When people say "embrace AI or get left behind," they mean "Companies are offloading bureaucratic chores onto their customers and calling it 'automation.' You either deal with that or don't get served." (This message was brought to you by automated check-in systems.)

It's a great day to be a game dev! If you're looking for a fun and challenging boss rush game, check out my game Chicken Flight on the google play store: play.google.com/store/apps/d...

Me: So apparently there’s something wrong with this German tattoo and I need to change it Tattoo lady: How about something Norse? Me: Yeah I see nothing wrong with that Tattoo lady: Or Imperial Rome Me: I like the way you think

making some beef fizz anybody want some

oh yeah I'm calling the totemkamfp or whatever the fuck it's called the jazz hands skull from now on. I was thinking about calling the the beefy boy roger but jazz hands skull is hilarious

Exploration and discovery are an important part of well-designed games that provide things to discover while players explore the environment. It's a #GameDevelopment approach seen in Fit for a King, which follows an example set by a much older series.  pmjg.blogspot.com/2023/05/game...

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Every time someone links me to a video essay, I look at the runtime (often obscene), think about how much art I could experience in that time frame, and just do that instead. You're going to die. Use your time to experience things *for yourself.* YouTube will not enrich your soul. But art does.

That's all eight of our detectives in our #indie #puzzlegame! If you like a good #murdermystery, come join our discord and sign up for the #playtest! You are invited to a murder! discord.gg/UEdRat5B3U

A fun byproduct of unitary executive theory—if the president controls everyone under him, he can demand they transfer hundreds of millions in tax dollars into his bank account

We all know this was about trying to get blackmail material on Vought, right?

I'm just a lowly art historian, but in moments like these I always think back to one early sign of Trump's wanton, pointless destructiveness: his demolition of the priceless & irreplaceable Art Deco relief sculptures on facade of the Bonwit Teller building, which he tore down to build Trump Tower

Keynesianism is like Ozempic in that it's something that works but makes people mad because they want moral hazard to be involved

The reason even this admin of brain geniuses hasn't pulled the insurrection act lever is they know it's their last card, and if they lose that fight, it gets really bad for them. Potentially it ends the ability of the administration to continue.

Not all media is racing to move on and forget about the second-largest one-day protest in U.S. history I hung out at my boisterous No Kings rally in Delco, Pa. and wrote about how the movement got under Trump's skin, the surest sign that it's winning My column www.inquirer.com/opinion/no-k...

A xenophobic shell game: “Japan faces a worker shortage as its population ages, and the country has been cautious about expanding immigration.” Instead, they’ll let foreign workers control robots remotely. restofworld.org/2025/philipp...

pleased to announce that there seems to be a passive-aggressive conflict roiling the august pages of Cooks Illustrated, Fall Harvest recipes edition. allow me to explain:

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Adjacent to conservative arguments defending sexual assault: There are people who believe that if a woman consents, she can’t revoke that consent. Victims “deserve” anything that happens afterward.

#GameJam alert! It's almost November, and @basecase.bsky.social is organizing the 3rd annual PiCoSteveMo for creating #Pico8 games inspired by Stephen King's work! #GameDev itch.io/jam/picostev...

Have you filled out the IF Comp survey yet? Please consider completing it. golmac.org/your-opinion...

npr: so, no kings tyrannosaurus rex: yes npr: how shall I put this trex: this interview is over

I saw some folks thinking that voice acting in games was objectively good, always a positive. "What kind of game doesn't have voice acting in 2025?!" sorta thing I say that there are positive reasons why one would choose NOT to have VO. How many design justifications we can come up with? Join me

Charlottesville #NoKings protest

Hudson Hawk unavailable for comment. apnews.com/article/fran...

Two tons of bronze ingots, from melting down Charlottesville’s statue of Robert E. Lee, are now on display in the LA Museum of Modern Art “Monuments” exhibit. The @jsaahccville.bsky.social Swords Into Plowshares project will select an artist to use the bronze to create public art for Charlottesville

I never again want to hear House Republicans disparage people they claim are too lazy to work

its funny looking back on all the DC political reporters who attributed Biden's overwhelmingly-negative press coverage in the second half of his term as being punishment for Karine Jean-Pierre's supposed rudeness or incompetence

If you can’t handle my “JK Simmons as Ford Pines,” you don’t deserve my “JK Simmons as Emil Skoda.”

If you're the first in line at a left turn arrow, you need to pay attention to when it turns green. You control the destiny of everyone behind you. It's a big responsibility, I know, but it's also a way to show your fellow human that you respect their time as much as your own.

this is why I keep saying it matters that local police departments massively outnumber ICE/CBP… they don’t have to be progressive allies to eventually lose their patience with people who would never make it through academy earning more than they do & claiming the right to arrest THEM for no reason

excellent work from @owlcatgames.bsky.social here www.gamedeveloper.com/business/owl...

I thought this was a typo, but he really says “defended that evil.” Also fun: Johnson listing a bunch of virtues and declaring, “We have stood against that.”

remote work is like birth control or UBI atp where there’s overwhelming research consensus they improve quality of life for people they apply to, yet access is impeded or blocked by the ruling class because the thought of marginalized ppl having rich full lives makes steam come out their ears

Don't let the fact that Republicans shut down the government to stop the Epstein Files from coming out distract you from the fact that they also shut down the government to stop the negative September jobs report from coming out.

New from me: In March, FHFA director Bill Pulte made himself chairman of the board of Fannie Mae. But after, he did not file a required disclosure form tied to the role with the SEC—the same kind of paperwork error he has used to attack Trump's political foes. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

but grandpa keeps making new tariffs scott

This is exactly backwards, the no kings protests are a mass movement of regular people that have every republican politician in the country raging about "hate America rallies," and the online protest industry weirdos who say shit like "radlib" to each other are the ones skimming off the top of them

That gratifying moment when it starts feeling real. Really, really, real. #retrogame #gamedev #indiegamedev #RPG #gameasset #idletidalidyll #skurugata #newlogowhodis

So no more Mastercard and Visa payments, right?

This is yet another reminder that the "you can just walk around with your papers and be fine!" is a lie: the cops routinely claim whatever documentation you provide is invalid It's racism all the way down

My favorite aspect of the Columbus legend is him getting rejected by the Portuguese gets spun as them not recognizing the genius of his idea. No - he went into a roomful of expert navigators and made basic math mistakes, they thought he was a moron, and they wouldn't fund his idea on that basis.

Nordstrom Rack at the mountains of madness

Me: [some farrago of vapid twatwafflery] Everyone: [rolls eyes, snorts, shakes head] Me: IS THIS AN INTELLECTUAL DONUT SHOP BECAUSE I SMELL THE THOUGHT POLICE

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after the 10th radioactive shrimp recall in 7 weeks, i decided to do some digging little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

as a new mexican i just have to say that yeah texas invades sometimes you just have to kick their asses and send them home tail tucked. it’s usually way easier than you think, i think one time we just rolled a bunch of boulders on them from the canyon cliffs above. people love repelling texan armies

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