been getting back into reading and pokemon cards lately :)

every few months, i log back onto here to be like "so things don't seem to be getting any better huh?"

Still alive, not really making games anymore. Barring being asked to return to/join projects by former co-workers, I'm done with video games. I was an accountant for a few months so I'll probably just continue doing that until I get sick of it.

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TrappedSnake@trappedsnake.bsky.social · last yr.

#wolqotd Favorite FF14 jobs from each roles as the player?

#ffxiv #ffxivart

Let's Keep Calling!

Thankfully Canada follows the same rules as the United States (i.e. both chambers have to pass identical bills) so we're not up the proverbial creek YET, but the sooner we let them know we're Absolutely Incandescent about all this, the sooner they'll start reconsidering: sencanada.ca/en/senators/

Senators

Senators

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Relevant Ferret If Known@rewhan.bsky.social · last yr.

Hey Fellow 🇨🇦 Miscreants The Senate's trying to slip Bill S-209 through on the down-low, and it's basically a photostatic copy of the UK's Online Safety Act except worse because they're making your ISP do it (Telus, Rogers, et al) Time to start raising hell on our own soil now.

just who is kaname date anyway #finart #aitsf #aitsfspoilers

Happy two year anniversary to this awesome game! 🥳 #bg3 #baldursgate3

🆙 We've passed $27,000 for queer artists. Get 600 games and more for $60 (or $10+): itch.io/b/3062/

✨ It's finally time. The fifth Queer Games Bundle is live now. For $60 (or $10+), get over 600 games, TTRPGs, zines, and more. Support over 300 queer artists for their survival and future art. itch.io/b/3062/

We've posted an addendum FAQ to our original blog post about NSFW content. You can read it here: itch.io/updates/upda... Thank you for your patience as we navigate through this. We're upset too. We're doing what we can but there are still many unknowns at this point.

🐉 🦴 #ffxiv

“Please send us emails instead” means “we can put key words from your script on our corporate spam filter and ignore you, but calls shut down our entire contact infrastructure” Keep fucking calling.

Ruby Kobold ΔΘ 🌹@fluffyscales.bsky.social · last yr.

LMAO I called Visa’s customer support service - the guy on the other line was like “are you ALSO calling about the video game payment processing? Please send us emails instead.” Keep up the calls, folks, we’re definitely gumming up their works

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Somehow, ValiDate was not unlisted on Itch despite all of our tags. fuck censorship, you can pick up a copy for FREE until the 31st enjoy ;) validategame.itch.io/validate-str...

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Anyway, time to call and email Visa and Mastercard. I suggest you all do the same. Additionally, sign this petition from the ACLU. Info on contacting Visa/Mastercard: bsky.app/profile/iant... ACLU Petition: action.aclu.org/petition/mas...

Mastercard: Sex Work is Work. End Your Unjust Policy.

Mastercard's new policy unfairly targets the adult content industry, making sex workers more vulnerable, especially Black trans women. It must be stopped.

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Iantos@iantos.bsky.social · last yr.

Maybe we could find out. Mastercard (US): 1-800-627-8372 Mastercard (Int.): +1-636-722-7111 Visa (US + Can): 1 800 847 2911 Visa (AUS): 1 800 125 440 PayPal: +44-0203-901-7000

Take the energy that's making you want to scream at Itch and instead direct it at Mastercard, Visa, Paypal, Stripe, and, again, the relatively-small collection of Australian Nazis whose values are for some reason reflected in the people who control all of our money

It very literally does not make any sense to be mad at the single-digit team of people who run Itch over this. They would very much like to be able to let people sell transgressive smut, as evidenced by the fact that they allowed people to sell transgressive smut until fascists tattled to Mastercard

itch.io@itch.io · last yr.

itch.io/updates/upda...

I wrote this column and I'll just say that the original headline was much meaner. The piece itself, though, is still very angry and very mean, I assure you.

I’m Starting To Worry This Industry Has No Respect For The People Who Work In It

Once your stock options were fully vested, did you sell off all the shares in your humanity?

thegamer.com

as a queer person making art i know all too well the ways in which the knife positions itself to come for us all, but man its tiring to see sex workers and pornographers treated exclusively like a kind of unfortunate canary

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At this point it just really doesn't matter anymore how well or badly a game sells. If management feels that number could go up faster by axing 300 jobs that's what they'll do. There's always more profit to be made. It'll never be enough. Absolute fucking bullshit. www.eurogamer.net/studio-behin...

Studio behind Oblivion Remastered, one of 2025's biggest hits, subject to mass layoffs

Virtuos has reportedly been impacted by layoffs, affecting seven percent of staff.

eurogamer.net

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