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Please read Bitter Root if you enjoyed Sinners. Coogler and Regina King are still adapting it and there are influences in the comic that can be seen in the film.

Ex Novo, our playable city generator, is live on Kickstarter and has already hit its funding goal: www.kickstarter.com/projects/sha... This makes me happy, and so, for the campaign's duration, this thread will be all about examples of the glorious things your settlements can achieve. 🧵

I think about the Ketsui Arrange intro screen *all* the time

For .alt and country

spoke to badru, the indie dev who recently decided to pull a game he considers his "baby" from xbox in solidarity with bds. he told me the team has received such enthusiastic support that they've already made back money lost, and he hopes other indies will follow their lead

badru pulled Tenderfoot Tactics from XBOX in solidarity with BDS movements to boycott Microsoft. However, it IS available for 15 bucks on Steam, and it's a hell of a price for such an interesting game. Class based tactical combat game with an emphasis on exploration boiled down to its essence.

Target Boycott Extended Indefinitely

WO🕐🕙🕕O! Old Skies is OUT. Join ChronoZen agent Fia Quinn on a time-traveling adventure of spanning 200 years! Old Skies is a story of love, loss and legacy. And it is 10% off during the first week! Humble (includes OST)▶️ bit.ly/4cKaLQR Steam▶️ bit.ly/3FYho5Z GOG▶️ bit.ly/4i2fdvk

Heading into the final week of the Kickstarter with just under 15% to go!

every year since i quit being a full-time journalist, i come out of my cave to write about one fantastic video game. last year, it was the transcendent 1000xRESIST. this year, it’s the wonderful Lost Records: Bloom and Rage. www.pastemagazine.com/games/lost-r...

participating in an organized boycott – not a haphazard, individual one – of a company as large as microsoft will always pose complex questions on a long enough timescale. but skipping the oblivion remaster weeks after bds declared microsoft a priority target? easy. a complete no brainer

Joking aside, please support independent devs & buy new games before you buy the 11 billionth remaster of Oblivion. There are some incredible new ones launching this week, including Expedition 33 published by my good friends at @kepler-interactive.bsky.social. store.steampowered.com/app/1903340/...

Heyyy BlueSky. I’m releasing a game tomorrow that’s taken me 4+ years to make and I’m trying to stop myself from vibrating through the floor with anxiety. AMAs still seem to be a thing, so let’s do one to distract me. For the next however long, ASK ME STUFF. I shall answer.

I'm not gonna hammer anyone over the head about this, but I will occasionally reshare this due to our both long- and short-term institutional memory loss. Take care in your work today!

Creepy Redneck Dinosaur Mansion 3 is OUT NOW! - Goofy, sincere, weird as hell matchroidvania action 💎 - Wild metacommentary 👁️ - Horror-polka soundtrack 🎵 - Fight your psychic twin 🧠 - Hork a book 📘 - Only $13.99 at launch 💵 - Support today!!! store.steampowered.com/app/2116510/...

www.bdsmovement.net/microsoft shouldnt be stated, but please dont buy this

Stonemaier Games (and others) are suing the President over tariffs

We cannot let the Wayback Machine get deep-sixed, as it may be the only place we can find some govt docs/sites that this regime alters or "disappears." NPR article: is.gd/BsVRpI Donate: archive.org/donate FAQ: help.archive.org/help/categor... (The Internet Archive is a US 501c3 non-profit org.)

I’m a little confused about why I cannot right now watch the a 12-movie series about the last master of Afro-Colombian machete fencing. That feels like an oversight by someone.

Hard to shake the feeling that a lot of enablers are finally arriving at the "oh shit what did we do" stage of things

I need to raise $40,000 to provide stipends for 20 young people ages 16-24 over the summer so they can participate in an independent study program. If anyone would either want to sponsor a young person ($2000 each) or wants to donate funds in another amount, let me know. Thanks.

This is sure depressing. www.reddit.com/r/boardgames...

The publisher of my two favorite board games in all the world - Greater Than Games, publisher of Spirit Island and of Sentinels of the Multiverse - has just shuttered its doors and laid off all employees, due to tariff costs. There will be many, many, many more.

No, Mr. Trump. We won't allow you to pay for tax breaks to billionaires by eliminating Head Start which provides early education to over 800,000 children and LIHEAP that keeps seniors and families warm in the winter. Your budget proposal is morally obscene. It must be defeated.

Here's Palantir's Louis Mosley, grandson of Britain's most famous fascist leader, talking about the importance of AI, if you aren't convinced yet that this is one big co-ordinated push towards the destruction of everything good in life. www.politicshome.com/news/article...

LWA has several episodes that feel like they're directly critiquing the problematic elements of Harry Potter (like the one where Akko unionizes the house elves). It's also a not-subtle commentary on how creative industries (animation in particular) prey upon the passion of the young and vulnerable.

Folks if you hadn't already ditched Sticker Mule because of the owner's fascism, then this might be another reason [gift link] - www.timesunion.com/business/art...

No, you don't get to be hype about the Oblivion remaster either. www.rockpapershotgun.com/bds-calls-fo...

Full article: www.vice.com/en/article/t... Mind you, this was released in 2020. In case anyone thinks the horrors only started in '23.

Hey! Spirit Swap is out and we’re working on an update! The update is free, so if you wanna get a headstart on some gay puzzle shit while you wait, pick up the game so we have the runway to make more stuff? Or show it to your friends? Shares of the release tweet below v much appreciated!

We're thrilled to announce that we've partnered with Trevor Noah's Day Zero Productions to launch Day Zero Games: Solarpunk Jam ☀️👩‍🎤! The game jam launches on Earth Day 🌍 and encourages devs to create projects inspired by the Solarpunk movement. There's a $10k grand prize! itch.io/jam/day-zero...

We're so close to $40k!!! I'd love to see us cross that by the end of the day today!

We're now only about $550 away from funding, and I've added my systemless setting book, "Curse: The City of One Thousand Martyrs" as an add-on you can get for half off its price. Just add it on when you pledge! #TTRPG #RPG #IndieRPG

Whoever made and sent this package this is my favorite package of all time

Hold up, making a tariff needle for the front page of Kotaku

i’ve seen some folks on here being very disappointed that no game journalists or outlets where really covering this, even though this is significant. grace stepped up to the task. this is thorough too. i hope it gets heard.

If you’re not part of Art BlueSky, Adobe came on here, made 1 post which was ratio-ed HARD, had thousands of negative comments. They deleted the post, and then a very popular genAI image blocklist blocked them for their shitty ai images. It’s been a delight to watch.

Palestinian-led BDS movement adds Microsoft’s Xbox as priority boycott target

For quite a few years, starting back ye olde G+ days, I ran a regular Sunday morning game of Swords Without Master that we called, not surprisingly, Sunday Morning Swords. #SundayAMSwords The idea was to recapture the joy of sword & sorcery morning cartoons of my youth--namely Thundarr and Galtar.

the BDS requests on microsoft are extremely clear and also targeted. they aren't "uninstall windows now and change your entire life," they aren't even a huge ask for games media outside of like exclusive world of warcraft streamers. there is no reason for the near total silence other than shame

Wait. Just found out that the CEO of Gumroad now works at DOGE? And that he saved up loads of money 'cause he fired everyone and replaced them with AI? I'm leaving the platform as soon as I get my money. Jesus christ. tedium.co/2025/04/06/g...