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Game maker, professor at Carnegie Mellon University. My employer has many, often contradicting, views. Currently making Future? No Thanks!
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After 4 years of work, my solarpunk game finally has a title, a trailer, and a Steam page!
Wishlist... Future? No Thanks!
👉 futurenothanks.com
After 4 years of work, my solarpunk game finally has a title, a trailer, and a Steam page!
Wishlist... Future? No Thanks!
👉 futurenothanks.com
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Help create the future of the games industry! On Dec 3, workers will be coming together to draft a Game Workers' Bill of Rights. All game workers are welcome — union members or not. Sign up here:
Bill of Rights Town Hall
Help create the future of the games industry!
Workers across the games industry are coming together to draft a Game Workers' Bill of Rights — a shared set of principles to set a standard for fair trea...
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November 28, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Help create the future of the games industry! On Dec 3, workers will be coming together to draft a Game Workers' Bill of Rights. All game workers are welcome — union members or not. Sign up here:
Cold take: I do agree that it is (or will soon be) nearly impossible to avoid AI-powered tools.
If the backlash continues, studios will simply not disclose uses that are undetectable to players (coding, text editing, hybrid pipelines) and favored by employees.
www.gamesradar.com/games/opposi...
If the backlash continues, studios will simply not disclose uses that are undetectable to players (coding, text editing, hybrid pipelines) and favored by employees.
www.gamesradar.com/games/opposi...
Opposing Steam's AI disclosures, Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says game stores should drop "the AI tag" because "it makes no sense" when "AI will be involved in nearly all future production"
Steam has actually made AI disclosures even more prominent
www.gamesradar.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Cold take: I do agree that it is (or will soon be) nearly impossible to avoid AI-powered tools.
If the backlash continues, studios will simply not disclose uses that are undetectable to players (coding, text editing, hybrid pipelines) and favored by employees.
www.gamesradar.com/games/opposi...
If the backlash continues, studios will simply not disclose uses that are undetectable to players (coding, text editing, hybrid pipelines) and favored by employees.
www.gamesradar.com/games/opposi...
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Gallery: Sorry, your art was not accepted for our exhibition, but thanks for applying.
Me: What? I never applied.
Gallery: Oops! [verbatim] "I was using an AI tool to organize a spreadsheet of exhibition submissions. It incorrectly invented a few names during the sorting process, and yours was one."
Me: What? I never applied.
Gallery: Oops! [verbatim] "I was using an AI tool to organize a spreadsheet of exhibition submissions. It incorrectly invented a few names during the sorting process, and yours was one."
November 28, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Gallery: Sorry, your art was not accepted for our exhibition, but thanks for applying.
Me: What? I never applied.
Gallery: Oops! [verbatim] "I was using an AI tool to organize a spreadsheet of exhibition submissions. It incorrectly invented a few names during the sorting process, and yours was one."
Me: What? I never applied.
Gallery: Oops! [verbatim] "I was using an AI tool to organize a spreadsheet of exhibition submissions. It incorrectly invented a few names during the sorting process, and yours was one."
Thinking about the recent passing of Steve Kurtz, co-founder of Critical Art Ensemble.
He was a key figure in the tactical media scene, which I looked up to when I started Molleindustria.
A deep cut: in 1998 the CAE co-created one of the earliest art games and Game Boy hacks: Super Kid Fighter
He was a key figure in the tactical media scene, which I looked up to when I started Molleindustria.
A deep cut: in 1998 the CAE co-created one of the earliest art games and Game Boy hacks: Super Kid Fighter
November 27, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Thinking about the recent passing of Steve Kurtz, co-founder of Critical Art Ensemble.
He was a key figure in the tactical media scene, which I looked up to when I started Molleindustria.
A deep cut: in 1998 the CAE co-created one of the earliest art games and Game Boy hacks: Super Kid Fighter
He was a key figure in the tactical media scene, which I looked up to when I started Molleindustria.
A deep cut: in 1998 the CAE co-created one of the earliest art games and Game Boy hacks: Super Kid Fighter
[At the skin lounge]
Me: [chanting] skin, skin-
Other patients: skin, SKIN
Secretary: [pounding her clipboard] SKIN, SKIN, SKIN!
Me: [chanting] skin, skin-
Other patients: skin, SKIN
Secretary: [pounding her clipboard] SKIN, SKIN, SKIN!
November 26, 2025 at 6:13 PM
[At the skin lounge]
Me: [chanting] skin, skin-
Other patients: skin, SKIN
Secretary: [pounding her clipboard] SKIN, SKIN, SKIN!
Me: [chanting] skin, skin-
Other patients: skin, SKIN
Secretary: [pounding her clipboard] SKIN, SKIN, SKIN!
Today I learned that the US poverty line is still calculated as 3x the minimum food diet in 1963, a metric completely disconnected from today’s cost of living.
Here's a clear post explaining why middle and working class families are effectively getting poorer.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Here's a clear post explaining why middle and working class families are effectively getting poorer.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Today I learned that the US poverty line is still calculated as 3x the minimum food diet in 1963, a metric completely disconnected from today’s cost of living.
Here's a clear post explaining why middle and working class families are effectively getting poorer.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Here's a clear post explaining why middle and working class families are effectively getting poorer.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
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For @404media.co this morning: a group of immigrant rights organizers are helping people use Fortnite to practice what to do if they encounter ICE agents in the wild. And I got to see it.
www.404media.co/ice-defense-...
www.404media.co/ice-defense-...
Inside an ICE Defense Training on Fortnite
A group of immigrant rights organizers are helping people use Fortnite to practice what to do if they encounter ICE agents in the wild.
www.404media.co
November 24, 2025 at 3:13 PM
For @404media.co this morning: a group of immigrant rights organizers are helping people use Fortnite to practice what to do if they encounter ICE agents in the wild. And I got to see it.
www.404media.co/ice-defense-...
www.404media.co/ice-defense-...
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No bailouts. The US should extort these companies when the crash happens so they get minimal compensation in return for nationalizing the entire panopticon industry and then destroying it once harvested for socially useful parts. It won’t happen but it should
November 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
No bailouts. The US should extort these companies when the crash happens so they get minimal compensation in return for nationalizing the entire panopticon industry and then destroying it once harvested for socially useful parts. It won’t happen but it should
Steam, the go-to destination for childlike anime smut, is so worried about one scene in this art game that it isn’t even letting the developers resubmit it.
www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...
www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...
Horror game maker accuses Valve of 'censorship' after its game about nude human 'Horses' is rejected by Steam: 'Lawful works should not be made unreachable by a monopolistic storefront's opaque decisi...
Valve told Santa Ragione its game featured child exploitation. The studio says otherwise.
www.pcgamer.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Steam, the go-to destination for childlike anime smut, is so worried about one scene in this art game that it isn’t even letting the developers resubmit it.
www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...
www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...
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Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
Yo dev I heard you like platforms so I put a platform inside your platform so you can pay a fee while you're paying fees
Unity developers will soon be able to bring games to Fortnite
Unity developers will soon be able to bring games to Fortnite
Beginning next year, Unity developers will gain access to Fortnite's vast platform and creator economy.
www.gamedeveloper.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Yo dev I heard you like platforms so I put a platform inside your platform so you can pay a fee while you're paying fees
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We sat down with the creator of the satirical solarpunk videogame 'Future? No Thanks!' and the conversation did not disappoint. Link in comments for the full interview 👇🔗🎮 🌞
November 19, 2025 at 6:05 AM
We sat down with the creator of the satirical solarpunk videogame 'Future? No Thanks!' and the conversation did not disappoint. Link in comments for the full interview 👇🔗🎮 🌞
I've been playing Q-UP, a brilliant and deeply weird incremental game with an esports theme.
It starts with a simple coin flip and spirals into a fugue of emergent mechanics.
I'll post some thoughts here as I idly play…
store.steampowered.com/app/3730790/...
It starts with a simple coin flip and spirals into a fugue of emergent mechanics.
I'll post some thoughts here as I idly play…
store.steampowered.com/app/3730790/...
Save 10% on Q-UP on Steam
Sick of long queues, unfair matchups, and arbitrary reflex tests? Try Q-UP, the coin flipping eSport. It's one part clicker, one part multiplayer strategy game, one part demented capitalism simulator,...
store.steampowered.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:17 PM
I've been playing Q-UP, a brilliant and deeply weird incremental game with an esports theme.
It starts with a simple coin flip and spirals into a fugue of emergent mechanics.
I'll post some thoughts here as I idly play…
store.steampowered.com/app/3730790/...
It starts with a simple coin flip and spirals into a fugue of emergent mechanics.
I'll post some thoughts here as I idly play…
store.steampowered.com/app/3730790/...
The media’s obsessive need to reframe broader capitalist restructuring (precarity, gig work, underemployment) as personal lifestyle choices.
November 14, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The media’s obsessive need to reframe broader capitalist restructuring (precarity, gig work, underemployment) as personal lifestyle choices.
Affirmation: I will live a fulfilling life of gamemaking without ever knowing who the hell Geff Keighley is
November 8, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Affirmation: I will live a fulfilling life of gamemaking without ever knowing who the hell Geff Keighley is
Me, updating a game from Unity 2020.3.24 to Unity 2020.3.49
November 8, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Me, updating a game from Unity 2020.3.24 to Unity 2020.3.49
Poignant piece by one of Fetterman’s former staffers.
It’s also a good reminder that much of this guy’s sparkling social media presence was the work of some overqualified young writer from Brooklyn.
It’s also a good reminder that much of this guy’s sparkling social media presence was the work of some overqualified young writer from Brooklyn.
"The Fettermans of the world have cut off their own feet, and then gleefully rolled about on the floor, wondering why on earth they cannot walk."
When I Was John Fetterman
I was one of the senator’s most dedicated consultants—until I saw a side of him that made me sick.
www.thenation.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Poignant piece by one of Fetterman’s former staffers.
It’s also a good reminder that much of this guy’s sparkling social media presence was the work of some overqualified young writer from Brooklyn.
It’s also a good reminder that much of this guy’s sparkling social media presence was the work of some overqualified young writer from Brooklyn.
I have a bold theory: Guitar Hero is responsible for the worst decade of rock music in half a century.
Guitar Hero peaked around 2007 and quickly declined.
It boosted interest in classic rock, AND YET the 2010s were objectively awful for new guitar-driven acts.
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
Guitar Hero peaked around 2007 and quickly declined.
It boosted interest in classic rock, AND YET the 2010s were objectively awful for new guitar-driven acts.
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
Guitar Hero at 20 – how a plastic axe bridged the gap between rock generations
Guitar Hero’s controllers let anyone become a star in their own living room – and made the bands featured in the game household names again
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I have a bold theory: Guitar Hero is responsible for the worst decade of rock music in half a century.
Guitar Hero peaked around 2007 and quickly declined.
It boosted interest in classic rock, AND YET the 2010s were objectively awful for new guitar-driven acts.
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
Guitar Hero peaked around 2007 and quickly declined.
It boosted interest in classic rock, AND YET the 2010s were objectively awful for new guitar-driven acts.
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
Lovely introduction to game design, distilling decades of thinking by Raph and many others.
I can't wait to discuss it in my classes.
I can't wait to discuss it in my classes.
Game design is simple, actually. Except when it isn't. Here are the 12 things you need to know.
Game design is simple, actually
So, let’s just walk through the whole thing, end to end. Here’s a twelve-step program for understanding game design. One: Fun There are a lot of things people call “fun.” But most of them are not useful for getting better at making games, which is usually why people read articles like this. The fun of a bit of confetti exploding in front of you, and the fun of excruciating pain and risk to life and limb as you free climb a cliff are just not usefully paired together.
www.raphkoster.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Lovely introduction to game design, distilling decades of thinking by Raph and many others.
I can't wait to discuss it in my classes.
I can't wait to discuss it in my classes.
The Authoritarian Stack: a concise interactive feature on the takeover of democratic institutions by tech oligarchs.
The U.S. may already be cooked, but the rest of the world still has time to shift toward sovereign platforms.
www.authoritarian-stack.info
The U.S. may already be cooked, but the rest of the world still has time to shift toward sovereign platforms.
www.authoritarian-stack.info
November 8, 2025 at 2:09 PM
The Authoritarian Stack: a concise interactive feature on the takeover of democratic institutions by tech oligarchs.
The U.S. may already be cooked, but the rest of the world still has time to shift toward sovereign platforms.
www.authoritarian-stack.info
The U.S. may already be cooked, but the rest of the world still has time to shift toward sovereign platforms.
www.authoritarian-stack.info
Future? No Thanks! Is officially releasing on the same day as GTA VI (whatever that is) so this gives 6 more months to finish it!
Grand Theft Auto VI delayed to Nov 19, 2026 www.rockstargames.com/newswire/art...
November 6, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Future? No Thanks! Is officially releasing on the same day as GTA VI (whatever that is) so this gives 6 more months to finish it!
To be fair, they basically invented the turgid kitsch style that’s now the default for AI slop
Coca-Cola's annual Christmas commercial is AI-generated again
The company used even fewer people to make it this year
“We need to keep moving forward and pushing the envelope … The genie is out of the bottle, and you’re not going to put it back in"
(via THR)
The company used even fewer people to make it this year
“We need to keep moving forward and pushing the envelope … The genie is out of the bottle, and you’re not going to put it back in"
(via THR)
November 5, 2025 at 4:32 PM
To be fair, they basically invented the turgid kitsch style that’s now the default for AI slop
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good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx
November 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx
The bad news is that *even in the current climate* liberals, capitalists, and mainstream media will form a united front with the fascists to oppose a center-left candidate.
The good news is that they can be defeated.
The good news is that they can be defeated.
November 5, 2025 at 3:20 AM
The bad news is that *even in the current climate* liberals, capitalists, and mainstream media will form a united front with the fascists to oppose a center-left candidate.
The good news is that they can be defeated.
The good news is that they can be defeated.