"a Swiss hacker whose online identity is maia arson crimew" i guess so wapo, my mom does also call me that tho as it is simply my name. also i feel like hacker is a bit reductive in a story where i did 0 hacking, but did over a hundred hours of journalistic source and data work.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 17h ago

An activist group published a searchable database of more than 41,000 DHS employees and contractors, exposing the identities and contact information for immigration officers, border agents and undercover investigators, according to documents posted online.

If the Indie Nintendo Direct showed us anything, it's that there are some amazing artist teams out there making some really cool art for games. I think every third game I was like super impressed at the stylish take the devs took. Nice work ya'll!

Dan Mumford's MTG land art is incredible. I completely missed Duskmourn because I was on my 13th retirement from playing Magic, but these lands are amazing I might have to pick these up

Pokemon Unite shutting down is a real shame, I'm not a lane based game player for the most part but I found Unite a lot of fun. Smashing players as Snorlax, getting cool outfits for him, I guess it's on to Champions now

The people behind D&D and Magic's Studio X are the reason our games are so special. Leon is fighting AI mandates, and our union is rallying with them! Sign our petition and tell the world that GenAI has no place in our industry. actionnetwork.org/forms/uwotcp...

I don't know what's going on, but I'm playing more browser games then ever before, here's a few: www.hankgreen.com/fourbythree/... globle-game.com/game originle.io krillion.io farflung.game two-minute-drill.com

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Help, my cat keeps doing things like this:

If you want to know why the US education system is borked, I'm currently on hour 6 of an all day workshop where we go through several long powerpoint lectures designed to update our understanding of educational techniques without actually, you know employing those techniques to teach us.

I was three years out of high school when Tropico was released, working at a local Walmart in the electronics dept. City builders have been my genre since SimCity so when i read the back of the box Tropico looked right up my alley.

When EA bought Maxis and ruined SimCity I was unreasonably angry, closing Bioware is INFURIATING. Corporations have demonstrated nothing but cruel, lazy incompetence when dealing with the games industry. Maybe we can't seize every means of production in all industries, but it should start here.

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Diminish an anime argument on titan

Alex Jaffe, DC Comics Expert@alexjaffe.bsky.social · last wk.

Diminish an anime piece of eight

Of course Chet puts this much better than me, but yes all of this exactly:

Chet Faliszek@chetsucks.com · last wk.

Next Fest is really demonstrating the curse of the idea guy. Anyone can have an idea or steal one, but to make it good means living with it, working it, exploring it and finding what makes it work and is special. Or you can just have Claude shit out slop no one wants to play. Valve always needs

Well, I didn't get into the Dawn of War 4 beta. It's cool. I've got 1500 hours played combined on Steam over every DoW and expansion, but it's cool. Been playing RTSs since Command and Conquer. I'm fine. It's fine. Have fun, I'm sure it's spectacular. 😆

I am a very critical person, and I try to rein it in as much as possible to be kind particularly when talking about new/young game designers, but I think I'm done with Steam Next Fest. When I ran an indie game review website the amount of games we had submitted to us was overwhelming, now? Insane

My favorite argument so far for AI in games is "it will let everyone make the games of our dreams". You have no idea what you want to play, I guarantee you. Unless it's some knockoff "more of this" version of an already existing game. Pro game designers barely know how to make something fun.

I have discovered that my cat absolutely hates me being on the phone, it's appalled at the very idea that my hands could be doing anything else other than petting her lol

Well I have a cat now. She's 9 weeks old. I have no idea what I'm doing.

Kenney Shape is now FREE! (and it'll remain free, forever) ✨ Previously a paid tool, I'm releasing it as a gift to the community. Today's update will be the final one, with no further updates planned. That way I can focus on new software & projects! kenney.itch.io/kenney-shape

"Programming is hard." I don't want to be that person, but we used to be a place where the people that built our buildings would free walk steel beams 100 feet in the air. Now we have "Programming is hard." Lol

Hey, I'm playing a game called Savvy 👀 You should check it out! It's by the dude that hosted HQTrivia back in the day, live twice a day and the game is like wordle plus connections! App Store: apps.apple.com/us/app/savvy... Google Play: play.google.com/store/apps/d...

Did ya'll perhaps miss one? Something small...hmmmm...lol I think if you're gonna write about games, learning the history could only help?

There are 237 posts in the Skeleton Code Machine archive. All for free. Nothing paywalled. Enjoy! Make weird games! www.skeletoncodemachine.com

I've been Wastelanding for months now lol

Muskrat 8647@muskratjohn.bsky.social · 3w ago

Gourd-fucking-DAMMIT.

Jesus, that Eagles game oof

I think what a city builder like City Skylines needs is to sell people on the living aspect of the city. The buildings should reflect choices made by the player, there should be news about what's happening in the city based on what buildings exist. The result of what I do should be more than numbers

🔵 Margaret Hamilton 1936 — 2026

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 3w ago

Margaret Hamilton, who led the 100-person team that wrote the onboard software for the Apollo missions, has died.

Whelp AI seems to be infecting everything. Thanks for the double check ya'll, glad I'm part of a smart community who realizes how garbage AI is! Appreciate ya'll!

Heck ya!

United Wizards of the Coast - CWA@uwotc-official.bsky.social · 3w ago

This morning, the D&D team and Magic's Studio X informed our leadership of our intent to unionize. We love the games we make and the work we do, and unionizing is how we protect that work. unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/dnd-stu...

Our librarian is so good, look at this lineup: