it's friday, have a cozy dog

robyn has a new song out, signals are beginning to reach us from the good timeline if we listen for them. open your hearts, strengthen the signal, dance a little bit!

Things are difficult and the world is bad but give yourself a moment to lay on the floor with me and listen to this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH7W...

Alright everybody its time to start collecting nominations. Who should be included in nominations for the award for BEST "LITTLE GUY" introduced in a game in 2025? Nominations close end of November. For a refresher you can see some of last year's nominations here; bsky.app/profile/raji...

geoff,

I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.

I had a google alert set up for my name since there was a lot of fun stuff around DAV's release. Forgot about it until I got an obituary today. Rest well other Blair Thorburn, I hope you weren't a dick.

Briana White - Aerith’s voice actress in the FF7 series- is currently running a huge charity auction with a bunch of Final Fantasy memorabilia. And all proceeds are donated Immigrant Defenders Law Center - helping for legal funds and reconnecting families. Take a look! tiltify.com/@thestranger...

A thing that I think is good is when a human creates a piece of art

Madison Schubert www.tumblr.com/mads-schuber...

Hey hey artists! 3 remote contract roles are open at ArenaNet: 🔶 Senior Concept Artist - www.arena.net/en/careers/j... 🔶 Senior Creature Concept Artist - www.arena.net/en/careers/j... 🔶 Senior Environment Artist - www.arena.net/en/careers/j...

Happy “living vicariously through the NYC Mayoral Election” day to those who celebrate

At 7 studios over the years, only one wasn't beset by dysfunctional leadership. Another was only functional for one of their several projects. It doesn't start making sense when you become a lead or director, you just get paid more to shout into the void trying to change it.

as far as i can tell this is what new york is facing right now and im wishing you all the best

apropos of the latest discourse, I'll just repost this from earlier

TFW u open BlueSky and a bunch of ppl are vaguely posting about the same shit

I just learned you can buy a used tugboat for $250k and then you can tug *anything*

remember we also have the winter edition of fast men with sticks coming soon, so pace yourselves and stay hydrated.

it has been infinitely entertaining just filling in the gaps of people's reactions to the baseball instead of watching it myself. I can experience all the emotions in a fraction of the hours!

I'm in the seventh quarter of game sixteen of this joke.

is this the same baseball from earlier in the week? have they been going this whole time? do they have to keep changing people out so they can sleep?

Happy 1st birthday, Dragon Age: Dad Wolf 🐉🐺 A mixture of some of the best work of my career working alongside the most awesome people, with crushing office politics and toxic mismanagement that nearly killed me in about five different ways. We stood for something though, and for that I'm proud.

I didn't work on this directly, but helped with a bunch of team playtesting and feedback and it's been a blast! Newly released now, go check it out! A solid pickup if you're into tactics games like Advance Wars or Into The Breach

gamedev

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Some old shots from around NYC

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Hey folks! I hope ya’ll are well! Just a lil reminder that if you like my art (or Echo) you can support me on Ko-Fi as I look for work and try to get back on my feet. All money goes to paying bills. If you’re not in a position to help, sharing means a lot 💙 Thank you! ko-fi.com/belgianboolean

to think that the predictability machine could come close to replicating the sheer chaos applied by anyone experienced in QA is preposterous.

Please RT!!!!

I've only done the batting minigame in Yakuza, at what point does Kazuma-san enter the field?

a helluva time to know next to nothing and have near zero investment in baseball

who needs discourse when you can disassociate

boo my tattoo artists are doing spooky flash but my blood is still cursed for a couple more months. if your local tattoo artist is doing spooky flash, please get some so I can bleed vicariously.

mood

did world of warcraft just omegaverse us?

did world of warcraft just omegaverse us?

Reminder for tomorrow, Edmontonians! Want to listen to Halloween tunes, get your tarot cards read or your gaming dice blessed, and support local choirs? Come to the 1st Annual Cthulhu Choir & Dance! (Benefits EKO Singers and EVM, a local queer choir!) www.astralprojects.ca/cthulhuchoir

Really glad to see this reported on. www.pcgamer.com/games/the-si...

Today at 1pm CT, I finally start streaming Veilguard!❤️✨ NOTE: To help manage the riffraff, I am turning on subscribers-only mode on the chat. There is a 20 min wait time between pushing 'subscribe' and being able to chat, so keep that in mind! Link to stream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSXk...

reading game industry news

The dark romance girlies have every man fooled into thinking we all have an abusive stalker fantasy. No, baby. Use that bass in your voice to ask me about my day. 😂

A lot of good games and peoples' careers died on the altar of this frankly impossible goal and players should be more mad about this than they'll probably express. They'll feel it tho when Satya and Amy jettison Xbox en total to make room for more openai bullshit.

we started to stagnate as an industry when we stopped giving male characters juicy booties. why don't we start with 32% more butt and see how it goes?

People don’t want to hear it but we should be able to give our male characters in these third person RPGs absolute Pixar mom dump trucks

we started to stagnate as an industry when we stopped giving male characters juicy booties. why don't we start with 32% more butt and see how it goes?

1/ Trump’s immigration crackdown in Chicago, dubbed “Operation Midway Blitz,” has prompted an unorthodox form of high-pitched protest: whistles Organizers have been sending out tiny plastic alarm systems by the 1000's to residents who want to alert others when immigration agents are in the vicinity

I think smaller teams make better games. I think happy people make better games. I think every studio should be thinking of the team as their #1 product and strength, and the games are the OUTPUT of that team. People should be trained, given opportunities, given reasons to WANT to be there

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