Hey, are you employed and upset about what's happening to your game dev friends but your company doesn't have any openings? GO BUY AN INDIE GAME FROM YOUR WISHLIST. That's the only way to save the industry.

In an effort to bond with my sister-in-law, I've been watching the new Love Island season (not my usual media diet) and as someone who writes romance a lot, looking at it from a lens of romance media is really interesting. Despite being unscripted, it feels far more contrived.

Finally making time for Arco and loving it! I finished Act 2 the other night and it has me thinking a lot about how truly, there are no bad narrative tools, just bad executions of them. False choices have a bad rap, but Arco uses them masterfully to show the power of an oppressor on a >>

I am slowly returning to bsky! Mostly to use this space to talk about narrative in games and other works of storytelling. So tell me what you've been playing/reading/watching recently and how it's making you think!

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

No Kings includes Draft Kings

If you think the Super Bowl is too woke and the Grammys are too woke and the AEW Dynamite crowd is too woke and the Oscars are too woke maybe it’s actually a you problem.

amazing that every time i bring this up people are unaware of it. he really got away with it

I have become a bog witch that only says things on any social media platform when the stars align and the moon is full, but just to make sure this is clear: Fuck ICE Fuck Trump Solidarity to Minnesota Never be afraid to unplug and focus on the small ways you can resist around you, friends.

The officer who shot Alex worked for DHS for 8 years. The officer who shot Renee worked for DHS for over 10 years. Both are considered “highly trained.” The problem isn’t "training." DHS was built to violate our rights and has been empowered to act with impunity. We must MELT ICE and dismantle DHS.

It cannot be made clearer. If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

Weird criticism to level at a play about a historical time period in which every single female stage role was performed by a person with a penis

If being hard on yourself worked, it would have worked already

I feel like an internet groundhog these days that emerges every few months, doom scrolls for all of a few minutes, sees the shadow of our crumbling society, and then goes back down under into obscurity. In case you need it - you're doing your best in hard times, and that is all you can do.

This one is resonating today. #Andor

Instead of whatever this is, we should have a government getting lots of new homes and apartments built, lots of clean energy built, lots of high speed rail and transit and bike lanes built, human rights for everyone, economic & healthcare opportunities for all, & innovation that leads the world.

www.gofundme.com/f/help-jorda... I hope you don't mind me sharing this again I know it's been a year but they've reopened my fundraiser for the anniversary

fwiw, I think the best way to think of this is not really as "trump is the worst ever" so much as "trump takes all the worst aspects of american history and speed runs them all at once"

Larian's CEO says they "don't see it as a replacement for developers". How?? If you're using AI to generate ANY artwork, even internally, that's replacing human labour. You can't claim to not be replacing anyone when you're using a tool that's literally doing the work of an artist. Gross.

Do I know anyone here who speaks French? I'm looking for an old fashioned, colloquial word or phrase that translates to "troublemakers". Something you'd call a group of schoolgirls that are very clever about pulling pranks. Along the lines of rascals, scamps, misfits, etc. Thank you!

A few weeks ago, I started a part time contract with the Pokemon Company International as a game writer! Feeling so, so grateful to have a part time gig working on exciting stuff as I dip my toes back into working postpartum. So now Pikachu pays 100 percent of our household bills, what a good guy!

We did something different with the credits for Demonschool. We used this format: name, title, lengthy description of what they did. Often you see credits in games where you don't know what the credited developer was actually responsible for. We wanted to give people proper, actual credit.

This is my go to now for people who ask. It's well organized, covers everything I would, and Craig keeps it updated. It makes it super easy to give to parents, random peeps who ask me in lines, and students who show up to my stream. Huge thanks to Craig for doing the work.

I might be using the "sing with Artemis" camp feature in Hades II to lull my baby to sleep right now, which was obviously its intended use.

your daily reminder that hope is a floatation device- grab it with both hands 🖤

Heidi has been an incredibly kind, hilarious, wonderful person who supported me from the beginning. I wouldn't wish what's happening to her on anyone, but that it is happening to her is cosmically unjust. Please help ease her burden. If you have anything to spare, she deserves it. Truly.

Stop pretending everything they do is a brilliant gambit. Stop acting like every ridiculous move they make is going to pay off for them. STOP RESPECTING THEM THIS MUCH! They are drunk toddlers with guns, of course they are dangerous. To everyone, including each other and themselves.

Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age." She was 78.

I think it’s important and not discussed enough that the majority of the alt right gamersphere “leaders” are actually taking massive amounts of people’s money and delivering them nothing but endless rage for it.

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The impulse was already there and had been for a while, white nationalism isn’t new. GG caused the creation/expansion of online infrastructure for networking, community building (mainly among young online people) and spreading/testing of tactics and propaganda. But it didn’t invent the fasc wheel.

I playtested consume me at NYU... 9 years ago? And it makes me so emotional to see Jenny getting it out into the world. Hell yeah. You did it. I'm so proud of you and hope you're proud too! I'm gonna buy it, and you should too!

In case you need a reminder

Holy shit. Second time today I’ve pulled this one from the vault.

I've literally been having anxiety over this. I'm still coming back onto the job hunt postpartum and I just don't have it in me to be on here trying to come up with things to post to prove my value to game writing hiring candidates. I've done that for ten years. It's exhausting.

Yeah, no. I'm a contractor, I write for games, and sometimes that means writing 100% of a game's text. I'm a valuable part of the team! Contractors aren't just "support", they deserve to be credited (and treated) better than this

what if we stopped laying off every writer who has ever lived

I haven’t seen major conversation about this in a minute, but having a studio in a state that bans abortion and has criminally prosecuted people for having miscarriages without a remote option sends the message that you value low taxes over your employee’s lives. It’s misogyny, plain and simple.

I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable

So new studies showcase that the more you know how GenAi works, the less likely you are to use it! 😌 This reminds me of ai advocates who claim that those who refuse to use GenAi do so because they dont know how it works, yet it’s the opposite! The less you know the more you are likely to use GenAi

Reminder: if you are worried about AI replacing you as an artist: don’t use AI voices, If you don’t want composing to be handed over to AI: don’t use it to write text. You get the idea. If you value your job: protect others jobs too.

Something that I've struggled to come to terms with recently, is that we don't get to decide if our work matters. Whether our work matters is in so many ways beyond our control. We can do all we can to make it matter, but if your happiness hinges on your work mattering, you will likely be sad.

No, authors aren't burnt out because "writing without AI is slow" We're burnt out because we're paid dirt so we need day jobs to survive

Because some people haven't heard it yet: PAYPAL IS NOT A BANK, DO NOT LEAVE MORE THAN A COUPLE HUNDRED DOLLARS SITTING IN YOUR ACCOUNT AT ANY TIME. MOVE IT TO YOUR BANK ACCOUNT IMMEDIATELY. Paypal can and will close your account and steal all your money without warning. And have done MANY times.

one very real, concrete way to help feed Gaza right now is through donating to World Central Kitchen

I love this and also: this hypothetical questioner needs to ask themself, truly, why they want to write in the first place. Because asking the question in and of itself suggests that this is a person who doesn't want to try to get better. And if that's true, why bother? No one's MAKING you write.