I think video games discourse online would improve markedly if saying "bad game design" when you mean "I personally experienced frustration" got you a six month timeout from posting

You're supposed to join a fantasy football league 8n your 40s, so I'm going to learn how to play Blood Bowl.

friend shared this, immediately updated my settings

Enjoying the simplicity of Dice Throne and how modular it is and thinking Dice Throne Adventures would be a fun way to extend the value of my heroes. Cut to me with a coffee table covered with tokens and cards and standees. Having a spot of panic and regretting this move.

oh my GOD

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What this, and the M-dash “sign” indicate, to me, is that we never taught people to write with proper grammar. This escalated so far that “good writing” is now an uncanny valley.

I was really stoked for Tormented Souls 2, but it just doesn't hold up. I'm constantly fighting the controls, there are numerous graphical bugs and performance issues, and I'm just not having a good time with the combat.

I don’t talk about it much because the situation doesn’t really change but it’s still insane to me what an enormous amount of really talented game developers are out of work. just whole studios worth of incredible people, often people who worked on beloved games, unemployed.

Chappell Roanoke Your favorite lost colony's favorite lost colony

Motion to replace “boys will be boys” with “why the fuck has not one single adult man in these underage boys lives taught them how to behave decently?”

According to Wikipedia, today is the 20th anniversary of The 1UP Show. I choose to believe this is true. I miss this work. More, I miss my old coworkers. Still the best and most fun job I ever had. I’ll let Jane and Eric’s killer tune race through my mind today.

It's that time of year when the portable AC goes back into storage and the plastic sheets get replaced over the windows. Persephone's underworld shift has begun.

ME: I dunno, I don’t really watch them. I liked Midsommar. Or I guess I read the summary on Wikipedia. I’m mostly on TikTok. Oh bro, did you see the one where the haunted doll came to life? So fucking scary. I like CreepyComps on YouTube. Top 5 scariest dashcams, shit like that GHOSTFACE: For sure

SO much of the cultural and artistic nostalgia that society chases was just art made when people got paid to do it. Lavish movie posters made by human artists, video games made by people without sixteen different investment companies breathing down their neck, movies made by studios taking a chance.

whole thing is a really good read; i screamed out loud when i read this part

Spooky, scary skeletons Send shivers down your spine Under late stage capitalism Our world is in decline

You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't

"How many story points?"

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking? Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

Like writing! Which I'm always told is sooo easy and like, not even a valuable skill. So why do people need to consult a robot for help?

When your custom character appears in a cut scene

If I can be honest here: I'm still in shock that this vile human being not only has a platform, but uses said platform to be the literal POS that he is by viciously attacking games media & game developers all because they won't develop the type of BS games he wants or they "hurt" his feelings, uwu.

Tron gives an inaccurate impression of how many guys live in your computer. It makes it seem like thousands of guys are in there. In reality only about 10 guys live in your computer and less than half of them ride motorcycles

This is the season of swapping between shorts, pajama pants, sweats, and jeans in a neverending quest to find the perfect comfortable temperature.

lol

Hey @zenvaacademy.bsky.social, if I can't redeem a bundle code without you trying to charge me an extra $500 for a yearly sub, and you make it really hard to remove that charge from the redemption process, I'm never purchasing any courses direct and advising my colleagues to follow suit. Do better.

Xanadu Next: the stripped down Diablo-lite I needed right now. Cheap on the Autumn Sale, too!

I generally like when crossover content incorporates mechanics from the crossover game, but they shouldn't supersede or interfere with the core game loop already established. Behemoth had this problem in Monster Hunter World, and now Omega Planetes does the same thing in Monster Hunter Wilds.

Happy Michael Festival

Buying a company by taking out a massive loan, then making the company you bought responsible for paying off that loan, is so patently evil that it should be beyond illegal. The kind of thing that inspires enlightened societies without corporal punishment to bring back the death penalty as a one-off

This is the most complex mini I've painted so far. Got really frustrated. Got a little sloppy. Still got to experiment with a few paint combos I was thinking of, so all in all, please with the results.

General: (on radio) Your weapons are powered by the guilt you feel over your dead wife. By harnessing Silent Hill’s fog energy you can unlock new Guilt Battle Stances. I’m marking a deposit of Guiltonium on your minimap

For Fight in Tight Spaces enjoyers, the new DLC came out today! You get a very good dog that you can command and pet. Honestly, after 100 hours, it shakes the game up way more than the last DLC did. Feels like a whole new game at times. I'm adoring it. store.steampowered.com/app/3625850/...

This is the good joke. Everybody's trying but these guys got it

i think this picture, from a public promo stream for a video games starring one of the most popular comic book characters of all time owned by the disney corporation, should be used on every single story about storefronts taking down lgbt content

I miss when I could enjoy media without digesting it for career or craft reasons. It's rare that I consume for fun with no other motives.

You look at every culture that's ever existed and the running theme is everyone pretty much just wants to play/dance to music, make art, eat stewed meat wrapped in flat bread, and tell stories about the shapes we find in the stars. Somehow we turned that into wars and overtime and profit margins.

I don't know who made this but I feel it keenly.

Who's responsible for Nightmare King Grimm www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODfC...

Good morning Bluesky !

Got to explain what a gerund is at the studio today.

Whenever a new Borderlands game comes out I get to be reminded of the time Patricia Hernandez ruined my life by writing several articles at Kotaku about how I tweeted at the BL2 writer that Tiny Tina was written in a racist way, siccing proto-GG chuds on me for years. I literally begged her not to.

This starter pack is probably outdated, but thought I'd give it a share again. Just a collection of Vancouver folk I think are a good follow :) go.bsky.app/411UerA