June 5th is the birthday of actor William Boyd, best known to western fans as "HOPALONG CASSIDY" and one of pop-culture's most consequential genre figures. In recognition, we've released a streamlined upload of our Hoppy episode from earlier this year. Happy trails 🫡 youtu.be/eNrHLnp_O9w?...

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‘Amphibia’ creator Matt Braly speaks out against the use of AI in animation: “If you need to partner with AI to get a greenlight on your project, it ain’t worth it.”

Hold on, did I just get an Amber Alert on my phone that opened X, the app with CSAM-generating AI, as the only information source? It’s 2026, make a fucking webpage you clowns.

please just be kind to trans people. please understand and respect that our voices can be a sore spot and it really, really hurts to be taken as someone you aren’t for the one piece of your presentation you can’t perfectly control online. please just take a second to check pronouns. please.

In 2017, Criselda Vasquez painted this portrait of her parents and titled it "The New American Gothic." Last month, her father, the man in this portrait, was abducted by ICE after being in the US for 30+ years. The family is now struggling with bills. A GoFundMe has been started: gofund.me/456d8a193

Just moved and I’d like to believe that 14yo me would faint knowing my local grocery store has 20-some flavors of ramune. This small-town nerd has finally made it.

Since I landed a new gig and no longer work in games I felt obligated to update my profile accordingly.

And evergreen advice for any kind of alarming email/phone call. Something I have struggled to remember when I've been phished, for real.

So, we're calling them Friendlikes now! Peak is a friendlike Lethal Company is a friendlike YAPYAP is a friendlike REPO is a friendlike Play them with friends you like :)

its really bad that there are only like 2 or 3 black women who have been in games for 20+ yeara

Actively looking for full-time, remote Senior UX/Product Designer roles in healthcare, biotech, or ed-tech. Appreciate your support & connections. Thank you.💛 How to help me & many that’s in the same position: Share my portfolio: conniechen.design Buy me a drank: buymeacoffee.com/conniechiiiwa

Pacific Drive (2024) www.youtube.com/shorts/e484N...

BAFTA pulling a trailer for an autobiographical game about surviving sexual assault only hours before it was said to be a part of a showcase is an exceptionally bad look.

EVERY artist absolutely ADORES art made people who are not trained. We all look at it with absolute joy because it feels like the purest art that's possible. We have all this training, but with it comes a lack of purity, and we spend our entire lives in futility trying to achieve that purity again.

Please learn from my mistake: do not keep your entire retirement fund in an employer 401k. I am now indefinitely locked out of my own 15 years of retirement funds because of my previous employer who laid me off and stole my pay, my severance, my PTO, etc.

Convo on Discord about people’s poor mentality issues when it comes to fighting games

hello it me, co-designer of a board game which has miniatures in it, where the miniatures were expressly included because of audience appeal, and therefore i profit financially from people liking the minis. we still made all our decisions with an audience-focused, low-waste mindset.

This is so, so well-articulated.

Hard pass on April Fools day. My last two months have already been a cruel joke.

The WebAIM Million 2026 report is out, it reports on overall accessibility across the web: 1. The number of failures increased 10.1% YOY 2. The average number of page elements increased 22.5%YOY Meaning accessibility progress is backsliding. Personally, I am quite certain this is related to AI.

Craft for the afternoon: replacing the backs of some old Monster Hunter buttonhole pins to magnetic so I can use them.

Workday I am begging you, if you’re going to allow companies to force applicants to enter a Field of Study for their degrees, at least let there be a user entered option. I literally cannot put in my Master’s Degree field accurately with any of the options I’m forced to pick from. 🥲

Regardless of how you feel about the quality of LLM-generated code, it's not more important than a literal city.

Publishers when a live service game is ready to launch

Why in the fuck does ANYONE want or need THIS as a part of their hiring process? SMH. 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️ Also, privacy clearly doesn't matter smh lol

The perception of video games and studios as speculative investment opportunities is doing irreparable harm to the industry and its workforce. Idiocy of the highest order.

Let's talk video games UX, and motion sickness accessibility! If some video games make you sick (nausea, dizziness, off balance), first, hello, you are not alone. This is a sensory conflict, due to your body not moving while your eye sees a lot of movement. It’s more common than you think.

If you’ve ever complained about shipping prices, please take that energy and direct it to your elected representatives. Tell them to fight for more funding of the postal service! If we lose the USPS it’s absolutely inevitable that shipping rates will increase with all carriers. 😤

Chef's kiss: "I would love to see an AI do my job. I am professionally stupid in a way that a machine could not even dream of." www.gamesradar.com/games/fallou...

Y'all. Please call your representatives and tell them no to the SAVE act. If the save act passes... That's it. Like, I don't know how else to make folks care about their futures and freedoms anymore. I'm exhausted from warning people for the majority of my adult life. This millennial is tired.

My favorite part of Hades II is the powerful women and enbies, shout-out to powerful women and enbies! Donate and tell us what your favorite part is! gdq.gg/donate #FrostFatales gdq.gg/live

As someone who works with data on a daily basis, this is why irresponsible data analysis is so dangerous. Bad questions still give you answers, bad handling of answers still gives you a data visualization. More than ever before, becoming equipped to scrutinize data visualizations is so important.

Job opportunity for Deaf kid lit illustrators (including the full spectrum of deafness/HoH)! A popular Deaf activist is writing some children’s books and would like to hire deaf artists to work with. Share to support disabled artists! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

You need creatures and I voice them! I’m Adam Michael Rowe and this is my Creature Reel! From cute little buddies, to big booming beasts, and all the horrifying things in between, I’ve got you covered. 😉 Visit adammichaelrowe.com for more!

Let me tell you something. Y’all are asking too many damn questions at every point of sale. I have to leave a comment, make a suggestion, donate to a charity, choose a method of payment three times and then multiple choice of ways to get a receipt. Take the damn money and leave me alone.

happy international women's day women are great—more people should be them, there's always time

Strong reminder: women have not been independent for as long as some folks would like you to believe. We’ve lost rights that we never should have lost.

Mulling over that reddit thread about the team that ran 400 playtests in a month and I have so many questions. Even ignoring the fact OP frames playtesting's purpose as "are you doing it right" and not "are your design intentions reaching players?" There's just so many other red flags to consider.

I am not saying the Olympics get too much attention and praise. Understand that. But I am definitely saying that the Paralympics don't get enough. So proud of all the amazing #Paralympians!

Great to know their CEO doesn't even understand how AI works. It's not anxious because it's conscious, dumbass. It's anxious because you've been scraping the social media of users living and posting through fucking unstable times.

Vibe coding broke people's brains because they had a bad understanding of the software design process. The pop culture model goes something like this: start out with a sketch and then render that same idea in progressively finer detail. So when tools could "skip" to high detail, people went WOW.

This is a good principle for design in general: When users tell you there's a problem, they are usually right. When users tell you how to fix it, they are usually wrong. (bonus: if you replace "user" with "stakeholder" this still applies)

Video Game PR folks, if any of your developer clients are working on video games with accessibility considerations for disabled players, reach out to me at [email protected] I'm in the midst of booking games for this year's AA Summer Showcase. Now's the time to get in touch.

Putting this out there - if anyone knows of UX/Product Design openings please reach out. Intrepid Studios closing the way it did left me with a missing paycheck, no severance, no insurance. I’m running off savings in one of the most expensive cities in the US and it’s not gonna last long.

Underline text links. Thanks for coming to my TED talk. #Accessibility #A11y #UI #UX