THING THE SECOND: There's a Real Stink on Early Access These Days Obviously if you’re an intensely known quantity (Larian + BG3) then sure, you’ll be fine. But we’ve seen comment after comment about GenExile basically to the effect of, “seems neat but I don’t buy anything in Early Access anymore.”

My brother was living back at home after a failed attempt to move to LA. He was sleeping on the nephew’s bunk bed for a while. One morning they were over and my brother was sleeping in. The 4 year old walked into his bedroom and asked “Are you a teenager?” He was 36.

Do my moots know anyone well-versed in the "implicit harassment" tactics of the online right? I have done a lot of research on this, but a 15-minute chat with an expert would be *hugely* helpful for my book. I'm talking this kind of stuff:

Could be about anyone. 12x18 prints in store while I'm on parental leave! www.sonnyross.com/shop/letsgo #illustration #medieval #cute

every single one of these emails is someone I already hate messaging a notorious pedophile to say "Thanks for the great time! I had fun doing pedophile stuff with you. P.S. Trump was there with us the whole time"

Updating the "everyone is 12" theorem to add "everyone is 12 and can't read"

"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.

NOBODY

Grateful for this Delta flight attendant for providing some clarity on the upcoming changes to flights during the holidays. Listen in ⬇️

👀 www.youtube.com/live/gk0808g...

This perfectly encapsulates how I feel living in the US. The republican party is an insane death cult, the democratic party is 3 corporations in a trench coat, and the "socialists" are just the completely normal left-wing capitalists you'd find in any of 2 dozen European nations.

I'm going to do this again today at ~noon pacific, if you're a game dev nerd and want to join us... or just make fun of my voice acting, I guess? valid

The City We Became (2020) - NK Jimisin

Which is to say, if you do worker-owned stuff or want to do that stuff, you should talk to me/us! I like helping, I'm a sicko who loves meetings, and I think the co-op space's emphasis on helping each other is one of the most valuable challenges it can mount to the current system

If @charliejane.bsky.social and/or @annaleen.bsky.social know any trans immigrants who can use this service. @transgenderreport.com missionlocal.org/2025/11/sf-t...

A while back I was trying to find how to make rope physics WITHOUT a physics engine. Was surprisingly difficult to find at the time. So for anyone searching for the same in future: You're after "Verlet integration" or "Verlet Rope" ❤️ Great tutorial: toqoz.fyi/game-rope.html #gamedev #indiedev

An awesome 🧵, especially w/ current fuckery. Also recommending 4 cookbooks: * YOU GOTTA EAT by Margaret Eby * THE SAD BASTARD COOKBOOK by Zilla Novikov and Rachel A Rosen * THE POORCRAFT COOKBOOK by Iron Circus Comics * GOOD AND CHEAP by Leanne Brown Nab from library or get online PDFs if you can.

Psst, if you like The Killing Stone and want to play a bit more than the demo, before anyone else, join our Discord. I can't say more than that. 🤐 discord.gg/TyzEjb9ZnD

We're under attack with discounts! 🤑 Build up your Steam library with a lifetime of !!FUN!! 🏹 Dwarf Fortress (store.steampowered.com) 🍄 Caves of Qud (store.steampowered.com) 🚀 Ostranauts (store.steampowered.com)

The incredibly talented Lightning Cosplay has been building an IRL vac for the Slime Rancher exhibit at @gallerynucleus.bsky.social. Feast your eyes on the entire build process! 👀 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDqu...

Good morning. I don't know who did this, but I love you.

Based on Guillermo Del Toro’s sexy creature from the black lagoon and sexier Frankenstein I am concerned for what this website will be like when he does a wolf man movie.

Congratulations, Andrew Cuomo! I know how hard you worked for this.

guys we can actually solve the game writing discourse by hiring me, a game writer who needs work 💪

As a biologist, It really is a great analogy. Also trees. It's like saying, "There are trees and grass, you have to be one or the other." Ok... where is the line that defines "is a tree?" what about bush-like grasses? Palm trees? NON-tree palms? What about horsetails and their tree-like ancestors?

Tactical Breach Wizards is 40% off in today's Daily Deal! The cheapest the wizards have ever allowed us to price them. To celebrate, we've added a community missions pack, featuring some great ones players have made since launch. store.steampowered.com/app/1043810/... .

Boris Artzybasheff, a Ukrainian illustrator who immigrated to the US in 1919, was known for florid, grotesque explorations of surrealistic anthropomorphism, combining human and machine into fearsome, laboring hulks of metal & flesh. These illustrations are from “Machinalia.” #historyofillustration

We calculated how much power we'd generate if every surface lot in word did same: www.motherjones.com/environment/...

It’s basically Deep Space Nine.

Happy Halloween! 🎃

This is the most ruthless act of union busting in the history of the UK games industry. Yesterday, @rockstargames.com unfairly fired over 30 employees for union activity. We won't back down, and we're not scared - we will fight for every member to be reinstated.

Please turn off your #Ring cameras so that kids/families just trying to participate in #Halloween don't get caught up by ICE. Ring has partnered with them, so we know how this is going to turn out. Also, please consider removing Ring entirely or AT LEAST turn on the e2e encryption. RING=ICE

I almost can't believe this but the game we've been working on for a, uh, frightening long time now is launching into Steam Early Access NEXT WEEK! November 4th, 9am PT Wishlistin' plz and thank: store.steampowered.com/app/2963240/...

okay, update: i have had this question answered, and I am now looking to speak to game QA testers ON the record about the weirdest, silliest-sounding things they've had to do to make sure games work. the wackier the better. happy to keep folks anon if they prefer. DMs open, email/Signal in bio

A lot of the business failures of the games industry are really rooted in this desire to create a product that dominates the market. The recent Amazon thing really highlights that: they wanted to create a product that outperformed Steam, but they didn't understand Steam or what the audience wanted.

It's Halloween

Ahead of the 1st shutdown of US food aid to hungry Americans in 60 years, some of the 200,000 Little Free Library locations are converting into food pantries. Thanks @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social

Same, bronzes, same.

🚨 GAME INDUSTRY FRIENDS I’m looking for professionals who would be interested in any of the following roles for a cool project I’m helping put together. These are paid positions. Hit me up and/or share! 👾

Oh good. My cat is being super normal.

Hey everyone, here's a real simple way to disable "Super Resolution" on your channels: • YouTube Studio • Settings • Channel • Advanced settings • Uncheck "Let YouTube enhance visual quality" • Uncheck "Let YouTube enhance audio quality"

my favorite grapevine tidbit lately has got to be "we do some procedural generation and then tell the executives that we put AI in the game, so they can put NOW AI-ENHANCED on it, and then they leave us alone"

While the feds continue to play stupid games, SNAP recipients are set to lose food aid for the next month. In the Bay Area, a growing number of restaurants are stepping up to help, and we're maintaining the list. Share with anyone who needs it. www.coyotemedia.org/these-bay-ar...

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP. Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP. The people who need help are not the problem. It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

Turn off Gemini in Google! It's been turned on by default. Go to your Drive, click the gear icon, click settings, go to "manage apps" and uncheck that nasty "use by default" box. www.zdnet.com/article/how-...

reading slaughterhouse 5 for the first time and i was absolutely knocked senseless by this passage, which is so true and relevant that it feels like it was pulled from a history book

If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation. Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net

Saw a stack of these Know Your Rights cards at an Ethiopian restaurant, printed in English and Amharic