Happy new year my lovelies! Lets make 2026 a radically kind one <3

youtu.be/xx9mEiI-c24 he had a good run this year

Woooo finally watched superman, it slapped!

This year has been so good for video games - I've managed to play a lot this year so I'll share my highlights of the year that you should play! These might not have come out this year, just that I played them this year.

And Tiny Sim, who DID die

Fucking nailed the beef joint for dinner today <3

Also the cats got some chicken for dinner today. I think he is sated

Gromit is too good for Wallace

i had to drop what i was doing to make this

this made me so happy

<drawl> Consider, the cat. One assumes he's a damnably cantankerous little fellah, yet confoundingly, he screams with a genu-ine hunger, and the bowl? Stands empty. How do we unwrap this <southernly gesturing holding a glass of nog> festive chocolate orange of a mystery that sits wrapped before us.

My daughter is just the cutest 💕

and i'm not saying that having a small body of work means that work can't be important but oh my god joblo is self important enough without helping him further along and there are voices in indie games that are way more important than his who get way less credit and hype

I think I said this before, but i enjoyed The Witness up to a point, The Looker is the better game with a better payoff at the end

oh and his new game that he's proudly stamping his name on in big bold letters is actually a remix and mashup of a bunch of puzzle games literally made by other people that he sourced rights for

just a casual reminder that this guy has put out 3 games in the last 17 years and one of those 3 games was just an enhanced edition of the 1st

"More or less okay with the way we're using it" is just manufactured consent from the guy who has the power to fire all these people in the worst games industry job market that has ever existed

We're at the point in the AI bubble where executives and experts generally accept that AI is trash, but because they have to keep using it, they'll tell you to use it to "generate ideas" or "brainstorm" as if you are dumb and incapable of doing that yourself.

Sometimes I think people outside narrative sincerely believe that placeholder text reads like “[PLACEHOLDER] I am reloading.” because the writers don’t have time to write anything else, and not because it needs to be highly noticeable amongst hundreds of lines of finished dialogue.

sigh

The sequel to the 50 indie game recommendation prompt, FIFTY UPCOMING INDIE GAMES! Feel free to quote this and start your own thread, I'd encourage you to play along. 1. Crowsworn Very eagerly anticipating this one, the backer demo was juicy as hell, definitely stick this one on your wishlists.

I have grown to believe that excessive wealth does something to your brain that is analogous to a serious head injury

The Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain (IWGB) has responded to Rockstar's justification for dismissing over 30 employees in October www.gamesindustry.biz/union-claims...

I can keep my yorkshire pudding license for another year

Lol the crazy thing is, no, you’re not running out of good ideas. There are tons of great ideas everywhere. You’re just not willing to fund them because you’re all cowards.

Lmfao every AI defense piece is like "AYY I FUCKIN SUCK BRO HOPEFULLY THIS FUCKIN STEAL YOUR SHIT MACHINE WILL MAKE ME SUCK SLIGHTLY LESS OK"

Call me old fashioned, but I like to generate new ideas using my brain.

Me as my social battery runs out around christmas

My Hero Academia all watched up! Loved it so much <3

Valve has now rejected my complaint, confirming that "I don't like muslims" is a valid reason to leave a negative review on a game on Steam This is where we're at now.

Me seeing a missed call from an unknown number and having to debate calling them back

Enjoying metroid prime so far! It made me laugh though that you basicly have to get the bike leathers upgrade then pass your bike driving test

I like your rainbow shoelaces (Also fuck i read homestuck we all no diffrent lol)

I think this was my highlight of the wholesome snack stream!

ROCKSTAR UPDATE: Keir Starmer was just asked about the Rockstar firings in Parliament today where he described the situation as "deeply concerning" and promised it would be looked into by government ministers. Not that a Starmer promise is worth much, mind.

I FINALLY FOUND IT. Been looking for this stupid video for fucking EVER but GOOGLE SUCKS SO MUCH SHIT NOW

Cruelty is anhedonic. It rarely delivers the euphoria promised because, in the abstract, what feels righteous and joyful inevitably reveals itself to be sordid and small. Then it's "No not like that". "No not enough". "No the real battle, the forever war to make this feel good starts now". Forever.

I am a little disappointed when the conversation is focused around "it's art not porn!" because the adult games devs get very little support but have been dealing with this for far longer, and they've been sounding the alarm for that deplatforming coming for other games (such as LGBTQ+ content).

I have many thoughts about this, one is I can't help but think this is all just shining a light on how games are still being held to wildly different standards than other media like film. I've played very few games like HORSES but watched so many films like it (as a connoisseur of arthouse horror).

Oh shit i forgot about metroid prime 4. Thats the start of my holiday sorted

youtu.be/ERiXDhLHxmo Really good video going into what gen AI actually is, how dogshit it is and why, and the actual harm it causes. Its also not too technical, so recomended for non devs too

This is, possibly, the worst advice on how to get a level design job I’ve ever seen. It doesn’t so much read as something written by someone who’s never worked in dev, more like someone whose parents were killed in a freak level design accident, and they vowed never to place a trigger volume again

Every dollar JK Rowling makes from Harry Potter is going into bankrolling an extortion racket issuing legal threats to organizations across the UK to purge themselves of trans people or face ruinous lawfare.

holy fuck this is ridiculous, how can we claim games are art if art is this scary to our two primary distribution channels?

God damn it GenAI pissing me off today - Even when trying to avoid it when searching for info i just keep running into whole sites that are just AI garbage with generated images near the top of the results

Tonights cooking project - Kitsune Udon!

The only thing less human than these AI dub performances is the decision to sign off on them A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.

It really feels like the Greens have gone from not having any air time to "you can have air time but whenever you reply the interviewer is going to stare at you like they're imagining pushing you down the stairs"

One of the producers on Guilty Gear Strive said it was basically impossible to source player feedback on balance changes online because nobody had original opinions and would just parrot what the most popular content creators said and so they had to rely on data and I think about that every day.