I really enjoyed this video -- a young woman from France and her reaction to hearing Louisiana French (Cajun French/français Cadien and Louisiana Creole/kouri vini) for the first time. I don't know why the tile displays her looking skeptical, as she's anything but.

NO MORE - dashare.zone ADMIN

Listen I know things are Bad in the industry rn, and those feelings are very real and SHOULD be expressed. But don't get drunk on them! Don't sit around morose saying "something should change." DO SOMETHING. Start mentoring! Join a union! Get organizing! You gotta walk the walk, too!

Charisma absolutely just oozing out of every pore! Insane performance.

I recently re-did our company training on workplace violence and couldn’t help but note that virtually all of the documented “effects of workplace violence” lined up 1:1 with the impacts of layoffs.

Best STAR TREK captain. Wrong answers only

gif that describes you as a writer:

By the way, the Ludwig Institute for Shared Economic Prosperity latest reporting places unemployment in the US at nearly 25% before this news. So that's great www.lisep.org/tru

industry standardized royalties

a security guard manager a decade ago was too proud/stupid to know better than to brag to me the company is profitable enough they could easily pay all the guards better but then they might get too full of themselves and hard to manage or save enough to find a different job. I think about that a lot

I'm sorry, but this is mind-boggling even for someone who looks at solar numbers all the time.

Wage theft comes in many forms, and once you start seeing it, it’s everywhere. Layoff after ship? Wage theft. Not getting a bonus that’s in your contract? Wage theft. Doing Lead level work but still only a Senior? Wage theft. Misclassified contractor? Wage theft.

we are scarily close to general artificial intelligence

is it good that every single games studio i still own is having all its staff leak comments like "we cant possibly make games under these conditions" in ten thousand articles

A couple of table top game designers came together to build an open-source colour identification system that is colorblind friendly. It uses symbols and color theory. For example: the symbol for green is a mix of the one for yellow and blue. colorsym.com/#

sometimes a news photo is also a Far Side cartoon

This week, Microsoft GUTTED Bethesda, Zenimax, iD, & more. The C-suites treat the workers who make the games we love as disposable and don’t care they’re destroying the future of the industry! Let them know it has to STOP here: feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/ide...

YO!! This video is INCREDIBLE!! Everything you need to understand how gameplay and narrative react to each other as you plan them out, and how to use your game loops to better emphasize whatever story you're telling. Give it a watch, it's so good!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HXC...

On the note of the rich and powerful being terrible people deserving punishment, Hey! New Dune looking great!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ndvq...

Avowed was, without question, my favorite game of last year. The worldbuilding was SO fresh, the quests were engaging and hilarious, and even the overarching plot was incredibly strong all the way through to the finale. I hope the team knows that you've done nothing wrong. This is just bad business

Wow.... WOW that's bleak.

Literally all of them. Entire franchises born of following the choices made in the 80s by people doing their best to guess how to make a game fun with limited tech. It's all just a ritual of appeasement to gods we don't seek to understand.

Could be us

I've been sitting on a pokopia blog post for like 2 months now and just too burned out to post it. Someone yell at me to actually publish it! It's done already, I just need to format it!

No it doesn't. It doesn't begin, y'all. Not a single person has ever released anything good with AI. You've not seen an AI movie yet, you've not played an AI game yet because neither of these things works. This is a non-announcement for a non-product. Don't even accept the framing.

imagine if they fired every band member every time an album came out

Whatever you do, do not open the Crab Door.

microsoft's plan, Lay Off Everybody Who Makes Games & Then Find 1 Billion People Per Day To Play The Games They Aren't Making... it's bold. i will give them that

Super interesting systemic look at sports in the US. Really interesting to see how this whole system works in comparison to similar systems in other countries. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPeR...

reposting for all the new layoffs. If you need some help figuring out how to make a portfolio for all that stuff you can't publicly share, feel free to hit me up!

If you were a writer/narrative designer laid off recently (or not so recently and are still LFW) and there's ANYTHING I can do - lend an ear, look at a resume/portfolio, put in a good word for you somewhere - PLEASE let me know. Because my god, we have to look out for each other out here.

Wake up nerds, new JWST image! ✨ Centaurus A (NGC 5128) is an active galaxy 11 million light years away. Lurking at its center is a supermassive black hole consuming surrounding material and launching massive jets of energy.

Microsoft is laying off 4,800 workers today. Its CEO made $96.5M in 2025, a 22% increase from the previous year. Microsoft made $101B in net income last year — and raked in up to $12.5B in tax breaks from Trump's Big Ugly Bill. This is what a rigged system looks like.

they are not stupid, they know that number is fake. they also don’t care. they fired people so they could give themselves bonuses. maybe they’ll say “all windows pcs are technically xboxes so we win” to justify it, maybe not. you can’t logic them into good behavior, they just want to steal paychecks

fucken Stanley Kubrick apes around the freedom obelisk ass

I'm watching anime instead of the soccer game, but whatever the hell just happened must've been wild cause my windows are closed and i can still hear my neighbors' screaming louder than my tv.

no but for real contractors working for giant companies should absolutely be doing shit like this

From those who live like leeches on the people's lives, We must take back our land again, America! O, yes, I say it plain, America never was America to me, And yet I swear this oath— America will be! -Langston Hughes, from ‘Let America Be America Again’ (1935) #everynightapoem

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Sorry for reposting all the political stuff, I don't usually do this but it's also not usually this hilarious.

(smugly) oh, your humiliation took a whole century?

you: signs from god arent real the universe:

Empire collapse under the weight of metaphors.

For the first time ever, from April 2025 to April 2026, solar energy outproduced ‘natural gas’ in Asia. First coal, now ‘natural gas’… the fossil fuel dominos are falling… and they said it cant be done…

NOW PRESENTING ON THE OCCASION OF IT’S 250th ANNIVERSARY: THE HISTORY OF AMERICA (as told in Japan in 1851):