it is very much like the gaming “community” to be handed something as inventive as Big Walk and devolve into discourse over a made-up word on the internet

This is how you sound every time you try to invent a new genre name to replace the one kids have been using for a few years now

Comparing initial reactions to Microsoft (US company) buying everything and Saudi Arabia buying EA is pretty grating because it turns out western journalists are perfectly capable of clocking genocidal ownership when it's not from their sphere of influence

I'm sorry, but if you ever used the term "Metroidbrainia" unironically, you don't get to bitch about people calling something "Friendslop"

Came to me in a dream

ha, yeah, i reckon a lot of people on this site could do with a big walk!

Big Walk? Nah I'm more of a Small Sit type of guy, Medium Sprint every so often too

Big Walk? Yeah, I'm getting my steps in daily. What about it

It's hard work.

Hello I have made this due to a mutual having issues with some folks on here forgetting this fact and shouting at him for it. Feel free to use it as a handy PSA x

Every indie studio that released more than 1 game: DO NOT HIRE MORE PEOPLE. NEVER HIRE MORE PEOPLE. YOUR BUDGET RUNWAY IS THE ONLY THING THAT STANDS BETWEEN YOU AND DEATH New studio that will certainly survive the winter: Hello! We are a small collective of 20 people making our own Balatro-like 😀

Game studios really need to start adopting an attitude of "your only degree is an MBA. Your opinion is invalid."

Incredible take from the experts, just make good games that sell well and stop making bad games

GamesRadar+@gamesradarplus.bsky.social · 2w ago

We need games like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Balatro, and Peak as a cure for the "fear" in the industry, say experts www.gamesradar.com/games/we-nee...

Do you think any water bender used blood bending during the full moon to make a guy hard again

In normal countries with labour laws you can't get fired for what you are doing with your time/body outside of work Patreon doesn't give a fuck tho and if you dare have an OF you are essentially fired This is insane

Suzanne ✨🌑@tendermiasma.com · 4d ago

The TOS being so strict that they control you offsite is the problem; sites like Patreon and Kofi have offsite clauses too. The social criminalization of the suggestion that somewhere you might be doing nsfw is a problem. It's branding a person as obscene and we need consumers to stand up for us

Years go by and that tweet remains evergreen

Alice Bell@abeewords.bsky.social · 4d ago

I have just seen another person argue that they need to use genAI because they have ADHD and it helps their task paralysis and I try to feel love towards those people but at the same time very much shut up you giant baby oh my god

Guys let's all write articles for Hater Week because if there's anything our field is know for it's for the lack of haters

"yeah i just ask chatgpt and-" cool i no longer take you seriously as a person

I decided to create a blog jam! Here's a thread of everyone who participated and their blogs! Huge shoutout to every single one of them

Nate Shearer@faultrunner.bsky.social · 5d ago

To cheese or not to cheese? wotdoon.pika.page/posts/ive-ne...

Devs, pay attention to who is actually, practically offering support to our laid off colleagues. It’s not the companies, it’s not the ESA, it’s the union, it’s us.

United Videogame Workers-CWA@videogameworkers.bsky.social · 6d ago

🎉 IT'S LIVE 🎉 The game industry hardship fund itch bundle made in partnership with @necrosoftgames.com is HERE. Over 100 games for $10+ bucks: all funds (save for itch fees) go directly to the UVW-CWA Game Worker Hardship Fund. GOOD GAMES FOR A GOOD CAUSE👇 itch.io/b/3802/game-...

Thinking about how every big game teaches you how to move your camera and character around but never bothers to teach you how to do both simultaneously When you see people who never played videogames before this is the most crucial skill they struggle with, "walk and look around" is alien to them

Guys I swear our department will bounce back to high profit once we sell no consoles and pull out of Steam

NESbot@nesbot.bsky.social · 4d ago

Microsoft raises price of Xbox Series in Europe by up to 200 euros, in UK by up to 170 GBP www.resetera.com/threads/15...

Personally, I think you should play your videogames however you want, and anyone telling you that you played it wrong should fuck off

the hank green thing rules dude getting caught out doing one shitty thing and immediately, unprompted, being like i’m so fucked up i have a serious problem i’m not normal i’m in therapy they gave me an intervention can you ever forgive me is like THE classic asshole guy move

Using lists of three is not an "AI tell." It's a common trait in human writing because our brains biologically want to make sure there's always one thing to marry, one thing to fuck, and one thing to murder.

AI is robbing you of the opportunity to make this instead

Davis Bickford@davis.social · 5d ago

The next time you consider making a flier with AI, please also consider that the most intriguing ad I’ve seen this week is a garage sale sign made of particle board with spray painted writing that reads, “GOOD SHIT —>”

Hank Green is a perfect example of how much can be excused when you are quirky white man with overabundance of confidence. Queer folks and women had entire careers destroyed for infinitely smaller mistakes, but not him! He's our Precious White Boy, he can't be wrong he does good things sometimes!

It's crazy to me that "journalists" keep reporting those r/thathappened-ass news as if they hold any truth to them

Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 6d ago

BREAKING: Anthropic announced that its artificial intelligence models had breached three different organizations during cybersecurity tests that went awry, a little more than a week after its chief rival, OpenAI, disclosed a similar incident.

Using A.I. for a shitpost/meme completely misunderstands what makes them funny. High effort ones are funny because someone put a ton of time into something silly/stupid. Low effort ones are funny in large part BECAUSE they're janky and handmade.

The oddest thing about the response to this essay is people who say it’s “personal”. You can disagree about some or all of it! I may well be wrong! But it’s not “personal” to analyze a film or other work of art, even negatively. Criticism is more than “Hurray!” or “Hiss!”