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Game maker, professor at Carnegie Mellon University. My employer has many, often contradicting, views. Currently making Future? No Thanks!
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🚨 ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨
After 4 years of work, my solarpunk game finally has a title, a trailer, and a Steam page!
Wishlist... Future? No Thanks!
👉 futurenothanks.com
After 4 years of work, my solarpunk game finally has a title, a trailer, and a Steam page!
Wishlist... Future? No Thanks!
👉 futurenothanks.com
I enjoyed The Cabin Inspector, a short “anomaly detection” game in which you determine whether mass-produced cabins are haunted or not.
Funny, scary, with a story cleverly woven into its loop.
Games can't rely on many traditional horror devices, it’s exciting to see new genres native to the medium.
Funny, scary, with a story cleverly woven into its loop.
Games can't rely on many traditional horror devices, it’s exciting to see new genres native to the medium.
December 24, 2025 at 4:37 PM
I enjoyed The Cabin Inspector, a short “anomaly detection” game in which you determine whether mass-produced cabins are haunted or not.
Funny, scary, with a story cleverly woven into its loop.
Games can't rely on many traditional horror devices, it’s exciting to see new genres native to the medium.
Funny, scary, with a story cleverly woven into its loop.
Games can't rely on many traditional horror devices, it’s exciting to see new genres native to the medium.
Jmail is incredible! A great way to browse Jeffrey Epstein’s emails, photos, flights, files, and properties via a neat, Google-like interface.
www.jmail.world
www.jmail.world
December 24, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Jmail is incredible! A great way to browse Jeffrey Epstein’s emails, photos, flights, files, and properties via a neat, Google-like interface.
www.jmail.world
www.jmail.world
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The Xbox Boycott (Still) Matters
YouTube video by People Make Games
www.youtube.com
December 18, 2025 at 2:02 PM
In U.S. healthcare, as in higher education, you get all the outrageous costs and inequalities of the private sector
PLUS
all the political subordination of a public system, because these organizations can’t function without government subsidies.
www.axios.com/2025/12/18/t...
PLUS
all the political subordination of a public system, because these organizations can’t function without government subsidies.
www.axios.com/2025/12/18/t...
Trump cuts payments to hospitals over gender transition care
The moves to stop Medicaid and Medicare payments would strike at a key component of hospitals' finances.
www.axios.com
December 18, 2025 at 4:40 PM
In U.S. healthcare, as in higher education, you get all the outrageous costs and inequalities of the private sector
PLUS
all the political subordination of a public system, because these organizations can’t function without government subsidies.
www.axios.com/2025/12/18/t...
PLUS
all the political subordination of a public system, because these organizations can’t function without government subsidies.
www.axios.com/2025/12/18/t...
I loved this one so much.
I’m usually turned off by "wrong" and romanticized retro aesthetics, but Ruin isn't quite a retro game. It feels closer to the blurred memory of playing games as a child.
~15 min - Browser
I’m usually turned off by "wrong" and romanticized retro aesthetics, but Ruin isn't quite a retro game. It feels closer to the blurred memory of playing games as a child.
~15 min - Browser
Here it Is!
RUIN Ch.0
A Short Narrative Adventure
Please Enjoy, Free, In Browser on Any Device
officialelectric.itch.io/ruin
RUIN Ch.0
A Short Narrative Adventure
Please Enjoy, Free, In Browser on Any Device
officialelectric.itch.io/ruin
December 18, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I loved this one so much.
I’m usually turned off by "wrong" and romanticized retro aesthetics, but Ruin isn't quite a retro game. It feels closer to the blurred memory of playing games as a child.
~15 min - Browser
I’m usually turned off by "wrong" and romanticized retro aesthetics, but Ruin isn't quite a retro game. It feels closer to the blurred memory of playing games as a child.
~15 min - Browser
Interesting phenomenon of visual artists online being accused of using AI and having to post videos of their process in response.
Having to perform as artists 24/7 isn’t new, but now art-making content becomes evidence.
What do we call it?
The Professorification of the Viewer?
Audience as CAPTCHA?
Having to perform as artists 24/7 isn’t new, but now art-making content becomes evidence.
What do we call it?
The Professorification of the Viewer?
Audience as CAPTCHA?
December 17, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Interesting phenomenon of visual artists online being accused of using AI and having to post videos of their process in response.
Having to perform as artists 24/7 isn’t new, but now art-making content becomes evidence.
What do we call it?
The Professorification of the Viewer?
Audience as CAPTCHA?
Having to perform as artists 24/7 isn’t new, but now art-making content becomes evidence.
What do we call it?
The Professorification of the Viewer?
Audience as CAPTCHA?
December 17, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I love video games
new game release: Rainbows Are Carnivores is an experimental gay fishing romance / aquaculture management sim. Free, 10-20 min, play in mobile or desktop browser radiatoryang.itch.io/rainbows
December 16, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I love video games
Between Bugonia, Eddington, and One Battle After Another, the most prominent film auteurs are having a blast inventing a magical realist USA in which the left does terrorism and fails miserably...
December 16, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Between Bugonia, Eddington, and One Battle After Another, the most prominent film auteurs are having a blast inventing a magical realist USA in which the left does terrorism and fails miserably...
"Monsters in glass cages. This WAD is intended as a tool for WAD authors to give an easy way to examine animated sprites without getting killed by them."
From Doomscroll, a big collection of Doom mods playable in your browser:
doomscroll.cx
From Doomscroll, a big collection of Doom mods playable in your browser:
doomscroll.cx
December 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
"Monsters in glass cages. This WAD is intended as a tool for WAD authors to give an easy way to examine animated sprites without getting killed by them."
From Doomscroll, a big collection of Doom mods playable in your browser:
doomscroll.cx
From Doomscroll, a big collection of Doom mods playable in your browser:
doomscroll.cx
I'm starting to think it wasn't a good idea to put all the world's communications in the hands of three American companies
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content
More than 50 organisations report sites being restricted or removed, with abortion hotlines blocked and posts showing non-explicit nudity triggering warnings
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I'm starting to think it wasn't a good idea to put all the world's communications in the hands of three American companies
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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The Render Ender
The Render Ender
Al Warburton on how generative AI has disrupted the simulation of light.
open.substack.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:15 PM
The Render Ender
I enjoyed this four hour dive into the high tech Rube Goldberg machines Disney has developed over decades to solve the daunting problem of minimum-wage performers blurting inappropriate things while wearing a Mickey Mouse costume.
youtu.be/NyIgV84fudM?...
youtu.be/NyIgV84fudM?...
Disney's Living Characters: A Broken Promise
YouTube video by Defunctland
youtu.be
December 8, 2025 at 3:44 PM
I enjoyed this four hour dive into the high tech Rube Goldberg machines Disney has developed over decades to solve the daunting problem of minimum-wage performers blurting inappropriate things while wearing a Mickey Mouse costume.
youtu.be/NyIgV84fudM?...
youtu.be/NyIgV84fudM?...
I finally played Horses. It’s a tight cinematic horror game with a unique, uncompromising vision.
It’s admittedly uncomfortable to play, but more due to the lack of agency than the graphic depictions of abuse (it’s actually milder and goofier than your typical A24 arthouse horror).
It’s admittedly uncomfortable to play, but more due to the lack of agency than the graphic depictions of abuse (it’s actually milder and goofier than your typical A24 arthouse horror).
December 4, 2025 at 2:25 AM
I finally played Horses. It’s a tight cinematic horror game with a unique, uncompromising vision.
It’s admittedly uncomfortable to play, but more due to the lack of agency than the graphic depictions of abuse (it’s actually milder and goofier than your typical A24 arthouse horror).
It’s admittedly uncomfortable to play, but more due to the lack of agency than the graphic depictions of abuse (it’s actually milder and goofier than your typical A24 arthouse horror).
In the age of centralized platforms, you can get a reverse Streisand effect, with ban controversies prompting additional bans out of cowardice or middleman solidarity.
Yesterday, the Epic Games Store decided at the last minute not to distribute the game, after having previously approved a release build. HORSES is otherwise now available on GOG, Itch, and Humble for $4.99. www.horses.wtf
December 2, 2025 at 5:59 PM
In the age of centralized platforms, you can get a reverse Streisand effect, with ban controversies prompting additional bans out of cowardice or middleman solidarity.
I played Dispatch, an influencercore thisispolicelike with dragonslairlike elements.
It has excellent TV-grade writing and dazzling animation.
And yet, had it been a TV show, I would have certainly skipped it. Why?
Was it the romance? The moral dilemmas? The fact that I paid for it in advance?
It has excellent TV-grade writing and dazzling animation.
And yet, had it been a TV show, I would have certainly skipped it. Why?
Was it the romance? The moral dilemmas? The fact that I paid for it in advance?
December 1, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I played Dispatch, an influencercore thisispolicelike with dragonslairlike elements.
It has excellent TV-grade writing and dazzling animation.
And yet, had it been a TV show, I would have certainly skipped it. Why?
Was it the romance? The moral dilemmas? The fact that I paid for it in advance?
It has excellent TV-grade writing and dazzling animation.
And yet, had it been a TV show, I would have certainly skipped it. Why?
Was it the romance? The moral dilemmas? The fact that I paid for it in advance?
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Help create the future of the games industry! On Dec 3, workers will be coming together to draft a Game Workers' Bill of Rights. All game workers are welcome — union members or not. Sign up here:
Bill of Rights Town Hall
Help create the future of the games industry!
Workers across the games industry are coming together to draft a Game Workers' Bill of Rights — a shared set of principles to set a standard for fair trea...
actionnetwork.org
November 28, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Help create the future of the games industry! On Dec 3, workers will be coming together to draft a Game Workers' Bill of Rights. All game workers are welcome — union members or not. Sign up here:
Cold take: I do agree that it is (or will soon be) nearly impossible to avoid AI-powered tools.
If the backlash continues, studios will simply not disclose uses that are undetectable to players (coding, text editing, hybrid pipelines) and favored by employees.
www.gamesradar.com/games/opposi...
If the backlash continues, studios will simply not disclose uses that are undetectable to players (coding, text editing, hybrid pipelines) and favored by employees.
www.gamesradar.com/games/opposi...
Opposing Steam's AI disclosures, Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says game stores should drop "the AI tag" because "it makes no sense" when "AI will be involved in nearly all future production"
Steam has actually made AI disclosures even more prominent
www.gamesradar.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Cold take: I do agree that it is (or will soon be) nearly impossible to avoid AI-powered tools.
If the backlash continues, studios will simply not disclose uses that are undetectable to players (coding, text editing, hybrid pipelines) and favored by employees.
www.gamesradar.com/games/opposi...
If the backlash continues, studios will simply not disclose uses that are undetectable to players (coding, text editing, hybrid pipelines) and favored by employees.
www.gamesradar.com/games/opposi...
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Gallery: Sorry, your art was not accepted for our exhibition, but thanks for applying.
Me: What? I never applied.
Gallery: Oops! [verbatim] "I was using an AI tool to organize a spreadsheet of exhibition submissions. It incorrectly invented a few names during the sorting process, and yours was one."
Me: What? I never applied.
Gallery: Oops! [verbatim] "I was using an AI tool to organize a spreadsheet of exhibition submissions. It incorrectly invented a few names during the sorting process, and yours was one."
November 28, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Gallery: Sorry, your art was not accepted for our exhibition, but thanks for applying.
Me: What? I never applied.
Gallery: Oops! [verbatim] "I was using an AI tool to organize a spreadsheet of exhibition submissions. It incorrectly invented a few names during the sorting process, and yours was one."
Me: What? I never applied.
Gallery: Oops! [verbatim] "I was using an AI tool to organize a spreadsheet of exhibition submissions. It incorrectly invented a few names during the sorting process, and yours was one."
Thinking about the recent passing of Steve Kurtz, co-founder of Critical Art Ensemble.
He was a key figure in the tactical media scene, which I looked up to when I started Molleindustria.
A deep cut: in 1998 the CAE co-created one of the earliest art games and Game Boy hacks: Super Kid Fighter
He was a key figure in the tactical media scene, which I looked up to when I started Molleindustria.
A deep cut: in 1998 the CAE co-created one of the earliest art games and Game Boy hacks: Super Kid Fighter
November 27, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Thinking about the recent passing of Steve Kurtz, co-founder of Critical Art Ensemble.
He was a key figure in the tactical media scene, which I looked up to when I started Molleindustria.
A deep cut: in 1998 the CAE co-created one of the earliest art games and Game Boy hacks: Super Kid Fighter
He was a key figure in the tactical media scene, which I looked up to when I started Molleindustria.
A deep cut: in 1998 the CAE co-created one of the earliest art games and Game Boy hacks: Super Kid Fighter
[At the skin lounge]
Me: [chanting] skin, skin-
Other patients: skin, SKIN
Secretary: [pounding her clipboard] SKIN, SKIN, SKIN!
Me: [chanting] skin, skin-
Other patients: skin, SKIN
Secretary: [pounding her clipboard] SKIN, SKIN, SKIN!
November 26, 2025 at 6:13 PM
[At the skin lounge]
Me: [chanting] skin, skin-
Other patients: skin, SKIN
Secretary: [pounding her clipboard] SKIN, SKIN, SKIN!
Me: [chanting] skin, skin-
Other patients: skin, SKIN
Secretary: [pounding her clipboard] SKIN, SKIN, SKIN!
Today I learned that the US poverty line is still calculated as 3x the minimum food diet in 1963, a metric completely disconnected from today’s cost of living.
Here's a clear post explaining why middle and working class families are effectively getting poorer.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Here's a clear post explaining why middle and working class families are effectively getting poorer.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Today I learned that the US poverty line is still calculated as 3x the minimum food diet in 1963, a metric completely disconnected from today’s cost of living.
Here's a clear post explaining why middle and working class families are effectively getting poorer.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Here's a clear post explaining why middle and working class families are effectively getting poorer.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
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For @404media.co this morning: a group of immigrant rights organizers are helping people use Fortnite to practice what to do if they encounter ICE agents in the wild. And I got to see it.
www.404media.co/ice-defense-...
www.404media.co/ice-defense-...
Inside an ICE Defense Training on Fortnite
A group of immigrant rights organizers are helping people use Fortnite to practice what to do if they encounter ICE agents in the wild.
www.404media.co
November 24, 2025 at 3:13 PM
For @404media.co this morning: a group of immigrant rights organizers are helping people use Fortnite to practice what to do if they encounter ICE agents in the wild. And I got to see it.
www.404media.co/ice-defense-...
www.404media.co/ice-defense-...
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No bailouts. The US should extort these companies when the crash happens so they get minimal compensation in return for nationalizing the entire panopticon industry and then destroying it once harvested for socially useful parts. It won’t happen but it should
November 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
No bailouts. The US should extort these companies when the crash happens so they get minimal compensation in return for nationalizing the entire panopticon industry and then destroying it once harvested for socially useful parts. It won’t happen but it should