it's daniel

The US cutting off oil to Cuba is truly one of the most depraved acts it is possible to imagine. Hospitals will close, food production will collapse, people will starve. It is urgent for US citizens, and every sane person, to oppose this barbarism with all their might.

I really want people to think about this. After all the insane lawsuits, all the threats, all the bullshit weve seen from this admin and the targets who kneeled in fear, an average Joe called the president a Pedophile protector to his face and didn't get touched. That's the Power of a union.

graphic that says no ice in Minnesota itch.io charity bundle

The No ICE in Minnesota Charity Bundle has officially LAUNCHED!

There are 1,439 games to discover for a $10+ donation to Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota!

Purchase the bundle here: itch.io/b/3484/no-ic...

spending a decade - that’s ten years, or 12.5% of an average human lifetime - making a fighting game only to immediately go ohhhhh wait a minute fighting games don’t make as much money as league of legends and we already own that let’s fire everyone

it's genuinely stunning to me you'd keep a game in the hopper for a decade and then do huge layoffs after a single month. a month is nothing in live service terms. less than nothing.

hard to think of a better example of "you may not believe in class war, but billionaires know they're in one" than this

Ottawa gives Canada Post a $1.01-billion loan The federal government says it is making more than $1 billion available to Canada Post in the form of a repayable loan to help the Crown corporation.

The government is giving a loan to a Crown corporation that should just be a public service that we pay for because it provides an essential task that Canadians depend on.

We don’t provide loans to the health care system or schools; we just pay for them.

have there ever been

Epic made provably incorrect statements about the game’s content, refused to provide details supporting their claims, and has not shared their claimed AO IARC certificate, which normally includes a link for the developer to appeal. They do not ‘love that studio’, they have effectively ghosted us

Ryan McDiarmid | Narrative & Game Design The personal website and portfolio of Ryan McDiarmid. Writer, visual artist, and game dev with a focus on narrative & game design.

Just launched a redesign of my website.
Updated portfolio section coming soon!

As a reminder: I'm urgently looking for work in the Narrative Design, Writing, and Game Design fields, though I have plenty of other talents as well.

ryanmcdiarmid.com

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

FYI bill c12 goes into senate for debate TOMORROW. please email or call!

much love to you and alex ❤️

A Day for Gaza Today, The Nation is turning over its website exclusively to stories from Gaza and its people. This is why.

Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza.

We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...

I Don't Know Anyone At This Party by Ivan Khoroshev First-person deduction game about escaping a very unpleasant party. Submission to the 2026 Global Game Jam.

I turned three cans of Monster and a sleepless weekend into a tiny videogame for the Global Game Jam. It's about escaping a room full of procedurally generated masked weirdos, something I'm sure we all can relate too. Play it now on your Windows personal computer:
khorrorshow.itch.io/i-dont-know-...

Tweet from Phil Gordon: Hard to overstate the damage to US-Israel relations done by the sense of entitlement and ingratitude reflected in comments like these and Netanyahu's own recent statements. Baseless misdirection to suggest that Israeli soldiers' deaths in Gaza were caused by some phantom US "embargo" (when in fact Biden resisted enormous pressure to condition aid, as required by U.S. law, even as Israel rebuffed calls to facilitate more humanitarian assistance and reduce civilian casualties), and insulting to suggest that U.S. concern for people of Gaza was driven by "Michigan," as if no other possible basis for concern comes to mind. If goal of Netanyahu and his partisans is to accelerate the sharp decline in U.S. public support for Israel, and to further undermine the bipartisan character of that support, this seems like good way to go about it.

Kamala Harris's National Security Advisor Phil Gordon angrily replies to criticism from Israeli journalist Amit Segal that Biden didn't do enough for Israel.

He states that Biden went out of his way to violate US law in support of Israel.

This is bullshit. This is everything wrong with the industry right now.

Look me in the goddamn eye and tell me 'Biblically accurate lesbian makeout Devil May Car' is a game without an audience.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoSn...

insisting on calling every mass day of protest or one-day boycott a "general strike" is not the move. it's good to see people rallying around the cause, it matters, but if you want to be part of a large-scale labor action that shuts down the gears of capital, start by unionizing your workplace!!!

come work with us! an extremely rare well-paid qa position. i used to be the qa lead at the studio so i'm open to answer any questions about this role!

baffling that the media isn’t making more of an issue out of how carney is gutting key federal agencies/depts and what that’s going to mean for gov capacity when we’re supposed to be more independent and capable.

food inspection, health canada, statscan, global affairs — all being cut, and more

did you know that this is about the percentage of support among your coworkers you want to aim for to go to a union certification vote? makes u think......

Anyone who paid attention knew that there was no doubt about the official number from the GHM being an undercount due to its historically conservative approach and due to inability to keep pace with the actual death rate. IDF now admits, like it did in 2021 and 2014, that it has an accurate record.

'We are shutting it down:' Ubisoft unions call for international strike Five unions in France have proposed a mass walkout in February in response to widespread cost-cutting and a return-to-office mandate.

'We are shutting it down:' Ubisoft unions call for international strike

we already let him get away with being behind the wheel of a fatal boat accident with a slap-on-the-wrist settlement so i fear we may have already missed our opportunity....

Worth noting that years later, the team that worked on Beast Breaker is now getting revshare from day 1 of this re-release, because it was negotiated by Vodeo Workers United! 🥲

bsky.app/profile/dkmo...

Whoa! That's sick.

when the drums and squiggly noises hit

a closeup of a cartoony character face with a bunch of pips cutting through

ｄｏ ｙｏｕ ｈａｖｅ ｇａｍｅｓ ｏｎ ｙｏｕｒ ｐｈｏｎｅ

character with short hair wearing a frog embroidered beanie and tactical gear is sitting on a floor-- casting a shadow. Also has a frog on her lap.

Coyle #YoungSuns

a really cool debut from the first unionized game studio in north america. tragic that Vodeo shut down early and never got to make more stuff, but nice to see this get a wider release; well worth checking out!