I highly recommend that everyone follow artists. If you do, your feed is filled with art every day. Real, original art. It's bonkers that you can even have this. Amazing. Undeniably cool. And then support those artists, when you can, because that helps the delight continue.

As far as I know there is literally no reason for this, it is just an incredibly lucky coincidence that we get to enjoy for free

Google’s AI Overviews are providing “tens of millions of wrong answers … every hour — and hundreds of thousands every minute.” wow, i love the AI future!

This game deserves at least 1000 reviews... it's truly exceptional across the full spectrum of game design. Mainly, it's just really really fun, clever/inventive, and expects the player to engage and develop themselves (ie no silly in-game "xp"; the human playing needs to level up their brains).

The fact that it's hard, but you still want to anyway, is how you know it's worth doing. It means you're learning, growing, exploring, discovering, building, or maybe even adding something to the world that wasn't there before: knowledge, beauty, community, or even new life.

great thread! AND i want to add that making art is GOOD work the act of making is GOOD work. the action, the verb, the process the people that own the plagiarism machine, all they can see is that you can sell a made thing...so that's what they're selling sell more things, without making anything

Fun with paper (ie bits of various collages I’ve been working on) ❤️

Here's a song I wrote ages ago about that time in the 2010s when people were really into 'Happy' by Pharrell Williams. It's not often something you write gets more relevant the further away you get from writing it, but...

#dandelions The sacred geometry of dandelions.

The handmade, human qualities of your work are more valuable than they've ever been. Don't doubt that for a second.

I was asked to give my thoughts on generative AI usage in games - here they are!

This really captures my childhood, and what it felt like to learn about computers—everything was so captivating and full of potential I could uncover! I would spend hours and hours just trying things and exploring. I loved it. I miss the enthusiastic optimism I felt about tech back in those days :/

I wouldn't say I'm massively into phones or anything but I sketched this out of frustration bc why are there no modern phones with these features, it would be so perfect and I'm mad the only ones are old and slow

I wrote about a company that had bad vibes from the jump defector.com/vindicated-a...

Elon Musk has already started plans to launch a million satellites. Yes. A MILLION. This is a colossally bad idea, and it's not too late to make your voice heard. I explain everything: www.scientificamerican.com/article/ramp... 🔭 🧪

Costco is a really popular subject for business-success case studies but I feel like business guys kinda lose interest when the upshot of the study is like "just operate with scrupulous integrity in all facets and levels of your business for four decades" and not some easy-to-fix gimmick

The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan. darksky.org/news/two-sat...

Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

I'm an unemployed video game designer with 14 years of experience and multiple shipped titles. Every day I get up to apply for jobs and every day the news says this

The NYU Game Center's hiring! A senior, tenure-track professor post for an experienced game designer, artist or industry pro with a notable body of creative work. Experience finishing games and mentoring/teaching more important than any kind of academic credential! gamecenter.nyu.edu/were-hiring-...

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

It's an honour to have been part of @indiecade.bsky.social both as attendees as well as award recipients -- it's an event that has contributed enormously to indie games as an industry, and even moreso as a community. Happy Anniversary, Indiecade!

writing poetry has given me so much experience making stuff no one is going to look at and no one thinks is really worth thinking about. I encourage everyone to work in discarded, "abdandoned", neglected, "low", "unimportant", "irrational" forms, media, etc.; it is liberating, educational, useful

Sometimes all you can do is make the world 0.0000000000001% less awful by being a good person and it feels very meaningless but it’s also the only thing that really matters

raigan said he's nearly out of copies, so let me pick up the banner: i've got 5 copies of Cinco Paus if you want to play one of @smestorp.bsky.social 's best games.

ATTENTION BSKY: in celebration of Cinco Paus Day's Eve, please message me if you'd like a free copy of the best game ever made. :) smestorp.itch.io/cinco-paus Also TSLOG are doing an amazing series of podcasts on Michael's games: eggplant.show PLEASE REPOST! OR RE-SKEET! WHATEVER IT'S CALLED!! :)

Happy Birthday to all my birthday twins! @doubleanna.bsky.social @ryanodonnell.bsky.social @droqen.bsky.social @petripurho.bsky.social I hope you are all having a wonderful day 🎉

Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."

Today in "Don't Trust AI to Tell You Facts": How several different "AI" programs messed up the simple fact of to whom I dedicated a book, and what that means for how much you should trust "AI" to tell you the truth about things (spoiler: not much at all): whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/13/a...

AI has actively made life worse for literally everyone - tech is now more expensive - you cannot trust most media of reality anymore - programs barely function - energy prices - literal psychosis - your voice can be literally stolen for evil - more spyware but hey, you can avoid paying an artist.

It's my birthday! The ONLY thing I want is more subscribers to the exp. Patreon! It's just $1/month for consistent, quality video game criticism, but my gift to you TODAY ONLY (til 11:59pm EST) is 90% off the first month with the code 09BAA. That's like 10¢! But if you can't sub, please share!

Microsoft: 30% of our code is now written by AI Also Microsoft:

I was one of the other authors whose free games were used as a basis for this (by permission, under contract). Read the thread for details; I agree with every word Alan has written (both the positives about the game, and the negatives about Jonathan Blow).

My love for em dashes is as old as the hills and as mighty as my inability to make a transition between thoughts literally any other way and I will be damned if I let the clankers take that from me

HEY if you have ever wanted to make a whole working #PICO8 ROM from absolute scratch, but weren't sure where to start... just head over to www.pico-8-edu.com and i'll take you on a lil 15 minute tour that will have you up and running in no time! well, in 15 minutes 😅 www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWsj...

Just stop and read this John Paul Brammer piece on Substack. You’re welcome! Here’s a nibble: “The color of ChatGPT’s blood if ChatGPT could bleed, if ChatGPT could be slashed with a sashimi knife and if milky fluid could come gushing out of its jugular.”

I feel like I *just* posted about it but every time someone says people should promote their book I'm gonna promote my book. Just imagine adding this wonderful book of essays to your cart of Black Friday whatever. Think how you will cherish the experience of buying and then reading it

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...

I am glad to hear HORSES—the most incredible demo I played all year—is coming out soon, but hearing about yet another indie game getting axed by Steam really frustrates me.

One more week to submit games to the Pico-8 arcade residency! Application deadline is 11/23 at midnight

We don’t use generative AI at Strange Scaffold and I can confirm that a *lot* of other studios are not—whether indie or AAA. Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.

TEN++ bonus update! We've added support for Steam Cloud and fixed the save corruption issue -- hooray! Hope this helps everyone have an even better time playing N++ <3 store.steampowered.com/app/230270/N...

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...

Jays win!!!

It’s always so delightful to hear @raiganburns.bsky.social cackling with glee as players encounter the gotchas in his fave N++ levels 😅

Re-posting for the weekend crowd -- it's TEN++, the 10th Anniversary of N++, and we're celebrating! <3

@raiganburns.bsky.social will be playing some of the new levels at 3pm EST! If you want to join in the fun, we'll be streaming here: www.twitch.tv/metanet_soft... and you can sign up in the discord to play (details below)!

AND ALSO, the lede buried in our blog post -- we're working on something new! 👀 Want to find out about it (soonish)? Sign up here: www.metanetsoftware.com/newgame

Want to get a sneak peak of the super-secret TEN++ Solo levels? One of the best players in the world is streaming them right now! :D www.twitch.tv/hiya_5