As the director of a historical video game preservation institution, and someone who has dedicated his entire adult life to this cause, this is accurate. We have attempted to work with the industry's trade organization to find a legal path forward, but they refuse to offer a meaningful alternative.

The thing about consoles shifting to an all-digital library is that it further forces them to compete with PC gaming services who have a much better record on this kind of thing than they do.

It's equal parts bizarre and predictable that in the modern day there are weirdos online who are essentially the equivalent of those guys who spend all day getting mad about videogames and have rendered themselves incapable of actually enjoying them, except instead of videogames it's heterosexuality

y'know, I don't think the Amazing Digital Circus was ever really my thing, but I definitely admire it's creator for what they've accomplished and I wish them every success in their future endeavors

one of Suture's playthings

Contact your senators TODAY and yell their ears off about how much you oppose these bills. Get family and friends involved. Tell them to oppose The KIDS Act and KOSA www.congress.gov/members/find...

one of Suture's playthings

Please contact your House Congressman [RIGHT NOW] and demand that Kids Online Safety Act [KOSA] and the Kids Internet and Digital Safety Act [KIDS Act] both be opposed! Its moving within the House TODAY www.congress.gov/members/find...

It's interesting to me how deeply flawed Minecraft is as a game, whilst still managing to be compelling purely from the strength of its sandbox, modding scene and ability to serve as a blank slate

Gotta' try n somehow find the money to buy Pronoun Palace before pride month ends

Yeah, you probably saw this one coming

In light of the recurring problem of trans erasure from the public eye, here's a 700 year old poem by a trans woman. It's quite a painful read, so be warned, but I think it's beautiful all the same. opensiddur.org/prayers/civi...

Pelicans

"its vs it's" is the most made up bullshit ever "how do we distinguish between these two words with the same spelling?" "It's simple, we just say that one of the like two universal rules of the apostrophe just doesn't apply here"

Slander knight

what baffles me about the brain genius "we should require legal names on social media For Civility" take that makes the rounds now and again isn't just that it's transparently misguided. what gets me the most is... do these people not have dreams? haven't you ever wanted to invent yourself?

Perhaps my perception is skewed, but is there any other industry that is as addicted to firing people as the Games Industry? Just constantly, reflexively hemorrhaging talent

indieslop goonbait friendslop why is so much language around art so hateful now

I feel like a lot of the time, the most noticeable flaws in a piece of media are only noticeable because the media as a whole is not good. And meanwhile the flaws that most undermine the whole piece are harder to spot or articulate.

... The curse is broken. The floodgates open?

rabbits

Pronoun Palace is out now on Steam for $19.84! s.team/a/3618850

Someone actually did a study a while back that showed the most effective way to get women out of TERF groups wasn’t people trying to change their minds, it was them getting literally any benign hobby, like learning other languages or taking up needlework

pwide

we dropped our ballots off at the collection box at the local library last Thursday and still have not received a notification that they’ve been counted! it is a real problem! I hope they actually do get in on time

Wishing everyone a safe, joyous and liberating pride month 💜

Stupid idiot bug from that one game

Xeno Scrib

one day we'll be able to have videogame discourse that acknowledges that game mechanics represent trade-offs and mechanics that enhance the experience in some areas will inevitably detract from the experience in other areas in a way some players will gel with and other players will not

I will die mad about Chibnall's run of Dr Who

Is odd to bare witness to just how dire things are for Americans, yet curiously am more optimistic for the future of their country than my own

One more Anne for the fans

Don't bite off more than you can chew

Oh shit playboy says trans rights????

‪ Opened some new commission slots~ commiss.io/rufia

Or-Fi-S has done a ton of great TF sequences over the years, but the framing on this one remains a personal fave 💜

I come up with a lot of ideas for videogames some of these ideas are nsfw to their core and some of them are very much not but the remainder always have me constantly torn between 'it might be nice to exercise some sfw creativity' vs 'If I don't make a horny videogame in this style, who will?'

Please contact your reps and demand they oppose the GUARD Act www.congress.gov/members/find...

Please remember, the future is not set in stone. We can turn things around, but it takes effort. Contact your reps, get involved in local orgs, do what you can.

A thing that gets me when I see "don't compliment artists by saying their work reminds you of another artist!" advice, beyond it just being bad advice that fundamentally misunderstands how people give compliments, is that I don't know any other creative profession where they consider that a problem

Scam the aggressive social media virus.

you WILL die if you happen to be in the way of her girl crush

If you've been enjoying Slay the Spire 2, as I have, it's worth leaving a positive review on steam - they've been suffering a lot of bullshit reviewbombs

I finally made a trailer for our game, Pronoun Palace! Tell your friends and loved ones! youtu.be/Zfn-_mZ7JSQ

Why do all the games about collecting cute characters in skimpy outfits gotta' be gambling games? This is unacceptable.

Here is the source for the current shadow hand trend. Illustrator x photographer solidarity forever. Source: www.instagram.com/p/BWiFj5VBq64/

Always funny to me when news outlets are like "such-and-such's policy is causing/will cause millionaires to leave the country/state/city" - as if that would not itself be a kind of success