it's not just a list of AI haters. we're also good tippers and great in bed. our breath smells of honey and lavender, the wind is always at our backs, and butterflies alight upon the ground we've trodden.

📷 Natural Frame — By Collettivo FX in Palermo, Italy 🇮🇹 A Reason To Smile (8 Photos): streetartutopia.com/2026/04/21/i...

That's at least twice now in Canada (Keywords Alberta, Ubisoft Halifax) where a studio got shut down before first contact bargaining was complete. Meaning their unions fought in court for better severance despite no Canadian game dev having ever a loonie paid union dues*

“The success of the negotiation was directly attributable to the solidarity our members showed, their resolve in holding Ubisoft to account, the collecting and sharing of information, and remaining steadfast in advocating for their rights as unionized workers,” -CWA Canada President Carmel Smyth.

For some reason Kerbal Space Program sorts its savegames alphabetically? What? Why?!

Sounds like the Ubi Halifax people like the settlement, which makes me happy! Goes to show that while unionizing can't always prevent layoffs, it's the only way workers can ever fight for better compensation when it happens.

I made this purely to amuse myself and maybe dozens of other Canadians

Pilot: AC230, runway check. ATC: ...Is that a girl's voice? www.bbc.com/news/article...

Wow... Xenonauts 2 really is Xcom 1 with the serial numbers filed off, huh? Not that I'm complaining.

Ages go when working at Gameloft Montreal there was a bank error that stopped payroll from going out at 2am. The company kicked into gear and moved their asses and had us paid by noon. I was impressed. I've NEVER heard of workers getting paid after waiting any longer than that.

What's the strangest, most obscure thing you've had the pleasure of researching while working on a video game (or other creative project)?

An orcish mech game inspired by that bit in the Halo tutorial where they ask you to look up and down (1/?)

They went from "hitting that school was an accident" to "a whole civilization will die tonight" in just over a month.

Kerbal Space Program is having its highest player count since hitting 1.0 almost eleven years ago.

Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

Not saying we need to bring it back, but there's definitely something fun about old games filling so much of the screen with weird menu art 'cuz rendering the game itself was so costly

#procreate #drawing

for years i have studied the japanese art of kanban

YouTube review of Xenonauts 2 just referred to "the original Xcom games from the late 1900s"

Happy payday to all those who celebrate

There’s “going hard” and then there’s these illustrations. This is some extreme stuff. Not for the faint of heart.

This could be you, Ottawa, if you just belieeeeeve www.catalystplanet.com/travel-and-s...

Trans Day Of Give My Game Visibility Please And Thank You

My prediction: One day they’re going to invent special sunglasses for photosensitive epileptic people; goggles that disable flashing lights. And they’ll get really popular at concerts

HAPPY TRANS DAY OF VISIBILITY GIVE TRANS PPL MONEY AND VIDEO GAMES 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

Happy Trans Day of Visibility ❤️🏳️‍⚧️❤️

Was trying to remember the name of the Ginger Snaps movies and found an interesting category on Wikipedia. Apparently we really like werewolves up here. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor...

I think women like dresses with pockets so they can hold all their pocket monsters.

Leftish infighting speedruns broke the 1 hour barrier someone call SummoningSalt

#procreate #drawing

America still has a few good labour laws that prevent my Canadian leftie snobbiness from hitting peak leveks

Middle ages have us job-related family names like Cooper and Smith and Hunter but why not Bearbaiter? I wanna be Mr Bearbaiter.

If you are a worker at Epic Games looking to form a union to fight against these layoffs, reach out to us.

I'll never get over how ridiculous it is that the North American fur trade centered around a beaver hat craze in Europe for so long. The history of our country inextricably linked with people wanting waterproof hats.

every mass layoff just makes more people start believing in unionizing

Well this was prophetic wasn’t it?

Cleaning out the disk drive and found this.

Huh. Today I learned (from an article from October) that despite their bajillion users, Roblox isn't profitable: www.pymnts.com/earnings/202...

Sucks to hear about the Epic layoffs. At least they're not using AI as an excuse, and the severance packages are pretty good (especially for a non-unionized North American employer). www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/n...

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I turned down a free trip to the USA in April and every time I start to second guess that decision something happens.

lol there's already high-res public domain photos of this exact type of painting and subject matter, like it's already free, all you have to do is to look and think about art

worried the next matrix will be a reboot and be called matrix reboot

I've got a game design joke, but the version on Confluence is out of date.

Data removal tools like Incogni are good, but let’s start making data pollution services. I wanna pay someone to flood the internet with false information about people. Let’s lower the value of personal data, folks.

The Irish grocery store strike he mentions is explained beautifully in this standup bit. Give it a listen, and Happy Saint Patrick's Day! www.youtube.com/shorts/O5yK7...

Happy St. Patrick's Day from CWA!

#Ubisoft tells the AC Rebellion community that Live Ops continues with a new team in Paris. Work that was being done by #Halifax didn’t disappear, it moved. When a studio unionizes and the work relocates elsewhere, it deserves scrutiny. #GWU #WorkersRights www.reddit.com/r/ACRebellio...