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https://sherishaw.net/ they/them | writing about the psychology of playing/developing games & tech- and the corporate exploitation of it. there's enough words for all of us 🌷
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how to politely explain to todd in the shadows that a lot of artists he thinks sound "sarcastic" or "insincere" really just sound "Canadian" (but are sincere)

My #Balatro mod that adds touch controls to the PC build is live! Here's a blog post about it. damien.zone/modding-bala...

love that not having a credit score is the same thing as having the worst credit score. deciding to never take an unnecessary card, account, car or debt is apparently the worst financial decision i can make. i like to think i'm good at paying my dues, in that i do my best to avoid them. how dare i.

in short, why the games industry is Like This atm: pandemic boom in gaming led a handful of silicon-valley-pilled corporations (embracer, warner bros, etc) to buy up a bunch of studios, licenses & games rights. then the market averaged out again. so they sell/close all but the top earning IP/teams

if you get laid off at a games studio make sure you take just the most rancid shit in the office closest to the execs before you leave. i'm talking building-clearing levels of reek, like a dump that makes news. clog that fucking toilet and take notes from the unionized plumber they're forced to call

i've had the same copy of office 2016 i got from an abandoned laptop bag. that person obviously did not need to use the free code, presumably because they already had a solution to their word-processing problems. microsoft sees software licensing lasting more than a few years, itself, as a problem.

majima pirate game: you call it a fugue state, i call it a fugue opportunity,

Hey folks, check out my Inline CSS Puzzle Box 2.0 (now with improvements and new content!) An interactive web game implemented with NO JavaScript! 🧩 Puzzle Box: suricrasia.online/puzzlebox/ 💬 Technical breakdown: suricrasia.online/blog/inline-... 🎬 Lets-play video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-Pt...

The Demon Tides demo is OUT NOW! Play the beginning of the game, some of the story and a chunk of the game's open world! In this chunky demo you can also share graffiti tags and compete with other players via ghost runs! And guess what? Your saves carry over too. LET'S GO!

Dragon's Tower

do we think there may be a correlation between people who value the concept of IQ so much that they ensure people will remember it long after their death, WITH people so obsessed with their own importance they take every chance to become famous and be in the room during important events?

i will be resuming streaming on aqualounge.tv this sunday at 7pm est! welcome to "video games for the post-gaming age." here's a mission statement. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rToB...

streaming, taking out some fasc pigs in raid ww2: www.twitch.tv/connorshawva

If you're a gamedev, never crunch for a project. Never burn relationships for a project. Never sacrifice your health for a project. It is never worth it. You'll get laid off anyway. Corporations do not care about you.

YES! asset repurposing enhances the value of developers' labor! less wasted work on similar versions of the same core, more time spent on finding out what's engaging about the assets you already have! so many of my favorite games happily reuse assets! valve made a damn empire out of it! it works!!!

Stormie Thank you everyone for voting on which color scheme to go with :)

y'all know this locker-filler is gonna make a meal of his follow-up post sayin' "wow bluesky REALLY didn't like this one!" i'm talking a five-course meal of "can't even have a conversation now" this and "you're angry at the wrong person here" that. this nerd'll be feasting on screenshots for months

they look like if stardew valley's cast was decided on by a focus group

The game we spent 5 years working on part time is finally out, and it’s like a friend giving you a hug before beating your ass at Love Tekken (lovingly). Please check it out if you like action puzzler but with a joyful, chill twist!

you are really gonna say "in a democracy..." at the same time as 'trump is attacking democracy'? "damage to the outer hull may be upsetting to some, but in shipcraft, hulls are determined by the externality, and can be repaired. save your fights for more serious damage-" THE WHOLE SHIP IS SINKING.

that ain't it, ok go.

to all journalists who prioritize "being in the room" over all else, over having moral principals you stick to even if it hinders your access: many journalists have done incredible reporting without taking official channels to be "in the room". what you need access to is PEOPLE, who exist elsewhere

never have i seen a human being so blatantly act on the advice "you know how you can change search results for 'bobby kotick worst ceo?' to hide your many failures?" 80.lv/articles/bob...

you are just so fucking old, dude

thinking about how i loved dilbert as a kid and discovered the dilbert cartoon and tried to get my parents to watch it with me who both came up with variations on "oh sweetie... maybe some other time" turned out, this was in about equal time with scott adams' public unraveling. lol.

if it's in the discourse again: the reasons to not use generative AI in game development (such as writing) go beyond ethics or efficiency. it will make you do way more work for less return. without limitations, you have no intent; choosing when your words *end* is more important than infinite words

finally cleaned up the captions on the payday 3 video, now they are fully legible and timed perfectly. pretty proud of em, actually. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRH7...

the algorithm ages you, as it did this man. just another 'creator insider' leak to keep The Man in check

We’re doing a launch sale on Spirit Swap so it’s just 15.99$ rn for a breath of fresh air and relaxation + fuck it up tumblr circa 2013 style in Story Mode/2PVS! People keep likening the game to a hug and it gives me life. Please check it out!

if the owners supporting nazi speech on the platform aren't enough reason to make you stop using substack, consider: in peak socmede era, sending a link to your own website is gauche. post era, sending a link to *a different social media site* is gauche, and that includes substack. make a blog.

alright it's SATURDAY and you know what that means: #selfpromosaturday!! i am a fused glass artist! i focus mostly on pendants and bolo ties but i also make game tokens and cabochons (flat-backed stones)! nora.jewelry here's some of what's available!

GAME TOKENS!!! THEY'RE HERE!!! this is an experiment. if people buy these i will make more. nora.jewelry