Morning Kittens - BIRD!

Hate that everything got renamed to AI, I can't throw machine learning at a problem without worrying if I'm crossing some line now.

Oh thank god, the new clown passports are limited time only and only in person at some places. I have to renew next month. :\

Legitimately one of my favorite games of all time. Beyond clever.

🚨AFTER 33 MONTHS, I BRING YOU THE SINGLE LARGEST CREATIVE PROJECT OF MY LIFE 🚨: THE NAMCO MUSEUM MUSEUM: EVERY GAME, EVERY COLLECTION, EVERY PORT! EVERY RELEASE, EVERY REGION, NO EXCEPTIONS! I've meticulously studied & presented EVERY single instance of Namco's historic game collections, for you!

It's been a year after pretty much 17+ AAA employment, and let me tell you that what Rami says is the harsh truth. Even with our team's combined veterancy and experience, our clout and skill set, I've come to the conclusion that the faucet on funding indie games has been practically turned off.

AFTER NEARLY THREE LONG YEARS, THE SINGLE BIGGEST CREATIVE PROJECT OF MY LIFE IS FINALLY COMPLETE!! THE NAMCO MUSEUM MUSEUM - EVERY COLLECTION, EVERY GAME, EVERY REGION, EVERY PORT RELEASES FRIDAY 6/26/26 @ NOON PST youtube.com/@MythicResonance

Just found out a grown ass adult in Australia has never seen snow for real. 🤯

Insane discount on this game right now, $2.75

She wanted me upstairs to lay on the couch so she could immediately fall asleep. 🥲

I had a Seattle dog for dinner. Friends, it's a good hot dog.

If you recently went through a lay off, before you spend your savings on COBRA, check out any state-ran medicaid programs. If you make nothing, it costs nothing, even copays and meds. Not taken everywhere but can usually find good options...

I know that we've been having our own, erm, "interesting times" here at WB Games, but for anyone hit by today's layoffs WB is looking for a few folks for our studios in Burbank, Chicago, Salt Lake City, Montreal, the UK (London & Knutsford), and there are even a couple of roles open to remote:

I can't do much to help, but if you were recently laid off in the game industry and want to try and pick up some different skills. I can essentially be on call to help you learn to program or brush up on general programming skills. I mainly know C#, but have done it all...

In light of more terrible games layoff news, a periodic reminder that I do free headshots for job hunting friends for your LinkedIn/professional page/whatever. If you're in the greater Seattle area and need some new headshots let's chat

That's it, shut it all down. Turn off the video game industry. Let's get together and make a new industry and call it the film game industry. We can learn from the previous industry's mistakes and be better this time.

I cannot recommend AAA folks going indie. It's brutal out here, funding is rough, and the processes that work in AAA do not translate to indie. If anyone that was laid off insists on going indie and wants to chat about the risks & complications, I'm always available for a chat or call.

Hey, Adios is 45% off! store.steampowered.com/app/1271400/... $10. 2 hrs. One of the best voice-acted games in history. Two men who love each other very much are trying to persuade the other to stand down, because if one of them doesn't, the Farmer will have to be killed.

Here we go. Final render. This is it. The calm before the storm. The deep breath before the plunge.

My heart goes out to my Bungie friends. It's not much but all I can do is let y'all know we're hiring here at CDPR for a variety of roles. Take a gander and if we're friends hit me up! www.cdprojektred.com/en/jobs

The entire Cinematic org was included. Let me know if you're looking to pick up a Director and/or other talented cine folks at any level.

I don't get angry very often but the whitehouse twitter account weighing in on the Bungie layoffs is infuriating. I want to throw something flammable.

This is the way. Trees are white in infrared and reflect heat back up into the atmosphere bypassing a ton of global warming problems. Enough trees in local equilibrium maintain the temperatures we enjoy They self-reproduce, need minimal maintenance, and generally want to be left alone for decades

Fuck Marty O Donell

Ehhh, sometimes. Most of the time it's trying to save the remaining jobs/company with a chance of recovering in some form later.

I'm sad to say I was affected by the Bungie layoffs today too - while I was only a contractor, the capture work I did with them was some of the most consistent income I had. While I'm scrambling to figure out what's next, our GFM from earlier this year is still up: www.gofundme.com/f/help-zoe-a...

We learned this the hard way in the PNW. Buy one, throw it in the closet most of the year and wheel it out on the terrible days. A dehumidifier helps a ton as well (AC will automatically dehumidify too) and is cheaper, but not as good. Buying in winter is cheapest, prep for the bad weather...

Sorry Bungie friends. This sucks. If I can somehow help, let me know.

Bungie folks impacted by the layoffs: please let me know if you see anything on our careers page that is a fit for you. I will gladly help with application advice and recommendations: www.cdprojektred.com/en/jobs

Anyone laid off, apply to our game studio. Doesn't matter if you don't see a matching role, apply anyway via the "General Dev Application" If you applied before, apply again. You got nothing to lose. www.absurdventures.com/careers

Never ever working with concrete again.

"Whatchu guys doing this week?" Oh, pouring cement, if you... *look of panic on friend's face* "ohthatsucksgoodbyyyyyyYYyeeee" *cloud of dirt as they run away* Damnit, lost another one.

The amount of rice that comes with panang curry -> . The amount of rice I need with panang curry -> .... .... .... ....

I'll be hosting or co-hosting Wholesome Indies later today in Akihabara! Please feel free to come by if you want to show your game and/or meet other devs! 🎮💛 今日秋葉原にWholesome Indies（優しい系のインディーゲームイベント）を主催します！デモを出展できるし、ゲームクリエイターも会えるので、ご興味があれば是非来てください！🎮💛

Saw what my new teeth will look like in my mouth...crazy what they can do with super temporary workups. Some weird hardened wax mockup that gets embedded on existing teeth so you can talk and feel them with your tongue. Give a 👍 then they get chipped off and you show up in a couple weeks for realz.

Waiting Room #4

Waiting Room #3

#OnThisDay in 2000, the Experience Music Project (now MoPOP) opened at Seattle Center. historylink.org/File/5424

The equivalent of a full one-third of Seattle's population used light rail on Friday.

This has stopped getting much traction when I share it (understandable, everyone is unemployed and fatigued), but things are really tight for us right now and I would appreciate any extra visibility I can get. Available for all kinds of supplemental freelance and contract work.

Does anyone on the Seattle East side want to help me move 30 bags of cement tomorrow in 80ish degree weather? Uh, I'll pay some money? Bad back I can't move as much as I'd like. No? No...okok, makes sense.

I respect the gen z kids that knock on doors and ask you to donate or join some mailing list, hard work. Thankless work, in 90 degrees even! Never come back.

ADHD: You need to maintain this thing for 20 seconds a day or you'll regret life. /me: hmmm, probably not going to do that. /me: How bad will I regret life?

When you read that some jergoff is a trillionaire, remember that that's only on paper. If they pulled that money out the company would collapse literally within a day. Still wealthy, still ridiculous, still horrible, but those massive numbers are all fake.

“Wharton School researchers have dubbed this phenomenon ‘cognitive surrender,’ in which users shift from treating AI as a tool to treating it as an authority, accepting its answers rather than actively evaluating them.”

Is Steam going to get rid of the dumb dumb policy of only being online on one machine at a time? Steam Machine is going to be a pain in the butt if not. Steam Deck already is a pain due to it and having a PC running long games.

60% drop in reviews if people even smell AI on your game - full supports the investors, developers, and publishers that took a hard "no gen-AI" stance, despite grifters' proclamations that they were "going to be left behind".

Sorry hun, I can't pay these medical bills. I had to turn down a good paying dev job because they wanted me to use AI.

Power Wash Simulator Washington D.C. when?

But did all these thousands of people visiting Seattle for the World Cup have a Seattle Dog?