wired headphones have survived a tumble in the washer and dryer and this is why they're superior to ear buds lol

i know posting about blizzard is a faux pass right now but i really do need to know if overwatch will step away from the orientalism of their previous japanese heroes (spirit powers that only exist for japanese people i guess) and move on to something marginally less orientalist.

new golden sun

you take the moon and you take the sun 🌞

LRP i've explained this to clients before. no one has money right now, and no one will have money for the foreseeable future. that it's smarter to price games lower than higher because people will likely be buying one or two games a year from here on out.

The disconnect of working in the entertainment industry trying to make money when gas costs nearly $7, consoles cost $1000, desktops cost more, etc. People will have to choose groceries over games. A third of the industry’s devs have been laid off and some might not be able to afford their own game.

I saw three different publishers tell the team "the average player is 35" and the team simply rejected that data because it didn't fit their narrative of "games are played by teenagers."

This is why it's so important to push back against the right at both an institutional and grassroots level. The far right has spent decades on ideological projects to divide and conquer. When you concede on narratives or treat bigotry as a debate to be had, it becomes a material threat to everyone.

poncle to establish Japan studio led by El Shaddai creator Sawaki Takeyasu Vampire Survivors developer poncle will establish a new studio based in Japan, with El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron…...

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I spoke to two members of United Wizards of the Coast-CWA about new and baffling anti-union efforts from WotC management, including an embarrassing "debate" format that nobody enjoyed. Workers also extended sympathy to Arena supervisors who are caught in the propaganda machine with little recourse.

this is the first year i'm not running around SGF with 10+ appointments and it somehow feels wrong and is spiking my anxiety. it's still hard to turnoff the mindset of needing to hustle as a freelancer, even almost a year later.

30+ years of life and nothing's ever had my back quite like a grilled cheese sandwich

i have some free time on friday and sunday for coffee or lunch :3

going to SGF again this year! if anyone wants to meet up for lunch or a quick coffee lemme know! would love to catch up with folks!

i need to update my linkedin again so badly lol

My Wife Took The Fucking Air Combos In The Divorce

i'm learning so much about the new god of war (dad of boy) games. thank you everyone lol

please tell me laufey was at least three heads taller than kratos. this is the only information that matters to me about the new god of war games.

so is this new god of war exceptionally quirky funny goofy because the protagonist is a woman or what lmao or has this actually been the tone of the past two god of war games

See, the difference between men and women is that women can doublejump. That's the power of wife

pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease stop making characters talk aloud to themselves to explain basic observations to the player pleaseeee.....

OOOOH GITAROO MAN

and all of my anticipation for sh: townfall just evaporated the moment that very normal looking monster was shown lol

jump-scared by two games i worked on during that sop lmao

Hey, I'm finally back. This is one I put a lot of thought into, talking about the tragic unrealized potential of LOTR games, and my fear of Warhorse (mostly Daniel Vavra) now making a LOTR game in the midst of the series being co-opted by the right wing an-evening-at-the-inn.ghost.io/an-evening-a...

In an effort to ape the popularity of manga, they're importing the concept of being let down by a pop-up cafe event.

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The YouTube-to-Horror Feature Filmmaker pipeline is very real, but we must acknowledge who has access to it in the first place. YouTube is not a democratized platform, and we're doing the next generation of creatives a disservice by pretending it is www.slashfilm.com/2181604/back...

forgot i had blue cheese stuff olives in the fridge.. the day improves..

i think i just need to accept that i don't like a lot of video games published after 2018/2019 lol

It's so heartwarming how a few years ago, we were all worried Covid was gonna kill off the movie theater industry or that only major tentpole films would be released on it, and now here we are with the box office surging around a pair of weird, low-budget horror movies.

Hello here's a ridiculously massive feature about the nightmare development of Unreal 2. It's got twists. It's got turns. It's got possibly the craziest business deal in video game history. www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/th...

You have to block more people online. You have to block MANY more people online. You should make blocking people your default response to more interactions.

got hit on by a gaggle of men last night, all looking for a goth gf or bf (i'm not fucking around when i say they said that) and man.. i'm just out here trying to dance before the djs switch and the music gets bad.

IMPORTANT: For any artists/writers/etc etc, using Linktree to point people to their work, from 5 July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI. I deleted my account this morning.

can't do Jaeger shots like I used to...

mmmmm.... living in LA has made this so exceedingly complicated in ways unknown to man......

need my cosplay stuff to come in ASAP so I can focus my energy on that...

a leather jacket could fix me (my medication is no longer working as intended)

The whole "he hates women so much he must be gay" thing deflects from how lots of men who are married to women, dating women, and are attracted to women also really hate those women

the whole “secretly gay” commentary gets homophobic so fast

The amount of games coming out with the premise of “you have to survive at your fucking horrible dystopian job” has got to tell us something about the general vibes these days

I'll say what Bluesky fails to address in v1.122 They've rolled out a new "adult content" tag applied on an entire account, hiding all their posts from users, including text posts, even if they may be SFW This update, while well-intentioned, defeats the whole purpose of the content filters system

“This game was targeted for harassment because it involved this person, or that person” No. Any game release that achieves any broad level of attention now will attract reactionary commentators and their harassment, because generating hatred is how they make their money. It’ll never be enough.

I love making a mistake as a video game journalist because not only is it very public, but readers often assume you have all these layers of protection and aren't simply one member of a small, overstretched team being forced to spin hundreds of plates at once.

going to SGF again this year! if anyone wants to meet up for lunch or a quick coffee lemme know! would love to catch up with folks!