The tagline for my game jam game with @game-writing.com is: “As it turns out, time also flies when you’re not having fun.” #gamejam #sadgame

I closed social media for like three hours and the Pope threw a rave, MTG resigned, and Trump endorsed Mamdani before Chuck Schumer did? Now accepting bribes to close social media for all of next week

No, I don’t trust a howler monkey simply because it stopped throwing its own poop for a minute. It’s still a howler monkey. *This skeet is about Marjorie Taylor Greene.

if you could keep Mamdani around the White House to talk to him all day you could probably get him to do a bunch of good shit, the problem is that after this meeting the next guy in the room is Stephen Miller

Ok, Verizon. I tried doing this without putting you on blast but your Ai customer service is as dumb as a bag of wet mice. I only needed to share a piece of feedback for your marketing department and know it would be read by a human being…

One of the cruelest tricks society played on creative people was planting the idea that being proud of your work is somehow unseemly and egotistical. You made a thing! You like it! You SHOULD be proud of it. Brag all you want!

"For your charcuterie board party, plan on about one ounce of cheese per person" my GUY have you ever MET CHEESE BEFORE, I would NEVER limit my friends to ONE SINGLE OUNCE OF CHEESE.

psst, no one is struggling with this - we are trying to create singular things that resonate with a huge audience or resonate hugely with a specific audience. We "struggle" with how tech and VC funding has broken almost every creative economy we have. So thanks but no thanks

Just…cupcakes. That’s all I have to say today. Cupcakes.

Hear me out: Dirty Dancing remake starring Robert Irwin. THAT, I’d be okay with. 😎

Pouring out a flagon of mead for The Bard's Tale, one of my all time favorite and defining games. BUT... I cannot express how much Tass Times In Tonetown made an impression on me as a young gamer. Heineman was BOSS. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tass_Ti...

When she was young, she could not afford to purchase games for her Atari 2600, so she taught herself how to copy cartridges and built herself a sizable pirated video game collection. Eventually, she moved from copying games to reverse engineering the console's code to understand how games were made.

Ngl I cried. Saying Becky did a lot of stuff for the industry is the understatement of the century. Space invaders champ, a founder of interplay, the absolute queen of reverse engineering and porting, worked on the os of the psp and ps4. Words can’t describe how talented she was. RIP Burger Becky

in the early 2000s Rebecca took the time to chat over IRC with a teenaged and gender-confused Me on the practicalities of transition - in a time where being out as trans online was something that could get you socially ostracized. I owe her a lot for that and only hope I can pay it forward.

A good time to watch a pretty great docuseries that Rebecca Heinemann features prominently in. www.netflix.com/title/81019087

I'd like to share this old video of hers, where she talks about her time working on the 3DO port of Doom. it's a wild story that stuck with me, and a reminder that sometimes "bad games" have amazing people working on them

I don't think there's any programmer I have more respect for than Rebecca Heineman. Never got to meet her, but my social media interactions with her were always a plus. I hope she's smiling with the other deceased video game GOATs. And fuck cancer

I knew this was coming but it's devastating. A legend in the game industry and a hero to many, many trans women, myself included. Thank you for everything, Becky. I hope we can carry the light you brought us to future generations.

She was the Space Invaders champ! RIP

Rebecca gives a great interview in the Netflix docuseries High Score, for being the first person in history to win a national Space Invaders tournament: www.netflix.com/title/81019087

The AI bubble may be about to bust. Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock. We all need to say this very clearly: NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH! Expropriate their asses instead. They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet. They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3

My trailblazing game industry bad-ass friend Rebecca Heineman has passed away. Fuck cancer. Friends, let’s not forget her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...

Hey Charlotte folks-Compare Foods has waived delivery fees for groceries, so if you know anyone who'd like to get groceries delivered rather than go out to the store while the nazis are in town, spread the word

Hate the argument of "Well you can boycott for now, but soon every game studio is going to use genAI and you won't be able to tell or avoid it anymore!!" dude there are already more videogames in existence than I'm ever going to be able to play in my lifetime. this boycott shit is easy.

steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back

the average salary of tens of thousands of games industry professionals is actually now $0, hope that clears things up

in case you needed extra confirmation that gdc has absolutely no ability in understanding the industry, this laughable excuse of a survey attempt is a good nail in the coffin

[To the tune of Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison] 🎵Baba Yaga 🎵Walking down the street 🎵Baba Yaga 🎵House with chicken feet 🎵Baba Yaga

I would rather see five hundred pieces of reused art than one piece of GenAI. It's so simple: just please don't do it.

‘The Owl House’ creator Dana Terrace responds to Disney+ funding AI-generated short form content in new tweet: “Unsubscribe from Disney+. Pirate Owl House. I don’t care. Fuck gen AI.”

One of the best things to recognise in yourself as a creative person is when you are Sauceless. Not art blocked. Not struggling with a difficult creative problem. Being Sauceless is when you've done good work but have been staring at it for too long, and risk making it worse through noodling.

I went to actual journalism school and Jesus Christ, people

It’s crazy being a narrative designer who wrote fake emails and seeing this many real emails from rich evil people with brainworms and going “sheesh even when I had to be extremely on the nose to clarify objectives and shit I was still leagues more subtle and human-sounding than THIS”

Can we circle back to the part where the NY Times never disclosed that they have incriminating information on Donald Trump from sent by Epstein that's been sitting on their email servers for nearly a decade?

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills: the emails from Landon Thomas has his New York Times signature block...he was employed by NY Times at the time. He was communicating directly with Epstein about Trump, and was given incriminating information about Trump. It's been in NYT's possession since 2015

Right, this event needs $1500 to happen. There are 600 participating bookstores & for most it’s their busiest sales day of the year, or is second only to Indie Bookstore Day / Small Business Saturday. Editors/publishers, this is a no-brainer of an opportunity for your imprint. Romancelandia: pls RT

they said joyce carol oates never wrote a single must read masterpiece but that was before her collected tweets owning elon musk

My jaw on the floor as I find myself unable to replace my YouTube TV subscription with a Hulu subscription because I am unable to log in to my Disney+ account because the "make changes to via iTunes" option is bricked and Disney's customer service line just loops back to "please use our online FAQ!"

I don’t know where or whether I should formally publish this, but I needed to write this obituary for my partner, and here it is: 🧵

I am not a Swiftie but it’s both wonderful and excruciating that her fiance’s name is Travis. They’re adorable, I wish them every happiness, and I hope she gets to keep her Travis for more than 9 years bc I would have kept mine forever. #FuckCancer

I’m here to share my completely non-scientific epiphany that all the problems in America right now can be traced to one thing: half the country was raised to believe people are inherently good, and the other half was raised to believe people are inherently bad.

"We don't want people to go hungry or miss another paycheck. But we *are* okay with them dying a little more slowly, without healthcare." This is so bleak.

Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous

It's cool how we keep proving over and over and over again that there's a significant market for narrative-heavy, character-driven, single-player experiences in video games and publishers just categorically refuse to believe us

Being unable to work while you have increased medical costs is a recipe for financial disaster. Even if you plan carefully and have savings, they can be wiped out quickly if you have a major medical event. They’re wiped out even faster in the US.

We just won on Tuesday… JFC

“This man knows no beauty and his whole world has devolved into fights on the Internet.” Man: “Liar. I will fight you on the Internet.”

The USDA and Trump administration issued a memo ordering states to “undo any steps taken to issue full SNAP benefits.” I have never seen an administration work so hard to starve people. Don’t forget your red hats at the food pantry, MAGA.