Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

An argument against live service games: they change without you. Some, like Dune and Ark, unmake your progress. Others, like Destiny or WoW, leave you behind - or drag you along until you don't recognize where you are. We talk about respecting the player's time, but what about their choices?

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

still where i'm at

it's fucking insane that david and everyone else at his studio could be laid off - god knows I haven't agreed with a lot of his work but that doesn't change the fact that he's an industry luminary and an incredibly talented guy who brings out talent in others. this cannot continue.

hey, the world is completely nuts right now but our game dev studio @younghorses.com turned 14 years old today and that's pretty neat!

big gothic castle in quake from last year. didn't make it for any other reason than I was using it to make new textures and enjoying myself.

Windows 10 End of Life is in less than 2 weeks! But you don't have to upgrade to Windows 11!! This video will show you how to extend the life of Windows 10 by 3 more years via Extended Security Updates program safely, for free. MS throws you to the wolves, but the wolves will throw you a bone.

This crowd did an absolutely amazing job

yeah when you don't ever hire junior developers, junior producers, or junior writers you simply never pick up the equivalent of John Carmack or Hideo Kojima in their early 20s

someone in a podcast I listened to today said like "all the developers that worked on legendary games in the 90s would never be able to get into the industry today" and I think that might be entirely accurate

Gaming-Only journalists and analysts are pretty accurately calling this EA acquisition what it is: a doomed idea that will cause untold human misery and kill the company and probably bury all its IPs Tech/Gaming Journalists keep trying to find a silver lining. Huh. Curious. Strange. Odd. Quirky.

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OH SHIT

yeah if you're wondering why shit's so dire in places it has previously seemed to be fine, this is why some of the people who this happened to immediately cottoned on to "it's the foreigners'/womens'/LGBTQ peoples' fault" as their explanation for it

last night somebody reminded me of a time many years ago when I got some game narrative insight from somebody at Valve, so I have now published it in a blog post www.joewintergreen.com/dev-scoops-s...

for every post someone makes that is in any way related to “being mean to AI”, one of their 5 most recent interactions with a person doing customer service should be chosen at random and appended to said post

The saga of Long Long Man. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-1U...

(Reposting and adding tag) I'm a mid-senior designer looking for work on game projects. I'm a 10+ year veteran of both AAA and indie, with primary skills in level design and narrative design, but I've done technical design, art, mid-level programming, tech writing, and senior-level QA #GameDevLFJ

This is the logic we agreed to live by when we agreed to let ‘er rip on covid. If you get sick, if you die, that’s no one’s problem but yours. As I’ve said from the beginning, this is an anti-societal choice that isn’t containable. Disregard for health safety was never going to just stick to Covid.

Currently at: — only buy tech too old to have AI built in — painstakingly disable AI every time they add it to something that used to work perfectly well — if it can't be switched off, abandon the platform or tool — if there are no good alternatives, avoid the AI parts — patiently wait for the crash

another useful explainer bsky.app/profile/bisp...

if lowtax's ex-wife is saying you remind her of fucking lowtax maybe you should stop posting

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CAN WE HAVE A WEBSITE THAT ISN'T TRANSPHOBIC FOR ONE SECOND

A STORY FOR YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUU of unrequited love, heavy weather, the results of Supreme Court fuckery, and honorable dirtbags. Also a beagle named Henry. Also I wrote this in 2023.

bluesky devs wanting to make twitter-reddit linkedin but getting mad about getting e621 and deviantart instead will never stop being funny to me shoutout unmarketable queers and kink artists keep doing good work

Bluesky literally caved to right wingers harassing them to ban people saying “rest in piss Charlie Kirk” Stop trying to gaslight us, Jay. You literally changed the TOS to allow Jesse Singal to stay despite violating them.

imagine if trans people didn't need to beg for their fucking lives constantly and instead we could just be funny and hot and go to sleep at night without worrying about what threat morning will bring

please help izolde if you can!

excellent points about how you should be very careful about what "studies" and "polls" you believe these days

Reminder: they're STILL taking all of our work + we STILL need (especially Cali) signatures on the petition supporting Bill AB412 - the AI Copyright Transparency Act. TLDR= this'll require transparency about what's in AI datasets! Signing takes 1 min. Once done, PLEASE SHARE!! tinyurl.com/4uxbp963

wow it's just like in video games

If you fail to value life, don't be shocked when yours isn't valued either. As such, it shouldn't be surprising to see the common discourse online being the way it is. I will continue to hope for a reduction of suffering in the world. Unrelated; this is a good track. youtu.be/acT_PSAZ7BQ

Brush Burial: Gutter World now has a DEMO on STEAM. It's a stealth-fps with lots of cute outfits to unlock and a takedown-based melee combat system. and guns too, don't worry. GO PLAY. AND WISHLIST. PRETTY PLEASE

not to point at anyone in particular, but I have been in and on many different internet communities of various shapes/sizes/technologies and one mistake I consistently see made is assuming the technical part of running a community is the hard part. it's not. it's the social part. it's moderation.

today i learned dorothy thompson was dragging trumpy tradwives in 19-hundred-and-fucking-41 in Harper's, the same magazine which would 79 years later publish a letter decrying precisely this kind of drag as illiberal cancel culture

sic semper fascistis, fuckers

Some stories you may not be aware of if you’re not inside the circles where tech industry workers talk to each other: the groups at Microsoft that have been organizing for years to stop providing tech to enable genocide scored their first massive victory last week. www.theverge.com/news/785733/...

Ohio’s new age verification law targeting porn goes into effect today, which means people will either have to use a VPN or submit their IDs to use Bluesky. This is Project 2025 in action. The goal is to limit freedom and make it harder to access anything remotely progressive

[0.8 seconds after arbitrarily opening a bible to somewhere in 2 samuel] damn this is dope! shout out to god

(solemnly) You've had mail.

remember, bun:

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Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex is 23 years old as of today. Only 3 more years and it’ll officially be when the show takes place. This show holds up incredibly well after all this time. Whole thing minus the Solid State Society movie is available for free on www.adultswim.com/videos/ghost...

criminality is arbitrary - read your state vehicle code sometime, you're breaking the law every couple minutes when you drive and you don't even know it. EVERYONE is potentially a criminal - nobody is innocent, the law is simply not enforced on the vast majority of people most of the time.

this isn’t true, but i strongly encourage the president to keep telling the country he’s going to cut off their social security and medicare

Worth noting in the midst of all this that they publicized these speeches and put them up on every news network—all signs point to a flailing government that needs to weaponize fear in order to hang on Not sure it’ll have its intended effect