I and a good number of very talented game devs were laid off by Obsidian as part of the Microsoft sacrificial rituals this morning. If you or anyone you know is looking for a Senior Writer/ND with more than two decades' experience in titles like Dragon Age and Mass Effect, please let me know!

AI stans in my LinkedIn feed: "AI is just a tool that we need to use!" AI ads in my LinkedIn feed: "AI isn't just a tool!" AI stans in my LinkedIn feed: "AI is going to help us do jobs better, not take jobs!" AI ads in my LinkedIn feed: "Why are you still hiring humans?"

Captain America co-creator Jack Kirby on punching nazis: "The only real politics I knew was that if a guy liked Hitler, I'd beat the stuffing out of him and that would be it."

Trick Weekes was lead writer on Dragon Age: Trespasser and Dragon Age: The Veilguard. Talk about the difference between game writing and novel writing, the unique challenges of writing branching narrative, and what new and aspiring game writers can do to build their skills.

Your reminder that I will be giving a talk entitled "Samuel Alito is a whiny pissbaby" and for $20, you can attend. For an additional $20, you can get a friend in on it. If we pass 500 seats sold, we'll have two seatings of the talk.

The same way that just a dozen people are behind over half of all the book bans, this entire goddamn nazi movement is a fucking handful of freaks who are loud enough in billionaire nazi sex pest social media empires to be confused with an entire crowd. This *is* their irl numbers and popularity.

“the sites route sensitive interactions Americans have with their government through infrastructure the White House apparently controls, and outside the reporting and accountability systems that normally cover federal agencies.”

Fighting harder against successful candidates in their own party than they have against GOP fascism.

I assimilated all the way to Congress and this idiot still tells me to go back where I came from.

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

Also the fact you can just remove the "2" from this URL and get the Concord closure sure is something. Can't even be empathetically original in your subject about ruining people's lives: sonyinteractive.com/en/news/blog...

The Supreme Court ALSO gives Trump another pass on racism, declaring that his horrific and bigoted comments against Haitians are actually not evidence of racism and that the plaintiffs cannot show evidence of racial bias, essentially plugging their ears and letting Trump spew filth as policy.

Lynda Barry did not squeeze your heart and simultaneously explain the point of all art with the barest of line drawings so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

Psychological safety isn’t a nice-to-have. It’s infrastructure. And right now, it’s being demolished at scale. When the companies reduce headcount and remaining employees have to absorb the work, while living with higher fear and lower trust. Article by Liz Dugan (12min)

There’s been more elite Democrat anger at Democratic primary voters than outrage over the life imprisonment of anti-ICE protesters — including a couple whose only offense was printing zines. Look at what they choose to talk about with the media and what they ignore. It’s revealing!

Two ICE agents tracked down a woman *inside a polling place* yesterday. Why? They demanded that she take down an Instagram post in which she named Jonathan Ross as the man who shot & killed Renee Good (after the Star Tribune identified Ross). www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

If I were European I would simply solve the heatwave using good old American moxie. But I will not use said moxie to solve the USA's intractable social problems because America is a real country and I am very busy.

Mamdani's candidates did well in elections this week, which Hakeem Jeffries takes personally, I guess? How DARE Mamdani back Democratic candidates who can WIN!

Hunter speaks! Dems need to listen. 🙌🔥

Affordable housing held hostage for voter suppression. This is authoritarianism on full display.

Lander on comparisons between his flank of the Democratic Party and the Tea Party: "We're joyful about what it looks like to deliver. That is very different energy than what the Tea Party brought. We want to build something, not just break something."

One of my "favorite" dumb Musk things is his deeply held belief that other people aren't real. One of his first moves after taking over Twitter was to try to fire "ghost employees," of which he thought they were many. He's a murderous bigot but he also thinks Fake People are robbing him blind.

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

watching a woman on tiktok document how many times she has to have an ultrasound to prove her fetus died so she can have an abortion legally in Florida. 3 scans. 3 co pays. weeks of waiting, while knowing she could get a fatal infection or lose her fertility. fuck maga.

i can't believe this is a real guy

Actually, we *should* be able to expect the president of the United States to be able to restrain himself from personally threatening to kill the negotiators from another country. It's not that unreasonable at all, you pathetic toady.

Suraj has a point.

The funny thing is that Ive been a storyboard artist for 30 years and Im well far off sitting on millions here. We are the cheapest you’ll make your film before it’s shot. We have ideas and experience and cost less than the rental of a lighting rig for a few weeks on our entire run on a show

It will never stop being funny to me that the street fighter subreddit has a much better, well reasoned ai policy vis a vis literally all universities.

Some bosses say full-time, in-person work boosts productivity or collaboration. “Our new research reveals that the objection to any work from home is more likely to be driven by something else entirely: ego,” write Adam Grant, Marissa Shandell and Courtney Elliott.

Norway is banning generative AI for schoolchildren under 13 starting in September.

Vance: "The Straits are now open. The Iranian military is now destroyed." Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz again this morning.

Boy, I can’t imagine a tougher sell to the public that “we’re taking away one of your holidays because it’s woke”. “You should be working today” is something that the villain says as he tries to tear down the rec center and Americans know it.

Anyone up for a Dip in DC today?

How can we get this America back? The one that speaks with love and at the very least resembles humanity?

Compared to Trump, Obama seems to represent America when it respects the people, empowers the marginalized, and treats most citizens as deserving of the American Dream. This makes him an existential threat to Trump's GOP and their billionaire puppet masters as they seek their technofeudal future.

Chat is it a good sign for your case when you omit entire pages from the grand jury transcript you give to the judge

ridiculous that i have to think of tech companies as my enemy and view every new update as a possible attempt to inject "A.i." malware into my computer

Watching the token cost on the unreal engine 5.8 MCP presentation was so funny. Thousands spent on moving a chair from one side of the room to the other. What are we doing here fellas.

The main problem I see with the game industry is that the people who control the money are convinced that it's the devs and the players who are the villains here.

I love it when people are cool about stuff.