so common to see takes based more on the perceived quality of the games coming out than actual industry conditions. lots of new AAA games are mid but e33/silksong/deltarune/etc. are "picking up the slack," so CLEARLY indies are winning these days, right? wait what do you mean everyone else is broke

told my discord this the other day, but i feel like in a more just society the arcade would be subsidized and kept open by the state, it'd be just like part of your local rec center

Happy Year of the Horse 🍎🐴💕 #art #horses #YearOfTheHorse #ChineseNewYear

Happy Year of the Horse 🐴🔥✨️

This is why no matter how bland a AAA game is, I will always defend devs behind it. Because it's basically the same as the fast fashion industry. Problem with Shein isn't that the garment makers are untalented. The problem is they have no time & no big pay for their hard labour. It's the same thing.

if this is gonna happen in under a month to every multiplayer game that has almost a decade in the oven then at the very least it should just be open sourced and left to the laid off devs to do whatever with. literally the least you can do

Someone tell Hillary that this is her husband’s legacy too

eastern rosellas ✨

Today for something different here's a couple of Mario Bros. illustrations by Ishihara Gojin featured on Famitsu magazine depicting their life in their early years. It's quite a funny read! Restored by removing text/other elements, applying the usual upscale/clean/retouch combo.

When people hear "it saved my life", there’s a presumption made that we mean without it we would quite literally die. And for many of us, that's absolutely true... But for those of us who rely upon it regularly.... it means our lives are made so much better now that they actually feel worth living."

We played all the Gabriel Knight games and I’m sad it’s over I love this dumb himbo

show don't tell is good advice, but I constantly think about Kayla says quote "I don't think a good film is defined by whether or not it is consistently outsmarting the audience", cause lots of people get upset when a message is too obvious, but like there are ways to be good & not subtle

Susan J. Dawe, for Mead, 1991

some rainbows for your workweek

Also note the way that the burden is always, always placed upon the left; the right must be catered to, the center must be appealed to, the left? Suck it up, accept whatever is offered, perform the labor of care and capitulation and compromise. A familiar dynamic.

It's kinda why it's more important to bully Discord as much as possible, since not only are there not that many good alternaltives, Discord has been known to fold due to immense backlash before

the world order effectively letting the palestinian genocide occur with no real objections has effectively dropped the formalities around pretending to care about genocide in the post-ww2 era and so the 21st century will be marked by more genocides & attempts to depoliticize them

Phillips "This is not a country where people get thrown in jail for things they say" @zackpolanski.bsky.social points out 2,700 people have been arrested for holding signs And well done to Zack for challenging Phillips smear that 'from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free' is antisemitic

My late valentines gift #sorrywereclosed #swcfanart #benerobyn

illustration, dreamcast magazine (1998) archive.org/details/drea...

Pressure VRchat now, they also use Persona. Vrchat uses persona. Vrchat uses persona. Persona is backed by Peter Thiel. Peter Thiel is pushing for a surveillance state in the US and appears in the Epstein files hundreds of times.

we were hungry before we were born

as a snob i am starting the campaign for all video game snobs to stop screenshotting mainstream reviews they think are stupid and wrong in 2026. no other mediums snobs do this. movie nerds aren't opening their reviews like "look what moronic shit slashfilm said about this." it makes us look weak

Better late than never, Miles. 🕸️❤️

i never posted these here but here are some zelda cdi ganondorfs i did a while back

dude.

i've been making sorry we're closed au designs once again i will do it again

If you live in the US, call your fucking representatives and tell them that repealing Section 230 is a horrible idea. If Section 230 is gone, you can kiss Bluesky goodbye.

"That's the second biggest donation goal I've ever seen!" Art by @thesmolbrit.bsky.social for #GameBlast26! Donate to support @specialeffect.org.uk: Tiltify.com/@weirdblasters/weirdblast26 @gameblastse.bsky.social

"you're going to face consequences" #pixelart #humanart #humanartist

THis is actually a really good illustration of why LLMs are just...kind of not that good at a lot of the things they're sold as being good at: The thing doesn't fucking understand or know what the question is, it's doing pattern recognition and that breaks down on a long enough timescale.

Had to add an idiot oop

redrew a vintage valentine #art

There exist a PC-88 version of Back to the Future action game, developed by Makoto Ichinoseki and published by Pony Canyon, which is lost media. If anyone has or finds this, please dump it.

I know it's meant in good faith but "if we just made smaller scope games and charged 20-40 dollars for them it would fix the industry" is very funny to me. indies release like 20 of those a week on steam. are you buying them? is the industry fixed? no? hm. sounds like you need a different solution

Beach babes! 💕✨ #oc #blackartist

The article doesnt actually mention them "distancing" themselves from Palantir, only that prompts to give your ID to Persona were "a test, which has concluded" Continue to cancel Nitro and migrate elsewhere

scribbled some butch yuri for valentine's ⑅ᵕ༚ᵕ˚☽

💕Awebo is in the air💕 Happy Valentine's Day! #art

It's very close - a couple of votes could change the outcome here! Ending tonight!

Today is KAITO's 20th anniversary, so to celebrate I'd like to share this illustrated slice of life fic I've been working on. archiveofourown.org/works/70603336 Here's to 20 more years, baby!!!!! #KAITO20th

I did not intend to get this done on Valentine's Day, but I never migrated 177 to my own site. I remain exceptionally proud of it and would love if more folks read it (if they're comfortable, content warnings at the top): thestacks.ca/posts/2026-0...

Thaddeus "Ted" Shearer (Nov. 1, 1919–Dec. 26, 1992) was a cartoonist, advertising art director, veteran of WWII, & creator of the comic strip Quincy. He also illustrated the book series about young detective Billy Jo Jive, which became an animated segment on Sesame Street. #BlackHistoryMonth

HAPPY 20th KAITO 💙💙💙!!!!!! please mr. blue y2K husbando be my valentines!!! #vocaloid #cigart #KAITO誕生祭2026

God, they're being annoying about this. For Context, I said that they're forcing this onto all users, & they're like "Nope, Silly! just the naughty ones!" Discord sucks

Jesus Christ this fucking company

happy valentine’s day to @hanerpop.bsky.social 💕 (yes these are 3d printed vippori™ figures) ✌️

Eat or be eaten- happy Valentine’s Day 👀