This is the most delightfully #Hamilton story I've seen in a long time. #HamOnt

Glad to see Polygon cover the resistance of game developers to generative AI--and to be able to speak briefly to one of the greatest dangers of this entire thing. Gen AI doubles down on making MORE SPACE for production issues that *already make games worse.* www.polygon.com/arc-raiders-...

The best bike for getting exercise is the one that you will actually ride.

I guess the Gabe-cube is nice and all, but I'm holding out for the GOG-Cube.

I'm gonna interpret this as I should assume Nexon will be using AI and therefore never buy any of their or their subsidiaries' games.

Here the story about my ban and why conflating HRT with GAHT is anti-trans and harmful

arc raiders, alters, same story aftermath.site/the-alters-a...

Ambrosia Sky: Act One is available now!! 15% off on both Steam & Epic!! store.steampowered.com/app/3580160/... store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/ambr...

The funny thing is that he still thinks that they'd hire him to write a script for an "AI"-generated feature instead of getting the AI to do it for free.

Hi Bluesky 👋 Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵

For some reason the media is not mentioning that the reason GTA6 is being delayed is they fired 40 staff over threats of unionization and now the rest of their staff are revolting

The modern day proponents of "AI" clearly have not remembered the hard-won lessons learned by Damn You, Autocorrect.

If you don't want to have to deal with having a well-paid professional workforce, maybe don't make video games?

Non-US folks should really do this survey, the last question is about whether you’ve cancelled travel plans to the US or are reconsidering travel plans due to current policies. GDC needs to know this, maybe some talks could go online live with enough feedback? Maybe they could even lobby? Who knows!

This is fun. I hope I spelled it properly.

Is Game Writer under Performer?

I've been attempting to retire an old email address, so I've been changing my contact email at various websites and businesses. I went to do so at Dell's website and saw the attached warning. WTF, Dell?

I know that my clock says that it's just after 4 pm but my body is all like "Why are you still working?" #TimeChangesAreDumb

I really wish more of y'all would go read @greatdismal.bsky.social's Jackpot books. Like… I wish you'd already read them, but I *really* wish you'd go read them.

This is amazing. I recently started playing Pathfinder: Kingmaker again using turn-based mode and loved it. So I reinstalled PoE to see if they had added turn-based mode too. They hadn't. Imagine my surprise seeing this announcement.

"As Tommy Douglas once said, the core issue in Canada isn’t simply that the rich have lots of money, but that they have a fundamentally different and incompatible set of interests than the rest of society." #canada

New awareness campaign

It's ironic that a studio that calls itself "Rockstar" would do something so blatantly uncool.

I'm taking a big chance by moving from Substack to Ghost and I could use some help. Please share widely.

I was watching the latest episode of The Reluctant Traveler last night. Eugene Levy talked about growing up in Hamilton. His experience was much like mine - he wanted to pursue the arts and was basically told: "That's fine as a hobby, but what are you going to do to earn a living?" Big feels there.

I'm going to make that VR horror game extra scary by not cleaning up all the crap on my floor before I start playing.

Prince Andrew Stripped Of Royal Computer Privileges https://theonion.com/prince-andrew-stripped-of-royal-computer-privileges/

I've signed up for a service that provides daily magic lessons for 30 days. I feel like they missed out on a marketing opportunity by not calling it IntSpeCaMo (International Spell Casting Month).

Today I have an appointment with QMUNITY's pro bono legal clinic. But I'm still looking for recs cos it's not guaranteed they have the capacity to take on my case. Please share!

Great 🧵on the current state of game industry. As I've said before: things were better before investors in general discovered that you could make money making games.

NEW: Whether you measure it by number of supporters, fundraising ability, or by the size of its militant groups, the white nationalist movement in Canada has never been larger or more of a threat.

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Alexa explodes after Canadian replies to query with, “Oh, yeah, no, for sure.”

Rare work post: Giving away secrets! I lead a few modules in Google People Manager Essentials, a free course available on Coursera that will help you become a better people manager. The course is self-paced, and you can complete it in little chunks. You can complete the whole course in ~8 hrs.

It's really quite pathetic that these rich and powerful tech companies feel like the only way that they can get people to use their BS AI is by sneaking it in. I mean they're right: no-one wants this garbage. But that's no excuse.

This weekend Jules placed first in a pro-am natural bodybuilding competition and he was informed he won't be able to compete next year because he's trans. He's familiar with politics and media and he'd be a great client to challenge this transphobic sports policy in Canada.

Here’s the panel I did with Cory Doctorow a few days ago in Seattle! youtu.be/Tz71pIWbFyc?...

Pet peeve as a reader: overuse of the word "chuckle".

Why is it that the people who are the first to say "I could do a better job on that game" are always the ones who appear to be the least likely to do so?

I contributed Additional Writing to the game, which means some of the odd conversations you may overhear while vamping around Seattle could have been written by me! #gamedev #writing #gamewriting

It me!

I contributed Additional Writing to the game, which means some of the odd conversations you may overhear while vamping around Seattle could have been written by me! #gamedev #writing #gamewriting

My upstairs neighbour is prone to sudden swearing outbursts and I don't think that he's even a programmer!

I'll often continue playing the same video game for weeks on end because I know that if I stop and switch to something else I'll never go back to the first one. In part, this is because in order to play the game, I hold the shape of it in my head. Play another game, the shape is replaced...

Or you could watch The Good Place. Maybe both?

I think it should remain possible to work professionally on video games without having to move

Owlcat Games has launched a free game development learning resource, featuring over 350 learning resources including software recommendations, tutorials, and online courses www.gamesindustry.biz/owlcat-games...

UI pet peeve: I click a "Log In" button on a website and it pops up an account registration page where I have to click a second "log in" link in order to actually log in.

At least with a cool dream: 1. An actual person had the dream 2. An actual person is telling the story of their dream

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States. Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵