Duncan Parker Newton-Gaines, #1 Mech Pervert

Some crazy memories with this one 🎉 🙌 🥳

it's hard to describe to young folks how cool airbnb was when it first launched. just weirdos and spare rooms for like twenty bucks. we stayed at a guy's house in oregon who was a "bear safety expert" and when we asked him what to do if a bear attacked you he replied, completely seriously "i dunno."

inventor of the blu-ray and blu-ray player has discontinued their industry leading product, the blu-ray

There should be some kind of calculator where whenever a billionaire donates some amount of money, you can quickly what percentage that is of their net worth, apply it to your own net worth and see how much of a sacrifice it actually is

This looks like a really cool service for people who want to hire artists who don't use AI. Check it out! hirehumanartists.com

please stop replying to game devs saying things like "well look on the bright side those laid off devs can start their own indie studios now" because eventually one of us is going to snap and "WITH WHAT FUCKING MONEY" would be a shitty last thing to hear before you die

What's funny/not funny about all this is their "porn teaches young people bad things" spiel (they used an alleged account of a 14yo asking about it) is that they admit their age verification measures don't work. They're just piling on increasingly broken restrictions on consensual adult activity

the Brutal Horror vs. Cozy Horror thing is silly because the question is: is it done well or is it done poorly it's how you can be like yeah, i love TETSUO: THE IRON MAN and i also love ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE. on account of they're good

BioWare was not closed because their games were queer, or bad, or rushed, or too ambitious or anything else. They were closed because EA is trying to raise their bottom line by a couple percentage points and that always comes at the expense of the people who's labour is already being exploited.

See now we're fucking talking One of the only weapons we wield in this fight is our money and attendance, and if everyone involved with an event says "I'm not going unless you stop using AI" there's only two outcomes: *No AI or No Convention* Conventions are made by and for the community

There is something so soul crushing about creating art that pushes the needle in the games industry, only to be thanked by using the capital gained from said art to push the ones who created it out of a job.

it cannot actually be ignored or danced around that the closure of BioWare came so soon after the Saudi and Jared Kushner acquisition of EA. they absolutely did take the studio making EA’s broadly queerest games out back and shoot it old yeller style. do not let yourself or colleagues ignore that

Hey I heard bioware got killed and it has me thinking about the Mass effect your love had on me I dont wanna start a Inquisition but I think you should investigate the Origins of our relationship. Please call me back Knights of the old republic

if you're wondering when the worst time to record a podcast is if you're a gaming site: the last 30 minutes

As someone who needs a translator for whatever the tech people are talking about, this was quite helpful as an explanation

Cats by Shou Xin

God though, whenever you think about kids having shitty humor, you really do gotta go back and watch the original All Your Base video. You need to do that and remember that it deranged the internet for like 6 months at least.

📣 INDIE GAMES DEVS! 📣 If you have a demo in Steam Next Fest and do not use gen AI, drop it in the comments below. I will repost! Let's create a thread where players can actually find our games! (Image courtesy of @kanaratron.bsky.social)

Samoa Nope

"Everywhere else is using it!" is so funny like yes, everywhere else is using AI and if its at all user facing it's pretty hated there too. It's just easier for shit like social media sites to get away with because we all already hate them, compared to games where we try like some developers!

#Pokemon #Pokemonart #pokemonfanart #corsola #galariancorsola #Cursola

broke a man the first time i told him this. He came up to me and said "I just don't like tattoos" and I said "well, I'm not trying to have sex with You" and I saw something permanently rotate inside him

He’s not so great with words, but his strength’ll blow you away! #FF6

Last I'll post about this, but Elon Musk disagrees with me. This means I am onto something, and I feel more valid in my opinion than ever.

There's always been a happy medium between "don't become a source of free labor" and "do some shit for the experience, to be a nice or cool guy, or even just for the sake of it once in awhile because not everything needs to be for the grind."

Absolute jaw-dropping snide, sniggering rudeness here. Your reminder that the billionaires are very much not on our side.

One of the dopest things about Sonic the Hedgehog is they said “Wouldn’t it be sick if we ripped offa Dragon Ball Z?” and they were super right

Stfu @bsky.app

Goddamn

Hateration? AND holleration?? In THIS dancery???