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David Liu

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He/Him. Musings: https://t.co/5cXTAw6RDz Work Stuff: https://t.co/ZjhhY0sLfz Everything Else: thedak on https://t.co/GELxbz2yBE & bsky

Brooklyn, NY
Joined April 2007
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@thedak
David Liu
3 years
Where to find me when I’m not here. Bsky: https://t.co/oob7lm8Zuo Mastodon: https://t.co/EmAEIks1jW Cohost: https://t.co/zD68mtRRM2 Website:
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@iBrews
Alex Coulombe
9 months
sure! ( courtesy @thedak )
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@the_eggconomist
The Eggconomist
1 year
The average U.S. price for Grade A Large eggs was $4.15/dozen in Dec 2024, +13.6% vs. Nov 2024 🥚⬆️
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@raphkoster
Raph Koster
1 year
Most people do not know what typical indie game life looks like. So here's some concrete, real numbers. Preface: yes, of course some studios beat these odds and these numbers. But it is not the norm.
@StephenPiment
Stephen Pimentel
1 year
@raphkoster I don’t doubt your point about marketing, especially at the high end of the market. As for indie games, is it not possible to reduce costs below the expected return?
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@thedak
David Liu
2 years
Breaking my social media break to exclaim that there probably is an intersection between the folks who use Dot by @newcomputer and readers of @robinsloan’s new novel Moonbound. No spoilers but, huh. You folks feel it too? The sourdough is real.
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@kaseyklimes
kasey
2 years
inadvertently diverting foot traffic from low-income streets to high-income streets takes revenue and potentially tax dollars from already struggling communities and funnels it instead to richer communities. always remember: we live (and build tools) in complex systems.
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@iBrews
Alex Coulombe
2 years
Perfectly timed for Pride Month, thrilled that today marks the public release of Body of Mine, the first LGBTQ+ experience on the Meta Quest App Store. It’s been an honor for @AgileLens to work w/ @c_kostopoulos & co the past 6 months to bring this to a wider audience. Thread 👇
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@xhfloz
XH
2 years
@kepano "It is now possible for tiny teams to make principled software that millions of people use, unburdened by investors. (...) These principles can be irrevocably built into the architecture of the app." @kepano 🤙🤙🤙 (Truncated for character limit)
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@unormal
🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ>∿<ₑͤ ∞🌮
2 years
@ChrisGr93091552 Tbh you are god tier in any enterprise software shop if you are able to ship a single game
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@djbaskin
Danielle Baskin
2 years
Enjoying the Jewish Chinese tradition of Lao Gan Matzah 🌶️🫓 I can’t find any recipes online, so here you go:
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@thedak
David Liu
2 years
Does this sound like you? Agile Lens is a good crew who could use your help!
@iBrews
Alex Coulombe
2 years
Thrilled w/ Agile Lens’ line-up of summer interns but there’s one problem—they’re all brilliant Unreal Engine devs & artists. You know what I don’t have? Someone who loves marketing / web design / etc. 99% of Agile Lens’ bizdev is clients DM’ing me. Let’s update the website lol
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@thedak
David Liu
2 years
At least I got away with a shitload of bad puns. (To be clear there were many writers and all of us were very punny because we were trying to make each other laugh)
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@thedak
David Liu
2 years
No joke my job at a AAA company a long time along that is about managing a dollhouse and rhymes with Her Flims More.
@kchironis
Katie Chironis
5 years
TWO: The player can unlock 20 different motorcycles. Name each motorcycle and write a lore blurb for it that is no longer than 80 words. The only thing you can visually change about the motorcycle is its color, the model is already locked and is identical for each motorcycle.
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@thedak
David Liu
2 years
a few notes: - the overly processed voice seems to be an artifact of the model trying to sing in different languages? - it stumbles with more than three languages beyond english right now.
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@thedak
David Liu
2 years
One thing about music AI that I can’t decide if I hate or love right now is how it defaults to earnest cringeyness. While trying to break it with multiple languages it instead does a somersault and came up with this:
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@thedak
David Liu
2 years
I think one of the most unpleasant ways to know you don’t have COVID is when you walk into a stuffy elevator and the prior person had on too nuch perfume and most definitely farted.
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@thedak
David Liu
2 years
Getting to the point of marginal German fluency that I can ask for directions and order food without folks lapsing into English for me … and then I’m headed home. :p
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@thedak
David Liu
2 years
Helpfully instructive, anatomically correct stick figures.
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@thedak
David Liu
2 years
Still thinking about Fallout, the TV series. And how I’m gonna rewatch all eight episodes.
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@thedak
David Liu
2 years
It was just brought to my attention that NarraScope is happening again this year! Loved the first one in 2019, so am going to start wrangling things to make time for Rochester, NY in June!
@narrascope
NarraScope
2 years
Announcing NarraScope 2024! https://t.co/PQMhHIerK2 June 21-23 The Strong National Museum of Play Rochester, NY Now accepting talk proposals: https://t.co/MpvEZwB3J8 #InteractiveFiction #NarraScope
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