Hello! My name's Joel and I'm a software developer. No, not that one.
I run a tiny indie game studio called Bearwaves. I'm also a published poet.
I'm part of the Rare Mammals collective, and am an alumnus of Southbank New Poets and Barbican Young Poets. I work in the games industry.
Notes are for small posts, links, anything I don't feel merits a full post.
I worked at Improbable in 2019, when Unity tried to change their TOS to screw us over. They ended up backtracking and put their TOS on GitHub, saying they would not change TOS retroactively.
It appears to be gone.
https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/16hnibp/unity_silently_removed_their_github_repo_to_track/
lol, lmao
“You’re not getting into the kitchen unless it’s to feed me.”
Nothing says confidence in your product like giving users the option to hide the fact they bought your product.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/2/23816924/twitter-x-blue-subscribers-hide-blue-check-option
Since launching on the Epic store a couple of months ago, Feud has had something like 28,000 new players. That feels significant!
Sleepy angel baby compilation
I’m at day four of going cold turkey on Sertraline (ran out, pharmacy being slow) and lemme tell ya I am having nil craic with these withdrawal symptoms
Really enjoying all the ‘astronomers baffled’ content the last couple days
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/07/this-white-dwarf-star-has-two-faces
I kind of wish I cared about sports so I could read Defector all the time.
In ’the naming of cats’, T.S. Eliot posits that every cat has a secret name known only to themselves. I have determined that my cat’s secret name is ‘piss goblin’