what are the game festivals or events you're liking lately? i haven't been to much since 2019 and feel out of the loop!

When half the internet doesn't work because of a failure of a single vendor, that vendor is a utility, in the same way that power, water, and, back in the day, the phone companies, are/were utilities. 3/5

i love my dog

"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."

TFW u open BlueSky and a bunch of ppl are vaguely posting about the same shit

new horror story about men, women, animals and appetites please read and repost medium.com/@leighalexan...

If you're curious about practical methods and in-depth critical takes on how to work on sustainability in and through games and play, have we got the book for you! Preorder now, with our full release November 17th: www.routledge.com/The-Game-Nee...

hard to read Lenin's Imperialism without thinking about the AI bubble

normie gamers wouldnt even like this if it wasn't boosted by a dumb belief that AI-made shit is in any way interesting. it seems like the player doesn't even control the character to move or shoot, just occasionally clicks 1 of 3 options. it's more like a bland interactive film with game aesthetics

celebrities should not be allowed to have podcasts

today at the gym some guy was talking to his AI girlfriend ON SPEAKERPHONE

i am in a permanent bad mood

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

⚡In case you missed it, the newly rebranded Experimental Games Showcase (formerly the Experimental Gameplay Workshop) is now accepting submissions for next year!⚡ The deadline is October 24 and can be either in person or via video. Get more info and submit here: www.experimentalgamesshowcase.com

I'm sharing a TTRPG I was commissioned to make earlier in the year. Read about it and find it here: open.substack.com/pub/solarser...

"Solar energy is anticipated to be the world’s main source of energy by 2050" hell yeah

I'm sharing a TTRPG I was commissioned to make earlier in the year. Read about it and find it here: open.substack.com/pub/solarser...

i don't know how time moves so fast but somehow i am submitting my tenure application!

"Why would it bow to antidemocratic pressures by placing a professor on leave without their request, consent, or involvement? That any university would do this is beyond comprehension and is cause for alarm about the future of academic freedom in Canada."

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

my takeaway from climate week nyc is that "climate storytelling" is a little too much "we must reimagine our deepest souls in relationship to mother nature and the moral abyss of the polycrisis into which we must now stare" and not enough "ok but get a heat pump"

i'm at a real disadvantage playing Hades2 because i simply do not like to hold the controller's buttons down

All my friends should be made to live walking distance from me. I don't care if this massively upends their lives

I'm incredibly ecstatic that we reached $100,000 for the Play for Peace: Games for Palestine charity bundle. With just 2 days left to go, please RT and support the bundle, and let's push it as high as we can go!!! Thank you for the support!! Link: itch.io/b/2979/play-...

i have a constant low-level frustration about living in alberta, but it has really ramped up lately with all the transphobia the gov pushes, it defunding COVID vaccines, the recent book ban bullshit...

Alberta universities have been directed from the provincial government to create and enforce transphobic policies for sports teams. This is outrageous + disgusting A close friend of mine at UofL wrote a letter of protest, circulated to faculty, with 100+ signatures: albertaworker.ca/news/u-of-l-...

The Games for Palestine charity bundle has collected over $50,000 in donations in just over a week! 🍉🙌✨ You can get 382 games, including Atuel, for just $8 or more! Please help fight against genocide by donating and spreading the word with a RT so that the bundle can reach its goal! 🙏✨

I am excited to announce the Games for Palestine charity bundle page is now live!!! Over 300+ games with proceeds going to UNRWA USA in support of Gaza relief. Thank you to everyone for your support. The bundle launches on Sept 2nd 9am PST. Link: itch.io/b/2979/play-...

let's delete everything off youtube and just start over

game does bad: layoffs game does about as expected: layoffs game does great: layoffs

mainlining TV shows to forget that death is inevitable

"Four-fifths of Australian gas is consumed by the gas industry itself in an “ouroboros” that is then used to justify continued gas development" reneweconomy.com.au/australian-g...

another way in which LLMs make me feel like an alien as compared to their many fans: I find their default fawning conversational tone to be intensely, viscerally repulsive and suspicious.

🚨 Our regular submissions deadline is TOMORROW 🚨 We're still looking for: 🎤 Talks & Panels 🛠 Workshops 🕹 Custom controller setups 🌐 AR/VR, Immersive experiences & small-scale interactive installations ✨ And anything experimental, playful, or hard to define! 🔗 filmfreeway.com/HES-SF25

The end result of this is that a bunch of cis women athletes are going to find out they're intersex.

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Wednesday begins our anonymous donor's week-long matching funds campaign! Please help us keep this con pay-what-you-can and welcome as many attendees as possible! Thank you! . #games #gaming #queerstudies #gamestudies #matchingdonation #fundraiser #lgbtq #indiegames #rpg #gamedev #gamer

two of my games on itchio have been deindexed, Cyber Sext Adventure and The earth is a better person than me. both are games about queerness and the complexity of sexual desire

it does not matter how good you make your game’s block/parry system; I will not use it. My defense is “punch more.” I cannot be taught

It’s worse than “Gaza is being starved and destroyed and no one cares.” It’s that hundreds of millions *do* care and are powerless to stop it. We need a world where that can never happen, where the masses actually have political power.

Sorry but personally if a miniature horse woke me up from anesthesia by banging out nonsense on a miniature keyboard it would send me into a liminal space between life and death from which I would never return

Apple is delisting Wheels of Aurelia from the App Store, because it's... "obsolete". Our statement:

Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies. For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!

“Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it.”

Liberals have been very concerned about mis- and disinformation in recent years, so when Mark Carney says carbon capture will allow for “decarbonized” oil, we should be clear that he’s engaging in active disinformation about climate change to please Danielle Smith and the Alberta oil industry.

Every single day there is tragedy in Gaza. Every single day

videogames

NEW: Inside Gaza’s ‘death traps’ via @FT GHF’s plan forces hungry Palestinians to trek miles to aid sites, often through the IDF’s active military areas. Hundreds have been killed and thousands injured. This is how… www.ft.com/content/6c74...