hey remember when I got shit on for years for trying to warn people that GamerGate was just Nazis and not just about harassing women and not just about some “consumer revolt”
According to the 2026 #GDC State of the Game Industry report, most game workers support unionization, & many are navigating layoffs, crunch, & uncertainty.
Community care, shared knowledge, & collective power matter!
Game Devs of Color Expo is proud to be part of improving the ecosystem💙💚 #gamedev
look i'm sorry to say but if you don't have marxism i'm afraid you're likely to just descend into ever-deepening psychosis during what's coming in the coming years
“Notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein played a role in convincing Bobby Kotick to embrace loot boxes, essentially gambling for children” what is this sentence, what is this world
thinking about how the bourgeois really are "unfree" in the spinozist sense: passive puppets of capital, entirely driven by passions that they have no understanding of, fully manipulated, while entirely convinced they are in control, because they're conscious of their actions but not their causes
ohhhhhh okay so what we've learned from the epstein mail drop is that the entirety of the fascistic culture war since the 2010s onward was basically wholesale consolidated through the anglosphere bourgeois old boys club network of pedophile rapists
So apparently I was right to shittalk m00t this week because it's been revealed that his boneheaded decision to establish /pol/ and subsequently ruin the website was allegedly born out of a one-on-one meeting with Jeffery Epstein.
every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds
when the material productive forces of society come into conflict with the existing relations of production, and from forms of development of the productive forces these relations turn into their fetters
We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason
Sometimes I think it'd be a good idea for CEOs to be scored, Metacritic-style, based on how others evaluate how they run a company. I like to imagine it would encourage more restraint. Their incompetence does real damage. You shouldn't have to suffer executives just because you want to be a gamedev.
Worth noting that years later, the team that worked on Beast Breaker is now getting revshare from day 1 of this re-release, because it was negotiated by Vodeo Workers United! 🥲
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✨ SURPRISE ✨
Skipper will be bouncing all the way to Steam later this year!
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One thing that I am really proud of with this release is that the Beast Breaker team will be getting revenue sharing from day 1 of releasing the game on Steam! ☺️
WISHLIST PLEASE 🥹🖤
Hi friends! I'm happy to announce that our little mouse-bouncing adventure Beast Breaker will finally be playable on Steam!
Everyone thank our friends at @kandofactory.bsky.social for making this possible.
Lots of details about all the new stuff here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWfQ...
brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
we didn't finish denazification. we didn't finish desegregation. we didn't finish reconstruction. every opportunity for transformative change was deliberately sabotaged by american leaders who knew their wealth would not survive a world freed from eugenics, white supremacy, and war profiteering.
If you spend your life justifying your own cowardice/passivity/complicity to yourself as an expression of wisdom and reason, there might come a time when the wind turns and you risk finding yourself on the losing side, but you've gone too far to back out. This is one way people become conservatives.
"I spend a lot of time in my blogging spitting at Artists and Artisans and their neuroses; and i guess i should acknowledge that, for a very long time, i shared these aspirations and shaped my own ambitions after them."
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this guy is correct, he's just not smart enough to not say the quiet part out loud, unlike all the other CEOs who love to spin bullshit about how the invisible hand of the market rewards ethical business practices
I say this with utmost respect, but Taylor is an absolute tool for saying this privately or publicly.
I can say on good authority that it takes 7 to 10 years to develop game development skills to “good enough” to produce commercial game content. 7-10 years plus the cost of a university education.
The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same
I wrote my PhD on this topic (spectrum.library.concordia.ca/id/eprint/98...), and to be fair there's a lot about modern neofascist movements that's stupid and embarrassing. But you know what they say about first as tragedy, then as farce...
60 workers at Ubisoft’s studio in Halifax, Nova Scotia voted to form a union.
In response, Ubisoft announced it was closing the entire studio. Maybe it’s time to look into the millions they get in public money for operating in Canada.
Absolute shame on Ubisoft management for this revolting union busting move - no matter how they try to spin it, the timing could not be more obvious. Full solidarity with the workers ✊ keep an eye out for calls of support from @uwch.bsky.social !
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there are two kinds of people in this world: people who throw snowballs at ICE agents right after they just shot someone, and people who make "reminder not to post anything that could get you arrested" posts on bluesky
