Folks who make video games! @officialgdc.bsky.social is running the annual State of the Industry survey again. You should take the chance to weigh in! The survey's gone through a major overhaul this year and your voice will matter even more: gdconf.typeform.com/SOTI26

this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028

2026 Primary Woke Wave

i hope this election cycle empowers everyone the next time a centrist liberal says to drop pro-trans and pro-immigrant rhetoric to enthusiastically tell them to shut the fuck up

Just got an ER bill which included a $134 pregnancy test that they administered in January 2024

You heard me

PROCJAM - the Procedural Generation Jam - is back for another year! Join us on itch.io this November for another week of making something that makes something - a bskybot, a videogame, a digital artwork, a dice table or something else! 🗓️ Nov 21st - Dec 1st 🔮 itch.io/jam/procjam

Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back! Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary. Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest! #MundaneHalloween

Alan Wake 2

On Saints Row we had a debug npc named Skinballs (lol) that was literally just four spheres wrapped in different shades of skin texture so we could test lighting for different skin tones during development. But teams need to plan for that kind of testing with intentionality, and not enough do.

The pain when you reference what you think is a common meme in a meeting, but are instead greeted by a lot of confused looks because no one else is as online as you

Double check whether your company matches charitable donations, too.

Sexy Millbrae 😑

The brave El Cerrito Police have captured the local Halloween decoration thieves but more importantly, they have photographed it like they would a big drug or weapons bust www.kron4.com/news/bay-are...

Need to turn that one into a sticker !

Brandon Johnson called for a general strike and AWS was like I got you king

This feels like a level artist was only given time to decorate the alpha path (I love it, it's so weird)

MICROSOFT: We'll keep providing Windows 10 security & service updates but you gotta fork over 70USD for the first year, 140USD for the second year, and 210USD for the third year. You bitch. You fucking piece of shit MUSCLEFUR VTUBER: Open Powershell and hit three keys to do it completely free

ngl if youre new to Bluesky or just need to hear this this exact model of interacting online has saved me so much stress while interacting with the torment nexus Platforms like Twitter actively encourage your cortisol addiction when shit starts raising your blood pressure, hit the brick, walk away

Owlcat Games has launched a free game development learning resource, featuring over 350 learning resources including software recommendations, tutorials, and online courses www.gamesindustry.biz/owlcat-games...

Game Boy Color visions of a Bitter Coast journey to Vivec. Trying out a lil Game Boy game jam Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind fan adventure game that's got a whole glob of talent and charm behind it.

Mr Ecuador. Look at how happy he is. This is a chap who is just *thrilled* to be there. Also look at how tiny his feet look peeping out of those giant fluffy trousers.

I doodled a coworker's cat and my own cat was not happy

I think about this a lot

When your custom character appears in a cut scene

Californians, let’s call (916) 445-2841 to tell Newsom’s office to sign the following pro LGBTQ+ rights bills before the deadline: AB 82/SB 497 AB 1084/SB 59 SB 418 AB 554 AB 728 AB 678 SB 590 SB 450

I ran forums back in the day and tried to spin one up a few years back. Here's what I learned: 1) People don't want to go to different places for their different hobbies. Social media is popular because it's all in one place. Getting people to consistently go to ANY new place is very hard. (Cont)

Based on going to the website, I think this is a joke, but still what the hell.

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

Khorne in his Live Laugh Love era

Strap in boyz, it's the first waaaghnsday of Orktober.

Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...

Timeline cleanse

* gifts (giving and requesting) * potential hobby projects and associated materials/settings * 30k army lists (also in Miro to make sure the force org is compliant) * every book in all 10 years of @elderscrollsonline.com, sorted by update number and color coded based on when they were added/removed

Too late, Batman. Once this Tylenol floods the city's water supply, my wiki won't run out of editors ever again

Here is some non-satire for you: Trans rights forever.

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

Check out 8 hours of developers talking about the creation of Morrowind, from Filmdeg on YouTube. An incredible look at how the game came to be and a ton of dev wisdom that is still relevant today. Love that everything boils down to: it shouldn't have worked, but it did youtu.be/UdQmg-vJUGE?...

I've seen a lot of fiction authors talking about this but the dataset is also full of scientific papers. A friend has ~50 in here and she's never hear of the lawsuit. Spread the word outside of book circles folks!

IMPORTANT PSA: You will NOT see posts from non English speaking artists if your content language is set to English! Make sure it's *unset*!!! If you're following Chinese artists or whatever and wonder why their posts never show up on your feed this is why!

“legally required to touch grass” is peak extremely online

people miss the point so hard so let me phrase it in a way everybody can understand without any misconceptions ; it's not wrong to be inspired by things within your own medium, it's when that is the only source of inspiration you get that it becomes stale

Meet We'wha, a Zuni weaver, potter, and spiritual leader. In the late 19th-century John K. Hiller photographed We'wha, who served as a cultural representative for the Zuni tribe and for Native American people more generally. They participated in a Zuni delegation to Washington DC in 1886.