Today, Sept 30th, is a stat holiday in Canada you might not know about! National Day for Truth and Reconciliation is meant to honor the memory of a lot of first nations children robbed of growing up in the barbaric system known as Residential Schools! It's a grim day, but a necessary one.

Update to this chart that I share a lot. Not breaking news: Game design teams are still OVERWHELMINGLY all men. About 7% of the top 500 games have a woman or non-binary person credited as a designer. A 🧵of related charts: (1/6) 🎲✂️

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

Showing children of the future the unacceptable hair rendering on the left to explain why we had to get rid of the rainforest.

he’s so real for this

No you read this and then spent the next 5 mins mucking around with a shit bit of Javascript to test the idea out

I guess CGE can block me too Making a Harry Potter game in 2025 without acknowledging the harm of transphobia at a bare minimum is a political statement Intent doesn’t matter

This is such a ridiculously good deal for this game & I highly recommend considering picking this up while it’s on sale if you haven’t already

important life hack for video games

Literally begging you to post about Just Some Stuff. We will see the news I absolutely promise. Twenty people will repost the same exact thing about the news. Only you can post about a turtle you saw

dude this party is such an echo chamber. it's just friends hanging out and chilling and having a good time. you need to invite some people over who want to kill you with hammers

OH MY FUCKING GOOOODDDDDDDDD MATSUNO YOU ARE THE ETERNAL GOAT

Time to post it again.

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Oh hey, I'm proud to contribute to worker-owned and independent new site Skybox! This is my essay about having a stroke, losing the ability to write or walk or play video games, and digging myself out of that depressive hole using video games. It's maybe the most vulnerable writing I've ever done.

Has MTG been slowly becoming fortnite in the years I haven’t been paying attention

applying for jobs again

So I worked on a WW2 historical fiction game years ago in my life, and even without AI it felt like a dangerous line to tread, where we all *understand* game is fiction but the reality felt like people might use us as presenting facts to have the burden of research taken from them

Imagine! A social media platform not hosted in the US! Not beholden to the whims of US legislation or US politicians. Would you feel safer there? I'm proud to be able to say that I've been helping out a little with Northsky. Please read Lucca's full thread to find out more. northskysocial.com/join

“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “lmao" said Gandalf, “well it has.”

One common sentiment I saw a lot from American hockey enjoyers was that watching the game was nice for having a distraction/time away dwelling on current political/world events. If you're an American reading this, just know that it is a massive privilege that those games got to feel that way for you

Same and I really gotta stress, not even trying to be spiteful/retaliatory! Trying to take us out at the knees economically is just going to make it comparatively that much more expensive to do anything in the US, and some people are already way too comfortable being monstrously cruel towards us.

FIGHTBOAT

Rude

Board game play stats for 2024. Lots of Dune this year! Probably also lots of Dune next year!

happy 2025 gamers

It's the for-real end of the year, so time to count down Adam's top 10 video games of 2024! 10. SUPER MARIO PARTY JAMBOREE The addition of a Tryhard Mode absolutely won me over on this game, less (but not too much less) RNG and public bonus stars, weighted items/shops. The maps rule too!

This game is currently on Big Sale and was definitely my game of the year (and I played & platinumed Astrobot). Can't recommend this enough to anyone remotely interested!

I would appreciate help boosting this change request for Bluesky Moderation on Github: github.com/bluesky-soci... Currently in the @moderation.bsky.app defaults, Intolerance label is set to Warn, while Rude is set to Hide. This means that Intolerance is treated as a lesser offense than being Rude.

Just did a side by side tasting of these two boxes America I have terrible news Kraft mac and cheese is *seriously bad* compared to KD It tastes like the box it arrives in KD ain’t high art or anything but it is leagues better because it doesn’t just taste like stale paper

My last 10 GOTY picks: 2023: Tears of the Kingdom 2022: Elden Ring 2021: Inscryption 2020: Phasmophobia 2019: Death Stranding 2018: Tetris Effect 2017: Resident Evil 7 2016: Final Fantasy XV 2015: Undertale 2014: P.T.

Not in the states but we DID have a big pot of chilli mac & cheese while watching the dog show finals thanksgiving special so it feels sort of like we’re also celebrating in our own way

So what was invite-only bluesky like?

People of Bluesky! Let’s get to know each other better. What is your favourite movie? Quote share your answer only in GIF form.

Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline.

I swear I’m doing more in Mexico than just playing board games I’m also just lying around at the pool bar daydrinking until they throw me out

One thing I try to remind folks in the board game industry is that hobbyists quickly forget how complex our hobby is. What we call a "light" game is considerably heavy and odd to the vast majority of people in the country.

Trans rights are human rights Women’s reproductive freedom is all of our freedom Immigrants make our nations better Fuck billionaires. All of them. Every last one. You can auction our elections but you’ll never buy our acceptance Fuck you

I used the sky bridge web extension to get a bunch of my follows back on bluesky and my timeline is actually great now?? I’ll actually use this app a bit! I might even mess around and use a HASHTAG