i really wish the success of the Tamon anime would actually motivate US publishers to promote and pick up more shoujo titles but knowing the way these licensing deals and decisions are made I’ll just sit quietly with my overpriced imported JP manga 🥲

Crunch is bad but I think the worst thing is how much it's normalized because you should be happy to work in games / working in games isn't REAL work. Truckers have regulations for how long they can drive at a time for reasons!!! Destroying people won't make your games better!!!!!!

the way i can only see this localized as “stupid” and specifically in a new yorker accent

all the anxiety human evolution developed to help me spot bears now kicks in when i have to answer emails

today's coworker had kindergarteners watch 15 minutes of kingdom hearts cutscenes bc she typed in "toy story 3 full movie". she cleaned the entire classroom with no reaction to sora being on the tv and only switched it once she was done. which was also right after the word 'xehanort' was said

Charlie Browns mom: Waaah wah wah wah waaah waaah waaah wah

Charlie Brown: oh, you mean pigpen

Charlie browns mom: Wah way. Waaaah wahwahwah wah wah waaah waaaah wahwhawah wah wah

Charlie Brown: yeah I get that. It’s pretty bad over there but I don’t think they hit him

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EA CEO Andrew Wilson's annual compensation of ~$25 million ($5M cash, $20M stocks/etc) is more or less the annual cost of 150 *well-paid* developers.

I tried a video game called Bioshock but it was too hard and scary for me so I went back to Kirby

Favorite drawings from France

omg a student somehow accidentally wrote an email addressed to a faculty-wide NYU listserv and my inbox is now a master class on who understands the difference between a listserv and an email chain

You can measure an economy's actual, real life, concrete health by: are people able to do their own weird shit?

Do they have money to survive doing their weird shit? Do they have the free time to do that weird shit?

Fuck the metrics, just look for the dirtbags and artists and musicians and writers

Me: Narrative design and game writing are related but separate disciplines. You could compare it to architect and builder, both essential but serving separate functions. There are of course overlapping gray areas we can delve into

Demon I trapped in a pentagram: Please free me. Send me back to hell

"Alien" is considered a horror movie because its premise is "What if unwanted pregnancies could happen to men?"

Did you know John Cena's bit at the Oscars was to support the costume designers' union, which is mostly female, which gets paid 30% less than the male-dominated departments?

They may have to strike this summer, & their campaign motto is "You're Naked Without Us."

Don’t ever let your dumb history teachers convince you that human rights were won through polite discourse

2023 was a good year, despite it all