A thing people don’t know that may underlie this decision: a “professional degree” gives a Canadian or a Mexican a right to a TN visa, which allows you to show up at the border with your diploma and a job offer and get a visa on the spot. That may be what’s going on here.

ok they deleted and reposted it for some reason but, reminder: this is a survey of GDC attendees only which self-selects for highly paid, senior devs and management which is to say: this is most likely what a result skewed _against_ unionization looks like right now

Hey guys we need to raise your power bills again because the jackoff material factory needs more power to turn your mom and daughter’s pictures into pornography and we need you to pay for it

Realis is coming sooner than you think! Sign up to be notified at launch when the print edition of @austinwalker.bsky.social's TTRPG goes live in 2026, and start bracing yourself for all the additional art, player options, and GM resources being added to the game: www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...

The "Frieren angle" thing, apart from just being delightful, also completely demolishes the pathetic "AI is democratising art" argument. Someone struggling with a difficult drawing received advice from hundreds of strangers who just wanted to help them improve their art.

Future shock sometimes hits you all at once, but other times it comes from putting 2 and 2 together gradually over time.

Mechanic [sliding out from under Optimus Prime]: I think I see what the issue is. This truck is also a big guy somehow

I get why people who make stuff don't like it when leakers reveal something in a way the creators don't want their work represented. The leads don't look bad I think the shot just isn't an exciting one.

THIS IS MY HOLE IT WAS MADE FOR ME OH MY **GOOOOODDDD**

6 hours 2000 point warhammer 2v2 game did not save me, but i did have 2 beer and shared a bag of pretzels

my FIST main, SACRAMENT. he is a 19 y/o Jesus clone created from Shroud of Turin DNA and trained from birth to be a ninja supersoldier as part of the Vatican's secret PROJECT IMMACULATE CONCEPTION.

You get it

A few of us designers have been privileged to follow along while @stoutstoat.co.uk chipped away at this project for the last few years. It's something new. An interactive history book like the kind you'd maybe read as a kid, but with the combined powers of archaeology and game design.

just started having recency bias and i love it. easily the best bias

People keep replying to this with "did you forget how Samus saved a baby Metroid, it was right there all along?" and like yeah I remember that but I also remember that she eradicated the entire rest of its species first

New article: one thing from every inkle game that we failed to explain clearly enough, and how often we've been made to regret it.

[DM who has only played Baldur's Gate 3 running session zero of their first tabletop campaign] ok what vulva style are you thinking of taking

My greatest fear as a TTRPG GM is that the energy and emotion I put into the game will not be returned.

You do not have to hand it to the Catholic bishops. In the same meeting, they banned gender affirming care at all Catholic hospitals nationwide. www.npr.org/2025/11/12/g...

Now that #OVER/UNDER is over - snapping back to reality and catching up. Got some souvenirs during the event A PFP for @d20plusmodifier.bsky.social Good times playing business cat. I ended up retiring the helmet during the final 24 hours. Revealed some new lore in my block location. 🫳🎭👁️ [nxt-tym]

I should do my internet scholarship and see if anybody else has made this point.

"What You Seek is Seeking You, my beloved, behind all these dreamy illusions and colorful chimeras lies the bright shine of your True Will." Tomorrow is the Great Day; Ergo Cosmos will be released after many years of work. May you all be blessed!

Valid & honestly a W for them Given how Disney tries to position themselves as allies/creative friendly, then immediately screws them over (a la Alex Hirsh, Dana terrace & Rebecca Sugar) I have no qualms just finding my entertainment elsewhere via other means I've got enough dvds to last years

appreciate this article breaking down a taxonomy of knowledge games (also, unfortunately, known as metroidbrainias) azhdarchid.com/against-metr...

Growing up in a time when “selling out” was the most shameful thing you could do and then being forced to live through the 2020s feels like being kicked in the head by a horse every day

I don’t care how game breaking it is, every video game should let me co-op play with a buddy

petro is so beast

I cannot begin to properly articulate how upsetting it is to have had people baselessly accuse trans people of being groomers and pedophiles only for it to come out that they were deliberately doing this as part of a project to provide cover to actual groomers and pedophiles in positions of power

Trying to write a bit at least. Working on my ice crawl pamphlet, set on a tidally locked eyeball planet. Because I am obsessed by them.

You can lead a player to systems but you can't make them engage lol

dude i love power metal. for when listening exclusively to nintendo vgm is too erudite and challenging and you need the most inside of a seven year old's mind music at all times

ᴡᴇʟᴄᴏᴍᴇ ᴛᴏ ᴛʜᴇ ɴᴀɴᴏɴᴀᴜᴛsᵀᴹ ᴄʟɪɴɪᴄ, ᴘʟᴇᴀsᴇ ʙᴇ sᴇᴀᴛᴇᴅ ᴡʜɪʟᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴀᴘᴘʀᴏᴘʀɪᴀᴛᴇ sᴘᴇᴄɪᴀʟɪsᴛ ɪs ɪɴᴊᴇᴄᴛᴇᴅ ɪɴᴛᴏ ʏᴏᴜʀ ʙʟᴏᴏᴅ-sᴛʀᴇᴀᴍ

You thought the word metroidbrainia was painful, wait till you read my academic article about why these games essentially encourage you to roleplay as an archaeologist

I sympathise with the frustration at a certain flavour of TTRPG fans claiming it's elitist to learn the rules of the game you're playing, but I have to laugh at analogies like "you wouldn't say it's elitist to watch a TV show you claim to be a fan of"; people in TV show fandoms 100% do say that.

This isn't meant to be a direct dig at Essence20, mind. Just an extrapolation on the discussion of liscenced games and how many of them are not designed to actually emulate the experiences they're based on, for the sake of the brand or whatever.

In Super Mario Galaxy, the stars on the letters of the logo spell "u r mr gay", while for the movie it says "he mr gay". This is because you are watching Mario, not playing him.

Right, these are the two options: Either they tolerated Epstein's eugenics to get to the sex crimes or they tolerated his sex crimes to get to the eugenics

The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.

“Drawing all that sexy art of video game men might affect your professional art career” well well well

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.

every single one of these emails is someone I already hate messaging a notorious pedophile to say "Thanks for the great time! I had fun doing pedophile stuff with you. P.S. Trump was there with us the whole time"

azhdarchid.com/against-metr... I really do hate the term 'metroidbrania'. I think so do many of you. Let's nip it in the bud before it becomes something people are financially invested in.

Saw an Angel get shot by a guy in a duckblind

New Side Story! Coins, coins coins. Killers, killers, killers. PLUS: Sylvi loves Agumon. Jack loves little zombies. And Austin is torn between his twin loves of a little clown and 'writing some self-indulgent bullshit in the podcast description field' sidestory.show/16-paradise-...

One of the publishers I worked with submitted my game to igf without either asking me or telling me they had done it. I only found out when I saw it in the list when I logged in to judge. V embarrassing.

The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Coming back with yet another #Palisade Post Card for #FriendsAtTheTable. My 3rd card of 6 was centered on The Figure in Concrete & The Broken Spoke, framed as one of many Alise Breka novels. The pulp novel framing, here, was designed by @badbucket.bsky.social, and was used on multiple cards.

I would love to run a Vampire AP set in Dublin. However if that was a thing there would be no masquerade! Everyone in Ireland knows everyone. If a hunter went into the local pub saying they're looking for John the barman would immediately reply "Do you mean postman Johnny or vampire Johnny?"