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Last Notes npub137uauepvde5vjpu8e9yp0rpm67rr9nx7xvee947r8ffextzpm5jqvmhac0 Rami Ismail (رامي) Game development npub137uauepvde5vjpu8e9yp0rpm67rr9nx7xvee947r8ffextzpm5jqvmhac0 Rami Ismail (رامي) "Programming is hard", writes the company behind Unreal Engine, where coders for decades maintained foundational pieces of engineering underpinning the games industry, admitting that layoffs & sloprot left them unable to code basically an advanced student project npub137uauepvde5vjpu8e9yp0rpm67rr9nx7xvee947r8ffextzpm5jqvmhac0 Rami Ismail (رامي) Genuinely the best physical game work I've seen in a long time. Escalatrónico7000 was playable as part of the GLITCH Collective showcase at @[email protected] - tactile, poignant, and fascinating. Endless conversation about the little climber friend. npub137uauepvde5vjpu8e9yp0rpm67rr9nx7xvee947r8ffextzpm5jqvmhac0 Rami Ismail (رامي) I honestly have never considered switching from Google Pixel phones until they sent me a "wanna celebrate destroying the lives of trans people" as a system update. npub137uauepvde5vjpu8e9yp0rpm67rr9nx7xvee947r8ffextzpm5jqvmhac0 Rami Ismail (رامي) "You're absolutely right, there was indeed another commercial jet on the runway. That's my fault, I should have checked before assuming that runway was clear to land on. npub137uauepvde5vjpu8e9yp0rpm67rr9nx7xvee947r8ffextzpm5jqvmhac0 Rami Ismail (رامي) Based on everything I'm hearing VAR needs to be renamed to "Victory Argentina Reserved" npub137uauepvde5vjpu8e9yp0rpm67rr9nx7xvee947r8ffextzpm5jqvmhac0 Rami Ismail (رامي) Our games industry is people. Our studios are people. Our teams people, our games by people for people. Our games are made by people, in groups of people, in teams of people, making people things for people. npub137uauepvde5vjpu8e9yp0rpm67rr9nx7xvee947r8ffextzpm5jqvmhac0 Rami Ismail (رامي) I dunno, I think it's fair. It's a little mean, but AI can easily be interpreted as the largest threat facing humanity right now. If a maintainer wants AI to stay the fuck away, it's very clear that asking nicely won't do shit. This will work. npub137uauepvde5vjpu8e9yp0rpm67rr9nx7xvee947r8ffextzpm5jqvmhac0 Rami Ismail (رامي) It seems US tax dollars all take the same shape at the moment. npub137uauepvde5vjpu8e9yp0rpm67rr9nx7xvee947r8ffextzpm5jqvmhac0 Rami Ismail (رامي) The fact that "being taxed on a wealth that would take most people dozens of generations to gather" is "the scariest thing she's ever seen" means the world isn't scaring millionaires and billionaires nearly enough yet. npub137uauepvde5vjpu8e9yp0rpm67rr9nx7xvee947r8ffextzpm5jqvmhac0 Rami Ismail (رامي) So Israel literally just imposed an apartheid execution law - if an Israeli commits murder in the West Bank, they get a medal after being performatively told that that might've been a bit much. If a Palestinian defends themselves in the West Bank and an Israeli is killed, they are hanged. npub137uauepvde5vjpu8e9yp0rpm67rr9nx7xvee947r8ffextzpm5jqvmhac0 Rami Ismail (رامي) A good reminder of why process matters: for my first flights of the year, I flew to Calais/Dunkirk. The flight out was gorgeous, but on startup for the return leg I noticed the checklist left brake test failed. Now struggling my way back home by taxi and train, but glad I noticed and did no fly. npub137uauepvde5vjpu8e9yp0rpm67rr9nx7xvee947r8ffextzpm5jqvmhac0 Rami Ismail (رامي) "Hey ChatGPT, they found out I used you as legal council and believed you on the 'Project X' thing and now I've fucked up 250 million dollars and so everyone is making fun of me, what could I do to look cool again?" npub137uauepvde5vjpu8e9yp0rpm67rr9nx7xvee947r8ffextzpm5jqvmhac0 Rami Ismail (رامي) I was asked to talk about DLSS5, but then I got angry about DLSS5, and so that's what in this @[email protected] article. npub137uauepvde5vjpu8e9yp0rpm67rr9nx7xvee947r8ffextzpm5jqvmhac0 Rami Ismail (رامي) Okay so let me get this straight, a oligarch country that elected a suspected pedophile & known rapist over his Christian values, and an illegally nuclear genocidal apartheid nation that keeps electing war criminals to do war crimes, those are the good guys because they bombed a primary girls school npub137uauepvde5vjpu8e9yp0rpm67rr9nx7xvee947r8ffextzpm5jqvmhac0 Rami Ismail (رامي) I got a great question on my Ramadan thread: do Muslims also need to avoid consumption by proxy in videogames? Does consuming in-game food or drink break the fast? Basically: does your character have to go fast? npub137uauepvde5vjpu8e9yp0rpm67rr9nx7xvee947r8ffextzpm5jqvmhac0 Rami Ismail (رامي) Godot's marketing strategy for 2026: let Unity exist. npub137uauepvde5vjpu8e9yp0rpm67rr9nx7xvee947r8ffextzpm5jqvmhac0 Rami Ismail (رامي) Ah, I just read that the ICE terrorists even pulled the Israeli tactic of prohibiting official medical aid from reaching their victim. They didn't quite massacre the ambulance like Israel often does, but the effect is similar: ensure the injuries they cause mean death or permanent maiming. npub137uauepvde5vjpu8e9yp0rpm67rr9nx7xvee947r8ffextzpm5jqvmhac0 Rami Ismail (رامي) "send back the things we gave to the genociders to commit war crimes against you so we can safeguard ourselves" is so peak USA-Israel that no satire would be able to get away with it npub137uauepvde5vjpu8e9yp0rpm67rr9nx7xvee947r8ffextzpm5jqvmhac0 Rami Ismail (رامي) Ultimately, when people with power say "violence is unacceptable" - they mean "violence against us is unacceptable", nothing more, nothing less. It foregoes that violence for those with power tends to come from greed, and violence against them tends to come from need. npub137uauepvde5vjpu8e9yp0rpm67rr9nx7xvee947r8ffextzpm5jqvmhac0 Rami Ismail (رامي) It's been a while. npub137uauepvde5vjpu8e9yp0rpm67rr9nx7xvee947r8ffextzpm5jqvmhac0 Rami Ismail (رامي) Ok but does it run DOOM npub137uauepvde5vjpu8e9yp0rpm67rr9nx7xvee947r8ffextzpm5jqvmhac0 Rami Ismail (رامي) Europe did betray its core premise, its promise to the world and the survivors after two world wars, the institutes it created & upheld. Full-throated cruel cowardice in the face of the one thing Europe promised we'd never fail at again, and we failed beyond measure. npub137uauepvde5vjpu8e9yp0rpm67rr9nx7xvee947r8ffextzpm5jqvmhac0 Rami Ismail (رامي) Bye forever, WeTransfer. npub137uauepvde5vjpu8e9yp0rpm67rr9nx7xvee947r8ffextzpm5jqvmhac0 Rami Ismail (رامي) Death Stranding 2 giving me the truly spectacular power fantasy of being able to enter the United States without issue npub137uauepvde5vjpu8e9yp0rpm67rr9nx7xvee947r8ffextzpm5jqvmhac0 Rami Ismail (رامي) The no-fly NOTAM over the Netherlands for the NATO summit is so large that my air planning software literally can't zoom out far enough without switching to international mode. It's that big red circle covering uh, 80% of the screen. Countless airfields can't even allow takeoffs under these rules. npub137uauepvde5vjpu8e9yp0rpm67rr9nx7xvee947r8ffextzpm5jqvmhac0 Rami Ismail (رامي) Appreciate any US event that is inviting me to speak. I'm grateful that there's such a demand for my perspective & talks - but I really cannot justify traveling to a country under a fascist government actively hunting people like myself, & sending them to prisons built for people that look like me. npub137uauepvde5vjpu8e9yp0rpm67rr9nx7xvee947r8ffextzpm5jqvmhac0 Rami Ismail (رامي) Israel illegally boarded a humanitarian mission in international waters with heavy weaponry, then disappeared the crew. Al Jazeera is the only one I can find that is reporting on this without Israeli fluff or propaganda. npub137uauepvde5vjpu8e9yp0rpm67rr9nx7xvee947r8ffextzpm5jqvmhac0 Rami Ismail (رامي) I will entirely skipping @eurovision.tv again for its unacceptable shameless political choice to platform a violent, terrorist, genocidal Israel. npub137uauepvde5vjpu8e9yp0rpm67rr9nx7xvee947r8ffextzpm5jqvmhac0 Rami Ismail (رامي) Don't let anyone complicit in genocide speak a single sentence without interrupting it. They must never escape it, just like they work to ensure not a single Palestinian escapes alive. npub137uauepvde5vjpu8e9yp0rpm67rr9nx7xvee947r8ffextzpm5jqvmhac0 Rami Ismail (رامي) I have shared this story, this thread, before - but I think given the state of the world, it's worth telling once again. Maybe it can help, especially if like me, you make art, and you wonder what the use of all of it is right now. npub137uauepvde5vjpu8e9yp0rpm67rr9nx7xvee947r8ffextzpm5jqvmhac0 Rami Ismail (رامي) Over my career, I've seen the power of games, of play, of art, of joy. They manifest spontaneously, everywhere, always. They're encoded into our being, into our humanity, and no matter how bad things get, art galvanizes, play reinvigorates, joy motivates - it just happens. npub137uauepvde5vjpu8e9yp0rpm67rr9nx7xvee947r8ffextzpm5jqvmhac0 Rami Ismail (رامي) My only thought on naming games is that if "Balatro", "Disco Elysium", "LUFTRAUSERS", "Planetenverteitigungskanonenkommandant", "What Remains of Edith Finch", "Journey", and "Kingdom Hearts 2.8 something" can all be successful, it just doesn't matter. If it is successful it'll stick, not vice versa.