Mitch βŒπŸ‘‘

Mitch βŒπŸ‘‘

@mitchgit.bsky.social

I make games and build studios. β€œFix your hearts or die.” Join the resistance: Indivisible.org

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Guess I should pin an introduction post. Hi, I'm Mitch. I married my high-school sweetheart in a suburb of Chicago 35 years ago, raised three adults together (the kind we're proud of), and moved the the Seattle area when Microsoft bought FASA Interactive, the video game company I worked for. 1/

"...in an interactive narrative game like this, people tend to focus on how big the choices are... perhaps unlocking a completely different path or location. But really it comes down to the player's connection with the characters – any choice is big if it affects someone you care about."

gamesindustry.biz"It was crushing how hard it was" – The chaotic development of Dispatch, and what AdHoc Studio plans nextCEO Michael Choung on getting a boost from Steam, the importance of caring about characters, and negotiating the funding wilderness

"If you care about the characters, it matters a lot if you break a promise to somebody or betray your friend. It's much smaller, much more relatable choices that I think are much more memorable and impactful."

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Because he knows the GOP is about to lose, Trump is trying to control who wins our elections β€” but Alaskans will have the final say here. This is a shamelessly partisan attempt to undermine voters by a bunch of losers with no legal role in this process. Voters vote and states certify. That’s it.

apnews.comTrump's administration sues to block a possible Democratic win in the Alaska US Senate raceThe Trump administration has filed a lawsuit to block certification of the U.S. Senate race in Alaska if Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan loses.

Way to show respect.

PC Gamer@pcgamer.com

To honor one of the studios that defined PC gaming, we've republished more than 20 articles about BioWare today. The pcgamer.com homepage is dedicated to interviews, retrospectives, and making-ofs about some of the best RPGs of all time.

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Update: without explanation, and after being suspended for more than an hour during peak mobilization time, Zuckerberg's Instagram restored the No Kings account but we still lack admin access. More to come. Rest assured we will not stop organizing against this regime and its collaborators.

Ezra Levin βŒπŸ‘‘@ezralevin.bsky.social

❗❗❗Mark Zuckerberg's meta just suspended the No Kings Instagram account. I just rushed back from my local No Kings to jump on this. Bottom line, would be helpful for all pro-No Kings folks to elevate the issue and help us get the word out about No Kings today. The Nerd Reich strikes again.

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Grindr is training its AI on your photos, your age, and your taps by default, without asking. This video shows where the app buried the off switch. The stakes are high on an app like Grindr. Numerous countries criminalize same-sex relations, so being outed through your data can be dangerous.

I missed this post from Andrew, and I’m sharing it so you don’t. #Shadowrun

Andrew McIntosh@andrewamcintosh.bsky.social

Proud to have contributed to this amazing book! If you've ever wanted to take a deep-dive into the narrative design of Glory's confrontation with Marta in Shadowrun: Dragonfall, boy do I have the essay for you.

β€œI am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.” ― Edward Everett Hale

You should see this.

Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com

He's not got any idea what he's even voting on. He has to be told how to vote. He's incapacitated. He's incapable of representing the people of Kentucky who are currently being taxed without representation.

Reuters: β€œThe conservative Heritage Foundation think tank maintains a voter fraud database that includes just 1,619 cases from 1982 to 2025, or one for every 817,625 votes cast in a presidential election during that time.”

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This is a big deal and it deserves a lot more attention. A federal whistleblower is sounding the alarm about a nationwide DHS operation called the β€œUnlawful Voter Initiative.” According to the disclosure, hundreds of employees at U.S. Citizenship and

Thank you for everything, Ms. Steinem.

Steven Beschloss@stevenbeschloss.bsky.social

β€œRemember, the Constitution doesn’t begin with, β€˜I, the president.’ It begins with, β€˜We, the people.’ ” β€”Gloria Steinem at the 2017 Women’s March

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"The unpopular President calls upon government regulators of the media to make the bad polls disappear" is a statement that can only possibly describe an authoritarian regime.

Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social

The US President calls on the FCC to do something about polls he finds uncomfortable.