Excellent and insightful read! (though I have different experiences re: pricing)

My favourite novel I read in 2025, from my wonderful classmate @wordsweaver.bsky.social. Well deserved!

So thrilled and a tad nervous! Congratulations to all the writers on the list!

They want you to see this and unionize less. You may be next, etc etc, the fear. But the lesson must be: Unionize MORE. One team, one department, one studio protected? Shut down. *Every* studio protected? They can't shut them all down (without trashing the shareholder value, their only KPI).

I had a feeling this would happen. To discourage the other Canadian studios from organizing. (And in the case of the big ones, it's already much harder to organize a studio ten to twenty times the size of this one.)

Why. Why would I need to use ai to increase volume? I have volume keys right there in my laptop keyboard.

Surprised top find out that the part of me that would rather spend all day configuring WordPress plugins, than sign up for a newsletter service is still well and alive.

To fellow #gamedev people: there are lots of events for making contacts and showing your game that are not in the US: MIGS / Gamescom / Taipei Game Show / TGS / Develop / etc. You do *not* need to attend GDC or DICE to survive. Found this resource; share any you have! gameconfguide.com

OK, same question, but *Europe*?

Anyone been using a reliable Canadian-owned web host for at least a year, and like it, that has all servers and employees in Canada? Currently with Dreamhost and it's always been so easy, I'm nervous about leaving.

Got the same word twice

When I was 15 this was the only thing I wanted. You could have dropped me off there and I would have found a way to make them give me a job in exchange for a few crusts of bread and spooky corner of floor to sleep on.

This does feel completely accurate.

I’m sick so I’m just sitting in bed playing News Tower and it’s honestly not a bad way to salvage the week. I love curating my little paper and making sure my ppl don’t think the bathroom stinks.

Garbage collector. This will not go well, I don’t have the shoulders for it www.leslibraires.ca/livres/ordur...

Yeah if you like Obra-Dinn-'em-ups, this is a fantastic little story to unravel. Really great hook and execution. Alternately, DON'T play it yet but only if you DO go wishlist the fully-artified version on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3641000/...

And maybe I shouldn’t get this parasocial on Main, but fuck it. Nobody told me a thing about perimenopause and I’ll die mad about it. Ask your mom what age she went through it and book support clinics accordingly because menopause care is finally a thing but the wait lists are long!

On the fifth day of Christmas my adhd gave to me Fiiiive glasses of Waterrrrr! (All of them partially full.)

I don’t think she likes Stravinsky all that much.

Imagine going to work to make Fantasia in the 1930s and needing to explain what dinosaurs are, for an audience that may not have heard much about them.

Now she’s on her siiide. I can never stand up again.

She so smol

Somehow managed to get an advent calendar that only goes to the 24th. Feeling dismayed.

Six new tartans registered today, including TWO for wedding anniversaries. This one inspired by colours in a boquet www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetail...

Cat ran around all last night instead of snuggling, then hid out alone in a nest all day, only to emerge tonight meowing desperately for affection, confused about why she’s so lonely, and I just have to say: relatable.

when AI crashes, will we able to use the leftover GPUs for games again? or are they so different from regular GPUs they’ll be useless? or will the chips be so burned out they’ll be useless?

Canadians and PRs, sign this! Today! Doesn't take long.

Got a nice little spotlight in the Globe and Mail!

One elbow we managed to keep up

Sign, sign, sign!

Great time to go get your flu shot if you haven’t already.

They like AI in games less than blockchain games and “The more a gamer cares about storytelling and customization, the more negative they are about Gen AI in video games.”

you might remember Natalie from when she was laid off from Giant Squid *immediately* after they shipped Sword of the Sea (which she did incredible work on). please consider reading/sharing her story, and giving something. it's been a rough year for her, and we can help.

Right to Die is important but it’s also incredibly fucked up to implement it as a policy when people who need treatment for known, treatable issues can’t fucking get it. It is eugenics, it is monsterous.

I’m on “HOLIDAY!” (Ie still polishing book proposal, writing two assignments and a grant proposal)

I'm at the secretary of state, I'm at the ministry of women and gender equality, I'm at the ministry of small businesses and tourism, I'm at the

it's giving combination pizza hut and taco bell

I wrote a letter expressing concern about diminished focus on gender equality in the federal government and I got back a reassurances-style letter from a guy whose title underlines why I was concerned: "Minister of Women and Gender Equality and Secretary of State (Small Business and Tourism)"

This exactly

One thing I've learned after all these years of #gamedev is: you can study The Market; you can research and strategize all you want; but you can't run from the game that you truly want to make. Sometimes you get lucky and The Market agrees; sometimes not. 🤷‍♂️ That's art, man; I dunno. #indiegame

My favourite painting at MBAM is basically a joke about this idea www.mbam.qc.ca/en/works/3539/

Cannot remember a time before always wanting to make things. Some of my earliest memories are of softening plasticine in the sun so I could make more detailed sculptures.

Drivers seem way less chaotic now than they did when the seasons were just starting to change. Did not feel endangered today.

I just did my most real winter bike ride yet! It was fun!!! Wish my rain pants were tearaways now that I’m waiting for lunch friends in this warm restaurant.

12 new tartans registered today, including the most wtf reason to design a #tartan I've seen so far: celebrating the 1836 Texas Declaration of Independence from Mexico www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetail...

Pixelles GDC Ensemble is a wonderful program, apply if you qualify!

Various factors have conspired so I have way too much writing to do this month. Please sir, when can I stop writing? It is the weekend...

I wrote a chapter for this! In it, I look at communal storytelling practices (like anthologies and folklore) as pedagogical tools, using the horror Twine anthology Lights Out, Please I curated in 2014 as a case study. www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...