january is the year i stop trusting the internet and computers entirely and print out all my treasured digital photos and put them in real ass photo albums i can hold most of us grew up on infrastructure built by the smartest, techiest among us. we could trust, ish infra built today? print yo shit

thinking about how i can write alllllllll night and getting really excited (:

one of my favourite iOS gaming experiences ever

I never worked at Critical Reflex but in the spirit of being an ally, I will say I can personally corroborate the sexual harassment from a named individual in the article because I experienced it too. sadly not the first or last time I dealt with this from publishers + investors I was speaking with

Lego Island my beloved you made me feel weird as hell

i made this for my husband

Do I like video games? Or do I, in fact, like five video games and perpetually search for echoes of them in every other game I play?

seems fine (108f)

best found footage horror films of the last 5 years? gimmee the good stuff (and ideally the lesser known stuff)

This is what AI is doing to your microscope images. You can trust your lasers but do you trust your pipeline?

I assume this is the clip being subtweeted

this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous this is worth sharing and educating people about

god bless the people who post their fixes to incredibly obscure software/game issues so the other 3 people who encounter them can be saved special shout out to the people who post asking for help, receive none, then bother to make an update days later sharing the fix they worked out on their own

bsky isn’t letting me access messages until i give some random company permission to access all my info and provide them age verification/IDs so that’s cool idk if i can stick around here realistically we need myspace back. we deserve better 😭

pixel Danny DeVito #pixelart #ドット絵

friends... if i like buffy, the wire, evil, true detective, the sopranos, midnight mass, FROM, the OA, dark, angel, halt and catch fire, breaking bad... what other shows would i like?

how dare you do my KOTOR like that

Valve has now rejected my complaint, confirming that "I don't like muslims" is a valid reason to leave a negative review on a game on Steam This is where we're at now.

It's not about if Horses is good or if you like it, it's about the world we're in where a few companies have control over who gets to make money and which artists get to continue working. Stores can stock whatever they want, but if you don't understand the broader picture you shouldn't speak.

Btw if you want to explore the typefaces used in different game UIs in different languages, gamefontlibrary.com is pretty incredible.

There is nowhere near enough coverage of how extortionate font licensing firms are, specifically to game developers. The last font we had to license even the representative for the licensing company effusively expressed how much they despised their superiors and loathed the business model. Crooks.

Please find a detailed account of the newest events here: www.horses.wtf/BannedFromSt...

Yesterday, the Epic Games Store decided at the last minute not to distribute the game, after having previously approved a release build. HORSES is otherwise now available on GOG, Itch, and Humble for $4.99. www.horses.wtf

hello bsky! our game was taken down due to a false DMCA which completely killed our momentum at launch. our studio is in a very precarious position right now. please share and spread the word, steam has been little help to our situation. noplayersonline.net/statement

It’s my birthday today! ^v^ As is customary, I only ask for some shares, and I hope everyone has an incredible day!

Adding alt text to this because this is fucking amazing and everyone deserves to read it.

writers artists 🤝 getting our best work 🤝 done at 2am 🤝 🤝 criminals santa claus

you ever just put a book down and have it fall through the ether

Taking place sometime between 'Quest for Glory 2' and 'Quest for Glory 3', the 'Quest for Erasmus' finally lets us explore Erasmus' purple house. 🔗 tacoadventure.itch.io/quest-for-er...

A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls.

Yes!! We have overwhelmed them with positivity!!

🍄 LIVE AND DRINK 💧 Just about 12 hours left to nominate us for some Steam Awards, all of which we're eligible for due to releasing less than a year ago

my controversial opinion as an anthropologist & creative is that making it a generic taboo for people who don’t have cultural backgrounds in a belief/practice nor the financial means to hire a cultural consultant harms diversity more than helps ignorant depictions are bad, but so are no depictions

occasionally online i'll start getting to know someone and then find out they refuse to tell me (or anyone online) their real name at which point i immediately lose interest in them i think this means i might be fae

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SOUP ROOMS is a collaborative minimalist art-game featuring over 100 ROOMS created by cool and talented indie devs from around the world. Admission is free of charge, and you can even make your own ROOMS and SOUP-like games to share with others! We hope you enjoy your stay. LINKS BELOW! ↓↓↓↓↓↓↓

last week i remembered that macOS lets you set your own icons and that *I* have the power to delegitimize the professionalism of the software that runs on my machine, so here's a thread of the 16 new icons i've made so far i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')

Eyvind Earle

This quote from Michał Nowakowski is SO important: [Opening the Boston studio] "brought in a wealth of multi-layered experience, skills, and backgrounds. We strongly believe that this investment will pay off in the future, bringing the next Cyberpunk experience to a new level."

as someone whose research focus is in identity & personhood, this so interesting to me primarily because in practice, personhood is not *inherent* so much as a social status granted by a community this is a fascinating early demonstration of this concept at work. popular belief defines "real"

it's magic

pet peeve: games that advertise having full controller support but the "support" is "you can move a mouse cursor around the screen with your joystick" that's dark design and dark marketing as far as i'm concerned

we already figured out the ideal computer shape and must retvrn

You need to light and grade your shit so it looks like this

the first time I was in the US I was taken to dinner to a place named Dick's but no one told me what Dick's was so i was very confused when the waiter literally threw my cutlery at me and insulted everyone at the table i was just like "man, restaurants are a lot more friendly in australia"

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Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪

video games? in this economy??