Ben Prunty

I love all these!

The second you leave this country for even a few days, you realize the place you call home is decaying at an almost exponential pace. The realization that you don't have to live like this is stark, and that nobody in power is taking tangible actions to fix it in your lifetime is even starker.

This is a great story about game dev and burnout and really everyone should read it.

tech cultists have always been comically vulnerable to magical thinking but the degrees of delusion seem to be accelerating, brains are proper paste now

I lived through publishers telling me constantly that NFTs and Crypto games were the future and I needed to get on the train and design them or I'd be left behind.

I said NO.

I'll outlast "AI generated games" too. That's an oath.

#gamedev #games

I'm extremely lucky but also I find it unsettling that making music for games is literally the only thing I'm qualified to do.

The decline of right wing cultural production is just due to the fact that they don’t like culture, they like the signifiers of culture, ie “classic sculpture means white people are better.” They don’t like art at all except for this purpose. They don’t even like the nerd stuff they whine about

I loved Onslaught and at the time I thought for sure we'd see other games with that mode's structure.

ANNOUNCING

Hellscreen leaves early access on tomorrow!

A couple of new weapons, performance fixes & controller support!

Some previous reviews:

"It's Doom with a rear view mirror"

"It inspires lust"

"The most fucked up driving game I've ever seen"

store.steampowered.com/app/1410090/...

Guess I need to get a robe like that and recreate the painting.

Crockett: "The US is falling apart, partially bc he's allowing for killings in the street, but also bc we have a 34 count convicted felon being shielded from any type of accountability as it relates to a child sex trafficking ring. I don't understand why we're pretending any of this is normal."

Yeah I'm somehow not close to either indie devs or game composers but I'm happy we can float in the void together

i think about this every day and the more history i learn, the truer it becomes

I think that like all large corporations that buy smaller companies, their goal is to slowly dismantle everything until there's nothing left except the Alamo Drafthouse "brand", attached to nothing, so they have a saleable asset that requires no upkeep.

I think the press is not talking enough about how the real reason Alamo implemented the new phone ordering system is so they can lay off more workers. Like, yeah it's antithetical to the Drafthouse vibe but I don't think that's the biggest issue here.

VIDEO GAME OF THE YEAR, my book, is one of the best video game history books around
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Wow. When tax dollars are used to enrich the lives of the people.

ICE is a state funded terrorist organization and they are killing American citizens. There’s no other way to slice it. If you support this administration and these fuckin chuds you’re a fascist loser.

A Democratic Party that reflected the values of its base would put this into its national platform: "Anyone who supports funding DHS and ICE is supporting the murder of Americans."

Here's something to think about re: how ICE/CPB/etc. is operating.

It's the same as they have for years now. People have been loudly opposing their operations this whole time. Only now it's concentrated, and very blatantly in the open, and white people have died. That's the only difference.

Beast Breaker is so good!

The Anti Performative ICE Resistance Guide (What Actually Helps) from The Financial Diet

Fund the Work ICE enforcement succeeds, in part, because people can't afford lawyers. So, • Set up recurring monthly donations (even $10-$25) to trusted orgs like: RAICES, National Immigration Project, Immigrant Defense Project, Legal Aid Justice Center, Amica, ACLU, local immigrant bond funds (these matter most), and many more. • Prioritize legal defense + bond funds. If your help disappears when the news cycle does, it's not helping as much as it could.

Show Up Offline Material ways to assist • Court accompaniment (quiet presence, documentation). • Childcare or rides for families attending hearings. • Translation support (if fluent). Mutual aid coordination through existing networks.

Protect those being persecuted, from yourself Well-meaning people can cause real harm. DON'T • Share raid rumors without verification. • Post locations, schedules, or identifying details. • Pressure undocumented people to "tell their story." DO • Ask: Does this increase their risk? • Default to privacy over visibility.

Fuck ICE.

Sharing screenshots of a great post from The Financial Diet on IG that compiles some helpful jumping-off points if you’re still feeling helpless and don’t know what to do.

(Part 1 of 2)

ICE is government sanctioned and led terror. They are not here to do good, they are incapable of it.
Do not be misled, do not be silent, do not let the bastards get away with this.

Thousands of protesters shut down parts of Minneapolis and St. Paul on Friday as hundreds of businesses closed their doors. David Guttenfelder/The New York Times

genuinely stunning image

minnesota coming together to show us all how to stand up against ICE is such a beautiful display of what solidarity looks like

Today, Minneapolis sent a clear message: ICE is not welcome here, and we will protect our community!
#ICEOUT #ICEOUTMN

If you have read even a single history of fascism, you are already aware that one thing that its rise has in common in every case is an opposition party that refuses to intervene for fear of looking weak or putting the left into power

Immigration officers claim sweeping power to enter homes without a judge's warrant, memo says The memo authorizes ICE officers to use force to enter a residence based solely on a more narrow administrative warrant

This is what fascism looks like. Use the word. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/immigration-officers-claim-sweeping-power-to-enter-homes-without-a-judges-warrant-memo-says