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@acohen

-Quest Designer @ BGS -He/Him ✡️ -Writing a TTRPG called SONDER -(I dont speak for my employers but I do speak for the trees) -Empower people not machines -Previously, Area Design @ Obsidian (Avowed)

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Steve hasnt fired a gun since the 1997 nebraska skeet shot competition, a fact we all know but is worth repeating to emphasize how long it's been since he shot a gun.

09.03.2026 22:24 👍 36 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Another lap around the sun

09.03.2026 04:54 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Rift Fishing demo is a nice change of place. Plenty of work to do but I'm rooting for this one as a successor to Web Fishing.

08.03.2026 21:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My photo shows a museum display with colourful Minoan pottery cups arranged on three clear shelves, one above the other. These cups, known as Kamares Ware, are from Phaistos, Crete. They were made in palace workshops, c. 1800-1700 BC. The cups range in shape and size from conic and cylindrical cups (top and middle shelves) to hemispherical and carinated shaped cups (bottom shelf). They are decorated with multi-coloured geometric motifs; with spirals and swirls painted in red and white pigment on black.

My photo shows a museum display with colourful Minoan pottery cups arranged on three clear shelves, one above the other. These cups, known as Kamares Ware, are from Phaistos, Crete. They were made in palace workshops, c. 1800-1700 BC. The cups range in shape and size from conic and cylindrical cups (top and middle shelves) to hemispherical and carinated shaped cups (bottom shelf). They are decorated with multi-coloured geometric motifs; with spirals and swirls painted in red and white pigment on black.

Sipping my coffee ☕️ and thinking about these marvellous Minoan cups!

They look so modern it’s incredible to think they were made during the Bronze Age some 3,800 years ago!

Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete. 📷 by me

#Archaeology

07.03.2026 12:55 👍 1186 🔁 313 💬 32 📌 24

I can barely afford anything at all but having a 3 day weekend to celebrate my birthday is a nice reprieve from the madness of existence. Gonna get into that Esoteric Ebb.

06.03.2026 21:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A whiteboard leaned against a shelf with many trinkets. On the whiteboard, it says “When you look at a blank page, think of who you love”

A whiteboard leaned against a shelf with many trinkets. On the whiteboard, it says “When you look at a blank page, think of who you love”

In his acceptance speech for award for best screenplay, Ryan Coogler said “when you look at a blank page, think of who you love” and I dunno, that really moved me so I wrote it down and sat it on my desk to look at while I work

23.02.2026 16:02 👍 2669 🔁 707 💬 25 📌 0

the caffeine, ah, so sleepy.

04.03.2026 01:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Waiting for coffee to finish resting is pain.

04.03.2026 01:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

You might say that the purpose of a VS isn't to lay the groundwork for production, but to get funding. I'm not going to fault anyone for razzle dazzling money people to get by, but you're going to pay that debt one way or another in the long run.

03.03.2026 15:51 👍 161 🔁 5 💬 6 📌 1

I really feel like people use the concept to just mean "extremely expensive prototype" now and all that does is confuse the team and send the wrong signals to the people footing the bill.
Being able to build a whole slice shows you where all the time sinks will go in your project's dev cycle.

03.03.2026 23:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Anton Chigurh with altered subtitles: If the VS you developed brought you to this... ... of what use was the VS?

Anton Chigurh with altered subtitles: If the VS you developed brought you to this... ... of what use was the VS?

Re: vertical slices in game dev: I feel like if you make a VS and you don't wind up shipping the content you made in that VS, you didn't actually make a successful VS.

Oh, this is indicative of how you want the game to look and play? Then why didn't you ship it?

03.03.2026 15:51 👍 444 🔁 38 💬 23 📌 1
Marathon

Marathon

To echo everyone else's thoughts, I too wish Marathon was a singleplayer video game
aftermath.site/bungie-maratho...

03.03.2026 21:51 👍 311 🔁 40 💬 18 📌 34

May I interest you in same bit but different nostalgia?

02.03.2026 23:29 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Post Office
Ophir, CO

02.03.2026 15:30 👍 439 🔁 65 💬 1 📌 4

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done

- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy

28.02.2026 14:20 👍 26305 🔁 8897 💬 290 📌 334
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Metacritic has sent a reminder email to all games site editors/publishers which is pretty strong, and great:

26.02.2026 18:03 👍 2466 🔁 628 💬 14 📌 50

Pay for however many newsletters you want, please, give all those writers money

But you can't replace a whole journalism ecosystem with a series of freelancers, you just can't. There also needs to be support for serious papers, magazines, online newsrooms, and nonprofit reporting

27.02.2026 01:26 👍 461 🔁 92 💬 10 📌 11

Even when it is imperfect, there is love in this work.

26.02.2026 00:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Making something for someone and watching their face light up with joy and surprise when they take part in that experience is far more breathtaking than any sunset I will ever see on this space rock.

26.02.2026 00:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

This honestly represents a level of forward planning and asset management / preservation unheard of in 95% of game studios (including mine)

25.02.2026 23:48 👍 139 🔁 12 💬 2 📌 0

it's all just art. "porn" is just art that makes you horny, in precisely the way that "horror" is art that makes you scared and "metroidvania" is art that makes you write video essays

25.02.2026 19:36 👍 22563 🔁 8158 💬 102 📌 68

I have worked in AA, AAA, indie and mobile it’s all the same just people trying to do a job. Plenty of good teams and individuals in all them fields. I don’t get the lines drawn trying to separate it all as it’s all game dev.

24.02.2026 22:17 👍 218 🔁 29 💬 13 📌 2
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Steam Next Fest is here!
And The Mermaid Mask is in it!

Like Ace Attorney, Professor Layton and Monkey Island? Want to try a murder-mystery detective adventure aboard a weird submarine?

Play our new Next Fest Demo, with a new Art Gallery feature:

store.steampowered.com/app/1696770/...

23.02.2026 18:59 👍 304 🔁 105 💬 11 📌 17
still frame from the beginning of Twin Peaks
it is February 24th and Special Agent Dale Cooper arrived in the town of Twin Peaks

still frame from the beginning of Twin Peaks it is February 24th and Special Agent Dale Cooper arrived in the town of Twin Peaks

Good morning

24.02.2026 09:45 👍 3849 🔁 1891 💬 10 📌 60
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They’re calling it The Perfect Design

24.02.2026 13:05 👍 483 🔁 103 💬 6 📌 1
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This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to ...

NEW: A hobbyist has created Nearby Glasses, an app that warns you if someone close by is wearing smart glasses. 404 Media spoke to the creator who said he was inspired by our coverage that uncovers how men are wearing Meta's Ray-Bans to covertly film massage parlor workers.

24.02.2026 15:48 👍 11751 🔁 5043 💬 150 📌 275

I understand why chatbot cheating happens but every time I read about it I want to gently remind everyone that the point of schoolwork is not for the submission to exist. Teachers are not just greedy for more essays or solved equations. The point is to do the work WITH YOUR OWN BRAIN, FOR LEARNING.

24.02.2026 19:37 👍 3713 🔁 864 💬 100 📌 49

Hey.

Tell people when they do good job.

When you like the stuff they make.

When you like the characters they’ve created.

The stories they’ve told.

Nobody hears it as often as you think bc everyone thinks everyone hears it all the time.

Trust. They don’t.

Tell. Them.

24.02.2026 04:49 👍 13385 🔁 6819 💬 54 📌 199
a screenshot of a page from a academic publisher that shows you can log in with an institution or "purchase options: 48 hour access to article PDF $56"

a screenshot of a page from a academic publisher that shows you can log in with an institution or "purchase options: 48 hour access to article PDF $56"

sometimes i forget just how insane the academic publishing + research scene is

$56 for 48 hour access to a PDF of an essay which was provided to the company for free off the back of dozens or hundreds of hours of labor by its writer

forty. eight. hour. access. fifty. six. dollars

come the fuck on

23.02.2026 23:13 👍 28 🔁 7 💬 4 📌 0
A screenshot of a tweet that says: Your art will betray you. It will look better in your head than on paper. It will make you feel untalented some days. Love it anyway. Because one day, it will also surprise you, fulfill you, and remind you why you started.

A screenshot of a tweet that says: Your art will betray you. It will look better in your head than on paper. It will make you feel untalented some days. Love it anyway. Because one day, it will also surprise you, fulfill you, and remind you why you started.

Throwback to something worth repeating.

07.02.2026 16:58 👍 6792 🔁 2571 💬 39 📌 37