hi guys, my friend Maisa and her family have been struggling due to the recent flooding and storms. they need more resources to shelter and stay warm. can anyone match my donation of €40? (shares appreciated) www.paypal.com/pools/c/9jTd...

If you want to help with the flooding you could maybe pick one person on this list (I’ll quote tweet the bottom of it in the next post so not everyone picks the first few families) and maybe champion them- you could message them if you like or just make a post/ send it in the group chat etc

Please read this in the gentlest possible voice but we HAVE to divest from mil-sims as gamedevs. Even before this AI bullshit in the latest Black Ops, these games have done so much harm and contributed massively to the dehumanization of several populations worldwide. It’s US foreign pol propaganda.

arriving days late to games discourse to say that one of the most emotional parts of making GVH for me was being in recording sessions with trans actors portraying trans characters reading the dialogue I wrote about being trans. AI wouldn't give me that

They're continuing to starve them on purpose

need the game to be announced already because i got the funniest bug today that i can't stop laughing about and i can't post it til we say what the game is

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filled with an odd mix of dread and excitement

No.

Important to understand this. There's a reasonable chance that your Dem Senator who voted against it and is acting mad now was in on the play. It's the same reason why they scheduled the surrender for AFTER the election this week. They didn't want people pissed at Dems right before an election.

little treats aren't enough anymore i think i need to get addicted to a substance of some kind

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I'm excited for the new ko_op game to be announced soon so I can change my icon here. I could do it in slack but I like my slack pfp too much

useful at work, to some extent, but my personal projects are almost never ever thinking about player fantasies. most of my projects originate in the seed of a story I find compelling

I talk to the press professionally, I'm really, really, really good at it. So please, please believe me when say you cannot turn this interview request into anything good, it will do only harm. Harm to you, harm to your child, harm to other children.

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HEY SEATTLE we have till 8 to vote for katie wilson don't let me down bros. don't fucking embarrass me okay

this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028

lmao

happy for NYC, happy for my home state VA, here's hoping it continues for Seattle

Elected Democrats spending more time today praising Dick Cheney than Zohran Mamdani is a great case study in abject fucking moral failure.

Dick Cheney should've been prosecuted for the invasion of Iraq and it's a stain on the soul of humanity that he got to live out his life in comfort without ever being held to account for his crimes, I'll never not be angry that war criminals responsible for so much death never see justice.

man i was offline for one day and i seem to have missed the mother-of-all-discourses on games narrative

okay, update: i have had this question answered, and I am now looking to speak to game QA testers ON the record about the weirdest, silliest-sounding things they've had to do to make sure games work. the wackier the better. happy to keep folks anon if they prefer. DMs open, email/Signal in bio

Alas!💀

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I mean great but this is probably not a bad time to talk about "invasion fantasies" and where they come from, what they represent, and how they can be co-opted like this...

hi all, the awaited day has come: I'm looking for freelance writers to pitch Inverse Gaming for end-of-year coverage! namely, I'm looking for someone to contribute our best of RPGs this year list ($350), and pitch us on some year-end lookback essays ($500+). please pitch me: [email protected]

am i overthinking these things? probably, but as more and more of my peers are laid off i think games are going to look VERY different in the next few years. so analyzing the thematic intentions behind the ones that are uh, still working with a sizeable budget, is important to me

my issue with framing people in power as the "victims" of the system i think is that victimhood implies a lack of agency. and there is a different kind of absence of choice between people standing on other people's backs and the people underneath them

really good article but this quote from the creative director made me lol

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...

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my power is back and now that I'm not in survival mode all I want to do is cry

give it up for day 3

Some of you making me break out the Britta meme, and you know you're being bad when I have to do that

yeah, well, Microsoft's decision to donate money to Trump's ballroom project is all the "comment" anyone needs here

Backed by the Heritage Foundation and Big Tech, KOSA will force everyone to upload their ID to access the internet. In an age when Palantir has direct ties to ICE, where technofascists are in power and want to eliminate and censor everything, we CANNOT allow KOSA to pass. It NEEDS mass pushback.

animal crossing was better when the villagers were genuinely rude

sorry everyone I'm posting hot take threads because my power has been out for 17 hours and we have no idea when it'll be back

at work i regularly joke about "the player fantasy of being annoying" but i do think it genuinely is a worthy thing to design around

games writers. your mission is to write as many annoying characters as possible. i believe in you

puget sound energy is my fucking ENEMY

power outages are great because they all suck but you never realize how good you have it when a whole grid goes out until it is an outage that only affects Your Building Specifically

oh we’re talking about comfy games again uhhh here’s a thing i wrote about the weirdness of rendering the countryside into frictionless twee postcard worlds🫡

Mohammed is helping 11 people- pretty much all their money has been spent and they need food and warmer shelter for the winter

​BREAKING: Today, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum opened all 1.56 million acres of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge’s Coastal Plain to oil and gas leasing. These lands are sacred to the Gwich’in Nation, home to irreplaceable wildlife and wilderness, and have never seen industrialization.