One of my first artsy pieces of games writing was about Bluepoint's Shadow of the Colossus remake, a game that felt in conversation with its origin. This is a senseless loss. caneandrinse.com/shadow-of-th...

I doubt parents who refuse to get their kids vaccinated are going to become the advocates that kids disabled by diseases need.

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

this tiger toy is a big dill

I remembered I can draw literally whatever I want. So here's Godzilla as a butch biker punk. Enjoy.

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every shot-on-video, made-with-a-camcorder horror movie that's just some teenage friend group fucking around in the woods with some fake blood and a monster mask contains more artistic merit, human joy and creative light than anything AI has ever made or will ever, ever make

High risk and disabled people who mask are doing it because infections can make them very sick, can kill them, can ruin their careers. They have had to adapt to an illness landscape that changed significantly and are trying to live their lives around a society ignoring the problem.

I know the majority of my followers don’t mask, but I want you to imagine you have a disability - any kind. You need a wheelchair, a hearing aid - to safely access the world. Now imagine someone a liberal with a massive platform says you’re unneighborly and untrustworthy for using it.

further to this, if you’re not regularly mitigating nor testing for covid, you may not know if you become infected, and therefore not connect that weird dizziness when you stand up to that “cold” you had last month. it’s a trumpian classic—no cases if you don’t test for it.

things woud go fucking crazy if me and an open minded woman got up to some bisexual Shit

Reminder to other indie dev teams especially new teams. Most of us are happy to share advice and give feedback on publisher/funding/platform deals and terms. There are some shady predatory biz weasels that will take advantage of you as soon as your game starts to pop off. Please reach out.

like sure whatever

The more of these fascist atrocities I see, the more I become an immigration maximalist. Let everyone in, give everyone work permits/green cards. Make it possible to get citizenship within a few months. Make it as easy as getting a driver's license.

Monstrously evil. Abolish ICE. Melt down its weapons and sell off all of its assets. Release everyone from its concentration camps and grant citizenship (if they want it) to everyone whose rights it has violated.

Sure would be great if the "COVID is over" ppl recognized the drop in surveillance when trotting out graphs like that. Deaths are not down nearly as much as they think. They aren't be tested and reported as much, and ppl aren't linking those heart attacks (etc.) w/ COVID from 2 months back.

Disabled people & those who cannot afford to get Covid deserve to be able to see art in public and make art in public.

>biggest advertising spot in the games industry for free >secretly funded by one of the largest game publishers in the world >investors attempt to spin bad publicity as a moral failing of the industry's consumers holy shit. it's an actual, genuine industry plant game... lmfao

I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!

For any artist that thought coronavirus was a “viral moment” instead of the ongoing threat it is I encourage you to read this.

Mask in ALL medical settings, whether you’re sick or not, whether it’s mandated or not. More than half of COVID cases are spread pre-symptomatically or asymptotically. Vulnerable people HAVE to be there and they don’t deserve to get sick from someone else’s carelessness. Masks protect you too.

very curious if any high school teachers are teaching vonnegut rn, especially breakfast if champions—would LOVE to hear how you’re helping students think through it. (also down for college professors but i first read it in hs so thus, comparison)

It is unconscionable that respirators are not standard operating procedure in medical settings. We should not have to beg for safe air.

People talk about this stuff in terms of how much it'll suck for gaming and I hate to inform you how many MRI machines, X-Rays, all sorts of other vital machinery are just a Windows IoT Edition PC in a beige plastic box with a big magnet/accelerator/whatever attached.

Loving this comic on Covid safety by Gilly, a writer & illustrator from the PNW 😷 YES to N95 masks, no to potatoes in your socks Link to full zine: static1.squarespace.com/static/5888e...

New Quinns Quest video!! 📺👻🌵 Public Access by the Gauntlet is razor sharp, powerfully strange and enormously thought-provoking. My players are still daydreaming about our campaign, even though it finished six months ago. I think your players will too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLrr...

How many staff and teachers contracted COVID, died, or became disabled because universities and schools decided they feared irate students and parents and politicians more than they did the systematic debilitation of their workforce?

The AI bubble RAM crisis is caused for non-existent problems by non-existent money for a non-existent infrastructure to meet non-existent demand to make non-existent business and will utterly destroy real business based on real demand and real infrastructure built with real money for real problems.

I admit I've under-emphasized this point, but it should be higher up in my list of reasons never to use "AI".

Knux x Piccolo

for the non-marxist gamers in the audience: this is the same logic guiding the real estate sector and it’s called Rentier capitalism www.researchgate.net/publication/...

after all, what better way to force people to use your bullshit wrong answer machines than making it extremely costly for anyone to do computation locally and thus establish said machines as the sole method of interface ?

i think lots of people underestimate how badly these “AI” companies want people to be unable to afford computers. they view personal computing as a roadblock to their desire for complete end-to-end centralization. the fact that their tech is putting hardware out of reach is not just a happy accident

I understand framing the AI bubble RAM supply crisis in terms of stuff like video game consoles because nerds can conceptualize that but the framing does really undersell the sheer magnitude of how it's going to fuck up everything that even touches a computer.

Reminder that many health effects of infections only emerge after long term cohort studies, which can take *years* to complete - in case anyone very confidently tells you COVID is no big deal

you can really blow some minds with “actually there was an entire library and research institute for queer / trans history, science and medicine founded by a Jewish sexologist but the Nazis destroyed it in the hopes of exactly this outcome, ie future generations not believing trans people are real”

there u go, bless

It's bittersweet seeing a legend like James Baxter pop in to guest-animate a sequence for some TV series now and then On the one hand: holy shit James Baxter is one of the best to ever do it On the other: the infrastructure that cultivated James Baxter's skills doesn't really exist anymore

I’ve watched a very smart child try to encode what chaptgpt thinks is “human” so that her class assignments don’t get flagged for plagiarism. I’ve heard expert professionals admit to self-editing so they don’t “sound” like an llm. This is the kind of cultural flattening that accelerates fascism.

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when i'm saying i'm dreading the release of this game this is what i mean. this is the kind of headline that gets put in textbooks and not for a good reason

Amazon's latest data center project in Canton, Mississippi, has left residents unprepared for how its development would change their daily lives. “We had no idea all of this was coming,” said René Johnson. “They didn't tell us anything, even when it was in the making.”

My 85 yr old dad unloading his pottery from a kiln and 100% also looking like a dwarven craftsman you meet in a dungeon who will sell you wares.

This is why everything you like has gotten worse. Your favorite restaurant closed? Landlords. Your friends are too busy to hang out? Landlords. Your TV has ads? Believe it or not, in a roundabout way, landlords.

This Black History Month, we honor three Black disabled ancestors whose brilliance and care continue to shape our movement: Atinuke “Tinu” Abayomi-Paul, Leslie Lee III, and Teighlor McGee. May we carry their names, work, and love forward, and continue making Black disabled history, together.

You have a 5-10% chance of long covid with every infection, higher on reinfections. That’s one in twenty to one in ten people who may be too sick with long covid to protest the next time you need them. To follow ICE. To volunteer. To donate. I truly do not get the constant own goals.

We don’t live in 2019, however much we’d like to. The situation changed. The risk profile changed. Adapt or lose ground entirely needlessly. It is so hard to watch people continue to make this disastrous error.

Why is this so hard for people to acknowledge? Why can we make sure that people have hand warmers and donuts and secret signal networks but be unyieldingly against simple protections from illness?

I’m going to say again, infecting your allies with a potentially debilitating and deadly illness is extremely foolish behavior in any kind of movement. You’re doing work for the other guys.