Early @gamesground.bsky.social highlights: A great talk about #SensitivityReading! Just like I keep saying with #CommunityManagement, it's more than a "niche add-on" to your development process. No, there is a real business argument to be made about improving the overall quality of your game 🎮 📈

Interessanter Artikel bei Autorenwelt über die Übersetzer*innenhonorare im Allgemeinen und bei Bastei Lübbe im Besonderen. www.autorenwelt.de/blog/branche...

"A court in Munich has ruled that OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT violated German copyright laws by using hits from top-selling musicians to train its language models in what creative industry advocates described as a landmark European ruling" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Spotify is now running recruitment ads for ICE. It’s time to cancel your account.

I love how my entire feed today is full of dancing frogs from all over the world. Keep it coming! (I wish I had gotten a banner to hang out of my window, because, sadly, there's no protest in my town today.) #nokings

We really are in the stupidest of timeslines.

The fact that the Nobel Peace Price was awarded to María Corina Machado, a Venezuelan woman, is just absolutely priceless.

Please consider participating, these guys are making a truly lovely game!

Smart people talk about language and politics—go, watch! www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ7P...

Sure hope that Netflix isn't doing anything disgraceful soon—I'm pretty much boycotting everyone else at this point. There is not much else I can do, but at least they're not getting my money.

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Pacific Drive has been one of my favorite things in 2024, I can't wait for this DLC to drop! Also, check out the amazing voice work!

I keep watching the WH press briefings out of curiosity (and to see what's going on as part of getting a better idea of the other side's information environment), and OMG, they've descended into a complete fantasy world. The spin is absolutely unreal—at least in the AP's yt chat no one is having it.

I know Silksong credits discourse is maybe over, but I got the full credits up on Mobygames for anyone who wants to see what the full team of the "game by three people" ends up looking like www.mobygames.com/game/246839/...

I'm looking for stories about how AI is killing creative work, and I'd love to hear from you—artists, writers, illustrators, actors, designers, editors, voice actors and narrators—if your job or practice has been hit. This is going to be a big one. [email protected]

People from all over are showing up for DC. This is not a moment. It’s a movement. We are united in our demands. We are all DC! #FreeDC

The Author’s Guild has a good explainer on the settlement, and according to them, it’s not too late to provide your info: authorsguild.org/news/what-au...

Travel advice from the Canadian government to Germany: "Exercise a high level of caution". "Crimes committed by far-right extremists against individuals belonging to ethnic, religious or political minorities occur". That about sums it up I guess. travel.gc.ca/destinations...

TIL: AI podcasts. What? Why? Who'd want such a thing?

Still my favorite explanation of the difference between INT and WIS: int is knowing that Frankenstein is the name of the doctor. Wis is knowing that Frankenstein was, in fact, the monster

Journalists stop prentending that using synthetic text extruding machines to extrude synthetic text is "interviewing" them challenge www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Came home from Gamescom with a cold, but I've got the best nurse.

Thank you, @bcmerchant.bsky.social, for giving translators a chance to speak their piece. I see a lot of replies and QRTs along the lines of "I'm glad I didn't finish my translation degree" or "This is all I know, am I really doomed?", so allow me to share a few thoughts:

"At a convention in Columbus, Ohio, in June, about 20 percent of the game publishers who would typically attend were no-shows because they lacked enough product to sell [...]. Those who did attend had fewer games, and shopping was down across the board [...]."

Since 2023, translators and interpreters have seen work dry up, rates plummet and their jobs reduced to editing AI-generated output. Some are leaving the field, others are considering bankruptcy. All despite any major upgrade in translation quality. This is how AI is killing translation work:

A day late (but not a dollar short), I'm finally on my way to #gamescom. So far, everything is perfect (the weather is amazing!), and I will never regret upgrading to 1st class on a long-ish train ride. See y'all on the flip side!

"I am a human being, damn it!" Deep Space 9 "Far Beyond the Stars" hits very differently these days.

How it started vs how it’s going after dozens of Devcom spam meeting confirmations for AI organized meetings I neither asked for wanted

OFFICIAL RELEASE: Star Trek and Disability; Volume 1 - The Trouble With Cripples. A short zine made by disabled academics critiquing the utopian vision of Star Trek—FREE to read here: files.libcom.org/files/2024-1... OR linktr.ee/disabilityark

Super interesting conversation with Kyla Scandon about... the economy, essentially, branching out into AI, the job market, and meme coins. www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_AF...

Jesus Christ, media, get it together! There won't be any //translators// in the room! The people doing the "translating" are called interpreters. How is this still a thing in 2025? Here's how you remember this: Translation: Writing. Interpreting: Spoken. It's really not that hard.

Client: "Hey, our client loved your work so much they want to give you a Gamescom ticket so they can meet you—you in?" What's happening? Like, seriously, fifteen years in thís industry, but that's a first. Looks like I might go to Cologne this year after all!

Who had "Radioactive Wasps" on their apocalypse bingo card?

*checks notes* Yep, Spotify is still evil, never used it, never will.

TIL about @skylight.social as a short-form video alternative—is anyone using this already? What do you think?

"How could we let things get this bad?" —Deep Space 9, "Past Tense"

Just leaving this here:

I love the smell of new #TTRPG books in the morning! My clawpy of Cats: The Conspurracy arrived and it is pretty pawsome! Can't wait to force my friends to play this with me—bad puns and all!

Whole book “translated” for $100? You get what you pay for, and if you don’t understand what makes human translators valuable, maybe you don’t value the creative work that goes into the writing process either. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

Deep Space 9 "Duet" is still hitting pretty hard. That's it, that's the post.

Hey #gamedev please don't make me play your game for a #gameloc job. It takes way too long, and I will miss stuff. If you need me to play, PAY ME and give me cheat codes. Else, screenshots, reference material, and answering my queries will suffice. Also, please don't make me play your game.

Now people, we just had one drama with garbage AI translation complete with leftover prompt, but at least we're good for a whi—

I'm getting real tired of not being able to trust that a video game doesn't have AI crap in it: aftermath.site/the-alters-ai-...

Because talking about AI is never not relevant, and @jonfavs.bsky.social always finds the smartest people to talk about it. (Clickbait-y headline aside.)

Vor sehr, sehr langer Zeit hatte mich Crizko in seinen Podcast eingeladen und bislang hatte ich gedacht, es gibt nur einen Audio-Pod davon (und hatte mich schon geägert, dass ich mich umsonst hergerichtet hatte), aber anscheinend gibt es den doch mittlerweile auch als (long-form)-Video. Hm!

Just leaving this here—it doesn't need further description, the title says it all: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWpg...

Finally got around to start watching season 7 of Black Mirror, and damn, "Common People" hits hard.

As always, spot on and super helpful articles about #gameloc for #gamedev by Jenn.