Ghost Ryder

We doin’ pinned posts now? Cool. What’s up, I’m M. Yes, just the letter. Gamedev, writer, worldbuilder, queer, trans, hilarious, anxious, tired; not always in that order. I post abt game design, narrative, Magic: the Gathering, cooking, my cat & any stupid joke that pinballs across my brain.

Big news from the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain: Employees at Rockstar Games in the UK will hold a union vote next month, just as they release Grand Theft Auto VI

Agorithms never distinguish in between a fan and a hater, and anger is the easiest emotion to capitalise on, hence all the ragebait and right wing vice signalling It’s time for all of us to turn the tides and, in our respective countries, completely wreck the chuds at their own game

We, internationally, need to do exactly what the Brazilians did and lead by example with: 1) Block all far right figures/accounts 2) Never share a far right account even to dunk on them 3) Never reply to a far right account even to dunk on them Completely cut their algorithmic advantage

Brazilians recommending not to amplify right-wing talking points by dunking and quoting, as a winning strategy Next day, my tl is full of people dunking on rfk jr I literally would not have seen the bigotry if it wasn't for y'all repeating it. That's exactly what the Brazilians were on about!

Fun fact about UWOTC-CWA: Everyone who supports our cause has banding. You can (and up to one other creature without banding) can join us by signing our petition. actionnetwork.org/forms/uwotcp...

Oh wait I forgot, you don't *just* want people to like you, you want to be "right"

It's not enough for me to have the most successful live-service game in the world, I also need to save money by not paying my workers. It's not enough to have a technology that lets me not pay my workers, people have to keep liking me after I start using it. I'm the 837th richest person in the world

"so what they are just going to vote republican" no, they are going to pack their shit and move to somewhere else where their child will be safe. this shit isn't a game, its life and death for years now we have been witnessing an internal trans refugee crisis in the states for this reason

If no one else got me I know the spam texts that really want to re-roof my house or build me a back yard deck got me

I've trained my dog to salivate at the sound of a bell thanks to my invention, the edible bell

Today is Intersex Awareness Day. 30 years after the first protests members of the UK intersex communities have come together to write this important open letter to the UK government: openletter.earth/open-letter-... Please do read, sign and share widely.

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

My neighborhood is very willing to set off fireworks (generally small stuff) which is fine, except I regularly have to pop online to check if it happened and that’s why things are going off.

None of us should forget this. Meta should be subjected to corporate death penalty and permanently broken up into small pieces.

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It’s incredible the things you don’t realize are sacred until you can no longer rely on them

You ever looked at a character design and thought, “yeah I’m definitely gonna see her on my mutuals’ profiles”

In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

if voting didn't matter they wouldn't be working so hard to stop you

Shadow ecology of dogs taking waymos to the park at midnight. Not a single human knows

all you fascists bound to lose ❤️

Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

#Inktober Day 25: Fracture

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia’s strongman leader Aleksandar Vucic has conceded defeat to a student-led movement in a seismic political shift.

The D&D and MTG teams unionizing might be the year's biggest gaming news story, a long overdue move in an increasingly fragile industry. Our friends and WotC employees Vanessa and Crystal tell us about their union's demands, and what they hope comes out of this. youtu.be/WgETZjouauU

After years of being an evangelical and then years of being an exvangelical I finally suddenly understood the Garden of Eden story. Like ohhhh we as humans have to strive for the thing that hurts us even though we know that it’s simplicity that makes us happy! Yeah that’s sooooo us!!