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This year is kicking my ass. 😮‍💨 Please give a bitch a break.

I still hadn't really gotten over the enshittifcation of Bioware

I'm gonna guess that with this EA purchase that we're never going to see anything else from BioWare again

Back in my day, EA bought things and dismantled them, not the other way around

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

Hacking my Spotify come on now 😭

If you can’t teach them empathy, teach them consequences.

yea

Rewatching The Walking Dead, and wow I forgot what a baby Carl starts as. 😭 I'm still mad they killed him off.

People ripping off lotr for their stories always forget to base characters off the Hobbits and then wonder why the story is hollow, the hobbits are the soul of the story

Lord Of The Rings marathon time 😀, extended of course

So much of the internet now is just technofeudalist farmland (aka, a rich dude harvesting as many clicks as cheaply as possible) and that's boring. Make the internet weird again please.

To echo others: that MasterCard is proactively reaching out to its advertising partners to try and blunt the impact of the pressure campaign is one of the surest signs the pressure campaign is having an effect (and after just two weeks, too!) Don't let up! Call/mail their asses!! #SaveSpeech

3, but 4 would be so funny

Honestly fuck you if you decide to drive after you've been drinking

The artistic freedom of game developers is fundamental to games as a cultural medium. Any restrictions improsed by payment service providers or games 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 expressions or certain themes in games, such as diversity, must not be targeted by individual interests or campaigns from particularly vocal groups, as is currently 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 complicance with applicable laws and prevents overblocking. Signed, Felix Falk, Managing Director of GAME

GAME, the German game industry trade association, released this *damn* good statement on the unjust NSFW game takedowns

www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

the UK is going to moral panic itself into being one of the most undesirable places on the planet to live or do business in

for those unfamiliar, this is a bit like if someone stated an AI takeover for the film industry is imminent and backed it up with "jurassic park included a fully cgi t-rex in 1993"

I know I keep on banging on about this, but the stifling of access to online archives is hugely in the interests of OpenAI et al. Many people already rely on chatgpt as a search engine but its only going to get worse if other sources are suppressed

I made a quick and dirty anti-censorship cheat sheet to help onboard people and direct their energy in a productive direction. This isnt as comprehensive as various websites being shared around, but it should be easy to share and save.

Save the png and repost as widely as you can

tell devs they're going to get the money they're owed or fuck off bsky.app/profile/daff...

itch.io/updates/upda...

banger bluesky posts from u.s. posters

2023: horny joke about being queer
2025: political events and president shit
2027: common neighborhood birds you can safely eat

Our future

CEO compensation graphed next to employee compensation. 🙃

Lost In Cult was established on the principles of keeping gaming as an art form alive for generations to come.

We fully commit to #stopkillinggames in both function and spirit.

Gaming and all its intricacies deserve to be immortalised for generations to come.

— Jon Doyle (Owner, Lost In Cult)

bugs bunny tuxedo meme with caption "i wish all everything a very stop"