tuned in to listen to astronauts fix a toilet in space and i just think that's neat

forgot the most important of the genre

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the folks at @coolzonemedia.bsky.social are doing great work and you should vote for them in the Webbys imho

Go away! I don’t have any treats!

i don't appreciate how much the Slack huddle hold music evokes Being Trapped In A Zara

they're calling it the most normal way to present evidence of corporate sabotage of all time.

Game workers do not receive any residuals/royalties on shipped titles and shipping bonuses are increasingly rare. There's also no guarantee that your name will even be in the credits if you leave before ship, and studios will use this to keep you compliant. All of this can and should change.

yesss i love Aftermath

i didn't know this existed and it is a Treat

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This iron age man buried in Sussex was so proud of his awesome helmet that he developed an archaeologically detectable neck injury from wearing it so often.

Walking thru the “Ultra Normie” No Kings rally in my extremely rural, white town and there are Patagonia wearing moms carrying signs that say “DEAD PEDOPHILES DONT REOFFEND” and “ICE GETS THE WALL” and I hi fived an old guy with a sign that said MY DADDY FOUGHT NAZIS AND SO WILL I” this is wild

also would like to point out that i do in fact look cute today 😌

honestly didn’t expect to see so many people turn out for the No Kings rally just in my little Portland neighborhood, not even the main event by the waterfront

one thing you can do for your laid off friends is reach out to them and tell them that you appreciated their work. I dislike the stigma in America of people avoiding talking to you because you were callously cut out of employment because people who have no taste deleted you from a spreadsheet

I recently saw someone try to make the "if a game is good, it'll find an audience" argument the other day and I've been mad about it since. Success is never guaranteed. You can do everything you can to improve your chances, but I wish more people recognized that quality work ≠ guaranteed audience.

gamedev friends: seeing a lot of reports (over 30 in the past three days) anecdotally & personally on discord accounts being hacked, including effected users buying a ton of gifts with the connected payment information strongly urge yall to enable 2FA & disconnect payment details asap

Additionally, the job market in our industry is already ice cold. Epic firing 1000 people when it makes Fortnite Money will lower the temp to near absolute zero.

So hey! In more concrete terms: I got hit by the Epic layoff yesterday. - Looking for Senior/Principal/Lead-ish roles around Level Design, Technical Design, Systems Design, etc. - Strong preference for US/Seattle/Remote Site is a little rough from the last time around, but: andrew-weldon.design

he's very good at this

no work of art can be so important as to excuse the harm that its creator is actively, knowingly, remorselessly doing to others using the funds generated by that art certainly not those fucking wizard books

the girl guides in the UK just kicked out all their trans members specifically bc they were threatened with a lawsuit from a rowling-funded group

this was so sick (small worlds museum eva exhibit)

Post a non-religious picture you think of as holy

Multiple game studios have recently closed because their titles couldn't compete with established live-service games like Fortnite. Meanwhile, you can also literally work on Fortnite and get laid off and Tim Sweeney remains a billionaire. Something has to change. The time is now. uvw-cwa.org

Eat shit, lol, and long live The Onion.

If you need a QA/Test Lead for your team with 9 years of experience in the industry, including live service and single player AAA titles, please hit me up. I have worked on titles like Destiny 2 and Fortnite, and would love to be your test team's best advocate and process improver. somnifery.com

Deranged autocrat in charge while a fire breaks out in Rome? I’ve seen enough. Welcome back, 64 AD.

Every picture of ICE agents in airports is just this again

if you're travelling and you are a documented citizen (esp if you're white/white-passing), you need to speak up & interrupt any racial profiling you witness. We are absolutely defeated if we allow ICE agents to harass people in the broad light of crowded airports. Don't be a good deputy citizen.

ICE has already started assaulting and kidnapping people from airports, as their children watch. The wall for every single person in this American gestapo.

made Claire Saffitz’s meyer lemon olive oil cake today and goddamn 🤌

Still looking for this pup’s family! Please share if you can.

Placeholder assets in a game should look obnoxiously temporary, so obvious that no one would mistake it for the final asset. In past games we've used the doge dog (rip) as an icon, hot pink versions of characters, our CEO's head, etc. If you use a temp asset that seems passable, it may stay there.

games are a form of media that are reverse engineered & deconstructed by its enthusiast audience more often than any other form of multimedia additionally: if you think that the cost of making games is a problem, ask a successful games publisher how much it costs to reearn trust, let alone buy it

Installing ICE at airports is a grade a level stupid idea but it also advances the larger issue, which is a private, unaccountable army funded by and ideologically loyal to a dictator that spreads militaristic oppression to all forms of public life.

Raising money for the Middle East Children’s Alliance. If you’re in a position to, please donate and share to raise awareness. There are kids desperately in need and just a little goes a long way for them. www.instagram.com/p/DWMReGPjZh...

there won't be a "third impact" Mulder, the entire concept is a fantasy you created to avoid reckoning with painful, deep seated psychosexual fears and insecurities. think about it. this "impact" just happens to specifically address your worst— (third impact begins) many things could be causing this

IT’S CALLED HENTAI, COOP. NICHE PORNOGRAPHY FROM THE LAND OF THE RISING SUN. REAL WACKYLAND STUFF LIKE TENTACLES. HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT ABOUT WHAT IT WOULD BE LIKE GETTING A PROSTATE MASSAGE FROM AN OCTOPUS? ME TOO.

it is extremely easy to create a podcast about bad people and not plagiarize me. literally just call it anything you want. the premise itself is almost impossible to plagiarize. and yet somehow AI found a way

This just happened in Los Angeles. LA shelters are already in crisis mode and this is an emergency. Real Good Rescue needs more dog fosters to see how many they can take in - if you’re interested please feel free to let me know! www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/l...

top 10 video game weapons (true) 1. a Katamari (has killed billions) (Katamari Damacy) 2. a weapon to surpass Metal Gear (MGS) 3. Metal Gear (MGS) 4. a 1x1 room with no doors (The Sims) 5-10. fucking the Pope (Crusader Kings 3)

honestly kind of desperate to see the internal pitch for this

Some say that making a smaller game or simpler game are ways to cut down on dev time. This is also true. But if you're making a game of any size that has any sort of consistent production methodology, a good way to make everything take longer is to change standards and pipelines in production.

"Rather than risk being confronted by a work of art that throws into question your way of living, you can have a lithe and large-eyed AI gyrate on the floor in exactly the way you have prompted her to." defector.com/the-new-evan...

"in a way, software is the new content" makes me want to walk into the sea tbh

Google is now screwing with the 10 blue links in traditional search and rewriting headlines - including ours - to be the worst kind of slop. This sucks so bad www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...