That "threading the needle successfully" feeling. I vaguely recall someone I read once distilling a lot of shooters to the act of cleaning up. You're cleaning an area of enemies, tasks, obstacles, etc.
Wonder if there is a casually-non-casual way to do that that isn't just pure abstract visuals?
A sign that reads "JUST DO IT" "NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE," but the way the sign is laid out makes it possible to read as "JUST DO NOTHING" "IT IS IMPOSSIBLE"
Democratic Party messaging, 2025
Very good advice to find after a day of doomscrolling
If people are out there funding 3-5m games let me know, because as far as I can see right now, there's less than 10 partners.
There's simply no money
I watched the closing seconds of the 1998 NBA finals over two dozen times and it’s impossible for me, a reporter for the New York Times, to say whether or not Michael Jordan made the game winning shot. The gesture, bizarre yet familiar, appears to many spectators to have involved a basketball,
I see things like "but we have so much media that depicts Nazis as the bad guy" and I'm just sitting here thinking... I think we storytellers vastly overestimate how much fiction can influence people. Like stories are important but the message will be lost on many people.
Panel 1: Mark Zuckerberg stands on the stage at a Meta all-hands meeting, wearing a little chain and a shirt that says "Cool Dude." "I think our company could use more Masculine Energy," he says into a mic. In the crowd, an employee raises their hand. "Excuse me, Mr. Zuckerberg," the person asks. Panel 2: The person stands up, asking, "By "Masculine Energy," do you mean a mature definition where men in power use their relative strength to protect and uplift those less privileged?" Panel 3: The person continues, "…or a more childish definition where men in power are free to be aggressive and harm others without being held accountable?" Panel 4: Zuck stands silent for a beat. Panel 5: "You're all fired," he says.
"Masculine Energy"
David Lynch in sunglasses saying ‘I hope you are all having a lot of fun working on your favourite projects’
How to spend today
Screencap of Twin Peaks, agent Cooper drinking coffee during breakfast, telling Audrey Horne : "Well, Audrey, to be perfectly honest, I'm tired and a little on edge."
ain't that a mood
Today and in the coming days, remember
Go make the art you’ve always wanted to make. Write the stories you’ve been dreaming of. Sing your heart out. Pick up an instrument & play. Do the things you’ve been holding back on because you’re worried about what others might think. Just do it. Do it now. Life is short. Life is precious. Please.
The president is not a king. Make them actually enforce this. Force them to actually have to do the work instead of using fear and intimidation. Do not follow unjust and immoral laws
Be ungovernable. We will outlast and outlive these bastards.
if you're posting shit about punching nazis or whatever, i implore that you actually go and do something material for the vulnerable communities impacted and threatened by these new laws. advocate. donate. be there for people. i don't care. just don't posture online and move on the next day.
meme image originally posted by "Paul Darling" showing a woman's legs and a hand holding a cigarette behind the "subtitled" words My idols are dead and my enemies are in power
They cant get my data if i am Fully Dissolved in a bath tub full of sodium hydroxide
This stuff should be the thing regular people are less able to be propagandized about but so many of us willingly go "Shit, I guess I am the problem actually" and not change anything
With very few exceptions, Games as a Service is only a temporarily sustainable model in the AAA space. Stop trying to make them last forever and give them a lifecycle with a dedicated endpoint, which can accelerate based on subscriber churn. Have your next game in pre-production, and pivot early.
known games industry layoffs by year
known games industry layoffs by month
2024 currently has more known games industry layoffs than 2023+2022 combined.
2024 is roughly 600 layoffs away from doubling 2023. There is still plenty of business days left in the month.
I can't emphasize enough how extreme these last few years have been.
So far.
Robocop is a movie about a guy who gets killed on the job and they still made him go back to work
In case any of my fellow creatives also needed this reminder:
feeling punchy about Holiday shit tonight so friendly reminder that the concept of “true love”/soulmates is one of the most toxic cultural inventions there has ever been! broken so many young brains. just find someone you’re comfortable with and work your asses off about the rest of it
As I get older, life seems to repeatedly re-affirm the lesson that nothing gets addressed or fixed for you. Hoping it does is like playing the lottery.
You really do (unfortunately) have to do / build it yourself. And mostly the process is neither easy nor fun.
a bunch of drawn diagrams of hand stretches. the text at the top reads MAKE TIME TO STRETCH! it shows wrist extensions and flexions, with the arm straight out and hand palm out with the hand gently stretched up and down. the same stretches with the hand in a fist. the same stretch but with the palm against a wall. a stretch of pressing your palms together with wrists parallel to the ground and slowly lowering the heels of the palms. and a gentle shaking out of the hands.
since this will always be circulating, i might as well be the first one to put it here: the stretch tips i made many years ago… remember to stop and stretch and take care of your hands! be mindful of your work time & listen to your body.
Glad I’m not the only one who keeps making that mistake
My body was a Temple— it’s mostly crumbling ruins at this point, though. Remnants of a former civilization.
A background painting from Batman: The Animated Series. It shows a stylized Gotham City with a red sky.
A background painting from Batman: The Animated Series. It shows a stylized Gotham City with a red sky.
A background painting from Batman: The Animated Series. It shows a stylized Gotham City with a red sky.
A background painting from Batman: The Animated Series. It shows a stylized Gotham City with a red sky.
The background art from Batman: The Animated Series taking absolutely zero prisoners.
Sending big love to everyone who experiences Thanksgiving as emotional torture and pain,
and/or deep, deep loneliness.
And/or profound grief.
You’re not alone.
And I see you.
So do a lot of other people here.
❤️
For those going home to visit family this weekend:
• Samsung calls it Auto Motion Plus
• LG calls it TruMotion
• Sony calls it Motionflow
• Roku calls it Action Smoothing
• Google TV calls it Motion Enhancement
• Vizio calls it Smooth Motion Effect.
Trump ate shit on one of the very first things he tried (the Gaetz nomination) before he even took office again
he will do enormous damage but he is not invincible and the more friction we can put in his way the less he will do
it is what it is now, fighting back is the only viable option