In 2009, the UK got Killing In The Name Of to christmas number one, and the only purpose was to spite Simon Cowell. Probably not for Christmas, but we should try getting this back in the US charts. I would love to see this played at those ICE fucks.

Time to read 'Let's Go to Golgotha', a short story by Garry Kilworth

I think I will start using 'St. Ockwell' as my new online gamer id

They renamed the entire company around this.

The Tufty 2350 feels like it needs Another World ported to it. The original tufty 2040 was a bit low on RAM. badgewa.re

It's that giving time of year again, so this is a reminder that no matter how they try to dress it up, the Salvation Army is not a charity.

I'm having to give my shoulder a little rest at the moment, and have moved over to mousing with my left hand. How did I get through life with so little fine motor control on that side!?

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I think it's interesting to think about why this is the case. The higher up a company you go, the more the job is about absorbing, summarizing, and making decisions based on a lot of information. I can see why upper management would find an automated summarizing machine appealing.

I dunno, I feel like you ought to be able to throw out a picture of what you've cooked without 1000 people descending to roast your roast.

These are fantastic. I particularly like the Unity ones further down the thread.

Hey all, do I have any UK based concept artists following me (or who knows anyone) who would be up for a long term 22 month contract working on Dragonwilds at Jagex? Remote with a very occasional day in office in Cambridge. Development experience and fantasy genre work is a must. Mid level role.

It makes your breakfast sound so much more metal if you say something like "I like to have my cereal with molten milk"

It seems to me that building a machine that automates picking on someone is a terribly bad idea, and will probably result in the deaths of a bunch of people, children especially.

I'm pretty interested to find out what the industry has learned from Cyberpunk 2077. They had a successful launch, but their brand was hurt by the game having a lot of quality issues at launch. Basically, I'm wondering if the lesson will be 'better to launch with something rough and fix it later'?

How to make beautiful comics: Step 1: Have something to say. Step 2: See Step 1.

Every game designer parent I know bans Roblox for their kids

The idea that *she* could call anyone else 'unserious' The fucking gall

I am still angry that I was an EU citizen for most of my life, but had it taken away from me by a parcel of small minded little pricks.

trans ppl should get one free kick on keir starmer on this day every year imo

On this Trans Day of Remembrance, we remember the bright and courageous trans people whose lives were stolen by hatred. Their absence is felt across our city. We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.

I feel like this was me when I started my first job, except that the expression on my face was one of sheer terror

New artist on Bluesky alert

happy International Men's Day to trans men only, you guys worked your asses off to earn this and are playing the game on a level cis men cannot even imagine

This looks fucking great!

I feel like we're really heading in to an ad hellscape at the moment where AIs are just churning out vast amounts of shite hoping something will stick

Happy International Men's Day to all my fellow dudes, and anyone else has a dude in their life that they love.

This is a great video about Flock cameras and their security vulnerabilities by Benn Jordan. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB0g... It seems his investigation has been making Flock wet their pants sufficiently that they have had private investigators filming him at house.

I feel like @unity.com should be on this list of people and organizations who financially support Blender: fund.blender.org

And let me propose a new rule. If you invite a bigot into the tent, you have to leave with them. Looking at you, Schumer.

In justifying her horrendous, Tommy Robinson pleasing, asylum plans Mahmood claims "while asylum claims fall across Europe, they are rising here". Here's the facts behind that claim. Look at that graph. The UK doesn't take many asylum seekers compared to other countries in Europe. 1/

And this right here is why local hosting is The Way.

Living on the west coast I often wake up to posts like this, where there's this kind of WTF sense of mystery as I scroll backwards through the timeline to work out what it's all about.

I'm not sure I could keep quiet enough to get away with this. I would end up just working on something useful, and I would be bound to be noticed eventually.

Instead of Secret Santa, we're doing something similar but for colleagues' kids this year. I've been paired with a chap who always speaks over me. I'm getting his kids glitter and glue. I hope they love it.

In light of the astronomical increases for my health insurance next year, I thought it would be a good time to encourage people to subscribe. (A few hundred should cover it. Sigh.) clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

I know it's not the coolest thing to bring up and not many people seem to care, but my website is hosted in a local datacenter powered entirely by wind energy and certified under ISO-14001. So my #gameassets are a good choice if you care about the environment 🌲

Right up until my 20s I wondered why I never saw a copy of Donkey Otie in bookshops or libraries, even though it seemed to be quite well known

An important thing many corruption stories get wrong is that what's stolen isn't "taxpayer money" it's collective governance

HE'S BACK AT IT!

When I was a kid we lived in a Nigeria for a bit, and once visited a game reserve. My parents were very firm with us that if a baboon stole our food we were not to try and get it back. A baboon stole my mints, and my Chewbacca action figure. It kept the mints, but thankfully dropped Chewie.

the average salary of tens of thousands of games industry professionals is actually now $0, hope that clears things up

I don't know anything about this guy, but I do applaud him wearing eye protection. If you don't wear eye protection for the simple tasks, you'll probably forget some time for one of the tasks more likely to fling shit at your eyes.

I have always felt that the tendency to refer women as girls, especially when talking about women in a sexual context, is a way in which our very language encourages the sexual exploitation of children.

I would be interested if there are any emails in there between Epstein and Jack Nicholson.

When I worked in film, I found it so weird that my producer boss had a NONTAXABLE $75/day, or $525 a week, meal stipend on top of his large salary. Meanwhile, I got no meal stipend and had to buy my food out of my $500 a week salary, which was taxed

If you want to know how the American game dev job market is doing, today my lunch with an old contact to inquire about work was cancelled because he was laid off.

Wow, Mandleson is not only the first name, but also mentioned again at the end, along with (I assume a misspelling of) Blair.

Genuinely proud of where we filled up on our drive to Heathrow today.

This is spot on