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Back in the hole again. And I got other bills stacking up. One of these days imma be on the other side of this shit I promise lol Anyways, if you feel like helping your boy suffer less, my links are below: Paypal.me/paulbuford03 Cash.me/psbuford3

Anyone on here know what writing tools I can use on Chromebook that aren’t AI powered?

"Stand in the ashes of a trillion dead souls and ask the ghosts if honor matters. The silence is your answer." As well as

Got gifted a Chromebook for work (not by my job, had to clarify) so now I need to see what I can do to optimize this thing

It is, sadly, a universal experience of being Black (child or adult) in this country that any bit of excellence over white peers is immediately seen as "suspect" or "unfair" and how quickly they will appeal to an authority figure about it. And also, how it fucking wears you down, every time. 😡

new york forever. FUCK ICE.

Really miss having a therapist. Really wish I didn’t get charged for “no-shows” by Rula on days when I communicated to my therapist that I was having a medical emergency (Both of my absences were because I was at the hospital with my wife during our miscarriage.)

I really really wish that I spent more time in college learning how to be a fucked up person because those are the only people that are winning at life right now. Fuck a moral victory im tired.

Not that anyone gives a fuck but the fact that I gotta scrape money together every fucking month while working a glorified babysitter gig makes me want to swallow a grenade.

I use Bluesky to vent because Threads already tried to make a random thought of mine go viral. I can’t properly self loathe over there.

And if we want to avoid the Mass Effect effect in Canada, we should be keeping private equity out, not welcoming it in.

The developers at BioWare know how to run the studio. They know how to make the games we all love. They should be given the first opportunity - and the federal support - to buy it and run it themselves.

This is private equity, this is what it does. Buy up businesses, run them into the ground, and rip them apart for short-term profit. www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

Nothing pisses me off more than being too broke to afford an uber to get to work on days when I don’t have car access. Like what the fuck do you mean universe, I’m too broke to go make the money I need lmao

Good morning! We're suing Meta for stealing our shit 😎 let's goooo

I would bet money this came from people in charge going “Make a football game that’s like GTA6 and will sell as much.” And the developers had to figure out what the fuck that is supposed to mean.

One more for the afternoon crowd. Two of the last lines of dialogue I wrote on the last BioWare game I shipped.

in which we mourn the loss of a studio, and voice our frustration with the future we worry we're headed for.

how you gonna say we need to “secure the border” but ilhan omar is literally getting attacked in order to secure the border

This is my one consolation: BioWare won't be forgotten, because it exists in the DNA of every single game designer who was influenced by their games. Everything we make exists in the shadow of greatness we once sat in. I can't forget.

Idk who wrote them initially, but I really wanna thank the folks who wrote the Grey Wardens, you’ll never know just how much they meant to me all these years. I took that motto to heart, I let it be motivation to be a reliable person even if I couldn’t be a good one. Thank you @bioware.bsky.social

I pray that he is shown the mercy that he showed his victims. I pray that he takes this time to reflect on his impact on humanity and that the weight of his guilt balances the scales for the lives he harmed.

Nah. I'm good.

FUCK they're cancelling the new Mass Effect game! So many jobs lost for WHAT?!

If you're a BioWare fan, a developer influenced by its games, or a media person who was impacted by them and want to talk about what the studio's games have meant to you for a Kotaku story, please reach out in a dm here or at kshepard@kotaku.com

BioWare closing rings the same hollow bell in my soul as WB and Paramount becoming “Skydance.” Across movies, TV, publishing, games, we’re watching decades of legacy and history being hijacked and fed to the furnace of an abyssal engine with no desire beyond the abstract concept of “More.”

Former BioWare Senior Writers Mary Kirby (Varric, Vivienne, Lucanis) and Sylvia Feketekuty (Liara, Josephine, Emmrich) and Sarah Hayward (Former BioWare Cinematic Director) have found a home at North Mist with many others in our network.

Also: Dragon Age 2 is an incredible video game that took storytelling swings no one else was even considering in 2011, had one of the best ensembles in any medium, and was a goddamn feat of development that got made in A YEAR AND 4 MONTHS. Haters can get bent, Kirkwall 4 life

Neil Bush, brother of George and son of George, says he voted for James Talarico.

we are in the bad place

Been playing Bioware games for over 20 years and it really sucks to see it shut down. I'm hoping for the best for all the devs Fellow fans, be sure to check out North Mist Studios, Summerfall Studios, and Yellow Brick Games and keep an eye out for where other devs might land and support them!

LinkedIn posts are starting to confirm the breath of today's layoffs at EA. Senior talent across multiple studios have been impacted, including a senior creative director at Maxis and veteran designers at Full Circle.

EA's closure of BioWare is transparently a vile move to shutter the studio that made by far their queerest titles. In the wake of this, I implore you: MAKE MORE QUEER ART. Make it trans. Make it horny. Make it scary. Make it loving. Make it with every inch of yourself. Flood the world with it!

Some of BioWare's best work comes from people who wrote codex entries and npc barks. There's a goddamn reason my friends and I parrot the chant of light and other thedosian works back and forth to each other. Masterful shit.

Bioware is being closed and the next #MassEffect is cancelled. While I don't celebrate it at all, I spoke openly about Bioware no longer fitting into EA's current corporate plan. With the new debt from going private, Bioware became the obvious target (because they already were).

Anyone got $50 for gas so my EMT friend can come visit me? They need support. If it's $100 I can go clean their house too. She has two children. @bigrockbigriver pp, vm, ca

RIP Bioware and shout out all the many people who worked their asses off the last 3 decades. From Shattered Steel to Baldur's Gate to KOTOR to Mass Effect. What a legendary legacy to leave behind. The state of the games industry these days, let me tell you...

And I have covered comics for more than a decade, so that's saying something.

The slow destruction of BioWare at the hands of EA may be the greatest act of corporate mismanagement I have seen in my lifetime within a creative industry.

I almost feel angry enough to want to learn how to make my own game but I also realize that if it was that easy everyone would do it.

MARK DARRAH (lead producer on DA for many years) is on youtube dishing dev advice and bioware secrets. www.youtube.com/@MarkDarrah

DAVID GAIDER (Dorian, Morrigan) left awhile ago, but is at Summerfall Studios www.summerfallstudios.com