i love the guild wars guy being delighted and surprised to find that people still love guild wars. we've got you, colin

We can't wait to reveal exciting updates from the 10 games featured in this year's Southeast Asian Games Showcase! 🇵🇭 Lost & Found 🇮🇩 WORK WORK WORK 🇹🇭 Puni the Florist 🇻🇳 HOA 2 ...and more! Watch our showcase on YouTube or Twitch on June 6th! ✨ #SummerGameFest #SEAGShowcase

I will spend my whole life fighting for the idea that every weekend should be 3 days

new high watermark for posts just dropped

i just told a friend on my couch, "shots fired at the White House" and they responded, in a tired voice, "ok"

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sad about Destiny; significantly sadder about the team

you deserved better, you did your best

my heart goes out to all the talented creatives at Bungie who struggled under catastrophic mismanagement for years trying to make a good game who will likely be thrown into the worst games job market in history

This gave me a lot of pangs

The Canterbury Tales is arguably the best character work in the English language, because every single one of those narrators* low key sucks and their flaws—pettiness, prejudice, myopia, lack of imagination—comes out in their storytelling. * - except the Wife of Bath, who is perfect in all ways.

We made a pretty good coming of age story game but most players won’t even give it a chance because it’s got too much color. We’re not all that different in love, relationships, and generational issues. I promise you can relate to these characters. store.steampowered.com/app/1617220/...

Queer writing is so important, goodness. I actually don't where I'd be without it? Like, I'd be a completely different person. I've had more years alive reading queer lit and thinking than without. Protect progressive libraries - both online and irl. 🖤🤎❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

this is what the Mass Effect discourse looks like to me

I want GAMES made by PEOPLE who are PAID to WORK and I'm not kidding just lowering my expectations in light of recent industry trends don't mind me

charlie brown was onto something when he said "good grief"

The only way we ensure the future of the craft that is Making Video Games is by holding the ladder steady instead of pulling it up and telling juniors and hopefuls there's no way in. Even now, THERE IS. It's bad everywhere, therefore, we have to be more supportive to each other than ever.

Good, and very important lil thread. I had people telling me "don't try to get into game narrative" when I was a jr and times in the industry were GOOD. Trust me, I understand feeling angry with the industry but telling people this kind of thing is both deeply unhelpful and makes you seem sus.

"I will not fail!" -Chrom #FireEmblem #Fe13 #fireemblemawakening #chrom #art

bumping this, my bank took my last bit 20$ in my account that I was using for groceries for "bank fees" because I didn't hit the minimum in the account. so if you like my stuff consider donating!

Truly when @maxgladstone.bsky.social & I wrote the book to ostensibly contain the multiverse we did not foresee it finding a mirror in the world of its reception

“What horrors must have been haunting the dev team that they didn’t do [x thing that seems obvious]? are they ok?”

non-dev playing a game: why didn’t the team do [X thing that seems obvious]? are they stupid? dev playing a game: why didn’t the team do [X thing that seems obvious]? am I stupid?

I have nothing to say that matches the gravity of the situation. I just want peace and safety for everyone targeted by the insane whims of a madman.

I don’t mean to be dramatic but this motherfucker needs to be gone gone and anyone who worked for him, enabled him, supported him, or voted for him needs to be in prison at best

I've wished for Arab-made games about Arab mythology for so long, and despite assisting on the project I still can't believe there's one swinging for the fences this hard. House of Hikmah is something very needed in a time where the world would rather erase us. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZTu...

what does a bitch have to do to get some articles of impeachment around here

do the ceos laying people off realize that none of us can buy things from them if we dont have jobs,

A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything

I cannot stress enough the amount of psychic damage every developer is taking on a daily basis. Even when you don't get laid off, you don't think "I'm safe" you think "yet." No one has security, no one knows how to plan their career. It feels awful.

I feel like I have seen, over the last month or two, people in nearly every career talk about how they feel like their industry is collapsing and need to find an out. Like games, yes. But also film, animation, journalism, academia and teaching, sciences, tech. even restaurants and retail.

my thought with all those at Epic today. it should be illegal to lay off 20% of your workforce on a whim. it's not perfect, but there are more protections against this sort of thing in Europe. support politicians with legitimate connections to labor unions.

I don’t know man, I like it when people can do the thing they’re trained for and afford to eat at the same time.

every time i look at instagram, i feel like im the only adult who doesn't know how to make money

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I'm having one of those days where I am frustrated because for most of the major political questions the issue is not that we don't have answers, the issue is that people with money and power simply ignore the answers because they don't like them

What really matters is that you stand for something. It doesn’t matter what. Just don’t let your heart be a void that nihilism can creep into. You don’t need a fully coherent ideology. You don’t need a plan to fix the whole world. You just need to know what you’re for, and fight like hell for it.

85 schoolgirls. just one is a world, a future of infinite possibilities, a universe. that america has done this atrocity to 85 of them, that it will continue to do even worse... i don't even know what to say. i condemn this with every fiber of my being, but that doesn't feel like enough.

They’re flooding the zone with horrors. All of them are important and it’s okay if you can’t focus on all of them. Figure out where you can make a difference (calling a congressman, being in the streets, feeding a neighbor). It all helps.

my view is if you're posting anything other than The Horrors, it doesn't make you a bad person. You're just trying to find joy in the small things to keep sane. It's not apathy, it's a part of being human.

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I don’t think it’s been great for video games to be on the stock market

Once you notice society's base reluctance to refer to women as "geniuses" with the same frequency they do as men, no matter how talented or influential she may be, it's a thing you never really stop noticing.

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse

anyone who can acquit themselves in a Knives Out can succeed on the muppets

@sharangbiswas.bsky.social 's story strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi... has haunted my brain for a while, but I couldn't remember the title and had to go beg a hand finding again. I absolutely love the structure of it and the way the story is perfectly integrated into it