Dan Williams 🌮
@videospacegames.bsky.social
Video games, 3d printing, and politics. Big boss of Active Up Games. Boston inhabitant. Lowkey hypebeast. Made the award winning critically acclaimed blockbuster engineering puzzle game Pictassembler. He/him.
"saudi arabia owns EA" is going to be the headline you see basically everywhere for this one but "jared kushner is about to use EA as a vehicle for trump administration bribes" is equally relevant imo
EA Announces Completion of Acquisition by PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners www.ea.com/news/ea-anno...
It's finally official. If you're an EA employee who wants to share your thoughts on the company's new owners, please do reach out. Happy to chat confidentially. DMs open. Email in bio. Signal (kerrblimey.43). Also happy to answer any questions *you* might have about speaking to press.
EA is now owned by Saudi Arabia and Donald Trump's son-in-law
The U.S. publisher has been taken private in a deal worth $55 billion.
gamedeveloper.com
I feel like the show Murderville had a way better premise than the show executed on. Someone should attempt it but better.
seems promising unsurprisingly the premise there seems to immediately be bringing in a certain sort of people (by which I mean rad as hell) and/or repelling others (people who are not as rad)
I really hope this takes off. There needs to be a creative storefront marketplace that actually bans genai and drop shipping, and I hope it's a 100% ban. Etsy is completely ruined and not artist friendly. Much luck to Fybe! fybe.art
The fact that this is labeled adult content feels like we've fallen through the hourglass.
"Prudery is the enemy of art" - Soviet poster, 1980s
I love this, and it makes sense. To my knowledge, nobody else is compiling this data, so this would be great to send it to "non-gamers" who do NYT etc every day.
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🔴🟡🔵 BIG WALK 🔴🟡🔵 Out now on Steam, Nintendo Switch 2, and PlayStation 5. Hooray!
MORE CASES DROPPED: Prosecutors are now dropping charges against three more defendants who'd been accused of vandalizing the Reflecting Pool. Jeanine Pirro abruptly abandoned the four cases after investigators concluded that botched work by a contractor was the primary cause of "widespread damage."
Prosecutor in D.C. Moves to Dismiss More Reflecting Pool Cases
After revelations that a botched renovation, not vandalism, had caused the pool’s recent problems, the U.S. attorney’s office has dropped several prosecutions.
nytimes.com
chat can anyone verify that every single Flock camera has about 2-3 Ibs of copper and about 1-2 grams of gold
happy Election Day too those who celebrate!
Tuesday is big. Besides #MISen: —Missouri measures on direct democracy & income tax —Fate of Kansas supreme court —Left/center rifts in Seattle, Ann Arbor, & more —GOP rifts in Missouri —Challenge to Thanedar & comebacks of Sawant, Cori Bush, Bill Eigel —More! Explore: boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...
ko-fi.com/dreamingnoct... Morning! so, I need to pay my phone billl and in all honesty...I kinda wanna try and rent a car for the first few days of my new job, so there's little chance of me being late. Hence upping my goal. Please help a girl succeed at her new endeavor! Thanks!
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My backlog of games watching me fill a cart during a Steam sale
Bluesky is a "liberal bubble" because fascist chuds can't get traction without algorithmic assistance and because people here trained themselves to block "debate me" trybois the instant they roll up
Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
ABC has picked it up now. "Capital One says it closed hundreds of Trump's bank accounts in 2021 'for anti-money laundering reasons'"
Capital One says it closed hundreds of Trump's bank accounts in 2021 'for anti-money laundering reasons'
Capital One says it closed hundreds of accounts associated with President Trump and his businesses in 2021 "for anti-money laundering reasons," according to a filing.
abcnews.com
In response to the unprecedented number of game developers laid off this year, we have created a bundle on itch to benefit a Game Industry Hardship Fund, managed by @videogameworkers.bsky.social. More than 100 games for 10+ bucks! Please share widely and donate generously! itch.io/b/3802/game-...
BIG NEWS: It's AuGuest! To celebrate, we're posting every main feed episode this month for free on YouTube. Isn't that insane??? Why would anyone do that?!? What's even crazier is we're kicking the whole thing off with the one and only @kevinbartelt.bsky.social! New Ep: youtu.be/hZa2Z-mCiiU
Episode 470: Welcome To The Future Of The Baseball Hat with Chef Kevin Bartelt
YouTube video by Your Kickstarter Sucks
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WISHLIST WISHLIST WISHLIST WISHLIST WISHLIST (look, it's Monday: we have all sorts of work to be doing getting this game finished; please cut us some slack on our sub-par messaging just this once. <3 )
You heard right, we’re announcing N PLUS INFINITY TIMES TWO! Wishlist it on Steam now: store.steampowered.com/app/3040020/...
Just added some bonus levels to Spin the Squid! It's also available on BBS now 🦑 spratt.itch.io/spin-the-squid
Picked up Pokopia and the guy at the store said "this game... it's doing a lottttt of hours. Doing a lot of hours on me." I think he meant to say two separate things but then treated it like a real saying so he didn't look dumb, and now it is doing a lot of hours on me too
Companies creating or using AI-generated content have to label it clearly for users to know, as part of an EU guideline implemented on Sunday. #EuropeNews
AI-generated label becomes mandatory in the EU
Companies creating or using AI-generated content have to label it clearly for users to know, as part of an EU guideline implemented on Sunday.
l.euronews.com
They have made an enemy for life in me
The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.
wow, did you know every server in a data center has a catalytic converter in it?
this guy gets it
Found the one thing more indicative of a need for medical intervention than single letter stickers
i've been sent this photo of an RV in south minneapolis supporting john nagel, a republican challenging ilhan omar in cd5... somehow they managed to do the loop on the J in "john" wrong and then just added it on the correct side. MN GOP!