pals you gotta quit spotify

Ever dreamed of gaslighting billionaires? Good news. Better Than Us, our next game, lands in 2026.

Yesterday I was informed Linkin Park Haribo exists, and I don't know what to do with this. But I *do* feel the strong need to share this forbidden truth. Here you go.

AI hasn't even invented the "I'm too busy to tell my loved ones I love them, write this for me" madness.

Now it's nearly December I'm going to share some* of my 5-star books from** the year *many books were enjoyed this year, I will not remember to put all of them on this list **books may not have been written anywhere near 2025

Billionaires shouldn't really be talking about public executions.

They had a nightmare after watching Zootopia 1. Yeeeaaa, I'll never get them to watch The Thing.

W... what?

I'm so glad he's still doing this bit. #PCGSMW #pcgamer

@jaketucker.bsky.social Good luck! 🤞🎉

My partner, who doesn't handle horror media well, has not and probably never will see The Thing. But they *do* send me Thing-related art, comics, memes they stumble upon - so, indirectly, I'm getting them to experience the whole story, one disjointed piece of information at a time! 🐺🚁

Entertained to discover the SUSD effect on boardgames (they sell out, people get upset, etc.) also kinda works for Quinns Quest: Experienced DMs in a system annoyed by discord newcomers who wanna run intricate campaigns with no preparation or desire to know about the setting. Unavoidable, but ouch.

Can't wait to upgrade my PC and pay €1,000 for... every single piece of hardware in it. Or, hey, maybe the future is more boardgames and tabletop RPGs, once the state comes kicking down doors to confiscate our PCs because data centers have more need of my m2 storage.

A cartoon by @instachaaz

Can't wait to upgrade my PC and pay €1,000 for... every single piece of hardware in it. Or, hey, maybe the future is more boardgames and tabletop RPGs, once the state comes kicking down doors to confiscate our PCs because data centers have more need of my m2 storage.

Blue Jays having a bit of a scrum in the snow.

Humble has relisted Horses.

Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it. So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:

Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨

Show your solidarity with artists and stand against censorship by buying this game on Itch before it gets delisted there too. This is one of those times where voting with your wallet *can* make a difference. A platform making a chunk of change off sales will 100% think twice before delisting.

on this day of Wrapped Discourse ™, I have finally managed to quit Spotify

Happy Tears and Resilience: Apart from its genuine emotions on stage, the brave stance of an industry rattled by political and economic recessions stood out to our Senior Editor Pascal Wagner at his first visit to the German Developer Award. www.gamesmarket.global/happy-tears-...

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Humble's now banned it too, post-launch: www.ign.com/articles/hor...

On one hand: Please never judge me based on the characters I invent. I'll play a cop drama RPG next year, don't think I like cops because of that! On the other: Takes a certain genius to write a public post after a decade of obscurity where you talk up the biggest asshole you invented. ⚖️

I wish ill on JK Rowling. How fucking dare she? (I mean, I know how she dare...) You watch, its going to be the WI next. She's going to systemically dismantle all trans-inclusive womens groups in the name of "protecting women and girls". I hope the orcas sink her yacht.

Whenever I start losing hope I think of how in 5, 10, 20 years you'll be able to smell, say, JK Rowling's grave from 100m away because of all the piss. Drawing circles around tombstones like earthquake epicenters: This asshole, small circle, that asshole, big circle, etc. Just gotta hang in there.

OMGGG yesterday Duck Detective: the Ghost of Glamping won best audio at the German Developer Awards!!! We're absolutely stoked and especially proud of Svyatoslav Petrov our composer and @mariehavemann.bsky.social our sound designer!! 💕

1) It's not hard, just enable ALT being required! 2) Iiiiit's been a year. 3) So I post 1/3 the links as others, but am still offering 11% more websites? Read more than one site! 💀 4) Wow, that active vocabulary is already tiny, but 2x as many unique words?! And it's not foreign language posts. Huh.

We're hosting another closed alpha test for Dawn of War IV on the weekend of the 13th! Be sure to join our Discord and follow the instructions if you want to see what we're cooking. Discord.gg/dawnofwar4 This is a small-scale test again, but we're looking to do more tests in the future. 👀 #DOW4

So @shraddhagupta.bsky.social and I were discussing today how views on @aiandgames.com this year are no doubt lower not just because of YouTube being shit, but we covered more niche projects. Our videos on Trepang2 and Blood Typers had the lowest views but glad to see viewers check those games out.

bummer situation but grim lol at this exception on the epic games store

This but with everything. Like, my laptop choice currently is "child labor, forced obsolescence and AI integration" vs "we should make room for racism as long as the racist likes FOSS" and there's only a little bit of hyperbole in that statement

firefox AI and slop disablers from tumblr for the people from local hero mckitterick. Tried it on my end and the browser is significantly faster now (copy paste-able in the alt text)

Finally got a robo vacuum and within 15 minutes I see why people anthropomorphise those suckers immediately. "Help me, I'm stuck on this carpet :( " - yup, that's my certified idiot.

“The number one thing that we’re here to defend as artists is humanity… We’re here not to think about makes human life easy, what makes it convenient, but what it’s like to actually live.”

We're stoked to introduce the 'No Gen AI' seal for indie games! Indie devs can use it on their game's store page to assure potential players that their game was made without the use of Generative AI. You can grab it from the Polygon Treehouse website:- www.polygon-treehouse.com/no-gen-ai-seal

When I moved to Berlin in '12, I thought "yes! all bands stop here!"... then mostly stopped going to concerts. Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen: * The Cure (opener 65daysofstatic, deserve their own entry) * Einstürzende Neubauten * Moi dix Mois * Blind Guardian * FF: Distant Worlds

happy thanksgiving #ffxiv #ff14

Using Berlin public transit means buying a ticket, watching your train change from "arriving in 2 min" to "actually not, objects on the track, find a replacement", walking half a mile to a tram, waiting as the display shows "in 4 minutes" for 8 despite being on a standalone track. 💛 BVG & DB

Our upcoming game HORSES was preemptively banned from Steam, with no path to appeal. The game will still launch next week on December 2nd and will be available on EGS, GOG, Humble, and Itch for $4.99. Here is a detailed FAQ covering what happened: horses.wtf/BannedFromSt...

We did something different with the credits for Demonschool. We used this format: name, title, lengthy description of what they did. Often you see credits in games where you don't know what the credited developer was actually responsible for. We wanted to give people proper, actual credit.

Game devs! Stop identifiably posting things that will get you fired in spaces where people who want to fire you (your CEOs right before bonuses, but also that underperforming colleague whose promotion "you stole" or who just doesn't like you) can see! Please, please, please learn some basic opsec 😭

I might not be smiling but trust me im very happy

well good because it's way better than anything they've ever made www.forbes.com/sites/caroli...

Dad worked construction, saw how it physically wrecked him, wanted to work an office job. Studied IT project mgmt, uni started a game coder masters just as I realized I'd go insane within a few years working fintech/logistics/payroll software. Thought game devs seem a fun bunch, might as well?

Dad worked construction, saw how it physically wrecked him, wanted to work an office job. Studied IT project mgmt, uni started a game coder masters just as I realized I'd go insane within a few years working fintech/logistics/payroll software. Thought game devs seem a fun bunch, might as well?

Good thread to wake up to. All the things fucked with Roblox from a safety pov. Also read the replies at the end of the first thread to the original... questioneer re: how to make sure your kid talks about you when they encounter this stuff. Nightmare fuel. Just never even start with Roblox 🫠

Shot + chaser

We were invited to screen Still Playing at Amiens Jail in France as part of the cultural activity They asked me to take off my Kufiya claming its religious symbol I explained it’s part of my culture worn by people regardless of their religion I refused to take it off & the screening was cancelled