So in case people hadn’t figured it out - I’m back in Australia not because I want to be but because I was fired by Rockstar Games in October alongside 33 others as part of their attempted union busting.

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Persona, the age verification company used by Roblox & Discord was hacked. And despite the company & platforms claiming Persona utilised “zero knowledge” methodologies to verify age, they are gathering user data. Palantir is one of Persona’s main investors. www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...

I was introducing a friend to Rimworld. You don't really realize how messed up the optimization of colony management games are until you catch yourself saying stuff like "cannibalism is actually a great trait to have because you can eat your enemies without guilt so it's a lot of extra food"

Just randomly remembered this description of kindergarten from the anti-communist DDR Museum in Berlin

"Tech company promoting a stupid person with a racially motiviated and eugenics-ass worldview" is a feature and not a bug btw. Like at the executive level most of the other rich powerful white dudes are also Just Like That.

Favourite thing about the Olympics is being someone who doesn't really pay attention to or have any vested stake in sports as performance and hearing people who do be like "this is the most unbelivable thing I've ever seen in my life I'm GUNNA THROW UP ALL OVER" and it's like, a guy doing a jump.

I don't personally think "being a good person" and "leading a multi-billion dollar gaming corporation" are concepts that are mutually compatible in the slightest.

The Echo Generation 2 demo is officially OUT NOW on Steam and Xbox🃏 Play as Sister M, a mysterious kid with special abilities, on a mission to break out of a secret facility and find her friends 🐱⚡🤖 #EchoGeneration2 #Demo

It's sooooo funny to be brought into a new position and be forced to immediately say "nonono don't worry guys I'm not gunna do the bad thing I know you're all worried about me doing based on my history of doing this thing" to everyone who works under you. Like doesn't that surely say something

Finally got around to subscribing to Mothership because it is extremely my jam and this was the article that very much hooked me.

fixed it it was one line of code and I don't understand how my project worked at all in build before now I have gained SO little knowledge but my project is no longer completely borked! :]

I'm looking for 3D art commissions! After grinding full-time unpaid on my own game for months now, I have to make sure my ship doesn't sink🙂 I specialise in retro graphics, PS1 and PS2, but can do everything else. Characters, cars, env, weapons, you name it.

Added some ancillary speech VFX to the VOIP behaviours and tuned the voice mod to be a bit less aggressive. Going to add some options to disable it as well since I'm sure it'll get annoying for some people #SKRUBSquad

[Hulk Hogan voice] hell yeah brother

if I had learned about vertex painting earlier it could have saved decades of my life. the hardest part of texturing manually is figuring out where the highlights and shades should be, and you can just paint them on the model!!!

A game I would love to make one day is a hidden object game that uses public domain art (i.e. paintings of battles and such). It's something I've been spinning around in my head for a couple years and I think that would be really neat.

After months working in the shadows… meet Curse of Resthaven. A gothic horror mystery where you govern a cursed island trapped in a time loop while searching for your missing niece. If it’s your kind of weird, please wishlist! store.steampowered.com/app/3796150/... More dev secrets soon.

TikTok publishing automated ads that sexualize the characters in them, their support almost certainly being AI chatbots, AND after multiple back and forths their final response being "we did this so it'll sell better and even after opting you out no promises it won't happen again" is GHOULISH

NEW: Hundreds of Palestinians gathered 800 meters from the yellow line at Abu Hussein School in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza Strip to celebrate the first day of Ramadan together despite what Fouad Al-Mallah said was "the hardship, confinement, and lack of resources we face."

So Alberta is holding an anti-immigrant referendum to help create an excuse for why Danielle Smith is running multibillion dollar deficits? “Smith’s address comes one week before Finance Minister Nate Horner tables the 2026 provincial budget which is expected to have a multibillion-dollar deficit”

It's funny how many games I have used JetSet Radio as a reference for considering I don't particularly enjoy playing JetSet Radio in the slightest.

HEY I'M ANNOUNCING MY COOL NEW INDIE GAME Kick back, relax, and get cleaning solo or with friends! The multiverse is a messy place, and when things get dirty the S.K.R.U.B. Squad is there! Please wishlist and share, it really helps a whole lot! 👇👇👇 store.steampowered.com/app/3900170/...

hot take but I think workers shouldn't get laid off even at studios with unsuccessful projects

Bad things to say about Ubisoft today, as per every other day

sony being morons and funding a million games no one likes is true but its being overemphasised because it has a moral arc that feels good. whats happening in games is a global industry wide re-organization of labour because movement of capital is free and movement of people is not

a thing to consider about working in games today is that there used to be choice at work-for-hire studio i was at in the early 2020s, when my project got canceled i was told i’d either be placed on codev for halo infinite or an amazon games studios game. i liked halo but didn’t like the 50/50 odds

I know the sentiment of "our studio is hiring if you got laid off :)" is theoretically supportive, but man if it doesn't feel like other studios are just circling around like vultures most of the time

Bad things to say about Ubisoft today, as per every other day

I just think every royal family member should be arrested tbh

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who has two thumbs and quite literally spent 15 consecutive hours today troubleshooting why my builds are suddenly broken and has still made absolutely no progress whatsoever

"Professor White Boy " has perished. They found him self harmed at the bottom of an elevator shaft. Thanks for the fucking smiles, Professor

cat study from last year

Things are VERY bad financially, rent is due today and I'm still working on late commissions since my laptop died in January. If you can help, you get: 🖤 Steam key 🖤 Early Demo Access 🖤 $50: Custom portrait in-game 🖤 $200: Custom character in-game 🖤 $500: y̴͇̗͔̆̾́o̷̩̅u̶̠̼͗̒̆r̵̺̩̈̈ ̵̟̫̅ô̴̲̬̠̎̿ẅ̴͖͍́͐͑n̸̢̾̾͛ ̵̯̲͇̈́r̸̜̱͕͌̚ọ̸͖̭̆̋̉o̷͚̼̱͌m̴̛̪̉̈́ ̴̮̠̮̿i̷̘͛͘n̴̖̰͝ͅ ̴̙̂̂͝g̷̜̒̆͠ą̵̭̜̐m̵̯͑̓̽e̶̩͖͎̾ ko-fi.com/2dchaos

Discourse hitting on something I've been thinking about tons lately: video games are one of the most expensive and least productive forms of media to make. I think now I believe that if you want to make and sell games sustainably, the only winning move is not to try and make them in the first place

Thanks to the talent of many skilled VAs, writing by @ruariroot.bsky.social and editing by @feytriarch.bsky.social, the #SKRUBSquad lobby now has fun VO and conversations!! I love it so much!! 🔉

my hot take is that I think cake should be made sideways to better reflect how one actually eats a slice of cake

everyone is announcing their demos for Next Fest and no one is putting their damn steam pages in the tweet!! put the link in the damn post!!! you are getting a fraction of the clicks to your page for wishlists as you could be getting!!!!!!! knock it off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Every time I go back to play a Senran Kagura game I'm blown away by just how good the Senran Kagura games are

After studying a crappy tome for hours, a kobold orphan finally learns the spell Invocation of Chocolate.

My favourite thing about the "Build and Run" option in Unity is that I don't think it has worked once for me in the last decade of use.

Round of photos from the Canadian National Exhibition this year Starting with part of the air show. I hate the presence of stupid military jets but love the biplanes; thankful I caught it too because the shots are gorgeous

Nazis account for such a overwhelming percentage of mass shootings that in the rare instances a person who is an ethnic or sexual minority commits a mass shooting they are almost always also a Nazi

People talk about this stuff in terms of how much it'll suck for gaming and I hate to inform you how many MRI machines, X-Rays, all sorts of other vital machinery are just a Windows IoT Edition PC in a beige plastic box with a big magnet/accelerator/whatever attached.

Thanks to the talent of many skilled VAs, writing by @ruariroot.bsky.social and editing by @feytriarch.bsky.social, the #SKRUBSquad lobby now has fun VO and conversations!! I love it so much!! 🔉

holy shit dude I finally got around to implementing VO in SKRUB Squad this is a video game-ass video game now