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actively searching for work in the games or education spaces multivalent game designer (world/tech/system), tech writer, and educator he / him wear a mask, don't die, pretty simple
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I've said it before and I'll say it again: unless you can supervise it extremely closely, don't let your kids play Roblox. Quite apart from the safety concerns, there are just so many games out there that are actually good www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Hard not to feel like it was all a rug pull. The generation that raised us, made us the most educated in history. Taught us to be compassionate, empathetic and said we could be anything we wanted to be. Now nothing is affordable. Nothing is in reach. They want to erase who I am, and who I love.

It is becoming unbelievably difficult to stay both informed and sane

going to need to start hearing from governors what they intend to do to protect residents of their states from the federal government

If you're a business owner looking to invest in generative AI... DON'T The untold truth about the "AI Revolution" that big tech wants you to ignore. Read it here. medium.com/@tomschalk/d...

Institutions are learning the hard way, but they might be learning.

We've fallen behind, and the Webbys gave Scott Galloway a push on their Instagram, but we can still win this even with the interference!

It's time for a proper announcement! I'm making a new London-based indie studio with some of my ex-Splash Damage colleagues. And we're already at work on our first game! You can follow us here:

Feels weird to barge in with good news, but The Onion is hiring two more fellows: Here's a link to our Graphics Fellowship: jobs.gusto.com/postings/the... Here's a link to our Video Fellowship: jobs.gusto.com/postings/the... Solid pay + full benefits for six months. Come make stupid shit with us.

it is interesting how this was totally an elite fabrication. trans rights were on the path to general acceptance on the gay marriage coattails but nearly our entire elite culture including elite liberals decided to run a multi-year op against a tiny minority

wow, what a spectacle crazy to imagine that's all it took to change governments in Russia

every remedy game

Oh fuck oh shit

Hey, just a quiet reminder: it’s not true that people get more conservative as they age. *Populations* get more conservative as they age because poor and marginalized people die sooner. nymag.com/intelligence...

The people…they’re starting to believe….

Bernie Sanders is barnstorming the country in his 80s generating 30k+ events to rally against gangster capitalism while Democratic leadership twiddle their thumbs and shrug a bunch as the worst people in the country strip the wiring out the walls and conduct racist immigration purges

Oh man this rocks, the little modular cable hooks in particular are great, works on a grid system, all free to download. Genius work.

Follow your favourite game and studio accounts on here. It helps the community team prove that they don't need to stay on Twitter.

TURN ON THE FUCKING NEWS IT DOESNT MATTER WHAT CHANNEL

"I DO NOT ABSOLVE YOU. WRITE YOUR OWN EMAILS." has been playing on loop in my head all day

A drug for motivation that isn't just, drinking as much caffeine as possible???

The chickens haven't really come home to roost yet (everything is about to double in price, tourists will no longer come to the U.S., much worse unintended consequences we don't have the imagination to conceive of) and people fucking hate this shit, generally loathe what's going on. Go on offense.

look this is ultimately a war between those who want to transcend the flesh to become one with god and those who wish to make a prison of reality within which the "body" and the "self" are one and the same. this is all the fight for the right to repair, but for biological systems

Infosec must not remain silent while Trump goes after Chris Krebs: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

I did some adjustments on the lighting 💡

FOOTSTEPPR, generate footstep sounds for your games games.increpare.com/footsteppr/i...

Friends, skeeters, countrymen, please vote for Ed Zitron's Better Offline to win a Webby! We need you now more than ever. vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting...

This isn't a generational thing, this is an age thing. We've been through this 3+ times now. This is not unique behavior, younger folk just tend to be more social. You can expect this behavior to change as they age. Like it always does. www.deconstructoroffun.com/blog/2025/04...

Little reminder for these trying times

Please get off Substack, a thread

It always boggles my mind that I, a journalist, am expressly forbidden from trading stocks, but members of Congress, with vastly greater knowledge of market-moving news, are allowed to profit by front-running markets, and so may profit by in essence stealing from the public they represent.

"i asked chatgpt and..." you need liar clippy to tell you what to think? pathetic. grow up

I wish I was aware of a specific term for the structural/systemic nature of this along the lines of “stochastic terrorism”. That it’s unlikely Nancy Pelosi is gathering senators in a smoke-filled room to say “okay, it’s *your* turn to be the defector”, but also that that’s not needed.

AUTISM IS NOT AN EPIDEMIC, PEOPLE WITH AUTISM ARE NOT BROKEN

re: John Carmack & the Quake 2 Muse demo

Keep hearing people say protests against first Trump administration were ineffective. Evidence suggests otherwise.

Covid isn’t over, it’s endemic & we haven’t even scratched the surface re long covid & cumulative sequelae as the virus continues to mutate & reinfection’s the new norm. Not to mention their targeting of mRNA vaccines would destroy our ability to respond to new variants in any meaningful time frame.

It fucking rules that every pea-brained "politics wonk" has the unearned confidence to lecture you on how hard and complex things are when it actually turns out that most things are extremely simple and only made complex because the people in charge are either shatteringly stupid or utterly depraved

big dog wants to make another drakengard so bad

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Have been following in admiration for years. This is good people doing good work.

The entire water system of California is designed to drain the entire landscape and create dust bowls. Work to restructure the landscape for infiltration rather than extraction. Water in the landscape is a greater storage of overall solar energy could ever be collected by solar panels.