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Did not have Candace Owens going "I'd like to know who's funding the IGDA!" on my bingo card for today

actual reasons to make games (or idk, something more straightforward like going up a mountain)

This is funny, as almost all the surge in mass popularity of anime started in late 99 (after Pokemon picked up) or early 2000s (Toonami showing Sailor Moon, Dragonball etc). The 90s were a dark time of VHS, when John O'Donnell of CPM managed to get Blockbuster to put hentai in the animation aisle.

Finally bobbed out to the strange little island in the harbor to offer up our firstborn to THE YARD and its vicarious deities of unstructured play

Jimothy became embroiled in partisan meme discourse and found he was now a political football (in addition to being roughly football-shaped). In 39 days, the night would seethe with treeing dogs once more; perhaps a blissful release from this new torture.

Good talk worth reading, and I would go even further: all of "design" as a field of practice has gradually compressed into a rhetoric that subordinates creative meaning to the frictionless satisaaficing of users. Luckily this smooth vision is pepetually at odds with the unfathomable horrors of play

The main difference between center-left liberal orgs and more progressive-leftist orgs on trans athletics is not the number of trans people involved in establishing policy positions, it's whether they are openly or quietly retreating to the "let individual athletic associates decide" position.

New York! Do you want to come play games? Support a big ole games library? Walk away with some of our rare, odd, or just plain extra games? We're having an afternoon of gaming and raffles in a couple weeks!!

My brain will melt if I read one more take that's basically "the Odyssey isn't WOKE (i.e. evinces some left-of-center politic) it ACTUALLY transposes modern moral dilemmas onto a 7th-c. epic poem!" Especially since I have no hope that one blockbuster could reform reac-fan textual-faithfulness cults.

(adjusts actuarial spectacles and opens spreadsheet) *sepulchural cough* if you dislike the fantasy of fortuna, miss... we can ALWAYS return to the time investment of grinding...

Loser says what? You're saying... You're afraid of jury nullification? The long-established, virtually unquestioned right of jurors to deliver a not guilty verdict for prosecutions & laws they find to be unjust? Sure wouldn't want everyone to find out about that bulwark against criminalizing tyranny

As someone who was 19 that summer I just want to assure you that for a while we were all turning towards our friends with a death glare and going "Not GAY... Not STRAIGHT..."

[ slaps down a whole dollar ] one piece

Glad to see that even on this relatively placid site people still argue about whether games are art. Just think about what would happen if that was settled either way: the heat-death of play. Always be trash; always be art. In the grim darkness of the future of game discourse there is only--

Pretty cool that so many of us in North America live in the Spiral Zone now. Anyone wanna get some yellow dilated-pupil contacts and skin lesions, then stand motionless on a corner to see if a supersoldier on a Gundam unicycle will rescue us?

Many point out how these sad "you're a hypocrite" jokes denigrate gender-affirming care in general. But it also doesn't even land when state legislatures have explicitly codified funding and approval of healthcare that affirms assigned sex. Of course they believe that's fine and trans people aren't.

WARNING: if the US proceeds with their reckless plan to eliminate non-daylight-savings time, keeping the "spring forward" without the "fall back," it will only be 11 more years before day is NIGHT and night is DAY. Fortunately, 12 years later--[is pulled off stage by cane]

You know when you get the point in a game where the most fun thing is not actually playing the game, but decompiling it and finding a bug that involves 14 different JSON files, trying to fix them and then sending a pull request or contacting the lead on Discord -- no? Maybe I am doing it wrong

Graham's maxim is not only true of politics but of most large institutions and every system accurately labeled a bureaucracy: there's no THEY that's truly runs things or knows what's going on. You should know this, because being embedded in a human Azathoth is less comforting than the alternative.

Gotta point out once again in case anyone missed it: six months ago, Valve removed the requirement for developers to disclose the use of generative AI for code on Steam. It's now only for "content" (text, music, visuals, etc) pre-generated and live inference / deep-learning proc gen stuff.