Discord served its purpose almost flawlessly by 2021 and then constantly made itself worse over the ensuing years The constant drive to change products that serve their purpose perfectly well really does exemplify the problems with an "endless growth" mindset

This month is just absurdly packed. While obviously not all of them will be great and I'll obvously never have the time (or money) to play all of them, there's *85* games on my Steam wishlist for the remainder of February alone. If I've missed anything really exciting, let me know!

ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.

tl;dr is just microdosing infodumps

when you become too important at your job #AGDQ2026

What an absolutely incredible GDQ. Had good times, tasty food, and lots of laughs. Though I'm sad it's over, this one didn't hurt as much as others have. I had a fantastic time and it'll be wonderful whenever the next one I can make will be. For now, back to reality and playing games fast. 💜

"Mistakes were made." #AGDQ2026 #SuperMario 64 #Gamesdonequick #art

THEY NEVER BELIEVED ME BUT THE TRUTH WAS THERE THE WHOLE TIME

Almost no one is complaining about trans women in women’s spaces, study finds “This is a manufactured controversy, not a documented crisis.” www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/almo...

I'm going to give Small Saga a little discount for AGDQ, but if you would prefer to play it on the Switch and want to know how long you'll have to wait until that version is out, the answer is "about 3 months". 🐀

I've seen this happen with multiple communities, and I've also seen it go the opposite way when people DON'T do this kind of work in their community. If you are at all, any sort of figure in any sort of community, start platforming kindness, casually including queer and diverse ppl, it WILL matter

“That’s a c*nty version of Gyarados.” —-my partner seeing this Milotic card

AGDQ 2026 Food Thread

AGDQ 2026 Outfit Thread

Final weigh in for the year is 224.6lbs, or 2lbs off my current BMI goal. Gonna keep working at it, but I'm excited with my progress (started at 292 in early July and started trying to lose weight in late July)

Today is the last day that you can repost this image

Indie Dev discovers the game they're making basically already exists, worried of being deemed a ripoff. Original dev responds.

ok that's it, if you write "i promise this is interesting" in your youtube thumbnail they should reject it and make you wait 24 hours to upload another. clearly you think it's interesting or you wouldn't have made the video. if that's your best thumbnail idea you need to rethink your content.

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🚨PSA🚨 We are leaving the phrase "I didnt have that on my bingo card!" and all variants in 2025. You have half of a month to still use it, but we are not using it anymore starting next year. Thank you for your cooperation.

[GIVEAWAY] i backed the UNBEATABLE kickstarter before i ended up getting hired so i'm giving away my code!! this includes the BREAKOUT edition dlc songs as well 🎵 to enter just follow me and the official @dcellgames.com account + like/repost this post! 🎸 winner will be decided dec 8th 5pm EST 🎤

Two things can be true: 1.) The Game Awards are meaningless and we shouldn't take them all that seriously. 2.) Award shows of its scale DO rewrite the mainstream history of the art form, whether they deserve to or not, and its okay to care that it's so thoughtless despite having that responsibility.

ive ran in every mainline GDQ event since AGDQ24 until now. its a lot complicated feelings for sure. ive been fortunate enough to have run not once, but five times in the past four events, but not making it in this time was rough. ill get over it soon, but it sucks. window 2 was competitive af too

with the holidays coming up on us quickly, don't forget to skip the bigot bucket. there are so many other charities and mutual aid organizations that won't do stuff like this. (originally posted by @alisoncybe.bsky.social but they turned off QTs and this needed alt text)

#3157 A helpful tutorial

It's Transgender Awareness week, as we take time to remember those we lost, please check on you trans friends. It's really dark out here and it's getting harder each week. Please help us where you can.

Bro, this is an average GDQ hangout. You're not special.

this too is yuri

im aware that im an outlier in how much i emphasize trans womanhood but literally nobody benefits from feeling shame around being trans. it does not help you and you CAN overcome it. i s2g some of you bitches talk about being trans like it's a dirty word and you gotta get over that shit.

Forcefem with Koopa the Quick

I'm doing a raffle to celebrate 200 followers! Since it's 2 (hundred), we'll do 2 winners - one gets a medium scale tail, and one gets a choker! If you're already following me, then just reply OR reskeet to enter! (it's more for fun than growth). Winners drawn in ~one week Thanks for being you!

Speedrunning is kinda cool yall. Found this game a few days ago. Played it, routed it out, then got a decent run. I went to open an SRC page for it, to find someone else had already done it and beat my time by two minutes. We traded WR back and forth, until I get the first sub-10 today

this was called Cohost—not enough people used it or spent money on it relative to the amount of money it cost to (1) pay its 4 employees a living wage for their labor; and (2) keep the site running, so it died, nothing like it has taken its place at the scale it existed, and now we're here

Got my performance review.

Say it with me: we would not be seeing this authoritarian censorship takeover in the United States, had both parties, the media and elite institutions not already greased the path with the muzzling of speech on Palestine.

Congratulations again to @allison8bit.bsky.social and Threepup for the amazing Haste Run(s) on our final day of #FlameFatales! If you'd like to game with other fatales, you can apply to join the Discord by sending a message to this Bluesky account or an email to [email protected]!

i love when speedrunners talk about speedrunning like a grizzled old sailor talking about the sea

Happy Silksong Day to those who celebrate

Say hello to our GDQueer mascot, Byte!! 🥰🏳️‍🌈 Byte is a goofy ahhh cybernetic stegosaur who loves to stay up late for Awful/Silly block!! #GDQueer

Today’s stream will feature @allison8bit.bsky.social, @ateatree.bsky.social, @xenadir.bsky.social, Sapphire, bagelcat, and @echo-tree.bsky.social! Check out Incentives and Schedule here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

they’re kidnapping trans women and forcing them to choose between male detention centers, where theyll be tortured, sexually abused and forcibly detransitioned, and leaving her whole life behind via self-deportation. but please go on with your “reasonable concerns” about trans rights

The countdown is on! Join us in 48 hours for a special announcement about Hollow Knight: Silksong! Premiering here: youtu.be/6XGeJwsUP9c

gAI art is bad because it's stealing labor. stealing labor from art is easy because no one sees art as labor, they see it as talent. they see it as talent because it's easier to believe they have a right to hate you because they can't stand they gave up and you didn't. fuck them, pay labor.

you know what would be really funny? if people started calling MasterCard saying "I mentioned MasterCard in a Riot/Valorant/League of Legends stream and I got timed out/warned/banned. I don't understand why that would happen. Can you explain it to me?"