Read an interview with Capcom's design team being like "We're surprised people like dressing up their characters!" And that's something I've heard from designers a bunch over the years, too, and I just don't get it. Dressing up is like 50% of all the best video games. Transmog should be default!!!

The fact that J.K. Rowling successfully bullied Amnesty International into taking down a report that accurately called out her attack on trans people, especially trans women, is so repulsive and such a display of the power of her money, and her choice to put her vast fortune behind persecution.

While countries regularly lobby one another, at least four cases of Israel’s actions crossed the line into foreign interference because they were done in secret, according to a recent report. The Canadian government is so far not commenting. By @dgrdon.bsky.social.

No, this seems fine www.wsj.com/opinion/why-...

In what is essentially the logical end conclusion of being pro-Israel, the United States chief diplomat Marco Rubio has unveiled a "plan" to permanently dismantle the International Criminal Court.

lindsey graham won't see your jokes and memes because he got diarrhea and is in hell now, but someone writing an op-ed titled "the left's problem with manners" might. So make them really funny.

Not speaking ill of the dead is the greatest crock of shit, and you know why? Nobody has to invoke it whenever someone beloved died, you'll hear outpourings from fans about how authors touched their lives, people reminiscence about their favourite actors' best roles, a celebration of their lives...

The PM needs to explain the math of the Gordie Howe Bridge deal. The tolls were supposed to pay the taxpayer back. Now 50% for the first 15 years is being put into a development fund. The New York Times is reporting that 50% will be controlled and accessed by Americans.

This is one of the most common elisions you will see in the media bubble: Widdicombe was not just someone with unsavoury views, she was also someone with the power to change society to more closely align with those views, at the expense of other people. And she did this for her whole career.

Streaming again, gamers. Catch me later this month for some FTK2 reveals! And you get to chat shit with me! Hooray!!!

Why is this fuck still allowed on Canadian soil lmao

Always the same shit from the Democrats; benefits for them without any attempt to fix the issue. Share in the sins of your countrymen.

I want studio interviews where they ask us about our beverage picks. Fuck.

"executives with no understanding of the industry" seems to be an endemic problem across industries: higher education, medicine, you name it, a bunch of suits with MBAs and unearned arrogance are destroying everything around us, and for some reason, we're supposed to accept that they know best

...what

Pete Hoekstra needed a parole officer to approve his party list for his 4th of July party. He invited convoy organizer Tamara Lich who is under house arrest for the occupation of our capital. The US embassy is engaged in open promotion of the far right in Canada. www.youtube.com/shorts/ZhDgi...

Saw a reddit thread from a writer asking why their sales dropped and when someone pointed out their cover was AI, they argued that their writing wasn't, though. Too bad. As soon as you touch it, you're showing other creators that you lack respect for art itself. AI is reputational poison.

Meanwhile the Canadian government is all in on Meta building an AI data centre in Alberta.

If the Vancouver police can’t explain why they need an extra $200,000 a week on top of their $497 million budget to police five blocks of car free activities, then I can make videos pointing out how much that works out to every hour for every block. We’ll update if they provide more information.

I think if you needed any more evidence that the cuts are shortsighted and focused on cutting as deep and as fast as possible with little regard for the future, this is pretty definitive. That engine felt like magic in some spots. A colossal waste of talent and resources.

If you enjoy TTRPGs or even Cyberpunk, you owe it to yourself to play Harebrained Schemes fantastic Shadowrun Trilogy. I’m just starting Hong Kong for the first time and it’s a blast. Some of the best modern CRPGs in an amazing universe. And less than $10 for all three!!

more information on how layoffs have impacted microsoft studios continues to trickle out. today I've confirmed that blizzard china suffered layoffs, and id software lost around half its staff just as it released dlc that required "significant" crunch

They threatened our border. No surprise there. This is why Canada has to remain solid and hold the boycott. Fuck MAGA. www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-jaw-d...

NEW: CWA Canada president Carmel Smyth has told me that around a dozen employees have been laid off at Bethesda Game Studios Montreal. All were union members. She said those impacted—including studios veterans—were informed during a 3 minute call in which they were barred from asking questions.

Big week for shitting your pants and throwing your toys out of the pram on the world stage for the US.

Stomach fucking churning seeing all the laid off posts today. Bloodbath these fucking unaffected vulture execs get to bathe themselves in.

"hopefully all these layoffs will mean new studios started by the laid-off workers"

You can now redeem For The King II as part of July's PlayStation Plus Monthly Games! With crossplay across all platforms and multiple free content updates since launch, now's the perfect time to begin your adventures in Fahrul!

Rightly fucking so!

"And that's why I've today decided to dress as the greatest warrior of them all: Liberace"

this is a failed Heavy Rain QTE

The game industry is so fucking back

Oh just FYI we've crossed the 10K threshold for number of people in the games industry laid off so far this calendar year. only 11 layoff waves shy of the total for 2023. 6 months to go.

Trying to figure out if there was ever a sign that things were about to get fucky

Microsoft blaming the rising costs of computer components after spending $146 billion dollars on AI investments

My fave type of couch dev is the LinkedIn “industry expert” who has like a year of software analysis in SaaS and now apparently understands how to make Balatro 2.

Proud to announce our HARDSHIP FUND: uvw-cwa.org/hardship-fun... If you've been recently laid off and need support, we got you.

At least the new CEO has realistic goals — 1bn players per day, lmao.

The majority of chatter today will be about the fate of studios who build the games we love. But we cannot forget that these cuts will include hundreds of less visible folk w top expertise in a variety of supporting departments. No studios close today, but the loss personal & professional is immense

Christ…

Everything you need to know about the American owned media in Canada. The senior editor of the National Post whining that we aren't American.

Watching the Summer rain pass

Maybe this hasn’t sunk in for anyone who should care but the NHS was birthed when the UK *literally had negative money*. The USA had razed us of every penny to pay for weapons to defend ourselves against Germany, Germany had bombed all our industrial sites. We still did it in 6 months. 6.

US Ambassador Pete Hoekstra welcomed Freedom Convoy leader Tamara Lich to his July 4 party in Ottawa tonight Lich is currently serving a house arrest sentence in relation to a criminal conviction over her role in the convoy's three-week occupation of Canada's capital city