This is so, so well-articulated.

REMINDER

Still think about this one

the choice is never neoliberalism or fascism. insufficiently managed and regulated economic liberalism yields social dysfunction then fascism as backlash and synthesis. they are complements, not substitutes.

this saturday, I’m gonna be on a panel about labor organizing in the video game industry at NYU alongside other very cool people! RSVP here: www.eventbrite.com/e/labor-orga...

This is tomorrow! 6:30pm in downtown Brooklyn. We've put together an amazing panel to talk about unionization and labor organizing in games. Should be a great conversation!

THIS SATURDAY! The Game Center is hosting the Independent Labor Club of NYC at 370 Jay Street for a panel on labor organizing in the game industry, moderated by Game Center instructor @literallyaking.com RSVP and more info here: www.eventbrite.com/e/boss-fight...

The squishy footprint sounds for walking on water... 😩

This is a wonderful piece, really resonated with me as someone who also developed a love of words from playing games (for me RPGs generally, and MtG) I remember some SAT word list or whatever that had like, truncheon, bludgeon, cudgel, etc and being like, "uhh yeah, these are all just blunt weapons"

Haha really glad to see coverage of this, I've definitely seen a lot of these little acts of vandalism on AI ads at my stop. My favorites are the little insults written in ballpoint, since they suggest even random passers-by are fed up and doing their bit.

This is really fun! An undeniable part of the magic is knowing that a real living breathing actual human, someone who hopes and dreams just as you do, is somewhere out there writing a funny answer just for you. Huh, wonder if there's a lesson there.

I think this article below is a must read, I've been thinking about it a lot. I've seen so many takes like this one regarding the media consolidation. It sucks, but: No. Your individual purchasing choices are not enough, you cannot buy your way out of this. It has to be collective action to work.

Yeah, it really is like that

I urge you to stop what you're doing and watch Alysa Liu's free skate from yesterday. I have never seen anything like this. I understand why sports writers are born now. I have never seen anyone as free from the burdens of this world as this pierced Oakland girl spinning to Donna Summers.

I love when a calm recitation of facts results in the sickest burns possible

they put new york city in magic the gathering and it's a land that taps to make rats

lol they have so little confidence in this demand being sustained, at all, that they're not wasting a penny of capex

if you asked me to diagnose the western game industry's current problem it would start with "landlords have absorbed basically all disposable income"

We had some chocolate coins over the holidays, my toddler loves em. But it was a truly critical tutorialization error having that as an intro to coins. Now whenever he sees a coin, eg quarters in the change tin, pretend coins in the cash register etc etc, he excitedly asks "And we eat them??"

Just happened to read this bit from "The I Without a Self" from W H Auden's The Dyer's Hand (1962), about a Kafka protagonist versus the 'traditional Quest', and made me think of the "Fool's Errand" below, but like, instead of playing it for laughs it's just an existential bummer

🔊 Conway's Game of Life but it's a synthesizer, inspired by @literallyaking.com #synth #proceduralGeneration #procgen #solodev #indiedev #programming

I dunno, I don't think people are stupid. Maybe it's that Lay's shares a product category with a ton of 'chips' that ARE just ultra-processed extruded powders, and we have incredibly weak labelling regulations letting manufacturers say whatever they want. It isn't stupid to think it's all crap.

And a great example of one of the many instances where something weird and memorable in the original (where trolls are three-eyed and grotesquely ape-*like*) has been replaced with something generically higher definition but totally boring (a monkey with a sort of orc head)

"If you see artwork in Fallen London with too many eyes or fingers, rest assured that those are there on purpose." 😘👌✨

This slogan sure is raising a lot of questions about whether AI actually works that are answered by the slogan

PICO-SHEETS, my tiny spreadsheet app in PICO-8, is ready for 1.0! Simulate an office vibe and do minor accounting tasks all from the comfort of your local fantasy console. #pico8 #gamedev #spreadsheets www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=154...

Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step. 1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish. 2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.

This is true. I had a cubicle at my first job, and I literally didn't know how good I had it. Quiet, private, high walls, like a small office. Everything after that was open floorplan hell, mainly chosen only because they *look* more hip and dynamic.

Finished the new season of culinary class wars last night, and while I thought the season was only okay overall, I absolutely loved Venerable Sunjae, a Buddhist monk who cooks temple cuisine. More game shows needs to have monk contestants! Someone with no attachments is utterly terrifying.

This is allegedly to "improve efficiency" but I assume it's for the exact same reason every company wants you to use their app for purchases now, because then it magically makes price discrimination legal.

Love this game! Played it a ton back in the day. It's a sort of Mad Max themed trading sim. You're going around buying low and selling high, but if you screw up your water volume-to-weight ratio calc you die of thirst in the desert.

This is incredible work, haunting and humanizing. And here's a different link to the video that doesn't seem throw a login wall- www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...

This fall marks 10 years of me working 'in games' (more or less), and I wanted to jot some thoughts down about it while it's still 2025. I often feel like I haven't accomplished anything, but all in all, somehow I can't bring myself to feel disappointed. blog.literallyaking.com/2025/12/30/1...

Checking out music piracy for the first time in about twenty years, and it's wild how much it's changed from.. sifting through random mp3s with no consistent naming convention that are sometimes misattributed, to like... meticulously well meta-tagged FLACs of an artists' entire oeuvre.

It's funny seeing that WSJ article making the rounds about having an LLM "run" a vending machine. There was the exact same story from the exact same company six months ago. Even punchline (it's bad at it, but in a funny way) is the viral-share-encouraging same. It's just an ad basically?

Did an ideas guy write this?

Game designer: After lots of hard work we’re proud to announce we’ve created the Wheel of Saṃsāra from the ancient Buddhist classic Don’t Get Trapped in the Wheel of Saṃsāra

📊📊 Hey wanna make some spreadsheet makes?? 📊📊 This saturday it's @beetleeggblues.bsky.social's 2 HR GameJam Club at @wonderville.nyc, and this month's engine is Google Sheets!! So I'll be there doing a workshop, sharing some spreadsheet gamemaking tricks of the trade. ⊞✋👨

📊📊 Hey wanna make some spreadsheet makes?? 📊📊 This saturday it's @beetleeggblues.bsky.social's 2 HR GameJam Club at @wonderville.nyc, and this month's engine is Google Sheets!! So I'll be there doing a workshop, sharing some spreadsheet gamemaking tricks of the trade. ⊞✋👨

I'm using some music tagging software on the contents of my old ipod, and I've discovered a couple friends in college did NOT have the impressively deep and eclectic tastes I had assumed, they just had a copy of Clubber's Guide 2008

Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨

Wow, straight up cancelling the whole thing a week before it'd launch, I think that might be unprecedented? I really feel for the people working there, so many stories out of Wizards these days indicate they're being pushed to make too much too fast, and the cracks are really starting to show.

You should go see this!! I can't think of any recent film that is this in conversation with games. This is a movie that connects Buster Keaton silent film slapstick, Let's Plays, and the systemic logic of videogames, without any dialogue but an off the charts gags-per-minute.

Wow on those stats vs Adams this time four years ago. It's a whole order of magnitude change on the # of people vs amount given. Adams' transition: 884 people, donating $1,129 each Mamdani's: 12,707 people, donating $77.65 each

The largest mass media- NYT, CNN, CBS, etc- are owned by billionaires. They own media not to make money, but to control the information space to be friendly to class interests. Those outlets will never report positive political outcomes for regular people in any kind of objective framing.

I'm finding Monster Train 2 to be mostly only okay, but I will say that in a year with a lot of sequels, it's one of the few that adheres to the Pokémon Gold/Silver sequel standard of excellence- namely, that the direct sequel contains basically the whole of the first game in its entirety.

The back half of this is interesting too. He shows I think genuine disbelief in how development can possibly happen if rent can't be maximized to extract a profit- Market fundamentalism so absolute that alternatives can't even be imagined. Libraries, eg, must be so utterly baffling and alien to him.

Something that Zohran's win has got me thinking about is the ongoing collapse of 'mainstream'/corporate media for liberal consent manufacture. We usually think of the negatives, post-truth fake news etc, but it also has benefits- no one is tuning in to see them punch left and tear down progressives.