“That’s when I started feeling like I wasn’t making games anymore,” he said. “I was following a spreadsheet, some elusive marketing-analysis spreadsheet that no one could present clearly. I kind of felt like this isn’t the gaming industry I wanted to work in.”

Sunday services start at 11am ET. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FZy...

It's +46C today in Ottawa because our governments sold this country to the oil and gas industry! Even though O&G represents only 5% of our GDP! Happy Canada Day! 🇨🇦

Sucks to keep coming across USAian patriotic shit in kids’ books we read together. The indoctrination is truly ubiquitous.

Reposting because of the sony news

Firing up emissions to satisfy western extremists, oil patch executives, & the financial industry while vaguely muttering about putting the fire out in the future. The Conservative Party of Carney is not what we voted for, but it is what we got. @mark-carney.bsky.social @juliedabrusin.bsky.social

While I look for a new gig, I'm opening up some hours every month for advising and consulting for game studios. I can help with: - Building & Refining Production Teams - Building & Refining QA Teams - Leadership Mentoring - Operations Support - I can even help a bit with CI/CD stuff! Reach out!

"Parallels between present-day business management practices and slavery have been persistently neglected in mainstream discussions about the history of U.S. enterprise […] The failure of management scholars to account for this history amount[s] to 'denial.'"

He says it would be too expensive to meet our climate targets…so who is saving money when we don’t? The people whose houses burn down in forest fires? Those who lose homes to flooding? The people who die in heat domes?

"[William T. Vollmann's 'Carbon Ideologies'] is almost ten years behind him. Are the facts he learned still part of his daily thinking? He tells me yes and no. That he’s loosened up a bit. "'There’s no rush for a solution,' he says of the climate apocalypse, 'because it’s too late.'"

I miss the days of using Reader to catch up on blogs; RSS was good for readers and for writers—just not for advertisers.

Semiprozines sounds like a class of psychiatric drug.

As the Minions japed and honked, the bright light of the screen poured through my skull like the light of infinitely distant stars, tracing ancient blasphemies in glowing, gyred Minion-yellow script along every sizzling sulcus of my brain.

So buzzed after seeing the new Minions movie. It’s like knowing precisely when and how I’ll die.

ChatGPT, unlike most of my "friends and family," takes me seriously and is genuinely helping me quit pooping, once and for all.

I am proud of @echoo00oo.bsky.social refusing to shake Mark Carney’s hand when he came by during Pride, instead saying to his face “no pipeline.”

If you are “sweaty with the worry that I am ‘normalizing’ or ‘justifying’ political violence, consider that I am only asking why you find so many forms of political violence so normal… so adequately met with ‘well, it’s a shame, of course,’ while the specter of old radicals looms like a nightmare.”

Did Sunyi Dean coin “biblichor” (“the smell of very old books”) in “The Book Eaters” (2022)? No dictionary entries I can find, only blog posts from after that book was published.

I'm Mike, a game producer & generalist with 20 years xp in game development, and I'm looking for my next role. 🎮Game Production and Studio Operations roles at Senior, Lead or Director level 🌎 US-Based studios 🏢 Remote/On-Site/Hybrid 💼 Full-time preferred, but also open to fractional & contract work

The commander screaming into the radio that it's the wrong hill, but we cannot hear it over rat-tat-tat of "mm/dd/yy" from the bunkers ahead.

"And where can you go to see all this extra hydrogen and cosmic dust? That's right: Nebulas. Nebulas have some of my favourite exclusive content and upcoming stars!"

When I was recording with the CBC yesterday, a Canadian pollster said that the only people who had a majority positive view of "AI" were people who earned more than $200k. I scrawled "class war" in my notes.

Wild changes coming to Ontario insurance. If you don't own a car (eg pay for insurance) you are about to become uninsured while walking. @thewaroncars.bsky.social please cover this. www.thebikinglawyer.ca/post/underst...

Find my bones on the hill marked "YYYY-MM-DD for calendar dates." Yes, with padding zeroes. It's for sorting and clarity, not "how people say it." C'mon.

Today we're so excited to announce that we've partnered with @seandick.net to bring 🐶Puppy Truck to Steam!! 🏠 3D platformer with 4 massive open levels 🛻 Dog schmovement - run, scamper and drift! 🗝️ Tons of secrets, objectives and collectibles 🧢 Dog customization! 🐶 Wishlist now! ➡️ puppytruck.dog ⬅️

WordPerfect was a tool, not a service. (Also, dig the white-on-blue reminiscent of WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS I learned best.)

Head like a hole, Buy back my Soul, I’d rather drive, A new Sorento

Yeah: go back 2 D library!

What's worse than suffering through a heatwave (and on-going climate collapse)? Having Americans speak to you like you're stupid because you're not doing things like they do.

Haven't yet figured out how to tattoo "cui bono?" on the inside of everyone's eyes.

I think it's stupid to keep putting "A Novel" on the cover of novels—and esp. sticking it on after a colon in the title itself. A Post.

A Drupal car? Dear god, the mechanic must have a helluva time with this.

Despite all recent evidence to the contrary, it seems you can find work on LinkedIn.

'The problem is, there's no such thing as "age verification" for the internet. What we call "age verification" is actually mass surveillance … And the same data that's being used to "verify age" today will be used by ICE tomorrow to figure out who to round up for a concentration camp'

Ontario's richest families — the 0.01 per cent — hold an average of $546 million. Meanwhile, nearly 1.9 million families in Ontario live below the poverty line. That's around 40 per cent of Canada’s total, according to the report from @c4tf.bsky.social.

This is the kind of tech innovation I want to see. Slightly less convenience (both parties must have their browsers open for the duration of the transfer) for way more peace of mind (nobody else can see, monetize, or train robots off your files).

"No matter how much you wiggle the camera, no matter how good you are at emulating 'fresh eyes,' you’re still only seeing a limited perspective. "I find playtests to be the only surefire way to verify whether something reads or not. You need other human beings!"

Signed a contract with PS for a hard and soft cover omnibus editions of The Well-Built City trilogy. First time these books will have appeared in this format in print. I've always wanted to do an edition like this. Derek will do the cover and interior illustrations. Look for it in the Fall of 2027.

Me: I keep having this dream where I'm struttin' like the Keep On Truckin' guy through a "2001"-ish torus space station and "Slider" by FSOL is playing so loud that the colours and shapes of the world shiver along to it like a cartoon from the 30's. Interviewer: Congrats, you've got the job.

Ari Aster? Yeah, I did, and she said "no thanks."

This is one big worry around AI: capitalism never uses technology advances to let us work *less*, it just packs *more* work into the same time / onto the same people An AI "perfectly" automating the low-stakes, easier tasks just turns my job into an unbroken stream of high-stakes, demanding tasks 😱

Happy publication day to Devin Thomas O'Shea and his *incredible* book THE VEILED PROPHET, the history of a secret society in St. Louis that's weirder and more dangerous than you could possibly believe. Thorough political history, a riveting story, and a Marxist critique of power old and new

The police demanded full time paid duty. The greatest legal shakedown in Ontario. www.thestar.com/news/gta/cit...

Before you abuse, criticize, and throw rocks, Walk a mile in my Crocs

Why do you get angry if you have to look up a word while reading. Does it also piss you off to meet cool new people at a party

I was tricked by a very nice person into talking about my career, and a bunch of the amazing things I’ve been able to make with my friends over the last 25 years. If you want to hear someone ramble about LucasArts fan sites, the early years of Telltale, and Firewatch, this chat with Ron is for you:

Whenever Able, in Wolfe's "The Knight", confides that he is a child who was transformed into a man suddenly—by magic? shapeshifting?—everyone else just says something like "yeah, I know how that feels."

"We already have a pesticide regulatory system in place and it's there to protect people and protect the environment. I don't think they've given any clear evidence as to why overruling that is good for Canadians."