Enjoy 127 items by 109 creators and support game devs effected by recent layoffs: itch.io/b/3802/game-...
Kim Acuff Steiner
@emberdione.bsky.social
Chief Creative Officer at Prime8 Entertainment. Principal Level Designer by day. Prev: LBI, Zynga, Blizzard, ATVI, Sega. My views are my own, and entirely absurd. Profile pic by @meggoart <3 She/Her I stream at https://www.twitch.tv/emberdione
THERE ARE EIGHT DAYS LEFT TO BACK THE GAME INDUSTRY HARDSHIP FUND AND GET A LOT (127!!!) OF GAMES WHEN YOU DO do it. do it. do it. do it. do it itch.io/b/3802/game-...
Game industry hardship fund by Necrosoft Games and 109 others
Game industry hardship fund: 127 items for $10.00
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People spending more on AI tokens than it would cost to just hire an assistant that is better at the job will be my villain origin story.
I just want to say, I really appreciate all of you who have offered to pay for things for me and my family in these trying times. People bought me games for my birthday and a couple of others have sent money or cards to help with other things. I hope I can repay the favor one day soon. <3
Is she gonna stop with the racist dog whistles and actually help? Hope so. Time to get to work. 👏🏽
Evan Sutton@evansutton.bsky.social · 5h agoI encourage all of us to have the grace and focus shown in this going up within minutes of the race being called.
Strange Scaffold's first-ever merch drop just went live with @theyetee.com - and there's gonna be more to come! LOOK HOW CUTE THAT PIN IS theyetee.com/collections/...
Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...
Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...
thenerve.news
Corporate PACs are a disease. 60/ 70 million could have been better spent funding schools, helping small businesses, feeding the homeless. Like, it's insane. 70 MILLION dollars to keep establishment Dems in power.
Forbes@forbes.com · 5h agoAbdul El-Sayed, a former public health official, was backed by prominent progressives, including Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.
Thor is ALSO ready for Fall. He dug this toy out of his pile tonight.
I would say I'm gonna boycott EA games but uh... checking the Wikipedia the last EA game I bought was the secret world so uh. I guess I already was.
So my book club read a book back in Feb that was the start of a series. I loved it, so I recommended it to my friends. Who have now both read the whole series. I've still only read the first book (despite buying all of them). It's just funny to me. XD
People who lack experience or skill at playing video games deserve to be able to enjoy them too.
So yesterday I had that awful morning and felt like death. I decided I needed to change the pattern of my day. So I drank an energy drink late and stayed up last night to write. I didn't get much *actual words on papet* done but I did go through my first draft and mark the cut parts.
perfect appetizer for GTA 6 is WILD work
Strange Scaffold@strangescaffold.bsky.social · yesterday"A chaotic riff on Crazy Taxi is the perfect appetizer for GTA 6" - @polygon.com Truck-kun is Supporting Me from Another World is out now on Steam and Xbox Series X|S 🚚💨 Full article here: www.polygon.com/truck-kun-su...
I'm terrible at promoting but... Did you know I write a little serial format horror romcom web novel thing over at ParaPoly.gay? Because I do. Its first early access update goes out on Thursday morning. BookTok would call it high spice. If you wanna support me going to #WorldCon, that's one way.
Paranormal Polycule & Friends
18+ paranormal/urban fantasy horror fiction stories, published at least weekly.
parapoly.gay
Devs raise $130,000 in just five days to support laid-off peers
Devs raise $130,000 in just five days to support laid-off peers
The game industry hardship fund bundle, meant to support game workers during ongoing mass layoffs, is over halfway through its goal of 200,000 USD.
gamedeveloper.com
Every book on my kid's 8th grade reading list was pure misery and death. Every book was heavy and dark and challenging to read. Of course, trying to talk to his teacher, I learned their name was Sinestro (really) and turns out it's WEIRDLY accurate. Anyway, thank goodness for Andrew Rowe.
Kingfisher & Wombat@tkingfisher.com · yesterdayI swear to God, part of the problem of literacy is that we make kids read SO MANY books like this. Of course they’re going to associate reading with misery! We put them in a Skinner box and shock them when they read, what did people THINK would happen?
Happy Trade of Blood day to all who celebrate!
Stella Sacco@antlervel.vet · yesterdayNEW ANA & DIN BOOK RELEASED TODAY YEAH YEAH YEAH
Hey! I can give a few keys of The Abbess Garden (store.steampowered.com/app/3411970/...) if you want to play and don't have the money :) Either by pm for mutuals or contact@mdstudiogames.com 🌸 The game is not expensive, but I know times are tough, and hopefully some time in a garden could help 🌿
The Abbess Garden on Steam
Cozy third-person gardening in 1643 France. As Agnès, restore a forbidden abbey garden, grow and identify real plants through the seasons, uncover a spy plot, help the community, and find queer romanc...
store.steampowered.com
It's the most bizarre thing. Taylor catches strays for tons of shit she doesn't do or tries to do the right way. Then an article hits that she *should* be talked about in (MIDNIGHTS IS INCOMPLETE!) and she's not mentioned. Anyway, give us the GotY edition. The directors cut. The Taylors Versions.
Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social · yesterdayI had no idea that records have the video game problem, where what's pressed to the disc is missing content and fixes that are in the final digital version. Except you can't get a day one patch for vinyl! www.theguardian.com/music/2026/a...
You know what bugs me the *most* about seeing products that clearly were a factory error that just didn't get caught by QA? When I was a kid one of my friend's moms worked at a cannery. Every time something messed up and a bunch of product that was janky got made, they wrote it off and gave -
That said, let us take a moment to thank our Bluesky Trans and Furry Elders for freaking out Jack Dorsey so much he bolted and left us this nice social media playground, taking most of his crypto chuds with him. We thank you for your service.
"Why can't you just appreciate how revolutionary the job-taking, environment-degrading, information-shredding, technology-hoarding, economy-swamping machine is?" My brother in Christ, there may indeed be a revolution in part because of "AI," but it might not be the one you wanted.
Every time I listen to Olivia Rodrigo's "you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love" it makes me want to find my husband and give him kisses. XD She was really cooking with this album.
I think "AI" plumpers should be happy I'm focusing mostly on the nonsense it's doing to my field, rather than how it's very clearly designed as a tool for the capture of wealth and capital by a bunch of accelerationist weirdos enthusiastically huffing their own farts from the depth of their K-holes
The Register@theregister.com · 2d agoSci-fi authors Scalzi and Stross decry AI's dystopian impact on their craft