Happy First Contact Day 🖖🏽

After trying multiple times to get Death Stranded with the first game I finally got Death Stranded with the second. Can't even say what made the difference, haven't left Mexico and it's all largely the same, but now I'm Stranded but good. I do love the little scooter you get that has an armchair.

Abusers and bullies usually keep going. Power finds it easier to empathise with abuse than progress

i've seen lots of people post this with "this also applies to x!" it applies to everything. literally everything a human can learn how to do. you have to do the work to learn it, there are no shortcuts.

Toxic billionaire men hoard resources and poison humanity for profit. Dolly Parton uses her wealth to make sure every child under 5 in Indiana gets a free book every month. Dolly is the absolute gold standard for what a human being should be. ♥️

"Grunt work IS the work."

there are two absolutely canonical Good Friday posts

may this define her for the rest of her life. she was willing to stoop this low and still got fired. girl, bye.

This is suuuuuch a good example of how Realis works. Both the way that it allows for a sort of narrative maneuvering /and/ the way it pushes everyone to really get creative with what they have on their sheets. www.reddit.com/r/rpg/commen...

King shit

As a Strayan, this one always gets me.

REALIS IS LIVE! After 5 years of development, countless hours of playtesting, and invaluable ashcan feedback, the hardcover edition of @austinwalker.bsky.social's debut TTRPG Realis is now funding on Kickstarter April 1-30. Learn more & back the campaign today at www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...!

Hey did everyone see Clavicular get his ass beat after he challenged a cancer survivor leftist to a jujitsu match, who said as he was choking him out ‘this is for all the bullshit I gotta watch on my fucking feed’… we need more of this not more podcasts

I just backed Realis on @kickstarter.com because hell yeah this shit looks sick as hell.

I've seen Springsteen twice and both times he was unbelievable. During the second, this was mid-June mind you, he spotted a guy in full Santa costume, invited him on stage and the two sang Santa Clause Is Coming To Town in duet.

if you don’t like the process of writing then don’t be a fucking writer, it’s not that complicated

Given the current state of the games industry I'm not sure I have the appetite for any April Fools shenanigans.

Chuck is a bellwether

www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros... is it good to build an entire economy and software infrastructure on this

Leaving this one here for now. www.pushsquare.com/news/2026/03...

COVER REVEAL: With the campaign one day away, @austinwalker.bsky.social & I are THRILLED to finally share @badbucket.bsky.social's amazing cover for Realis. Get excited for plenty more of Conner's work in the interior as well, and sign up to be notified at launch! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...

I could never hate Alien Resurrection because its existence led to the immortal phrase "Too bad, Joss Whedon!"

I should watch The Chair Company

AI is utterly tainted, at this stage in the game it's just bad PR to mention it. It's like trying to sell sausage by making the advert all about grinding up pigs.

Realis—the debut TTRPG by @austinwalker.bsky.social—arrives this Wednesday, April 1 (no foolin') in a Kickstarter campaign that will run til the end of the month! Bookmark the pre-launch page today to get notified when it goes live: www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru... | featured art by @aurahack.ca

Happy International Transgender Day of Visibility! We're everywhere and we're cool. Here's the trans pride flag 🏳️‍⚧️ on a mid-90s Pentium running DOS.

It’s true some people wanna skip the cutscenes and dialogue, but it’s just as true that other people want to skip the gameplay so they can get to the cutscenes

your order has shipped

[sighing] it does matter whether the writing in a video game is good or bad

The degree to which the bluesky leadership does not understand the people who populate their service is extremely funny. Their AI tool is followed by 1,500 people but blocked by 125,000.

It does very seriously feel like this will be a landmark case for the games industry and for online harassment more generally. The document Alyssa links here is also the first legal discussion of ChatGPT user logs I’ve ever read. I urge you to open and read the attached letter on the quoted post.

"...the way some of these other immigrants are getting treated in our country right now is a travesty and a disgrace."

There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

The bluesky address is @attie.ai and it really needs to be in the top five accounts blocked on this platform. This is honestly some of the most tonedeaf shit I’ve seen from BS and thats saying something

wouldn't it be funny if EVERYONE blocked this Attie AI account @ bsky.app/profile/atti... before they could do anything with it

Ok, need some advice. I'm looking to start a D&D (specifically D&D) campaign. I'm a beginner DM, some experience in TTRPGs, but my players are largely total beginners. What do I need? Quick Google; seems this starter set is pretty highly regarded.

For my birthday my partner bought me pretty much every work by James Baldwin and that's why she's a fucking keeper.

Monstrous.

I hate this idea that gen ai in the early stages of development is okay as long as there isn't gen AI assets in the final game. Everything in early development informs the final game. I don't want this to become the norm 🫩

I think we need to celebrate the death of Sora a bit more. This is a technology that, just MONTHS AGO, we were being told was going to literally destroy Hollywood and Disney was going to give them a BILLION DOLLARS and NONE OF THAT EVEN REMOTELY HAPPENED

So it turns out the real scandal of the Gorton and Denton by-election was the willingness of media organisations to collude in Nigel Farage's attempt to undermine the result of a free and fair election www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/how-the-bb...

One of the best written big budget action games of recent years. Buy it.

I don't think people understand how hard it is to work in the video-game industry right now. If you've been laid off, it can take months if not years to find new work. If you haven't been laid off, you're anxious that you will be laid off. This week's column: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

A viral dog rescue from 2016 is now immortalized with a statue in Kazakhstan. When a dog fell into the Sayran reservoir, bystanders formed a human chain to pull him to safety. The statue is a reminder of the value of unity, solidarity and collective action. 14/10 for all

The Jetsons lied to us

Got this up and running on the Steam Deck and brother it is still an absolute BANGER