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Trying to Build a Better Game Industry Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated and Opinions are regrettably my own.

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Reading the CEO comments in this: The Arc Raiders team can eat my ass. Never buying their shit again.

Like with Hotel Barcelona, E33, and so many others, they got fucking caught and they're trying to backtrack and say "I'm sowwy. I didn't *KNOW* the stove was hot πŸ₯Ί"

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Media outlets bend over backwards to be like, β€œPolitician Uses Charged Language That Critics Say Is Potentially Racially Insensitive” and then that politician will post, β€œNAH I LOVE RACISM!!!”

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A banner that reads "Game Workers Conference" in white text on a pink and blue background, alongside the ball and threads logo.

A banner that reads "Game Workers Conference" in white text on a pink and blue background, alongside the ball and threads logo.

Do you work in games? Are you tired of corporate greed taking over our industry? Do you miss when industry events were by workers, for workers?

The United Videogame Workers of CWA, in partnership with other unions and worker-centered organizations, announce the #GameWorkersConference. May 22-23 ❀️‍πŸ”₯

11.03.2026 20:53 πŸ‘ 553 πŸ” 301 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 8

Man.

The world fucking is on fire.

So go be as corny and cringe as you wanna be without hurting people.

Live whats left of your only life.

If you can’t be free in your body at least go be free in your mind and soul.

Fuck the haters.

10.03.2026 00:42 πŸ‘ 4100 πŸ” 1395 πŸ’¬ 17 πŸ“Œ 20

Between the cost of gas increasing and the price of V-Bucks going up - it’s like someone is actually trying to start a riot.

11.03.2026 20:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Never stop bullying AI weirdos

11.03.2026 19:05 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

10.03.2026 21:30 πŸ‘ 25510 πŸ” 6929 πŸ’¬ 224 πŸ“Œ 428

I started this game with my kiddo tonight, and it really is something special.

We’re having a blast jumping and swinging around, but the story has him completely hooked.

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UVW-CWA members are forming unions at their own studios to make better games and to build a better industry.

Solidarity to the Heart Machine devs - if you’re interested in organizing, this is your sign! Reach out to us either in our DMs or at GDC this week πŸ’ͺ

09.03.2026 13:30 πŸ‘ 152 πŸ” 44 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Me yelling this at my phone as I hear my kid start coming down the stairs

08.03.2026 13:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
The chart asks "what type of gamer are you"?
New school : Highguard
Old school: Concord 
Retro: LawBreakers
Ancient: Evolve
Pre Historic: Battleborn

The chart asks "what type of gamer are you"? New school : Highguard Old school: Concord Retro: LawBreakers Ancient: Evolve Pre Historic: Battleborn

07.03.2026 20:55 πŸ‘ 4191 πŸ” 1263 πŸ’¬ 203 πŸ“Œ 128

My new favorite holiday

06.03.2026 14:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is why I left grad school.

06.03.2026 02:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Telling you that FFVI was an alternate would only be a half truth, because I was super debating throwing FFII there too.

06.03.2026 01:43 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

There’s a through-line here; which is basically a codex to a lot of how my brain ticks.

Anyways - DAII really is the best one and all y’all are haters for saying otherwise.

06.03.2026 01:15 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Bernie Sander’s 2028 litmus test would strangle America’s golden goose

Bernie Sander’s 2028 litmus test would strangle America’s golden goose

Surprise! The Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post is against my 5% billionaire wealth tax. I wonder why?

If enacted, Bezos would owe $12 billion in taxes, and an average family of 4 would receive a $12,000 direct payment.

Poor Jeff would be left with just $224 billion to survive.

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lmao

damn I was on fire when I wrote this

www.avclub.com/animal-cross...

01.03.2026 14:37 πŸ‘ 133 πŸ” 29 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Felt this in my bones

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literally can we stop pretending keighley has a positive impact on this industry at all

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Also when you clearly state, as he did in his tweet, "We had no interest in replacing *any* developers with AI," while having AI do writing and character voices, that means you do not think writers and VAs are game developers.

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Burnout 3 is underrated as one of the very, very best games of all time because you could show Burnout 3 footage to the 2nd century warlord poet Cao Cao and his reaction would still be "hell yeah, this rules, and they write a book about me too? I wanna play this right now."

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Burnout 3 is underrated as one of the very, very best games of all time because you could show Burnout 3 footage to the 2nd century warlord poet Cao Cao and his reaction would still be "hell yeah, this rules, and they write a book about me too? I wanna play this right now."

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New autistic acquaintances in dangerous game of oversharing chicken A pair of newly introduced autistic acquaintances have entered a perilous standoff over who will be the first to reveal they’re actually a little freak, it has been rumoured.Β  Ever since they met in…

A pair of newly introduced autistic acquaintances have entered a perilous standoff over who will be the first to reveal they’re actually a little freak, it has been rumoured.

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ICE announced they’re going to spend more than $38 billion to detain thousands of more people.

With that amount of money, we could end homelessness, extend the Affordable Care Act subsidies, or provide school lunches to every kid in America.

This is totally unacceptable.

18.02.2026 00:16 πŸ‘ 683 πŸ” 281 πŸ’¬ 32 πŸ“Œ 22

This. It would be really, really great if Democrats would start *consistently* calling out the way that the media is led around like f'ing children by the right-wing hate machine.

Don't just accept the frame. Call out the frame. Force viewers to confront the frame. It's so f'ing basic.

13.02.2026 21:53 πŸ‘ 1378 πŸ” 370 πŸ’¬ 18 πŸ“Œ 3
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Rev. Jesse Jackson's "I *am* somebody..." remains one of the all-time great pieces of 20th century rhetoric / agitprop

And he could deliver it at a Black separatist meeting, the Democratic National Convention, or on god-blessed Sesame Street (see below πŸ₯Ή)

RIP to the Voice of the Voiceless

17.02.2026 11:29 πŸ‘ 4405 πŸ” 1781 πŸ’¬ 36 πŸ“Œ 104

Truly the most stupid timeline. At a point in time where renewable energy has tipped into genuine widespread viability, capital invents whole new ways to fabricate waste and scarcity.

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