quote from the "hobbies" section of Will Wright's article (creator of The Sims)

this is the best, most succinct encapsulation of the game grifter sphere i’ve ever read

Happy 512 Signalis! A game that singlehandedly pulled me out of a creative slump that I had been in for years & inspired me so hard it pushed my art to another level I unfortunately got nothing new ready so pls just enjoy this selection of fanarts I have done over the years #Signalis #Signalisfanart

Crying because what do you mean I shouted 'Is that fucking loss' during my Faith: The Unholy Trinity' playthrough

David Duchovny played a transgender woman, Denise, on Twin Peaks in 1990 and when greeting Cooper, the show's protagonist, she says, "I prefer Denise, if you don't mind" and Cooper responds with "OK" and her identity is settled within a couple seconds and was a non-issue, 36 years ago.

i do not think these excuses get a pass anymore, and if you're willing to give an inch to this garbage now it says a lot more about where you stand than it does the ppl actually using this stuff

If you were someone pinging critics with ‘it’s just lighting cleanup’ a few days ago, I need you to use this as a jumping off point to thinking about your susceptibility to talking points and marketing rhetoric more generally. It was right there in front of all of our faces.

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

Old news to us but some of you still just don’t fucking get it so

Jesus when he comes back to Earth:

I didn't know I needed Dale Cooper telling me we're all bonita but my day sure got made better for it I feel

Good morning

EAT YOUR VEGATABLES, YUGI-BOY

Gorillaz are back so time to resurrect the greatest of all music tweets. We're all out here tryna be The Quietus and she just walks up and zeroes in on the essence.

please give us more personal data please please please please c’mon you’re being so mean dude. we only got breached like three times. we’re NOT going to sell it man please please please plus its for like safety? so you’re the one who looks stupid right now come on pleaaaaaase just one data point bro

i think we all need to step back and realize that peak art was made when neolithic pot in the shape of a pig was fired

Men with Big Naturals

DARK SOULS II

Hey, I know a lot of you use Discord. You need to get on this survey and make it damn clear to them that this would be the absolute wrong direction. The last thing we need is the slop-spewing environment-chewing plagiarism bots invading there, too. discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...?

it takes 3 hours to sufficiently gaslight a teen so hard they have a violent depressive episode that leads to them reluctantly accepting their death as a catalyst to revive a teen the world deems more important

The only thing ChatGPT ever does.

Why am I so against generative AI in games? Because I simply do not want my initial reaction to art to be one of suspicion and scrutiny, AI slop is fundamentally damaging my relationship to art and artistry, and I am deeply resentful that it is forcing me to be guarded when I should be wowed.

I feel like I'm going to get a lot of use out of this Pluribus screencap

What in the fuck do you mean companies are deciding it's cool to scorch the earth because they don't want their placeholder text to say 'Placeholder'

THEY'VE PUT ME ON THE POCKETSTATION COOP. I'M BEING RENDERED IN A 32 BY 32 GRID OF MONOCHROME PIXELS. THE BOYS BACK AT QUANTICO SAID THEY'RE GOING TO RELOCATE ME TO A "DOKO DEMO ISSYO" UNTIL THEY CAN GET THIS STRAIGHTENED OUT.

im gonna fuck your dad a seven nation army couldnt hold me back im gonna beat him off takin my time right behind his back

i’m setting you free. i’m releasing you from the discourse

strangely inspirational

People believe that when you're LGBTIQ+ you come out once, but the reality is that every time you meet a new person, you have to study them to decide if it's a safe space to say it or not

Great job, everyone, we did it again

joke blindness is no laughing matter.

thinking about this screenshot from Columbo that makes it look like a 90s point-and-click adventure game

*taps the sign* bdsmovement.net/news/boycott...

Skull ✅ Boobs ✅

SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL IS GOING TO HAPPEN

I got into work this morning and made the questionable decision to tell my colleagues about the fact that sexy watto is flooding my feed this morning and I feel like they're looking at me different now

Undertale

My Bluesky timeline is so divided.

here i updated this graph on how i judge art with some cultural reference points to help

Monster Hunter Wilds Gore Magala ✦

Forget everything. Open the windows. Clear the room. The wind blows through it. You see only its emptiness, you search in every corner and don't find yourself.

"They go to SEX CLUBS and pretend to be DOGS!" Yeah well you go to church every Sunday and pretend to be a good person

Genuinely get fucked

gas lighting is still the major way people create light indoors. electricity? what the fuck are u talking about. what is that. you're fucking crazy dude

Wow we’re having “games are art” discourse again! Just gonna leave this here. From my dissertation: