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Old games and oolong tea enthusiast. Rusty’s Real Deal Baseball evangelist. Games producer by day.
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Carter was the kind of person who could chat with you just once but ask about your kid by name months later. Even though I worked with him for only a few years, this feels like losing someone I’ve known for a lifetime. He will be missed.

In other news, February is cold.

Fear and rejoice. For they have implemented Pluey.

Seeing one of the best metroidvanias of all time being thrown around the discount bin on a regular basis is still so surreal to me. Someone messed up big time.

Today’s pickup. Glaring hole in my library - and I’ve never played it at all. #RetroGaming

Boy I love living in a city in the United States that currently has no running water

Allegory alert!

Incredible updates from Hulu

Working on a thing with @doomcube.bsky.social...

My heart ached when I was reminded that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for trying to make academic knowledge more accessible to the public. Meta, meanwhile, is doing it for their own bottom line. I'm going to guess that no one at Meta will be looking at spending 35 years in jail for this.

I can’t imagine any of this is a good idea.

Disco Elysium blowing up the way it did should be evidence that there’s no predicting the games market. Imagine trying to tell a money guy that game of the year was gonna be an Estonian visual novel by communists where you can pet the mailbox and say “I want to make fuck with you”

I wrote about the biggest rap performance of all time, Kendrick’s positioning of anti-Drake-ness as part of a larger pro-Blackness and justice for Serena Williams andscape.com/features/gen...

Well that was a cool Kendrick concert, but the dudes playing football in the back was a weird choreography choice

Kendrick Lamar deserves to win the very first Nobel Hate Prize

Let me get this straight: the authoritarian UK government can just demand the security of any product be compromised for users outside its borders, with no real option to appeal, and it being illegal to reveal that compliance with this request ever occurred.

Hey #GameDev folks. I was caught in this layoff. If your studio is looking for a Lead Producer with 8+ years of cross-industry experience in software production to manage your teams and lead your projects, I’d love to connect. #GameProduction #GameIndustry