Some of you might know this story, but someone requested it as a reply to this thread, so I'll do that. What you should know about me is that I've always had trouble with airport security, especially in the United States. I have 7 very Arabic names, and I travel a lot around the entire planet.

I think Africa's top museums should acquire all treasures from the Louvre, its clear European institutes like this just aren't up to safeguarding European art www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Godot really is pretty good, huh? It genuinely took some time to click, but I've found my flow and am really enjoying my nightly hour or two working on a tiny side project as my upcoming release has started wrapping up.

Some of you might know this story, but someone requested it as a reply to this thread, so I'll do that. What you should know about me is that I've always had trouble with airport security, especially in the United States. I have 7 very Arabic names, and I travel a lot around the entire planet.

Episode 3 of Mike and Rami Are Still Here is live. We tried to recap 2025, but failed miserably. Here's Mike and Rami talking about all sorts of things that aren't 2025. mikeandrami.com

Growing up in Gaza, I didn't realize that the siege I was living under was unique or that others didn't face a constant threat of death. It was only after I left that I understood I had grown up in a concentration camp, and that it shaped my life mondoweiss.net/2025/12/i-di...

Reading this, all you have to remember is that OpenAI itself reports 800,000,000 weekly users, of which apparently 0,15% are having conversations related to self-harm, and OpenAI is aware that its systems can and do fail in preventing further harm. It's just too profitable to stop, I guess.

"You shouldn't make art for the money" buddy I'll take it one step further and say we shouldn't have to labor for capital at all but in the meantime pay an artist

These are my nominations for the single fucks given to Lord of the Rings.

It's wonderful to see how consistent Mark Rutte is, after his role as Prime Minister of the Netherlands and now in his role of Secretary-General of NATO, the man has never completed a truthful sentence.

These are my nominations for the single fucks given to Lord of the Rings.

Just gonna say this again for games sphere cus we get the same question: Networking doesn't mean schmoozing up to famous people, it means making friends with your peers. Then in 10 years, 20, one of you might be famous? And sure you're still helping each other cus well yeah friends. Make. Friends.

The UK slowly erodes its own international rules and its belief of being "the good guys" on behalf of the Israeli genocide. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Battlefield 6 is about the end of NATO because of an armed capitalist group that wants just money and power at all costs and with no regard for rules of war or human rights. Luckily US president Fernandez just stated he's willing to sacrifice himself to oppose such evil.

I have played one mission of the Battlefield 6 campaign and this is the most Modern Warfare thing I've played in 15 years and I'm very here for it

Israel says Merry Christmas to all of you, by beating up and arresting a Palestinian Christian dressed up as Santa to celebrate Christmas. That's in-between Israel's continued genocide, illegal invasions, apartheid, and ceasefire violations, of course. Happy holidays!

Unless Santa straps a green light to Rudolph's tail and has Rudolph fly sideways with his nose pointed to the left of the sled, he is technically in violation of 14 CFR 25.1385(b), SERA.3215, and ICAO Annex 2, 3.2.3.1 (b) requiring positional lights for all aircraft operating at night.

Welcome, Twitter escapees/new Bluesky users. Four quick tips: 1. Starter packs are awesome. I made a game dev one here -> go.bsky.app/RxQCsKS 2. Bluesky's block is much more potent. Do not quote, or dunk. There's no pay-to-win so silence does remove nasty people. Blocks and move on copiously.

Unless Santa straps a green light to Rudolph's tail and has Rudolph fly sideways with his nose pointed to the left of the sled, he is technically in violation of 14 CFR 25.1385(b), SERA.3215, and ICAO Annex 2, 3.2.3.1 (b) requiring positional lights for all aircraft operating at night.

Welcome, Twitter escapees/new Bluesky users. Four quick tips: 1. Starter packs are awesome. I made a game dev one here -> go.bsky.app/RxQCsKS 2. Bluesky's block is much more potent. Do not quote, or dunk. There's no pay-to-win so silence does remove nasty people. Blocks and move on copiously.

All I can think of this Christmas is that last Christmas, between 70,000 and 120,000 Palestinians were alive that have since been murdered by Israel's genocide. Over half of them were children. That's 500 to 1,000 children murdered per week. Or 82 during a four hour Christmas evening.

Why would any sane person that isn't already stuck in the US want to go to the US, though? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Hello everyone! Just want to remind you that the deadline for BitSummit submissions is December 31st (submission fee: ¥2750). Late entries are open until January 16, 2026 (¥5500). Looking forward to seeing your games! For more information visit bitsummit.org.

everyone dislikes genai in games, but kids and story-focused players the most. sounds like we'll be ok. just have to stay the course here and the "inevitable" new technology nobody likes will die. again. quanticfoundry.com/2025/12/18/g...

Oh this is just awful. Rest in peace, mate. Thanks for everything. gameinformer.com/2025/12/22/v...

How hard they are to make. It's useless because somehow that knowledge has never stopped me.

How hard they are to make. It's useless because somehow that knowledge has never stopped me.

No matter where and what he was up to, Vince would always find half an hour to catch up on life & work at every event. It never seemed to matter to him that I make arcade games & help indies out, while he was in charge of some of the most impactful games ever. Giving a shit was what mattered to him.

Oh this is just awful. Rest in peace, mate. Thanks for everything. gameinformer.com/2025/12/22/v...

Please do not purchase Luck be a Landlord on Xbox. I will be making a $10,000 donation to The Palestine Children's Relief Fund to (hopefully) help offset the revenue the game has generated for Microsoft.

Doing your budgets or schedules with a technology that routinely hallucinates is a terrible idea (as is contracts, legal advice, etc.). Doing docs with AI is making the primary source of truth unreliable for the team and creates ambiguity or conflict, and thus also a terrible idea.

With Critical Reflex being such a major player in the indie space, these accusations of covered up sexual harassment and unfair labour practices are all deeply disappointing and distressing. I hope this all gets tackled quickly and decisively. noisypixel.net/critical-ref...

it is bad

If you want to communicate your idea to an artist all you need is 30 seconds and the basic ability to grip a pen

I say this with zero irony: if you are even tangentially a part of a retro video game community, it is your civic duty to push back against this company and shun anyone who doesn't. This is fascism tapping gently at the door and as soon as you let it in, it's going to invite its friends.

Why We're Boycotting Xbox: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybj1...

Meanwhile, the Israeli genocide of Palestine continues.

Episode 2 of Mike & Rami Are Still Here is live - about success, how to (not) measure game dev success, and the silliness of the conversation around success. mikeandrami.com

oh my god

I've seen lots of acceleration due to the use of AI: acceleration of inequality, acceleration of climate catastrophe, acceleration of slop, acceleration of trust collapse, acceleration of scams, acceleration of model collapsed acceleration of misinformation, acceleration of drought

There must be no impunity (except for Israel)

Sorry to the UK for having an incompetent genocidal wanker at the helm, one that was itching to sell the country out to Trump and his cronies at the cost of isolating the country from its EU neighbors. Kind of hilarious to see Trump immediately turn around & use that isolation against Starmer.

Horrifying but expected antisemitism from Australian government here, allowing flags representing a genocide at a memorial for the Jewish people shot at the Bondi beach massacre, while barring a Jewish woman supporting the victims of the genocide. www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfe...

🎙️Mike & Rami Are Still Here Ep2🎙️ It's time to talk about "success". Listen here: mikeandrami.com

Seeing people in the comments saying that To a T was unfun and essentially that he deserves this if he can't make a good game. Gamers, I don't know how else to say this, artists are not supposed to be punished with financial ruin for making imperfect art. That's such a fucked up idea you have

Wake Up Dead Man was exceptionally good. Really loved the heart and foil of this Benoit Blanc.

"Record number US citizens immigrate into the Netherlands" - anecdotally, that's my experience too - I've helped almost three times as many devs fleeing the US this year as the past two years combined. www.bnr.nl/nieuws/nieuw...

Any attack targeted at people just because they are Jewish is as barbaric and evil as any attack on people just because they are Palestinian, or whatever other nationality. I will not accept any justification or relativization for this horrifying act of antisemitism in my mentions. Evil, period.

Any attack targeted at people just because they are Jewish is as barbaric and evil as any attack on people just because they are Palestinian, or whatever other nationality. I will not accept any justification or relativization for this horrifying act of antisemitism in my mentions. Evil, period.