One upon a time, I thought I was going to have a career as a musician. That didn't happen, for many reasons, and it's been a very very long time since I released a song of my own ... but the music never really left me. So here's this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFrD... soundcloud.com/robertpaul/r...

🔴LIVE for Invincible VS LAUNCH DAY! Pounding one of these and jumping straight into ranked. twitch.tv/tempusrob

Been working with Skybound on InvVS trailers for about a year now ... hard to believe we finally dropped the Launch Trailer. This one was a trip, building flashy extended combat that also synced to the music as often as possible. 🎵

I used to do a yearly Earthbound playthrough. I'm way overdue.

This is so, so well-articulated.

Finally had time today to grind some Marathon. The high from a good run is insane. Even failed runs feel OK. Wish the game had an API / match history like Destiny so I could watch my vault value go up (and down).

Mahna Mahna song except it's Shaggy saying "it wasn't me" do dooooo dodo do

Hello I am GDC'ing for the first time.

If you've been playing fighting games for any length of time, it would be to your benefit to follow & read any and all takes Pat has. Either reinforcing what you already know or giving you an entirely new perspective will help you grow as a player and a person.

Headed to GDC for the first time next week, Weds-Fri. Down to chat games, coffee or life with pretty much anyone and everyone.✌️

Had the opportunity to direct a series of interviews for some of the remaining Invincible VS roster. FGC folks, lmk what you think... we tried to dive a little deeper into design and mechanics than past videos. youtu.be/8PyA7WlIdMg

SoCal FGC! You can get your hands on Invincible VS this Saturday at @arcadeshock.bsky.social!

As a freelancer, it's much more than just getting a contract It's about sustainable gigs. That includes saying no to short term exploitative contracts. I dont want people to burn out after 5 years. Theres more to this excerpt so go read my latest newsletter! www.nehapatelaudio.com/blog-3-1/how...

My latest gameplay for Invincible VS! She has some very creative and technical combo routes, had a lot of fun putting the combat together. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSju...

After fighting game community member Ludovic Mbock was arrested by ICE, his family and friends have been working non-stop to bring him home aftermath.site/ice-ludovic-mb...

If you have the means, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate and they are overwhelmed with requests. Colorado borders Kansas, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out. tcpipeline.org

This is exactly right. The Onion quietly left Twitter a month ago and... our weekly subscribers went up. It's because we're doing well here, on Instagram and on YouTube. As a business, being on Twitter is somewhere between useless or detrimental, unless you're selling boner pills.

ICE HAS MOVED LUD WITHOUT NOTIFYING HIS LAWYERS. IF YOU LIVE IN MARYLAND, YOU CAN CALL YOUR REPS TO HELP #FREELUD. bsky.app/profile/fems...

Lud has been a part of the fgc for a long time, is an absolute sweetheart and to see this happen to him is downright b.s. Please help out if you can.

This is not a random arcade match. It's part of a ECvs WC 5v5 at EVO 2003 The part about SooMighty being insanely high is true, and also the reason why he went for repeated snapbacks while comboing Sentinel. Dude was too blazed to remember he had already fucked on the other two characters

I think people often wonder this, and it's a great question, so let me explain the advantages of 3D printing whistles. There are many. The 3D printing effort started from one of our organizers who started by sourcing mass-produced whistles.

if your curious how me and others worked in the gameplay capture dept at bungie, this GDC talk might be your thing. (note: im not involved, just wanted to point it out.) schedule.gdconf.com/session/behi...

This is essentially what governments did in the late 1900s and early 2000s with respect to Nazis. Whether you were a lowly concentration camp guard or in Hitler's inner circle, if there was evidence you were a Nazi, it was straight to jail with your walker. It worked.

I have followed every game dev on Bluesky. If you are currently running or planning to release a AAA live service game I will not demand you keep the woke out. I may however have 21 eggplants sent to your office (see: Jeff Kaplan happy at Blizzard) to address the highly important concerns of gamers

Breaks my heart to share this, but today is my last day at The Verge and I am looking for work! I'd really like to stay in video games, preferably in some kind of journalistic capacity but I can do PR/Marketing and maybe even a lil Narrative Design. Please get in touch! www.ashparrish.com

✨My first newsletter is officially out!✨ I talk about some tips to implement before you start a career in freelancing. And don't worry, it's never too late to implement any of these! tinyurl.com/yr3fnscf

If you haven't seen it, check it out. It's a pretty neat time capsule of what the FGC was 10 years ago: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkdC...

Help! Trying to remember the name of a Windows app for managing batch scripts in the right-click menu. It would let you associate scripts with specific file types, as well, so I could set up image conversion scripts for images, video conversion for video, etc...

This is massive! Real transit over the pass! 🥰

Just found out my wife might be losing her job, so I'm desperately searching for work. Contract, full-time, freelance, whatever. Press, PR, consulting, anything. I have 16 years of editorial experience and have been writing about games for 13. Reviews, news, previews, guides, etc. RTs appreciated.

Echoing this to say that $1 a month to a creator whose work you like is equivalent to easily a thousand ad-supported views on their videos. Even a little bit of support makes a hugely outsized difference - pick your favourites and support where you can.

I sincerely believe that if we want to mend society's broader post-truth problems we need to start with a consensus on really basic stuff, like that "phone speakers in public" and "blinding LED headlights" are bad. We banned smoking in bars, we can figure this out.

Still one of the things I'm most proud of this year. Maybe next year I'll finish another.

Live from the Midwest! Join us for CB2026 on May 22-24 at the Schaumburg Convention Center in Illinois! Visit combobreaker.org for more info. Visit start.gg/cb2026 to register. youtu.be/4LxvsjJ-qJs?...

ProGrade is raising its memory card prices 30-100+% in Japan next week. Only 3-4% of that is due to weak Yen. Have to imagine other markets and other companies will be following suit soon...

Hey new followers! Here’s a starter pack of folks who do game trailer work 👀 Have a nice holiday 😙

I'm generally not a fan of co-ferments (to put it mildly), but this Colombia processed with "mossto" — fermented coffee cherry juice from prior batches of processed coffee — is exceptional. Caramel, cocoa, cranberry, pear... complex, fruity, floral and enchanting. www.yesplz.coffee/product/sing...

Wrapping up my year with some Ella goodness, a brand new Invincible character. Once again trying to step up choro, with mechanics and more interesting setups. So thankful to the InvVS team for letting me show off their game. Lots more to come before release. Gameplay: me 🎮 Production: Layer Media

Peak CEO brain. It's not making things better in any demonstrable way. Employees don't want it, fans don't want it, and there are better ways to do things they *have* settled on using it for. But one day, maybe, somehow, hopefully, it might help them make one extra dollar, so he's gotta push it.

Oh hi! You caught me stickering some coffee bags…

The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste

I really think that even most people who think language policing was a huge problem over the past 5-10 years have no patience for the disgusting little freaks who have tried to bring back "retarded" as a slur. It's just so low-rent and such a tell that the person using it is not worth your time

Good beans, good people... if you're thinking about a coffee subscription, watch the vid for 20% off!

This is great: ILM visual effects artist Todd Vaziri breaks down some of the “hidden” special effects that he and his team have worked on, incl. for Rogue One, The Force Awakens, and Transformers. “I make the stars in Star Wars.” [kottke.org]

There is no way you can guess how the thread that ends in this instant classic begins.

The lack of respect for fighting games is insane. The best esports player is probably a fighting game pro. The best ongoing game? Probably a fighting game. The best event? It's a fighting game tournament that has an open bracket. And not only do these never win, they're never *nominated.*

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

If you're a games freelancer and you're going to physically be in LA around TGAs in December, and you still have capacity to pick up further work, I would love to hear from you: [email protected]