kobold labor union

ME: What’s the local drink? Pisco Sour? I’ve heard of that. I will have one in the name of international travel!

*TWO MINUTES LATER*

ME: This is quite tasty.

*TEN MINUTES LATER*

ME: Fuuuuuuuuck

I have both my damn full time day job AND and evening class today AND work this whole week weeeehhhh

And they're friends shaped!!!

I'll go a step further her and discourage my US-, Canada-, and Europe-based colleagues from attending or giving talks at GDC. It is, at this juncture, just irresponsible to promote a US-based international event. They don't even pay you for your free labor!

they ruined necromancy is wot they did! now it's cringe!

Mary Todd Lincoln was a major spiritualist! Perhaps the most famous spirit photograph ever taken is one of her with a ghostly Abe over her shoulder. The Fox Sisters would be some kind of influencers. The spirit trumpet people are the people doing AI recreations of dead people today.

Stop payment processors from censoring games!

Hey, it would mean so much to me if y'all kept up the pressure with phone calls to payment processors to show to them how much people care and that they can't just ignore it—my livelihood depends on adult games not being censored!

You can find info and phone scripts here: stop-paypros.neocities.org

Ok if this is actually real it's big news for #FFXIV cosplayers

People don't take credit cards, generally. I don't know if that's changed post pandemic but 20+ years ago when I visited it was still very much a cash based system.

If you enjoy what I write, which is currently still legal to publish, whether its my spicy erotic fiction or even my relatively tame but LGBTQ fiction, please take a moment to tell the credit card companies you disagree with their stance that such material should not be for sale!

Someone on here said that videogames offer a fantasy of predictable rewards for one's work, which in real life might not be rewarded at all. I think about it a lot!

A journalist should try asking what "driving force of business transformation across every industry and sector" actually means.

AI is outperforming games in terms of profitability? Really? Where's that profit coming from, exactly?

Cause I'm betting money the king has no clothes here...

How do I become one of those CEOs who does literally nothing but gets paid like a million dollars a month

asking for me

Congress controls land use in DC, and the Republicans control Congress, and Trump controls the Republicans.

Unfortunately the "permitting office" is basically Congress, which he currently controls & will be quite happy to destroy public land. What little power DC has as is currently being destroyed by a corrupt Congress (insert DC Statehood Now rant here)

There is literally no physical room for it unless he destroys the Ellipse. Which he may well try to do because that's where protests tend to happen.

If you ever need staff for your Official Residence, I am available to be an Ornamental Hermit, or perhaps Dubious Steward Who Speaks In Riddles, and say things like "the... Master..... is Indisposed......."

Mr. Rogers looking out a window with a word balloon: "Yes ... ha ha ha ... YES!"

here ya go

Real Palace of the Parliament Bucharest vibes

Played a game last night wherein we put FFXIV character names into a randomizer, and had 15 minutes to draw whoever it spat out.

The first result was Alpha!

Narrative Designer :(

African grey parrot hanging upside down from a spiral perch

is he a #bird or a bat

I've been seeing a huge uptick in fantasy queries where only the oldest, purest bloodlines have powerful magic, or where the MC is a super special but super illegal "half-breed" and folks, it's 2025. Can we please be more careful with how we engage with eugenics/blood quantum/bloodline purity? Thx.

Bluntly? In the eyes of payment processors and anti porn lobby groups, if you make NSFW content at all -- even if you're strictly an artist or strictly a writer or a gamedev -- you are a sex worker in their eyes. You're in the same boat as us. Please remember this next time we ask for solidarity.

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oh RIGHT. YES. And I had forgotten my Book of Atrus at home ;-;

also hi this is Jensen no clue if you remember me but we met years and years ago at SPX, if I recall correctly; I followed your Tumblr for quite a while.

HOLY CRAP. I literally had to put down my phone and run downstairs to where my desktop + surroundsound headphones are so I could listen to this. Damnnn.

"The artistic freedom of game developers is fundamental to games as a cultural medium. Any restrictions imposed by payment service providers or gaming platforms must not exceed the legal limits. In Germany, thanks in part to the USK, clear, binding, and established rules apply that must be adhered to. Furthermore, creative forms of expression or certain themes in games, such as diversity, must not be targeted by individual interests or campaigns from particularly vocal groups, as is currently being observed on Steam or itch.io. The terms and conditions of global payment service providers such as Visa, Mastercard, or PayPal must not conflict with European values such as freedom of expression or artistic freedom. We therefore call on the companies involved to design their rules and offerings in a manner that ensures compliance with applicable laws and prevents overblocking.' Felix Falk Managing Director of game

Felix Falk, Managing Director of game – The German Games Industry Association, on the current debate surrounding #overblocking on #gaming platforms.

#steam #itchio #gamedevs #indiegamedevs #gamedevelopment #indiegames #gamingplatforms #diversity

In a statement to GamesMarkt, German association @gameverband.bsky.social has issued a statement on the recent adult game delistings. MD Felix Falk insists that games "must not be targeted by individual interests or campaigns from particularly vocal groups".
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