Having grown up in Bexley I can almost guarantee it won’t be good whatever it is.

who called it ds9 and not sisko elysium

Original Slippy has absolutely seen Glassjaw live whereas new Slippy is more of a Good Charlotte guy.

the line might go up either way, but if you want busy high streets and nightlife, younger poorer people need more after-rent money, if you want more yacht building and private jet travel, keep shoveling it all to rich people. I don't know why this is hard for our greatest minds to comprehend

Exactly this - imo the biggest impact leads/creatives have on a team isn’t that they know the final destination. It’s that they can better steer you away from costly detours and dead ends on the way there.

There are of course fundamentals that can help you understand the toolset and vocabulary. But so much of game design is good instinct that’s honed by experience over time. You’ve got to make stuff. You’ve got to make interesting mistakes.

i got stuff to say about game systems but i dont think i could ever be a "game design influencer". the way people present things in such absolute terms to succeed in the influencer medium just rubs me 1000% the wrong way

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When I was creative director at Mediatonic we had a weekly design mail-out. I used my slot that week to highlight this Very Important Work and all it did was reveal a devastating lack of Gilmore Girl knowledge in the studio.

Anyone on the left who wasn’t actively involved from 2015-19 needs to know what’s coming. 1, they’re going to throw multiple, often contradictory lies at the wall to see what sticks. Polanski will be simultaneously weak and strong, timid and aggressive, passive and dictatorial, old fashioned and

Me whenever I get public transport in another country

The Tom Holland/Umbrella rule except for me it’s exclusively when someone drops the Thief: TDP intro

Calling transphobia a 'gateway drug' to the far right undersells it. It's pure accelerant. Grimly fascinating to guess what crankery becomes any famous transphobe's secondary obsession, cos they all have one: 15 minute cities are fascism! Grok noncing is cool! ICE are good! We should kill all dogs!

The most bad-ass rebuttal from Tite Kubo, the author of Bleach.

Bluesky today

Extremely relevant to this discourse is the evergreen "milestone journey" chart by @kchironis.bsky.social

Knowing when something you’re working on is “good” or not before dedicating e.g years to it - is one of the hardest parts of game dev - and how much needs to be there initially before you can be confident about it shifts, sometimes significantly, depending on genre.

break it

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Cairn was a hell of an experience. Wondrous, awful, gritty, sometimes euphoric. Also immensely triggering if you’ve ever been in a relationship with a toxic person (personal or otherwise) prone to violent outbursts. Left it utterly conflicted. Like all the best art.

Me and @amypearson.bsky.social celebrating Easter as intended (binging all the new JJK and Frieren we resisted until now, in a blanket pile, high on Lindt choco-bunnies)

This is so, so well-articulated.

Juniors support by working on clearly defined tasks with help. Mid-levels apply their skills and can get stuff done in their field. Seniors guide others and multiply output - by teaching, improving processes, leading by example. Principals innovate and make improvements that last for years

I’ve been supporting Fall Guys live ops for 5 years and one of the only UI artists on it for almost 3. If you need some colourful art for your game or projects I’ll be available from May 🌸

Went for another walk in London today 💚

Mackenzie Crook’s magical suburban folk tale, #SmallProphets published by #PenguinBooks and #PuffinBooks down the years. A 🧵 1/

Old Testament kind of fear

That awesome feeling when a friend asks you to alpha read their novel and it absolutely slaps.

the girl guides in the UK just kicked out all their trans members specifically bc they were threatened with a lawsuit from a rowling-funded group

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I’m not a Poster as rarely believe my insights are required on every passing discourse. But I will say that my year at Epic post-acquisition revealed a management class pathologically incapable of understanding the roots of its wild success, or any desire to adapt, learn or scale to that success.

Every former Mediatonic person I know still at Epic after the first brutal round of 2023 layoffs has had to find incredible reserves to press on and try and maintain a semblance of the culture against all odds so, sincerely, fuck this news.

Kurosawa on watching Solaris with Tarkovsky

Never seen a picture of Thiel before but deeply unsurprising to see he’s built like a ghoulish pauper-threshing Dishonored aristocrat

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If you were into late 00’s post-hardcore emo from specifically Derby then this is huge news

“Someone on LinkedIn viewed your profile” <deletes account>

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This genius mixed the Hotdog Car sketch from I Think You Should Leave with Disco Elysium's iconic dialogue: it works so well.

Apologies for all the UK politics spam but look it’s very rare for good things to happen ever

Given that we're told that Muslims as a bloc are communalist, anti-Semitic, misogynist homophobes, you might assume voting for a non-religious white woman, standing for a LGBT friendly party, led by a gay Jewish man, might lead you to stand down all those sectarianism headlines.

More like MATT BADLOSE AMIRITE

Wait, Britain has politics as well?? Christ, when will it end