Adam Tuck

"E-bike owners are reminded to leave their bikes at home on Halloween."

When have the cops ever — EVER — advised drivers to leave their cars at home for the sake of kids' safety? Give me a single example.

That scene in Xmen where mystique shoots a bunch of iron into a guard’s bloodstream so Ian mckellen can now levitate him has lived in my brain for years and never left

We should be asking this
c o n s t a n t l y.

Today, Sept 30th, is a stat holiday in Canada you might not know about! National Day for Truth and Reconciliation is meant to honor the memory of a lot of first nations children robbed of growing up in the barbaric system known as Residential Schools!

It's a grim day, but a necessary one.

Gender of Game Designers: Board Game Geek Top 500, January 2025 A pie chart: 92% of the pie is Designed only by men. They made 461 of the top 500 games. 6% of the pie is Designed by a mixed-gender group. They made 28 of the top 500 games. 1% of the pie is Designed only by women or non-binary people. They made 5 of the top 500 games. Data are for January 1, 2025, using the names in the Designer field on BGG. Not shown are 6 games in the top 500 that have uncredited designers.

Update to this chart that I share a lot. Not breaking news: Game design teams are still OVERWHELMINGLY all men. About 7% of the top 500 games have a woman or non-binary person credited as a designer. A 🧵of related charts: (1/6)
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We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

Showing children of the future the unacceptable hair rendering on the left to explain why we had to get rid of the rainforest.

“In the previous game, you used a single button for everything,”

“but this time we’ve added a second button. Unfortunately.”

he’s so real for this

No you read this and then spent the next 5 mins mucking around with a shit bit of Javascript to test the idea out

I guess CGE can block me too

Making a Harry Potter game in 2025 without acknowledging the harm of transphobia at a bare minimum is a political statement

Intent doesn’t matter

Honestly my stomach turns a bit whenever a sniper elite kill cam shows up on highlight reel

Not enough to stop watching, but, you know

Saying things that aren’t a jam are my jam is my jam

It’s about having options! You won’t play everything but you’ll be able to choose exactly the right vibe for each day.

This is the excuse I make when I also do exactly this for every vacation we go on

Lmao Kain’s ability is hilarious

This is such a ridiculously good deal for this game & I highly recommend considering picking this up while it’s on sale if you haven’t already

Sam I’m going to be gripping the edges of my seat like a vice praying for more chronobulus lore to drop

Sam this might be your best work yet

With video game prices rising, AI is a critical tool for developers and gamers alike. By seeing which games use AI, gamers can save money by not buying those games. @TheZeldaZone@mastodon.social

important life hack for video games

Literally begging you to post about Just Some Stuff. We will see the news I absolutely promise. Twenty people will repost the same exact thing about the news. Only you can post about a turtle you saw

dude this party is such an echo chamber. it's just friends hanging out and chilling and having a good time. you need to invite some people over who want to kill you with hammers

OH MY FUCKING GOOOODDDDDDDDD

MATSUNO YOU ARE THE ETERNAL GOAT

A meme from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. In the top panel, one man labeled "literally every company" hands a plate labeled "AI" to a man labeled "me." In the bottom panel, the man labeled "me" nonchalantly tosses the plate down the hallway, discarding it with casual disdain while the first man watches.

Time to post it again.

Oh yeah I don’t think every game has to be accessible, and games can be “hard”, i want the sickos to be happy too, I just hate the trend of putting those mechanics in a lot more mainstream stuff whether it thematically makes sense or not, where it just suddenly totally alienates a ton of people

For people Bad At Reaction Timing, it’s sliding gaming towards being more inaccessible for more people and that’s really stupid

If it’s optional/can be ignored or disabled and it isn’t core to the main loop, and you aren’t screwed without it, it’s totally fine, but it’s required so damn always now

Good

Oh hey, I'm proud to contribute to worker-owned and independent new site Skybox!

This is my essay about having a stroke, losing the ability to write or walk or play video games, and digging myself out of that depressive hole using video games. It's maybe the most vulnerable writing I've ever done.

Has MTG been slowly becoming fortnite in the years I haven’t been paying attention

screenshot from an online job application form. the question reads "Can you describe specific ways you have integrated AI tools into your development workflow? Please include any custom setups, automations, or use cases beyond single prompt usage" (a red asterisk indicates that this is a required question). an answer has been typed in the textbox below the question: "there is a monster in the forest and it speaks with a thousand voices. it will answer any question you pose it, it will offer insight to any idea. it will help you, it will thank you, it will never bid you leave. it will even tell you of the darkest arts, if you know precisely how to ask. it feels no joy and no sorrow, it knows no right and no wrong. it knows not truth from lie, though it speaks them all the same. it offers its services freely to any passerby, and many will tell you they find great value in its conversation. “you simply must visit the monster—i always just ask the monster.” there are those who know these forests well; they will tell you that freely offered doesn’t mean it has no price for when the next traveler passes by, the monster speaks with a thousand and one voices. and when you dream you see the monster; the monster wears your face."

applying for jobs again

So I worked on a WW2 historical fiction game years ago in my life, and even without AI it felt like a dangerous line to tread, where we all *understand* game is fiction but the reality felt like people might use us as presenting facts to have the burden of research taken from them