Every Democrat who doesn't openly condemn ICE and CBP should have a hundred challengers trying to take their seat. Do not vote for people who let this blend into the increasingly bloody background of "the way things are"

If you're an F.D Signifier fan, I've got a channel recommendation I think you'll love. Pillboy is an intersection of two of my interests: cultural commentary through a Black lens, and animation. Check out his VERY thorough and informative vid on... well. Cooning. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPB9...

As someone who's been in the speedrunning scene for a decade plus, GDQ's influence on the space has been really dramatic in ways I find very challenging to articulate until I attempt to interact with any community that hasn't had a similar concerted effort to improve its image lol.

I'm always saying this, I've watched the space evolve over the past decade and it's been the result of deliberate choices, some of which were not easy or popular at the time. You can foster diversity and inclusion in your spaces. It works.

THIS is how you responsibly shepherd a fandom community. You encourage inclusion and ban bad actors. You don't say "oh, we don't do politics" and let your fandom become yet another Nazi Bar. The world has enough fucking Nazi Bars. bsky.app/profile/danf...

The extent to which Games Done Quick has helped to steer the larger speedrunning community - one of the most hardcore video game enthusiast subcultures there is - into becoming something so welcoming, inclusive and supportive astonishes me

you there boy, what day is it? what day? that would be AGDQ day, sir! Then I haven't missed it!

I will never understand why they replaced community submitted subtitles for this nonsense Real human people were happy and willing to make subtitles in a variety of languages for free, and the creator had full control of what submissions were used And they GOT RID OF IT

I really enjoyed that K-Pop Demon Hunters movie this year. I've watched it three times The music was great, and k-pop music is an undeniable phenomenon. But also this....

ATTENTION ARTISTS AND ANY ASPIRING PIXEL ARTISTS!!! Aseprite is on sale on Steam!! It's a Pixel art program for art/animating and I highly recommend! (I have almost 700 hours in it!) It's $13 and a one time payment for an excellent program!!

I wish I'd remembered this Kermit/Piggy exchange when I was making that Overanimation video. Nothing condenses the argument better than: "I am playing 800 different emotions!" "Well, trying playing 1 of them right."

I'm about to join @causeimdanjones.bsky.social for a bit of his MS Paint randomizer stream if you want to hang out! Also yes, there is an MS Paint randomizer (it's great) www.twitch.tv/causeimdanjo...

This game had some of the most effusive word-of-mouth, "You gotta try this one!" amongst IGF judges this year, worth sticking on your wishlist! :)

The confusion and conflation of ‘generative ai that is built on stolen artwork’ and ‘machine learning, character behaviour modelling and proc gen’ is intentional on the part of the grifters peddling the former. They benefit from murkiness of classification, because the latter predates their bollocks

Now get ROLLING for initiative, The Prince. You have [3] turns to do [75] damage. ✨Don't embarrass us.✨

Obviously, this is amazing BUT the thing I love most, is that it's directly poking fun at the desire/fetish to overanimate overlapping action & smears. Asking someone of James Baxter's calibre to *intentionally* do this (as well as mess up the spacing on a bounce) is funny in the nerdiest way.

At this point, if you are not disclosing that you used AI, you know that your audience doesn't want it

Lately I've been feeling so deeply exhausted about how every single creative person is wasting so much time thinking about and arguing about how this useless dogshit doesn't work and can never work; so I gotta say, seeing players overwhelmingly understand that too makes me SO happy and encouraged

All my friends are opting to dissolve their sanity on Twitch this week, apparently

oh hey also: celeste joins undertale, deltarune & pizza tower for a Trombone Champ DLC trifecta!! the team did a really lovely job translating all the tracks over to trombone charts for you to challenge yourself...

Why We're Boycotting Xbox: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybj1...

I fear for my friend's sanity on the plus side, we get to watch a brain melt in real time

Don’t use AI for Placeholder assets (or at all). The point is to make them obvious they need replacing Textures should be hot pink Text should be BOLD ALL CAPS Animations should be the Macarena When they say “we only used AI for placeholder” what they really mean is they hoped you wouldn’t notice

(just gonna note, btw, that @dgbaumgart.bsky.social paid for my art tests on dredmor and I've, in turn, made sure anyone I ever asked for an animation test during a hiring process was paid for it. it's possible for us to do better, people just have to care to make it a priority)

Everyone is more or less okay with it” dude you make people emigrate to work there because you don’t do remote work, they risk having to change countries if they disagree with it

Everyone who uses AI for content gen tries to justify it with increasingly bizarre mitigations from "we're only using it to prototype", "we're only using it to iterate", "we're only using it to fill in some gaps", "we're barely even using it", "hey it still took us all night", "it's not even good"

The complete and repeated failure of CEOs everywhere to simply Not Say Words in Public

Vtubing already shares so much DNA with pro wrestling (character gimmicks, kayfabe, alter egos, improv, evil IRL corporate overlords, etc) When will they fully COMMIT Vtuber heel factions. Scripted rivalries. Stunt choreography. Steel chairs.

I am so proud of them. the kids did it. they made a new stupid number to say. they may now take their place in history.

Sad to see Darkadia is planning to shut down I mean, fair enough, it was always a site that seemed to have a tiny number of users, but I'll miss being able to look at my cross-platform game collection displayed on a little fake bookshelf <3

I always get a little cranky when PC games launch right into a cinematic or tutorial before letting me get into a settings menu. I've got footage to capture here, I need to tweak things. Umamusume's PC port seems to have been custom built to mentally unravel me

IN THE DARK DLC IS COMING 🎉🐊FEBRUARY 12th!!!🐊🎊 pretty soon i'll be off on a whole new adventure! i hope i see you there!!

The "Iron Grip on Power Award" (the executive who has the highest proportion of ownership over the company's equity) goes to... TIM SWEENEY Founder and CEO of Epic Games He owns 41% of Epic Games Stock

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.

“i can’t leave twitter, i need it, it’s where my audience is”

one day these awards shows will realize how fucking embarrassing it is to have a separate "games that are actually ABOUT something" category

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I understand why people stay on services that suck but not Spotify. There’s so many other platforms that are 1-to-1 the same but with less garbage if not objectively better.

Everyone is getting upset about the data centers. They pollute a lot and use a lot of energy and will eventually be very ugly/huge vacant buildings. And I understand being mad about that. Until you consider the state of the lazer tag industry at this moment, and how much help that sector needs.

Let me give some insight on this, as a producer in the dub industry who worked with major streamers, who's witnessed first-hand where this push for AI is coming from. tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this. 🧵⬇️

What a great headline

Gender-affirming care saves lives

I just learned the Bugs Bunny No meme doesn't even come from him saying no. It's a frame rotated 90 degrees from him taking a drink from a bottle. I needed to share this.

This MMO rarely gives me an opening to make this many FF8 jokes #FinalFantasyXIV

Rix Road, the season finale of Andor Season 1, was released three years ago today. F the Empire. All of them.

This little announcement video contains my highest-effort silly match cut yet. I'm glad it worked out, because there is literally no way to attempt recording the first half again

This post is incredible in that IYKYK kind of way

The amount of people I know who have been laid off from games industry jobs and are deciding to leave games entirely as a result is not only extremely saddening (of course), but also genuinely scary. We have lost legitimately thousands of years of knowledge and experience in the last four years.