And fellow streamers, VTubers and the like... I 👏🏽 BETTER 👏🏽 NOT 👏🏽 CATCH 👏🏽 YALL 👏🏽 PLAYING 👏🏽 THAT👏🏽 DUMBASS 👏🏽 HOGWARTS 👏🏽 GAME!! In the same breath you claim to be an ally, you better NOT try to justify why you just "had" to play that game. I want NONE of that noise this time around, so help me..

Bruh

capitalism is sure strong in this season's meta pls nerf too op

How my Zelda: The Minish Cap playthrough is going, courtesy of the immaculate @juliesayshello.bsky.social 🐚😭

please rate these goobers on their gooberness out of 10. (this is freyja and floki, my sister's goobers)

Coming out of games journalist retirement for exactly five seconds and having enough time to do a better job than that New York Times article

happy holidays everyone! for the new year i made a stationery and journaling cart.... the other levels have ink and the bottom has my camera gear I'm really happy with it!

do we like gochujang soy braised beef short ribs and stir fry gailan on bluesky?

happiness is a mocha on a cold day

"We cannot continue to participate in the social network feed of a man who proclaims the death of the media and therefore of journalists... X is a platform that no longer serves the public interest at all, but the special ideological and financial interests of its owner and his political allies"

ugh I love veilguard but some areas just give me intense motion sickness, I think it's the interior areas where the angles are quite tight I really wish this wasn't a trigger for me

you can do this

american schools: on the first thanksgiving, the pilgrims and native americans shared dinner to celebrate their peaceful coexistence in the new world 😊 me: that sounds nice! what happened next? american schools: uhhhhhhh. dessert

black Friday is my favorite email inbox day I discover all the things I managed to be subscribed to so I can promptly unsubscribe to 90% of them I'm deeply uninterested in getting big corporate sales pitches thrown in my face, thank you very much

there's _300_+ of you now?! what is this strange new world?! um hi folks i'm just your typical neurospicy trans SEA-diaspora gamedev girl. i yap about things sometimes and stream cozy tuesday & friday piano streams on twitch <3 thanks for being here and making this corner of the internet nicer!❤️

Well, when put it that way…

booking flights is an exercise in trying to decide how much suffering is worth how many dollars in savings 😭

Netflix - please stop minimising the end credits of movies to suggest something else. Let viewers enjoy the soundtrack and see the cast and crew that worked on the film. We'll exit it ourselves when ready to. #film #filmsky #movies #moviesky

The sad thing is, if these were even remotely true then political representation by straight white Christian men would be even more egregiously imbalanced. Why are we like this?

my dog is a goober that's is all that's the message

drive safe out there today roads are absolutely awful in #edmonton right now

D&D Combinatorics xkcd.com/3015

today I spent some time talking to high school students about game dev I answered their questions and tried to meet their excitement with my own I think it went well! speaking engagements like this give me a lot of hope and energy for what's coming in the future. the kids are actually, alright ❤️

top gaming accomplishment of my life: top 32**** at Evo for soul calibur 3 **** there were only 32 entrants 😅🤣😂😜😭

Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance. Remember those who have been killed, injured, abused, tortured for being who they are. Remember those who have taken their own lives because they could not live in a world where they could not be themselves. Remember them. And make the world remember them.

The Game Awards period continues to be the most obnoxious time of the year when it comes to gaming communities.

I open my Bluesky feed and it is full of really cool people saying really smart things and being really passionate about really interesting stuff. I like this version of social media, and the world. Thanks, folks.

fixing bugs sometimes feels like doing the world's worst designed escape room "WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE SOLUTION WAS TO YELL LOUD ENOUGH, CAUSING THE CEILING TILES TO FALL DOWN AND REVEAL THE SECRET CODE IN THE DEBRIS?!?"

"stuff on rice" (may contain tofu, eggplant, zucchini, carrots, picked mustard greens, ground pork, shallots, garlic, doubanjiang, soy sauce....)

waiting at the dentist office does anyone like going to the dentist? I have yet to learn of anyone

www.twitch.tv/julie_never_... it's time to do a chill morning piano stream - come start your day with ffxiv piano covers <3

there's over 200 of you now?! uh, hi! I yell about gamedev, intersectionality, memes, and I stream piano on Twitch I also work at respawn on Apex, and no the bug you found probably isn't me I hope 😜 you can catch me at twitch.tv/julie_never_strrams today (Tuesdays) and Fridays at 830am MST!

update to sakura lights now with both strands up IT'S SO PRETTY I CAN'T EVEN AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

If you didn't know, I was banned by Midjourney 3 times for exposing their infringement and plagiarism. Their AI can very easily recreate stolen training data (even without naming it), so here's a thread of images you can use to shut AI proponents down. 🧵 spectrum.ieee.org/midjourney-c...

me, writing code on a daily basis: "okay architecturally, that makes sense, that bit should have responsibility over this bit of data, and we should rely on this other thing as a source of truth" <sagely nod> <googles for loop syntax because she forgot how to do it>

Everyone's talking about GOTY nominations but I'm here thinking what the speech situation at the game awards is going to be like because last year was notorious 😅

my spicy opinion is that the game awards don't celebrate the devs. devs that spent blood, sweat, and tears to make these things possible are never visible on the stage. it's just leadership who are seen. and given the state of the industry (layoffs/closures abound) ... that's upsetting.

there are over 100 of you listening to me yap now?! um... hi! i'm julie, neurospicy trans gamedev girl (currently @ respawn on apex; no i can't give you stuff sorry T_T). things i like: - talking about intersectionality - encouraging minorities in gamedev - boba - piano - all of your lovely faces

I feel seen yet personally attacked

The idea that you *must* coexist with and listen to people who are cruel, unjust, and just plain unpleasant to be around is the logic of abusers, by the way

okay these lights are actually REALLY pretty?! I have a second set for the other half shelf but we just did one set today to see AND I'M VERY OBSESSED

A 5-year-old stomped into a restaurant in a princess dress, held up her arms and shouted "I'M HERE." I just hired her to be my life coach.

today a girl told me I looked pretty and dfgdfgddadffvhvcfhvfgbvhbbjjiyhvv

Just a reminder 🤍

representation matters in games growing up, there was very little beyond tropes and walking stereotypes with most of it being negative. having the choice to be visible, be seen, and be recognized is incredibly validating in a way I've never felt before this matters so much

glad to be here!

I would like to speak up today for the trans community. You see, I know a bit of what it’s like to be politically scapegoated. When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, suddenly anyone in America who had any amount of Japanese ancestry became suspect. Politicians preyed upon ignorance and fear. /1

Indeed. When they rounded up the Japanese Americans, myself and my family included, for internment during WWII out of fear over Japanese spies and saboteurs, two thirds of us were U.S. citizens. Don’t think it won’t happen again when they come for the “undocumented.”

sometimes lazy person bolognese and tortellini is the thing to do