Brad Gallaway

The best way journalists can support indie games is to cover more than whatever the current indie hits/darlings of the moment are. Games like Hades, Blue Prince, and Silksong do not need help with visibility, but discoverability is the biggest challenge facing many indie devs today.

The way our constitutional republic works is that the supreme court is supposed to strike down actions by the executive when they perform an act that is exclusively granted to congress in the constitution. Whether it is a "signature policy" is irrelevant. bsky.app/profile/atru...

So the occupant of our White House is cool with pedophilia and we’re just going to carry on like everything is normal?

Anyone

A N Y O N E

ANYONE leaving MAGA at this point, is only upset about one thing...and they were okay with ALL THE REST.

Or, they're using one thing to bail on someone who's 'not harming the right people!!!!' meaning leopards ate their face.

They still want the evils they voted for.

Stop payment processors from censoring games!

Call Mastercard and tell them how you really feel

stop-paypros.neocities.org

Trump administration sues California over its redistricting plan, months after a similar GOP-led effort in Texas met no resistance from the DOJ
https://cnn.it/4hYuE9J

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Today at GameCritics.com, new writer Adam Sharman tries his hand at Slime Rancher two and finds it to be an uneven experience... The first half delivers the goods, but some of the new things bright into the second half drag the ranching down.

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I appreciate the sentiment of everyone working in the government and courts who decide that they need to resign because they can't go along with Trump...

...But if every person with a conscience resigns, there's no one left at any important post other than Trump bootlickers.

Shutdown Deal Kills Food Safety Rules After lobbyists spent big on the Trump administration and Democratic defectors, the government funding bill cut food-contamination rules and limited ultraprocessed-food research.

BREAKING NEWS: Senators quietly put language into the shutdown deal helping their donors block rules to prevent food contamination & foodborne illnesses at farms & restaurants, according to bill text reviewed by @levernews.com.

The provisions come amid an explosion of foodborne illnesses.

the idea that lots of gamedevs are secretly using ai is booster bullshit

what on earth would I use genAI tools for? Coming up with ideas? Writing? It’s shit at those

making 3D models? Coding stuff? It’s shit at that too

oh but it’s faster maybe? Did I mention it’s shit at things?

seems important

Average healthcare costs in the US:

Giving birth? $18,000

Cancer treatment? $150,000

One month ICU stay? Between 30k and 150k.

That’s not including copays, deductibles, interest and all the other hoops you have to jump through.

Cost in Canada? $0.

Cost in the UK? $0.

Cost in Australia? $0.

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Today at GameCritics.com, Ali Arkani reviews tempest Rising -- an unapologetic throwback to the grand old RTS days of Command & Conquer.

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Thank you to everyone today who’s said how important voice acting is to games. It really helps fight against the idea we’re disposable or replaceable.

I know we’re not curing cancer here, but human creativity is one of the things that make life worthwhile- VA in games is part of that enjoyment.

DS9 "The Search, Part II"; Garak in the Replimat, with caption: and the only explanation I can find

DS9 "The Search, Part II"; Garak in the Replimat, leaning in, with caption: is that our leaders have simply gone insane.

Senate Republicans added a provision to the shutdown ending bill to allow senators to sue the federal government for at least $500,000 if their phone records were secretly seized, which only happens when they are suspected of breaking the law. Law and order party my ass.

It always goes well when an industry executive pushes back against a review so this is chill and I'm sure the response will be gentle

For those asking, Sarah says she received an email notifying her of the suspension, but no reason was provided.

There's been plenty of new sign-ups and updates to UK Games Composers in the last 24hrs!

From bluesky >>

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All music easily found via here: gamescomposers.co.uk

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The new So Videogames is up!

in Episode 461 I talk about accessibility, include last week's missing clip, I take a look ahead, and then cover:

Battle Suit Aces
Dark Quest 4
A Pizza Delivery
Kentum
Arc Raiders
Dying Light: The Beast
Windswept

…And more!

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Jesus, people, I'm not saying they'll all fall on their swords because we ask politely.

You demand a politician's resignation not because you think it will actually happen, but because you want to make it clear you think it *should* happen, you're that pissed off.

It's a vote of no confidence.

The surrender caucus secured yes votes from Democrats who aren't facing re-election this cycle, but four of them have Democratic governors who can pick their replacement.

If you live in Illinois, Pennsylvania, Maine or Virginia this is an easy and effective way to make your anger clear.

Joyce Carol Oates @Joyce... 17h O So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates— scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend's or relative's accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. In fact he seems totally uneducated, uncultured. The poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the "most wealthy person in the world."

Elon Musk ' @elonmusk X.com Oates is a liar and delights in being mean. Not a good human.

lol she got his ass and he knows it

👏👏👏

No, MS Word, I don't *fucking* need Copilot to help me cut and paste now FUCK OFF

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Also up today at GameCritics.com, Brad Bortone (the OTHER Brad) covers EA's FC 26 and says YEP, this is some soccer! (Or football, if you're outside the US.)

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two small lego bricks with eyes are bringing lego rocket parts to a lego rocket in the distance.

Today at GameCritics.com, we have a few pieces going up.

First, Eugene Sax has a video review for LEGO Voyagers and finds that it pulls at the heartstrings despite being a bit mixed in the gameplay.

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best encapsulation why everyone hates democrats despite trump being the spawn of satan

I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video.

I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.

But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.

As Mamdani wins, Democrats worry about national fallout The progressive candidate surged to a historic mayoral win. And that's adding to unease among Democrats looking for a way back to national power.

Yeah, the Democrats *should* worry about the fallout: that voters across the country might wake up to the fact that voting for candidates with a democratic socialist platform is a good thing, and that the Democratic Party has made itself irrelevent.
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/m...

Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."