A flyer for an event wirh a big picture of my face, a stylized controller photo, and the following text: Writing for Video Games: Not Just Beeps and Boops Anymore. Wednesday, April 15, Seelye Hall Room 201
Anyway, if you're in Western Mass and want to talk video games, come chat with me tomorrow
Tron is a film about PC culture gone mad
Thank you, transferred the domain but the DNS hadn’t transferred with it 🙌🏻
How did this get past the “does it look like a cock, no, does it look like a swatstika, fucking yes it looks like a swastika” check??
A sudoku in Netflix’s Puzzled app whose numbers are arranged in a highly swasticka fashion 👀
Netflix’s Puzzled app giving serious What The Fuck vibes today…
Amazing how something so completely out of the blue can bring what matters into complete focus and everything else just… gommages.
…in a no holds barred MMA fight against long-standing opponents, Bruhddhism
BBC BREAKING NEWS screenshot saying “More than 20,000 students told to immediately pay back thousands of pounds in loans that were given in error”
If the people making the damn mistakes were made to pay them back I can assure you they’d make fewer of them.
Write it off and get the money from the Covid contract fraudsters whose issuing department decided to let off, you massively incompetent arseholes.
Here me out: take all of it. Take his shirt and shoes.
A beige brick wall with a central section of mismatched bricks forming a patch-like rectangle, casting light shadows; conveys a sense of oddity.
Definitely coming back here when I unlock bombs.
*this is absolutely pulled from thin air
Freelance creatives are a special breed though. The other 98%* of amazingly creative people get overwhelmed and end up either giving up or doing their dream as their hobby rather than their job.
The Day My Dog Spontaneously Combusted there he was – chasing sticks, doing tricks, and all that stuff next minute, woof Brian Bilston
Today’s poem is called ‘The Day My Dog Spontaneously Combusted’.
And I hope they know how much I truly love them x
Call off the hunt, I found the Easter Eggs…
Let's replace 'save scumming' with 'save game enthusiast'.
“I've hit bottom. You know, when you're in the gutter, you got an empty fifth of vodka next to you, a crack pipe, and you can't wake up.
I *know* what the bottom is.
But when you hit bottom… you'd be surprised at just how much give that floor has.”
- Myron Cohen
Okay. An important moment for us, if you’ll indulge me with a repost. It’s time to start the very first whisper of noise about our next game.
It’s a mailing list! But it’s a mailing list that I’m hoping will be a bit different than what you’re used to.
mailchi.mp/bithellgames...
Lemme boost this for you, hopefully someone who can make that happen for you will see it 🤞🏽
One of my favourite GIFs? Why yes, here you go…
This is almost (but definitely not) as maddening as the Up and Down arrows in the Apple Music app in CarPlay doing opposite things depending on which menu you’re looking at.
Screenshot 1 titles: And Away The Hotel Avocado The Long Shoe Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing The Satsuma Complex
Screenshot 2: titles And Away Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing The Hotel Avocado The Long Shoe The Satsuma Complex
Both lists exactly the same. One is all Bob’s English audiobooks, the other is my Library of Bob’s audiobooks. Exactly the same list, ordered by A to Z.
One counts The as the title, the other doesn’t.
YOU MAD BASTARDS
I hate this idea that gen ai in the early stages of development is okay as long as there isn't gen AI assets in the final game. Everything in early development informs the final game. I don't want this to become the norm
I don't think people understand how hard it is to work in the video-game industry right now. If you've been laid off, it can take months if not years to find new work. If you haven't been laid off, you're anxious that you will be laid off.
This week's column: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
Oft shared but immensely illustrative of the difference that drives this stuff. There are just a lot of people on the planet who think ‘the transition from scene 5 to scene 6’ is the challenge of being David Simon, rather than the fucking point of being David Simon.
There’s something extremely poetic about Disney - the masters of illusion - saying that OpenAI is too smoke-and-mirrors even for them.
Media rubbernecking is *definitely* a thing.
But there’s got to be a much better fucking name for it.
So getting rid of at least a combined thousand years of experience helps improve next year’s shareholder dividend?
Then the shareholders start to flee because the roadmap will obviously shrink.
Then more layoffs.
Ad infinitum.
Small note. Mass layoffs like these are also a tactic to devalue the work because workers become more desperate while companies create false scarcity.
Do not, ever, forget your worth. Don’t let them win.
You make this industry exist. They don’t.
Buy this or I swear to god I’ll haunt your dreams.
