how many years til we get to this bit

Something positive: Spry Fox is spinning out of Netflix. We are independent (once again!) and preparing to launch Spirit Crossing. We wrote up a little blog post musing about this wild adventure. Worth sharing the good news. spryfox.com/a-16-year-ol...

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

I'm gutted to miss the annual community catchup -- which is particularly important for devs like me in remote locations -- but there's no amount of money that would pay me to go to the states right now. Last year I went, and registered -- any kiwis going, please register: www.safetravel.govt.nz

i was looking thru my pics to make a very belated 2025 post, but honestly this picture sums up a lot of it: struggling in airports (i did 8 long haul trips this year of 30+ hours)

i found so many four leaf clovers! it’s gonna be a good year 😌

eat ur greens

The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story. Holy. Shit. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

i’ve been doing a lot of smoking on my balcony and staring bleakly into the distance about this exact thing it’s so hard to feel excited for the future

stop putting rewinds and recaps everywhere ffs no miro, i don’t want to see my year in review. or you, linkedin. or you, duolingo. and you’re cute finch, but i don’t want to see a review there either. this is like when everything stole stories from snapchat

i would like to personally congratulate the photographer and editor of all these shots, it’s a masterpiece the specific and deliberate framing (love all the aircon!!) and the…throwbacks to certain images from the 1940s is a work of art.

i don't want an incel gaston backstory however i would definitely take a gaston-hosted mountain chalet renovation tv series

apt that merriam-webster's word of the year (slop) also incidentally describing dictionary dot com's word of the year, 67

how i felt watching larian's new trailer at TGAs

woke up this morning to texts I'd missed last night re my kid cousin who...rode his bike into bondi beach as the attack started. he had headphones on and didn't hear what was going on until people were running past him. i'm heartbroken for sydney -- and i'm also very grateful for his safety.

am now suspicious my grandad could see the future. he died late jan 2020. smart.

Gaming’s biggest night, but snuggled up at home! The Dragon Snacks founders are hosting a The Game Awards watch party in our Discord – live reactions, takes on the industry, and a peek inside a dev’s brain every time a trailer lands. Come watch with folks who think about these things all day!

I fucking love memes you can understand through the language barrier, holy shit

(TW: ED) getting quite upset lately seeing several old friends who had EDs as teens very obviously flaring up 15 years later (which means it’s in the severe stage if it’s visible from pics of wrists/elbows/collarbones). I hate that we’ve gone so backwards and the beauty ideal is frailty again.

(as of right now, i can still purchase via humble link on Santa Ragione's site FYI) disappointing. we need to have places people can access weird, gory, or taboo games, just like we have places people can access weird/gory/taboo films.

getting ready to take my dad to Tool, lil sister was adamant she didn’t know them. I start playing Schism and she just sighs heavily and goes “oh. yes i remember when you were learning bass guitar.”

I got SO EXCITED because my name is never on ANYTHING but when it is, apparently it's not available in my size 😭

hey sharks what if instead of hoarding pieces away, you fund (for the low low price of 1 middle-class salary) an artist to make odd, weird, arty things!! it’s a great investment bc you get endless art forever! your pet art human will be the envy of all your cool rich friends!!

tldr it’s very annoying that we’ve monetised art to the point where everything has to be Product valve does not care about Art™️; they’re interested in the 30% of whatever sells the most. consumers are less media literate /art-educated than ever (see: schools dropping art history as a subject).

agree with the sentiment re art, but: i don’t think they’re dictating what counts as art, i think they’re dictating what counts as a product. we buy games and play them, in our homes. we don’t see them on the street, or in a museum. If you’re trying to sell and appeal to a market, it’s a product.

shocked to say I have finally found an inbuilt AI tool that isn't insufferable and incompetent: Linear (pm tool) has a surprisingly handy ai filter tool. instead of writing JQL bullshit, i can simply type what I want the filter or view to be in english, and it understands me and converts it. 😌

once again a thread that underscores “the video games industry / market is a bunch of different markets shoved together in a trench coat”

ok this shit pmo if you have a window seat on a flight you don’t. use. the fucking. armrest.

Friends! I'm hosting this AMA for aspiring designers (or anyone interested in hearing about systems / narrative design from two world class vets) in DSG's discord in just over an hour. Michelle and Paul are super knowledgeable, fantastic and have been shaping our nerd culture for literal decades...

Ever wanted to know more about how creative direction, systems design, and narrative design work together? 🙋 This Thursday 20 Nov, 9PM EST we’re going live! 🎮🍂 Join our cozy dev livestream + AMA on Discord, featuring Chief Creative Officer Michelle Menard and Lead Narrative Designer Paul Murphy.

brontë: writes a novel about obsession, cruelty, abuse, generational trauma, revenge, toxicity of status and class marketing team 200 years later: greatest love story Of All Time 🥹 wtf lmao

it’s a good day for orange things in this household 🎃

we’ve had visitors staying for the last 4 days and lil miss overbite has been totally overstimulated and zooming the entire time as soon as they left, she crashed on my lap. audio on for sleeping purrs 😭

honestly, growing evidence every day that the villain origin story of angry white christian nationalists is that they really, really hate that other queer people are living authentically when their own parents didn’t accept them today especially so lmao

Re: Epstein’s emails

i gave my lil sister free rein over organising my linen cupboards and pantry, and my card to go buy any storage solutions she’s THRILLED. Like christmas came early. I should have done this years ago, nothing makes students more excited than using real money at kmart and bunnings 😭

hey dw dante said there was different levels of hell too, if you’re trying to gauge where you’re going

not to harp on about old drama, but this is dubious ethical behaviour is a pattern. keighley also had evidence from JS’s victims who spoke out when she was nom’d for future class. nothing happened, until public outrage forced their hands. www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...

"We are cursed with a system of economic feudalism that has overawed, browbeaten or controlled by insidious methods... the forces of democracy... it has concentrated the wealth of this Nation into the hands of a few families." - Rep John Rankin in 1935 pudding.cool/2025/11/demo...

i’m so, so relieved that this is even possible 😭😭😭 (more votes than all the others combined!!! people just wanna be able to afford to put food on the table and as long as someone competently and consistently explains how they’ll do it, they’ll vote for them.)

producers when the game director comes in with a million new changes after finishing the latest hit title last night

the amount of (enjoyably) unhinged posts on reddit describing manic nz travel itineraries has increased a lot since chatgpt i’m seeing honeymoon posts out here that have 2 weeks straight of basically driving 8 hours a day in beautiful aotearoa 😅 during nov-jan summer holiday rush, no less

Well this is very nice. Thank you @alexfalcone.bsky.social

devs / games industry folk who do market research when you're looking up competitor/inspiration/reference titles, what info are you trying to find -- and why?

as someone who sees a bunch of pitch decks (and pays attention to next fest) i’m genuinely terrified by the amount of gen AI in games already. I thought we’d have more time. anyway, regulate regulate regulate 👩‍⚖️

so many people on here act so aggro for no reason (always assuming the worst intention first, etc) can we not?? we don’t have to repeat the bad bits of twitter

Just bought my copy -- so stoked to see this baby in the world!!! big congrats to @davidgaider.bsky.social @liamesler.bsky.social @elieyoung.bsky.social @merryh.bsky.social @theboyofcheese.bsky.social for getting this sick looking game over the line, I'm so excited to play tonight!

“racist ai bias extremely dangerous, says creator of MechaHitler” are any of these people fuckin serious 😂

sxsw sydney was delightful and truly filled the cup. i’ll post about my panel and talk soon but more importantly, some friendo highlights: ex wives of divorced dads (these sheilas went down the road for a pack of durries and never returned) @ellalowgren.bsky.social ♥️

cool and normal technofeudalism