Coining the new gaming term: slop-like. (From a misheard phrase with a bunch of game devs)

It's an incredibly exciting time at Gravity Well! ✨ Our team is growing, and we're looking for talented people to help us build something special. We're hiring across our Art, Engineering, Production, and QA departments! Check out all our open roles here: job-boards.greenhouse.io/gravitywell

how it feels with North America sharing land borders lately

Not even a week into the new year

📷 Fujifilm X-S20 🔍 Sigma 18-50 f2.8 📍 Chichen Itza, Yucatan, MX

Thinking back to that short lived era of banjocore when men were wearing slacks with suspenders, bow ties, sporting curly mustaches listening to mumford + sons

Devs will be placed in a field equidistant from a central platform stocked with PC parts, ala Hunger Games May the odds be ever in your favour

The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.

lol, lmao even

Avatar drinking game when anyone says bro/brother (impossible)

Heading into 2026 I am interested (and terrified) to see the impact of market conditions on game devs to procure new hardware, or upgrades. Component price spikes and projected shortages are going to leave a lot of start ups and existing studios scrambling for the tools that build their games.

Hey, if you’re in the game industry and have a literature degree, would you please comment? We got a family friend over here who insists my having a career in games while holding a literature degree is a one-off aberration and per usual, I’m not letting it go.

Not only does @netflix.com not have any subtitle options for Love, Actually - they don’t subtitle any of Aurelia’s dialogue which is like half of the storyline/jokes between her and Jaime

🥔

Still thinking he’s the middle square

Avengers Doomsday but the first 15 minutes is just a shot for shot recreation of the opening montage of Up with Steve

Absolutely and utterly tragic loss. My sincere condolences to Vince’s family and friends, as well as to the others in the accident who didn’t make it. This is heart wrenching.

building my new gaming PC around last November’s Black Friday sales seemed to be an unexpected blessing in timing I don’t know how anyone with a sane budget is going to handle 2026 pc part prices

Jumping back into Expedition 33 after some time away. If anyone has suggestions on how to fix the cutscene lag/stutter on Series X I’m all ears. It’s horrible 🥲

Started A Game About Digging a Hole

If I won the lottery, there would be signs.

design by committee (positive)

Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.

Golden hour at 3:30 is really harshing my egg nog buzz, man

The type of room where the door locks on the outside

Hi all! I'm casting my paid mockumentary about YouTube drama culture ($500 CAD, about 3-4 minutes of dialogue, self-tape from home). Looking for a trans woman to play JENNA, an indie TTRPG creator whose Kickstarter blows up and then falls apart. Details + sides: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I haven’t had the chance to play Metroid Prime 4 yet, but I find the criticisms around some design choices - especially around the open world traversal - eerily similar to the player’s thoughts on the Gears 5 “open world” sections. 1/4

“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.” Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻

Before I go on Etsy, are there any laid-off game artists in my follower/repost pool who would be available for a custom DnD party art commission? Four characters, a few special requests, preferably by Christmas? DM me! I have money!

Everyone was added to the studio’s Christmas tree as an ornament this year (1/2)

Built a PC at the end of November, and just took a quick look at the price of the exact 32gb DDR5 RAM module I ordered for the build. It’s jumped from $295 to just shy of $700 (CAD) What are even doing here

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

Stranger Things S1 vs S5

Now I heard there was a tiny box Engraved with names like Minecraft Notch And Brian Fargo and FourZeroTwo, yeah But though it promised games for free And mobile ports on your TV It's a cold and it's a broken Founders' Ouya

Job update! J’update! J-date!

Canada is releasing a set of stamps celebrating the nation's graphic novelists. These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.

Watched The Long Walk. Visually striking, outstanding performances, absolutely visceral and gutting. I also couldn’t shake the game idea of Battle Royale meets Baby Steps meets Desert Bus.

I cannot believe how egregious ads are on Amazon Prime now Time to build a Plex server…

florence pew: thread

Bald faced market manipulation. apnews.com/article/kimb...

My partner carved her first pumpkin this weekend, and did an amazing job making Kirby!

Becoming older is just investing in various straps and sleeves for your bendy joints, like maintaining the creaky hull of a weathered ship (As he orders elbow braces)

brick by brick

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Doing a bit of clutter cleaning and came across all my old iPhones. I still think the iPhone 5/5S had the most amazing design. I miss the days of no camera bump, that shit was flush. The iPhone 17 pro looks like Akira-end-movie Tetsuo by comparison.

For the last 5 years my friends I’ve met in the games industry have been having an annual bbq day at the same lake. I’ve gone to school with them, gone insane shipping games with them, attended countless birthdays, a few weddings, and traveled halfway around the world with them. Love this bunch 🦩❤️

It’s 2025 and only *now* have I found out how to download Instagram reels without needing to screen record, wtf