" "So we're going to focus on competence and anti-immigration rhetoric?" "No, the children yearn for the mines"

Following on from the XR Games news, a reminder that UK game devs have an official organized union which gives you, amongst other things, someone on your side if you find yourself experiencing a sudden contraction of entrepreneurial spirit by your c-suite. www.gameworkers.co.uk

IWGB Game Workers Union

The Game Workers branch of the IWGB is a worker-led, democratic trade union that represents and advocates for UK game workers' rights.

Yup, second time attending and I spend most of my time at the indie panels on the day they ran. Had a collection of excellent panels from indies and then this company's CEO doing a tone-deaf recruitment pitch.

I am not surprised that a CEO that stood up in front of me + a gaggle of indie devs at Develop Brighton 2024 to wax about his bizdev grindset has now promptly sacked 3/4 of his staff. Sympathy to all hit; let's stop having "entrepreneurs" running our teams? www.gamedeveloper.com/business/rep...

Report: VR studio XR Games placing 72 employees at 'risk of redundancy'

The Hitman 3 VR: Reloaded developer has reportedly sanctioned 'large-scale restructuring.'

This evening is devoted to backing up my projects... kill me

Have also been using it recently as someone who never liked Substance much; it's good enough to be going along with for people who are not power users (or like me who really don't like Substance's camera and UV hotkeys) but it probably needs more help on its Github.

Had it pointed out to me that the specific attack here might not have actually been battery explosions, but specific explosives hidden inside the equipment; in that case it's still a worrying attack that is going to give a lot of sec analysts headaches at various state organizations.

One of the big bits of fallout from the Lebanon battery bombings from a security perspective is going to have to be a lot of very worried conversations about li-on and similar batteries as attack vectors, and I'm not sure the world is ready for banning all phones/laptops from, say, planes.

Floating Point Error is a good name for a speculative science-fiction book, with the added bonus that a techbro can't decide to invent the title

this extremely niche games development joke is brought to you by the number 1/3, which is naturally 0.33333333333467434.....