Kieran

Does anyone do a "game club"? Like.. a book club but for games? Everyone plays a game over a couple weeks or a month and then you hang out and discuss over tea and cookies?

Episode 3 up now! This week we discuss empathy as a concept - where it comes from, who we choose to hold it for, and how it is manufactured and manipulated in the media. #deathcare #politics #podcasts #anarchism yt: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GouZ... pod: pod.kieranwasylyshyn.com/@DeathAndPra...

If your game features one and only one instance of a false wall that I can simply walk through to find a secret, I will be suing you for the head trauma my character endures from the other 99% of the time I spend walking into walls just to check. #gamedev

The hardest thing in politics is explaining to liberals that you hate them, but that it doesn't automatically make you a conservative and that you hate them even more. These guys konami code is up up down down right right start.

Playing tonight with @deadpioneers.bsky.social. Been so fucking stoked for this show for months.

Ugh, so many job applications have started asking for a "short 2 minute video talking about X" - presumably as an AI application deterrent - but it feels so scummy. Fully enables profiling based on age, race, culture, appearance, etc, and it's a fucking slog to set up a camera to look professional.

Has @kurzgesagt.org been taken over by VCs? Their recent output feels just a tad more corporate than it used to. Been trying to weed out the content I can trust a bit more recently. Unsubbed from @veritasium.bsky.social recently as well.

Canuck stream in 2026? Sign of the end times for sure. Get prayin kids.

There's something equally satisfying and maddening about knowing a word your spell checker doesn't. YOU HAD ONE JOB... and I'm better than you at it.

Hell yeah feminists, we did it! The struggle is over!

If anyone is interested, I run a #hockey pool every year with a bunch of gamer / #dota / #esports homies via discord! Cheap $20 buy in, and we do an async draft where you just pick and tag the next person. Super chill, but super fun. If you wanna join, lmk! Draft starts tomorrow!

Imagine if Baldur was just like... a dude, and the gate is just keepin the chickens in.

You are playing against Team Spirit. You do not ban Yatoro's NP because you can counter it. You lose to Team Spirit. You ban Yatoro's NP in game 2 because you're not an idiot. #TI15

I was so fucking confused why #teamliquid was in the lower bracket today. Checked my youtube history and apparently youtube auto-played games 2 and 3 from the GROUP stage when I was catching up on last nights games. God dammit. 🫠

How has Io been OP in competitive since 2013?

If Valve doesn't release the Steam Frame in the next 20 minutes I'm gonna start assuming they don't know the meaning of "Soon".

I've been in #gamedev for almost 13 years on and off - Shaders are still a fuckin mystery to me man. Tech artists are wizards. I just figured out particles last year.

I spend a lot of time feeling like I didn't accomplish all I wanted to in Dota, but shit like this reminds me I still left a mark. Still happening years after I've "quit".

Blogged it. Happy Hater Week. aftermath.site/war-crime-n6...

Work Survey: "It's 100% completely anonymous!" Question 1: "What team are you on?" Question 2: "How long have you been with the company?" HR's "Guess Who" board:

Woops here I go again, replaying the game I got for my 12th birthday because it happened to be the absolute peak of game design and development and nothing else has ever been as good since. Its not nostalgia. Things from my youth WERE the best.

But papa, I couldn't possibly be cuter. I've tried! I've none left!

Wasn't intending to watch a 2 hour video, but I tossed on @hazelisonline.bsky.social's "2 hours of climate solutions" and 10-week old Amos here decided he needed to play, and promptly pass out on my lap. Guess I'm stuck here forever.

The Godot subreddit is like... Half of what makes it the best game engine.

Took me literal years, but eat it @lyricaldota.bsky.social - I know you don't care, but I do.

Platner SA allegation is so unsurprising. You're telling me the veteran with PTSD, an alcohol problem and a nazi tattoo turned out to be a piece of shit? Wow, whodathunk. Too many lefties got duped by a guy with a few good flash cards.

Saw someone on reddit saying they were switching to PC because Sony is killing discs. Homie what do you think we've been doing over here for the past decade? I haven't had a CD drive since 2014.

Most dudes girlfriends worry about how much porn they watch. Mine just worries about how many girls Outer Wilds playthroughs I watch.

Ain't no way I just got a slack ping about the company's new EFAP program. Which APPARENTLY stands for Employee and Family Assistance Program.

Episode 2 out now! YT: youtu.be/6oY8fkDH8sk Pod: pod.kieranwasylyshyn.com/.../ep-2-ani.... Today we're talking about animal grief and death rituals - the ways some social animals process and acknowledge death, and the ways we humans try to deal with and process animal deaths around us.

This is Grim ❤️🐍

I've been on a work call for 8 hours now. At this point I'm just poking my sunburns trying to feel anything. Send cyanide.

Charlotte and I just launched a podcast about deathcare, politics and history that we're calling Death and Praxis. We just launched our first episode where we talk about MAID www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j2n... Follow on bsky here @deathandpraxispod.bsky.social Or on any podcast app!

My old gaming PC is seeing more use now than it ever did in a decade of being my daily driver. The self-hosting bug has got me baaaaddd. One million hard drives please!

Did the venture capitalists just start dropping stacks again all at once? Job market has been a desert for almost a year, and then yesterday alone I was contacted by 4 separate recruiters about different positions. So weird.

How much money do you think #google just spent to round a couple corners and add gradients?

Work training videos always be like: "Imagine a scenario where your coworker gives the wrong answer during a presentation. Do you: A. Punch him in the face, yell a racist obscenity, and break the conference room window. B. Politely interject by raising your hand, and stating the correction."

Commentators always yapping about how tough 2OT is on the players. Babies obviously never played two beer league games back to back at 11pm on a tuesday. These guys get 20 minute breaks and skates that fit. Cry me a river. #nhl #utavsvgk #mammoth #goldenknights

My two-year-old niece calls Bulbasaur "Garlic Dog" and it's the most adorable thing I've ever heard.

Why do they always say "after careful consideration"? You didn't carefully consider shit.

I have finally done it. I've fully eliminated work, and achieved a techno-anarchist utopia. The beavers shall never want again. Free maple pastries for all. #Timberborn

The only reason I play Timberborn is to play out my fantasy of a post-work utopia where AIs do real work instead of just making your grandma racist on facebook. 301 beavers free of the burden of wage slavery, 200 more to go.

I don't think Rory is a real person.

When I get a lil hungry mid way through a set.

Dammit I've been duped. Someone told me to register for the @ndp.ca a few weeks back to get my vote in for the new leader. Turns out you needed to be a member since January to be able to vote in the leadership election. Missed it by 2 weeks. I want my $10 back. Or donated to the greens on my behalf.

My big 9

I maaaayyyyy have fucked this run up a little...