“In total, I’ve spoken with over two-dozen rather senior people in the datacenter universe, and there was an interesting and overriding theme to our conversations; no one understands how the financial math is supposed to work. They are as baffled as I am, and they do this for a living.”

Me, after writing half a dozen grant apps this year.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

“Management knows that the four-day, 32-hour work week that we’ve had for the past three and a half years is the right move,” said Dannel Jurado, Kickstarter United member. www.rascal.news/kickstarter-...

The @cgsaacej.bsky.social conference is my favourite on the whole #gamestudies circuit AND it's back in Montreal this year for a three-peat!

📣✨Call for Papers!📣✨ CGSA 2026 will take place at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec from June 11-14th, 2026. This year’s chosen theme is “On Repeat”. Submissions are due January 7th, 2026 at 11:59 PM PST Full CfP here: gamestudies.ca/conference-c...

The @cgsaacej.bsky.social conference is my favourite on the whole #gamestudies circuit AND it's back in Montreal this year for a three-peat!

Nintendo really was hoisted by their own petard, eh?

Nintendo really was hoisted by their own petard, eh?

This is the ideal male body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

I'm once again sharing my starter pack of Canadian Game Studies Folks! Follow and let me know if you, or someone you know, might be a good fit. 🕹️✨

Every study shows that vaccine campaigns immensely reduce the strain on provincial health systems, but Quebec is now charging $150-180 for a Covid shot: effectively shutting out most people from getting it.

Probably the Silksong review that best reflects my own feelings. The game teases you with its highs and kills you with its lows. Eventually, if you don't like the grind, you get bored and go home.

Nintendo has decided to get extremely litigious with Switch emulators, undoubtedly to create a chilling effect to stall future projects.

Concordia admin moves so slowly for everything...except getting ahead of the news cycle with protesters.

Two years in, and CBC is still refusing to call it a genocide.

Throwback to last weekend's @qgcon.bsky.social, where I got to moderate a discussion with a wonderful group of organisers.

Blue Jays this entire series:

GLAAD launches new program to mentor early-career LGBTQ+ developers www.gamesindustry.biz/glaad-launch...

EXCUSE ME WHAT

DURF Expanded is now live on Kickstarter! 🔥 www.kickstarter.com/projects/emi...

Starting out the day right by admiring Fraggle Rock artwork.

The #DiGRA2026 conference theme is Intersectional Pleasures. The theme invites a critical and celebratory exploration of how digital games enable, mediate, or restrict pleasure across lines of identity, genre, platforms, politics and more. www.digraconference2026.com #DIGRA

Here's a quick recap from the Broken Game Collective's "Portable Preservation" event at the @romtoronto.bsky.social! We're hoping to run another preservation event for @torontogamesweek.com next year.🎮🦖✨

"Nine initial schools are invited to join ‘compact’ banning use of race or sex in admissions, freezing tuition, capping international enrollment and more"

I'm increasingly of the belief that the Internet was a mistake.

Photo of @qgcon.bsky.social out of context

Just wanted to give a shout-out to @qgcon.bsky.social for putting an engaging, inclusive, and fun event last weekend! Such a great combination of arts, academia, and industry.

Here's a quick recap from the Broken Game Collective's "Portable Preservation" event at the @romtoronto.bsky.social! We're hoping to run another preservation event for @torontogamesweek.com next year.🎮🦖✨

Aidan has very good advice to taking pictures of CRTs and is a certified Chrono Trigger enjoyer.

oh hello october 1

Wizards is opening a Montreal #gamedev office and will be hiring about 200 folks in the city.

So we're already entrenched in the "making random stats up" stage of the MAGA playbook.

I'm not the biggest MLB fan, but I did make a bracket this year.

I know that US tech is affected most by H-1B visa changes, so it's getting the lion's share of news coverage, but US universities effectively can't hire international profs now. And as Canada is dead-set on poaching American academics, this job cycle is going to really suck for Canadian candidates.

UVW-CWA will be at the Queerness and Games Conference this weekend! ✊🌈 This Saturday, our worker-organizers will be running the workshop "Queer Organizing 101: Building Skills to Make Change as Marginalized Game Workers." We hope to see you there! #QGCon

New Pokemon starters just dropped.

One thing I forgot to mention after the launch of "What's Next Jammer?" is that the two white papers I wrote with GAIN are now on @itch.io! ✊If You Don’t Like the Game, Change the Rules gameartsinternationalnet.itch.io/change-the-r... 🎮That's My Jam! gameartsinternationalnet.itch.io/thats-my-jam

I wonder what other types of hate they'll (poorly) disguise as language policy.

One thing I forgot to mention after the launch of "What's Next Jammer?" is that the two white papers I wrote with GAIN are now on @itch.io! ✊If You Don’t Like the Game, Change the Rules gameartsinternationalnet.itch.io/change-the-r... 🎮That's My Jam! gameartsinternationalnet.itch.io/thats-my-jam

Final Fantasy Tactics is the game we need in these chaotic times.

A special shout-out to a past GAMERella staff member, Michael Iantorno, who has created the ultimate post-jam resource, "What's Next Jammer?" Keep it in your back pocket post the GAMERella annual Game Jam this year! @michaeliantorno.com

Still in SF, still too expensive and dangerous for most people.

Rescheduled for Oct 2! Join me and a couple of other TTRPG scholars as we discuss exciting moments in the development of TTRPGs across time and place. 🎲⚔️📚

To answer you question: I've spent a lot of time working on my CRT photography, and I've actually come around to a really simple solution. I just use my iPhone and an app that lets me set shutter speed/ISO. I always shoot at 1/60 and 64ish ISO and try to reduce ambient light as much as possible.

Can't fully confirm, but word on the street is that the deadline for @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca has been extended until tomorrow at 11:59pm.

If you're on LinkedIn, here's the opt-out for LinkedIn's AI bullshit using your content. www.linkedin.com/mypreference...

Another year, another deadline-day server crash for @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca. 💻🔥