Kara Stone

@solarserver.games

artist and game designer www.solarserver.games www.karastonesite.com

thinking about my PhD qualifying exams, which were writing three long essays on surprise prompts over in two weeks, and how my profs all said this kind of crunch was a necessary skill for academics. i've been a prof now for 5 years and i've literally never needed to do that again, not even close

I posted my History of Games keynote: - A materialist reexamination of the canonical game crises from a developer's POV - Thoughts on the ongoing game industry restructuring - Indiepocalypse, AAApocalypse, deprofessionalization, games at the knitting stage www.molleindustria.org/HistoryOfGam...

A History of Games Through Mass Extinctions

A transcript of Paolo Pedercini’s History of Games Conference keynote (2026).

molleindustria.org

That helps explain why big media, always the handmaiden of power, works so hard to frame climate concern as some fey, boutique, out-of-touch elite concern. They don't want you to know that other people are concerned too. If you knew that, you might organize & push for change! And so we get this:

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This is what the entire video is intended to couch. It’s the only part that matters. “We can’t afford to restrain the growth of an important part of our energy mix, oil and gas, to meet a short term goal,” Carney said. “Our emissions will be higher in the next few years”

Rachel Gilmore@rachelgilmore.bsky.social · last mo.

If you want to ragebait yourself, watch this. It’s a lot of fear mongering and bullshit to say, effectively, that we’re doing a shock doctrine and we’re abandoning our climate targets. Happy Canada Day Eve, everyone.

Images from the vernissage of Solar Rituals, my solo exhibition at @amazefest.bsky.social People are playing the experimental videogames Ritual of the Moon, Landfill, UnearthU, and Known Mysteries. We closed out the night with two rounds of my TTRPG Time For It On til July 9 in Berlin ☀️ 🌙

Images from the vernissage of Solar Rituals, my solo exhibition at @amazefest.bsky.social People are playing the experimental videogames Ritual of the Moon, Landfill, UnearthU, and Known Mysteries. We closed out the night with two rounds of my TTRPG Time For It On til July 9 in Berlin ☀️ 🌙