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Freelance QA for Inkle Studios, Tributary Games, Stave Studios, Chaos Cookie, or in fact anyone else. Former (33 yrs!) Highways Clerk, Highway Inspector & Streetworks Supervisor. Accessibility ally. CIS he/him. ❤️ Archaeology & Greenock Morton FC. BLM 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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Heck YES. The first two books made me appreciate the game in a whole new light, and a third is absolutely sensational news. Into my veins now pls!

You can read more about European Accessibility Act at: 🔗 accessible-eu-centre.ec.europa.eu/content-corn... 🔗 commission.europa.eu/strategy-and...

Reminder: European Accessibility Act comes into force this summer. It covers text/voice chat in the same way as CVAA. And ecommerce, defined as any transactions through websites or mobile apps. If you have a game website or mobile game that sells to people in the EU, it must be fully accessible.

If you have yet to play Lamplight City or Rosewater, you can get both in the World of Vespuccia Bundle! Two cool indie games for a steal! store.steampowered.com/bundle/50641...

Unison is the largest women’s organization in the UK. It has a million women members. The Unison women’s conference just voted for a motion that said; “trans women are women and trans men are men” with no-one speaking against it. Transphobia is a top-down, elite practice.

Fundamentally the issue is clear: if I leave my home and choose the most polluting and antisocial form of transport my local authority makes this easy; if I try to be responsible, pro-social and healthy, my local authority makes this hard

Young men are now more exposed to extreme incel ideology Young men are being influenced more and more by dark media, which may be having a disturbing impact on increasing violence against women and girls | Gemma Gould @gemmagould.bsky.social @centralbylines.co.uk

Have You All Tried Not Being Poor

Honestly, such grim news from UK Supreme Court. We're going the way of US & everyone should be concerned. Just let people live their quiet lives - just like they did before Wicked Witch & her flying goblins got all exercised about things that don't concern them. Thoughts & big hugs to all xx 🏳️‍⚧️

a democratic politician calling out fox news hosts by name and identifying them as villains is necessary and has been sorely lacking

On April 16th, 2019, we released Heaven's Vault. Today, we're thrilled to announce we're returning to the Nebula to continue the story. Based on our original notes for an unmade sequel, "The Flood" is a new novel that continues from where the game, and the previous books, left off.

Same here. ❤️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

This, so much this. And if i reshare a devs post on their game, it’s not the time to point out when you tried to play it on Linux with a ps3 controller plugged in as your keyboard the controls felt sluggish. Don’t stomp on people’s promotion.

This is where your Harry Potter money goes

Happy #WishlistWednesday everyone! 🎉 Let's promote your game! I’ll start by sharing one of my latest favorites. Firearms Factory 💚 by @firearmsfactory.bsky.social store.steampowered.com/app/1808960 Drop your #indiegame below 🚀 #gamedev #indiegamedev #steam #demo #godot #ue5

Last day to wishlist The Night Museum on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3456200/... #gamedev #indiedev #indie #indiegamedev #indiegame #wishlistwednesday #godot #godot4 #godotengine #madewithgodot #steam #steam #horrordev #indiehorror

I mean, I'm working on an update that require a big dev for iOS players - I don't even know where to start with - so the game won't be updated for like 2 weeks at best and I don't want players to stop playing in the mean time haha *game dev existential crisis* #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #solodev

Oh you thought I was kidding?

TODAY

My books have been banned from libraries in almost every American state. The Daily Mail had a two page spread hating on my books. Pretty disgusting to see these bans spreading Iver to the UK.

40 years ago, in-game maps didn't exist so mags like CRASH and ZZAP! printed them. We (or more often, our readers) would map games by hand, and those efforts were then painted (in this case by Oli Frey) to create incredible bespoke creations like this epic Tir Na Nog map. Fab!

Just watched the Home Counties private schoolboy Nigel Farage telling northern voters how he understands steelworkers because he used to work in the “metals business” himself. He was, ahem, a commodities trader at the London Metal Exchange in the City.

Some would say "sneaky tactic" others would observe that odometer fraud is a federal felony. A creative prosecutor could probably tack on some conspiracy and mail or wire fraud charges too.

Still my top advice for any people joining Bluesky. 💙

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If you live in a military town you could do worse in terms of activism than retyping that tweet to be nice and readable and then printing it off in sizes ranging from 1/8th page to full sheet and leaving them absolutely everywhere in town

You know how traditionally vampires are weak to wooden stakes and werewolves are weak to silver bullets? Is there one of those for physical demons? Or did Doom have it right in that shotguns and chainsaws are perfectly adequate?

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

People rag on them, but why do 'Sad Dad Games' (The Last of Us / God of War) hit so hard? (For many, they clearly do, so let's listen) It's Hegelian tragedy. Fierce love for one person overriding all other moral priorities + implied "you could be better" whispers? Absolute psychological catnip.

It's two weeks until Old Skies launches! (FYI in the UK this is called a fortnight) "BUT SALLY!" I hear you cry "I CAN'T WAIT THAT LONG!!!!" Never fear, because I have some amazing adventure game recommendations to help you time travel to 23rd April in the most fun way possible!

A big reason for me compiling this is I’ve seen loads of comments on Old Skies like “no one is making adventure games anymore!” And acting like it’s happened in a vacuum. There is a huge, thriving adventure/narrative game community, and so many amazing games to play!

🚨Some major errors & misleading claims from experienced presenter Nick Robinson on BBC Radio 4 Today, when discussing British Steel with Treasury Minister James Murray I hope these are corrected on tomorrow's programme, and Robinson sticks to the facts in future. Here's what he got wrong... 🧵