Something positive: Spry Fox is spinning out of Netflix. We are independent (once again!) and preparing to launch Spirit Crossing. We wrote up a little blog post musing about this wild adventure. Worth sharing the good news. spryfox.com/a-16-year-ol...

For non-German speakers: “Dear media, I can’t stand the headline "No agreement between the US and Denmark” any longer. If an armed man storms a bank, you don't run the headline: "Robber and cashier can't reach an agreement on money transfer." Stop framing imperial aggression as normal diplomacy.”

The top reason studios use consulting labour for narrative is that they all want to avoid having a greater quantity of writers and narrative designers on the full-time payroll. That's it. It's to get the stuff designed and written but also save money/commitment.

How your email finds me.

I encourage everyone competing with me in any way to use as much AI as they can. When your enemy is making a mistake, don't interrupt them. This a guarantee their blade is gonna chip and shatter.

I’m apologetically myself. So sorry.

I'm a writer on a train this afternoon; probably my favourite thing to be.

No matter how many tartans are registered in a given week, there's always one for a golf course, probably one for a wedding, and then one for some corporation that sounds like it belongs to a James Bond villain. (Helicopters, security, space flight, etc...)

Something like 18 new tartans registered today. I guess they had a backlog from the holidays. Choosing to showcase this one because to me it looks like if someone turned the lights out on the Nova Scotia Tartan. www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetail...

While watching the Golden Girls theme song, we came to learn that confidant/confidante is a noun that coordinates m/f in *English.* Are there other English words that do that?

Love is real. I've seen it in the patch notes.

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Jill you’re a game writer you must love story games. Uh… sliding shapes and numbers together is a *kind* of story???

What four classic video games to you find yourself replaying no matter how old they are? These are mine:

This sounds sick actually.

Super stir-crazy after 2+ weeks sick, but still not well enough to go out and cough on everyone.

Wrote two low-quality jokes for the bio, so I'm taking the rest of the afternoon off. That's how this self-employment thing works, right? (Please do follow @emanationgames.bsky.social, there's lots to, er, come.)

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.