This is so obviously insider trading that — under a different administration — I’d assume it was a honey trap.

I have heard MULTIPLE stories of larger studios-turned-publishers barely agreeing to fund an indie game for like 100k then turning around and dropping $1m on a trailer for it without much of a second thought it's nuts how miserly companies are with funding dev budgets these days

can't argue with this.

​All you need to know about John Byrne is that he self-exiled to his own walled-garden message forum 20 years ago, where he can be transphobic, yell at people for using the term "speech bubbles," and ban anyone who disagrees with him.

“In the spirit of friendship and mutual understanding, the United States is proud to welcome some of the most contagious bacteria and viruses ever to infect the human biome,” said Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

okay but seriously

Reminders: 1. Juneteenth ain’t got shit to do w/ “unity”; it’s about when the memo arrived to Galveston, TX in 1865 that this slavery shit is over 2. Opal Lee fought for decades to make Juneteenth a national holiday, so don’t insult her w/ some “it should’ve never been a national holiday” bullshit

Pretending that education is just job training and that it should be stripped of all non-utilitarian elements is one of the worst ideas in the history of ideas. Acting like it's some kind of axiom we should be using to orient ourselves at the moment is disastrously wrong-headed.

opera slinger, screenshot, pc (2006) www.mobygames.com/game/34948/o...

thinking about this dog again

Samantha from Donnie Darko reminded me of me as a kid: Naive but sharp, small, and often cuddled by her peers. RIP, SPARKLE MOTION WILL NEVER DIE!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsyf...

i love learning about game dev!!! thank you everyone who explained this to me!

Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom, 1991 (NA) [Hudson Soft // NES] #pixelart #shopping

good thread about what's going on with age verification. Roblox is a great example since it's massively used and mostly by kids--and how it's still clearly very bad 🙃 caught up with a guy I knew from long ago who suggested I should pivot to helping people make Roblox games. I'd sooner leave gamedev

Poncle - "Following today's news about gen AI usage by Epic to create all sort of game assets, including Fortnite characters, we're currently "reviewing" our collaboration with Fortnite. We'll let you know if anything moves forward."

okay okay fine! dang! #art

BREAKING: Rockstar has been dealt a blow in its legal battle against workers who claim they were fired for unionising. A UK employment tribunal has upheld the right of union workers to bring blacklisting claims against the studio at the final trial, which will begin on September 10.

I am BEGGING RPGs, and video games more broadly, to learn to tell a more nuanced story than "one day everyone woke up and realized racism was bad, and then everything was fine forever, the end"

I was Just thinking about the Parappa Toaster earlier today... and then mysteriously, a friend texts asking, "Should I buy a Parappa toaster?" to which I answered, "absolutely"

500,000 copies sold in one week means every player will be awarded 500 free Bones! Check the Sinterer in the Underlab to claim your reward. jk Mina has no servers, no login bonuses… and no mercy!! 🐭🕯️

Your reminder that “antifa” is short for antifascist. And you should be against fascism.

People talking about leaving the industry, and I get it, but making games is what I love doing and I simply can’t see myself doing anything else. I just want to make good games with a good team.

I am just curious why "a disaster for actual humans who are employed to translate games" is "less egregious" than "machine-made music, textures, and narrative". All of that sounds pretty equally egregious to me.

We're so lucky to have these stores in Philly, and to have @almondmilkman.bsky.social writing features about them.

At this point, I genuinely believe the entire public is being actively gaslit by both the media, and Esther Ghey herself, into forgetting that Brianna Ghey was murdered, by people she knew from school, in real life, who were partly influenced by transphobia, fuelled by the media and politicians.

The key thing to understand about this is that it is completely unnecessary. This is a corporation with basically infinite money. They don't have to destroy 30+ year studios to save their bottom line. They're doing this because they are evil.

Ingrain this into your mind as a consumer of games: There is no such thing as a good steward of game dev studios because no man may serve two masters; eventually that steward will pick between their own objectives and the objectives of the studios they steward and the studios. Lose. Every. Time.

devastating news

"Trends have shifted left" is straight white man for "I don't got the juice." We are further right than we have been in decades. We are literally one click away from outright fascism. Corruption has never been more rampant. Open bigotry against minorities is a daily occurrence. What can't you say?

Shut up. Sit down And go fucking play south of midnight right now and I'm not asking www.theverge.com/games-review...

I just do want to say, please look at situations like this and realize your lay off has no reflection on how good you are at your job whatsoever. There is nothing you can do or could have done to ensure this doesn't happen to you except for work to change the industry.

this is the quality posts we're all here for

I’m at the bread and circuses. I’m at the damnatio memoriae. I’m at the combination bread and circuses damnatio memoriae

Nothing says “dying civilization” like gladiator fights at the capitol for the emperor’s amusement.

I want you to notice how this article, which took two journalists to write, doesn't even bother to seriously explore whether the claims being made by companies are true it's genuinely just not relevant to them

the folks who died in the pulse shooting were all 50 or younger. consider this when asking why there aren't more elder queers to speak to. consider that marsha p. johnson was only 46 was she was murdered. sylvia rivera was taken by cancer at 50. if you're queer, you must keep going.

"Thank you for walking with me all these years." youtu.be/TyUzUuzlPmY

"We're shipping so much more code with AI!" "Good, stable code?" "Oh heavens no. No no no. not at all. We couldn't possibly"

This is what Destiny was to me. A story of Guardians coming together to protect the people and the system they call home. As one of those Guardians, I salute all those who came before and will live long after the game is gone. youtu.be/TyUzUuzlPmY?...

Daily bunny no.3347 gets their daily bread

this is fascinating, and a great explainer of how AI works, and how today AI has begun cannibalizing its own data because so many sites are protecting themselves with those "verify you are human" things to deter scraping. the biggest LLMs all use the same dataset, and train on their own issue

this might be the best headline i’ve ever read

"No, Liz, it's not Evan Almighty. It's Ethan Almighty, a movie about a rescue dog. Kelsey Grammer plays the Governor of Kentucky. I'm the voice of the dog."

Deeply ironic that the only thing LLMs are getting better at in a way that matters is code. It's almost like they were always an over-resourced way to vectorize tokens and reconstruct them in viable configurations, designed by people who thought all human works are reducible to that function.

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my body: help me: yes I want to help please tell me what you need my body: no :) you have to GuESs