Senate Democrats are fucking useless.

Non-spoiler recap of today’s retro game hunting:

Y'all, the hospital where I had my surgery is running trials to see if GLP-1 medications can help people suffering from long COVID. It's open to any person with documented long COVID who lives in the US. Please pass it on!

I don’t often watch my friends’s YouTube videos (personal rule; I like seeing friends as friends, not “content creators I’m friends with”) but I was curious. This is fantastic work by Alanah, and is the first time I’ve seen anyone paint a complete picture of the players in EA’s imminent purchase.

oh so these people do pay attention to who politicians follow on social media, they just don’t care that the vice president follows a bunch of actual neo-nazis

"this is your last chance to dodge a block" I tell my orange cat after our twentieth disagreement of the day over whether it's okay to bite when you get excited. I am still communicating more effectively to greater purpose than this.

Are we ready to explore the idea that Geoff Keighley's relevance was in no small part manufactured by game industry marketing/PR peeps in the late 2000s who wanted to rub shoulders with C-list celebrities and saw a chance to do so in "that game journalist they knew" who scored a gig with Spike TV?

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I still have friends at BioWare and I will forever be grateful to them for giving me my start in this industry, but at the same time... I remember when N7 Day was accompanied by announcements of comic books and clothing lines, and now it's literally "don't worry we're still making it!" I hold hope.

So, Hyrule Warriors. Hell yeah.

Hey so there are two recent major medication recalls: - Vyvanse generics - Lipitor generics Check your lot numbers and expiration dates! Links in next reply.

I really hate that we allowed TGAs to become THE award show for our industry.

God fucking dammit.

I love Star Trek and I love LEGO so believe that I take no joy in saying that the Enterprise-D looks ROUGH.

Another reminder that genAI is a furnace to which imbeciles throw your 401(k)s...

I'm sorry GDC but even with the $200 "alumni discount," $1,499 for an expo pass ain't gonna fly for me. I'm not about to drop $1,500 for the "privilege" of spending $3,500+ to stay in San Francisco for a week.

You will not convince me that these aren’t there to remind him of where he is.

*whispers* you can continue to read me, the pundit who insisted the other pundits were wrong about these conclusions

At some point I’ll write about it in more detail but the Nintendo Switch 2 might have actually reignited my love for playing games.

this is absolutely true and this should not strike fear, it should strike righteous fucking fury in you, are you going to let them break you, or are you going to make them break upon us?

there are basically not enough republican voters to create enough safe seats to withstand the kind of wave that, for example, turned virginia into a democratic supermajority state for the first time in the modern era of its politics

Well I’ll be damned.

Democrats tonight:

Bluesky rn

Tonight is a reminder that while shit is presently fucked, we - the electorate - have the power to unfuck it and that power must never be diminished nor taken for granted. Voting matters. It matters in your local elections. It matters in your state elections. It matters in your federal elections.

The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.

If you are a Republican lawmaker, A.) go to hell, B.) the only lesson you need to take away from tonight is "I need to get as far away from Trump and Johnson as humanly possible." Look at Marjorie Taylor Greene. She's a pants-on-head psychopath, and even SHE saw this shift coming a mile away.

All we need now is Prop 50...

i want to repeat this: mamdani and spanberger have run similar campaigns tailored to their respective electorates and it is maddening to watch political journalists attempt to create some broad contrast where none exist

…and we now go live to James watching the election results roll in:

I CAN’T HAVE ONE MOMENT OF GODDAMNED PEACE.

Austin, Texas is about to get another scumbag.

One of our country's greatest war criminals just died, the president is arguing with himself about whether or not to let 40 million people starve, and there is an actual courtroom drama about a five dollar footlong. How are any of us supposed to maintain emotional regulation.

There are a lot of things that I could say - and, one day, I will! But for now all I will say is that I've worked for a couple of studios where the leadership showed all seven of the outlined traits. Both of those studios are closed now.

NEW: After my last piece about what's slowing down game development, folks wrote in to ask "why didn't you talk about bad leadership?" It uhhhh never came up. So I returned to the well and asked devs to explain why better leadership—not AI or any other tool—is vital to efficient game development.

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The sole reason why so many "Democratic Consultants" (whom I blame for about 70% of the Democratic Party's troubles) fear a Mamdani victory is because it would be final proof that their philosophical approach to electoral politics is a relic of a dead age. And then they'd be out of work.

Real ones recognize.

how is this guy simultaneously completely fucking insane and a more honorable opponent than any republican in national office

Fantastic Pixel Castle, Gregg Street's studio, will close on November 17th (barring some kind of miracle, I reckon). The continuing deluge of studio closures and layoffs is exhausting and infuriating and heartbreaking at any time of year, but especially so when we're entering the holiday season...

I checked Settings & Privacy --> Data Privacy --> Data for Generative AI Improvement, and I was opted in by default, so go turn it off if you haven't yet!

It is incumbent upon me to point out that, should you wish to take them up on this (freaking great) deal, you will also need to get eggs and sugar to make the punkin pie and cranberry sauce, assuming you don’t just want to eat cranberries. But also: Do this! It’s an amazing deal! (And get butter.)

Didn’t he try this exact same grift with a bunch of Anbernic handhelds back in 2018 or so? Anyways Retroid makes dope machines and I highly recommend them PROVIDED you buy from Retroid and not from a rapper who hasn’t charted a single in 15 years.

Apparently I missed out on some "discourse" over the weekend regarding narrative design and its often-rocky relationship with other game design disciplines. ...probably for the best that I sat that one out, I think...

I thought LA drivers were bad, and they are, but after living in Utah for the past few months… these people shouldn’t be allowed to own motor vehicles. Like, every city has bad driving - but the dumbass things I’ve seen Utah drivers do in just over 90 days have been legitimately dangerous.

This was one of the greatest World Series of all time. Certainly the greatest I’ve ever watched in real-time. Two elite teams playing at the very top of their games, pushing each other beyond their limits. Good lord I love this game.

Baseball is the greatest game ever invented.

My apartment has been charging me $50 on top of my rent for the past three months for "late payment on utilities," despite my paying said utilities in full and on time. Turns out, the utility company in question had my address wrong in their system. I've been paying someone else's bill since July.