Goodbye Serotonin

This is a beautiful, beautiful thing

This week on Unpacked, @nickjcal.bsky.social is looking at the larger implications of Steam not addressing the issue of its platform being overtaken by endless amounts of generated, or in general low-effort slop.

God, so much of Next Fest is just AI www.rogue.site/editorials/i...

We’re back with our second story about how Trump’s purge of the FBI killed a sweeping bribery probe in D.C. This time, we take you to South Carolina, where two powerful politicians escaped scrutiny: Sen. Lindsey Graham and Rep. James Clyburn. THREAD 👇

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Had COVID-19 and flu shots this afternoon, both in my right arm. Feel a little blah but nothing too bad. Glad I got ‘em. Hope you get yours!

The Gamefound Campaign for Wholesome Adventure is live! I've been making art for this for the past several months and it's so cool to see it coming together. gamefound.com/projects/jas...

I drew Freya Crescent from FF9 riding a skateboard while running a fever today.🤒 No reason. Just because. 😂🛹 #MetroArt #FF9

The Creative Director over at Moon Studios has launched a new reviews aggregator website that gives outlets a score based on how often they align with the audience consensus... which is a flawed but interesting metric. Presented by @springloaded.bsky.social.

This is why Dolly Parton will be remembered and loved ❤️📚

The US, from the start of the Russian Revolution to the fall of the USSR, gave communism undeserved credit for countless good ideas.

Celebrating Metroid's 40th Year Anniversary, I'll share some of the Metroid fanart I've done over the years in the coming days~ Starting off, something always near and dear to me, Super Metroid ! #MetroidAnniversary #メトロイド40周年 👀👁‍🗨

The Witcher 3. Tried it three times, and each playthrough I got a little further than the previous playthrough, but I always bounced off it.

"Indies will save us" No! YOU WILL SAVE INDIES! Go leave a review for that neat indie game you like, share the trailer for an upcoming game you're anticipating, tell your fave developer they did a good job, go tell people about such and such game that's just come out, you can make a difference!

World Central Kitchen is on the ground in Spokane feeding folks displaced by the fires, so if you're looking for ways to help, here's a good option: donate.wck.org/campaign/829...

I saw yesterday that some right-wing outlets were running stories about me, which I’m used to. But this time I’m going to say something about it, because these were framed to imply that I was aligned with their own transphobia. ⬇️

Never ever apologize for getting someone's book from the library. A lot of them were written by authors who themselves first read a lot of other books in a library

My friends and I got together for one last session of Ultimate Chicken Horse last night, because it's gone from Gamepass as of this morning. Shoutout to @clevendeavgames.bsky.social for making one of the best party/multiplayer games of all time (no exaggeration). Looking forward to more from you! :)

Proud Papa (Part 4/4) - Gator Days

The Steam Machine costs too much money because of greedy freaks. But a community has formed around optimizing a low budget alternative made from failed PlayStation 5's that got turned into crypto mining cards and then resold as garbage. aftermath.site/bc250-steam-ma...

Not everyone is lucky enough to have a great dad. I am. :) #fathersday

Sarah’s book is jaw-dropping, and Meta has been pulling this clown shit for over a year. As the article points out, it’s clearly a personal vendetta rather than good crisis comms. Too bad the Streisand Effect exists!

Went and deleted my Linktree account after I read this. Gonna hunt around for other, better options to host my links on.

As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.

The internet isn't dying, but the way we interact with it might be. It doesn't have to be this way. www.rogue.site/editorials/a...

Hanging out with a few friends tonight.

Productivity - Gator Days

What if you could keep playing the games you bought even after the publisher decides they don't care anymore? www.rogue.site/news/ca-ab-1...

@506sports.bsky.social do you have any inside scoop on when the NFL schedule is being released? I feel like it's usually out by now... and sites like NFL.com and ESPN.com have been no help.

Yes. Super lucky at several points in my life, and well aware of being on the Lowest Difficulty Setting in Life here in the US (regrettably even more so today than before). I'm smart, talented and work hard, but lots of people do that and haven't gotten the breaks I've gotten from luck/privilege.

We reached overwhelmingly positive!! That means that at least 95% of the reviews are positive! Thank you to everyone who played the game, talked about it, made videos, recommended it and - of course - left a review! For indie teams like us that is an incredible help!

I can say without exaggeration that @radicalfishgames.com Alabaster Dawn is in the running for greatest pixel art/sprite-based animations of all time. Holy cow, it's gorgeous to look at.

OUT NOW! Alabaster Dawn Early Access just launched on Steam! Get ready to fight Nyx and free the land of its curse! Get it here, and if you want, leave a review! store.steampowered.com/app/3110760/...

JUST IN: ProPublica and @ctmirror.org's “On the Hook” series, which exposed how Connecticut laws had come to favor towing companies at the expense of low-income residents, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting. It’s ProPublica’s ninth Pulitzer Prize.