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I am so excited for you all to experience the strange and beautiful thing my best friend has made. ❤️

The three types of game dev job listings

the nicest thing you can wish upon an artist in 2026 is that their work gains a small but dedicated cult following of kind hearted and politically shrewd weirdos & sickos that keep the fire going. the meanest thing you can wish upon an artist in 2026 is that their work gains a large online fandom

An episode of House MD called 'Of Leaves' where he realizes that the hospital is slightly bigger on the inside than the outside.

"The color is repellent, almost revolting; a smouldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight." I made a "Yellow Wallpaper" piece back in 2017, but I re-read the story over the weekend and wanted to try again. Much happier with this version 🖤

developers are not forced to include diversity in their games. trust me: if they were, we’d see so much more of it. the truth is that a lot of us are just gay and not white, and everyone else who cares about the medium as an art form is tired of telling the same stories.

the haunting of hill house

Seeking suggestions for panelists!🎙️✨ May's #TTRPG panel will be on 🏠 long-term home games 🎲: how to start, keep it fresh, & keep it from fizzling out. I want to talk to ttrpg creators who have experience both succeeding & failing keeping an unbroadcasted game rolling for the long haul. (cont-)

Hello Bluesky, this may be a bit of a longshot but does anyone on here know a penguin expert who might be up for answering a couple of questions about penguins for me?

When players complain about AI use in games it’s all “get used to it!” and press on regardless. And yet when certain players complain about women and black people in their games…that must be paid attention to! Huh.

I have seen more people talking about how people should ignore That TV Show than people who actually plan to watch it.

Daily affirmations: My blood type is rare and important My veins are beautiful and unusually large NHS Blood and Transplant wants me carnally

Someone pay me to be the Gordon Ramsey of dogshit websites

Now that YWDITP is safely in the hands of the printers, I am once again open to part-time or full-time contract work as a writer, narrative designer, historian, and editor. HMU here or on LinkedIn if you’re looking for one or more of those ✌️

we've come up with a system where you can demonstrate growth to shareholders by hiring more people than you should, but also you can demonstrate growth by firing more people than you should. we call it the economy and we think it's going to be great

Ahoj. Since I am a proponent of "right fit for the write job," here is a starter kit for people who do Game Narrative. @me if I've missed you — just have to be a not-shit person and have a writer/ND track record — or want to be taken off the list go.bsky.app/FwZqzcz

This confirms all my prejudices, and I will not be critically evaluating its claims or evidence at this time.

guy commissioning a bust of himself: how will you determine the shipping charges me: weigh a head of you

How many shivs can she be hiding in there... #StS2

Me: at this point in my life I have acquired so many skills that it’s difficult to pin down a professional identity Also me: I should get a Bat License

Placeholder assets in a game should look obnoxiously temporary, so obvious that no one would mistake it for the final asset. In past games we've used the doge dog (rip) as an icon, hot pink versions of characters, our CEO's head, etc. If you use a temp asset that seems passable, it may stay there.

Does anyone else think it’s weird how we all just forgot that energy is a finite resource?

EXTREMELY GOOD

Economy so bad I'm following my dreams

I have my first fencing tournament today and I’m being soooooo brave about it

Reminder that you probably want to turn OFF the RUDE label in the official Bluesky Moderation section of your Settings. It's a ridiculous label that protects folks in power and punishes activists via tone policing. It also defaults to HIDE which is CRAZY.

If you have an archive of any sort - even if it’s just a small collection of photos or tickets or receipts - take the time to find a home for it when you die. Archives can’t take everything, but house clearances leave nothing. On a cheerier note, here‘s some of the ephemera in our archive:

First Up: #1-seed Nile Crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus) vs. #16-seed Papyrus (Cyperus papyrus) #2026MMM

they should invent a "being an author" that "pays a living wage"

There's a broken cuneiform tablet from the Old Babylonian period, nearly 4,000 years ago, which preserves a tiny portion of a dialogue between two friends. It feels a bit like the conversations I've been having for the past week, so I wanted to share it.

Sorry but it’s insane to me that GDC is still held in a place where attendees have to be warned about getting disappeared at the airport.

Sorry guys, this industry isn’t profitable enough for half of you to keep your jobs. We can afford to buy out a public park for a week though -

I feel so genuinely ambivalent about GDC. On the one hand it can be a huge boost for early career devs - it was a huge boost for *my* career, even! On the other hand, it’s crazy expensive, completely disconnected from the community it allegedly serves, and you might be arrested trying to get there.

As GDC starts this week, I published a story summing up the overwhelming fear stopping many international developers from coming to San Francisco this year. arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/...

The soft animal of my body loves walking on my knees through the desert repenting, actually. Can’t get enough of it.

looking at the GDC talks for this year and this kinda sums it up, huh

My wonderfully talented best friend has used her powers for evil and trapped a tiny version of me inside a tiny abyssal labyrinth. Don’t worry, I’m having an amazing time in there.

Quoting this again a week out from GDC for nooooo reason

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed. Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

Also IT’S MY BIRTHDAY, be NICE to me

“I miss when Resident Evil had a big scary lady.“ [five minutes later] “No not like that.”

it is weird to know the peak of success as a content creator is "many brand deals and a podcast with multiple advertisers" while I was taught in journalism school how some reporters do not drink coffee at press events to avoid conflicts of interests

“The Great Gatsby isn’t about the parties” oh yeah? What happens when he stops hosting the parties? Does that work out for him?

got laid off this morning, send thoughts prayers and freelance work my way! </3

I spent three hours learning more than I ever wanted to about James I/VI’s sex life and none of it made it into my essay. Fuck.

Ultimately the practice of dunking exists because a lot of people have forgotten the difference between privately ridiculing something and publicly critiquing it. It’s parasocial behaviour in reverse.

I love this stuff. One of the only annotations in a used copy of Utopia I had was this:

You could just put whatever you wanted on ads back then