Katya Ryabova

She's been enjoying trips to daycare on a sled (blue one visible in the background) indeed!

She knows what she wants and how to get it, this girl!

Thank you, we're so lucky to have her too 🫶

Games by Stitch is hiring a Game Capture Artist / Trailer Editor! This $6000 contract requires proficiency inside Unity game engine to create exciting videos featuring our game's 3D artwork. You&... Games by Stitch is hiring a Game Capture Artist / Trailer Editor! This $6000 contract requires proficiency inside Unity game engine to create exciting videos featuring our game's 3D artwork. You'll b...

Experienced in Unity and like making gameplay trailers? We're looking for a contractor at @gamesbystitch.com!

This contract can lead into more contract work, for social content. (I am hoping it does.)

Please note: candidates must be located in Ontario, Canada.

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A toddler dressed in a pink snowsuit and pink hat with two pom poms is walking decisively away along a snowy path in a residential area

My sweet child has just turned 2.

Celebrating her birthday is just as fun and even more meaningful than my own, and I LOVE my birthday.

The light and delight of my life 🥹💕

Omg I've never played Terraria either! Will have to catch your VOD to see if I should 🤩

This is amazingly disappointing news.

The best way to fight it:

-Buy Relooted (it's not expensive)
-Enjoy it!
-Review it!
-Tell other people to play it

Also, stay away from any content creators who use the word "woke" - it's never in good faith and always intended to harm people of color.

Mothership now has 2,000 paid subscribers!!! To say we're thrilled is an understatement. We're proud to say we've been able to significantly increase our freelance budget thanks to this support. Keep on pitching, writers! 💜✨

Sitting here, tears in my eyes, extremely grateful for my DnD group and our extremely excellent DM who's not on Bluesky BUT SHOULD BE

'Eternal Strands' is a tapestry that needs more than just beautiful threads The game tested my patience more than my adventure and combat skills.

Eternal Strands by @yellowbrickgames.bsky.social is a gorgeous game with lots of solid ideas and some excellent mechanics, but something was still missing—at least for me.

Read my latest: playingthisweek.substack.com/p/eternal-st...

Thank you! Onwards 🚀

It's true, Souls difficulty with legendary fish confirmed

Stardew Valley, a soulslike!

10000% this and I'm so tired of everything being called a soulslike

I've just checked it out, and this lil gob game is so fun!

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I'm watching this and thinking, absolutely fucking not.

How is it managing to hit every single note of "not for Katya"?

Still, I hope the game succeeds and is super-duper fun to play!

I gotta go workout so y'all fill me in on what happens during the Direct, yeah?

An outlet with the talent the Post has on hand, with the resources Bezos is able to pour into it, should not be doing layoffs of this scope and scale. Not just because, essentially, it doesn’t need to, but because any decision-maker who’s risen to the position of calling these shots should be smart enough to look at the paper and recognize that the value of the thing they have comes from its abundance: the various desks and experts and coverage areas that all work together to make the paper what it is. A lesser paper is not going to win more subscribers or bring the company more money. A narrow focus on a particular conception of politics, at a time when Trump and his ilk are using every avenue possible–the arts, the environment, healthcare, sports, and more–to foster their agenda will not serve readers or stand up to power. It’s just going to make the Post’s coverage worse, and its staff more overworked and unhappy, and the paper less relevant to readers who need a robust free press. Maybe this is what Bezos wants. It’s certainly what Trump and his administration want. Not just a worse paper, but a worse environment for journalism as a whole, with fewer jobs, less coverage to draw from, a shorter horizon to picture as young journalists imagine what their careers could be. Immiseration is one of the ruling class’ most powerful tools these days, and that feels like the only logic today’s layoffs have. They make the public less informed, and silence current and would-be journalists without the need for lawsuits and insults. Today’s cuts feel like a PR move as much as a corporate one, a reminder of the power of the rich, who can make worse so many lives without having to do anything, without even having to acknowledge it.

It's taken me all day to figure out what to say about today's WaPo layoffs, an unnecessary upending of the careers of hundreds of journalists, the paper itself, and the way millions of readers understand our current world
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200 days till Gamescom.

🤫

once again the only solution is to pay journalists directly (mothership.blog)

I'm the weirdo who tunes into friends' streams to hang out and then ends up coworking with them without their knowing.

You should tune in too, working optional.

There are SO MANY great shows on this year! I wish I could go to even one!

Katya's quickly become one of my favourite writers & peoples. Being able to be her reader and watch her growth has been an absolute privilege over the past year.

Plus, her controller is purple; my controller is purple. 💜

I promise she's worth your time to bookmark and keep on your reading list.

Aw you, controller and gaming kindred spirit! Thank you a ton, like A TON 🫶🫶🫶

Thanks Brad! Hear hear 🥂

One year of Playing This Week Can you believe it? I sure can!

Oh hey, I've been doing this video games writing thing for one year now!

playingthisweek.substack.com/p/one-year-o...

Every time I send work over, I expect an editor to reply with: "What is this piece of shit?!" and fling a proverbial shoe at me.

Doesn't matter who the editor is or how many drafts I've already submitted.

My mind is pretty exhausting :(

Dear Mother... Curious about how to get your partner into games you love? Hoping to find a new genre that's within your budget? We can help!

Surprise! We're launching an advice column. Send us your burning questions! Or your tepid ones. We'll take any temperature, really.
www.mothership.blog/dear-mother/

Oh man, this is so goddarn cute, in the most positive meaning of the word. I love a good advice column! This must be the first one for gaming!