i was once too broke to move from one apartment in a building down the hall to another post-breakup. moving isnβt cheap or particularly fun &, by and large, trans people arenβt doing great economically. 401,000 trans people fleeing their governments should be considered a fucking national emergency.
Itβs -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing
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Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand
In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.
Le Monde has a long article describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.
Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.
He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.
That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:
- punishing a European citizen
- for doing his job in Europe
- applying laws Europe officially supports
- at an institution based in Europe
- that Europe helped create and fund
and Europe is not only doing essentially nothing to protect him, they're actively enforcing America's sanctions against their own citizen - European banks closing his accounts, European companies refusing him service, European institutions standing by while Washington destroys a European judge's life on European soil.
Again, in a normal world, European leaders and citizens should be absolutely outraged about this. But we've so normalized the hollowing out of European sovereignty that the sight of a European citizen being economically executed on European soil for upholding European law is treated, at best, as an unfortunate technical complication in transatlantic
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Social media screenshot: Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe. Le Monde has a long article describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza. Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction. He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands. That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are: - punishing a European citizen - for doing his job in Europe - applying laws Europe officially supports - at an institution based in Europe - that Europe helped create and fund and Europe is not only doing essentially nothing to protect him, they're actively enforcing America's sanctions against their own citizen - European banks closing his accounts, European companies refusing him service, European institutions standing by while Washington destroys a European judge's life on European soil. Again, in a normal world, European leaders and citizens should be absolutely outraged about this. But we've so normalized the hollowing out of European sovereignty that the sight of a European citizen being economically executed on European soil for upholding European law is treated, at best, as an unfortunate technical complication in transatlantic [further text missing]
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Blender is struggling. it's the best piece of 3d software on the market, and it's free. I'm not going back to autodesk.
please donate if you can!
fund.blender.org
PMG's video thumbnail for the most recent investigation, showing an illustrated representation of Christa Sydney slapping her own face.
What we found was one of the very worst examples of workplace abuse in the history of this industry. That may sound hyperbolic. I really don't think it is.
Here's our investigation:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RR9H...
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Wish you could edit Godot scenes in context of a bigger scene, like in Unity? I scripted a plugin which hijacks your viewports to do exactly that. You just gotta hit save though π€·. Grab it here:
github.com/CozyCubeGame...
#GodotEngine #gamedev
Looks like the kind of thing that could become a core feature.
Low-poly + Gradient textures, or High-poly to low-poly + PBR textures?
I found the latter funnier to do, but the former is faster to do. A bit of a conemdrum as a solo dev!
What would you go for as an indie?
#Godot #GodotEngine
Godot's shader reference is ok but it's kind of intermixed with tutorials, code & notes. I was constantly scrolling up/down and found it a bit uncomfy. So I made an interactive reference with some combiners and filters to only show what you need...
#gamedev #godot #indiegamedev #indiedev #shaders
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I'm putting together a Canada game dev starter pack in response to this idiotic tariff war so people can support Canada-based game devs through follows / purchases if they choose to.
Reply if you're a game dev in Canada and you want to be on it. Please repost. Thanks!
Anybody positing that the problem with the games industry is that devs are too expensive is gonna get an instant block. For the cost of one EA CEO you could afford 213 devs making $120k apiece.
Read the room, my dudes; a LOT of very skilled people are out of work right now. Profits are trickling up
There's a petition to ban conversion practices (targeting LGBTQIA+ people) in the European Union. We need one million signatures, and we currently have 180,000+. If you live in Europe (even if you don't), spread the word ! ππ₯β
eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...
starting to think it might be bad that the industry at large is producing only two types of games: load-bearing AAAAAs with 5-10 year development cycles that need to make a billion dollars to not be seen as a failure, and predatory dark-pattern live games thatβ¦also need to make a billion dollars
love those attack animations. <3
[Development] Diary Entry 3:
π°πππππ πππππ ππ πππ [πππππ πππππ]:
In chapter [0], the [first draft] will use the [shape] beside him to unleash an array of varying attacks within a single combo.
The [shape] can form any idea that he wills to attack with...
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Urgent trans and nonbinary update: I called a passport office and got a sympathetic rep who told me officially any information about gender markers is posted online. Unofficially, they *literally whispered,* they have heard the same rumors about passports being confiscated.
Creativity is like a houseplant, not an endless well. You need to seek out sunlight, water, and nutrients in art, shows, music, experiences, and more to tend to it. And just like plants it has its dormant and active periods and you may not seem improvement for some time.
Soo good. This took me off guard.
Godot 4.4 beta 1 is finally here! This release had tons of editor quality of life features as well as performance improvements, we know you are going to love it. Oh, and I almost forgot to mention, we added embedded game debugging inside the editor! #godotengine
godotengine.org/article/dev-...
A shutdown feels like turning off all the lights during a storm. Itβs my way of protecting myself when the world becomes too much.
I canβt speak, think clearly, or react as I usually would. My body and mind simply disconnect, as if saying, βThis is as far as we can go for now.β Itβs a forced pause because pushing through would be unbearable.
From the outside, it might seem like Iβm distant or indifferent, but the truth is, Iβm fighting internally to regain balance. The energy I usually use to process everything around me runs out, and all I can do is block out the outside world and focus on calming myself.
What a shutdown feels like.
A shutdown is a response to sensory or emotional overload. Similar to a meltdown, but in this case, the person withdraws, reduces interaction, or stops responding as a self-protection mechanism.
not GDC 2024 logo, but with 4 crossed out and replaced with a 5
#notGDC will be back again for 2025! π
What do you want to see from a free, online, community-run conference?
We are hiring moar people!! For our upcoming game Project Ocean we are looking for another SENIOR LEVEL DESIGNER and a SENIOR GAMEPLAY PROGRAMMER, Go Go Go! :D
Remote, freelance, maximum flexibility! www.jo-mei.com/jobs
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Personally I love myself the ps4 controller with steam input or ds4 windows. Second pick would be the Nintendo switch pro controller.
The fantastic game jam @ludumdare.com is sadly not running any events in 2025 as host Mike Kasprzak is struggling financially.
While Mike isn't specifically asking for donations, he does have a Patreon which helps cover the jam's expenses.
Perhaps we can help? www.patreon.com/c/mikekasprz...
π Happy #WishlistWednesday to everyone!
π Steam Wishlists are crucial for indie developers!
β€οΈ Share your game with our community!
π Repost this thread to reach more devs and players!
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big rat steals things in the co-op kaiju horror cooking game now
youβre welcome
This 2025 stop calling yourself a "content creator"
You're an artist, graphic designer, a video editor, an entertainer, musician, a streamer, a cook, a craftsman, an animator, a storyteller, a writer, a painter, a woodworker, a tailor...
You are not a faceless "content" machine.
After about 30hrs of work, I just finished a new move: a Trajectory-Based Wall-Jump! I finally got the endpoint to react to collisions without glitches, which I'm super happy about. I'm considering making a tutorial on this since there arenβt many on trajectory lines in Godot yet. #gamedev #Godot
Now you can block attacks just like in smash bros.
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