I’m thankful to be employed with a fun job, to have a roof over my head, to have people who support and root for me, and to be eating good food with family tonight. Thank you for being awesome simply by being yourselves, supporting your peers, and continuing to believe we can be better together.

This is what happened to me. Employers across the board need to be aware of how harassment campaigns work and do better to protect their employees from them. These people should not have a platform to profit off of harassment.

I graduated college with a writing degree, but lacked the inspiration to write and didn’t want to go into teaching. After some soul searching, I got two job offers, one as a paralegal (I considered a degree in polisci) and one for QA at Xbox. Gaming sounded way more fun, so I took the risk.

Wicked was just as beautifully tragic as I expected, and the changes they made from the stage musical were perfectly reasonable. I absolutely cried. I hope Ariana and Cynthia get their flowers because they pulled off one hell of a performance. 👏 😭

I’m seeing Wicked: For Good tonight and I just know it’ll be hard to resist humming along inbetween mouthfuls of popcorn. It’s one of my favorite musicals in spite of the tragedy. And yes, I’m a Gelphie truther. I know what you are, Glinda. 💅

This is a great example of how to meet people where they’re at. 👏 Very cool to see initiatives like this happening, and I hope the learnings lead to more whistles and ICE melting.

hard to maintain friendships with game developers because all these motherfuckers have ADHD and forget you exist when you're out of sight (it's me i'm these guys)

Here’s the reason I spoke to so many video game actors. I attended the launch of TIVA, an independently run audiobook series with all of your favourite voice actors, aiming to fight back against AI and corporations, featuring an all female/non-binary cast. www.thegamer.com/tiva-intervi...

It would be really cool if a game included QA early in the credits rather than buried at the end or under Special Thanks. Going out of your way to prop up the quality team is a huge sign of respect for what’s classically considered the “little guys” and would earn my sincere support and gratitude.

I finished Dispatch in just a few days, but it successfully scratches the Telltale itch. The dialogue is snappy, the story is tropey but engaging with solid acting and QTE, and it’s satisfying to fulfill the power fantasy of being a regular guy who saves the day and inspires change. Season two when?

My trailblazing game industry bad-ass friend Rebecca Heineman has passed away. Fuck cancer. Friends, let’s not forget her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...

Happy Friendsgiving to all who celebrate this weekend! I got home from mine after 1am last night and woke up about fifteen minutes ago. 😂 My voice is hoarse from all the laughing. Great food, great games, great people! Did I forget a tupperware? Who’s to say.

Even if you’re not particularly keen on theatre, do yourself a favor and go watch the PBS Shakespeare in the Park performance of Twelfth Night. It’s hilarious and excellent! Lupita Nyong’o was stunning, Peter Dinklage was earnestly unhinged, Sandra Oh said “gay rights”. www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/t...

The c-suites are dragging this average up and skewing expectations. There’s no way that most game developers are making $142k! Would love to see more details and context about disciplines like Production and QA, marginalized communities, HCOL areas, contract/freelance, and layoffs/team size.

Chatting with Future Class inductees for my latest at @theguardian.com. They paint a pretty clear picture of the perils of performative allyship. Thanks to all who spoke with me, and always, to Keza for the chance to do important work!

I finally finished Expedition 33 tonight, and now I understand why so many people were demanding that I play it and have been so adamant that it deserves awards like GOTY. It absolutely does. As I sit here, teary-eyed, I deeply respect Sandfall Interactive’s story about grief and family. 🥀

i’m ready for something different than whatever the fuck this is

What surprises and disappoints me about all of this is removing all acknowledgment that Future Class ever existed from the TGA site, that the announcement was informally shared in Discord, and how a program aiming to uplift burgeoning professionals made my fellow members do most of the uplifting.

To be clear: This would be disastrous for the thousands of folks that would lose their jobs, for QA as a discipline (it’s clear the people making these decisions don’t understand what quality stakeholders actually do), and ultimately for the games themselves that will suffer and fail.

My cat has stolen my desk chair, which means I guess I’ll be standing while I work for the foreseeable future. 🤷‍♀️ Who am I to question a 70-year-old feline’s rotating throne?

This will probably go down in history as one of the exemplary “yes it really happened and it was just as dumb as it sounds” moments of 2025. All of the clever sandwich puns are making me hungry.

accolades are important to marginalized folks. not being able to access even an archived post hosted by TGA website kinda sucks ass. not to mention how bad of a look it is to just destroy 5 years of "hey look at us we're uplifting 50 incredible devs" to "don't look don't look"

This person took this when they called the race

So this broke containment. Please, don't feel this is the best way to deal with people who gleefully and/or ignorantly celebrate what's happening to SNAP and the social safety nets in the US. You don't have to confront strangers. You do have to do what you can to make a difference for ppl in need. +

I was rooting for the Blue Jays in spite of the fact that they crushed the Mariners’ hopes and dreams this year, so I feel for you, Toronto. Both teams had incredible plays and they set up a skillful, entertaining series. Congrats to the Dodgers for a repeat win! 🏆

Donate to food banks and food justice/distribution nonprofits if you’re able. This is awful.

This is a hot-take that might get me chased down the street by Italians, but: spaghetti. All pasta is good pasta, but if I have the choice I prefer other noodles.

One reason to play TTRPG’s with a group of people you feel safe with: It gives you a reason to keep going on the bad days. You can look up premade campaigns to see how the story ends, but you’ll never know how your characters ended up and that seems frustratingly unsatisfying. #DoItForThem

If you want to pursue something, don't be discouraged by how long it may take. The time is going to go by anyway. You can either be moving toward something you want to see happen, or not.

Well, there goes the best chance the Mariners ever had at going to the World Series. 😫 There are two silver linings because of it, though: - I can watch Shohei Ohtani kick ass and feel good about it. - It’s funny and metaphorical for a Canadian team to win the series this year in particular.

Things might be generally awful right now, but the Mariners are the closest they’ve ever been to the World Series and a win tonight would mean they’re no longer the only team to have never had the chance to win. It’s always good to hope. I’ll wear my hat inside out, shoe on top, if it means a win.

Be safe today, folks. Mask up, drink water, and take care of each other. #NoKings 🐸

"psychological safety was the number one factor differentiating their best teams" "When people are afraid to speak up, errors fester"

Hey, if you feel like crying for seemingly no reason in the middle of your work day and have a dwindling sense of control, how far down the road of burnout are you? 🤔 🥲

Six weeks prior to Halo: CE shipping, 16 player multiplayer over LAN was not functioning. It took dedicated engineers and a lot of people in test undergoing intense crunch to save that feature. The landscape of video games is owed in major part to test.

This Mariners game is insane. 13th inning now, 2-2, lots of strikeouts and fouls. Seattle loves its drama!

Minecraft is hiring for a fulltime technical program manager! This would be a position on the Realms client team, and it would mean you work with me every week! ✨ jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/sh...

I’ve never read The Merchant of Venice, but I wrote a paper about the dichotomy between Portia and Jessica’s approach to defying the law (and men) the day before it was due after my Shakespeare professor begged for “anything but R+J”. I got an A. Brains can do it better than AI. And it’s fulfilling!

Minecraft is hiring for a fulltime technical program manager! This would be a position on the Realms client team, and it would mean you work with me every week! ✨ jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/sh...

please help a game dev keep her beloved cat with her when she needs to relocate back home after a layoff!! <3 <3 gofund.me/ca7699dd5

I have a cold, and it’s the kind where your chest feels like an abandoned beehive until you cough. The timing isn’t great, but it’s a helpful reminder for me to prioritize my health and not force myself to work through it. Also, going to bed early is nice actually?

As someone who was very young when the dotcom bubble popped, I don’t have a meaningful metric to compare this to from personal experience, but: This seems bad! Not really sure what to do to prepare for it except cry.

A thread of largely good advice for folks as we get older. We have one preciously short life and deserve to live it safely and fully.

I believe in you, Mariners. 2025 will be the year you finally make it to the World Series. #GoMs🔱

Season one of The Sisters Grimm is streaming now on Apple TV+! We made this show for kids, but parents will enjoy it, too, because, like the books it’s based on, it’s smart and doesn’t talk down to anyone, which I’m really proud of. Watch it here and watch it a lot! apple.co/thesistersgrimm

Tonight’s session of #SpaceGirls was so good. Players committed to what characters would do in the moment, whether it was wise or even good. A crisis averted, but a personal secret revealed with immense guilt for discovering it. All while my poor character continues to be tortured. So messy!

They want to automate playtesting?! A deeply subjective piece of game development that benefits most from real human beings?! The plot isn’t just lost, it’s in an alternate universe. That’s also three disciplines’ fears confirmed of AI taking their jobs: voice acting, art, and QA. This is absurd.

So much love to all my friends, mutuals, colleagues, etc who work at EA studios. You all, and the entire industry, deserve better.