By 5AM, I got the notice that the house had burnt to the ground.

There is nothing to describe the amount of pain that I have felt this week. Immediate reaction? Numbness, panic. I've lived through a lot of traumatic events in my life, but nothing has prepared me for this.

I started to cry, just knowing in my soul this was the last time I'd see my beautiful home. I had just finished decorating my living room that week... everything had begun to feel like "home" again.

In the dark, I hurriedly packed underwear, a set of pajamas, my grandmother's ashes, the only portrait taken of her, my family photos, and the box full of my birth certificate and taxes.

When the front door opened, the air was black. I could barely see in front of me.

Flying debris hit the house and windows all night, making it difficult to sleep. By 6:40 PM Tuesday, I started to notice the night sky outside our front window was glowing orange. By 9:00PM the ominous glow had exploded into a full-on wildfire outside the kitchen window.

I still think about him… wondering what stories we could’ve had.

Four games I’ve worked on.

vgbees.com/the-industry... #gamedev

the word cloud from my nightly writing sesh about sums it up.

Instead of a creative experience blossoming and finding its own direction as it goes, it’s all narrow frameworks of SEO soup and talking points.

In romance, it’s tropes. In games (my industry), its features.

This floated through my feed on Reddit and I had some thoughts.

This distillation is everywhere and it’s exhausting. I know the term enshittification is usually used to describe social media and technology in general, but I see it everywhere now. 🧵

literally no one:
adobe:

Trying to manager Twitter comms in 2024

current mental status:

things are going great on social media

but hey! the VR title I am part of went into early access! if you have an Oculus VR headset, it's free to check out and play. :)

Oculus Store:
🔗 www.oculus.com/experiences/...

Steam Wishlist:
🔗 store.steampowered.com/app/887330/G...

And yesterday was the birthday of the founding of Antifaschistische Aktion.

In 1929, the German Social Democratic Government (Nazis) banned the RFB, the Alliance of Red Front-Fighters. This ban was a culmination of a broad path of oppression by the SPD, which included the Blutmai May Day incident🧵

Like this week was the anniversary of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia's 1941 uprising against the Nazis

comms trying to manage yet another platform

evergreen gamedev memes.