I see devs get prickly about playtesting because they're afraid of being "focus grouped" or having the edges sanded off. The point of playtesting is to see if what you intended was what the player actually experienced, and there's no other way to find this out than putting it in front of someone.

Following marginalized voices makes you smarter and better informed than a million hours of consuming any Murdoch-owned news media.

Game design advice is like grammar or any other kind of artistic wisdom. Should not be taken as absolute, but you should really think about whether or not your design is actually doing the thing you want it to. Remember when everyone told you that intent isn't magic? That applies to art too!

DELL EXEC: Consumers are “not buying based on AI. In fact I think AI probably confuses them more than it helps them understand a specific outcome." @pcgamer.com #CES www.pcgamer.com/hardware/del...

zeon soldier, laughing: hey, char - i went to the dicksucking factory and- char aznable, immediately: and i was employee of the month every goddamn month. zeon soldier: char: you think you can suck a dick as good as me, soldier? zeon soldier: no sir. char: that's right.

Daily bunny 3191 did NOT bring a corkscrew

⛈️Storm Variant 'Marvel Presents' Cover Issue 4⛈️ She probably creates the perfect ambient white noise to read to~ 📖

Commission for @burnttoasts.bsky.social !

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This Langston Hughes poem is relevant af.

I've been tinkering with combining solo journalling games with idle clickers. You can read about it over on Patreon, if you're so inclined. https://www.patreon.com/posts/146989124?utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=android_share

⚠️ Graphic BREAKING: Israeli forces have shot a child in the head in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza, close to the yellow line that separates Israeli controlled areas from rest of Gaza where the vast majority of the population lives. Since the ceasefire in Oct, Israel has shot hundreds of Palestinians...

Walz: "We've got conspiracy theorists, right-wing YouTubers, breaking into our daycares, demanding access to our children. We've got the president demonizing our Somali neighbors and wrongfully confiscating funds that Minnesotans rely on. It's disgusting and it's dangerous."

GOING BOX MODE 📦 Pleased to share the intro to our CSMC Special Issue on games + Sofia's theory of "container technologies." From solar gaming & trucking sims to hot tub streams & apocalypse bunkers, 13 articles square up for an expanded definition of gaming cultures: doi.org/10.1080/1529...

A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacists websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress in Germany.

A reminder that pre-orders close on 7 January for the new Blue Prince x iam8bit collection so don't forget to place your order before then. blueprince.iam8bit.com

a branch and their sapling #ffxiv #finalfantasyxiv

Check it out it’s a Wizard holding a Wizard in the Wizards office

You lose one light, you find another 🐇🌿

two people dating is not found family!!! sorry!!!!

Stream's up, and we've got a lot to talk about today! Join me over in the Lab! twitch.tv/artificerind

This is the inspiration I needed today 💚

I actually really, really fucking hate it when people say shit like humans deserve to go extinct / animals are so much better and more deserving than humans I'm sorry you don't have the emotional capacity or imagination necessary to appreciate the breadth of the human experience

THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated. According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.

I know it’s probably deeply annoying to see Americans go “holy shit, the nakedness of this” after our history of indigenous genocide and global regime change, but what is especially scary about this is that the more recent bullshit alibis at least took some time to drum up and put into place.

the list of countries in latin america the US has overthrown without asking anyone else includes most of the countries in latin america how many americans even know about brazil or uruguay or ecuador, not that they care about anyone or anything

When I said earlier that literally every single thing happening today can be traced back to us not just allowing but encouraging it to be done to the black community- this is another example. ‘drugs as criminal’ happened in the US almost exclusively by connecting drugs to black community.

up early

when there's trouble... call literally anyone else #dispatch

hey remember when a bunch of middle-aged drunk korean lawmakers climbed the locked gates to the national assembly to hold an emergency session after the president gave illegal orders to the military, all of which ended with said president being sentenced to prison

No. The rule of law and its erosion cannot be ignored. The slow degradation of the law as an institution has created the conditions for this criminality to go unchecked. Respect for the constitutional order— and a nation that understands it and abides by it— needs to be rebuilt now more than ever.

Trust me. Watch this.

In celebration of Mamdani's first day in office, the map from our 2016 NYC atlas celebrating Queens as the most linguistically diverse place on earth. (800 languages spoken in NYC, according to NY's Endangered Language Institute, which collaborated with us on this map.

Three million people live in Caracas, five million in the metro area. It's one of the densest cities in South America. Remember this in the morning when they try to spin this as anything other than a cold-blooded attack on a major civilian center.

Yep.

Remember how appalled we all were in 2022 when Russia completely unprovoked attacked Ukraine? That is what we’re doing tonight with Venezuela. We are the bad guys here. Everyone who supports this is supporting unprovoked murder. Fuck every last one of them

What's left to say? May everyone involved in dropping bombs on Venezuela be punished swiftly and finally in pursuit of a just society and a lasting architecture of peace.

Lmao it's 30 mins to 3 AM, and I am watching the Reze Arc for Chainsaw Man. This thing is going to break me, isn't it.

Hell yeah

This is one of my games of the year. One of the best written games of all time imo, with simple but thematically elegant mechanics which help propel this coming-of-age narrative adventure forward. It’s just really properly good!

I'm in a very fortunate position right now, but it's already hard as hell and I've taken a real hit to my mental health becaise of it. Absolutely, we are "better". But that is not saying much. And we could get worse so easily.

I personally know multiple Canadians who have gone broke and/or chosen Assisted Suicide because of medical costs. I know even more online. Please, please, stop spreading these lies. Yes, we're better than the US, but that's literally the lowest bar.

There's this solidly 10lb possum that hangs in our yard sometimes and Edward DESPERATELY wants to be friends with it I named it Dave

OH NO! I FORGOT THAT THE END OF DECEMBER IS WHEN MY BACKBLAZE FILE BACK UP SUBSCRIPTION FOR THE YEAR RENEWS Help me recoup the cost by purchasing some icons or a character sheets? vgen.co/sonybaloneyart

hush kitten, no more indie ttrpg recommendations from you <3 youll be mommy's little dice slut from now on

The whole "Grok admits" "Grok apologizes" thing reminds me of the famous IBM presentation quote that evidently everyone has forgotten. And I do think representing your brand on social media counts as a "management decision".

On the off chance you might want to make little drawstring bags of your own, I've put my directions in the alt text!