After seeing how quickly Sim scoffed at and dismissed the 50 artists who showed up to ask the city not to abandon them a few months ago, its incredible to see the exponential increase in people who are prepared to show up. Is Vancouver back?

This is an incredible marathon of posting on Bluesky from a City of Vancouver Councillor. He’s documenting an unofficial filibuster at City Hall as over 600 people have signed up to speak at the budget hearing. Over 200 have said their piece so far. Follow along. #democracy #bluesky

Every time I tune into a Vancouver city council meeting I leave it with steam coming out of my ears at the arrogance and sense of dismissive impunity the mayor and his party exude

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my dog Annie has a potentially cancerous tumor that needs removal ASAP. I'm unemployed and barely making rent off my benefits, so the nearly $3000 bill is absolutely impossible for me. I really really don't want my dog to die. please share this and help as you can!!! paypal.me/JetGrind

I wrote more words about how it feels to be a translator watching the games press report on AI and labor, coming from a field that's fought these battles for decades. It may look like I'm beating up on one outlet, but it's not about them; I've been trying to write this for me and my peers all year.

My last word on the matter

This a big deal: "China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months" China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.

Help us stop Ken Sim's budget for billionaires. Hundreds of people have already signed up to speak to City Council against ABC's brutal cuts. Deadline to signup is 4pm Tuesday. Join the fight. Sign up here: vancouver.ca/your-governm... #vanpoli #FightForVancouver

oh gosh this all speaks to my heart on a molecular level Im dying to live in this creative space again, if I ever have

My partner is a clown and this is exactly the core conversation that she and her peers are having all the time - about how to design situations for yourself to thread the needle on this paradox. (In her French clown school, they called this being at your most "beautiful") bsky.app/profile/sylv...

I'm having a revelation.. I think treating evil game design, player-hostile design, quality of death, etc. as goals, while aligned with my values on a surface level, is kind of like when someone intentionally sets out to make a "bad" movie. It will not be as beautiful as the sincere "bad" movies.

"Friction" is nothing without "sincerity" behind it.... So, if you are a game designer who loves friction, keep cultivating and developing your taste in frictions.

id never post a youtube video again if i got a debunk this serious

whenever people around the game industry think this way about games i want them to just for a second try applying that thinking to any other context - like "this film is great because it followed the 180 degree rule in every scene". there's a reason we had this art movement thing called modernism

"The arts, culture and community services department is to lose 12 per cent, or $6 million." Planning and Environment also facing deep cuts. Hundreds of jobs are on the chopping block. vancouversun.com/opinion/colu... #vanpoli #StopTheCuts #EvictKenSim

I'm personally stoked about the Phantasy Star TTRPG so it was a treat to interview the creator himself about the process of squaring away the different eras of Phantasy Star and what the future might have in store (spoilers: its probably not adapting Episode III's battle system...)

Rich Lescouflair from @skydawngamestudios.bsky.social joins us to discuss the challenges and joys of adapting a beloved JRPG into a tabletop on this week's ep! No Hunter's License required! Plus: - Square Enix lay-offs - Mysterious FFXI Updates - N7 Day? AD-FREE: www.patreon.com/posts/phanta...

Ken Sim has no mandate to make these brutal cuts. ABC has no mandate to impose austerity. The City's own Budget survey showed people overwhelmingly prefer tax rates that maintain public services. We're fighting to stop these cuts and evict ABC. www.copevancouver.ca/join #FightForVancouver

I'll say it again: this gen AI plan is ludicrous and if they proceed, it will have immediate, catastrophic effects and hurt SE's reputation. If you work at SE and you're reading this, know I am 100 percent on your side and I will always defend your work from your bosses in public when you can't.

Because SE's QA people are probably not in a position to defend themselves and their jobs in public, I want to spell out some of what it is they specifically do for us localizers, because nothing I've written here is rhetorical. SE QA acts as a final check on our work after translation and editing.

REMAINING CALM AND CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC areas could be more palette-swap endgame grinding (which is fine!) or we could be going to Rhazowa or something. Shame anyone thinks PlayOnline Viewer needs improving but I get it Anyway we're so back god bless Fuji-P i never should have doubted you

The writing has been on the wall, but to be quite frank, current SE leadership has shown utter disdain for its entire loc pipeline and if they can find a way to get rid of everyone in the chain, they will. If you care about quality prose in SE games, NOW is the time to let your feelings be known.

You don't need me to tell you this is yet more good money being burned after bad. But as someone who's worked with that QA team, I'll say they're unsung heroes who truly play a huge role in maintaining SE's reputation for high quality locs and to attempt to replace them with AI is deeply insulting.

Jak had to be rushed to the emergency vet as he was leaking an alarming amount of puss from his abdomen. He requires surgery and a drain as he has an infection and in total is going to cost nearly $4,500. If anyone is able to help, I would be eternally grateful. #mutualaid ko-fi.com/techpriestne...

Congratulations, New York City!! Zohran Mamdani’s win is historic, the result of a grassroots campaign that fought to make life more affordable. Vancouver’s next municipal election is October 17, 2026.

god they cooked SO hard with this art style. putting it in my mouth every time

i think it's good actually that a videogame prominently featuring AI voice acting is finding success while my VA friends haven't found steady work in years and have their rates forcibly ground into dust over the few reliable gigs left but hey the game is really fun right!!!!!!!

Reminds me of people complaining about procedural generation in games like it's the same as GenAI. A program that uses dev made assets to quickly create environments is not the same as stealing art and mashing it together like generative AI does.

...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site

@cbbworld.bsky.social the way I hooted and hollered for the final 8 minutes of this episode. Bless your hearts. What a treat.

"What, like it's hard?" - L Woods, when asked if he would catch Kira

"What, like it's hard?" - L Woods, when asked if he would catch Kira

We need to stop being embarrassed by the limitations of technology that gave us a digital impressionism movement for 20 years And Final Fantasy should not have 5 different pixel sizes on screen at once.

Imagining a better world where established voice actors didn’t undervalue themselves and undercut their comrades by taking the ultra low-paying gigs meant for people just trying to get some credits under their belt.

I've reposted many posts made by folks who were recently laid off from Heart Machine, but here is a thread that highlights them all. I am also including folks who were previously laid off & are still looking for work. I will be linking their Bsky posts, as well as LinkedIn. Please, share this. 🖤

Oh weird the guy who proudly buddies with the no steppy flag crew and insisted itwas fine and normal also pals around with other shitheads? Shocking news.

i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times

I guess Sean’s vicious insult humor has been getting him for a long time now Watch: www.patreon.com/posts/142276... Listen: www.patreon.com/posts/142276...

Come November I’ll have been unemployed for a year and now another freelance gig has dried up. Just a reminder that I am open to all freelance work (especially reviews) as well as mock review/consulting work. Also open to any other job opportunities outside of journalism. Contact info is in my bio

Power Dolls 2 Dash // Kogado Studio // PC-98

So anyway I restored Daicon IV from scratch. This was a joint project with Chris Person (papapishu), who sourced the incredibly Rare Laserdisc release. The raw files can be found on the internet archive for those interested in processing it yourself. Enjoy! archive.org/details/DAIC...

I’m going to this and everyone else in Vancouver should to

Not a ton of reliable documentation on New3DS batteries out there so I took a risk and ordered this one that looks like gas station boner pills and this one that looks like normal boner pills. Will report back

​BREAKING: Today, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum opened all 1.56 million acres of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge’s Coastal Plain to oil and gas leasing. These lands are sacred to the Gwich’in Nation, home to irreplaceable wildlife and wilderness, and have never seen industrialization.

today I learned that @surasshu.com has this massive blocklist for youtube channels that hock bullshit AI generated music, if you're like me and enjoy vapourwave you know it's a fuckin minefield out there so this helps TREMENDOUSLY surasshu.com/blocklist-fo...

my family of three just got hit with another $400 for car repairs and it's cut into our rent. our landlord can and will legally make us homeless if we're even a cent short. my mother is disabled and will die if made homeless during Canadian winter. PLEASE share if you can't spare anything!!!

Several months ago, actors made it clear that they were withholding work from Genshin Impact because of a lack of basic AI protections Hoyo fans told them it would/could never be an issue Last night, Hoyo posted several official videos promoting Genshin's new mode Here's what the VO sounds like.

Anyone of any gender should have access to hormone therapy, but to opine that HRT is cool and based for cis people to improve their sex lives while in the same breath demonizing transgender people for supposedly being sick sex-freaks is fucking infuriating.

"over 70% of Tales sales are overseas" And yet they consistently fail to credit the localizers who make those overseas sales possible. #TranslatorsintheCredits (For more info, see this post: bsky.app/profile/lizb...)