Sony: we are getting rid of game discs forever fuck you Microsoft: our next console cant even read game discs fuck you Nintendo: Samus is BACK and BOY, is she HUNGRY

phone and web games

No more hobbies except sports betting and doomscrolling

I think my final assessment of the games industry is that Capital has simply decided there are a) more profitable market segments to invest in, and b) more extractive business models to force onto the business, and that’s just destroying the industry as we’ve known it.

We had an exciting afternoon yesterday; Jess said “I think a bird just flew into our apartment?” I glanced towards the bedroom and saw the briefest flash of a LARGE WING Upon going to investigate, there was a Cooper’s Hawk in our bedroom, clutching a songbird.

were up to me I probably wouldn't eliminate physical media for my forthcoming console right on the heels of delisting hundreds of digital movies from people's libraries and while on the cusp of a world historical digital storage supply squeeze, but I guess that's why they get paid the big bucks.

I don’t want this point to be lost in the discourse. Going digital-only means inequity for people who cannot afford internet or constantly purchasing new games. Libraries provide opportunities for people to experience games they otherwise wouldn’t be able to afford, and that will be lost.

It's emotionally taxing to see an industry you love and have spent twenty years dedicating a career to implode.

The death of physical media seems like a small thing practically but in essence it represents the total dissolution of games as “objects of art” and instead reduces them purely to “intellectual property”. It’s a slow disaster but if you care about games as an art form it IS a disaster.

The ban is heinous for what it does to transgender athletes. But if you think cisgender girls and young women won’t be caught up in the fallout, too, you are woefully ignorant

I’m sorry but I just don’t have any patience for Democratic loyalists anymore. I vote for every Democrat on the ballot in a general election but if you cannot see that these people are completely out of their depth and have utterly failed to stop fascism, you’re delusional and part of the problem.

LOUDER

I say to you what I say to Schumer Your lack of follow up plan is disgustingly and irresponsible. A 5-4 ruling shouldn’t be a victory lap It should be a sobering call that we need a proactive plan It should include a real message about how this affirms an America you will protect

My fellow Americans are really so incurious about how other countries run their judicial branches that even when our own SCOTUS frequently flails catastrophically, we will insist that this stupid dysfunction is truly the only way a supreme court can be constituted and operate.

With this ruling, the birthright issue is not going away. The right hasn't really begun *organizing* around getting rid of the citizenship clause. Like Roe, this will be their fight for a generation. And if the Democrats just say "we won" and ignore it, like Roe, the Republicans will eventually win.

Anyway, support the DSA, WFP, and ranked choice voting, and always vote in your primaries and local elections

Plus- at this stage we’re moving beyond even the destruction of trust structures; we’re witnessing the destruction of an entire ecosystem. Thousands of experts leaving the industry forever, alongside skyrocketing costs pushing future customers- kids- out of the hobby.

my belief is that at the end of the day, great games are made by groups of people who have high trust with each other & can fluidly execute a shared vision. which is a small part of why these layoffs are so devastating- it's not just about jobs, it's about these "trust structures" being torn apart.

We get a week off this week and I’m enjoying an extremely relaxing staycation

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PHEW Squats today, 4x4 with a 3-5s hold at the bottom, @155lbs- followed by t-spine rows, suitcase carry marches, and copenhagens Feeling strong today!

I fertilized and watered all the patio plants, cleaned and maintenanced the robot vacuum, picked up the bedroom, and set it on a deep clean! Very productive vacation day!

Having a lot of fun catching up on the League of Legends Mid Season Invitational play ins this morning!

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Imagine announcing an initiative to oppose the majority of voters.

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I give myself 45 minutes of bluesky a day before I get hard locked out and honestly it’s probably still too high 😅

Unfortunately, the real problem is that we need to change how the entire economy and government operates. Videogames can't design their way out of late stage capitalism.

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In fact having a high follower count is in some cases a liability 😅

The Democratic Party must return to the American people the wealth and power that the obscenely rich have taken from them. This should be the core Democratic message. It targets the affordability crisis, corruption, corporate welfare, and crony capitalism. It shows what must be done.

Hooting, hollering

Bungie friends, I’m so sorry we’re all going through this era; you deserve better, as do we all.

Hey fyi @gracklehq.com is run by one extremely good hearted guy, and it’s still the best site for games industry job listings. It has a patreon that he doesn’t advertise because he’s that selfless. You can support it on patreon and/or kofi

Hooraaaaay

This morning’s workout absolutely blasted me- 3x4 back squats @ 155lbs… with a 3-5s pause at the bottom. WHEW

Crash can’t come soon enough. The absolute absurdity of what this nonsense has done to the tech sector needs to be a cautionary tale for decades to come (it won’t be, obviously)

It’s easy to feel a little conspiracy brained about how many major industrial fire disasters LA has been having lately but I suspect the real conspiracy is simply that the regulatory system responsible for holding companies to account has been systemically dismantled for decades

I know people aren't going to read more books, but if they just played more fantasy games this wouldn't be a problem. "Scrying", "brazier", "oubliette", "sabatons", knowledge of all these and more can be yours AND you can remain a complete buffoon

ZZZ 3.0 is fucking FIRE, I’m completely back in

I was bummed TSW didn’t carry the audience we hoped it would; and then years later players would tell me they LOVED it, and a colleague of mine told me one of my boss fights was their favourite fight out of all MMOs. Completely changed my perspective on my “failed” projects.

New: Researchers have quantified how easy AI search is to manipulate. Just 13 words buried in a random Reddit comment can poison AI search results. They suggest this is not easy to stop: "The way you can attack these systems is so much dumber than you think it is" www.404media.co/it-is-trivia...

Prozac is… good??? It’s only been a week but I feel like it’s helping, so fingers crossed the trend continues!

Asking children aged 9 what they think they'll be like when they're 40.

TWO HOUR NAP???

this is about tv but we are absolutely losing out on good games because dev cycles take 5+ years & there’s so little time given to experiment, so you get a bunch of stuff that rehashes what money people think works & no one on the team has the space to compare 4 different ways theyve done a feature

Woke up early, crushed a workout, have a long weekend! Not bad!