A mass walkout of the UN General Assembly as Netanyahu prepares to speak.

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

I finally started Animal Well and I am OBSESSED

Are you or someone you know skipping GDC (or considering doing so) because of worries about coming to the US/San Francisco in the current environment? If so, I want to hear from you for a piece. DM me here or kyle DOT orland AT arstechnica DOT com. Please spread the word

Please enjoy this video of Phoebe showing real apex predator energy

Also totally random timing but here's my GDC talk about making money with your game's soundtrack 💸 There's lotsa potential of money with your OST! 💰 docs.google.com/presentation...

I managed to put together a build that fired so many rockets my CPU wanted to die. #VoidBreaker

Computers used to be fun.

I'm not much of a photographer but I like doing long exposure stuff at night. Basically the whole reason I got into this

13 years ago today, FTL released on Steam and your support and enthusiasm for the game completely changed my life. It allowed me to quit my day job, focus on music full-time, and afford health insurance for me & my partner. I had wanted to work in games since I was a teenager. Thank you everyone!

Every single word of this excellent piece is entirely correct

WAIT WHAT

I find myself wanting to re-watch Master and Commander and this is how I know I'm a guy in his 40s.

MAGA 3 days ago: Chicago is about to find out the meaning of WAR MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence

america has 25 school shootings a year but the only time the entirety of the media, the white house, the fbi, and the minority party come together to show solidarity in mourning is when one of these school shootings kills a nazi famous for how racist he was. awesome

It’s gonna be so weird watching establishment dems be performatively sadder about this than they were about the colleague and her husband and dog who got shot and killed

Honestly if there's anything that would get me to actually buy a Switch 2 it'd be a new Metroid developed by either the Breath of the Wild or Mario Odyssey teams.

Super Virtual Boy

in a way aren't we all holding a barrel in the darkness

History rhymes, and we can learn from the cadence.

Most infuriating thing about this disaster of bad reporting everywhere is that there are plenty of games made by >5 person teams! You could do a story about a different one every week and not run out of material. Silksong's existence is a miracle without needing to insert a fake narrative into it.

i mean us military has shelled atlanta before my dudes

Just started playing Void Breaker and I am obsessed.

This “solo dev” and “only 3 devs” rhetoric is getting truly dangerously out of hand. Investors see this and think “I only have to pay 3 people” and the result is severely overworked and/or underpaid people and a subpar product. We need to stop treating outsourcers and contractors like ghosts.

Systemic reasons for US crime are never, ever addressed except by the ppl with whom those claims are lobbied against. All US cities have “crime”, even the quite ones where “things like that dont happen”. But here, its always been a masked dogwhistle for “undesirable” black & brown ppl being visible.

Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results: 1) Does UBI work? (yes) 2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)

"3 devs with support from a few contractors" I counted 110 people or companies in Silksong's credits. And that's just those credited. We all know not everyone gets credited. Especially when it's just a company name listed in lieu of credits. So tired of this faux rags-to-riches narrative.

Even big AAA publishers include pride stuff in their games. This reads to me like he's using a (poorly articulated) appeal to pragmatism to justify his own bigotry.

This is a really fantastic thread. There are so many here that I'm not familiar with and I can't wait to check them out.

Take all of my money.

It's not about what YOU want, Tom. A Dem congressman should focus on what Dem voters want: someone who actually listens to us, instead of Wall Street, Trump, or some center-right think tank. Mamdani's shown he can do that. If you can't, just join the damn fascists already.

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We’re only a few years removed from creatjng a vaccine to protect against a deadly airborne virus in a matter of months. Now, we have a scion fail son running the CDC into the ground not because it failed, but because its success conflicts with RFK Jr’s eugenicist ideology.

I get this a lot too. I would much rather simply speak to a whole class and answer questions live, and I think that's more valuable to the students as well.

the biggest indictment of all should be on the uselessness of c-suites and management; they do literally nothing useful

The Black Panthers were accurately describing the US as fascist in the 60s. That's how far behind you are if a dictator moving troops in to occupy cities & arresting his opposition & disappearing people is just clicking as fascism for you.

Tyrants view educated citizens as their greatest enemy. Slaveholders stopped the enslaved from learning to read. Nazis burned books. Dictators censor media. That’s why Trump is attacking education, science, museums, and the arts – to prevent us from learning. It's Fascism 101.

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I have a Destiny clan that meets once a week for raids. We've been doing it consistently for almost 4 years now and I can't overstate how great it's been to have this group to hang out with every week for that long. That's me second from the left!

Thanks @hankgreen.bsky.social for answering my question about chlorophyll on purple-leafed plants that I sent years ago on a whim to Dear Hank & John. It was such a delightful surprise, and absolutely made my day.

Its easy to forget now, but in 2007 it felt like 90% of AAA games were trying to imitate the aesthetic of either Aliens or D&D, so Bioshock felt like a HUGE departure from the norm at the time.

Wow this did, in fact, hit me as hard as they're describing.

it’s fun that the “facts don’t care about your feelings” people make every single decision entirely based on how they feel

I'm going to be a mentor again for Sunbloom's mentorship program, which focuses uplifting game devs from marginalized backgrounds. If you'd like to learn from me, or any of the great mentors in the program, sign up by the 23rd! www.sunbloomarts.org/mentorship

Just so bizarre to be put through that much development misery and your takeaway reads like "so we need to use gen AI to make games cheaply" and not "the people who hold the money and decision making power are deeply disconnected from the game dev process and that is a critical flaw"

Every 2-3 years, like clockwork, science rediscovers that global poverty is absolutely a solvable problem that has been artificially maintained to accomplish political goals. Another world is so very possible.

2024: No, don't call them Nazis, that's hyperbole and unfair! 2025: