So often when I see in-office/“hybrid” positions in the UK, the underlying demand is one of enriching the south-east of this island at the expense of everywhere else. Ripping people from their homes, their support networks, affordable places & denying them a chance to give back to their community.

but hey, 10 years ago, someone wrote something online that made some assholes a little annoyed. so that means it's good that the entire company got obliterated by Peter Thiel it's good that Jeffrey Fucking Epstein wishes he could've helped sink it fuck them bloggers amirite?

I'll die with this chip on my shoulder and I don't care: I had my literal dream job at Lifehacker. we wrote helpful little posts people liked and we drove more traffic than most other Gawker sites it's been 10 fucking years and assholes still can't stop cheering losses they don't even understand

So the McSweeny Plan was to be way more xenophobic and attack Farage for being inadequately xenophobic? We really don't spend enough time reviling Morgan McSweeney as a racist piece of shit who belongs in a stockade

After months working in the shadows… meet Curse of Resthaven. A gothic horror mystery where you govern a cursed island trapped in a time loop while searching for your missing niece. If it’s your kind of weird, please wishlist! store.steampowered.com/app/3796150/... More dev secrets soon.

📢 INDIE GAME FOGHORN Go check out the next game from my friends at Hilltop Studios (creators of Lil' Guardsman)

cute game, I had a good time with it

Girlduiding and Women's Institute say the law forces them to exclude trans women. But that's not true. We are offering to indemnify them against legal risk if they change course. If they remain trans exclusive, their members can know it's management's ideological choice.

These words have probably become the most iconic quote associated with Dwayne McDuffie. They're from an interview I did with him way back in 2010. When I say #MilestoneMadeMe, this is what I'm talking about.

i like video games and think there should be a sustainable industry for me and my very cool and talented friends to keep making them :)

I DON'T WANT TO "SHARE AND CREATE MY OWN STORY" I DON'T WANT A SHARED PLATFORM I WANT YOU TO MAKE SOMETHING COOL, AND THEN I PLAY WITH IT ALONE, NOT IN A SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT HOW IS THIS HARD TO UNDERSTAND

Vagueposting about vagueposting in order to stop myself from vagueposting

Today, I’m writing on this: 💧🪷🏝️ and this: 🧍💌📺🖊️📖

In what world is it ever okay to detain a 9 year old for 4 months?

More people should listen to @tressiemcphd.bsky.social When people say AI is inevitable, let them know the future isn’t settled.

Abusive people will call accountability harassment

Also when you clearly state, as he did in his tweet, "We had no interest in replacing *any* developers with AI," while having AI do writing and character voices, that means you do not think writers and VAs are game developers.

I was burnt out long before being laid off. Sorry to get all bleak and personal for a sec but scrambling to pay bills every month with compounding disability issues this whole time has left me emotionally and energetically emaciated. Don't really know what to do anymore lol.

Wildly this happens at indie and AA level too. Publishers brashly assuming they'll have the next Fortnite by just putting the initial money and barking order down is as stupid as Publishers assuming they'll have the next Balatro without investing in smaller, riskier titles. Top down problem.

Genuinely annoying that again and again the people who suffer from chasing the GAAS trend isn't the executives forcing their studios to make these games no one wants, but the studios themselves

Delve into an inky, folkloric fantasy adventure in Key Fairy. Out now on Steam! Offering a unique grappling twist on bullet hell and a dark woodland filled with hand-drawn fairytale aesthetics, Key Fairy overflows with atmosphere. Review by @riorobayo.bsky.social: www.qualbert.com/reviews/key-...

I have yet to hear a single good argument for why, if voters deserve the right to have a say in their political leadership, that workers in a company don't deserve to have a say in their corporate leadership at *least* in contexts where companies have the size and valuation of entire countries

Perhaps if it’s the people at the top who keep making terrible decisions, it’s the people at the top who should be forced out.

a man in Oklahoma was speaking out against a data center in his community. He went a few seconds over time and the city had him arrested for trespassing

my mission as a games writer has always been to tell stories that empower young girls and women, especially young and queer Latinas. i can't talk about it publicly yet, but i'll soon have the opportunity to do exactly that. feeling so lucky to have the opportunity to do this so early in my career.

heads up if any of y'all saw screenshots, videos, articles on uncritical sites about the forum supposedly of only AI agent chatbots interacting - anything interesting going on was BS, human scripted drama made up for attention. they've got nothing 17,000 puppeteers performing. people fell for it

I've written up my thoughts on the biggest challenges facing social media and how I think it needs to evolve. What it comes down to is that we need more humans and less bots. 👇

This is a long thread, but this is turning out to be an important case for the future of our industry and financially incentivised harassment against game journalists and developers, so it’s worth following along.

Anything folks can do to help?

When I was a teenager I was totally obsessed with the BBC show The Paradise, which was based on Emile Zola’s ‘Au Bonheur des Dames’ - finally getting to read the source material and realising at last exactly *why* it hit so hard when I was 17 is absolutely brainboggling 😭😭😭

I’ve been working on something for a while now and I wanted to explain how I got there. blog.picheta.me/post/the-fut...

my body is a machine that turns a low word count into a word count that is somehow in the negatives

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

One of the funny things about being a femme queer lady in a long term relationship with a man is that sometimes when I set people’s gaydar off they assume *I* don’t know and need their help to figure it out.

A couple of people asked, so-- this is from the credits to The Killing Stone, the game I've been working on at Question for the past couple of years, launching in Early Access in less than 6 hours. Please wishlist it! store.steampowered.com/app/2781470/...

Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.

kotaku is a good website staffed by good people and it is really maddening and perplexing to me the way right wingers think a perpetually understaffed video game blog is responsible for everything they hate

hi #portfolioday! i'm Charlie Bryant, a storyboard artist/animator with over a decade of experience on stuff like The Owl House, Adventure Time: Sidequests, Centaurworld, JaidenAnimations +more! need to work 150 union hours by May to keep my insurance! portfolio : getvent.me ✉️ [email protected]

Reminder that we have a Moomin characters snowman building contest ongoing with submissions welcome through February 25th 💙

As an OG DiveBellaDive fan who will be boycotting again, this hurts 🥲

When you have the opportunity to challenge public misinformation, please do it. Not to change the original poster’s mind - but to show those reading that there’s a chance they might not be consuming the truth.

When you see me correct people on this platform, there is always genuine hope in my heart that they will hear me out in good faith, & sometimes they do - but I can’t depend on that. Mostly I am trying to increase the chances that people reading believable misinformation might stumble onto the truth.

When you see me correct people on this platform, there is always genuine hope in my heart that they will hear me out in good faith, & sometimes they do - but I can’t depend on that. Mostly I am trying to increase the chances that people reading believable misinformation might stumble onto the truth.

This is dollar Pipi repost dollar Pipi for big money luck this year

So much discourse about online safety, so little chat about the massive PC game store with social network that casually allows the injection of hate speech, propaganda, and disinformation into the digital bloodstream 👍

It's not shocking that there are ignorant racist thugs online. It is shocking that Steam not only doesn't see it as a problem, but they seem to actively cultivate it by their silence and inaction.

I was excited to show Q ‘Relooted’ but I couldn’t remember the name. Then I couldn’t even find it on Steam because all the racist reviews pushed it off the ‘Recent Releases’ page even tho it has 86% positive reactions.

I'm happy this issue is getting mainstream press attention. Steam curators and reviews have been completely terrible for a long time now If valve doesnt want to moderate a community, they shouldn't make a community

The pervasive spread of hate speech, dev harassment, and far-right radicalization on Steam been well-documented for years. As far as I'm concerned, their persistence is an endorsement. Said it before and I'll say it again: either Steam cleans up its Nazi problem or I won't come to play.