AmandaTheHerder

@amandatheherder.bsky.social

she/her | professional herder of the McElroys | Stardew Valley coach | aggressive Wisconsinite | co-host of All's Fair in Lava and Floor

Watching reactions to the Slate truck has been... weird. I didn't expect people to completely forget the lower cost of ownership angle to electric vehicles so quickly but they apparently have. Many comparisons between it and Ford's current Maverick on purchase price and nothing else! The fuck!

Games Done Quick is such an unfettered source of pure good, distilled into the most concentrated essence. A motivating beacon for people to show the power of coming together and rallying around an important cause. A powerful moment that underscores the desire to help in all of us. GDQ forever.

In one week this incredible culmination of a story that has changed my life will be out in the world. I started working for the McElroys just a few months before the first book came out, and holding this beast in my hands is making me teary eyed, which I know will only get worse as I read it.

A hand holding the graphic novel The Adventure Zone: Story and Song. The cover features Magnus, Merle, and Taako looking fiercely determined and Lucretia looking terrified.

This is also why, say, they don't immediately start working on a new Pikmin. Because the dude who does the 3D modeling of the items is currently working on like Mario Kart. And keeping all those people employed feels more important than putting out a new Pikmin.

Max Nichols@maxnichols.bsky.social · last mo.

You know what Nintendo does when they have a surplus set of devs from cancellations or production ending? Put them on other projects. The ability to redeploy headcount while keeping teams together over time is like, the main strategic benefit of scale in the game industry

Algae are prolific producers of oxygen (and consumers of carbon dioxide), en masse producing a huge proportion of the oxygen we breathe, which means that the greening of the Reflecting Pool might be the most pro-climate thing Trump has ever done.

One of the more misogynistic takes currently trending in the AI policy space is "women use less AI than men because they have less tech literacy" Ok but have you considered that women use less AI than men because we have more tech literacy?