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Setting aside the fact that valuable skill here is creating the concept art and not having the absolute brainchild of "what if girl in graveyard," what this completely ignores is that concept design work shouldn't take 5 minutes. If it takes 5 minutes it's because you don't actually give a fuck.

A hit tweet! I found out about this article thanks to my friend Nat - do me a favour and watch his lovely monthly indie game roundup videos? I always find a new game from them. Here's October's: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPo_...

real simple litmus test for a leader in any capacity but especially elected office: any blanket concern or dismissal of holding wrongdoers accountable is more concerned about themselves or their stakeholders being held accountable than the actual handling of justice do not trust the DNC. period

there is a real thing happening here where rich people are privileged enough to disengage from tech as a whole while letting assistants and their retinue handle it, but that’s not what they’re actually talking about here, and they are intentionally conflating it with AI refusal to make people mad

takes like these are fundamentally unserious and show that the person posting it has no actual desire to work towards more ethical uses of this tech, but instead are just edgelords trying for notoriety.

A thought in the back of my mind has been that how the next two years of Brazilian politics go depend heavily on how much of a free hand the US state department has to continue engaging in a campaign of pressure and interference, so it's good to know the Democrats are still useless cowards

No. Your attitude has to be that absolutely nothing will get done. If you’re trying to “pass common-sense legislation to help the American people”in this environment you’re a fucking traitor.

'they need to make way for people who will actually stand for something' this is true & they should. but their job is to not get out of the way, it is to be a roadblock

the mainstream democrats do not want the republicans to face any consequences because they are on the same team, they are the same people, they are friends and colleages. their job is to occupy the positions of people who could actually oppose the republicans & make sure that never happens

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he's despised by other Dem electeds for this reason

the thing that keeps collins competitive arlt all is unfortunately her very real years of basic retail politics in a state that values that a lot, it's definitely not this weak fainting couch shit

hearing radio for the first time in awhile, inevitably swarming through ads, and it appears collins' angle on attacking troy jackson is "he told me to shut up, can you believe it" and man it's funny to imagine this as a big scandal in 2026

its insane how not many people are talking about how republicans with the help of several moderate democrats are building out the largest abusive medical conversion therapy operation in modern american history

This is actually the funniest idea of all time

NEW: I spoke with current and former EA employees to understand how the latest layoff round played out and the realities of daily life at the U.S. publisher. The short version? EA is controlled by an executive class that "cannot fail, only be failed." Workers, then, will always pay the price.

Liberatory energies and movements do emerge from and make use of fandoms and their images (e.g: Black Panther in 2018, John Boyega's speech in 2020, or the Hunger Games salute in Thailand protests) but these uses are contingent and easily subsumed back into more disciplinary fan modes

Organized fandoms act as volunteer pinkertons, and while the creeps enforcing fascist visions are in actuality a tiny minority of most fandoms, loving a of particular franchise/character produces a political ambivalence that often leans towards compliance with corporate aims over artistic ones

In my book I argue that IP fandoms are a crucial part of the economic model of the current media monopoly landscape, as fan campaigns drive down the value of creative labor via harassment and disposability, scare artists from taking risks with IP, and give execs a direct fan base all their own

This is what I meant when I said in 2024 that when I looked at the incoming administration, all I could see was rape. It’s the heinous act itself, yes, but also a mentality, as deftly explained here:

And in practice this also means jobs leaving the US market and going towards codev studios in cheaper locations. When I was at Epic they were already heavily leaning on Brazilian and eastern European codevs, and I assume that after they did more layoffs that only increased.

I THINK one of the things we're really seeing is a continent, maybe industry-wide shift away from full-time employees and towards gig/codev work. And that transition looks like layoffs across the board even from studios that just had big successes.

I think one of the more important skills you can have in 2026 is knowing when someone is performatively using progressive coded language to argue for something that is fundementally not progressive because they can claim a perceived moral high ground.

Yes well it does require things like “empathy” and possessing a basic understanding that all of our lives are interconnected

The far right is international and they all organize together and raise money for each other. I'd argue it's critical to pay attention to elections in other countries.

Just need it a *little* louder until NC ends up at D+8 with D majorities in both chambers

Watching this thing suggests all over again that AI-generated art's central failing continues to be that the kinds of people who might use AI tools to make something interesting are the kinds of people who hate the supposed shortcut of using AI tools because they enjoy the work of making art.

In some cases, people are fashy, and in others, I think people are just panicked and acting foolish. MK says being mad at the right people is praxis, and it's so true. A lot of people aren't operating on that level, and that becomes glaringly obvious anytime an election nears.

Your work is not bullying or yelling at the same people the right is targeting, unless you're a fucking fascist.

Not everyone should be satisfied with what's on offer right now. There has to be a bigger horizon than what anyone's going to get out of the midterms. Stop telling people to shut up about their rights. It helps no one. Do your work, whatever that is right now.

It's baffling to me that some of you are obsessed with strangers on the internet who are saying "this is not good enough" about someone's politics. If you are worried about a candidate's electoral chances and you think that matters, phone bank for them or something.

booker from bioshock infinite is such a strange character in that he has this hideous past that never seems to inform his personality as a generic fps protagonist like, this is a 19th century guy who engages in a mass murder and then tries to convert to evangelical christianity and he's doing quips

If you're deep enough into politics that the Chamber of Commerce is an eternal enemy, wait till you get deep into politics in most blue states and meet the Chamber of Progress!

Banning trans kids from sports is fucked up. And you better believe there are terrible people and parents who see "Fairness in youth sports" as a much bigger battlefield that will include girls who are too tall, black kids who are too fast, etc etc

This is bad. And I worry that this idea of what is and isn't fair in youth sports is going to expand beyond trans kids. We'll see more and more "skilled" kids who aren't white be kicked off fields and banned for not playing fair.

we can do the thing!

I live in a rural town and, like, I don't know how to tell you this, but the girls play on the boys team and vice versa all the time because otherwise we don't have enough players for a game and it's literally always fine so stop being weirdos about kids sports and just let trans kids play.