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LEGO Voyagers key art. One red and one blue LEGO piece are side by side next to a satellite and a rocket.; each one has one large eye and they're looking at each other.

Julie takes a smiling selfie with Nate while they walk outside in a park.

We're live on Twitch! Join us for some classic VGG co-op as we play LEGO Voyagers together to celebrate Nate and Julie's 12th anniversary and 6th streamiversary! 🫶 www.twitch.tv/naetoid

Introducing ✨ Romancing Portland ✨ An official sister show of Rose City Comic Con designed for lovers of romance novels and pop culture!

A limited number of Introductory Price tickets are on sale while supplies last, and 🎺 ALL ticket types include a 3 Day badge to RCCC26! 💜 romancingportland.com!

A peaceful illustration of a young witch (Samar from the game Spirit Swap: Lofi beats to match-3 to) with pink horns and over the ear headphones, sitting on their bed in front of a big window. The window is surrounded by pothos vines and witchy knickknacks, and her Familiar, a pink round Frog with a unicorn horn, sleeps happily loafing next to her.

What would life be like if you moved to a city where plants carry magic like cables carry electricity in our world? What does a queer Arab fantasy world feel like? We’re making a solo-journaling TTRPG set in that world for zine month🐸 sliding scale PDF available!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/sof...

Golden Ray 🌱 #pixelart

In which I don’t really care what the others are supposed to represent, and I’m accidentally a little mean to my Pop.

Kinda Fucked Up that in our lifetimes we've gone from "never share personal info on the internet" to "hand over your identity to the most incompetent corporations imaginable".

A little more help could go a long way for my pal Samael and his sweet kitty Harlan. 💛 Please share and/or give if you're able to.

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...

Please consider helpin' out @coroner-samael.bsky.social and his lovely cat.

Every bit helps. <3

Screenshot of a Wall Street Journal opinion article titled “A Guaranteed Income Won’t Stop People From Wanting to Work,” by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo. A subheading says evidence from programs around the world suggests basic income does not make recipients lazier. Below the headline is a photo of several women sitting outdoors at a table working.

"Not only don't people work less when they are guaranteed an income, they might actually put in more effort at work. And the fact that they have more money to spend leads to the creation of more jobs."

Nobel Prize–winning economists Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo

"ICE OUT" on Lake Nokomis in Minneapolis, as seen from my flight leaving MSP airport

Happy Half-Life: Decay Monday. @naetoid.bsky.social is live with our pal Sviddy on their channel!

www.twitch.tv/svideotheque

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

"Brb"
- quick but boring
- reminiscent of a bygone era
- allows only a brief break

"____ WILL RETURN IN AVENGERS DOOMSDAY"
- descriptive, clear, current
- confident certainty yet undefined expectations - take as long as you want
- impossible to refute until the recipient watches Avengers Doomsday

Duppy Detective Tashia Demo on Steam Play the first day in Tashia's investigation into the Mystery of the Halfway Market!

The Demo for Duppy Detective Tashia is live!
Help Tashia unravel the mystery of Bredda Anansi's murder and (more importantly) find her cell phone!

🔍Gather Clues
👻Meet the Suspects
👁️Experience the first day of Tashia's investigation

store.steampowered.com/app/4222200/...

you're used to "top game recommendation" lists at the end of the year

but

what about top unhinged game crushes? HM? WHOEVER YOU'RE THINKING IS IN THIS LIST, IT ISN'T THERE.

please read on for the best piece of journalism i can provide.

ENGULF ME, SHADOW DADDY!!! 😫💦

recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best. It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.

it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI

A pale yellow dog is asleep on a yellow couch with only their head resting on the arm next to a quilt. There's a lamp on a wood side table to the left casting warm light. Behind is a window showing snow on trees and a grey sky. The room is a warm brown.

The best season for sleeping. 🌨️

First batch of 2026 games - January release calendar | video games are good Get more from video games are good on Patreon

Games launching this week ‼️
DuneCrawl | 1/5
Death Machine; StarRupture (Early Access) | 1/6
ODDCORE (Early Access) | 1/7
Pathologic 3 | 1/9

These and more, with a primarily #IndieGame tilt, in our free monthly game release roundup on Patreon.

YouTube video by Naetoid Video Games are Good: 2025 Game of the Year Winner

We are so honored and excited to announce the winner of VGG's 2025 Game of the Year award...

CONSUME ME!

Congratulations to @qdork.bsky.social, @apthomson.bsky.social, @frogfungus.bsky.social, Violet W-P, and @codatrigger.bsky.social for making such a special piece of art.

WATCH THE VIDEO!

A collage of the key arts from the following games: Hades 2, Dispatch, Split Fiction, Wanderstop, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Consume Me, Many Nights a Whisper, Demonschool, Look Outside, and Goodnight Universe. They are all 2025 Game of the Year nominees for Video Games are Good.

A screenshot from Light Up the Town. A snowy path is decorated with candy canes, presents, wreaths, santa hats, and snowflake lights and is strung with holiday string lights in various colors.

The dad from Light Up the Town — a tan ferret in a tan, collared jacket — looks at his child. His eyes are alight with the reflection of a crate of holiday string lights.

It's time for our end-of-year stream! 🎄 twitch.tv/Naetoid 🎄

We're announcing our Game of the Year winner and VGG community-picked GOTY, and unwinding with some cozy holiday decorating in Light Up the Town. Then, we'll be taking a break from streaming until 2026!

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."

- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.

Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!

We're excited! We've got a live watch party going in the VGG Discord. ❤️‍🔥

"but what if they can't draw" here's hideo kojima making level blockouts for metal gear solid 1 and 2 with LEGO

I am begging AI bros to use their brains for two seconds

"they don't know how to express the idea" here's rian johnson's storyboard for knives out

pick up a pencil and a napkin

Save 25% on Spirit Swap: Lofi Beats to Match-3 To on Steam Cast spells, be queer, and crash the biggest concert of the year! Spirit Swap is an action-puzzle meets narrative game set in a lush world of witchy demons.

anyone vibrating with excitement for the @indiegameawards.gg?!

Spirit Swap is a nominee and we're offering our deepest discount so far, 25% off!

As Samar, you'll battle your entire friend group of hotties as you try to figure out the mystery of the spirits✨
and also try to romance the hotties obv

A promotional graphic for Merry Mystmas. A dark wood bookshelf as the background. A Christmas tree on the left side of the frame. A stack of books in the foreground. The text reads "Merry Mystmas 2: Over the Riven and Through the Woods. $500 Donated to Charity by the Infinity Break Community." "Infinity Break's Annual Holiday Charity Streaming Event" in a whimsical holiday font.

Our final total was $400.00 in donations during stream. We'll be adding another $100 as the cherry on top. That's $250 for Outside In and $250 for Bridge for Youth. Getting needed funds to both city's programs and helping those in need during the winter ahead.

Study Examines Performance of Serial COVID Testing - News Center Testing performance of rapid antigen tests for SARS-CoV-2 improved for both asymptomatic and symptomatic patients after testing multiple times in 48-hour intervals, according to findings published in ...

Holiday gathering reminder 🎁

If your guests test w/rapids twice before the event, 48 hours apart, it’ll catch 63% of Covid cases even if they have no symptoms. Testing 3x improves that to 79%!

This is how we curb the annual January surge that gave me Long Covid—thanks for protecting yr community 🤍

the good that you do persists in this world

Come watch our friends and please give if you're able! Today's charity stream supports Outside In in Portland and Bridge for Youth in Minneapolis! 💜