Adam

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done

- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy

Metacritic has sent a reminder email to all games site editors/publishers which is pretty strong, and great:

Pay for however many newsletters you want, please, give all those writers money

But you can't replace a whole journalism ecosystem with a series of freelancers, you just can't. There also needs to be support for serious papers, magazines, online newsrooms, and nonprofit reporting

Even when it is imperfect, there is love in this work.

Making something for someone and watching their face light up with joy and surprise when they take part in that experience is far more breathtaking than any sunset I will ever see on this space rock.

This honestly represents a level of forward planning and asset management / preservation unheard of in 95% of game studios (including mine)

it's all just art. "porn" is just art that makes you horny, in precisely the way that "horror" is art that makes you scared and "metroidvania" is art that makes you write video essays

I have worked in AA, AAA, indie and mobile it’s all the same just people trying to do a job. Plenty of good teams and individuals in all them fields. I don’t get the lines drawn trying to separate it all as it’s all game dev.

Steam Next Fest is here!
And The Mermaid Mask is in it!

Like Ace Attorney, Professor Layton and Monkey Island? Want to try a murder-mystery detective adventure aboard a weird submarine?

Play our new Next Fest Demo, with a new Art Gallery feature:

store.steampowered.com/app/1696770/...

still frame from the beginning of Twin Peaks it is February 24th and Special Agent Dale Cooper arrived in the town of Twin Peaks

Good morning

They’re calling it The Perfect Design

This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to ...

NEW: A hobbyist has created Nearby Glasses, an app that warns you if someone close by is wearing smart glasses. 404 Media spoke to the creator who said he was inspired by our coverage that uncovers how men are wearing Meta's Ray-Bans to covertly film massage parlor workers.

I understand why chatbot cheating happens but every time I read about it I want to gently remind everyone that the point of schoolwork is not for the submission to exist. Teachers are not just greedy for more essays or solved equations. The point is to do the work WITH YOUR OWN BRAIN, FOR LEARNING.

Hey.

Tell people when they do good job.

When you like the stuff they make.

When you like the characters they’ve created.

The stories they’ve told.

Nobody hears it as often as you think bc everyone thinks everyone hears it all the time.

Trust. They don’t.

Tell. Them.

a screenshot of a page from a academic publisher that shows you can log in with an institution or "purchase options: 48 hour access to article PDF $56"

sometimes i forget just how insane the academic publishing + research scene is

$56 for 48 hour access to a PDF of an essay which was provided to the company for free off the back of dozens or hundreds of hours of labor by its writer

forty. eight. hour. access. fifty. six. dollars

come the fuck on

A screenshot of a tweet that says: Your art will betray you. It will look better in your head than on paper. It will make you feel untalented some days. Love it anyway. Because one day, it will also surprise you, fulfill you, and remind you why you started.

Throwback to something worth repeating.

It is 2022. A studio founded by industry vets to make a AAA game closes without showing their game

It is 2023. A studio founded by industry vets to make an AAA game clo

It is 2024. A studio founded by industry vets to make an AA

It is 2025. A studio founded by industry vets

It is 2026. A stu

I love when its freezing and raining and my only way home costs as much as an entire meal. 💀

An Xteink X4 next to a quarter for scale, the Aftermath logo has been hacked on to the screen. It is on a flat wood backdrop.

The Xteink X4 is underpowered and lacks features but it's affordable, snaps to your phone and has a devout community making up for its failings. aftermath.site/xteink-x4-chea...

They've got so much good Avowed fanart!

Post by @mukuuji · 1 image 💬 1  🔁 9  ❤️ 32 · Daiko, Aiko, and Hajime The brothers in Thirdborn - Avowed

Aw! Seeing me and @kaitrielle.bsky.social's goofy siblings rendered lovingly in fanart reminded me of how fun working on this quest was. Still love how much @prozdishere.bsky.social brought all three of 'em to life. Lovely little family portrait! 🖤
www.tumblr.com/mukuuji/8086...

Why chasing twitter's approval doesn't work The opinions you believe are universal are being fed to you by an algorithm designed to show you what you want.

Today's Load-bearing Tomato addresses the age old question:

"why don't the devs just [SOCIAL MEDIA OPINION]"

It turns out, "a lot of reasons", but if you never have to test your ideas, you never have to discover why they're not any good.

loadbearingtomato.com/p/why-chasin...

Frequently wrong about themselves Sure, there are complex psychological issues at play, but surely people can at least be trusted to tell you about themselves, right? Unfortunately not. A particular AAA developer I know of once sent surveys to 1000 players asking them which game they had played the most, then compared it with the data of what they had actually played. Not a single one answered correctly. Zero out of one thousand players could remember their own habits enough to tell which game they’d played the most. Player answers were so consistently wildly wrong that the team involved thought that their data must have been corrupted. Upon validating that it was in fact accurate, they went back to the players and told them what their actual most played games were, and every single one said something along the lines of “OH! Right. Well, that makes sense”. When people tell you things they’re really telling you the stories they tell themselves about themselves, and those stories may not have anything at all to do with reality.

there u go, bless

if you asked me to diagnose the western game industry's current problem it would start with "landlords have absorbed basically all disposable income"

my take on game industry finance is any analysis of dev time, dev cost, sale pricing etc. is pointless without acknowledging the role of big capital in systematically acquiring and extracting all of the wealth

it‘s like giving someone diet and exercise advice while Dracula is actively killing them

finally painted the dumbest 3D sculpt i’ve made to date #art

It's a rare delight to see a video essayist you enjoy say kind things about a project you worked on.

I've been going to these fancy conferences and just doing a gloves off thing for the last few months and I feel freer than a guy with five DUIs riding an ebike on a sidewalk.

This is Flambo. He's using his talking dog buttons to accuse his small foster brother of being a cat. Nothing can convince him otherwise. 13/10 for both (IG: flambothedog)