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I think going full MAGA could have been a successful business strategy but hey it’s not retreating, it’s advancing in the opposite direction.

So this past weekend, I interviewed the Splitgate 2 director, during which he said he stood by the decision to wear the hat and declined to apologize. Then, ten minutes after I submitted the story to my editor, he apologized. So uh! Here's this! www.ign.com/articles/spl...

1047 Games CEO posted an apology on Twitter for his "Make FPS Great Again" hat. "I hate seeing division—on both sides. There's division in the community. For that I am truly sorry. I do stand by the intent of this which the intent truly is...we do want to improve this genre." x.com/Splitgate/st...

Reading Karen Hao's Empire of AI, and I really wish more people understood the degree to which AGI boosters are desperately trying to get everyone to believe in a technology that does not now and might not ever exist

History books will be like, “LA had fires in winter and ICE in summer.”

Nintendo just announced a Splatoon spinoff called Splatoon Raiders via the Nintendo Today app. Wild stuff.

Yes!!!! Congrats to SAG-AFTRA!!!!

FUCK YOU I SCREAM WALKING BACKWARDS INTO HELL

Nothing like yelling about how much a place *isn't* cool to make it cooler in the eyes of its users and would-be users.

Well I think this is official confirmation that Bluesky has the Juice

And a not-for-profit named Dot

Clair Obscur has revealed I am an absolute sicko who burns four hours on a side boss not for the loot but the sheer *principle* of it.

the trump movement has inculcated a genuinely rotten contempt for life in our collective political life and the real challenge will be extirpating it in favor of life-affirming solidarity youtu.be/Em6hb2Mg0XA?...

Turning 35 today. Best birthday gift so far—hosting a joint birthday party with @carlivelocci.com in our new house. 🥰🥰🥰

CCGs, a genre where people famously *don’t* care about the quality of the card art.

and of course, aside from the other issues, this would cost a tremendous amount of money that the university would funnel to a corporation rather than investing in faculty to actually, you know, teach.

Yoooo @nathangrayson.bsky.social

Not touching the solo dev discourse outside of snarky comments during the show but do want to ask when did we decide '30 devs' was a *small* team??? Napkin math, 30 dev core team for 3 years => $10-15M budget depending on location, excluding any O/S spend or marketing

It also *conveniently* avoids looking at the real problem with video games at the moment. There is *so* much bureaucracy and middle-management based BS that hampers creativity and greatly lengthens development times. That isn't going to go away with less devs.

“Come on guuuysssss please stop yelling at me.”

It’s incredibly noticeable how often ‘and an army of outsourcers outside America and Western Europe’ is left out of these team sizes. That’s the part I find real uncomfortable.

This year's Summer Games Fest presentation was really concerned with how few people made a lot of those games, huh? It feels kinda fucked up. Not just because they're often misrepresntating the real size of these teams, but because I think it's playing directly into a new(ish) flavour of dev hate.

This is that “deprofessionalization” shit front and center. Devaluing developer labor so everyone around the studio can profit in some way. Rage-bait content creators, Outsourcers, localization companies, toolmakers, publishers, platforms, investors—they all have a lot to gain!

Also the cherry on top of this shit sundae is the fact that all this was to promote Splitgate 2 adding a battle royale mode, which itself is one of the most tired-ass shooter conventions in recent years

Remembering when I wrote an angry blog about having teabag counter and their PR rep sent me an angry email chewing me out over it.