I and a good number of very talented game devs were laid off by Obsidian as part of the Microsoft sacrificial rituals this morning. If you or anyone you know is looking for a Senior Writer/ND with more than two decades' experience in titles like Dragon Age and Mass Effect, please let me know!

My brain wants to read USMNT as "United States Marine...Mint"? Idk it's weird in there y'all

Trans rights are human rights always and forever.

Wondering if I'll ever get my chair back...

I extroverted so hard I pulled a muscle at a dinner party. Time to over-correct with a blanket, a cat, and a video game.

Asking how people can partake in joyful acts during a period of immense suffering leads me to believe this is your first time at the suffering rodeo.

Day three of migraine and I finally took a muscle relaxer this had better fucking work

Back on my bullsh

Best comedy of the year

Seeing a lot of "welp, I got hit" posts on LinkedIn today but no layoff announcements. Once again, very sorry to see such amazing, talented people cast aside like so much jetsam.💔

The cyberpunk genre owes heavily to film noir. Ya know the subversion of the Hayes Code where everyone gets got and nobody escapes?

As always

bro…are you ok…your dialogue text is jiggling

the dream of the games industry is to one day work somewhere prestigious enough that it makes the news when they lay you all off

by Yutaka Murakami (Japanese, b. 1957)

Chthonic /dev/null

While we are on a music kick, lets listen to what ancient Persia sounded like around 1400 BC? Sarah Parsaei performs on the Arjan harp — a historic instrument with roots going back nearly 3,400 years — in Tehran, Iran. #globalmuseum #music #Persian #musicalinstruments #history

This Danville, VA city council candidate made a very dramatic video about sidewalks and public safety, and I love it and him. Worrying about a possible milkshake duck situation, I looked at his FB page, but he seems ok. Juneteenth celebrations, community outreach, Methodists. A solid old gent.

There's a universe where whenever someone thinks about bananas, about a dozen or so Minions burst through the walls and have a dance party. Sure, we're lucky that we don't have to go through that all the time. But in a sense, it's a shame that we never get to experience that.

what is instagram for if not to make fun of your dog (who cannot read or use phone)

Oh wow. Both of Severin's superb folk horror box sets are 50% off TODAY.

I’m building a team:

Happy #LetterboxdFriday! What's your #LastFourWatched?

Our Loathing games are at their lowest prices ever on Steam and the Switch eShop -- never been a better time to buy them for yourself or anyone else you've ever met who maybe could use a good giggle, chuckle, or guffaw. store.steampowered.com/developer/Asym www.nintendo.com/us/search/#c...

apologies for screenshotting the bad place but

god what an unforced disaster to take the team that built and maintained Destiny 2 and just smash it into the rocks instead of investing in whatever that big pile of talent and skill can build next

YES!!!

This could lead to much-needed change

Like, if your financial model isn't viable even when you're able to get away with underpaying the most expensive chunk of your workforce by nearly 50% because they just want to work in your subfield that badly...what in the fuck were your corporate strategy decisionmakers doing

idk how you unfuck the economics of game dev, but big studios constantly going "we just can't afford all these developers who we pay like 60% the market rate for engineering roles w/ comparable experience at comparable non-game-dev companies" doesn't reflect well on studio execs' basic competence

I made it my life mission to reference this as many times as I can

The Furious is rolling along in theaters and blowing minds all over. A couple of weeks back, I met up with the great Joe Taslim and had a great conversation with him about the film, playing two Mortal Kombat icons, his life in Judo, and so much more www.menshealth.com/entertainmen...

Our games industry is people. Our studios are people. Our teams people, our games by people for people. Our games are made by people, in groups of people, in teams of people, making people things for people. The magic is people, and the people deserve so much better than all this. I am so sorry.

the bread is $13.50 and all the circuses are subscription based

Older lady peeped the rainbow flag on my bike, asked in a thick Russian accent “It’s your Pride?” She told me her youngest grandchild is “not she berry or he berry but no berry.” I said “Nonbinary?” She got so excited. Yes! Yes! And “Is a secret, but they are my“ *looks around, whispers* “favorite.”

@obviousplant.bsky.social is this your doing, somehow?

Today was the day Tom Loftis finally became Lord Island Protector.

Well fuck me, can't get this out of my head: <Boy George voice> Chroma, chroma, chroma Chroma Quaternion You come and go, you come and go...

Something I didn't expect about middle age is the amount of sighing you do daily as a matter of physiological necessity

How in the fuck is it 29° C (84° F) in our fucking apartment? It's a nice place but I swear no one heard of insulation when they built it :P

fun fact: they found the original digital master tapes of all the Reboot episodes that we previously only had in VHS quality, refurbished the extremely rare and expensive tape machines required to play the masters, and are currently uploading them to youtube for free in 1080p! youtu.be/inKdUICLmXY

some very good seth rogen lore here

Awww shit. Time for House of the Dragon S3 E1 ⚔️💔🐉

"i was radicalized by video games" "oh so you saw the rampant capitalistic abuse and predatory pricing practices and decided to take a stand" "no i saw a women"

Drug dealer on Widow's Bay was too fucking real.