This is the only thing keeping me afloat right now. Bless the power of music and voice

Man, Obsidian is so freaking cool. Im so glad they're still around in the RPG scene just killing it.

A blessing for this chilly november night by the wonderful @annereburn.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KV8g...

big splash

Counterpoint: no it’s not, that’s a stupid thing to say

Well-animated floofy ponytails

hearing reports out of Japan that Tatsuya Nakadai has passed away at 92. RIP to a legit legend.

Today, November 10, marks 50 years since the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Gordon Lightfoot’s song tells such a captivating story, and this might be my favorite part of it. Full song: youtu.be/KV8gVHx0uJY

This vote has not happened yet. Call your Senators, especially your Democratic Senators, and tell them that a deal without protection NOW for health insurance tax credits is unacceptable.

agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish

Altman has been quite clear about his strategy. From the 2008 crash he learned that if you bind enough of the economy to your business you can do whatever you like; government will decide the rules no longer apply. What he's selling is unaccountabilty.

Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office. If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.

I'm finding it difficult to not start planning/making "Pentiment-likes" for every historical moment I take fancy with. Currently exploring/resisting: 1866 Dresden 1970's Minnesota North Shore 1880's U.S. Western Expansion 1930's Italian Alps

“individual employees asked to change behavior in response to catastrophic mistakes made by their high-level leadership over the past 3-7 years” really feels like the overarching story of the current times

In addition to the pains of childbirth and growing our own food, I'd like to add having to apply to 1000 different companies for internship as a suffering caused by the original sin at the Garden of Eden.

A blessing for this chilly november night by the wonderful @annereburn.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KV8g...

succubus - female demon that seduces men incubus - male demon that seduces women vengabus - non-binary demon that likes to party

straight-up jury nullification. this guy did it, confessed to it, and the jury instructions explicitly said that if he did it intentionally, it was assault.

Holy shit I love Draw Steel, the level 1 Fury in our party just dealt 124 damage with To The Uttermost End and like 25 built up Ferocity. This game is so good. Thank you @hellomcdm.bsky.social so much.

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

New beginnings stir in Alca. Join us November 14 at 2 p.m. ET on twitch.tv/playsoulframe for Soulframe Devstream 11 to learn more about Soulframe Founders and Preludes 12. bit.ly/4hJQm0M

mrw Kate asked me what the Edmund Fitzgerald is

You’re a “leftist?” Hold on a minute. It says here you used to offer “running lessons” in EverQuest where you’d convince newbies to /follow you and run them directly into a goblin cave to harvest their gear. I don’t seem to remember Marx mentioning that in Das Kapital

My spouse played our game last weekend and made a few decisions I'd never seen and met npcs I've never encountered. And I've been replaying it for *awhile* now...

ditto for someone's code, writing, music etc "brilliant assholes" cost you so many great contributions from other people and are never ever worth it.

@jesawyer.bsky.social just remembered that this interaction prompt from Pentiment nearly made me cry

This isn't exactly news, but the radio in The Outer Worlds 2 is an Achievement and you *need* to listen to it. Nails the tone perfectly. I've laughed at the messaging but also been genuinely impressed at the quality! #TheOuterWorlds2

I've only started it, but my God, the Outer Worlds 2 is so unbeilevably good. It feels like the culmination of RPG design up to this point. It's the best in every class. The writing, the levels, the combat, the MUSIC!!! Its all top notch. Tysm to everyone @obsidianent.bsky.social who worked on it!

Unfortunately I suspect as union activity gains momentum and popular support in this broken industry we will continue to see studios ramp up their union busting efforts. Be smart: practice good infosec, read up on typical union-busting tactics, and most importantly: don’t let them scare you.

Remembering that time we went to a Halloween party as a rakshasa (from the first D & D Monster Manual) and the Mask of the Red Death and everyone was too scared to talk to us.

ladies and gentlemen...we got him

One of my favorite things about this time of year is that zoos just give their animals a bunch of pumpkins for enrichment. They go wild for it. I too go wild for a pumpkin in my enclosure. We are not so different.

Hi I’m Kay Bell & I’m a producer at Atari! I do porting things 👾 I’m a Cali-based game dev with 8 years xp My DMs are always open for helping folks through whatever they need- devs, students, etc. I love fish, horror things, & neopets (ya might know my dog Mermin from his yearly party at GDC)

Incredibly exchange where Leonard Boyarsky says Microsoft has never told Obsidian what to do right before a Microsoft rep tells him not to talk about Israeli apartheid www.theverge.com/entertainmen...

They are also intentionally conflating machine-learning and generative AI slop to confuse and try to make GenAI seem necessary. Google Maps traffic stuff is machine learning, not GenAI, for example. Auto-correct is too. Don't let them make you lose the thread. GenAI slop is slop.

I propose November 1st as resurgence day. Halloween ends, and we all pick up the phones again. MasterCard and Visa, bare minimum, once per day. Every day. All of us. They are only hiring the usual number of holiday workers, this would frighten credit card companies. “It’s not going away”

Happy Outer Worlds 2 Day, everyone!

Just a reminder that Clair Obscur was caught doing almost exactly the same thing FIRST (launching with some AI 'placeholder' textures that got patched) and yet somehow caught like a tenth of the flak. Making an example of one while smiling and shrugging for the critical darling sits wrong with me.

Python was awarded a funding grant, funding grant asked Python foundation to remove all diversity and inclusion initiatives they have. Python foundation said no and rejected the grant. If you use Python, send a few dollars to the charity to keep it going. I’m pushing a dono on behalf of ScamGuard.

If you want to hear what it’s like to hear me chitchat about games with @alexaray.bsky.social, here you go!! Woo! Many thanks to AIAS for inviting me. This was fun ~

If you see this post a vampire who isn't Dracula

New YouTube video! This one's all about writing tests: what they are, how to handle them, etc! I even wrote up a fake writing test for you to try your hand at if you like! :) youtu.be/049qX3gpgVU?...

Got a phone alert for a new @annacwebs.bsky.social video right before I was going to go to bed, blessed 🙏 www.youtube.com/watch?v=049q...

I'm replaying the Outer Worlds in anticipation for the sequel, and whoever put what looks like Turkish Delight in the Emerald Vale... I'm very upset because I desperately want some now

You'll pry these Oxford commas out of my cold, dead, third thing hands

Oh my god some fucking tech dingdong posted this on Twitter with the caption "AI games are going to be amazing" totally seriously, you have to watch it. You have to. In full screen.

You will never be him

IT'S MY BIRTHDAY!!! 💖🎉 The nicest thing y'all could do for me (if you're so inclined 😊🫶🏾) is to share + signal boost our growing DnA Codex of Game Dev resources so it finds the folks who need it most Contributions to the Ko-Fi also welcome as they help us devote more time to it amidst our projects!