Pride month means it's illegal to say "let me get this straight" in meetings, you must say instead: "just so we're queer" "making sure we all have bi-in on this idea" "not to lose anything in trans-lation"

very amused that to some folks this meme is my greatest contribution to game design

These seasonal buffs are OP

Video Games

As a calarts alum: Good on those students. 💪✨

This is Calarts. Arguably the best animation school in the US, its alumni include industry legends. The graduating class is booing school president Ravi Ranjan, he's been gutting creative programs and pushing Ai initiatives, corporatizing the school. His secretary is treating graduates like babies.

For the @wired.com Big Interview this week, I interviewed California gubernatorial hopeful and billionaire Tom Steyer. It was a tough hang for many reasons, but particularly because he didn't know who he was talking to.

It’s 2026. You sit down to play a game of Magic the Gathering. Your opponent plays Garfield Sol Ring into Isochron Scepter into Talk to the Paw. The game then ends because @megansmith13.bsky.social ate all your cards.

Hero’s Journey, Save the Cat, kishotenketsu, pantsers, plotters, don’t-give-a-fuck-ers

Sometimes I stop and think about this bunch of bananas abandoned on a sidewalk

Friends I love and respect are playing games on LinkedIn and it’s changed my whole world view

On every social platform, my strategy is the same: - follow cool and inspirational artists - shamelessly like all their posts - beat the algorithm into submission until it shows only cool people making cool things

Subtext in advertising is for cowards, supertext only

Me: I don’t have a dream job, I try not to dream of labor 💅💁🏻‍♂️✨ Subconscious: bet

Proving yet again that men are just too emotional and fragile to lead companies.

Dead: the Turing Test, where a human determines if conversational output is human or machine Essential: the Cheng Test, where we determine if someone is a real human or a LinkedIn mindrot zombie based on if they react in earnest or in parody to a Ken Cheng post

I didn’t expect them to have Magic: the Gathering in this comic

Well, at least the BBC is covering this.

This flowchart has lived rent free in my head for years

"we don't make shoes we make AI now" ...but I actually really liked your shoes

Me: stares at girl Girl: I have a boyfriend Me: me too, but I don’t have lettuce in my hair, that’s just you

Very amused that all news coverage of @take5improv.bsky.social is like "THEY WILL HURT YOU AND YOU WILL ENJOY IT"

What do you think Temu magic packs have inside? Wrong answers only

Do Americans know that their Vice President was in Hungary campaigning for a Putin ally to be reelected, instead of in DC during a war in which Putin is helping Iran target Americans?

interesting that when a movie with female protagonists does poorly the response is to cancel upcoming projects with female protagonists and when a movie with female protagonists is a huge hit the response is to cancel upcoming projects with female protagonists

Me: You silly billy MBF: I am not silly billy, I am Serious William

Because he sacrificed his NFL career for his conscience, @chriswarcraft.bsky.social is the Colin Kaepernick of punters. Now he's running for office. My story for @theathletic.com (FREE LINK)... www.nytimes.com/athletic/714...

American workers asking for a crumb of healthcare from their employers be like

Narrative design career progression be like:

May your coffee be good and your meeting get canceled today ✨

Me after giving a 90 minute tour of our local community theater to a group of middle schoolers: that was adorable and delightful and inspiring and also give all teachers 2x raises and medals of honor right now

Talking with a mom and coming to the conclusion that having a toddler and managing executive leadership at $1B companies is basically the same thing “And did screaming fix the problem? No? What can we do instead?” “You’ve got to choose, bud. We don’t have time for both. I KNOW it isn’t fair.” 📈👶

Dating a narrative designer be like

Guys I made a BRAND NEW TikTok account for our improv company and what in the nine hells are the IMMEDIATE suggestions for my Discover algorithm??

Hey comic community, Aidan is one of ours. He works at the great Dragon's Lair Comics in Austin. When he say a stranger getting attacked with a knife he jumped in. Now he's in the hospital and could use some help. Please give if you can, share if you can't.

If this isn’t an animated short or feature in the next 2 years I will be very upset

#dogsmakelifebetter #doggos #welovedogs

I know normally my BlueSky is for gamedev memes and reposting cat videos but today I have to share perhaps the coolest development with my improv theatre company to date (and right on my birthday, no less!):

Hellscape (2026)

I was today years old and also like 37% of the way through this article when I finally realized Mr Timotay Onion himself was partners to Kat Abughazaleh and my parasocial brain blurted out before I could stop it “oh yay all my Bluesky besties are in this together”

With the increase in day job contracts and theater projects, I took a pause on some of my novel writing. Coming back to it now and actually digging what wrote. Like, hell yeah, this character voice is fun and sharp! Good job past me. Let’s fuckin’ go! Unrelated, sharing this graph for no reason✨

Me: oh, a beautiful snow day! Seattle:

Cat owners everywhere keenly aware from the start that this line of questioning ends with puke

#whatagamedevlookslike Eating trash, writing plays, consulting for indies and AAA✨

wow ok i thought libraries were for everyone

Annual GDC post reassuring students and folks just starting out in the game industry that it is 1000% okay that you don’t go to GDC. You do not need to spend $18462 to get to SF for a week. Don’t let FOMO overwhelm you. Keep doing the work. 💙

This post by the great @duckvalentine.bsky.social is actually a great example of "listen for users' issues, not their solutions". The issue seems to be that users don't know the commitment your demo asks, but you're the one who can solve for that with full understanding of your game/demo/context.

Never realized how much I’d crave some precedented times

Thinking about the game company that posted on their "benefits" page "we have lots of people with NORMAL names here, we're up to seven John's now ✨" like it was cute and not a scathing self indictment