Random person who plays indie games, you are the most important cog in an indie game's success. Most gamers don't know or care that indies exist.... unless a friend tells them. Our games succeed because you tell other people you liked our game. Word of mouth is the best marketing there is.

Executive in charge of the GDC salary report: "when we report how much less women and POC make than their white-male counterparts, be sure to use the Fortnite font so people know that the Festival of Gaming™ is all about the Gamers *dabs*"

I've been playing Q-UP, a brilliant and deeply weird incremental game with an esports theme. It starts with a simple coin flip and spirals into a fugue of emergent mechanics. I'll post some thoughts here as I idly play… store.steampowered.com/app/3730790/...

Car Size xkcd.com/3167/

Make the game they don't want to tab out of.

The "player felt a negative emotion for a moment in a playtest, that's now a Pri 1 problem" instinct in AAA prod is a huge tarpit for our industry

Open AI loses copyright case in Germany. Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."

I don’t post much on here but this came out today & I’m very proud of it. Thanks RPS & @edwinet.bsky.social for letting me do this. Skating, videogames…both things have had a profound impact on how and why I write, so to be able to put this article out in the world means a lot to me.

“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938 zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context

AAA out here doing everyone a solid. It's easier than ever to not spend your money

Perhaps the wildest thing about this all is that AI is dumb af at all of these jobs.

"In America, poverty functions to provide a low-wage labor pool that is willing - or rather, unable to be unwilling - to perform dirty work at low cost." that specific phrase, "willing - or rather, unable to be unwilling" orbits continuously through my head

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New Paper: Pixie: Code-Level Mechanic Generation for Game Designers. How do you connect automatic game design to real games? Pixie is a mechanic generation system for Unity games, as an example framework for how to build AGD systems into real game platforms. Read here: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AI...

Imagine a machine that stands about eye level, with a hole roughly where your mouth is, and a red button below that. Every time you press the button, it vomits on you. Would you keep pressing the button? Pressing the button is the equivalent of asking a White House surrogate an open-ended question.

Relentless rise in murder rate slightly dampens hopes for lower crime.

No one demanded the market distorting effects of personalist dictatorship more than capital, they should be happy with their choice. bsky.app/profile/carl...

there is a universe where the democrats didnt let republicans steal the election from this guy and the world isnt about to die

JP Morgan analysts calculated "AI products would have to create an additional $650 billion a year, indefinitely, to give investors a reasonable 10% annual return. That’s more than 150% of Apple’s yearly revenue, and a far cry from OpenAI’s current revenue of about $20 billion a year." (🎁)

the astonishing thing about this wave of denialism is that we have more or less decidedly hit the point where clean energy is the *cheaper* option by some distance

I made a joke in my main Discord server about DOOM E1M1 being in a major key and @abigbagofkeys.sickonedude.com actually made it. Jesus fucking Christ listen to this hahahaha

what's wild is we're not even really seeing the impact of the complete and total evisceration of corporate oversight, consumer protection, and the social safety net yet our regulators genuinely no longer function and the press, politicians, and even policy people also haven't noticed yet

this made me so happy i went outside and began throwing rocks at people

petro is so beast

Thinking about the impending US Bailout of AI Companies, it will be interesting to see how *anyone* defends it. 2008 was defended that it basically helped backstop job loss (to an extent). But success of AI *requires* job loss. My guess is that we'll see """national security""" thrown around.

Ah yes the American national mythology of nobody coming from overseas

Best extrapolation I've read yet. 10/10

Thanks Silicon Valley. It's nice to be reminded that fundamentally this is all still the same bubble that started in 2015. It's just gotten too narrow a pile of shit to stay standing any longer.

The Fed - "We're going to pivot from inflation to addressing a weakening job market." Trump Admin - "Uhh... You don't need to measure unemployment for that; do you?"

Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"

people are focusing on the scary part ("AI-generated") but why, why on Earth, would I want content "from users"

one degree down, one degree to go. every little bit helps. doomerism is collaboration. only big social majorities can get it done.

Might I suggest that a newspaper that was far too cozy with the most famous pedophile in the world constantly concern trolling about gender affirming care mutilating children's bodies is, in fact, two sides of the same coin.

"humanoid robot" is one of those things, like — you are spending so much energy replicating what's a very energy-efficient locomotion scheme *for humans,* just so the people who buy it can convince themselves that their new dishwasher or their new j/o toy is actually a slave

New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings “Big tech has made their choice” www.404media.co/google-has-c...

And you can do it on the cryptocurrency exchange Binance, which has accounted for $2 billion of the $5 billion the Trumps have made this year for their own cryptocurrency venture. Oh, and thanks to a pardon from Eric's dad, the founder of Binance won't have to serve time in prison.

The Republican president is a pedophile who has doubled my healthcare costs and let scores of violent criminals out of jail. But a Democratic mayor-elect wants to make busses free in a city I don't live in. I have never felt more politically homeless.

sts researchers: :spend decades tracing the way well-intentioned design choices constrained by culture, capital, and the material environment can have negative outcomes in aggregate: ai companies: lets put a chatbot in a doll that tells kids to set fires futurism.com/artificial-i...

i’ve said this before and i remain convinced it’s true, the 2028 platform that would deliver obama 08 results is “i am gonna bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”

Our leading news organizations turned a cache of ultimately-innocuous emails into a scandal-coded weeklong series of front page stories leading into the 2016 election. If they do not cover the "emails from notorious pedophile implication the President" emails with the same fervor, it's curious!

Imagine trying to convince someone a decade ago that this sentence would be a 100% literally accurate description of the American political situation.

As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.

A pedophile game show host and gang of third-tier comedians with podcasts helped the Nazis retroactively win WW2. You're not going crazy. This is what actually happened.

every few years it's revealed that the NYT was sitting on information about some horrific thing that public knowledge of would have changed the country's course and for some reason a ton of people still give them money. you can play those games on other sites

Pizzagate: If you replace the word “hot dog” with “little boy” and “pizza party” with “child sex orgy,” you will see the lengths these elites go to cover up their crimes. Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.

Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed

"The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes, or rather extrajudicial executions, and believes the attacks are illegal" www.economist.com/britain/2025...