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.

as someone keeping up with several dozen developers from a cross section of experience, company sizes, skill areas, specifically talking about what's going on with these things the findings here are so unbelievably suspect it borders on undisclosed advertising. surveyed 615 hand picked AI supporters

I have had cause to have to go through getting a power of attorney for medical and financial for a family member who we also discovered didn't have a well written will or living will and I cannot overstate how important these documents are and how important it is to have them in a fireproof safe

At least Gaius Baltar's AI gf actually fucked him.

When I tell you this was an insta-purchase for me

HEY WRITERS: Tony Gilroy will not be releasing the Andor scripts due to AI scraping concerns (understandable but sad), but the script for season 2 episode 9, "Welcome to the Rebellion," is now available for download on Disney's Emmy consideration site: assets.debut.disney.com/documents/An...

Industry gets created. Government takes bribe from industry so it can grow unregulated, unsustainably and irresponsibly. You have to live a shittier life to mitigate damage, while the industry remains unregulated.

I'm so so so furious at the future creativity and artistry that AI is taking away from all of us by convincing kids nothing is worth doing on their own

I think what gets me the most about people who want to use AI for creative labor is just how much they're robbing themselves of joy. Like, art isn't great because you blink and have a masterpiece. Art isn't the end product, not entirely. It's the journey you took to get there.

+10000 to this. I feel like so many AI slop advocates need to listen to Finishing the Hat from Sunday In The Park With George. If you don't forget the world exists because you're lost in the joy of finishing the hat. Then what is the point.

We are all going to be killed by people outside of Hollywood who think that fame is the same thing as experience

Based on how much my child is staring at lights, I'm pretty sure that Plato's Allegory of the Cave was written about babies.

If you see this, post a knight! Shout-out to Movies with Mikey, for covering one of my favorite movies recently, The Kingdom of Heaven, which features a Very Good Knight. Top quality Knight.