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OH HEY I gather it's bi visibility day! Hi!!!! I'm bi & ace, and I have two fantasy series starring bi/pan protagonists. Rooks & Ruin is currently on sale and you can grab the ebooks for the whole trilogy SUPER cheap! (See quoted thread for links & more info!)

Melissa Caruso@melissacaruso.bsky.social · 2w ago

Okay, it looks like B&N and Kobo also have the entire Rooks & Ruin trilogy on sale! The Obsidian Tower - $4.99 The Quicksilver Court - $1.99 The Ivory Tomb - $1.99 Complete trilogy - $8.97 Links in thread! Grab it if you like spooky vibes, banter, fast pacing, & big oh shit plot twists!

if you’re working on your own project, you’re welcome to junk progress as often as you please but if you are past “pre-production” and burning entire teams on pivots every month, perhaps reconsider

no game dev skill is more important than making up your fuckin mind

too many people treat the maxim of “game dev is an iterative process” as meaning “we should salt the earth every time we have a new idea” rather than “let’s explore and improve the ideas we already agreed on”

Joe Wintergreen@joewintergreen.com · 7d ago

no game dev skill is more important than making up your fuckin mind

rip bob mackie 😭🤍✨

I will always love how in that one raid in WoW they had Ragnaros (who up to that point had a tornado for legs) get so mad at you he had to climb out of his hot tub, put some pants on, and come over and hit you with a hammer and make it personal.

Dogs don't get autism, and all cats already have it, I don't see a problem here.

Chise@sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 2w ago

May I remind everyone that there is currently NO cure for rabies. May I also remind everyone there is absolutely NO scientific proof connecting ANY vaccine that we produce today with autism. This is true regarding vaccination in both humans AND in dogs. Vaccinate your pets please.

Sometimes my feed is just: [amazing art] looking for work [goated resume] looking for work [great writing] looking for work [banger music] looking for work Dave Slutbutt, CEO of Game Dev, has laid off 9000 people to buy a 4th house in Bora Bora. [industry veteran] looking for work

This is, verbatim, from a Steam store page: "In-game AI character Ms. Second is using AI generated voice. Using humans voices for AI character would be cultural appropriation" WHAT DO YOU MEAN CULTURAL APPROPRIATION?!

Visa costs are a massive additional cost to immigrants and they don't need to exist at all! The people in power could raise taxes on the wealthiest to cover the costs, but they choose to extort the immigrants instead.

Emiliano Mellino@mellino.bsky.social · 2w ago

The UK government is making upwards of £4.9bn in profit from visa fees, citizenship fees & the immigration health surcharge. Meanwhile, people are getting into thousands of pounds of debt or going without food just to afford to these immigration fees. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...

Two quick Lanterns thoughts as a warm up, both concerning Laura Linney's character: Firstly it's an incredible physical performance, one parked on the line between mannered and self aware. She blinks wrong, and not the usual 'unblinking alien' way but at strange times and in patterns.

I wish there were 3D print shops in the UK where you could just go in and be like, I found this thing online, I do not know how to 3D print or modify a design nor do I own a 3D printer; I want it in these materials for a space with these measurements, please make me the thing, here are some moneys

The word ‘titterpig’ is a colloquial adjective for movement that denotes something rolling sideways — ‘the wine bottle rolled titterpig across the porch, and I just barely avoided stepping on it with my arms full of groceries.’

Oh Ouch McOuch

McSweeney's@mcsweeneys.net · 4w ago

Deep Purple – The color of your spider veins. Blur – Your twenties and thirties. The Smiths – What you call the three couples you socialize with whose names you can’t remember. buff.ly/YcztvTe

I grew up for most of my life playing games where the main character was a dude and I was still able to identify with the player character so like......... skill issue, I guess. Get better at using your imagination bro. Dare I say get good at using your noodle dude

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 4w ago

Actual adult people who work in the mainstream press talk to this guy and take him seriously. He's a white supremacist, yes, but he's also just a premium sexless dork.

The Crow, The Saint, Mortal Kombat, Hackers, Spawn, Reality Bites -- hell, the f'in Batman Forever ost gave us Kiss From a Rose

Mysterious Z (DATE OF BIRTH AUGUST 2ND)@mysteriousz.bsky.social · 4w ago

90s/Early 2000s Movie Soundtracks are funny to me because the thing can either be mid, okay, or completely batshit, but then you have the music that's like the best thing you've ever heard

"sex doesn't belong in YA books" Listen, I learned more about birth control, menstruation, and how to get and give consent to different acts from Tamora Pierce books than I did from my school. There's a huge difference between smut and showing teens what healthy sexuality is.

I am obsessed with this finalist in this year's Michigan “I voted” sticker design contest

There's rarely "a good time" for time off in the games industry, so you can't wait for that. Take time when it's best for you, plan ahead, and get support from your colleagues.

Anna Megill@annamegill.com · 4mo ago

It's amazing what even a week off work can do for your mental well-being. Even if you love your job, as I do, it's good to take a break and get some distance. Use your PTO if you've got it, folks

“Your generation’s upcoming battle won’t be humans against AI; that’s at least two months away… It’s going to be people with substance versus people with shallow knowledge. It’s going to be mastery versus faking it. [1/2]

In hell there's always a mystery hair caught in the hinge of your glasses

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The Obama Foundation@obamafoundation.bsky.social · 5mo ago

📸🍿💫 Tickets to the Obama Presidential Center available May 6.

We've reached the level of GenAI saturation where a perfectly pleasant colleague spent 30 minutes inadvertently (I hope) telling me (a lead writer) how my role is essentially redundant now thanks to LLMs.

Never forget that time Sam Neill gave a quote about murder that was so beautifully kabonkers, we all assumed it was a Clickhole bit initially

Any mention of target shooting in France reminds me of the time when I was about 13 and already a pretty good shot (10m air rifle mainly). We were on holiday in Brittany and went to a country fair where there was a .22 rifle shooting gallery. Other teenagers were having a go, so I paid 10 francs-

I'm not a liar. I have an English degree. I'm an unreliable narrator.

You must learn to hate the aristocracy as much as it hates you. It changes shape, tosses aside old husks like "divine right of kings" and "bloodlines" and slides right into slick new shells like "meritocracy".

Gregory A. Hargreaves@bordergroves.bsky.social · 6mo ago

American decline is due, in large part, to the persistent efforts by rich people to ensure that their own progeny retain wealth and power no matter how stupid and lazy they are.

Oh, this is good. Idaho passed a bill banning local cities from flying the Pride flag. So the cities decided to wrap the poles themselves in pride colors. This is amazing.