molly carroll

same!!

i did really enjoy last year’s doomed train journey in retrospect though

i am going to GDC. on a plane this time! so chances are good that i’ll actually be there 🌝

i made a page 2 because i kept remembering games that exist

i feel like i should’ve swapped Skyrim for Oblivion because Oblivion is funnier and also ruined my grades in high school, but i am too lazy to go back

ok i meant just The Sims but The Sims Online was also a formative experience for me, for better or worse lol

she went noem

Marathon is what I imagine Grimes sees when she closes her eyes.

If you're at the airport and Kristi Noem is doing the ominous little message from the TSA screens, you no longer have to do anything she says. Leave your laptop in the case, whatever.

Not to be THAT feminist, but I knew this was the case before opening the article. Men see fatherhood as an abstract milestone that's a proof of their virility, women see the associated costs.

Not to mention that women not being locked into domesticity is the core of the antifeminist backlash today.

oh damn they making Flash 2

toot toot!!!!

I don't think live games are the problem, honestly. I think the problem is investor and managerial insanity, where the people making those high-level decisions don't understand the business they're in and keep changing their mind about the risk profile of their business plan

one was a writer & artist for Singer and the other was a local newspaper editor, infamous party crasher and alleged arsonist 🙌

Saying this knowing I am the partner of someone in a hotly contested House race and that I don't know what led to this ban...

Free Mr. Pussy.

this paranoid, zero-accountability "we're under attack" narrative has been playing well so far, better keep digging

Folks with prior success are struggling to realize that the game industry has changed completely. It's never going back to how it was. Funding, development, and audiences have all fragmented and that is the "new normal." Only folks who have been scrapping their whole career will weather this change.

hey was anyone else unable to log in for hours on end yesterday for no discernible reason? wonder why

hot tip for other reflexive “sorry”ers who also feel bad when people tell them to stop apologizing so much - swap it for “thank you” instead since people get less weird about thank yous and that’s usually what you actually mean anyway (even if it’s “thank you for not punishing me for existing”)

this is true

ICE under Trump 2.0 built an unprecedented media operation - deploying videographers to raids, pumping out edgy social posts, swiping pop music for hype videos - and the main metric for evaluating its impact shows that Americans now hate ICE more than ever

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...

might start up another thread here for “curated procedural generation can give cover to jokes a human writer might feel are too edgy / on the nose / might otherwise disavow”

shit's fucked i'm reposting the woodpecker

COME ON

The PIGCON: Portland Indie Game Convention logo, depicting a large Cubepig over a city with a bridge. Text also reads "May 30th - 31st, 2026 Norse Hall, Portland, OR"

ANNOUNCING:
PIGCON, the Portland Indie Game Convention
A weekend for indie devs of all kinds to learn, share, and connect
May 30-31 at Norse Hall, Portland, OR
pigcon.pigsquad.com
See you this spring 😉🌟

the games industry has a terminal disease, i fear

Steam community requesting additional body types for added immersion.

A large block of sentient tofu

Steam community: “Can we play as a male character?”

Me (indie dev in this economy):
“Best I can do is sentient tofu.”

Do not look at someone's badge and cut off conversation just because you’ve decided they're not worth speaking to. Each year, at least one person I know tells me this has happened to them and it is angering. A person’s worth is not measured through the companies they work for.

Speaking of juniors: If you see a junior — especially one who is a marginalized person — making a thoughtful attempt at being part of a group, doing all the right things, but nonetheless struggling to fit in? Help them out. Be the person they'll remember for having made them feel comfortable and confident. Juniors are the lifeblood of this industry and we should take care of them as much as we can.

To the good men in the industry: look out for the women around you. Stand up for them if you see them being ogled, hit on, objectified, leered at, etc. Keep an eye on their drinks for them. Especially for men with seniority: introduce the women you enjoy socializing with to other good people who are in the rooms only you have access to. Uplift them in an industry that constantly fails to.

This should go without saying, but do not follow women around unless you know them well and have asked for their permission to tag along. Absolutely do not stalk them. This happens constantly; in fact, it happened to me at my very first conference. This is not okay under any circumstance.

i feel strongly about every point on this list, but i feel particularly strong about these tbh!!

you can only achieve ages 36 and beyond by acquiring a weapon with the Break Age Limit ability

Auron from Final Fantasy X, who is unbelievably 35 years old

next month i’m gonna be Auron years old, which i’ve gathered from Final Fantasy games is the oldest a person can actually get (35)

i had no idea!! it looks wild