6’s Varsity takes the gold, 6’s JV takes the silver, and 6’s team chaplain takes the bronze.

hahaha -- And lord help 'em if they want doors.

If we could reopen the game awards for like five minutes, the Internet and I would like to nominate Flute Man for best orchestral performance by a singularly exuberant human being

I've mentioned it to three people so far and GabeCube sure does seem like it could end up the undeniable winner

Don't see how this could possibly work without 3 different models of various capacities ensuring that developers can only make games for the lowest common denominator while reassuring fans that games actually use all the capabilities of the highest end most expensive version. I mean really.

Wow. It's not every day a game you worked on in high school shows up on PCGamer. Feels like a nostalgia bomb just blew up in here. www.pcgamer.com/games/mmo/th...

Nothing against the Dreamhaven folks, who are beyond legendary. And nothing against the developers, who are ridiculously talented and truly want to entertain players. This is about where games are right now: Everyone already has access to infinite entertainment. (1/4)

Absolutely every MMO is haunted in its own special way, and I think that's beautiful. (ff14)

I love this. I use: if everything is cozy, nothing is cozy. I like Valheim invasions or night in Minecraft as examples of how I (personally) perceive cozy: You're cozy because of the warmth and safety that's relative to the decidedly non-cozy moments. Also, I'm done saying cozy now.

Chatted with GDC about live games the other day - Talk's up!

My favorite genre of non-games tech writeup is "describing innovation that MMOs & live games have been doing for 20+ years" newsletter.scalablethread.com/p/how-featur... (Not to pick on this person - I've heard this same thing recommended as new at least three other times this year)

I know the feeling, Darth. www.gamefile.news/p/fortnite-a...

❤️😆 How'd I miss this

Excellent thread. tl;dr Publishers are signing games that don't need publishers, and that's about it. It sucks, but this is the way it is for the time being. Entire coincidentally, this is also a line in my GDC talk next monday morning @ 9:30

If you clip this thread just right, you can paste it to your friends to see who did and didn't spend time in the absolute wrongest places on the internet in their formative years

This is a great callout - And so generally massively misunderstood. I wince whenever I hear "Well why didn't they just give it X more months?" Those months are the most expensive ones a game will ever see, usually by a whole lot.

I love when videos come out where I can slowly turn them up until I hear "okay what the HELL" from the other room. This is 100% one of those. Maybe 300%

Help a friend out. Kick in a buck if you can!

100% cannot wait for this. Man, did these books ever grab me

"Let’s just hope that the good news starts outweighing the bad." Amen to that, @deantak.bsky.social

Having worked with Morgan on multiple games, my reaction is 50% "This is amazing, hilarious and spot on" and 50% "hey....wait"

Sandra was one of those rare hyper-competent people who quietly worked their ass off behind the scenes to make sure we were doing our best for teams and players. She cared very deeply about everything we did and everyone who did it. We were so fortunate she joined us. She was truly fantastic ❤️

Also, car license place not the same as people license place. I feel like I'm missing important backstory here

Welp, just officially SURRENDERED (i've never liked that word) my license for a shiny new temporary WA one. Feels a little weird. Looks like I do live here now

Something "we all know," but neat to see some work behind it. He scraped all scrapeable steam reviews, and there's inference but: "...half of players that leave negative reviews but then come back and update their review after a developer has directly responded to them, change to positive."

The past couple years I've talked at GDC's f2p summit opener, doing the PC & Console part, with interesting stuff from the previous year. This year it's the Live Game Summit. What do you think I should talk about?

New Matt Ball State of Gaming report is out and it's really solid. Dense and thoughtful as hell, and I love it for that. www.matthewball.co/all/stateofv...

In my absolutely biased opinion, this is worth a follow on Kickstarter if you have an account there and are into those MMO kinds of things! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sta...

Big MMORPG news tonight - Raph Koster’s Stars Reach MMORPG is launching a Kickstarter in February - the chat is still ongoing @raphkoster.bsky.social @playstarsreach.bsky.social

Oh gosh I can’t pick, I like them all so much, I’ll just take the whole lot! -me, choosing my battles

Also works logistically - Be in a play, launch a big MMO, tell me it's not damn near the same feeling.

Happy annual War Thunder Forum Classified Materials Day to those who celebrate ukdefencejournal.org.uk/classified-f...

Wealthy celebrity who enjoys games, has strong opinions, wants to start their own studio. That's new. Maybe a government wants to chip in. What could possibly go wrong. www.polygon.com/news/486495/...

Hey, we're back from a harrowing night of windy darkness, spotty LTE service, and an 8 hour assault of branches and pinecones. 1216 outages remain.

I know we're going to have a bomb cyclone and all, but we found a place that sells Longans up here that's only a couple miles away. I may have been so excited that I ate the entire bag for dinner. And it was absolutely worth it.

Happy monday, folks, from our resident ridiculous creature

I know it's not games, but is calling this headline straight out of the onion too on the nose? www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

This is the whole ballgame for me: You cannot run a functioning democracy in a media environment where voters do not know basic facts about what candidates do and believe. Voters are living in a post-internet world and legacy institutions have not kept up.

Now we're talking

reposting this iconic @joshmlabelle.bsky.social tweet over here because it came up today

Something else pretty great about Bluesky. Know what floods your mentions when you say the word Blockchain? Absolutely. Nothing. How amazing is that

Of my close friends that spent a year or more working with blockchains (in games and platforms, all at different companies), this is an excellent summary of their current takes too

Another banger from @rbryantfrancis.bsky.social, with (entirely appropriate) bonus @legalminimum.bsky.social quote. If you're not already following Bryant, you really should. Especially if seeing real games journalism warms your heart too

Conferences are great and all, but it's really about the $8 trip to Foodland

After seeing many, many MMOs on the inside, I don't often get to say that this is a new one on me. And this is a new one on me. 😆

I actually got to use this line at a professional roundtable today when the subject of "censorship" in social media came up, and could not be happier about it. Bless you and your timing, @scalzi.com

I haven't had to tap the sign even once here, but it's such a *good* sign

Also, good morning! Big moon.

Aha. Yeah. If I wasn't already long gone from there, this would've done it. What a sad, ignoble end to what shouldn't have been a complete trashfire.