I gotta hand it to whatever advertising firm Informa hired to make these, there really is something almost poetic about GDC's advertising being "an AI-looking depiction of an industry staple being destroyed with no clear elaboration of what comes after." Masterclass in unintentionally nailing it.

"WHERE THE HELL ARE MY TAX DOLLARS GOING?!?" 🤔 People of Los Angeles, take a look at our easy-to-use budget website to see where your tax dollars are budgeted to be spent this fiscal year! 🔎 Visit: budget.lacontroller.app

Big fan of Pumpy’s Big Clumpy

Holy shit this interview ahahahaaa

Found the craziest passport holder

Now that I have some distance from my GDC talk, I think if I were to boil down my game design advice into a single sentence, it might be something like: Focus less on adding stuff to your game, and more on developing connections between the stuff you already have.

god bless Open Doom Crescendo

The eye exam is the perfect game design. That big E is a great tutorial that teaches you the basic mechanic. But it doesn't baby you and quickly gets hard as they introduce the small and blurry enemies.

new blog post: mgs3 and photorealisming the painterly game www.joewintergreen.com/mgs3-and-pho...

Long shot but if I know anyone who wants to buy a small boba business in downtown LA — space, equipment, branding, secret recipes — for an *outrageously* low price, I’m neighbors with the owners and they need someone to take over. It’s my favorite spot in the area, would hate to see it shut down 😔

Producers around the world praying that their devs do not read this and feel inspired to not update their Jira tickets

he’s so real for this

Asking my girlfriend why all of Hatsune Miku’s songs are so emo and she assures me that she also has songs about the boys being back in town

Games in pre-alpha

This is pretty incredible. A guided tour of 20 years of "control panel" displays, all actually interactive running via emulation in browser. There are even little achievements and easter eggs in each section! Lovely UI design resource.

Summer is for buying far too many plums and then forgetting about all of them, and repeating this every two weeks

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Holy shit chainsaw man ahahaha

Corp accountant here, Investor Relations is the team that is legally obligated to handle investor concerns. If you have a fund with MC or Visa in it, I suggest calling and demanding to know what your compensation will be for the reduction in Earnings Per Share caused by cutting off income streams (:

Here’s the email I sent to Visa. Maybe you would put it differently, and maybe you should! And then maybe also take a screenshot and add it to the train!

Grimness matched only by its hilarity, for anyone who had ever been to this park lol

Penny’s Big Breakaway (Switch/PS5/Xbox) in stock at VGP buff.ly/S9wgvyn #ad

I’m going to make a thread about how the feds have changed their tactics here in Los Angeles because the community has forced them to adapt.

In the way Mario’s most recent character design has been hewing closer to the 80’s illustration look I think the next Zelda should try to look like this

The repression of trans people is not, by and large, a grassroots outpouring of hatred from the American people. It's something that's been carefully planted and tended over years by a handful of media people and their pet reporters.

lol, lmao

Everyone saw Grand Park's hot pink benches being stacked into a barricade on Sunday. What an exceptional statement from RIOS, the benches' designers instagram.com/rios.imagines "These pieces were designed to move, adapt, welcome, connect — and now protect"

NEW: A data broker owned by major airlines sold domestic US flight data to DHS, telling the dept. not to disclose that, according to records obtained by @404media.co—copublished in partnership with @wired.com. No paywall bc FOIA @josephcox.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/airlin...

Scoop: GitHub code shows Trump administration is building a platform to "accelerate" AI across the government called ai.gov that is supposedly going to launch on the Fourth of July www.404media.co/github-is-le...

The way this guy says "Chibi Anime" has completely destroyed my vocabulary.

GDC session evals have come in, providing me with a new epitaph

Good game

Sympathy for the dad trying to explain the concept of melodrama to answer his young son’s questions about why everyone was both laughing and clapping through the end of the new Mission Impossible

Lrt 👏 👏 👏

if you're part of the small portion of humanity that understands what's written in this deep, deep mystery of a thread, you're gonna love it. it's so nice to read some modern soft cyberpunk

As long as there is wind there will be kites

trump executive order cut federal grants to the strong museum of play (which among other definitions of play is the definitive playable digital game museum), leaving them with a half million dollar budget shortfall. store.museumofplay.org/Webstore/sho...

this exact scenario has done irreparable damage to comics. a boon for jerks of various types.

an all-timer Nancy right here folks

crazy good review

USC, facing a union drive from non-tenure-track faculty, is joining Amazon and SpaceX in an attempt to get the Supreme Court to nullify the National Labor Relations Act: prospect.org/labor/2025-0...

People act like I’m crazy for not liking chocolate but then it gets served to me looking like this

Sony and Microsoft are first and foremost controller manufacturers

i think we've explored nothing so far, discovered nothing so far. every game that matters hasn't been made yet, and could have been made on 1982 technology (except tetris)

Penny is on stage at 1:30pm and 3:30pm today. If you are at GDC come to our talks! They are going to be a lot of fun

To those of you at #GDC2025, check out two Penny talks today! 1:30pm - Jazz Platforming in ‘Penny’s Big Breakaway’ by @estebanthinks.bsky.social 3:30pm - Building ‘Penny’s Big Breakaway’ with Beef, a New Programming Language by @hunty.biz

NEW: Photo released showing the treatment of 100s of people deported by Trump to El Salvador, in defiance of a federal judge ruling. Remember, none of these individuals had any due process. They had no opportunity to contest any evidence, if is existed. A grievous human rights violation. 1/2

So glad every day it's a Doggy Dog World out there and not something else