Ken Burns, look me in the eyes, man. Every time I start talking I can see you start slowly panning across my face

as the new year is coming around the corner, I am still available for work! The job hunt has lasted longer than ever before but I have hopes for 2026. Need beautiful vistas? Need detailed foliage? Need a world artist who knows her photogrammetry? I am the Environment Artist for your team!

Windowed GUI-games with windows that aren't draggable are a pet peeve of mine. I'm still loving the game so far, though. (The Roottrees Are Dead)

I am begging everyone on here to read this new post by Bryan Johnson — the super rich tech guy who is now doing the “never die” protocol. I need to talk about it with you all.

Big 2: too big

damn that baby looks cool as hell

I just read about a theoretical (but nevertheless possible) winter storm event that would devastate California: The ARkStorm. www.usgs.gov/programs/sci...

What the everloving fuck. I expect nonsense like this from the CIA, but not the FBI.

Exclusive: A year after Tenet Media was busted for funneling Russian money to MAGA pundits like Benny Johnson and Tim Pool, a Trump administration effort involving State and the FBI has welcomed Tenet's founders back into the US. @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/lauren-che...

There’s a kitten rescuer whose videos I love, but she’s clearly been rescuing kittens for so long that she’s run out of cute names Every new video has the cutest kittens you ever seen, with a caption like, “Meet the Roofing Materials kittens: Tar Paper, Shingles, and Fiberglass!”

Christmas through Jan 2nd is a podcast desert.

Who needs AI when we had stuff like this? I’ll take photoshop edits over the slop any day

As of 12/24/25, USPS changed policy on when they postmark mail. Mail dropped off is no longer guaranteed a same-day postmark. Tax returns & other time-sensitive items are now stamped when they reach a regional processing center, which may be days later. Plan deadlines accordingly to avoid penalties.

Did he call me "unserious"? Hold my beer hat

here, timeline, have some opposite-of-doomscroll news

The robots are experiencing profound grief, yet I'm here laughing.

Remember this. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/m...

Dear bluskeeters! I'm doing research with a friend. If you're a Black Author with a speculative book publishing in 2026, could you please pitch and link me, please? This a difficult to sus intersection. Please add your friends' work. Please tag people. Please share

some actual good news for artists!

#birdbot

I feel like Silent Gen is so perfectly named -- everyone seems to forget they exist & that mostly *they* are the parents of GenX, not Boomers -- who were still mostly children themselves when GenX was being born.

Let me be clear.. EVERYBODY who has admin or mod privileges in ANY discord server that is even remotely adjacent to gamedev needs to @ everyone about what's going on, and they need to do it YESTERDAY. More ppl got caught up in this, coulda been avoided. Dont click links from ANYONE w/o interrogation

its a convergence of female pop stars from katy perry onwards, anime waifus, video game characters, and of course porn

I started up a new game of CoC: Dark Corners of the Earth for the first time since I rage-quit back in 2006. Un/fortunately it just made me want to replay Undying so here we go!

brand new warm-lit Boy Image just dropped

Every time I delete a post about hating sports posts, the creator of the Universe invents a new kind of gear.

Haha

I found one of these in the wild and thought I should post it. I've only skimmed it, but it doesn't seem to paint a rosy picture. Seattle Times 12/28/2025

Hey, if you’re in the game industry and have a literature degree, would you please comment? We got a family friend over here who insists my having a career in games while holding a literature degree is a one-off aberration and per usual, I’m not letting it go.

Scanning documents used to be so slow that you'd do a quickie preview pass and then carefully pre-crop the image in order to save precious minutes.

you, an idiot: we should have universal health care me, a TV genius: the average american is going to lose 400 pounds next year

third option suggested by @phokal.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/phok...

Tales from The Dancing Moon is 40% off during the Steam Winter Sale! Discover your role in this mystery game inspired by portal-fantasy stories. A perfect mix of casual, lifesim, RPG gameplay. It never won any awards but I like to think it's a good game! 🤡 store.steampowered.com/app/1782420/...

Trump's DOJ was monitoring all the movements of the Miami Herald reporter who was covering the Epstein case.

Just a quick hello from The Happiest Boy in the World.

Foggy Frozen Mississippi River

I love frames like these

Im porting a shader from 5.2 to 5.7 but seems now Velocity cant be read in the .USH but in .USF. So, before move all the maths to the .USF, is there any workaround? Im doing some research but found nothing. #UnrealEngine #UE5 #Coding #Indiedev

Princelet Street, Spitalfields, London - December 2025

"Every mystery we solve brings me closer to the realization that the only monsters in this world are pathetic old men trying to steal as much money as they can." portsherry.com/comic/a-shag...

Working on bending player perception to bring new dreamscapes to life... #gamedev #indiegame #indiedev

Dang it. Void War is crashing 100% repro trying to load my save game.

whats Mandarin for "oh lawd he comin"

Heading into 2026, I'm still looking for fulltime or contract work as a senior writer or narrative designer. If you need someone who can write sharp characters, poetic prose, and emotional stories, I'm available! You can find my portfolio here: www.hazelmonforton.com

God damn it. I just had a great idea for a Playdate game.