Anyway I hadn't heard anyone talking about this, so I guess I'm gonna talk about it. Spread the word if you're thinking about doing an nsfw KS project, Stripe apparently might pull your funding at literally any step of the process, with zero warning!

The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond

It shouldn’t be forgotten that a big piece of Mamdani’s campaign was simply “cities are cool and lots of people enjoy living in them” which in and of itself dismantles alot of rightwing talking points

Because SE's QA people are probably not in a position to defend themselves and their jobs in public, I want to spell out some of what it is they specifically do for us localizers, because nothing I've written here is rhetorical. SE QA acts as a final check on our work after translation and editing.

It's time!!! Independent Games Festival judging is wrapping up and thus comes my list of IGF Games I Want To Talk About for the year! As usual, I'll threadpost this later (maybe tomorrow) but people willing to click on a link can read it in full right now on my blog! auratriolo.com/blog/2025/11...

Geoff Keighley is a performative ally only when it serves him? No way! www.gamedeveloper.com/business/the...

Who doesn't love writing reviews? You, probably- yes it's boring but please go and leave a few ⭐ on my fonts if you want! itch.io/s/158296/40-...

going back to the 90s/00s it's basically impossible to overstate alexander o. smith's role in shoring up square's global dominance post ff7. absolutely insane localisation resume

just leaving this text from an oooold blog post of mine here re: TGAs ditching the future class

I'm currently doing contract work but I'm still looking for more – contract or full-time. I'm a narrative designer, writer, systems designer, and game designer with a decade of game dev experience, on projects ranging from indie games, to IP support for a major studio, to interactive video.

I thought people were overreacting to the rude label but mine was set to hide and not warn and I didn't even know it. Go check your moderation settings and make sure that they're what you want.

If you're wondering how this will go Square Enix handed off their mobile Octopath game to NetEase who immediately started using ChatGPT to translate everything resulting in text like this. When players complained they started asking fans to fix their translations in exchange for in-game currency

can I just briefly say, VGC doesn't get as much attention as other personality-heavy publications, but I'm that bitch who traces news to the sources and this team has been *hustling* to publish these scoops lately.

Everything about making video games is harder than you think.

... i want more cannoli

[ROB ZOMBIE, ABOUT TO WRITE ONE OF THE BEST SONGS EVER MADE] you ever think about the car grandpa munster drives

*earth shattering scream that leaves the gods going "the fuck was that?"* cool now i have ur attention is there anywhere we can acquire the original, non-directors cut version of Deus Ex Human Revolution???

sometimes I'll hear something and go i like that then somebody will declare "CORNY" and honestly my only takeaway is that one of us is more capable of enjoying ourselves than the other, even if it likely means the standards of one are possibly lower than the other.

saluting

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

Today we just got 100 new followers and a bunch of people saying "whoa I've never heard of this" re: the game we have been thumping into the ground for the last 3 years by posting one gif from our earliest demo. If you think you post too much about your game: you probably don't!

Overly-broad NDAs are widespread in the industry, and if companies are able to stick in court that they can interpret talking about your woking conditions as "leaking confidential information" that's an avenue they'll pursue to disrupt organizing.

Realized that this was too vague (especially given what it was quoting). I'm looking for suggestions places that might be interested in covering/talking about Indiepocalypse and these sorts of games on their own, unrelated to my publishing writing about games in the zine.

zeldas good because every game starts with link becoming woke

every year or so i give Rekreatur a full relisten to make sure it's still my favorite metal album and every year it still is Aus Ferner Zeit is incredible. the melodies. the sudden changes in grooves. the punctuated crescendos. the completely random dog bark at 6:39 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tc_M...

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I have supported my partner with my UI/UX salary in the past! But in this time of brutal games industry layoffs and project cancellations, he's currently my safety net thanks to his job as a Sr Gameplay Engineer, while I've been underemployed working freelance contracts and unable to find FT work.

had a thought

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

this is beautiful but they also look like a touhou bullet pattern tarot deck

Morgan Le Fae ptrn reward

Every Centrist two days ago: *pushes up glasses* Actually the extremely handsome and popular guy cannot possibly defeat the hated sex criminal. It's impossible because in America people do not like it when you help them. If you don't believe this, you're not a serious thinker.

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Italian media referring to Mamdani as “boy” would be easily dismissed as racism if it weren’t for the fact that for some goddamn reason people in this country call anyone under 40 a boy Having an old as hell population is weird man

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If only there were entire industries of folks specialising in making really expensive products that most users can access for free somewhat sustainable by doing enough math to ensure the 5% paying for it can carry the rest. But hey, that'd would require listening to experts.

In recent drama, Hideo Kojima had posted a pic with Italian comic book artist Zerocalcare. Kobane Calling, documents travels to the Syrian-Turkish border and Kobane during the fight against Daesh. Kojima apparently came under attack on his socials and would delete the pic soon after.

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sunny sky, pasta on the stove, some days are all right

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In Italy anime was just a thing that you could watch on any channel, there wasn't a distinction between "cartoon" and "anime" But I guess if I were to give you a vague approximation it would be something like Tiger Mask Fisherman Sanpei Heidi Girl of the Alps Lupin III, either red or pink jacket.

tracing rays & am very sleepy

HOW TO FEEL ALIVE

You have to survive. There are graves to piss on that haven't been dug yet.

but let's check in on how the americans are doing over there in new y-

The 70th issue of Indiepocalypse is out this week and I'm running the usual 'every 10 issue' pledge drive! Most of the time that means it's annual, but since it's the second drive this year, it's a patron drive instead! The goal though of 'break even' remains the same. patreon.com/indiepocalypse

disney will kneecap you with a shotgun if your logo is three circles a little too close together

time for my perennial scream that “leaders” in the games industry would be better off learning abt soft skills than AI and recognising that technical brilliance does not magically grant you the ability to maintain morale & motivate people & manage your own ego www.gamedeveloper.com/production/h...

Fighting back against AI is great. But please hire more trans women. One would be nice. More than one would be ideal. Zero is… telling.