the harsh reality I've learned is that no one is layoff-proof It doesn't matter how many late nights, how many tears, how much of yourself you give. take care of yourself.

Good riddance to the year that took David Lynch away from us.

I spent most of 2025 being scared of one thing or another, and I imagine I'll remain that way for a lot of 2026. BUT, and I don't do resolutions but this would be it, I do hope I can at least be a little kinder to myself along the way (and you should be kinder to yourself too).

NYE

is this anything

Me, tonight.

God help me I'm looking into NAS setups.

Year-end news to celebrate! The video game sector is sorely in need of more unionization: work is precarious, conditions are rough and AI is an existential threat in this sector. Congrats @cwacanada1.bsky.social and the groundbreaking workers in Halifax. Level unlocked. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

2025 was brutal for games media, but I'm seeing some glimmers of hope as worker-owned sites like @aftermath.site, @rascal.news, and @giantbomb.bsky.social have carved out vital spaces in the games community. Earlier this year, I made a huge Indie Games Media starter pack for y'all. Let's celebrate.

I can’t stand anybody who wants to tell me consumer-facing LLMs and/or genAI are good. You are trying to convince everyone that it’s actually better to use a knife with no handle. Your hand is bleeding as you tell me handleless knives are inevitable and we need to get used to them or fall behind.

This is just going to always be my go-to response to this kind of thing anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

With the death of Bardot, the world's racists have become significantly less attractive.

Put out a game. Met a swell dame. Danced a lot with her. Survived.

Probably one of my favourite videos of this year. Subtlety is for cowards.

If you begin Star Trek: Voyager episode Spirit Folk at exactly 11:49:35 on New Year's Eve, Ensign Harry Kim will kiss a cow as the clock strikes midnight. Join in a very dumb annual tradition and start 2026 off on the right hoof.

when I first joined the industry, I was told by coworkers that it was refreshing to work with someone who wasn't jaded yet. I told them I hoped to never become that way. I feel myself becoming a jaded game dev, after everything this industry has put me through. Is this just how we all end up?

JP probably got more presents than anyone this year and he's fallen completely in love with his new piggy. Carried it around all day and although there was copious chewing, he damaged it not at all. Somehow I have become custodian to the sweetest soul on this entire godsforsaken planet.

and even funnier that Druckmann was like “this is a cool story I will tell in public and not deeply embarrassing to my persona as a storyteller”

JP probably got more presents than anyone this year and he's fallen completely in love with his new piggy. Carried it around all day and although there was copious chewing, he damaged it not at all. Somehow I have become custodian to the sweetest soul on this entire godsforsaken planet.

Good day.

Sir Terry Pratchett is best understood as one of the most interesting, deeply ethical practical (I would say Pragmatist but I cede to actual experts) philosophers of the late 20th Century who just happened to work in deconstructed fantasy literature as his medium.

Merry Christmas everyone I ate more meat than I could comfortably fit inside my brain cavity.

HARMONY: The Fall of Reverie is 75% off on Steam for this year's Winter Sale! ❄️⛄️ store.steampowered.com/app/1966420/...

This is the 15th year of #DuvetKnowItsChristmas, which is preposterous. Rules: if you find yourself dealing with unusual / claustrophobic / gaudy sleeping arrangements this Christmas Eve, share a picture with the world. Use the hashtag (with capitalisation) and cc me if you can be bothered.

Welp, Christmas Eve reached. Time to break out the booze (whiskey rather than the usual Black Russians) and Bob himself to accompany the wrapping. (One of these days I'll actually make the Figgy Pudding Bob details here)

It also collapses game narrative into “just words” when a clever writer will see the whole picture, often working with other devs for the best way to tell the story. Just leaning on words kills so many narrative opportunities

I'm genuinely not sure which part of the AAA mario video is more perfect, "Focus, M" or "...and I MIGHT just have an upgrade waiting for you" just, absolutely flawless understanding of the ah, Prestige-Game House Style

Rereading this extraordinary piece, like watching the perfect film, is becoming an annual tradition.

Essentially, I think that LLM-generated dialogue only makes sense if you believe that the product of writing is words. But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.

“write every day” mmm tastes like a recipe for burnout

61 workers at Ubisoft Halifax have formed the first North American union at Ubisoft. www.gamedeveloper.com/business/ubi...

I have taken receipt of my David Shrigley 2026 calendar so the year is saved.

Buy it now because I promise this will be the most popular Christmas gift of 2026

A brilliant, creative, beloved-by-everyone, one-of-a-kind soul—my grandmother—will not be with us much longer. I'm devastated and overwhelmed and will need to find more remote work to support myself and my dad in 2026. Please bear with me through the bereavement & keep my family in your thoughts.

WATCH: Here's the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" last night

!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social: is.gd/paU8Ko (It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)

I am very very sick, mask on, tucked up with my dog and partner (at a safe distance) under the Christmas lights watching Die Hard 2. The dichotomy of the situation hits hard.

Oh man.

If you pay attention to any large industry long enough and follow it to its logical conclusion you eventually end up sounding like a communist even if you started off testing CPU case fans. youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0?...

TIME FOR ANOTHER PLAYTHROUGH I GUESS, jeez.

I’ve been in game dev for 26 years and I can’t remember any other time where a specific tech was being insistently and persistently pushed on devs as a group in the public sphere. Why would it? Cui bono? Why would any given dev have an interest in other devs using tech they don’t have a stake in?

Regular reminder that the majority of the people who dreamed up the stories you love are, like, BROKE broke, and that most of the money spent on their work was given to Some Guy™️ instead.

Uuuuuuuuuuuuurgh for *fuck's* sake

Those new to Bsky need to be made aware of one of the greatest skeets ever, deleted long before its time.

Elden Ring is about having a beautiful dream that you're Welsh. Bloodborne is about waking up in England.