JAn indie dev just pulled his own zombie shooter offline after San Francisco officials called it dehumanizing.
NWait, the whole game? What did he do, make the mayor a boss fight?
JWorse. The game was called Tenderloin Night Shift, and the zombies were homeless people.
NOh. Yeah, that'll do it.
JThe founder, Pierre-Louis Biojout, took it down after Supervisor Bilal Mahmood called it dehumanizing, and a city attorney's office spokesperson said it was abhorrent.
NI mean, they're not wrong. You can't just turn real people into target practice and call it satire.
JHere's my thing though—he built it as a browser game, probably in a weekend, and now he's getting national coverage for pulling it.
NYou think this was a marketing stunt?
JI think the backlash is real, but the shutdown is also the best press an unknown dev could ask for.
NThat's cynical. The guy apologized and took it down. That's what you're supposed to do when you mess up.
JSure, but the game's name is now in every tech outlet. Tomorrow he launches something else and everyone clicks.
NSo what's the alternative? Leave it up and keep getting yelled at?
JNo, I'm just saying the system rewards the apology tour. That's not his fault, it's just how it works.
NI'd rather focus on the fact that a city official actually got a game pulled. That's rare.
JTrue. Usually these things just get ratioed into oblivion and forgotten.
NSpeaking of ratioed—there's a post going around about community notes on every single post from one account.
JAxo posted that a certain account gets community notes under every post, and honestly, that's a special kind of internet fame.
NIt's like a digital scarlet letter. You post, and the algorithm just slaps a correction on it automatically.
JI want to know what account it is. The post doesn't say, but the replies are all 'we all know who.'
NThat's the fun part—everyone's vagueposting about it, so now I'm curious.
JIt's probably a crypto account. They get community noted for breathing.
NDifferent world entirely: there's a new meme coin called Monero Lisa, and the dev's last coin supposedly hit seven million.
JSeven million? That's a big claim for a coin named after a painting and a privacy token.
NWe couldn't confirm that number, and the post is basically a promo with a contract address. So, grain of salt.
JI love the name though. Monero Lisa. It's dumb in the best way.
NIt's definitely fresher than the thousandth dog coin. But 'freshest meme' is doing a lot of work there.
JMeanwhile, someone else is yelling 'THIS IS NOT A FUCKING TREND' about something, and I need to know what.
NThe all-caps energy is real. No context, just rage.
JThat's the internet in one post. Someone's always mad about a trend you've never heard of.
NAnd then there's the K-pop corner, where a fan is worried someone's getting kicked out of TXT over backlash.
JThe post is a mess, but the fear is real. Fandoms live in constant terror of lineup changes.
NIt's always 'stop these bs' and 'everyone in txt is gay' in the same breath. Peak stan logic.
JI'm not touching that one. K-pop fans are a different species of online.
NSmart. Let's end on something lighter—there's a post about a guy taking nine days off to code with two Claude Pros and two Codex Plus.
JHe called Codex a slave of Opus. That's either a joke or a cry for help.
NNine days with four AI assistants. That's either a productivity dream or a burnout speedrun.
JI respect the ambition. I'd last about four hours before asking the AI to write my resignation.
NThe real question is whether he ships anything or just spends nine days debugging AI-generated spaghetti.
JEither way, he's living the dream. Or a very specific nightmare.