The reason I made this post last night is because of a conversation I saw happening. In it, game devs were talking about how composers don't play games they are working on. The reasons ranged a bit, some going so far as to say composers aren't gamers so having them play the game is pointless. 🧵

Not something I'll say often, but there is ONE thing about the Epic Games Store that I think it does significantly better than Steam: User reviews are not entirely open. Only after playing a game for enough hours do a RANDOM set of people get asked to leave one. It defuses a lot of issues.

Well, I guess my question for all of the doomers now would be why they think no one can stop Donald Trump from taking our democracy from us? The guy couldn't even take Jimmy Kimmel.

[new Isaac Chotiner interview]

Ishmael is spending the current chapter making up a guy to get mad at so that he can defend Whaling, an occupation he took up on a whim. Poster.

After two years of work, the @americanbar.org's bipartisan Task Force for American Democracy encouraged states to consider #RankedChoiceVoting. FairVote CEO Meredith Sumpter explains why 👇

Subtly downgrade a band Avantasium

Tell Metrolink to commit to electrification this Friday at 10 am! In person in downtown Los Angeles or by email. docs.google.com/document/u/0...

Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.

I really need you guys to internalize this. Government and corporations ripped Kimmel off the air for lightly badmouthing their behavior. Coordinated pushback by us is what forced them to cave in and put Kimmel back on air. Again. The fascists caved in *due to coordinated pushback.*

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Whenever sites come up with new rules like this I thing about how if you were a creator who was making something every bit on the level with a hugely popular and acclaimed series, would you be allowed to share it? Like, if you were sitting on the next Game of Thrones, you couldn’t share that here.

We are BACK after my travel hiatus and streaming NEW GAME(s) today to celebrate THE RELEASE OF THE GAME DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY GUIDE! Join me to hear about my Japan keynote adventure, the book launch, and more. Bring your book questions! #GameDev #UxDesign 10AM PT - 1PM PT twitch.tv/funnygodmother

It's a toaster that often burns toast. Also it might explode and kill you all.

Remember this whenever anyone treats LLM output as reliable, especially if they stand to gain from you thinking that.

An underappreciated problem with the web that contributed to the whole Itch dustup is the balkanization of apps. Most apps are no longer one app. They're a series of apps, created and maintained by different parties, daisy-chained together to create functionality.

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

It's liberating to confidently say "this is not for me" and ~still~ be able to see why it works and is immensely enjoyable for other people. You can still positively discuss the piece, if you want, in its own terms. Take joy and teachings in seeing why it clicked for some and not for you.

Every major problem society faces has known, straightforward solutions, that I sure wish the people in power, who know them, would act on

LOST writer-producer Damon Lindelof says he won’t work with Disney unless Kimmel js reinstated. I’m hearing other talent weighing similar pledges.

These are precedented times and the precedent is a loud ass warning www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

This is a correct take. Corporations value predictability over just about everything else. Think of the exercise of setting your department budget: most important is to predict your expenses, next most is to predict your revenue. Surprise revenue is almost as bad as surprise expenses.

When people say “climate models could be wrong”, they are technically correct but should be aware that the models could be wrong by underpredicting change.

Okay, to put an even sharper point on this: they are not even 9 months in and they are openly censoring *Jimmy fucking Kimmel* because he poked fun at the president for lack of empathy. These are desperate moves. They are desperate because they are weak and people are naming it.

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

We're all thinking of Deadliest Catch Alaskan Storm, right? Not that I'm biased or anything

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Want to make sure Metrolink listens this time? Show up to tell them to plan for Electrolink Friday the 26th at 10 am! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Internalizing that not everything is about you. Or for you. Or made with you in mind. Or directed at you. Or supposed to include you. Or require your opinion. Or your approval. In fact most things are not. Being online is quite easy when you don't try to be the protagonist of everyone else's lives.

I'm just putting this out there, but if you want to thank people who worked on your game -past and present- the normal way that you do that is to credit them. 💅🏼

Finished "We Won't All Survive" by @katealicemarshall.bsky.social last night and enjoyed every bit of the ride!

If you actually want to open up greater variety in terms of viewpoints and ideas, you probably need to begin by simply hiring *more people* so every hiring decision isn't a desperate turf-war in a shrinking department.

I rest my case.

Make it because you must, because it's like eating and drinking to you. Because something deep inside you screams every second you ignore what you truly wish to do. Make it because you are here now, and it is for you and no one else

If your placeholder assets aren't clearly placeholders, you'll forget to replace them Back in ~1999, the art director for some dollhouse game made a temporary diamond-shaped model for their character UI. By the time he realized they hadn't replaced it, it was too late and it shipped as-is. Oops!

Fun graphic design fact of the day. Lots of people (including me shamefully) use the word "kerning" wrong most of the time! "kerning" is the space btwn two letters. What most of us mean when we say kerning is actually called "tracking"-- uniform spacing between letters set between all the letters

So long as people are materially operating on the assumption that the position is correct, you are describing a situation where the material harm that vulnerable groups already suffer because of the debate is an acceptable sacrifice to protect the right of their opponents to argue they deserve it.

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IT IS TIME. My second book, The Game Development Strategy Guide, is now out worldwide. Here it is posing like a boss on the #DesignMattersTokyo stage. Grab it at Amazon, my publisher @rosenfeldmedia.com, or your favorite online bookseller to level up your #gameDev work. Amazon: amzn.to/4go56ln

If implemented, Electrolink can transform mobility across Southern California. Step 1 is for the Metrolink Board to direct staff to develop plans to electrify the Antelope Valley Line as part of its Zero Emissions Pilot at the 9/26 Board Meeting. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Local software acting on local data! Unless it's something that *needs* an internet connection (ex. email) you'll be better off that way, and local clients are better for accessing online data, too.

if it's not end-to-end encrypted, it's public

I'VE DONE IT, I'VE FINALLY RELEASED A WRITING PROJECT I SAID I WOULD RELEASE. TAKE THAT PROCRASTINATION DEMONS! Anyways, as the horrors keep coming and they don't stop coming, I've compiled the above into an article that'll be poked at as time goes on! And can be linked in relevant places!

Cishet men (myself included) reading Moby-Dick for the first time

The time to start calling your reps is right now! Use 5calls.org, it will give you the name of your reps, phone numbers, and even a script. Do not give the government the power to take away your passport because you criticized them on social media.

There's tons to say about this game but the fact that they're already pulling off narrative resonant leitmotif an hour into Expedition 33 is amazing, and a symbol of the thought and care that went into the game

wild that something like this, an object from the very outer solar system, has features that are instantly recognizable in a photo. So much of us is the same stuff, spread across a galaxy by exploding stars and gravitation. Comets, planets, humans. Dust and atoms. All waiting to know each other.

Reporters on the ground in Chicago are screaming to be heard over the false narrative that Pritzker defeated Trump there. PLEASE listen to them.

An educated, informed populace, is the foundation of a liberal democracy, and we really need to start judging media and political figures by that standard