It's pretty wild to me that investigators have uncovered that anti-trans campaigns are largely funded by the fossil fuel industry, and that the presumed motivations are pretty directly to redirect the public conversation away from climate change... and that this isn't bigger news.

If someone is wearing a mask and keeping themselves, you should politely leave them the alone and mind your fucking business. This post brought to you by someone who decided it was a bright idea to confront me while I was quietly waiting for the tube as to why I'm wearing a mask.

Ah yes the PIF... Those that want to diversify their portfolio to help grow the local dev scene in Saudi for years, and have done nothing but toss money at esports and claiming to be "pioneers"... Meanwhile locals are fighting for scraps to fund their own games

My friend and industry colleague Heidi has received the devastating news that her partner can no longer fight off his cancer and must go into hospice. She will lose him soon and she is a good person who has already lost so much. Please consider helping her defray the costs and survive the aftermath.

Guess SA wants to own the whole chain in their eSports efforts. Riot does pretty much the same. It's not a terrible idea strategically speaking.

Twitter: we invented a new racism Linkedin: wow ai sucks am I rite? <This post is written with ai> TikTok: press 1 for American goodthink Threads: who daresssss disturrrb our circlejerk?? Mastodon: CW - ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ Bsky: look at this cool art I made *account gets deleted*

Hey all! I'm looking for an expert on community building and management who can provide me with some consultancy. Paid. I'm specifically looking for someone with the know-how to grow a community for narrative thriller/horror game titles.

They keep making genAI apps to do things no one wants, instead of designing something we all want, like an app that replaces Chris Pratt in all his movies.

Twitter: we invented a new racism Linkedin: wow ai sucks am I rite? <This post is written with ai> TikTok: press 1 for American goodthink Threads: who daresssss disturrrb our circlejerk?? Mastodon: CW - ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ Bsky: look at this cool art I made *account gets deleted*

Hey all! I'm looking for an expert on community building and management who can provide me with some consultancy. Paid. I'm specifically looking for someone with the know-how to grow a community for narrative thriller/horror game titles.

Honestly as someone still representing those kids, it's depressing how everyone forgot about them. I say this a lot, but the lesson from those protests from the American left writ large was "if you protest and get arrested, you're on your own."

I literally had a consultancy call this week in which the main take away was 'you really just need to playtest more'. If you think you playtest enough, you don't, playtest more!

Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"

Had a really good playtest session last night! Really invigorating and I find myself being hyped working on my game. Turns out seeing happy faces when playing your game is really nice

This is your reminder to throw out those spice mixes you've had for ages now and get yourself some fresh bags. You deserve flavour.

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

For all this talk of hatred on various platforms, I rarely see YouTube mentioned. YouTube leadership desperately need to be held to account for the hatred and endangerment their platform has facilitated and financially incentivised for many, many years now.

If I quoted every part of this interview that revealed the desolated abyss of establishment political thinkers to me, I would be quoting the whole article. Just read it. Join me in abyss-gazing. Amazing interview.

EXCLUSIVE on Game Developer. We dug deep into the last two years of life at ProbablyMonsters—a period marked by mismanagement, alleged surveillance, and a CEO who "loves to talk shit." If you don't know ProbablyMonsters, it's the company where Firewalk Studios began work on Concord.

I just spent a day trying to work with shaders. I've rarely read something so deeply relevant to me.

I obviously have my opinions on GDC's facelift proposal, but I'm a little confused why people are surprised about content creators being included in GDC's new plan. They were there already in 2024. I literally walked past hbomberguy.

it's so nice to see what a functioning judiciary looks like "A transgender woman in the East African nation of Kenya has won a landmark court victory in which the judge not only found in her favour, but ordered the government to pass a Transgender Protection Rights Act." fuck yeah

aw man, I got left behind, again

My gdc take is that the US has too few professional games events and all of the ones that exist are getting absorbed into gdc week. If I have a bad gamescom, there's a dozen of other events I can access in Europe. If I'm a US indie and I have a bad GDC, what else do I have access to? Not a lot.

It has not escaped my notice that one of the few things we know are actually linked to an increases the chance of autism, is the dad being old and then seeing old men obsessed with procreation on tv blaming fuckn paracetamol

What I particularly hate about autism and psuedoscience is that there was a lot of interesting research into a potential links between autism symptoms and gut health issues. But that got set back decades due to wakefield's fuckery. Yeah, the same guy who initiated the antivaxx movement.

Man, I love wearing a neat blazer and button shirt, but every time I do so during games events people have a hard time believing I'm a solodev One time I even picked up a comment from a disappointed government person that they'd expected an indie rep from a trade body to look more, uh

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This story is worth a read, but it's so frustrating to see, since I know virtually everyone quoted in it (and the author) and ... there were *lots* of people warning of these coming dangers. Andreessen became a baby about his feelings long before taking offense to the slight from the Biden admin.

Hello, it is 10am on a monday morning and I'm overthinking the cosmological implications of kpop demon hunters, again

I think that if I was in charge of a remake I'd not only want access to the original assets and scripts and such but also a list of the original creators' inspirations, brainstorm notes, moodboards and the sort

Today I made an important contribution to humanity: uquiz.com/gaDdV2

Media execs have fallen prey to a propaganda and harassment campaign that has completely divorced them from what people actually want right now. Both their insular information environments (group chats, podcasts) and ambient noise (Twitter reactionaries) have put them in a very stupid bubble.

True silent majority

It's so silly that a random artist with essentially no reach could have their life ruined over a dubcon illustration, while any streaming services can produce shows watched by millions of people that feature violent sexual assault.

personally if i made a website that found success off the backs of sex workers and porn artists i would not continually add new rules that say “that’s icky you guys are ickyyyyyy”

taking a stance against simulated "non consent" in porn is idiotic and leads always to having some dipshit appointed to arbitrarily decide what acts between adults "can't be consented to," and therefore can't be depicted. I'll give you a hint: they will be gay.

probably the realest thing ive ever seen posted on that website

Today in sound design What is the sound of an icon rotating?

1st time I got doxed (before GG, when some nerds mad because I thought interactive fiction deserved to be on Steam and I got the 1st one approved to be on the platform) they got my info from a signup to house people displaced by the Boston marathon bombing. The concern around protest signup is legit

Been using Godot 4.5 a few days now and all the little IDE changes are so nice to work with. Who knew seeing an unused variable being highlit in code would be such a nice QoL improvement.

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

Grew up in Northern Ireland but had to become trans to be labelled a terrorist.

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So this song is absolutely wild to begin with. But I'd like to highlight the *incredible* orchestral support. Too often people treat orchestral support as just 'same tune, but more fancy', but this one just transforms the song from great to utterly outlandish. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne4k...

I played this game a couple of months ago with friends and it was a real joy. Very good Viscera Cleanup Detail successor.

This was from banning trans girls from girls sports. Just so you understand the reality of what's going on here.

Crucial to distinguish between   a) the Right claiming the Kirk murder is akin to the 1933 Reichstag fire (and demanding drastic state repression in response) and   b) an actual comparison between the situation in the United States today and Germany in early 1933.   A few thoughts on both:

ok so like, kirk is like evil reichstag fire and kimmel is good reichstag fire i'm getting so confused with the metaphors and where does andor and aunt tifa fit in please halp