I'll be at GDC on a panel with a bunch of amazing worker organizers talking about how union campaigns are changing the industry for the better. If you'd like to learn more about workplace organizing come check out the talk on Wed. March 11 from 3:40-4:40pm! schedule.gdconf.com/session/figh...

One interesting rubberneck activity is watching the great festival of gaming migration over the last 48h. Findings? Airports are in bad shape and only fools fly into sfo. Same as it always is.

Pace yourself. GDC can be looooong and if you try to do long days long nights every day you’ll burn out hard. Related: Everyone has an existential crisis on Wednesday. It’s the combo of FOMO, imposter syndrome, sensory overload, and cognitive dissonance of San Francisco’s boggling wealth disparity

I really do wonder if we hit stock market circuit breakers tomorrow

I sure hope this doesn’t obliterate the usd to yen conversion or I might not have a job lmao winning

Nobody say beetlejuice, I said beetlejuice and got away with it

feeling that F O M O

I have a keen eye for interpreting bad advice sharpened over years of practice

Travel safe. Eat at Mel’s. Hug your friends. Celebrate surviving. Remember folks not there. There’s incredible FOMO around GDC this year. Every year.

international women’s day

I need every single male artist that follows me to read this. It's not very long. You need to bear witness to this shit. You have to see it with your own eyes because you never will in your everyday life. I'm serious, read it all please

don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free

man, i'm trying so hard to enjoy this [gritting teeth] i realize that not all games [grinding jaw] need to be for me

the main thing i wish to see in a future patch for marathon is a "last stand" mechanic that lets you survive while downed. there's too much play between "i got downed and survived" and "i got winged and had to crawl around for 10 minutes"

what do you mean therapy isn't going to make me feel better?? what do you mean i have to do it what do you meannnnn????

I am working on building a 501(c)(6) in direct opposition with the ESA. They're an organization that will do just about whatever their corporate bosses want. The game industry needs advocates on OUR side. leagueofgame.dev

video game experiences without downtime and moments to reflect are basically like sex without kissing. its fine, it'll just be awkward and transactional.

modern game design is incompatable in many ways with pausing

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A friend of mine who runs these things always repeats something to me along the lines of "Playtests and Research isn't for telling you the right thing to do, it's to confirm to you that your assumptions are correct and that your intentions are getting through to the players" and that's stuck with me

If I see a person wearing these I will politely ask for their prescription details while smashing these panopticon peepers with my bare hands.

This is wrong and inaccurate. They are Mark Zuckerberg’s Pervert Glasses.

"Oni" is a masterpiece and frankly is part of the ghost in the shell canon as far as i'm concerned

absolutely fucking not, @developer.chrome.com -- what the hell is this shit?

one of the cool parts of the lore for Marathon, the new game from Bungie now available on all platforms, is that when the AI of the world start to show "Rampancy" it first shows up as small things like anxiety. Once it hits that stage, it almost always ends in violence. Anyway, fun game!

nope, not today today is cancelled, mamdani said so

discoursing with an ancient text parser and figuring out what it can understand, and what it wants you to understand, and where the hidden clues lie, is one of my favorite hardcore game experiences please enjoy my old lo-fi let’s play series all over again! youtube.com/@leighalexan...

aw man, i just crashed loading in with purple gear on awwww man awwww awwww

RUNNNNNERRRRRSSSS regulate lets go

stream marathon after meetings? [ ] Yes [ ] No [X] Yes, but with heavy metal music

one hour! who wants to squad up?? aaaaaaaaaaaa

Happy launch day to those of you who celebrate!

in early 2012 i was filmed by a film crew while working for a startup in orange county. I only found out, years later, that it was an NHK tv film crew doing a documentary on social networks. I have never seen the documentary.

Right when 4chan came to be, it was going down all the time, and nobody knew if it was gone for good. I temporarily tried to lifeboat 4chan into iichan before running away, screaming

so what what if we like just turned marathon on right now wouldn't that be funny? omg

@brandon.insertcredit.com would you be free to DM by chance?

you know, for someone with complex views on birthdays and aging from a history of trauma, you would think i would be way more on top of unsubscribing to emails, but it doesn't matter, Brands will wish happy birthday with or without your consent

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I agree. and while the website isn't finished yet, fuck it. I'm working on something important, and it needs your voice. leagueofgame.dev -- read the manifesto, check out the charter, and if you want to join, do it.

Attention people who think Stella is funny and cool (that’s you, reading this) — With Stella’s blessing I am organizing a fundraiser event (probably a livestream) to try and raise as much money as we can to replace the $24k that was stolen from her! Please DM me if you’d like to be involved!

My favorite internet websites are the ones where strangers scream their innermost thoughts at me until the website dies.

Unreal stuff

Toth beat Crenshaw hahahah later, dickwad

oh no www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6L-... its so good

windows 13 will not be an operating system it will be a curse that must be lifted

I think that this is the best photo of a Red-Tailed Hawk I will ever get.

Bungie friends; that cinematic /fucked/. I am so hype.

Geoff Keighley lets forth one serene sigh and trudges to his rooftop bird enclosure and retrieves a pure white dove named Highguard, before in one swift motion snapping its neck and dropping it to the filthy streets below