this is one of the most insane policies people are subjected to in Australia if you're in a couple, your partner's income is used to assess *your* eligibility for dole, disability, etc. if your partner makes a basic wage, *you* can't get help it's designed to keep victims in abusive relationships

Can't afford to be in a relationship with a person who is unemployed or disabled... seems bad! Placing the person who is unemployed or disabled in a position of absolute dependency on a partner, without any financial autonomy... seems bad!

I've long criticised the dehumanising and patriarchal partner income test embedded everywhere in the Australian welfare state. The tax on love really does hurt families, and has a real impact on relationship formation or termination. www.reddit.com/r/Centrelink...

y'ever see my blog post about Max Payne 2's character shadows? got some good Remedy dev scoops in there www.joewintergreen.com/dev-scoops-m...

Edges can now be extruded with rotate and scale!

My level editor for Unreal Engine called Scythe just got a new major update! Here's what's in it: 🧵 (1/)

new blog post about a quest tool i made once www.joewintergreen.com/a-quest-tool...

last night somebody reminded me of a time many years ago when I got some game narrative insight from somebody at Valve, so I have now published it in a blog post www.joewintergreen.com/dev-scoops-s...

if you want to follow me on mastodon you can do it on here now btw. mastodon isn't very good but neither is THIS so impromptu.games/@joewintergr...

joycons under the covers to stay warm .. arm suspends the device above the bed... strats

new blog post: some drawings i have occasionally done www.joewintergreen.com/i-never-draw...

there is not one among my homies who can stand wario's galleon

blog post about my boy. www.joewintergreen.com/loving-oscar...

beautiful wonderful oscar passed in my arms in the garden today. a stray kitten i found under my house 14 years ago contained the most loving sweet soul ever known. i expect i will never recover. love you forever oscar.

i don't moan about irl shit that often but every year for the last like, 4 has been the new worst year of me and my partner's lives. the amount of awful shit one thing after another, each reliably worse than the last, is insane. i am 35 and know i will soon die

pray for my boy

btw conventional games marketing wisdom says block game will never get a lick of press because i'm developing it out in the open and anything that's public knowledge is not news so that means for it to go anywhere it has to have strong word of mouth so uh, tell your friends? enikofox.com/blockgame

ok, so: getting $1200 this month and the rest Later(tm) and we need a check in by the 5th. we've received about $500 after transfer fees thusfar (thank you!) but we have been feeding two adults and a cat and paying bills out of that so, uh, please help. also if you need a Code Bitch hmu? please?

man. oscar the cat had an ultrasound the other day and they gave him a drug to chill him out enough to do that and he's just been like. fucked ever since. over 48 hours of barely being able to walk around and shittin himself

what up

the internet forum i run (impromptu.zone) mostly doesn't get posted on much, but when someone does make a thread sometimes there's 10 thoughtful interesting replies. what a vibe. you are welcome there for a noncorporate internet hangout experience

block game's first tool dropped today, on the 2 month anniversary of starting development! no longer can you punch out tree trunks, now you have to combine flint and a stick to make a flint axe to break trees with happy 2 months, block game! 🥳🎉 #EniBlockGame #GameDev 🎮

It would mean a lot to us if you posted it around, told your friends, etc. We've got another game coming down the tubes and it'd be neat to have some walking-around money for it! Help us make more stuff like this... Early investors will be rewarded... store.steampowered.com/app/2467100/...

if you want to follow me on mastodon you can do it on here now btw. mastodon isn't very good but neither is THIS so impromptu.games/@joewintergr...

here is my blog post about nine eleven, which got some interesting comments on it. never forget. or if you're young enough apparently, maybe never find out! www.joewintergreen.com/nine-eleven-...

still thinking about the woman at the chip shop in scotland www.joewintergreen.com/at-a-chip-sh...

Valve being privately owned and not publicly traded is 100% the reason they haven't shat themselves fatally. Every publicly traded company ends up shitting themselves to death to get more and more profit at the expense of existing. Like a tumor.

Hi! My friend Natalie is having a really hard time supporting her kids right now. It would make me so happy if you could donate to help her keep going: gofund.me/17705d028

sonofabitch

oscar is so fuckin zooted

hire this guy please. quit fucking around

This updated version of the game includes such wonders as controller support, general polish, and a fix for this UV warping that's annoyed me for a year. check it out cause it's cool!

Fuckin finallyyyy

🚨DEAD STATIC DRIVE HAS A RELEASE DATE!!!🚨 www.deadstaticdrive.com/releases NOVEMBER 5TH Y'ALL. Congrats to @mike.reuben.games, @leena.reuben.games, and the whole DSD team - I've been DYING to play this one.

i don't believe in anything but oscar is having kidney issues so pray for him in case it works please gang

blog post: cool little tech art thing I did a while ago on Sleight of Hand. lights that dispel volumetric smoke, with occlusion www.joewintergreen.com/tech-art-thi...

baby daphne

it occupies my thoughts for some time whenever this happens. much to unpack about someone who thinks it's the responsibility of all others to enforce one person's notification prefs so they don't have to use the menu. what else fundamental to the world are you unable to navigate on the same basis

get banned speedrun

are there any resources for how to internationally price your game on steam? a while ago i heard the auto pricing thing sucks but unsure if that’s still true, and if so, what a solo-published game is meant to even do about it. #gamedev

Bugs, faith, and honey. Find out what happened to the moths. Chiaroscuro Imago, our narrative-driven horror game about murky secrets and stark realities, will be releasing on Steam come November 10th! Very exciting. You should probably wishlist it so you don't forget! Link below! 🔽🐝📞🍯

i unironically think this rules actually

being in a chat of indie gamedevs talking about how to price their game feels like an intervention with a rotating target. everyone telling others to double their game price while halving their own

hosting my masto instance on mastohost, i think i might not be able to have it use nonstandard fonts. it don't import or whatever. so i cannot Atkinson Hyperlegible to complete the cohost look. so this was all a mistake

"Under the guise of technological inevitability, companies are using the AI boom to rewrite the social contract — laying off employees, rehiring them at lower wages, intensifying workloads, and normalizing precarity. [...] AI is not the cause of the layoffs but their justification."

i wish not every week was the worst week ever

i know so many great game developers ready to make the good shit, the actual unambiguous everyone-thinks-so good shit, with no money for it. they will never get it. enough to shake a feller's faith in his fellow man.

End all funding every single private employment services provider. Salt the earth so those in change of them never get any public money ever again - run them out of the country. Get rid of mutual obligations Bring back the CES Raise the fricken rate Ain’t hard.

In honour of the Halo Remake Reveal, here's my blog post about how doing these is cheap'n'nasty and a colossal point miss. tbh if you look at Halo's visuals and see something limited by the tech of its time you're artistically illiterate

hey everyone what's your favourite anime. get at me in the replies