On one hand, the price-to-content discussion surrounding games lends itself to toxic derailment far too easily, and as such should be exercised with extreme caution On the other hand, it can't be overstated how INSANE a launch price of $20 is for a product of this quantity and quality. Buy Silksong

Team Cherry cackling maniacally as they made Blighttown, immediately followed by ANOTHER BLIGHTTOWN

Direct time, gamers

Silksong is so goddamn good. Only now getting to play it because I was too invested in Look Outside for being so goddamn good

I'll admit that I wasn't too crazy about Gavin Newsom at first, but the AI generated memes and homophobic jokes from his supporters really won me over

Do you know about the importance of the thumb-travel range for a controller analog stick? This new concept will change the way we play games with analog sticks. *I'm dead serious.* It also opens the way for thumbstick emulation for more accurate retro gaming. Wanna know more? Read my article.

Air Riders looks INCREDIBLE so far, to a point it's almost dream-like. That is: this is how child me, hyperfixated on the original, would've imagined the sequel looking

opening your new game announcement with this is so fucking funny and real

LinkedIn might be the most net-negative social media platform I've ever seen. I've never once seen a "found this banger on LinkedIn" type post; the best it ever gets is self-deprecation like this Does anyone ENJOY that platform? Has it ever served a function, or does everyone just pretend it does?

I'm old enough to remember a year or two ago when both "we're not killing journalists that's illegal!" and "We're not bombing *hospitals* for god's sake" were major talking points. Violations of these things now no longer seem to even register. Christ.

Just got my first spotting as "the Godot guy" instead of "the NASB guy", which I guess was an inevitability

Porn and art with sexual themes deserve to exist on their own merit, not because censoring them has knock-on effects for non-sexual content. Please stop expressing outrage by implying that censorship would be okay if it *just* affected sex workers and artists engaging with sexual themes.

Finished Donkey Kong Bananza A profoundly cathartic gameplay loop from beginning to end. The Odyssey team crafted a true elevation of a formula they've already knocked out of the park. I can't believe how much genuine effort and passion went into the story beats of their FIRST-PARTY 3D PLATFORMER

One of the best parts about Bananza that I'm not seeing much discussion of: every single button/trigger performs a *unique* action It's not like Odyssey where half the inputs share a function, arbitrarily locking certain techniques behind motion controls; now every move is tied to a physical input

Bananza bosses feel like their own Dorkly parody, where the joke of a giant gorilla tearing into you in less than 10 seconds is literally the gameplay loop

Average Mario Odyssey Boss: "Time your hits when the enemy shows their weak spot!" Average DK Bananza Boss:

Big year for hole

Donkey Kong Bananza is a Holeslike

I honestly (tee hee) think that the concept of a lie breaks something in the human brain. We know what lies are. We have experienced lies. But we're perpetually underprepared for actually recognizing and dealing with them. Will elaborate in subsequent posts.

Someone left the car tuned to a local radio station, where the host was absolutely SLAMMING Zohran Mamdani & warning New York citizens of their impending doom We live in Kentucky

Bob Vylan cannot perform in Amsterdam due to violent threats from pro-genocide groups. This is entirely normal good-guys behaviour that requires no further investigation, however putting paint on something as non-violent anti-genocide protest is literally terrorism.

hey, i made a small game with the help of @remargames.bsky.social ^^ check it out! regnsloja.itch.io/early-bird-s...

It's hard to convey how disheartening it is for Twitter to still be the primary/exclusive social media of so many peers and creators. This won't get them to leave. The next Nazi normalizing change won't get them to leave. At least half are paying for the privilege. Is the engagement REALLY worth it?

Nobody needs to risk their life anymore to prove to the world that the atrocities Palestinians are reporting are true. It's been proven, with videos and forensic investigations, etc. Everybody knows these war crimes are happening, but what nobody wants to believe is that there is no reaction to it

I hate to post this today, with all the news, but the genocide goes before all. Microsoft confirms it is supporting the genocide with AI tech. Israel never does anything but hurt Palestinians in Gaza, so "it's not used to harm Palestinians" is bullshit. www.rockpapershotgun.com/microsoft-co...

"Fortunately, we have a product for people who don't like intermission tracks, and it's called Mario Kart 8 Deluxe"

No shot people are pretending like Trump's Truth Social "ceasefire" failing is proof that Biden was absolutely powerless to do literally anything to stop a genocide Let's throw in blaming progressives too, why not. What a reductive, useless framing that blames everyone EXCEPT the establishment Dems

This is disingenuous. Biden could in fact stop Netanyahu multiple times. He did not just let him continue the genocide. He actively shielded Netanyahu from consequences. Time and time again I’m reminded that many people will choose their political party over literal humanity.

Shaking and crying that my precious em-dash has been tarnished by AI bros. I'm resorting to separating breaks in thought within the same sentence with commas, like some kind of peasant!

I keep my promises 🦇

The most striking part of MKWorld so far is the wall-ride mechanic. Not only is there a moderately high skill ceiling, but there's a shockingly high skill FLOOR. What's more: the game doesn't even attempt to ease you into it; you're left to your own devices in free-roam, and I kinda love it for that

This is a vital message: one of the larger reasons BlueSky is refreshingly free of alt-right shitlords is because in the early days we made a gentleperson’s agreement to starve these fuckos out and it worked. No likes, no quotes, no engagement. They got bored and left. Please keep the Old Ways.

Get owned, idiot

Alright, let's see what all the fuss is about

The absolute disparity in size between the NoKings protests & Trump's birthday party has been incredible. A healthy reminder how much we OVERWHELMINGLY outnumber these idiots

that tracks

Walked away from my desk for ~20 seconds, came back to my cat watching my idle game intently

LAPD when they think nobody is watching

Between Greta Thunberg and her fellow activists being kidnapped by Israel and Trump turning LA into his personal war zone, I hope people realise that protest, no matter how peaceful, will always be met with violence by dying empires.

Wish that OBS allowed screensavers to run by default, instead of needing to dig for a workaround via powercfg. The ability to use a pure-black screensaver on my new OLED monitors is great, and having OBS as a replay tool is also great, but they go together like oil and water out-of-the-box

Ah, so THAT'S why there was such good word-of-mouth for Thunderbolts*. Glad to enjoy a Marvel movie without any caveats again

This post is fearmongering, and the explanation might be a whole thread, strap in. So banning DomoAI at the user level will simply prevent any user with moderator/admin access from adding it to the server without removing that ban. It is not "shadow-joining" servers on its own.

This is—it bears repeating—ethnic cleansing and a war crime. It feels utterly pointless to say, and roughly equivalent to screaming into the void, but the United States should not be supporting or providing any aid to a state that has ethnic cleansing as a policy position.

Ask. Questions. Don't feel afraid to ask people what they're comfortable with. About their lives and their interests. About if they're doing okay, or if you two are doing okay. Don't assume, dont rely solely on vibes. And in kind? Try and be honest, or as honest as you feel comfortable being.

Picked up Leaf Blower Revolution on a whim about a week ago, because I was in the mood for an idle game. Today, out of nowhere, they released a brand new update for the game adding fishing—serendipitously unlocked at a stage of progression I'm nearly at This game is nearly half a decade old

LAST NIGHT AT UCLA - On the one year anniversary of the violent encampment raid, UCLA admin called in riot police to break up students watching The Encampments documentary on campus. These schools are at war with their students. Movies are illegal.

"Accessibility should be every developer’s top priority, full-stop" - @repiteo.bsky.social announcing native screenreader support in @godotengine.org, "only the first but massive step towards making Godot more accessible". godotengine.org/article/dev-... #gamedev #indiedev #accessibility #godot

"Oh, neat, Windows update added a new program I didn't tell it to add. Again. Well, might as well see what it… Ah"

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PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081