Two cats sitting on top of cages and looking at the ceiling

Two cars on the floor staring up at the ceiling

Two young kittens in a cage taking notice

A cat standing on her hind legs to reach for a moth

A moth got into the shelter tonight and it was the event of the season.

This is totally inexcusable and they ought to cut a fat check immediately

[“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape? The moneylenders, the know-nothings, the authoritarians have us all in prison; if we value the freedom of the mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can.”]

Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality

They're my FAVORITE candy. The crunch and then the chew??? Insane.

Just applied for a local college

Switching careers at 30 is so terrifying, and... I don't want to. I love animating. But I just... don't think the games industry has room for me right now.

A funny meme: some people's reason for existing is to play all the Animal Crossing games, but in reality most people are forced to wake up early, work on their laptops to manage boring spreadsheets at dull jobs.

I bet doom scroll meant something way cooler in the middle ages.

This video game would have sold better if it were a completely different game. I am very wise.

Look, I'm not a fancy CEO guy, but if someone said to me "the key to this successful single-player IP's success is to make it purely a multiplayer game. No, not a spin off: fundamentally change the DNA of what people loved about the core game" to me, I'd probably, like, quit that job or something.

If you want a vision of game development, imagine a team repeatedly and futilely trying to make an executive understand that “AI” not only creates more work for writers/editors but actively repels players and is not a “great marketing add”, forever

Over $400m to open "multiple studios and build multiple projects", with none of the latter having surfaced.

Why would you do this? Why not actually get something out the door first before massively expanding?

The COVID money train absolutely fucked with some people's brains.

I am going to lose my mind

Sick and tired of 2 minute songs. Sit back down and finish writing

Defiant woman grabs South Korean soldier's gun during protests against martial law YouTube video by CTV News

An incredibly brave woman, Ahn Gwi-ryeong, a spokesperson for the opposition Democratic Party, grabbed the gun of a soldier trying to bar her way to the national assembly building, after the president declared martial law in South Korea.
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South Korean citizens helped lawmakers scale the National Assembly walls so they could bypass military barricades and vote against martial law.

Breaking, per MLB: Umpire Pat Hoberg has been fired for sharing betting accounts with a friend who bet on baseball though there is no evidence Hoberg himself bet on games or manipulated any that he worked. He also deleted messages central to MLB’s investigation.

Where can I bet this is the tip of the iceberg?

Spirit Swap: Lofi Beats to Match-3 to is OUT NOW!
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Congrats!!!

Haldeman (Elon's grandfather) was a pro-apartheid, antisemitic conspiracy theorist who blamed much of what bothered him about the world on Jewish Financiers. He also had many papers, articles and letters he wrote that are in existence.

Elon Musk's mother moved to South Africa in the year Apartheid was created, and she and Elon left the year it ended. The last Apartheid Prime Minister, a man who refused to testify at the Truth and Reconciliation Committee, was a family friend who stayed at their home. This is not a crazy theory.

one of my pet peeves in games is narrative urgency that's undermined by incentivized collection gameplay. When the story is telling the player 'You urgently need to save someone/something!', collect-a-thon map icons are just going to pull you out of acting your part authentically

I don’t agree with the original tweet; for instance, recoilers in Qud are important and have an appropriate cost. The real problem IMO is that “open world” has become a design “feature” and something that is done as a matter of course and not as a thoughtful aspect of a holistic design.

inside of me are two Beowulfs and i’ve been asked not to return to the library

Groundhog Day is evidence that more institutions should just do weird ritual shit generally. Some of it will stick then you have a beloved local culture. Highest performing employee in your firm slaps a live fish at the end of Q3, make graduates wade through ceremonial slime. Just do things.

hey quick question does Goliath win in that story

the dog house on fire with an i voted sticker saying “they can’t do this it’s illegal”

The answer is, I'm going to continue animating. I'm going to continue learning.

And I'm going to try to accept that taking on part time work outside of the industry isn't failure. Just a new experience. And every new experience makes me a better artist.

Close to giving up.

Unemployment ends in 3 weeks.

I haven't gotten a single animation test or even a 1st interview in months.

And every day the job market is flooded with even more laid off devs, a lot of whom are more experienced than me.

I don't know what to do...