Also, as someone who worked on HORSES and has also made porn games + comics: I really don't appreciate when people put down one thing I made to uplift the other! Especially considering no one at Santa Ragione *ever* framed it in these terms when we were discussing the Steam ban

Executives are the only ones regurgitative AI could actually replace. AI can fuck up game projects by making irrational demands based on utterly derivative ideas. You wanna lay off the dead wood? Start at the fucking top.

Executives trying to replace game developers with so-called AI is nothing short of a usurpation. They’ve always been clueless interlopers who muscled their way in, and it’s disgusting that they’re the ones authorizing themselves to decide who is needed and who is not.

Game developers were here first. Not executives. Game developers make games. Not executives. Game developers have skills & knowledge important to the business. Not executives. Game developers deserve to keep their jobs. Not executives. Executives are replaceable. Not game developers.

NEW VIDEO: Big business is a death cult worshipping a many-faced Techno God. In an industry full of takers who want to eradicate the makers, so-called AI promises a nonsensical fantasy where games are made for free and sold to a world of laid off former workers. It is unhinged. youtu.be/xcB_kqpYNhc

I hate to ask but could we send this around again? I have a root canal coming up Thursday that I'm paying for out-of-pocket. I think it's already unlikely I am gonna be able to keep the appointment and I'm in a pretty decent amount of pain. Thank you so much 🖤

..."See it, say it, sorted"?

waiting for anyone to figure out how to make a game look like a grant wood painting

When you're such a disaster lesbian that the hive mind has to distance itself from you #Pluribus

On this day, Indigenous people and allies confront the settler-colonial narratives of “Thanksgiving,” observing it instead as a National Day of Mourning.

I'm jealous of American's arguing about which of their many delicious pie flavors are the best, meanwhile I'm here living in a country where the most common pie filling is rice.

hi pets, me and wife are scared but very close to living in a safe place, so we come here asking for mutual aid. any help is welcome. ko-fi.com/tabymeow my medical condition is a lot clearer since the schizophrenia diagnosis. i suffer from a pain disorder caused by trauma, and it's uncertain if +

For @aftermath.site, I spoke to @imodrew.bsky.social, the Sucker Punch dev fired after making a Charlie Kirk joke. She paints a picture of an industry that all too often ignores bad actors until those bad actors threaten them financially. aftermath.site/sucker-punch...

Popping this out for urgency because I have no idea what else to do and my current pain levels prevent my usual level of attention and thought Please help me have the space to REST this weekend

First pic iv been happy with in weeks, if this flops I'm commiting acts of terrorism. #trans #transnsfw #nsfwbsky #femsky #altbabes #pierced #t4t #goth #gothgirl #punk #emogirl #queer #nonbinary

Hi. I haven't been here much because someone very kind sent enough to stabilize us (alongside my paycheck) at the end of last month, but I can't rest any longer as much as I want to. I need 220 by late Sat night or I'm gonna be overdrawn, and badly. Please help if you can and boost if you can't.

For the last decade or so my brain has been a constant deafening noise of suicidal thoughts and voices telling me to hurt myself, I'm starting to think that's maybe not normal and is having some kind of effect on my ability to function.

Hiiii, I'm making a narrative platformer that talks about growing up as a trans girl and I'd love for more people to hear about it as I've got it's steam page published pretty recently 👀 bsky.app/profile/naej...

Buy this game, it's been awhile since I've experienced a game that made me feel so rad despite how terrible I am at playing it

She was everything

Getting real tired of reading sentences like "AI tools may have been used to enhance some workflows during development, the final product still reflects the creativity and vision of our team". Just purposefully vague, snivelling bullshit.

Cars should be banned from cities (with the exception of delivery trucks, emergency and work vehicles) and the majority of highways and rural roads should be torn up and returned to nature.

Maybe it's just burnout speaking but I don't understand how anyone can feel creatively fulfilled working in AAA game dev. Even working at one of the more artistically well regarded studios all I can think is "this art does not belong to me, no part of this game speaks to anything about myself".

I’ve seen a few folks go for the “if you simply must watch that new Harry Potter show just pirate it” and sorry. No. Just no. Just don’t watch it. At all. Ever. Break free of it. It’s time. You’ll be ok. I promise. I know it mattered to you as a kid. Find new things, it’s healthier. Just move on.

I'll be the fun police. Don't play Arc Raiders. Do better. Play a game with real voice acting.

Ok. We’ve seen the misconception about this phrase from Twin Peaks float around enough times that we really have to say something. (We blurred out both post authors, don’t go bothering them) “Fix your hearts or die” isn’t Gordon being supportive. It’s using his Ally card to pressure Denise.

i might genuinely be homeless with no phone or car in who knows how long. please for the love of god if you have anything you can give i beg you i need to get the fuck out of here. i make music for as low as 20 bucks, ill work my ass off if i need to just to gtfo ko-fi.com/girzedda

holy shit there is no value inherent to the game. The value comes via interpretation. That's why something super valuable to me might be worthless to you

kinda sick of entertaining the imagined objective qualities of art because people are entirely uninterested in reading one(1) essay about how meaning is derived from text. Whenever you write that a story is "good" or a character is "relatable" you are talking about *yourself* as much as the game.

do people really think reviewing a video game is the same thing as reviewing a refrigerator? Can we measure the objective qualities of a video game against other similar products? Can we do a price/value breakdown? Should every video game review reveal the same collected data?

Could we get more eyes on this please? Im running out of time to find lodging. Any help would mean so much to me.

something that always strikes me as weird is psychopathy is seen as just this evil thing and like that's a person with a disability?? yeah sure it makes them see life as more transactional and stuff but like it feels so strange that people talking about it make them seem like secret predators

accessing gender affirming care in the UK

Oh no!

It's a natural consequence of places being built for cars instead of people. Car filled streets are dangerous and force cyclists to choose the sidewalk for their own safety. The only solution is to advocate for making urban spaces unfriendly to cars

Games are maybe the only medium where it's expected that the critic constantly meet the art on its terms only and not bring any of their personal opinion to it.

Looking back it's funny how concerns that Cyberpunk 2077s marketing was fetishising trans women were dismissed by people after launch because "you can make trans characters", and then the extent of that customization was you could put a dick on your petite/conventionally attractive girl character

I know it's my own fault for using the discover tab but I really hate how often it shows me posts with graphic pictures of wounded animals attached to donation links. Scam or not, using images that make me rush to hide the post so I don't throw up seems like a bad way to get me to give you money.

It's been a year and dang I am still furious over how dirty Veilguard was done Like I ain't gonna pretend it was a perfect game and didn't have issues but the way EA immediately treated it as a horrendous failure (despite it selling decently) and swept it under the rug was such bullshit

fantasy about getting pushed up against a wall, which causes a wall bounce that leads to a full combo and great oki

Billions spent on power hungry, environmentally damaging data centers and thousands of hours of work plagiarized from recipe writers for a product that can't successfully read you a recipe and would arguably be less useful than reading the recipe from a screen yourself even if it did work correctly

I feel there can be no canon of games that doesn't *at the very least* include tiny Finnish demoscene games, Polystation and Gameboy hacks from the Middle East and LATAM, half-translated hacked ROMs from South Europe, mobile games from Africa, and the entire corpus of mini-iterative RPGs from Asia.

Theoretically, if you are a designer who thinks "my intention is for my difficulty to curve so hard people are pushed to quit", ask yourself, A. Is the difficulty curving consistently for all players? B. Am I really saying anything by doing this that is worth people not experiencing my game?

Anyone that says "a game for everyone is a game for no one" to mean "games should be prohibitive for some people to play" and not "games should have intentional design and artistic goals beyond broadly appealing to a wide audience" does not care about art, they are just ableist.

Nothing yet - if someone could maybe start the ball rolling with like $2 so I can get out of overdraft before I get hit with a fee that would be helpful Still need all 100 before tomorrow

algorithmic content recommendations, autoplaying video, and infinite scroll? these should all be banned.

Close enough, welcome back Koos Galleon