Thirty-two years ago today, Myst was released. Happy Birthday, little guy! 🎂

More Myst birthday week fun: Now until Oct 1st, get 10% off Myst Collection merch in the Cyan Store! Plus, our Riven Animal Sigils Stained Glass Coasters are BACK IN STOCK (and also 10% off!) Myst Collection: https://store.cyan.com/s/myst32soc Riven Coasters: https://store.cyan.com/s/sigressoc

Went to ihop drunk at 4am and asked them to make the pancakes Evil. Maybe one of the best escapades I’ve Ever been on LMFAOOOOO

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What a shame. "WGBH … has laid off the 13 people who worked on the history series 'American Experience' and announced that no new documentaries will be produced for the show until further notice." (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/a...

Ziff Davis and IGN routinely decide that work done by our laid off colleagues is not important. But inevitably, that crucial work falls onto those who remain. Not this time. Not anymore.

i'm sorry

You know you've made it big when you've landed in a @nytimes.com crossword puzzle. 😮🩵 From Tuesday's crossword:

My goto is to ask LLMs how many states have R in their name. They always fail. GPT 5 included Indiana, Illinois, and Texas in its list. It then asked me if I wanted an alphabetical highlighted map. Sure, why not.

Today, IGN laid off eight extremely valuable members of our union and workforce via directive from our parent company, Ziff Davis. This, after two incredibly successful live events IGN Live and SDCC, and yet another corporate acquisition. Please take a moment to read and share our full statement:

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

"I asked chatgpt" "I asked grok" well I asked Achenar from the best-selling point&click adventure game Myst and he told me to bring him the blue pages and NOT to touch the red ones

By swapping the little plumber for the big ape, Donkey Kong Bananza delivers a potent blend of action, creative level design, and environmental destruction that boldly reinvents the blockbuster Nintendo platformer formula. Read my full review! www.pcmag.com/reviews/donk...

There are people for whom Catan is their favorite game of all time, which baffles me

I execute this AND THEN IMMEDIATELY ROLL SEVEN. Everyone is pissed at me.

Meanwhile, I (who love to Human Salmon and turn games into Pacifist Runs) have a Knight Card and am proposing to shove the Robber back in the fucking Desert, so that all can flourish. @tiffanyleigh.bsky.social "this game is NOT fun"

Hi all—we're sorry to say that we've had another round of layoffs at Cyan. We've updated our previously shared sheet to reflect folks still (or newly) looking for opportunities: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NURnVwfeqolPAVN-Dn44UpXZS3bRVMaCNQczIzhIpdc/edit?usp=sharing

If it were not for Bill Atkinson’s HyperCard, Rand and I would have never begun making games and we would have never made Myst and Riven. He was a gentle soul and a brilliant human. We owe so much to him.

U is for UNION! Workers at the nonprofit behind Sesame Street have officially WON THEIR UNION with @opeiulocal153.bsky.social! ✊✊✊

"Uhh, fuck! Fuck! Mustard communion wafers? M-Malort as the wine?? Da Pope but said like Da Bears?! Shit shit shit, someone's already posted all this!!!!" -Every Chicago person on Bluesky right now

Should have threaded this earlier, but another great way to directly support me and ALL of the 20+ Polygon employees laid off in the Valnet acquisition (layoffs that just happened to include all of the site's union staff) is to donate to our WGAE-organized fund: www.gofundme.com/f/support-po...

Polo is one of the smartest and most effective journalists in comics. Polygon did a dumb here, but it’s an opportunity for someone looking to make a terrific hire.

If you ever liked Polygon, here’s a tangible way to help everyone affected by yesterday’s layoffs gofund.me/a21cbbdc

lol I will say that one way you can help me specifically and concretely is by buying a copy of Year of the Ring in North America if you haven't already: www.polygon.com/24156672/pol...

Woke up in a lovely bed and breakfast today on a lovely vacation to find out a place I've loved to work for just over a decade has been dismembered in minutes. Just wanted to join the chorus to say that I've been let go from Vox Media on May Day, along with a great team doing great stuff.

Today: - @felixsalmon.com on Trump's new tarrifs, - Meet NJ Gov. candidate @stevesweeneynj.bsky.social, - Author Jonathan Cohen on sports betting, - @maxeddy.bsky.social on data security and 23&Me Live at 10 on 93.9 FM, AM820 or @wnyc.org

A new Age awaits you in Myst: the snowy, enigmatic seascape of Rime! ❄️🔭 Download the Myst (2020) update NOW and receive Rime free! 📖🎉 More ⤵️

IRE members, join our upcoming webinar and learn how to protect yourself in and out of the newsroom. 🗓️ March 27, 1 p.m. 🗣️ Featuring @danielaibarratv.bsky.social, Mario Orellana, @maxeddy.bsky.social, Kim Key & @katstafford.bsky.social www.ire.org/event/free-w...

*beededededoop* Sam. It’s me, Die-Hardman. Wanted to let you know there’s banana bread in the kitchen. You can take a portion of this sweet cake bread anytime. Use the knife to cut off part of the loaf. You can take a full piece or a small piece depending on how hungry you are.

We expect @sesameworkshop.bsky.social to uphold our shared values of fairness, transparency, and respect by recognizing our union and collectively bargaining over our working conditions and the terms of yesterday's layoffs.

For those of you who are interested in this sort of Video Game history. Here are the instruction sheets from The Manhole.

37 years ago, my brother, Rand, and I released The Manhole: our debut game. Its simple point and click interface served as the template for all our games through Riven. Why "Prolog"? We used existing consulting company for our first printing. After finding a publisher, we founded @cyan.com

BREAKING: Philadelphia workers have won the first Whole Foods union under Amazon with UFCW. Since Amazon bought the chain, workers have lost benefits and felt the squeeze. Now they're fighting back against the multi-trillion dollar giant and hoping this win will be the first of many.

Hey peeps, congruent with my interests, you, too, can fill out "The Great Viking Survey" (done by a Norwegian institution so this is legit). Basically they are trying to figure out the balance of facts vs misconceptions people have based on modern media portrayals nettskjema.no/a/viking#/pa...

Nice people are struggling over the revelations on Gaiman, and something I keep hearing is, 'His work had a big influence on how I shaped my own identity.' So here's something to remember: You did that. He didn't do it for you. 1/

bro, when even was the last time you saw though my disguise at a crucial juncture and we both pointed and shouted”SEIZE THEM” at each other?

On this day 12 years ago, @kcg.bsky.social posted the “This is Fine” comic.

On the scene of the Amazon strike in Maspeth, the NYPD is trying to break the picket, engaging in arrests of union members and engaging in physical confrontations with workers and their supporters.

At the scene of the Amazon strike: The NYPD has now erected barricades to allow Amazon contractors to enter and leave the distribution center, helping Amazon break the picket line.

Hell Gate is on the scene at the protest of Amazon union members at the distribution center in Maspeth. Just moments ago, NYPD officers pulled an Amazon worker out of his car after he stood up out of his seat and attempted to join the strike.

We are setting a precedent for tech workers across the country. Every tech worker deserves a union – now more than ever.

Guaranteed wage increases for the first time of up to 8.25% (plus additional base rate discretionary compensation) that prioritize the largest wage increases for our lowest paid members over the life of the contract

‘Just cause’ and remote work protections; guarantees for flexible hybrid work schedules; compensation for on-call work and protections for our members on work visas

✊🎉WE HAVE A DEAL 🎉✊ We are thrilled to announce we have reached a tentative three-year agreement with @nytimes.com, pending ratification by our members. There’s so much to share but here are just a few highlights of the deal:

Workers at New York's famous Strand Books are on strike. The union is demanding their base pay to increase from $16 an hour, minimum wage in NYC, to $18/hr. gothamist.com/news/workers...

I'm fucking blasted and hanging out in the weirdest scene because history happened at a deeply inconvenient hour. so it goes.

As long as I'm ballooning followers on here, seems like a good time to say that today's your last day to pre-order a copy of Polygon's big book of our Year of the Ring project, edited by me! With words from @mollyostertag.bsky.social @kendrajames.bsky.social and more! www.polygon.com/24156672/pol...