"We see our game designs as hypotheses and our playtests as experiments to validate these hypothesis." - Mike Ambinder, Valve
Stockholm, Sweden
Joined October 2013
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Three FPS veterans broke the game down in Deconstructor of Fun's Shooter Monthly episode 10: podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcas…
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Age ratings tell parents what’s in a game so they can make informed decisions for their kids.
These AI statements are just as partisan as mandatory political essays or forcing developers to list their voting history to drive cancel campaigns and public struggle sessions.
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We have self-driving cars! Cars that drive themselves! It’s incredible!
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Knit & Purl are hangin' on. 🐋
Two men, one rooftop, one felt whale mobile, all night long.
Early access on iPhone ✨ link in profile
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Epic has done this many times. That’s why it’s so inspiring to support them.
- Epic vs Apple lawsuit
- Perfecting the F2P model
- Game distribution without junk fees
- Free game dev tools
- Tung Tung Tung
- Cross platform gaming
Epic Games has become the industry’s lightning rod, drawing concentrated criticism so that independent developers may continue building/innovating in relative peace.
“We vibe coded”. Based. They’re leaning in all the way and becoming the lightning rod for all the AI hatred of the gaming industry. That’s actually a noble sacrifice people don’t realize. That means that when other companies do even a little less obvious AI stuff all the angry people will still focus on Epic. Good guy Epic.
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Yes, economists estimate that most of the "employer's" portion of the SS tax is actually born by workers and 100% is the benchmark assumption.
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Americans are richer than anyone else on the planet:
Theo Von: “Do you think the American Dream is still alive?”
Zohran Mamdani: “It feels like you have to luck out in some big way. In many ways I feel like it’s why a lot of people play the lottery. For many it feels like their only chance. People think they have better odds playing the lottery than making it in their own life. What does that say about the country we live in?”
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Since 1830, technology has cut the American workweek from 69 hours to 38 while raising real income per person roughly 20-fold.
Properly managed, A.I. can do the same.
My @nytopinion Chart: nytimes.com/2026/10/02/opini…
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Wolverine's "scent trail" has been the cause of much teeth gnashing from gamers as of late.
I get it. Game is linear. Don't need hand holding.
THAT SAID
If you could have been a fly on the wall for any of the user tests for Gears 1-3 and seen players getting lost non stop...
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I'm no math genius, but I think you need to make more money then you spend on making the game.
Double Fine founder Tim Schafer says he no longer “understands the economics” of game development following Xbox’s mass layoffs and industry-wide studio closures. bit.ly/4AsdPwu
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Thousands of economist-hours teaching the profession to decompose huge policy questions into narrow ones with credible identification.
Then the ballot proposition arrives:
"No RCT necessary for this one, lads. Pre vs post comparisons in an AI boom are fine."
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I'm an attorney and a programmer, and I don't think it's all that much worse at wordcel tasks. You just have to use it properly.
Programmers were already used to obsessively optimizing coding environments, so translating that to agentic workflows was natural.
Attorneys don't seem to know how to leverage the technology nearly as well, but it's already capable.
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Hi. 😊 Swedish dude here.
When our children get sick, we have 60 paid days per year to stay home with them.
Per parent.
They're separate from my 25 paid vacation days.
Meaning I don't have to use my own paid sick leave.
If I'm a single parent: 120 days.
If my child has a chronic illness: 120 days
If my child is hospitalized: unlimited days.
These days reset every January.
By law. every year until child is 18.
Follow for more glimpses into life in a social democracy, where dignity is not a privilege.
Peace ✌🏼
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Swedish dude here is describing something he did not pay for directly and therefore believes is free.
Sweden charges the employer 31.42% on top of your salary. Not deducted from it. On top.
Hire someone on 50,000 SEK and it costs you 65,710 SEK before you have sold anything.
That is who funds the 60 days. Not the state. The person who took the risk of employing you.
Hi. 😊 Swedish dude here.
When our children get sick, we have 60 paid days per year to stay home with them.
Per parent.
They're separate from my 25 paid vacation days.
Meaning I don't have to use my own paid sick leave.
If I'm a single parent: 120 days.
If my child has a chronic illness: 120 days
If my child is hospitalized: unlimited days.
These days reset every January.
By law. every year until child is 18.
Follow for more glimpses into life in a social democracy, where dignity is not a privilege.
Peace ✌🏼
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If Dario wants to slow down the pace of AI, he should just move the company to Europe.
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Dario has written that we need to “pace the frontier,” and Sam has agreed. People may be surprised by my response: go ahead.
You guys are the frontier. By any reasonable metric — market share, revenue growth, model capability — the two of you have a duopoly on frontier intelligence. You’ve also claimed the lead is widening because of recursive self-improvement.
I don’t see what you see in the lab. If the unreleased models are scary enough that you think you should slow down, I support your decision to be responsible.
But stop pretending you need anyone else’s permission. Stop pretending antitrust law has to be suspended so you can form a cartel. Stop pretending you need a regulatory approval process that supersedes product liability. Stop pretending METR is independent when it is intertwined with Anthropic’s investors and staff. Stop pretending you need those same evaluators to police competitors who aren’t even at the frontier.
Most of all, stop pretending the motivation to slow down is purely altruistic. You face massive product-liability exposure if your products enable a truly damaging cyberattack. The market already punishes models that behave in unpredictable or unauthorized ways. After the Hugging Face episode, it is simply good business for OpenAI and Anthropic to trade some raw power for reliability and predictability. Call it alignment if you want. It is also just giving customers what they want.
Pacing the frontier would also create breathing room for a more intelligent conversation about regulation than Bernie Sanders’ “shut it all down.” China is very unlikely to join a global agreement, as you know, and that has to be taken into account as well.
So go ahead and pace the frontier. You are the ones setting it. The easiest way not to build superintelligence is for you to agree not to build it. Demanding your preferred regulatory framework as the price of that will look like blackmail of the public and the political system. So just do it.
If you do, you’ll buy goodwill for the next conversation. If you don’t, we’ll know this was just another bid for regulatory capture — or an election-season psyop.