okay now figure in how many weren't thinking of leaving the industry but having that decision imposed upon them. Lets also be clear this isn't just a shame for those people, but it will manifest as worse games being more expensive to make, and making less money overall. This is a problem.

So, apparently there's a bsky app? Not sure why you'd use that instead of just opening the website on a browser...

look I popped off pretty good here, but you don't get 2 shots like this back to back very often lol

...google, WTF kinda meta-pseudo-art-school-adjacent legalese bullshit are you trying to pull here?

me when I'm paid to be a technical advisor on a platform with millions of active users

The PAL version of the 1983 original Bomberman was called “Eric and the Floaters”. Which is weird enough, I had to see this for myself So I found the cover art!!!! Excuse me????

Just had an interesting interaction on bsky, I got an odd reply and decided to look at the account before replying, wondering if it was a bot; after a quick glance at the account...I hope this is a bot...because if it's a real person...we need that giant meteor now more than ever.

To every company firing your engineers and replacing them with #AI: 10, 20, 30 years ago, you could have fired your best engineers and brought on 1,000 unpaid interns to make your product, why didn't you? That's what you're doing with AI. That 's the gamble you're taking. Good. Fucking. Luck.

One thing I love about @retroachievements.org is the evolution of the achievements metagame concept-- the way they have build up a whole community around it, with various inter-game collection awards via events, especially. It's fantastic (even if they occasionally flub the in the execution...)

It's 11:00pm, do you know where your koopalings are?

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

The more you love ProPublica, the more reason to not visit their site today.

Wake up, kids We got the dreamers disease. ‘Radical’ comes from a Latin word meaning "root." Because roots are the deepest part of a plant, ‘radical’ came to describe things understood as fundamental or essential. ‘Radical change’ was a change at the root of a system.

I don't think I could make a joke better than this

@retroachievements.org Today would've been a great day to announce support for Gizmondo

If you replace your entire workforce after each project, you’ll never grow the generational talent your studio could be known for. You’ll never be Disney, or Ghibli, or Nintendo.

Love to my trans friends on this Trans Day of Visibility and every day. I see you, I love you, I support you.

@videogameworkers.bsky.social Really great piece here about the state of the game industry and unionizing in the wake of layoffs:

No Gods, only people. No Kings, only Law.

Great read

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I feel like we're at the point where capitalism has killed honestly earning a living as uneconomical. God it fucking sucks to live in interesting times; can we please make politics and economics and sociology and all this shit BORING again??

Remember those old cartoons where a scientist creates some new device or tech for world peace, and a villain takes it and threatens to use it as a weapon to hold the world hostage? That's AI. We're there, and we're all watching the internet get murdered.

@videogameworkers.bsky.social when you talk to laid-off game devs, I imagine several of them want to go indie or startup their own company; are you talking to them about creating co-ops?

Jeez, it's really something when you don't even have the energy to sit in a chair and play video games...

trying out a new feature, lmk if it works

Depression is such a bitch...

Empathy is cool. Pass it on.

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Hideki Sato, designer of virtually all of Sega’s consoles, has died. vgc.news/news/hideki-...

Kind of gives away the whole game that all the crypto ads this year have been replaced with gambling and AI ads.

Oh hell yeah! www.kickstarter.com/projects/rif...

Does anyone else feel like Twitch really REALLY wants us to watch ALF?

I Fucking love @themegas.bsky.social

Y'know, I rented Dark Cloud 2 when it came out (purely blind rental) I remember thinking it seemed like a really interesting idea, and I always wanted to try out Dark Cloud 1...now I have...I can see a good game in here, but it's hiding under several issues... (1/2)

Video game workers are the heart of their industry, yet they’re often the last ones considered in massive buyouts. 🎮 That's why we and over 40 Members of Congress are calling on the FTC to investigate the proposed EA acquisition and protect workers from the threat of job loss.

Ugh. Double Dragon II is so bad. it's like they put serious effort into TRYING to make the most ridiculous, convoluted control scheme imaginable... "Is this button 'Punch' or 'Kick'?" "Which direction are you facing?" That's not even including how sluggish and clunky the controls are generally...

Announcing ICE Breaker: A charity speedrun event by myself & @rrlat.bsky.social on Jan 30 - Feb 1 to support Minnesotans in defending from ICE. Submit runs: oengus.io/marathon/ice... Volunteer: forms.gle/51HEcBmhUC8X... Run submissions close Sunday. Volunteer apps have a soft deadline of Saturday

WHY NOT JUST DRAW IT YOURSELVES THEN DUMB FUCK

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

Even the most well intentioned and "uniformed" studios/publishers etc needs to feel a flame so hot when they touch on this that they're scarred for life, I'm sorry. The collateral damage being a studio's *reputation* is nothing compared to the creatives whose work was stolen just to replace them.

@capcomusa.com Why do entrants to the Mega Man Robot Master design contest need to follow you on Xitter? Why can't this platform work? or just an email address? I deleted my Xitter account when muskrat unbanned the nazis and turned the platform into a cesspool and I'm not going back.