1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts? Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from. Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!

These floaty rings that Twinkle can go through give you a bit of extra score for the level, but if you time an air attack just as you go through, not only they give more, you get to use the air attack again to chain more rings! 🪐 #lowpoly #gamedev #platformer

Fundamental to understanding this is that "Spag Bol" is an entirely British dish that is intensely bland and shares only the name with what you or I would think of as ragù alla bolognese. Her son wasn't wrong in doing this.

This is the most concise encapsulation of the game industry heading into 2026 I’ve seen.

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

One of my trans friends asked me to let people know that the FDA is now sending out warning letters to companies selling chest binders. They are reclassifying them as "medical devices" which will be impossible for most companies to legally comply with. This is the bare-minimum care for trans adults.

JUST IN: This morning, hundreds of baristas have joined our national ULP strike. ☕ The solidarity is strong: For every one barista on strike, dozens more allies have shown up in force to back our cause. Our strike continues to grow in strength and power! #NoContractNoCoffee

The year is 2035. There are three game studios left. Each one produces a game every 10 years, killing 250+ developers in the process. They all accidentally make the same game because they used genAI in preproduction. They sell 500 million units each, missing quarterly targets. Everyone is laid off.

yep, and Exxon is saying that's fine for the planet because it'll build "low carbon data centers" (massive gas-fired plants with carbon capture on them) www.exxonknews.org/p/exxon-prom...

as an environment reporter i think the bigger convo is re the energy use of ai vs its (comparatively minimal) water use, and how the data center buildout could not only increase emissions, but also open up cultural permissions for us to pursue more fossil fuel development in the name of the AI race

saw some angry responses to this piece, which is fine, but it is abundantly clear that the pro-AI faction in this country is about to start hammering hard on the line that water fears are overblown, using Masley as a source

Oh my god…

Gift link, probably the funniest thing the Wall Street Journal has done this year.

Hello! I am making a virtual pet sim as my first ever indie dev project ! I have questions and would love to hear your opinions! If you're into virtual pets and have a few minutes to answer the questions, I'd be really appreciative! Thank you so much!! forms.gle/BojHiprtRSWN...

Tired: Immanentize the eschaton. Wired: Monetize the dysfunction.

We got all the hits: - purchased by private equity firm - hid a bunch of layoffs - invested a bunch of money in AI - tried to make that money back by ruining the best product it now owned

Hahaha ever since Craig of the Creek became the latest victim of Zaslav’s merger bloodbath I haven’t been able to find a steady job. This man has ruined careers, ruined peoples lives, and gets paid MILLIONS for it. Hahaha hahaha

(eyes rolling back in skull) we're cancelling forza and gears of war and halo, and diverting everyone onto jet set radio 2 and VVMU (Very Visual Memory Unit) research

Goth Peach 🖤 #pixelart #ドット絵

No bites yet and me wanting to desperately free up space is your gain 😅 Dropping the price for any of these four sets to $75 shipped. DM me if interested. Thanks!

And now for your pops' FAVORITE unit (drumroll...) That's right, it's Zouaves! Or Freeshooters, as their unit card says. Volunteer marksmen far better prepared for modern combat than their conscripted comrades 💥

The Monotype Disaster Saga Continues

🎶 If you keep firing everyone and raising prices on goods and services, eventually people won't be able to buy non-essential, fun things. 🎵 Every business assumes their cost-cutting, price-gouging moves won't affect them, and yet...

Lots of really strong puzzle games in this year's nominees for the Thinky Awards! 🏆 Go place your vote if you haven't already!

This shit is so not out of nowhere that the Amazon Jack Ryan show, that the CIA was attached at the hip in producing, featured an entire season about how Venezuela was a threat America needed to deal with

Designing the HARM insignia and branding for #UNBEATABLE was my first ever task back in 2024. Super happy to be able to contribute to the sick visuals of the game and many thanks to @pixelhavokk.dcellgames.com for letting me do my thing🙌!

my wife: dabbing the sweat off my feverish brow with a damp cloth, looking anxiously over at the doctor me: when the bubble bursts microsoft should sell xbox to sega, who can then release the next xbox as a rebadged dreamcast 2

...and the rich scent of summer.

THEY'VE PUT ME ON THE POCKETSTATION COOP. I'M BEING RENDERED IN A 32 BY 32 GRID OF MONOCHROME PIXELS. THE BOYS BACK AT QUANTICO SAID THEY'RE GOING TO RELOCATE ME TO A "DOKO DEMO ISSYO" UNTIL THEY CAN GET THIS STRAIGHTENED OUT.

I'm giving out this star, so get it while you can folks

Early Christmas present, Aseprite just got an update! blog.aseprite.org/2025/12/11/a...

The award for "Most Studios Closed" goes to... TENCENT AND MICROSOFT Tied for first with five studios shuttered EACH

The award for the "Worst Statement Made By an Executive About Their Community" goes to... MATT TURNER Executive Producer at Xbox For his ridiculous suggestion that laid-off gamedevs turn to ChatGPT for emotional support!

The inaugural "Mark Zuckerberg Awards for Most Expensive Boondoggle" goes to... MARK ZUCKERBERG for Meta Horizon Worlds ...guess it just didn't have legs. 🥁

The Workers' Choice award for "Most Corporate Speak/Tactless Layoff Announcement" goes to... SATYA NADELLA Chairman and CEO of Microsoft "By every objective measure, Microsoft is thriving [...] and yet at the same time, we've undergone layoffs." What.

The award for "Most Personally-Owned Stock Sold By a Gaming CEO" goes to... STRAUSS ZELNICK CEO of Take-Two Interactive For selling almost $64M of T2 Stock in 2025

JANUARY 2ND (MY BIRTHDAY!!!) OUR MAGICAL GIRLS ON SKATES ARE FULLY DEBUTING!!!!! DO YOU LOVE MAGICAL GIRLS?? DO YOU LOVE INDIE ANIMATION?? DO YOU LOVE ROLLER SKATING?!?! WELL MARK YOUR CALENDARS!!! AHHHH I'm so excited for our full proof of concept short to be shared with the world!!!!

Still need more baseball? We found a CD in our archives containing dozens of unused voice lines from MLB Slugfest 20-03 rejected by the MLB. Here's some of our favorites.

https://gacha.o0o0.jp/gp/archives/16877 『JAWS フィギュアコレクション2 』発売！ "JAWS Figure Collection 2" now on sale! #ガチャポン #gachapon

every year around christmas time the ballet dancers who play the rats in the nutcracker come out with a series of unexplained banger tiktok videos and anyway this is my favorite part of the holiday season

Angeline Era is OUT NOW!!! 🔍Every level hidden in plain sight… 🗺️… chart your own path through the world! ⚔️Tons of thrilling combat, mysterious places… 👼… and a soul-shattering story! GET IT HERE!! store.steampowered.com/app/2393920/...

I think of Angeline Era's character art as "gestural" vertex colors: big blocks of gradients and hard edges that loosely gesture at finer details. They are often seen very small on the screen, so it helps them not appear over-detailed. But I also think it looks beautiful up close!

I'm particularly proud of the old sailor who has a lot of personality packed into very minimal geometry!

7-Eleven just awarded me its new peace prize for eating a roller hotdog.

At about $60K that's about 128 million graduate team indie games, at $150K about 500,000 small indie games, at $300K about 250,000 mid-size debut indie games, or at around $950K about 110,000 indie games by a team of more experienced devs. There are a total of 110,000 indie games on Steam.

SKATE STORY OUT TOMORROW (9AM PST/NOON EST) PC, PS5, Nintendo Switch 2

I wonder how many of the cars parked around NYPD precincts (both department and personal vehicles) are really being used for police work, and how many are just sort of littered about for very occasional use in these various petty grifts nypost.com/2025/12/06/u...