The year is 2035. There are three game studios left. Each one produces a game every 10 years, killing 250+ developers in the process. They all accidentally make the same game because they used genAI in preproduction. They sell 500 million units each, missing quarterly targets. Everyone is laid off.

The DM started describing a thieves cant symbol

I got this far into drawing it, at his instruction, before realising what it was and getting So Mad

“When you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.”

The death toll after russia’s barbaric attack on Ternopil has now risen to 31, as the bodies of a woman and two children have been discovered under the rubble.

Ninety-four people were reported wounded, including 18 children.

Sad to hear about the passing of the Michelangelo of Movie posters, RENATO CASARO. The Man painted so many iconic posters, specially in the 70s/80s: CONAN, TERMINATOR, DUNE, TOTAL RECALL, DANCE WITH THE WOLVES, BLOW OUT, FLASH GORDON, RAMBO, NEVER-ENDING STORY, and the list goes on and on. 1/2

It is wild that Charlie Kirk of all things is becoming *the* litmus test.

Even just talking about the event publicly without a sufficient supply of sackcloth and ashes is cast as "promoting political violence." I haven't seen this kind of mandatory performance of allegiance and piety since 9/11.

Reviewers including No Pun Included and Shut Up & Sit Down are boycotting Codenames publisher CGE for releasing a new Harry Potter-themed game while ignoring JK Rowling’s anti-trans rhetoric:

boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...

It is really really sinking in for me the degree to which LLMs are the ultimate expression of right wing anti-intellectualism. Its proponents are literally mocking the idea that anyone would ever want to learn anything, know anything, develop any actual skill, or have a thought of their own.

I think a lot of games jargon is incredibly bad but I have to give it to whoever coined the new term for Clair Obscur-specific subgenre of the French-infused JRPG, the j'RPG. Incredible work.

Thanks AI for clarifying this.

Alan Moore from a new interview.

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I've been a playtester in many sessions run by Rugerfred and he's one of the most brilliant and empathic designers+developers I've encountered.
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My timeline here on Blue Sky is so blessed
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Rereading the New Games Journalism manifesto from 2004.

Back then it was about the decline of print magazines and the rise of internet media and blogs. It was about money people ruining things as usual. But it was also about a different kind of writing.

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old Soviet joke for our times:

Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.

Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”

Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”

Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”

I met his uncle playing Return of the Obra Dinn

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