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Obviously the problem with this position is that you can actually fold both of your feet up and sit on them both at once, like I'm doing right now. Efficiency.

Every gamedev friend group I'm in has reinvented a Gamedev commune at some point as the natural end point of "wish we could all work together and also run away into the woods."

This pose really spoke to people it seems.

I went to go check on my air purifier because I saw that there was smoke and bad air quality and I scared my cat, Morgana, who was sleeping in the window hammock in the living room and she woke up with the loudest most ungraceful snort that scared me and her (again).

I saw a comment unironically mention that AI should be used to replace judges because they are unbiased and I can not stress enough, NO THEY ARE NOT.

It is so depressing that people think AI is unbiased when they ask it questions. Obviously, it can be biased by the type of data it scraped and stole, but it can also be more directly influenced by the ducking billionaires and companies who own them. We've literally seen it with Grok so many times.

hey i’m at the financial point where i have to choose having “any job” over having “a games career.” if you know anyone hiring writers in new york city or remote then please gimme a holler. “kind unaffiliated stranger messaged me about a public job posting at hoyoverse” is how i got my last job so 🙏🏼

Btw, she is getting pets, she just wants BOTH hands and is making her displeasure known by this method.

This is also how she used to wake me up in the morning to feed her; effective but I was not pleased on the receiving side.

My cat, Sissel, is being both very annoying and very cute, because she wants attention but to get it she's just perched resolutely between me and the keyboard and slowly dragging her cold wet nose along on my mouse arm.

Image from Watchman comic of Dr. Manhattan sitting alone on a crater on a pink planet referencing the "I am tired of this world- these people. I am tired of being caught in the tangle of their lives."

Every few months, a random is called and gifted a "hot take" on one of three games discourse topics
1) is games art?
2) is gamedev occupation really a gamedev?
3) is the entire genre of whatever most recent type of popular game genre dead?

logging onto Bluesky

a woman with blonde hair is sitting in a red chair with a bottle in her hand . Alt: Shakira, a woman with blonde hair is sitting in a red chair on the TV show the Voice trying to decide whether or not to push the button in front of her

Me trying to decide if I want to find the source post of the current discourse happening on social media today

Fluffy cat sitting in a pop up tent

Author photo worthy

Small pastel flowers on a dark blue mesh top. There are a good number and I sewed them all on by hand and now my hands hurt

I tore a hole in this mesh top by snagging it on the water heater while grabbing one of my cats who was hiding behind it to evacuate for a fire alarm, so I did a fix this weekend by hand sewing these small flower and bow patches, one for the hole & a bunch more to make it look intentional

laying off staff used to be a red flag that a company wasn’t doing great.

now, they’re framing them as accomplishments, shrinking the work force while increasing profits.

make it stop

You just don't always have to be compelled to justify your decisions to people online. You actually can just stay quiet and not admit to anything.

This happened when I got rid of my Meta accnts (Facebook/Instagram) & people would tell me they'd totally do it except for REASON. And that forces me to weigh whether I think your REASON is reasonable or not; when actually I never cared, but now have been given evidence to form some sort of opinion.

This is a weird social media thing only tangentially related to the AI discussion, but people are so weird about wanting you to rubber stamp their "exception," they readily jump into your replies to tell on themselves with more information you never asked for.

I can't judge honestly, I am incapable of romancing the other choices outside of my very basic obvious ones, but even then I was like Miranda as best romance for ME2 speaks to players making very different game choices than me.

I think it's funny that the Dragon Age and Mass Effect subreddits are doing those "Best mission/companion/romance" lists and the Mass Effect best romance picks are all women and the Dragon Age ones are all men.

Once again, I will be a disappointment to my father, a level of unparalleled realism in any game.

Wait what??? How did I miss this????

...well I didn't watch the Nintendo Direct, but it's all of your jobs to tell me, so this one is really on all of you.

I will only accept a hat that makes me look even more miniature than I already am by comparison

The older I get, the more I understand those gigantic sun hats and sun visors Asian aunties sport. Maybe that's just my natural destiny coming for me, but I think they're honestly on to something there, and I want one.

Cat sleeping on a couch. You can see two little pointed teeth peeking out

Little vampire fangs

I'm supportive of the new resurgence of comedy movies, but ones built off of old franchises feel so tired to me. If they're just full of callbacks, I don't want them. This is not about Naked Gun which I'm rooting for because I always thought Liam Neeson has comedy chops.

I'm usually pretty good at holding myself back on commenting about dumb takes but "why don't leftists talk about how to get men laid" is one of the funniest takes ever.
For a side that cries about inserting politics into everything they sure do want to make absolutely everything a political stance.

I'm certain my cats love me because it's late night, I'm on the computer and they're in places that are right next to me, even though the bed is seriously right there and if I was in bed like I usually am, they too would be in bed.

a group of women are making funny faces in a crowd . ALT: a group of women are making funny faces in a crowd .

If anyone ever readily admitted they needed ChatGPT to brainstorm to my face, I would not be able to contain my immediate "oh wow yikes" face.

I fear for that sheep. I think it won't survive my cats, but it was extremely cute and I want crafters to survive and keep on attending markets near me.