Orphic Apocryphess

I've reposted many posts made by folks who were recently laid off from Heart Machine, but here is a thread that highlights them all.

I am also including folks who were previously laid off & are still looking for work. I will be linking their Bsky posts, as well as LinkedIn.

Please, share this. 🖤

Dang you got a dark forest mud? I just got forcibly employed because i lost 3 times in a row

Unfair Flips on Steam A non-idle clicker game about flipping a coin that hates you. Starting with just a 20% chance of getting heads, can you get ten heads in a row?

TAILS. TAILS. TAILS. TAILS. TAILS. HEADS. TAILS.

Unfair Flips is OUT NOW! Flip the world's worst coin over and over as you try to get ten heads in a row!!

store.steampowered.com/app/3925760/...

THE ERA OF THE COIN BEGINS

'Microsoft has no place being accomplice of a genocide:' Arkane union workers demand Xbox maker sever ties with Israel Arkane Studios' STJV section in France has published an open letter in support of the Palestinian-led BDS movement.

'Microsoft has no place being accomplice of a genocide:' Arkane union workers demand Xbox maker sever ties with Israel

the weekly duty of keeping the lights and paying the taxes on in your friend's video games houses so they don't get dismantled by the server

Someday i hope we can train new programmers by having them hunt the remaining "AI" for sport

At what point in design or prototyping do *you* know youve got something good?

This past weekend, as hundreds of game workers flew into LA to attend Summer Game Fest, Immigration and Customs Enforcement terrorized the Los Angeles community, raiding neighborhoods, separating families, assaulting citizens, and detaining SEIU President David Huerta. Many of us in the game industry call Los Angeles our home, and we feel these attacks on a deep and personal level. United Videogame Workers-CWA stands in solidarity with SEIU, UNITE HERE, United Farm Workers, SAG-AFTRA, The Animation Guild, IATSE, and all our fellow unions and organizations condemning these ongoing federal raids targeting workers. We are thrilled that David has been released and echo SEIU’s calls to drop his unjust charges and for ICE to immediately end their violent raids against us and our neighbors. The United States is built on the backs of immigrant workers, documented or otherwise, and the Trump administration’s racist and violent oppression serves only to undermine our labor and strike fear in our communities. As workers of an anti-racist union; as workers with H-1B visas; as workers with immigrant families and friends and colleagues; we condemn these abhorrent acts of outright fascism and colonial subjugation. Our game industry is a deeply international one, and our art is built from cultures and perspectives that simply cannot and will not be contained by borders. UVW-CWA exists to protect all game workers across the US and Canada, regardless of immigration status, and we strive to extend that reach to all corners of the globe through connections and shared struggle. When solidarity transcends nations, no human is illegal!

A family of 3, outlined in green, hide behind a roaring bear, as large foreboding black shadows with nightsticks and helmets lurk behind it. A green star outstretched at their feet as they try to hide from view. Text at the bottom reads in call caps: "SHIELD YOUR NEIGHBORS"

SHIELD • YOUR • NEIGHBORS

Here in #LosAngeles, we protect our neighbors at all costs.

Thanks!!! I'll admit it did take like 30 tries to get the right look but i use it so much now

An image of a neon orange heart, the line loops and twists around the tail of the heart. A smaller orange heart is in the upper right, as if this heart emoji is blowing one a kiss

I made my own for discord but use 🤍 anywhere else!

Reading Phil Spencer talking about how maybe "AI" can help with ports and preservation and feeling my blood boil. What a fundamental misunderstanding of not only this tech but how games WORK.

Reply knights are always either asking for a scrap of cloth to think of you or writing bad poetry in the replies ugh

Making a mistake drawing the polycule chart by putting 3 she/theys in a row, forming a match and watching helplessly as they are ejected from the polycule for points

modding Fish Fear Me to let the fisherman turn away from the northern horizon in respect or perhaps fear

why, exactly, are your games not subject to union contracts? that seems like information that is very important here

Trump signs order to claim power over independent agencies The action is likely to face court challenges and test a once-fringe legal theory.

Deeply baffling that Trump claiming the power to control all regulations from regulatory agencies and fire anyone who disagrees with him is getting no attention at all

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

Fast way to lose the chunk user base who got away from that other site for the same reason

fuck AI

this is beyond a terrible idea

I’m seeing a lot of soft takes from industry mutuals at the moment that we shouldn’t be so hard on those who use generative AI because it’s becoming harder and harder to resist.
Wrong. Betraying your ethics (and your peers) because ‘everyone else is doing it’ does not suddenly make it acceptable.

finished citizen sleeper 2 and the final hour can best be described as "trying to hit the screenshot button repeatedly through the tears"

an absolutely incredible experience, thank you

On a snowy field, 621 zooms by in the foreground while chatty is moving in the distance. Over the horizon a flare of light glows from Rusty charging the Overed Rail Cannon.

In an overheating cockpit, Rusty takes aim as the ORC crackles with energy, then takes a breath before pulling the trigger.

Back in the ice field, a shot from the Overed Rail Cannon blasts a hole into the Ice Worm’s armor, spraying coral into the air, while 621, Iguazu and Chatty circle below.

“I won’t miss.”
V4 Rusty & 621 vs IA-02: ICE WORM

Thank you all so much for 2k! <3

The way the contracts are set up with a timer of supplies constantly pushing you to make progress despite higher risks has led to several white knuckled moments where the last die on the final stress is all it comes down to

Honestly incredible

Citizen sleeper 2's writing keeps leaping off the screen to stab me in the heart, and first of all rude but second of all holy shit yes

Screenshot of a car from Need For Speed, the car has the left side facing the camera. The car's paintjob depicts a pink/blue shark breaking through clean gold and black lines, following behind the shark is a riot of chaotic and joyful colors and art. Gender Outlaw is written on the car's window.

Gender outlaw shark car save me

Hell yeah, love the look already!!! Good luck and hope you get published!!

the Armantis beastie from Beastie Ball, with a Mets cap draped over their shield arm

LET'S GO MANTIS, LOVE AR MANTIS
#Beastieball

(A joke for exactly 2 people, and one of them is me)

Copying this over from my IG. All @‘s are IG handles!

Pretty much every job ive had was expected us to be eating while working to save time or having company wide meetings scheduled during lunch to make use of the "lost time" as one manager called it

The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this