Trying to find a job in video games right now is like crawling through hell: aftermath.site/video-game-rec...

Does anyone know how to relax

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

Horrifying outcome. Hoping for as few devs to be impacted as possible.

Splitsville is the funniest movie I’ve seen this year. Highly recommend.

Increasingly convinced that the reason social media exists is because people are incapable of holding two thoughts in their heads at the same time. Today, that could be about "too many games", or the Canada Post strike, or...

Are you or someone you know skipping GDC (or considering doing so) because of worries about coming to the US/San Francisco in the current environment? If so, I want to hear from you for a piece. DM me here or kyle DOT orland AT arstechnica DOT com. Please spread the word

I don't really care if the future is short videos. I like words. Words have gotten me this far and I'm gonna stick with 'em for the duration

Excited to finally be able to reveal that next week, @catan.com will be the FIRST EVER board game to be featured on Twitch Plays! A custom Board Game Arena integration will enable Twitch viewers to participate in games of CATAN with a STACKED roster of talent. www.aboutschwab.com/newsroom/sto...

If tariffs have impacted a recent purchase of yours--tabletop, figures, models, gaming accessories, gear, trading cards, miniatures, journaling, etc. I'd love to briefly hear from you about the cost/impact/experience/de minimis snafus. DMs open or: [email protected] ethangach on Discord

It's getting harder and harder to deny that AGI is a near certainty. This kind of rapid expansion, this level of investment and infrastructural shift, this amount of *risk* - it doesn't happen without astronomical reward. The other day I saw a big barn, which can only mean one thing: giant horses

I am also a hater.

things were better when the computer lived in its own specific room and you only went in there sometimes

Every tech update now is like: "Great news, the word processor you've relied on for twenty years has learned to juggle! Is it good at it? No! Does it help in any way? Of course not! Has it made it insufferable to use? Oh, absolutely."

Man, some real when it rains it pours action out here. Our car ended up with a popped tire, hit-and-run body damage, and was vandalized; our dishwasher died; and our dog needs enormously expensive dental work. If the universe could like, ease off the gas a little, that'd be swell, thanks!

Officially in my “done with summer” mindset

I hope to see this kind of thinking take root. I wasn’t credited on multiple games across multiple employers, and it’s both demoralizing AND professionally challenging for folks in that position.

Two stunning winners ✨🥇

“Some of us aren’t creative enough to brainstorm without ChatGPT!” Well then maybe you should sit this one out.

Creatives understand that making something is a process of starting with something crude and refining it. Whereas there's this subset of people who feel like they don't know how to be creative or that's been denied them somehow, and AI is a way to engage in what they imagine creativity is

Having a blast in New Orleans. Heading to LA tomorrow before heading to Gen Con on Monday! ✈️ If you’re coming to Gen Con and want to meet up, let me know!

Mandatory reading today from @rawsignal.ca: mailchi.mp/rawsignal/ho... It is offensive how good @johnathan.bsky.social and @shappy.bsky.social are at nailing the workplace issues around AI.

At this point just posting Mazda Porters to help the TL

For anyone who hasn't already, visit tenbluelinks.org and do this. No more AI junk in your search results!

Excited about this - Dylan, Braeden, and Cole are all huge fans of CATAN, and we're over the moon to be working with them (and to send some CATAN players to see them in concert at an INCREDIBLE venue in London!). (Note: The contest is just for tickets, winners are responsible for their own travel.)

We are excited to announce our collaboration with Wallows. Five lucky CATAN fans can win free concert tickets to their concert at the Brixton Academy in London, UK!! 🎸🇬🇧 More details on how to participate and a link will be added in the comments below shotly 👇

Excited about this - Dylan, Braeden, and Cole are all huge fans of CATAN, and we're over the moon to be working with them (and to send some CATAN players to see them in concert at an INCREDIBLE venue in London!). (Note: The contest is just for tickets, winners are responsible for their own travel.)

What will it take to get you off Twitter aftermath.site/twitter-elon-m...

'Vacations.' The word is 'vacations.'

This is a good summation of a core issue. I feel like the core lesson of the last half decade of my life has been ‘corporations don’t reward success, they reward avoidance of failure’. Everyone is incentivised to chase sure things, which inevitably leads to failure.

me in 2007: hey check it out, the video website has those 80s folgers commercials me in 2025: the video website is trying to turn my children into fascists

If A.I. is so powerful, why does every 2000 word article about how powerful it is mostly come down to "it summarises, it translates, it fumbles when you try and make it do actual work, some software engineers like it, also it doesn't know anything and thus cannot truly be trusted"?

I am surrounded by people who are outsourcing their own thinking to ChatGPT and they are quickly and obviously becoming dependent on it for even the most banal tasks. Once again, the "figuring it out" is the important part. Yes, you can use a crane to lift weights but you will not get stronger

Spent an awesome week with Team CATAN in Germany and had a blast at my first ever UK Games Expo! I’m very ready to see my own bed after four weeks on the road, though.

Here's the actual take on AI worth reading today.

but if i'm not allowed to feed artists into my artist killing machine it's going to be basically impossible for the machine to keep killing artists. is that what you want?? and before you answer keep in mind this is a very expensive machine

Every time Bluesky announces a new feature, 1000 people in the comments are like "we just want an edit button". No we fucking don't. I don't want my like/repost on something you changed after the fact to be some headass garbage. Just eat your typos, or delete and reskeet your little brain turd.

sometimes you pitch an article, black out, and then wake up 2000 words later with no real recollection how any of it happened www.pcgamer.com/games/strate...

(obviously X should be banned as a public health hazard)

A big part of deradicalization - as silly as it might sound - is getting sports fans out of the X swamp. They stew in there. They ingest fascist messaging unconsciously. It makes them sick. We need every major sports league here.

Very good to see @wnba.com and @nba.com on Bluesky. They seem like the leagues that might be most averse to the disgusting political environment of the X platform formerly known as Twitter.

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Closing the books on a fantastic PAX East. It was a week of catching up with old friends, making new ones, and getting to show the new sixth edition of CATAN to thousands of attendees. Thanks to everyone who stopped by, said hi, or attended my panel. I hope you all had as good a time as I did!

@samanthabeart.bsky.social glad to have had some time to hang out this weekend! Stop by the booth if you get a chance 👀