I think most of all I love that flames that came before jim and merril passed through them to me and my friends and on to others who will make their own things unknowingly inspired by jim and merrils work and quiet social work keeping teens out of trouble.

shout out to jim ward whose memorial quietly passed on the IGF screen the same night we won our award, his work was a great inspiration to me, and I wish I had got to meet him while he was still around, but I hope I carry some of his falme with me through his work

shout out to the librarian merrill at west regional library who was many of our first dungeon masters as kids, running brutal oldschool 1st edition D&D games for local teens in the quiet florida evenings.

It's so fulfilling to share that legacy with the world.

I'm so glad we got to give the world a taste of what it was like playing rifts and gamma world and D&D at our mid 90s south florida tabletops. We really thought we had something special, and I guess we did.

Hankyoreh now has an official English translation of this editorial: english.hani.co.kr/arti/english...

Anyway, I'm personally very excited for the majority of Japanese game devs to still refuse to give me playable builds of the games they want localized no matter how many NDAs I sign or security precautions I take despite being able to point to 99.99% of the leaks they fear not coming from us lol

@jparish.bsky.social A number of years ago I stumbled on the story behind A Link to the Past's Chris Houlihan Room, including the letter sent to Chris from Nintendo Power. I finally decided to make a video about it all, in case you're interested. youtu.be/SY00ri_a9y4?...

been obsessed with this song/video recently and had to draw this lol

Y'all don't want to know what 40 looks like. Trust. bsky.app/profile/becc...

by age 30 you should have: * strong opinions about birds * 12 different "when i get time" projects on indefinite hiatus * sandwich(es) you fruitlessly yearn to have again * a growing list of obituaries you're looking forward to reading * parasocial friendships with other people's pets

I need to Atra post more on this place.

Young game journos, if you think it's tough to keep embargoes nowadays, please remember that I discovered Galarian Meowth during SwSh embargo and had to bottle up my screams for *weeks.*

my thiung said this mostly unprompted

As someone who has gone through "onboarding" at a Valnet website, it is 100% believable that this person has never even been told what an "embargo" is and the difference between that and a "deadline".

This happening at a Valnet owned site is proof that games media cannot continue to exist with 0 mentorship, editorial oversight, general education for new writers. No writer assigned a review should not understand what an "embargo" is and how to uphold it. This is just as much on their editor.

Gee, you could try paying folks what they're worth in order to encourage them to do the work, especially as folks become more & more aware of the value of their labor. ... Nah, we need the politicians to find us more slaves. And then they wonder why they struggle. bsky.app/profile/poli...

Now that's an upgrade

I said this at the beginning of the year and it feels even more true now - the way the MAGA cult views racial and religious minorities mirrors this passage that Philip K. Dick wrote about how antisemites view Jews:

The Demon Slayer movies have been such a massive money-making venture internationally that I genuinely wonder if Koyoharu Gotouge ever works again.

🧡🤎 #Xenogears #ゼノギアス

"Where's my Breakfast?" by Daniel Arthur

Feeling a ton of different feelings from this picture

「グラディウスⅡ」よりビックバイパーBP-827Z 完成！ ディーラー∶三毛労 豪華サイズでとてもでかあた

This is AAA games except for them it's like, one leg, 3 of the 4 hooves, an incredible lower jaw and mane. then they get an artist to draw the rest of the...horse? is the name confirmed? ah well, the award-winning screenwriter we hired will figure out why it looks like that *marks "known shipping"*

"Sbubby, eef freef" will always have a stranglehold on my conscious mind, tbh. bsky.app/profile/down...

30-50 feral hogs feels like simpler times

5 days until Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter !! With the beautiful Kloe Rinz ✨ #kuriiart #trailsthe1stcountdown #trailsinthesky #soranokiseki

Countdown to the #Undertale 10th Anniversary! 🌻1 day to go🌻 Your best friend is here for the final step; ASRIEL DREEMURR #undertale10thanniversary #art

exhibit 183193 in "nobody running big corporations has a single fucking clue about selling things" betty crocker shrank their cake boxes instead of raising prices and now a huge % of recipes that use them no longer work. meaning there's no point in buying a mix at all.

grade-S aura. jesus fucking christ

Love how super robot wars screenshots are just like those bait images that are like a still from Babylon 5 but it says "Mr. Spock and his best friend Duncan Idaho piloting the Millennium Falcon in a pitched battle against the Kodan armada"

There's also Hill Hill Hill Hill in Emglamd:

Normally I'd say Spiders Georg for the culture, but since somebody likely beat me to it have this runner up.

charlie kirk's own podcast just showing his empty chair is genuinely funnier than a lot of posts about his death

They were also blaring Amazing Grace on bagpipes. It felt like an Attitude Era WWE bit.

I couldn't help myself, don't take it seriously

randomly found this post again after completely forgetting in absolute totality that I wanted to inject "the fucking serfs won't slap the pond" into my lexicon.

Ruka.jpg

D-6 / Tita #trailsthe1stcountdown #軌跡シリーズ #空の軌跡 #ティータ・ラッセル

Your knowledge of late 90s sci-fi movie trivia has no effect. #TheElderScrolls #Oblivion

going from playing pokey, chunky, buzzy Atari 2600 games to this reformatted my brain at the age of 6 and made me forsake all toys in favor of video games

スーパーマリオブラザーズ✨

STOP LETTING PEOPLE WHO HATE YOUR WEBSITE AND ITS USERBASE DICTATE YOUR MODERATION DECISIONS. You should not be altering your own TOS and banning people because ConcernedHitler88 on twitter posted screencaps of them.

If you're an indie developer, you should hang this screenshot on your wall and use it as inspiration to never give up