how could they forget the fourth pillar which is drunk indie devs causing massive amounts of drama in their "scenes"

<bioshock vending machine voice> fill your cravings at the festival of gaaaaaming!

i'm surprised there hasn't been more writing on how the boom/bust cycle of the marvel film biz basically mirrors the 90s comic book industry crash? like even down to the infinity gauntlet marking the top of the boom period, preceding endless crossovers and gimmicks that crashed the industry.

going to do a double feature of the last couple eps of andor s2 then "mandalorian and grogu" to see if it's possible to die in real life from tonal whiplash

there was a five-ish year stretch where i was designing almost all the non-licensed merch, designing all of the signage and video displays, and also physically working the booth from show open to show close at the pax west bungie store booth good times but pretty much burned me out on cons forever

every year i get a couple twitter or linkedin dms with unsolicited "UX case studies" and every time they consist mostly of a bunch of new feature wishcasting and very little UI/UX work.

i'm not sure many game devs (at least the ones on social media) have quite come to grips with how much what most of us traditionally know as "the games industry" was entirely based upon that industry having an incredible bull run of double-digit growth every year for 20+ years.

i only remember one and it was people freaking the fuck out/crying hysterically/leaving the theatre at an opening weekend showing of the blair witch project

actually i forgot “I looked at this games concurrent player count on steamcharts: find out what it is inside”

games media headlines in the big 2025 are either "THIS IS KILLING GAMES: WOKE Greedy AAA Game Devs Give Lara Croft DEI JAW" or "Donkey Kong Bonanza Reviewed: Why I Can't Enjoy It Because of Capitalism And Neither Should You"

whenever i feel myself starting get pissed off by content creators/critics/enthusiast media outlets etc. i think about the chokehold harry knowles/AICN had on the movie industry during the late 90s to early 00s... now millennials my age struggle to remember him, mandela effected out of existence.

it's appropriate that this is the coda of lazarus because i think biggest impact the series will have is making the notoriously divisive wolf's rain look WAY better in retrospect

game changer! elon just invented taxis and/or having your mom drop you off

bsky about to go into this mode again.

altnps being the 11th most followed account on here is one of the worst things anyone has said about bluesky

do NOT show a blueanon that "secret invasion" had 2x the viewers of andor s2 if you value your life

funny how many on both the left and right-wing spheres of the viddy game influencer economy tried to convince everyone "idk the vibes are off guys :(" before this launch. don't work yourself into a shoot, brother.

shinichiro watanabe is definitely not dodging the "was totally carried by keiko nobumoto" allegations after lazarus.

wild that i've been in the industry long enough to see the "E3 is a disgusting orgy of excess" thinkpieces morph into "the fact that we don't have E3 anymore is a damning sign of our decline" thinkpieces

"mountainhead" is only watchable if you enjoy seeing a bunch of accomplished actors doing bad jeremy strong impressions

it feels like i always see chronically-online AAA developers talking about how we need to drastically rebuild the industry from the ground up but when you dig a little deeper they just want to recreate the same systems we have now but with the "right" people at the top making decisions.

mission impossible: the final reckoning is about people in a race against time to stop an evil ai from becoming god not because it would be bad but because they don't want tom cruise to lose his job

stay away from these bad boys. they give you prostate cancer.

the story of the last two decades is just risk gradually being transferred from organizations to individuals.

good to see james gunn staying in his wheelhouse by spending half the superman trailer talking about interventionalism. i'm sure this will be handled with a lot of careful nuance in the film.

the Light and Magic ILM docuseries is funny because it adopts a tone of celebrating movie magic, but the actual content is just continual glazing of george lucas' maniacal quest for digital transformation followed by depressing denouements such as "i got laid off" and "they shut down the model shop"

an underrated part of gauging public reception to entertainment products are counter-indicators from people you actually don't want to have like your product.

Done for tonight 💦 #marathonthegame

one of the saddest endgames for a game developer is becoming "10-years-out-of-the-industry washed AAA hard surface/environment artist with a personal aesthetic that hasn't evolved since gears of war 3 who does nothing but fire off hot takes on current games" guy

marathon.bungie.org/story/ Marathon lore since 1995.

english dub of LAZARUS is pretty unfortunate based on the first episode...

this one's for you, hamish

finished a home decor project

it’s pretty crazy that the list of most price inelastic things in the world goes: #1 costco hotdog #2 video games

the funniest side effect of the ghiblification meme wave is the nft/web3 guys crawling out of their holes, pathetic and emaciated, to declare “we’re so back”

unfortunately the AI newsletter bros are right, the new chatgpt image generation capabilities will have devastating consequences for the thousands of professional graphic designers who's work mostly consists of jobs like "scene from blade runner but in the style of family guy"

they don’t ring a bell at the top but sometimes a bubble company’s ceo will “make a joke” about how their allegedly humanity-changing technology’s only actual use case is shitposts

the pitch for going to gdc has always sounded like “yeah the conference itself and all the things associated with it sucks, but it’s worth it to get introduced to cliquey groups of developers, who are socially awkward people, at parties in where they drink way too much!”

they activated the “ads by individual buyers who are also schizophrenic” algo on my twitter feed.

get ready to be extremely sick of 800k follower accounts on bluesky with bios that are something like "our team was laid off by elon musk, now we have gone underground as an elite group of mercenary liberal supersoldiers" jingling cold-war spy thriller keys for lib boomers the next four years.

i suppose the endgame for bluesky was always going to be “liberal qanon”

a lot of bizarre choices made in that 'andor' trailer. can't actually be the tone they're going for.... right?

the left is doomed to reenact the “i’d like to see ol’ donny trump wriggle his way out of THIS jam!” meme forever.

feige is never beating the “system quarterback on a team with gunn, coogler, russos, favreau” allegations