I'm already seeing, as I book meetings for tradeshows, that international folks who usually show up every year are just not wanting to come to the US. And frankly, do they need to anymore? We are really speed running irrelevance over here. It's very strange to watch it play out in real time.

Fighting in the American-Danish War, on the side of the Danish.

We need to stop calling it male pattern baldness and start calling it heroes journey 2

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Rewatching hbomberguy’s Tallarico video and the best show don’t tell part of this whole thing is how many random, no-name podcasts that dude did. Just a parade of Discord calls that allowed him to tell strangers how proud his mother was of him.

Grok is so much worse than you think.

Save me, fully loaded Chipotle bowl.

people who hit space twice after a sentence disgust me. what are you doing with your life? time is precious; you don't have the luxury to be following a rule passed down erroneously from a different technological era.

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

Two episodes in, and I already hate this pro-AI doctor in The Pitt.

it’s actually not hard to gauge the quality of any given tv show—if the characters involved make correct moral choices, it’s a good show. this is why the sopranos is considered one of the worst shows ever made, and it’s why every year the outstanding drama emmy goes to paw patrol

One thing I've always been fond of is our windows. Having contiguous exterior\interior spaces was important to us- but early on we realized interiors needed different ambient light from the exterior to feel properly cozy

Post a game you remember playing that nobody else remembers

Happy #PortfolioDay- I'm Amelia, and we could work together! It's hard to pick a favorite design area so here's a spread ameliaherman.artstation.com

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Keep hearing devs say that they only use ai for "pre-concept art" There is no pre-concept art. There is concept art. That's where the idea starts. With the concept. You're using ai for concept art.

SIX HUNDRED AND FIFTY UNITED STATES DOLLARS?!

not that long ago there were new videos every day of cops maiming and beating the shit out of protesters with gleeful abandon, and not only did “defund the police” get written off as extreme, joe biden got elected and proudly gave them even more money. it’ll easily happen again

I don’t think they’re misreading them so much as they are terrified of the implications because it means the status quo has to break. there’s no incrementalism for this. mass radicalization of this scale scares Democrats more than anything Republicans could do and I mean that literally.

indie dev who's been saving pennies for the last 20 years: i will find a way to pay my talented friends what they're worth bazillion dollar AAA studio's CEO, staring longingly at the Stealing Machine 3000: i think we're spending too much on our artists' salaries and not enough on my yachts

Perfect Tides: Station to Station has been nominated for two IGF awards: -Excellence in Narrative -Seumas McNally Grand Prize This is such a tremendous honor, and what a nice hurrah as and the team and the playtesters and I race towards the finish line. Nomination list: tinyurl.com/2zzt8sw4

hi! i'm co-founding a new gaming website with my former polygon colleague @zoehhannah.com. it's called mothership.blog. i made it for someone like me... the kind of website i always wished we had in our space. watch the video to learn more :D

Need a “Weenie Mode” for The Pitt that swaps out all of the surgical scenes with renditions by Muppets or something.

From 30 years of being an adult leftist: there is no amount of polite respectability that will keep centrists from saying you’re being rude to them by existing and no amount of overt Nazi shit from the right that will make centrists agree to even moderate concessions to the left.

F) For the love of all that is good and holy stop wondering if your idea is any good! That way lies madness. Your idea, whatever it is, will live or die by its execution. Commit to your idea. Eat and drink your idea. Play with it, have fun with it.

accidentally introduced a bug to the game where all the text got replaced with "you"

Finally getting back to this feature in Lexa that I put down months ago that is both A) extremely important for the translation mechanic and B) a giant pain in the ass. And I finally solved the issue that was stumping me. Feels good.

I see devs get prickly about playtesting because they're afraid of being "focus grouped" or having the edges sanded off. The point of playtesting is to see if what you intended was what the player actually experienced, and there's no other way to find this out than putting it in front of someone.

It sucks to say because it's what bad people like to claim but there are some people who claim to be proponents of social justice causes who are mostly there to use it as a cudgel to do dumb high school cafeteria bully shit online and god are they ever tiresome

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When you get up real early to feed your cats and try to give one of them their meds, only for both to end up getting real mad and scratching the hell out of you.

Producers / product leads / project leads / scrum folks, we gotta find a single term for the part of stand up that happens at the very end to follow up on topics of discussion. I've heard it called "afterparty," "parking lot," and other things. Every team calls this something different - why. *Why?*

my game is gonna be so good. its gonna suck ass

Shoutout to platforms and services that allow you to download all of the receipts/invoices in a given date range instead of having to download one PDF per month/purchase at a time. Makes collating all of this shit for taxes much easier.

This is billionaire-controlled media. They want to sleepwalk us into another forever war. We must break free.

"Maduro is a brutal authoritarian dictator," I wisely intone, as the corrupt demented paedophile US President violating Constitutional Law while operating a gestapo and concentration camps illegally arrests a foreign leader on charges which read like they were written on a paper placemat in crayon.

I love noticing actors in small roles across multiple movies and shows. For instance, I just rewatched all of Silicon Valley and am now watching Mad Men for the first time, and Allan Miller shows up for a single episode in both.

Not to be like “everything is gender” but here the feminized left is tasked with reforming and assuaging the masculinized right, like so many mothers blowing on boo boos.

So what I’m hearing is I’m special.

year of the horse

I was having a good morning. Then I played Scriddle.

Many of you are psyching yourself up to start that dream project in 2026. AWESOME Just keep in mind that devoting your free time to achieving your dreams is not the same as Hustle Culture. Keep your mind on you and your art and don't fall into the trap of thinking every minute should be monetized.

Saw someone talking about their favorite movies of the year, and it made me think about what I even *saw* that came out in 2025 and… It wasn’t a lot.

🏆 James' Indie James Awards, there are still people making wonderful Idiosyncratic art, heres my annual roundup of the best i played this year🧵