I haven’t even bought my lettuce yet

shit you say when you're about to be visited by three ghosts

I just found the funniest fucking document in my late mother's education paperwork.

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

I just found the funniest fucking document in my late mother's education paperwork.

Oh wow really

They're saying the lone gunman was an indie game developer? Have they considered that maybe he wasn't working alone but actually had the help of several contractors who are going unacknowledged for marketing reasons?

I’ve been hearing so much anger and disappointment from frontline workers about the BBC investigation into fraudulent asylum claims. One of the most damning responses has come from one of the experts they interviewed, solicitor Ana Gonzalez. It’s really worth reading her response in full:

Can we not fucking do this? He doesn't need removing from office because he's mentally ill, he needs removing from office because he's a genocidal war criminal.

Absolutely brutal line www.politico.eu/article/keir...

Thanks to the ongoing work on the Redguard Unity project, we have learned that if you were to try to look up the skirt of a female character in that game, you will find a smiley face emoji.

Me to 3yo: What do you want for your birthday party theme? 3yo: “Poopoo & peepee theme! We can get apple juice for the pee, so a skeleton pees and you drink the skeleton pee but it’s okay because it’s juice” Me: ..K I was thinking like “dinosaurs” but let’s put a pin in “piss fountain of the dead”

Today marks a year since the Supreme Court decision. We now know a revised version of the draft statutory guidance is due in May. We need to act fast to make sure it explains how trans people can still be included. Write to your MP to tell them what they need to do, using our quick and easy tool 👇

it always astounds me how some working creatives can get giant egos because wdym you're unburdened by the inherent vulnerability and rejection involved in working in a highly subjective field that requires an amount of your soul to be on display all the time and measured for commercial purposes

Show them Spy Kids 3D you cowards

me when someone cites the deep magic to me even though I was there when it was written: holy shit, for real? I don't remember that part at all

MY BODY: hey do you wanna know the score ME: no I’m busy MY BODY: ok sorry ME: MY BODY: we’re losing btw

Spent a lot of yesterday absorbed in this, thank you Bruno. I love that we've still got game genres where parser interface is an asset and fits perfectly. Beautiful game.

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

YarnSpinner: never knowingly undercommitted to the bit

♥ JOHN ♥

"indies will save us" buddy i am fully sean of the dead-ing this industry apocalypse. i'm just working on my little things, having a pint, hoping it all blows over.

Because dykes love the trans youth and have had about fucking enough of having our names taken in vain by het transphobes.

Here I am, mourning the tactile, ornamental, skeuomorphic user interfaces of classic CRPGs like I always do, when suddenly, Banquet for Fools comes along with absolutely stunning screens like this 🤯

What the US is purposefully doing to Cuba should be considered genocide.

This is utterly jaw-dropping. A school that bans Atwood, Zadie Smith, Terry effing Pratchett and *literal George Orwell* is actively harming its pupils. www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/scho...

the gormenghast books are about two horrible weirdos named like Wartslough and Festerbrew sitting in some decrepit castle room saying "exactlyyy" back and forth, forever, and it's the best thing ever

Are you an organizer or head of a games dev community, based in the UK? (Can be design, audio, composers, artists, games course leaders, entire studios, whatever!) If so, DM/reply to this post. I'm organizing a cool event in the warmer months with an emphasis on bringing folks together Plz RT!

- Monday the Betrayer - False Wednesday - Wednesday - Shadow Wednesday - Friday

Do not lie to me, outlander. If you want to see a bot fight, you have to bring me ten pieces of scrap metal.

It's not the worst thing about AI, but it's so irritating how it's made people suspicious of basic procgen.

Wes Streeting should be prosecuted for crimes against humanity

Autistic people enjoy parallel play? Well, first of all it's called Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

tfw you're fine

just heard a guy on youtube say "in the grand scream of things"

"you need to learn how to use gAI or you'll get left behind!" counterpoint! the absolute fastest way to render yourself unemployable is to build your skillset around a tool that does your thinking for you, that everyone has access to, and that one company can change or take away at any time

skyrim dragonbone horse armour

You asked for it! The long-awaited sequel to You Are Jeff Bezos is finally here: YOU ARE ELON MUSK 200+ passages. 7 endings. Secrets. In-jokes. Giant robots. All with the purpose of doing one thing: SPENDING ALL OF ELON MUSK'S FUCKING MONEY direkris.itch.io/elon

a single paragraph guide to taking pleasure in both the games you play and the material you put into the world. via @meredithgran.com meredithgran.com/perfect-tide...

The NYT style guide

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

underappreciated but very funny gorton and denton sideplot: the conservatives nominating literal sex matters (uk terf group) trustee charlotte cadden, only for her to get the worst result for the conservatives in by-election history and lose her deposit