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Keep thinking about this term "pre-digested" that Kojima used to describe art that's instantly gratifying. And how it's better when people grow to love something instead. I've gravitated, as player and designer, toward the latter, but that term "pre-digested" is new and feels very strong.

This is why you rarely see the anti trans side going after Hunter Schafer or Kim Petras. They went on puberty blockers and transitioned as teens. They're massively successful and living happy lives. They don't want to highlight that.

Larian CEO Swen Vincke says everyone at the Baldur’s Gate 3 studio is “more or less OK” with the way AI is being used on its new game. We’re not so sure about that.

every article about Elon that doesn’t start with the fact that he starved thousands of children to death is malpractice this man should not be walking around free let alone as a respectable member of society

"we USE ai, but our game wont CONTAIN it" is a clarification that no one has ever cared about & now CEOs are using it as a wedge to get their foot in the door as a part of a long term plan into normalizing AI, just like how 'it's just placeholder' was used with E33. dont cede even an inch of ground

I want to give you all update since I haven't posted anything in a while. I've been going on through another thing. I'll keep things short but the situation has been developing for a good while now – my cat has got a sarcoma. In more detail – hemangiosarcoma.

Omg sketches

horrific things have been happening to press freedom in Kyrgyzstan, and today it came to a head: three indie outlets were labeled "extremist," and further online reporting has been forbidden. standing in solidarity with Kloop, Temirov Live, and Ait Ait Dese ❤️❤️

i’ve been playing Battlefield 6 and couldn’t separate its love of destruction from the carnage I see out of Gaza every day

I don’t know about the store but the game is great

Fanatical are giving away Golden Light this week, one of the most viscerally unpleasant (in a good way) games I've ever played. A nightmare FPS horror-comedy roguelite where EVERYTHING can be an enemy, including the walls, floor, doors and even your own weapons. www.fanatical.com/en/game/gold...

fuck car

In regards to the bsky circus, I decided to make a permanent invite link to my discord server. You can join. You can see my art early, there is a discussion about books, and we document dreams. And share art. p.s. I am depressed so there is a bunch of venting too >_> discord.gg/Ea2kHAZU3j

In regards to the bsky circus, I decided to make a permanent invite link to my discord server. You can join. You can see my art early, there is a discussion about books, and we document dreams. And share art. p.s. I am depressed so there is a bunch of venting too >_> discord.gg/Ea2kHAZU3j

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

I wrote about how vicarious trauma can find you when you least expect it, through two experiences that I've had while working with images as an open source researcher. Neither were graphic. Both had a serious impact on me. giancarlofiorella.com/2025/10/04/w...

Another set of random sketches

Another set of random sketches

Once again, Jesus Christ, if your own policy would ban, like, The Handmaid's Tale, The Colour Purple, One Hundred Years of Solitude, A Clockwork Orange, Blood Meridian, Measure For Measure, like.... what are we doing here. What is this for

An assortment of random sketches (cause I can’t really draw anything else lately)

An assortment of random sketches (cause I can’t really draw anything else lately)

Remembering a group of 14y/o schoolchildren in Russia who are in jail because they literally just built their school in Minecraft and bombed it with TNT. They were trialed on the same page as isis.

carrion!

One of the 52 freed Belarusian political prisoners, 69-year-old politician Nikolai Statkevich, is refusing to leave the country. Nasha Niva published a photo of him sitting in the neutral zone at the border with Lithuania

charlie kirk has received infinitely more sympathy and support from liberals than every single trans person, immigrant, and palestinian combined

Twenty-seven

Mediazona is 11 today, and it’s all thanks to you. We weren’t sure we’d make it, but now we have 5,000 recurring donors who saved us. It’s a huge moral boost to know our work matters, even when the news is bleak. Read our full anniversary message here: en.zona.media/article/2025...

A portrait of a cool guy friend...

I'm struck that, as a certification exam for teachers, there are zero questions about actual teaching and learning and by how fundamentally weird some questions are? Why are there so many questions prompting would-be educators about the reproductive anatomy of children?

As a teacher I can professionally tell that this here is what me and my colleagues call “inane shit” and “utterly deranged garbage”

You shut da fuck up about baby furs. They’re full of whimsy and childlike wonder like the rest of us, they don’t want nuthin ta do with yooze and don’t do nuthin to fuckin nobody else. So shut ya fuckin mouth

Ouuughhh sketchessss

RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.

There is no such thing as "unskilled" labor

overgrown spaces

Supreme Court rejected Azat Miftakhov’s final appeal. The anarchist mathematician was re-arrested at the prison gate, given a 2nd term on a cellmate’s testimony. In letters, he describes life in the “degraded” caste and his refusal to bow to the system: en.zona.media/article/2025...

farewell

6,000 the victims of Stalin’s Great Purge of 1937–1939 are buried in the Sandarmokh forest in Karelia, Russia’s North. On August 5, people gather to honor their memory. This year, instigators in camouflage, balaclavas and Cossack hats confronted them en.zona.media/article/2025...

da pacem domine, in diebus nostris quia non est alius qui pugnet pro nobis nisi tu deus noster. gift for @coseulidi.bsky.social

Haunted Tree

He sought asylum in the U.S. after hanging an anti-Putin poster from a bridge in Russia. After 10 months in detention and a failed asylum claim, Leonid Melekhin returned to his hometown and was immediately arrested on “terrorism” charges. His story: en.zona.media/article/2025...

The push to censor what kind of art can be purchased online and the supposed promise of Generative AI to revolutionize our relationship to art, to turn art into a funko-pop assembly line that is controlled by corporations and not artists: I think both of these are connected imo.

This isn't just affecting games hosted on itchio... Comics, books, zones, etc with these tags are also no longer searchable. This is going to impact indie scenes across the board if not challenged!

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DOGWALK will be officially released on July 11th, 17.30 CEST 🎉 join us then for our online release party! Lots of frolicking in the snow and talking with artists, to be sure ☃️ #b3d #BlenderStudio #game #gamedev #OpenProject #DOGWALK studio.blender.org/blog/dogwalk...