I’m really starting to suspect that most of the tech bros haven’t actually read Tolkien, as they certainly don’t understand it.

The gentle hobbits save the “hard men” of Gondor, largely through compassion and selflessness. Not the other way around. The Christian parable is barely hidden!

Trying to make new games but it's hard to find the energy (or sometimes even a coherent and powerful idea!); here's hoping we can muster something up before the year is over.

Wish I had this energy.

The Pope tweets: "The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe" Someone replies: "I was so hopeful I could be a Catholic again after the disaster that Francis was, guess we just get Francis 2.0 now and I am heartbroken. How do I stay a Catholic now...I don't want to lose faith but I am. You belong to someone else, not God."

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

Matthew 15:29-31: And great crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others, and they put them at his feet, and he healed them after verifying their citizenship status.

Wild that EA managed to find a buyer who cares about video game workers even less than EA.

Pete Hegseth accidentally flipping a skateboard into his nuts on live TV

It's really quite excellent overall, but the final line "let me tell you a story about a story" is just a bit too cheesy for the channel imho. Otherwise, no notes!

Hell yeah!

Yes I wrote these in a fit of snarky rage after malding at a boss fight.

And also not opting for any difficulty/accessibility settings years after Celeste showed us that having these doesn't magically invalidate your difficult games is another bold move.

Having 6 years of foresight on Hollow Knight and choosing to keep corpse run, a feature I have yet to see a single person express affection for, is certainly... a decision, Team Cherry.

Even if the writer intended for simple blue curtains, you can always try to figure out why he thought that was a normal thing for curtains to be

I was trying to do some research in prep for Nolan's Odyssey next year, but this profile of Ulysses was just 700 pages about the sublime agony of being, the inherent fallibility of perception, and the tyranny of the British.

Also my epub seems to be corrupted, a lot of punctuation is missing.

I realized I forgot to post the actual GMTK game here.
Unfortunately, there are some bugs, but I think it still poses an interesting experience.
bgalex.itch.io/levels-for-m...

Ginormous year for hole.

Diagram using arrows to depict a white box-like character platforming on text that states "LEVELS FOR MINIMALIST PLATFORMING."

GMTK cook in progress.

They're not all great, but the album covers for the Pat Metheny Group are a constant source of reference when designing promotional art for my games. Shout out.

Steve Reich's music is a genuine treasure though.

Making my most pretentious game yet.

Photograph of minimalist composer Steve Reich at the Holland Festival in June 1976.

GMTK game jam.

See? Verse! Now Dante could have written this.

Taken from here, where Mandelbaum's stellar translation of the Comedy is publicly accessible:
digitaldante.columbia.edu/dante/divine...

Anyways, for anyone curious. This is what Dante actually had to say about centrists.

What makes this fake quote so fascinating to me is that it doesn't even sound remotely like anything from the Comedy. Dante was a poet. The Comedy is written in verse.

i wonder how similar this would be to a cool free media literacy class

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PAUL MCCARTNEY. HERE'S TO 83 YEARS OF CLASSIC SONGS!