"eat sticks and lie down", a solo game for the lactose intolerant - eat a single serving portion of mozzarella sticks (exact portion may vary at your discretion) - lie down - say "ohhhh i feel so bad how could this have happened" and "who could have foreseen this" at regular intervals

biggest technological revolution of our lifetimes and it's not AI or blockchain or cryptocurrency or metaverse.

A parks and rec style show but it's about the town governance of Sunnydale

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have shown Alzheimer’s disease can be REVERSED- not just prevented. Using a potent neuroprotective compound called P7C3-A20, they found RESTORING balance to a central cellular energy molecule (NAD+) not only PREVENTED disease features but REVERSED them, EVEN at late stages.

As we enter the New Year remember fear of making bad art is holding you back. Fear of people not liking your work is holding you back. Rejection is holding you back You'll make bad art, you'll have people not like your work, and you'll be rejected. Moving past it is half the job of being a creative

That time of year again!

i didnt knew he was cool like that. wish there was an app where i could talk about this

Really really cool seeing work from @bism-th.bsky.social @carloscisco.bsky.social and @scooterbeast.bsky.social on the MCDM Patreon today! Merry Christmas to ME

this is cyberpunk, as experienced by ordinary people in universe

they didn't need AI to make Silksong, it just needed some deeply insane guys to have a blank check for living expenses until their next thing was done, I think we should try doing more of that instead

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

So apparently there are many Epstein files on the DOJ website where you can highlight the redacted text, copy it, and paste it onto another document to read the redactions

Using generative AI in gamedev is a major issue, enough so that now the *accusation* of using generative AI in gamedev is becoming its own separate problem

⭐ New Video 🪓 Revolution, Fascism, & Magic: The Gathering Folks, this one's a bit big... youtu.be/4JghX1MBU68

A large part of the push for genAI is a direct result of the mass evangelism of just-in-time/agile development by those without full understanding of the pros and cons and reasons behind it, who instead only care about cutting corners to maximize output and profit. In this thread I will (1/257)

the hottest woman you know is up at 3am wondering if people think she's a weird little creep

This was his doing

sheesh, the only thing worse than getting kicked out of the polycule is finding out via jira ticket 😣

"You will be haunted," resumed the Ghost, "by Three Spirits." Scrooge's countenance fell almost as low as the Ghost's had done. "So you and two others, Jacob?" he demanded, in a faltering voice. "No. Three more." "So four spirits" said Scrooge. The ghost’s head dropped as it sighed. “Fuck’s sa

In 2026 I hope you get freakier and get plenty of money and become the cutest or scariest you wanna be and that your hard earned talents and hobbies reward you endlessly

far too many people view narrative this way and it is one of the biggest causes of why a game's narrative does not fully connect, narrative specialists are either brought in too late to do anything or just completely ignored and overruled at every turn because "the final text is all narrative is"

We have to adopt new tech or else our game will fail, which is why all successful games from a few years ago included blockchain technology

Honestly wild that I've used more quintuplets in the past two months writing fanfiction than I did in two years at conservatory writing actual music

I went and wrote it. Here are some things you can do as a ttrpg project manager to make freelancing fun and easy: barilleon.com/managing-ttr...

Something I have to reiterate is that you are being straight up lied to about trans people and our healthcare on an unfathomable scale, this instance reporting is already being torn to shreds by other people commenting, but the frequency of this kind of reporting is astonishing, it's neverending.

NEW on the Blog: Skill Challenges. You know 'em. Or maybe you think you know 'em. Let's take a look at what they were, and what people thought they were. Three games came out this year with some improvements to the tech. Let's look at those, too! barilleon.com/skill-challe...

A lot of journalists are writing stories about DIY now and I don't trust any of them not to scaremonger about it to build support for crackdowns. I've refused requests for interviews on this. Do not talk to the media about DIY.

not only could I never have identified the surprise, I'm not even sure I could have guessed the CATEGORY of surprise

I like whatever is wrong with my algorithm over there

It's been one year since I was laid off from Bungie, and I'm still looking for full time work. If you've got any leads on game design or games qa positions, please reach out. I'm a skilled designer, and nothing I led QA for ever had any bugs ship. dianavoyer.com

It's hard to explain to normies how much effort Trump is putting into anti-trans policies. This is like the 12th thing just this week. And there were 12 things the week before, and 12 things the week before that. There will be 12 things next week. This is almost everything the government is doing.

im calling the police

*youth pastor voice* Let me tell you kids about another carpenter who wasn’t very popular with the authorities

I don't think Netflix should get to eat anything else until it finishes all the prematurely cancelled shows on its plate

since we're doing USPS discourse again, a reminder of what Dems should be saying

“the USPS must turn a profit” makes me want to set things on fire they put a clause in the fucking constitution about postal service, that’s how important it is nothing in there about “only if you can make money on it”

look I’m not an evangelical but “a guy calling himself the Beast wants control of your earthly wealth” feels like some kind of sign, no?

(2021) they're Very Old and disasters in their own ways #Destiny2 🔹💠

drawing

the idea of 'sadist games' made me think of the converse to the joke 'you're a masochist because you play complicated games that are difficult to learn' - 'you're a sadist because you force people to learn awful rulesets and play with punishing outcomes'

I love when storefronts and utility companies and payment processers have monopolies but ALSO editorialize by arbitrarily deciding what they will or won't allow, with no transparency or accountability or appeal This is a cool way to organize a human society

Trans women can be hard to shop for. unless you've read my gift guide for trans. which you can, because it's here. now. open.substack.com/pub/halimede...

Israel killed two Palestinian children out gathering firewood for their uncle and said this about it:

Adding alt text to this because this is fucking amazing and everyone deserves to read it.