Jesse Boo-rascia 👻

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currently: Social Media & Content @ KO_OP, prev: /noclip & noclip_2, Talking Simpsons, Blowback, Matt McMuscles | 📧hello@jesseguarascia.com | he/him 🇨🇦

It is absolutely infuriating and disheartening that pro-union employees are beholden to all sorts of ethical, legal, and strategic hurdles when discussing unionizing on company channels - and meanwhile an anti-union guy can spend days ranting in Slack, sowing doubt and discord.

Kotaku@kotaku.com · 2d ago

Back in May, Double Fine employees petitioned for a union. Two weeks later, that petition was withdrawn. What happened? https://kotaku.com/inside-the-failed-fight-to-unionize-one-of-gamings-most-idealized-studios-2000742755

Trying to learn more about Steam’s backend to get better at my Job and there’s so many genAI slop articles and grifters trying to sell me courses that I’m going to have to make a game and read the official documentation instead 😔

Lots of good reasons to be frustrated with the rise of genAI but the idea that it'll accelerate our ability to make More Stuff is driving me crazy. We simply do not need More Stuff! and certainly not Faster!

If you’re interested in a grand sokoban adventure that’s not made by a massive bigot (which I’m bringing up for no reason of course!), might I suggest Isles of Sea and Sky? One of the best games of last year by a lot! store.steampowered.com/app/1233070/...

Isles of Sea and Sky on Steam

A fantastic, oceanic, open world puzzle adventure. Solve innovative block puzzles while unearthing a mystifying story, gaining new friends that change the puzzle landscape, and unlocking powers that p...

store.steampowered.com

So, “Order of the Sinking Star” by Thekla was just announced, which takes several small free games (two of which are mine) and gives them a major graphical upgrade and mashes up their rulesets. I haven’t been very involved but it’s a great concept and looks cool.

New Onimusha is the first game in a while where I’m like “this bit of combat is so sick but I can’t wait for the next cutscene” only to say during a cutscene “this cutscene is so sick but I can’t wait for the next bit of combat”