The amount of people I know who have been laid off from games industry jobs and are deciding to leave games entirely as a result is not only extremely saddening (of course), but also genuinely scary. We have lost legitimately thousands of years of knowledge and experience in the last four years.

Reject modernity, embrace tradition

Sadly, all the Learn Blender people were right. You couldn't pay me to go back to Maya or 3Ds Max. And I couldn't pay me either, because their license costs are insane Support Blender today!!!

Fish have committed credit card fraud

ohhh he's called Homer bc he spends the whole odyssey tryin to get home

A bit of a peculiar ask. I need a mentor for 2D animation who might be able to support a student who is struggling with motivation and self-confidence. They are Melbourne-based, but remote is also possible. Commitment would be about 2 meetings over 8 - 10 weeks.

Unions ain't busted. Our campaign against @rockstargames.com continues - reinstate your workers now!

Awesome thread on how hard it is to insert placeholder assets for audio. ✨

god i love dogs 🥰

just finished Öoo. can't recommend it enough if you're in the mood for a super tightly designed puzzle platformer you can beat in around two hours. can't remember the last time a puzzle game made me go "oh fuck yeah" to myself so many times when i realized a clever puzzle solution

if you want to put more than 50 words on a powerpoint slide you should have to write a business case first

do yourself a favor and dont even hate-watch that shit this year, man. go see a movie. edgar wright's new thing is in theatres. demonschool is out in 2 days, birdcage is out tomorrow. play something from your backlog. tron 2.0 is $10 on gog. catch up on some tv. do groceries. whatever.

1. Great, let's do this 2. Here's some useful info (from my agent). You have until March 23, 2026 and it now includes illustrators 3. Here is the Works Lookup link: secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/

Pretty much all affordability discourse could benefit from just posting this chart. If you're in the better off America, all the luxury goods you want in excess are for the most part much cheaper. If you're in the poorer America, most of the shit you need to live/grow is more expensive.

Alright, fellow authors, let’s do this.

Your choice is quite literally a bipartisan cabal of pedophilic drone-wielding genocidal oligarchs that suck each other off in depraved games of domination and blackmail, or, socialism and a habitable planet, and you're struggling with that choice?! Dafuq is wrong you?

Happy 30th anniversary to "Ghost In The Shell" movie by Mamoru Oshii (released in Japanese theaters on November 18, 1995).

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

Awards season is the best time of the year. So much blood sweat and tears goes on behind the scenes from so many people to make accessibility a reality, it always makes me so happy to see people publicly recognised for it.

For the first time ever, Momento’s Public Demo is available NOW and you can play it for free on Steam! 🥳✨ We’re so proud of what we’ve created, and we can’t even begin to say how special it feels to finally be able to share it with you all ♥️ We hope you enjoy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPpe...

Pope Leo absolutely cooking

I mean… he can just release them himself? 🤔

I can't recover from "in which they are engaged"

Like it or not this technology is here to stay and if you don’t use it you’ll fall behind in your industry

lol cry me a river bitch

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I hate that AI has made me approach cute animal videos with an air of suspicion. I resent having to harden my heart to the possibility of an unlikely friendship between a very large dog and a very small one

Every new piece of technology seems designed to invade what little privacy I have left so my life can be sold to private businesses and the surveillance state while also demanding a monthly payment.

sideburns being named after general burnsides sounds like one of those apocryphal folk legends except it's true. They're literally named after this guy

Thought I'd check in on chatgpt and see if it had gotten any better at game history research. It hallucinated an unreleased "Wizards and Warriors IV" project for NES and when I asked what the source was it made up a tweet by...me.

This unusual little Japanese instrument is such a vibe ✨ Designed in 1980s Ikebukuro, originally intended to teach koto scales and soundtrack poetry readings

Mobster who's pronouns are dey/dem

Looking for examples of national (scoped to a single country) gamedev awards that have an accessibility category. So far have ADGA (Aus), Pavs (NZ), Pégases (France), Premios Iris (Spain), and MCV Develop/TIGA/Develop Stars (UK). Anyone know of any others?

For the Aussies, the zoologists and the architects out there. 💩🧊🧪 By @chazhutton.com

I’ve seen enough. It is time to arrest Jeffrey Epstein.

your dead AI mother loves you so much ❤️

Open AI loses copyright case in Germany. Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."

werner herzog: the korok says “i need to reach my friend,” but i see not friendship here. instead i see the cruel jungle, i see abandonment, one left behind, struggling to move, like a turtle on its back, baking in the hyrule sun. “oooh” it cries out in anguish. “aaha.”

finally it's in fashion to call Geoff Keighley a piece of shit

‘The Owl House’ creator Dana Terrace responds to Disney+ funding AI-generated short form content in new tweet: “Unsubscribe from Disney+. Pirate Owl House. I don’t care. Fuck gen AI.”

Screen Australia is doing a massive research project on the current state of the screen and games industries in Australia. Local devs, please consider taking the time to complete their survey survey.alchemer.com/s3/8573365/S...

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

look People think documentation is hard. "Documenting a lot" has legit been career advancing for me One trick: If you're writing down an answer to someone in an email or an IM, paste that this into a page Just do it. Copy-paste. A little cleanup if you're feeling ambitious. Bam, documentation.

Over 200 employees at Rockstar North have sent letters to senior management, demanding that over 30 fired employees be reinstated. Videogame workers unions will also hold new protests on 14 and 18 November outside of Take-Two offices in London, Paris, and Edinburgh.

When you don't have time for the full freakout

valve: this is the steam machi- the collective internet: gabecube

Non-Australians - if I say “Every renter’s nightmare: AN INSPECTION”, you know what I mean, right? Everywhere has this invasive bullshit, yeah?