okay, 🧵I guess. as a character designer I've noticed clients have really weird traits they assign for hair colour as a lazy cliche shorthand for a personality. blondes are either stupid, or mean. red hair is spunky, unique and approachable. brunettes are bookish killjoys. black is just TOO ethnic

We gotta let the Warners out of the water tower, they'll put a stop to this

Not to sound extremely old man yells at cloud, but the internet used to be where you go to read stuff mostly and now I feel like the internet is tv and I don't know how to compete with that or build anything within that. How does one compete with mindlessly scrolling the channels.

FYI for fellow narrative designers/game writers: the studio in question is Sentona Games and it’s my understanding they are currently interviewing to replace me. Be very careful with them. They were very nice to me and easy to work with right up until I needed the money I was promised.

I feel like younger people don't realize that the internet wasn't always optimized solely to make you as angry and miserable as possible, and people are having a lot of nostalgia for 2000s internet vibes now because it wasn't like that back then

WebAssembly is a second-class language on the web, but how can we make it first-class? WebAssembly Components could be the answer… hacks.mozilla.org/2026/02/maki...

Serious question: I've been told that I'm being a bummer by my friends and have been asked to consume things that bring me joy, however, as a classic over-thinker, everything is connected under capitalism and patriarchy and it's hard for me to read or watch something and not see it with that lens

Women only want ONE THING (late-night grilled cheese)

really wished i had bookmarked that post someone made a while ago of "i don't know how to tell y'all that some of you who think are funny are actually just kind of mean" because i think about it at least once a day at this point

New blogpost about atproto It's not federation, it's not a p2p mesh. It's a secret third thing: practical. www.pfrazee.com/blog/practic...

the percent for C is wayyyyyyy too low

Sword!

A 3D Render of Tails, found in a preview of 'Sonic 3D Blast'. It appears to be the same model used in an unused render in the PC version of the game.

hi, I worked in indie games for 10 years and sorry, they're also burning down. you just don't hear about it because it doesn't make the news when a studio of 19 lays off 7, even when it's 200 small studios doing that

i built an entire x86 CPU emulator in CSS (no javascript) you can write programs in C, compile them to x86 machine code with GCC, and run them inside CSS lyra.horse/x86css/

cohost may be dead but its legacy lives on

You really do have to take dating sims/romances seriously. Not love them. Not know everything about them. Not even play them. But take them seriously. They're a legitimate, influential, long-running genre, and the lack of awareness and acceptance in English-speaking circles should be embarrassing.

the secret to game design is that as much as players may claim otherwise they all love choosing one out of three things

it’s 8 am in japan and i’m feeling retrospective, here’s a thread of different ways i’m commonly negged and why i think it’s all very silly i think when you’ve achieved a certain level of success in your creative field, there are others who think that means your ego needs to be “taken down a peg”

me looking at these mountains: oh so genshin environmental artists weren’t just shitting these shapes and textures out of their ass and karst is a real word

Some day we'll all regret this & we'll hold hearings & rend garments & pledge "never again" & we'll be just as full of shit as we were last time.

Last thing I’ll say before going to bed. A creator being cringe, or ‘unprofessional’, or annoying is not somehow justification to treat them badly. You are allowed to be critical of someone’s behavior, we all are. But I see it used to excuse such genuine cruelty. It’s not a crime to be openly human.

My best advise to creators nowadays-ESPECIALLY WOMEN honestly, is to stand up for yourself, and protect your peace ❤️ Fight for your ideas and don’t let people discourage you! Fuck em’! They could never be you 😘 live your dreams!

also HMMM it always seems to be women who piss off the internet to a ridiculous degree over absolutely nothing HMMMMMMMMM INTERESTING??!!!?

I go back n’ forth about shutting up forever about dumb shit said online and actively wishing I could ✨virtually✨ punch people in the throat for the nasty shit they say to creators online lol some of y’all do NOT deserve the grace creators are expected to give you. fr lol

Wow that franchise took a dark turn

We are in the rare and unique position where indie animation can be unique creative visions unfettered by corporate interference or IP shit Why would you, as the fan, demand that the vision of the creator, who you claim to love, bend to your demands Kill your inner exec

Here’s the thing and I’m gonna tell you: a lot of fans are why so many creators just don’t want to create anymore. And so many of them are oddly proud of their ability to bully. In order for cartoons as a concept to survive, they need to knock that shit off.

It’s the freakin weekend

I know a lot of people are looking for industry analysis during these chaotic times, so here’s what I’ve got

I hope things in our industry change for the better in the future. I will not allow anyone to feel this way again.

Sarah Bond leaving xbox is kind of sad! I know many black girls who looked up to her and the work she did. She also shouted me out a few years ago and brought me a lot of visibility. What a day💔

"In the Air Tonight" plays in the background.

If at first you do not succeed, have your parents invent IMAX

the worst thing for me is. Imagine you lost a bunch of expert carpenters and you had to learn carpentry from scratch with no teachers, no youtube. That’s what the industry is currently doing. just getting rid of the folks who know the craft, and retaining the folks who know how to parasite

I was able to play this game years ago. I really liked it. I highly recommend it.

I agree in general. In very broad strokes: If you wanna be complex: own it. Cut the crap with the broad appeal then. Can't have it both ways. If you want broader appeal: look at Smash, Gang Beasts,etc. Traditional fighters too, but lean hard on game feel for all. Either way: IT'S NICHE AF!

BREAKING: PlayStation is shutting down Bluepoint Games, the studio responsible for modern remakes of classic games such as Demon's Souls and Shadow of the Colossus, Bloomberg News has learned. A shocking end for a well-respected studio.

50 new games a day on Steam. 350 per week. 18,000+ per year (as of 2 years ago). Regardless of the quality of each individual title, that is an absolute mountain of new games that the market cannot possibly support.

Lately, my wife and I have been referring to our marriage exclusively using yuri manga cliches. Well, okay, I've been doing that. She's just mostly been tolerating it. Due to the promise we made on that day

Rumi in Fortnite?👿👺

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before signing with @outersloth.com, i tell devs to reach out to teams we've worked with so they get a sense of what it's actually like to be with us!! whoever u sign with, check with others! most are more than happy to chat (and don't just talk to the most successful games under the label either.)

I'll never forget how Eka in the last minute saved us from signing a bad deal for Venba. He gave us so much help and only asked in return was we help others like he helped us, which I'm trying my best to do, especially with emerging devs. Reach out! There are a lot of parasites hoping you won't.

If you don’t read old stuff you’ll never discover that people in the olden days had the same thoughts and feelings and dreams and anxieties you do, sometimes articulated differently, sometimes exactly the same way. You are never truly alone in anything and old writings are a neon sign telling you so

THEY HAD THE “NO TAKE ONLY THROW” DOG MEME SIX THOUSAND YEARS AGO

Been a bit nervous about announcing this, but I was the Lead Writer on this week long game jam that turned into a YEAR LONG GAME JAM. 😅 From many of the same freaks that brought you OnlyCans! Date your guns! Meditate on the nature of isolation! Fight the deep state! Get divorced! Love a worm!

Had a dream that there was global panic about the world running out of oxygen, Nintendo was the only video game company to make a statement about it, and the internet collectively spent its final hours on Earth debating whether Nintendo was being genuine or not

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