Currently working inside the Venn diagram of Unreal Engine game programming and the Social Psychology of internet culture. They totally intersect, trust me
Joined January 2009
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3 Jul 2023
I'm officially done posting here because it sure doesn't look like it's going to get better. You can find me at mastodon.gamedev.place/@Doub… or bsky.app/profile/doublebuffe… where I can actually post about the psychology and gamedev stuff I'm working on
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2 Feb 2025
It's difficult to keep up with the volume of news this weekend, but Musk is attempting a technological coup and is mostly succeeding. This is very bad, and you should contact any political representatives to urge action cnn.com/2025/02/02/politics/…
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17 Sep 2024
I wrote up my thoughts about the similarities between game programming and psychology. Basically, the brain works like a game engine because it generates interactive simulations of reality in real time: link.medium.com/58xoXzE4XMb
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20 Jul 2024
CrowdStrike's official response to taking down the internet is awful. I assumed it was some crazy data corruption issue but no it sounds like they just pushed buggy code without testing it properly: crowdstrike.com/blog/technic…
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18 Jul 2024
This essay does a good job of explaining how the Republican initiative of Project 2025 would likely be horrible for both developers and the creative freedom of the games industry
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3 Oct 2023
I know some people are thinking about game dev contracting after recent events, so I thought I'd write up some of what I've learned over the last few years:
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5 Sep 2023
I have several bsky codes available, if anyone followers want to escape this place. After a few months posting to both, bsky is more of a shitpost site while mastodon has been better for serious gamedev stuff
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24 Jul 2023
Okay so this site was half-ass renamed to X because Elon is upset that PayPal was a better brand name? I'm big into 90s tech nostalgia but this is ridiculous
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Ben Zeigler | DoubleBuffered retweeted
9 Jun 2023
An incredible image — boxes of classified documents stacked next to a toilet in a gilded Mar-a-Lago bathroom
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5 Jun 2023
In my master's thesis I found that people support online harassment against other members of a group when the group's reputation is threatened. This post explains the results for people who don't already have a degree in Psychology: whydoeseveryone.substack.com…
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30 May 2023
Now that I officially have a master's degree in #psychology, I wrote up the background research for my thesis about the causes of online harassment. I'll talk about the results next week, but this covers some of the relevant theories: open.substack.com/pub/whydoe…
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Ben Zeigler | DoubleBuffered retweeted
17 May 2023
And to be clear, I don't think Musk knows he's lying, or that he's a Russian op, I just think he's an idiot who consumes garbage media and incorrectly assumes that makes him smart and well-informed, just like thousands of other idiots on this website.
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9 May 2023
I'm sure the algorithm will bury this, but if anyone I know happens to have an extra BSky invite I could use one. I'm about to start posting about what I did for my graduate degree and it would be good to do it somewhere else
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Ben Zeigler | DoubleBuffered retweeted
4 May 2023
Last night, the GOP in our state House used a party-line vote to pass a 12-week abortion ban - in a bill that was made public less than 24 hours earlier.
They want to do this so fast that people don’t notice.
Let’s make sure that plan fails.
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6 Mar 2023
Whenever people complain about twitter being broken it works perfectly fine for me (like right now where links and images look normal). I wonder if it's because I basically never log out of this account so my cached credentials work everywhere
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7 Feb 2023
As of today I have officially cleared my Steam Backlog! I wrote up mini reviews for most of the old PC games I played over the last 3 years: cohost.org/JZig/post/980046-…
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17 Dec 2022
I'm in Mountain View until Wednesday morning, if nearby IRL friends want to get together Monday or Tuesday let me know! I'll probably go to the Computer Museum tomorrow as I haven't been in 20 years
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10 Dec 2022
Talked with @fogofmaya about the really interesting Amaru virtual pet and self care/meditation app, really cute art and an important goal!
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10 Dec 2022
Hanging out at @OakCityIndie to see all the local indie game devs around #Raleigh, lots of cool stuff at Marbles today
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6 Dec 2022
I'll be visiting California from Dec 17-21, staying in Mountain View. If any old friends from the area want to meet up, let me know!