Trans rights are human rights. Their existence causes no harm and their deserving of dignity is not a debate.

The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan. darksky.org/news/two-sat...

I think we as a society would improve if we all learned the difference between 'I am recommending this to you because I think you would love it given your taste' and 'I am recommending this to you because it is important to me and it would mean a lot if you experienced it'

The amount of times I sit in a call with a dreamer and their dream game is basically "everything from my favorite six games smashed together into perfect harmony and there was endless flawless content and it has graphics everyone likes" and I have to explain that making feet go on stairs is hard

If you're a little artist who just wants to tell a Cool Story you don't want to learn to code load-bearing shit like a save system, trust me

Oh this is neat! MGS4 release countdown timer as the PS3 install screen: mgs4.site

If your review average is a 7 because everybody gave you a 7, that's one thing. If your average is a 7 because it's half 10s and half 4s, that is how you know it's The Good Stuff

The Pokemon Rejuvenation Art Calendar is OUT NOW!! Featuring full scale illustrations and stickers by the talented artists of the Rejuv community! Download 13 pages of incredible artwork for free below! ⬇️ #PokemonRejuvenation

re Hey! Are you a fan of #pokemonrejuvenation and wanna participate in a Secret Valentine's art/fanfic exchange? Then this collab is for you! Sign ups close February 14th, and pieces are due March 14th! forms.gle/aTjhV65k9mJV...

i talked to the lead designer for Seance of Blake Manor, one of my favorite mystery games of last year. it's not as brain-destroying as something like Blue Prince and that's very much by design. you can walk away and come back to it, for example www.mothership.blog/seance-of-bl...

The deep worldbuilding of these two detective games makes it easier to use your intuition!

There's currently a Steam Detective Fest event right now, and there's some very neat games on sale, such as The Séance of Blake Manor, a game that is quite honestly pure genius. I still need to play more of it to give it a proper recommendation, but it's been thoroughly brilliant so far.

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The Resident Evil 2 fixed camera angles mod is so good that I have cancelled all my very important business appointments for tonight to playing this game at at 7:30pm EST on twitch.tv/superbunnyhop instead! Check out this highlight reel I made:

One of the best to ever do it

Crow Country is 50% off in the Steam Winter Sale! 🐦‍⬛❄️ Every copy sold, stream, video, piece of fanart or recommendation to friends or followers helps Adam and me make our next game, and hopefully another after that! store.steampowered.com/app/1996010/...

I really want to emphasize that this is a winnable fight, but everyone has to chip in in order to do so! Please dont sit it out expecting others to stand in your place! And dont ignore local/state level stuff! As these state laws get overturned, the narrative behind the Fed ones lose steam!

Its really important imo for citizens to push back when some senator starts mouthing off about how section 230 needs repealing, or other blatantly bad ideas But its also good to have perspective re: the actual chances of a particular gambit going through!

My only big post-game-award thought is that while Clair Obscur is obviously an excellent game (cmon, don't do the sour grapes thing, please?), it still doesn't come to mind AT ALL when I think of my favourite RPGs of the year That still goes to Look Outside, made by a tiny team in just a few months

while KOSA passed the subcommittee, there is still the full committee meeting it needs to go through before being voted on by the Senate/House support is more split on it than you'd think, we just need to pull away enough votes to block it. CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES! www.badinternetbills.com

Another way to think about it is there are three standard shot sizes in cinematography, and while comics is so much more than film, knowing some camera basics can help: * WIDE: Shows whole body (inc feet!). Great for showing environment, spatial relationships, big action / comedy. (1/more)

#SaveSpeech The House Committee Meeting was heavily in favor of these various censorship/surveillance bills We need now, more than ever, to counter the rhetoric that these bills are "popular" and demand our reps oppose them! www.congress.gov/members/find...

if you're one person making a comic by yourself, don't treat yourself like you should function on the same level as comics that have multiple people working on them. your backgrounds can be squiggles and colors. allow yourself room to be abstract with details and give yourself some grace

I think the corollary that a lot of people miss about "write what you know" is that *you have the power to know more things.* Research and talking to people are a central part of writing!

Special thanks to GOG for being so supportive of the project! HORSES preorders are now available on the store: www.gog.com/en/game/horses 🙏

There's a part of learning, which generative AI completely turns into dogshit, which is *doing something you could not have done before* Whether it's drawing, playing an instrument, solving a physics problem, organizing an essay, you find yourself doing easily what previously you found overwhelming

Whenever I say this, people get Really Mad, but it's true. Same of any other art, too. You have to read the book, watch the film, see the painting, listen to the song, whatever. I'm sorry, but watching a video about it on YouTube is not enough. You have not experience the art.

UNPOPULAR OPINION: Spending hours gaming is better for your mental health than hours of doom scrolling through social media. Games give you critical thinking, strategy, stories, goals and actual dopamine, as opposed to anxiety.

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

🚨 Yet again Ted Cruz and Steve Scalise are trying to sneak in a moratorium on state GenAi legislation. If passed states can no longer enact laws for transparency, child safety, privacy, environmental protection etc. We got 3 days to stop this. Call now! www.senate.gov/senators/sen...

Why am I so against generative AI in games? Because I simply do not want my initial reaction to art to be one of suspicion and scrutiny, AI slop is fundamentally damaging my relationship to art and artistry, and I am deeply resentful that it is forcing me to be guarded when I should be wowed.

more than "you should play bad games because a maligned game might be good" i would prefer if the positive contrarian dogma was "you should play games that genuinely interest you regardless of what other people think" because holy shit the former leads to a lot of turning your misery into Content

everyone needs to grow the fuck up and start playing pretend with toys

Discworld QOTD, from Witches Abroad "‘Will she live happily ever after?’ he said. NOT FOREVER. BUT PERHAPS FOR LONG ENOUGH."

It's recently come to my attention that someone made a fake UZDoom website. DO NOT CLICK IT! The only official website for UZDoom is ZDoom dot org and the ONLY official place to get future UZDoom downloads would be the official UZDoom Github page! Stay safe out there y'all [Boosts appreciated]

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Look, it’s trite to say, but I’m gonna say it anyway: tell your people that you love them. Apologize when you screw up, check in just to say hi, celebrate every mundane happiness you can with them. They need it more than you know, and so do you.

Some time ago I saw an artist say that folks often put a lot of effort into their work, and then post about it once. Which is such a shame! Not everyone is awake at the same time, not everyone is online every day, and you put a lot of effort into it! So go post your work again! Repost it again!

A really solid post and worth the read. Reminds me of something I read once about punk music and how the voice cracking and lofi recordings make the music really feel like an emotion the medium can't hold. "Playing bad games is kinda like doing emotional push-ups." is likewise a fantastic statement

please watch movies and read books and play games and look at art, please view it with your own eyes through a lens you made yourself and not just through video essayists and ending explained videos please im begging you

“When they rob us of art and emotion, that leads us towards the aesthetics of fascism. In this film, all the sets are real, the decor is human-sized, there are painstakingly created miniatures... It’s there to remind us that art is not only necessary, it is urgent. And AI can go fuck itself!”

two reasons for this: 1) some people tried to give really helpful advice on making sophisticated and interesting villain characters and that eventually morphed into "the villain should be just like the hero if the hero messed up" (dark mirror shit) and 2...

Makoto Yukimura was worried that Vinland Saga's farming arc and "I have no enemies" moment was a gamble that readers wouldn't like. I told him about the J. Cole meme from the Kendrick Lamar and Drake rap beef. This is how he reacted.

When I went to Pokémon I had lunch the week before I left with Neal Suggs, who was my last boss at Xbox and was in many ways the reason I left. (He’s at Google now.) He gave me the most important leadership tip I ever got. /1

If "AI" was as valuable as they say it is, they wouldn't be selling it to you. They'd be using it themselves in secret to make the next Minecraft, the next Avatar, the next Hello Kitty and then they'd sell that to you. They're trying to sell you a sick goose, while pretending it lays golden eggs.

"why would you deny yourself an opportunity to become stronger" is really my whole life mindset, so of course I also apply it to video games

Genuinely powerful words to live by.