Good Ideas are Overrated: lauriepenny.substack.com/p/how-to-pic... Part 4 of my new writing seminar.

This is one of the things that I find is most shocking to people outside Minnesota who don’t realize it yet—the scale at which everyone who isn’t white has been forced into a spectrum of hiding. Very good article drawing out the Tahrir Square comparison.

Huh, imagine that. What a surprising turn of events nobody could have seen coming. Golly.

Galway Game Jam is back as part of Global Game Jam 2026! 🎮 📝 Register globalgamejam.org/jam-sites/20... 📍Location: CREW, Wellpark Road, Galway City 📅 Date & Time: 6pm to 9pm Friday 30th Jan, 10am to 6pm Saturday 31st Jan & Sunday 1st Feb. Help us spread the word! 🎉🎉🎉

Demo coming soon, wishlist to not miss it! store.steampowered.com/app/3284200/...

🌺 Summer isn't over yet 🎶 #ScreenshotSaturday #MidnightSun

Älskar det här samtalet med Henke. youtu.be/pQxpL-rNAhE?...

The GOAT of winter sport games

Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

Instead of ending the constitution and murdering people, we could have high speed trains and universal health care.

If you think *any* consultant can influence games to a detrimental degree, your opinions about game development are too out of touch to be worth regarding. Most of the time, even actual writers don’t get a final say over a game’s writing. The complex approval process is often above their heads.

Poor FOX News. Not the sound bite they were looking for.

I'm glad you asked! docseuss.medium.com/lore-is-a-tr... (also if anyone reads this essay and likes it, I'd like to pay my internet bill and buy some food, so tips would be appreciated)

"We cannot negotiate with people who say 'what's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable'." John F. Kennedy 25 July 1961 re: The Berlin Crisis

Go raibh maith agat to Garry Kelly for having Ardán CEO Alan Duggan and WRAP Executive Gar O'Brien-Collins on his new podcast series 'Garry Talks Film'! ✨ 💚 🎧 WRAP is delighted to support this series. Check out the full video interview here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn9x...

Sábháil an Dáta/ Save The Date! 🎮✨💚 Ardán looks forward to welcoming attendees back to the Radisson RED in Galway on Friday, April 24th, 2026, for another great FÍS Games Summit where Games industry professionals at all career stages can listen to, learn from, and connect with one another.

Nästan ingen kommenterade ens nyheten att elever som gått yrkesförberedande program på friskolor har mycket svårare att få jobb. Har vi bara accepterat att det är såhär det är? www.dn.se/ledare/isobe...

Hey #PitchYaGame ✂️ Cutout Village is a narrative, cozy, city-builder game in which you will have to build villages using simple and unique mechanics: cutting, folding and gluing. Wishlist: store.steampowered.com/app/3907910/... #indiegame #screenshotsaturday

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

Vox Populi , Vox DEI

Mamdani, with 97% of the vote in, has more votes than all the other candidates combined

Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

Not a good news thread, an AMAZING news thread

If you, like me, are a fiend for deductive narrative games (Obra Dinn, Golden Idol, etc) then you must check out the tremendous The Seance of Blake Manor (out today), which has become one of my favorite games of 2025. Only caveat is that I ran into a few nasty bugs www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATH_...

Because All Data you collect willy nilly will get stolen. It always happens, sooner or later

This person took this when they called the race

Go woke, become Mayor of NYC

So this was good news.

Remember, Remember, the 5th of November… and that the law doesn’t necessarily tell us what is right, but we can use the law to make things right.

It IS cool to be kind!

Teen Vogue has had more guts to dissect and expose the truth when so many veteran media outlets have bent their knees to a criminal despot and his regime and this news is absolutely appalling and unacceptable

This was , quite literally, how I got my first AAA job at Ion Storm Dallas (lunch interview): Lee Dotson: ”Should we ask him some real questions, like what is BSP?” Squirrel: ”Nah. Everyone knows that” Jake Hughes: What did you think of the movie Armageddon?” Me: ”Awful” ”You’re hired!”

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

Narrator: ”It wasn’t ’NEW’ - it was as expected and as planned”

Again, France serves as an educational institute for the rest of the world:

GUESS WHO'S BACK BACK AGAIN DOC'S BACK TELL A FRIEND That's right. It's time for part 3 of the FPS series; this time, a lot of assorted thoughts on what makes for good enemy design. This one was fun as hell to write. docseuss.medium.com/building-a-b...

I am re-reading The Two Towers, and Chapter 10, ”The Voice of Saruman”, slaps. It could have been written yesterday. Saruman the Orange

Pretty sure I say this every Columbus Day, but getting hauled back to Spain for excessive brutality in 1500, just as the Inquisition was really getting fired up, is some genuinely Evil Guys Hall of Infamy material

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

The amount of information in this video is incredible and most people have no idea how bad they are at using Excel.

“Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes .... Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated." -Anne Frank

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

"Under pressure from Elon Musk, Donald Trump Jr. and prominent right-wing activists in the wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the Anti-Defamation League is removing from its website the Glossary of Extremism and Hate, one of the organization’s signature anti-hate resources."