Hearing friends and family's reactions to Unhinged... My cup is so full 😤❤️🥺
Nat 🃏
@ngedeon.bsky.social
Researcher, game developer, magician. Currently @Netflix.com and @whatnotgames.bsky.social. | Opinions are my own | 🇵🇸🇦🇲 | ENG/한국어/日本語 🆗 | @nogamesforgenocide.com | linktr.ee/ngedeon
Please please PLEASE show support to all of the Iranians in your life right now. Here’s a starter pack of all of the amazing Iranian artists and creatives I know!! bsky.app/starter-pack...
My favorite part of GDC so far is walking into the bathroom and hearing boss music playing
Heading to SF for my first ever GDC! I'm a horrible procrastinator so if folks wanna meet up, my schedule is still mostly open Also, I'm bringing cards so don't be shy and ask for a trick 🐇🪄🔮
I just know that pokopia is gonna consume me and I'm okay with that
THIS IS WHAT IM SAYING FREE YOUR DEFINITION OF WHAT IS COZY NOT EVERYTHING HAS TO BE TRAD WIFE CODED
I love “cozy games” on an individual level but “cozy” used to include replaying resident evil 2 for the 5th time now as a genre it’s starting to feel like it is locking people into aesthetic tradwife boot camp
once again reminding everyone to funnel your emotions into organizing and building solidarity in your community and not pointless doomscrolling
You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism
Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.
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Apologies for leaning on the jokes this morning, but a decade of feeling almost nothing but helpless rage at the news on platforms that ban you at the slightest hint of a provocation sorta teaches one to funnel their emotions into gallows humor posts
One of the most underrated retro cozy games of all time is not story of seasons/harvest moon, not rune factory, not animal crossing, but Majora's Mask. In this essay, I will
SIGN OUR BOYCOTT XBOX PLEDGE: We are asking gamers, game workers, streamers & journalists to join us in boycotting & divesting from Xbox, to force Microsoft to end its complicity in the genocide of Palestinians. We’ve provided concrete actions everyone can take. Sign here: nogamesforgenocide.com
Joseph Gordon-Levitt is supporting The Heritage Foundation's tech policy agenda, boosting a proposed law by Lindsey Graham that would mass deplatform LGBTQ people and censor abortion content from the internet. And he's trying to frame it as progressive!
Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s Capitol Hill Disaster
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"why do you have to post and repost messages about the BDS boycott every time there's a new game announcement or set of trailers" because there's this weird phenomenon of active forgetting that Microsoft is a tech partner of one of the most heinous crimes against humanity happening on earth today
Small, free act you can do to bring some good in this world: add positive reviews to ALL you Steam games, especially the small indies. You don't need to write anything smart, just "game good" is enough. Every positive steam review tips the algorithm and helps your fav artists get more sales
My PSA to businesses in 2026 is to advertise as being anti-genAI and a loyal customer base will follow
There are many ways to help, including giving money directly to people in Gaza, like Khalil who is trying to buy bread for his children bsky.app/profile/khal...
2025 was brutal for games media, but I'm seeing some glimmers of hope as worker-owned sites like @aftermath.site, @rascal.news, and @giantbomb.bsky.social have carved out vital spaces in the games community. Earlier this year, I made a huge Indie Games Media starter pack for y'all. Let's celebrate.
With all the new #gamedev peeps on Bluesky you should check out all these Black Femme Game Developers while you're here!!! go.bsky.app/88aYGTF
If you are leaving Twitter and want to follow some wonderful games User Research and Games UX folks then these two starter packs are super handy! Games User Research: go.bsky.app/D1E7MxP
Drove through downtown yesterday. Can confirm spotted multiple Waymos that actually were causing unsafe driving conditions/traffic because they didn't know what to do
This is your city on driverless cars. A blackout in San Francisco yesterday cut power to traffic lights. Drivers coped; Waymos just stopped moving, often in intersections, stranding passengers and compounding gridlock. sfstandard.com/2025/12/20/w...
please fill out if you're a working artist 🫡 (portfolio submission is to screen out non-professionals and they will send you the study survey after verification) re: concerns about data collection, I know the researchers and have already participated in the survey myself, it's just for verification
My professional artists peers! We got a survey request! Researchers at the University of Carnegie Mellon is doing a research to see how generative Al has (or has not) impacted your work and/or sentiments in the industry. Folks in creative fields only, please consider filling this out 👇