Then why do I keep talking to devs in the US whose salary is suddenly $0
14.11.2025 21:14 โ ๐ 326 ๐ 64 ๐ฌ 15 ๐ 1@realityajar.bsky.social
Freelance Artist, performing art duties for Split Fate Studios! @split-fate.bsky.social, https://www.splitfatestudios.com/ (he/him) Personal links: http://reality-ajar.tumblr.com http://ko-fi.com/realityajar Check my feeds tab for my art, tagged with ๐จ
Then why do I keep talking to devs in the US whose salary is suddenly $0
14.11.2025 21:14 โ ๐ 326 ๐ 64 ๐ฌ 15 ๐ 1Like, let's not get it twisted, this isn't a thing that's coming. This is investor bait.
It is still fucking abhorrent. It is a fucking insult to life.
So, like, I'm terrified of death. I struggle to function with grief. Not a day goes by that it doesn't occupy my thoughts even a little & if I thought there was some balm for it, I would crave it.
This is an evil fucking thing. It's inhuman. No one who okayed this as an idea has a fucking soul.
Such a fun comm!
14.11.2025 17:45 โ ๐ 113 ๐ 38 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 1I need someone with the heart of a saint, the steely resolve of a machine and the brute violence of a slasher villain to pop my fucking shoulder because this is driving me nuts.
14.11.2025 16:54 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 03D artists, show your wireframes!
14.11.2025 10:17 โ ๐ 125 ๐ 26 ๐ฌ 6 ๐ 11Who up screaming at they perimeter fence
14.11.2025 15:58 โ ๐ 199 ๐ 66 ๐ฌ 6 ๐ 0screenshot of steam homepage 'featured and recommended', Carimara recommended by Casey Explosion
screenshot of Steam homepage, 'curator recommends' featuring various visible titles recommended by Casey Explosion and Noclip
tbf, I don't follow a lot of curators, but something is at least always featured on my homepage recommended by you!
14.11.2025 14:52 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0:(
13.11.2025 22:33 โ ๐ 577 ๐ 158 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 2you don't get it, I could do it so fucking good, and so much faster if I did it all a second time.
A third time.
A fifth time.
Final time 0043.
The siren song to scorch everything I've made for a project and start fresh is ever fucking present
13.11.2025 20:35 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0๐ฎ Schell Games is hiring a Game Engineering Manager!
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Here's my argument with Sir Bernard Jenkin MP about the report showing how the racist intimidation of Black and Brown NHS workers on home visits has been exacerbated by the far right's wall of flags.
13.11.2025 08:38 โ ๐ 540 ๐ 160 ๐ฌ 51 ๐ 5we can't keep doing this shit, dude. this shit is the end game of capitalism, we need to correct like, immediately.
self interested capitalists with a left veneer tripping over themselves to protect a pile of money shitting child abusers just to catch a single bill
what the fuck are we doing.
Sadly, my contract with Blizzard ended in September. That means I'm looking for fulltime or contract work as a senior writer or narrative designer. If you need someone who can write sharp characters, poetic prose, and emotional stories, I'm available! www.hazelmonforton.com
12.10.2025 23:19 โ ๐ 698 ๐ 332 ๐ฌ 6 ๐ 3Shows two miniature diplomas 1. With the text ' Worshipper of Nurgle'. plus decorative scribles and Nurgle sign. 2.With the text ' Worshipper of Khorne'. plus decorative scribles and Khorne sign.
Just in time for the holidays!
Show your dedication to Nurgle by getting a mini Worshipper diploma.
Who wants to be on Santaโs list when you can be on the Chaos list.
All four chaos gods available.
sophiegrunnet.etsy.com
Measures approximately 4โ high and 2โ wide. Hook or magnet on the back.
Just checking you all know about Spirit Swap, the game that came out this year that I directed alongside many incredibly skilled friends and workers! Weโre a majority (uh Iโm pretty sure 100% tbh) marginalized people co-op and self-published! Please check out our trailer I love it so much!
06.11.2025 00:01 โ ๐ 252 ๐ 147 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 0NOBODY
11.11.2025 21:04 โ ๐ 1127 ๐ 395 ๐ฌ 5 ๐ 4They pick on the weak.
They pick on the vulnerable.
They want it to look like an intimidating show of force.
Thereโs also something more nefarious behind itโฆ. Which is that theyโre counting on society to not care if a disabled person gets *more* disabled.
We need you to care.
HEADLINE: CREATIVE WORKS CAN NO LONGER BE MINED BY AI WITHOUT CONSENT IN AUSTRALIA NEW REGULATIONS PROTECT ARTISTS' RIGHTS IN THE AGE OF AI
See, look, U.S.A., it's this easy
(and should have been done immediately upon the knowledge that these cheats and grifters were STEALING our work)
โDonโt gather some of the most brilliant activists in the industry, treat us like crap, and then expect us to do nothing about it.โ After the Game Awards cancelled its Future Class programme, @alyssamerc.bsky.social talked to its former honorees
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
We need the criterion closet but for old video games
10.11.2025 15:31 โ ๐ 179 ๐ 28 ๐ฌ 7 ๐ 0GODSLAYER๐ฅโ๐
Traditional wraparound cover artwork for davdralleon and his new release out today๐๐ค!
๐ davdralleon.bandcamp.com/album/godsla...
Done with ink, inkwashing and watercolours on watercolour paper.
I will post some process.
Check out that banger!๐ค๐ฅ
Something like 95% of all "X action is performative" statements can be lightly scratched away to reveal "I have unexamined guilt that I do not do X action, and need to to attack people who do".
10.11.2025 13:03 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous
10.11.2025 02:20 โ ๐ 22769 ๐ 6473 ๐ฌ 370 ๐ 238Lots of hard, shitty lessons being learned from this presidency. And one of the many I hope you're learning is, white supremacy is incompatible with reality, and cannot exist without historical revisionism.
09.11.2025 13:15 โ ๐ 3400 ๐ 1207 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0PROPOSAL: the new animal crossing for switch 2, "Animal Crossing: The Open Road"
you are given a camper van/rv and travel from proc-gen town to town, stopping at diners, shopping, to recharge, meeting new villagers, or set up camp for however long you like. You can take fruits/items, and sell them-
Very amusing to watch Reform complain about all the things wrong with the UK - every one caused by Brexit - without actually mentioning Brexit, as if they happened by magic.
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