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@AntonHand Amazing! Well done dude

@Jonathan_Blow Agree 100% and had the same experience with an expensive razor blade that wouldn’t stay asleep. I switched to MacBook Pro’s and they exhibit none of this nonsense, and run wonderfully smooth. My last MBP lasted ten years before I upgraded and still had no faults at the end.

*** Deeply Negative Tweet Alert!!!!!! *** My ASUS Rog Strix G16 super hyper gaming laptop has lasted approximately 1 year before destroying itself. For about a month it has been in a mode where it's impossible to sleep it (and there is no Hibernate option in Windows any more, it's just Sleep when you are done), so it always wakes up and starts cooking itself in your bag or wherever, and it frequently just starts getting super hot and running fans even when asleep. Now it has cooked itself so hard that the display is going on the fritz, and it feels like imminently I will no longer be able to use the laptop at all. The thing is, this is typical. (I am using this laptop because the other $4000 laptop I bought last year, the Razer Blade 16, was totally unusable out of the box). Every high-end laptop I have bought in the past 6 years has had issues that cause it to deteriorate quickly if you actually use it daily. (I have bought 5 laptops in the past 6 years.) The whole time I have used this laptop before it cooked itself to death, it was bad at basic things, like the audio would skip once in a while, it would inexplicably throttle up or down in performance at weird times, often the SSD is *excruciatingly* slow when the laptop is not plugged in, etc. Completely unacceptable for a high-end laptop, but again, this is typical. There is no amount of money you can spend to make these problems go away. Linus Tech Tips, Dave2D, etc will tell you none of this. They won't even tell you that a laptop is unusable out of the box. They just rave about how thin the bezels are, and how many nits, or some garbage. It's absurd and all these reviewers should lose their jobs. Next laptop I am going to go at least slightly cheaper and non-"gamer" because maybe those will work slightly better. I don't hold out any hope that a laptop would work completely. I have been a heavy laptop user for decades, and I just don't think people understand how reliable and good a Thinkpad T41 was, back in the day. There is nothing like it today; modern laptops are cheap trash in comparison (but they at least contain fast CPUs and GPUs and other things that make number go up to sell to the people who will inevitably be disappointed).

@JitterGame Oooh!

The indie game I'm making and three of the inspirations behind it.

@cliffski Amazing photo. I bet the dials on your amp really do go to 11

This YouTube short about Scanner Sombre has gone pretty viral, in a way we haven't seen for quite a while....9.7M views in 2 weeks, and over 3000 comments! It's cool to see people discovering our games youtube.com/shorts/nTryYOq…

@cliffski This is the end.....my only frieeeend....the end.......

@BetterSpuD And another. Come on!

@IVSoftware Wait. They had 50 hours banked, then played another 50 AFTER submitting that review? Makes sense.

Who'd be an indie game developer eh? It's a tough audience out there. Look at the hours played!

Now is a brilliant time to pick up The Last Starship. After eight massive free updates to the game this year, It's 40% off in the Steam Winter Sale! This is our biggest price promotion since launch #Steam

Today we launched the eighth update to The Last Starship this year, With a totally re-worked new player experience, simplifying and massively improving the early game. And added entirely new fusion reactors and solar panels. youtube.com/watch?v=VwQ7Dg…

@haakon_bk We are investigating

@joe_theis We revisited it in this video: youtube.com/watch?v=1giu6s…

Hey @IVSoftware is there anywhere you do a deep dive on how you did the city generation for subversion? I'd love to see more detail about how it was done, or look at some code samples. youtube.com/watch?v=J30i0g…

This week I wrote a bit about @IVSoftware's cult hit Uplink and the importance of fun in game design: vertette.github.io/post/funfactor…

@pmolyneux Welcome back Peter. Can't wait to see what you come up with.

This may be a decision I live to regret, but I am starting a regular blog about the crazy way I design games; namely a new game set in the land of Albion called MOAT. Along the way, I’ll be looking back at the development of Fable, Black & White etc. developmolyneux.blog

And just like that, I'm back into Night City and @CyberpunkGame. The new v2.0 update is massive - AND I'm playing on Nvidia's GFN service at max gfx settings, 120fps, in awe at how good it looks. Especially compared to PS4 where I first played!

@DoctorLabcoat We use our own in-house libraries to make our games, and have since 2001!

@IVSoftware How does that whole Unity Engine nonsense affect your current development sitation with The Last Starship? I'm a bit concerned as Introversion Software are one of my favourite developers and getting unwelcome news like this would not help future development :\

The Last Starship - Alpha 6 has launched! With a whole new tutorial for new players, new weapons consoles, UI improvements and a ton of fixes. Video: youtube.com/watch?v=5dNaVX… We will be at the WASD games exhibition at the Truman Brewery in London this week!

The Last Starship - Alpha 5 has just launched! New science R&D projects, scientists and computers, new phases to the Stargate project, and new types of Robot Arms for automation! youtube.com/watch?v=F1PWv6…

The Last Starship Alpha 4 has been released. Industry and automation take centre stage in a brand new game mode, where you fabricate parts for a Stargate Mega-project to the Andromeda galaxy! youtube.com/watch?v=Bo5xcK…

Amazing Youtuber @FundyLive made a video basically recreating Scanner Sombre within Minecraft! Take a look here: youtube.com/watch?v=shRrnU…