.chantal//RYAN
@thoughtrise.bsky.social
:: lead dev @ darkwebSTREAMER @darkwebSTREAMER.bsky.social
::: anthropologist|englishslit🌱
👁️🗨️ darkwebSTREAMER: tinyurl.com/darkwebstreamer
👂 podcast: directional.show
✉️ chantal @ whalitfdotcom
::: anthropologist|englishslit🌱
👁️🗨️ darkwebSTREAMER: tinyurl.com/darkwebstreamer
👂 podcast: directional.show
✉️ chantal @ whalitfdotcom
wow you guys are like, making a lot of games
*nervous laughter*
*nervous laughter*
November 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
wow you guys are like, making a lot of games
*nervous laughter*
*nervous laughter*
i think i have a 1 in 5 success rate making posts with images on this site
does anyone else have this issue? i get infinite "uploading images" load text or "failed to connect to network"
really stomping on my style here bsky
does anyone else have this issue? i get infinite "uploading images" load text or "failed to connect to network"
really stomping on my style here bsky
November 10, 2025 at 7:02 PM
i think i have a 1 in 5 success rate making posts with images on this site
does anyone else have this issue? i get infinite "uploading images" load text or "failed to connect to network"
really stomping on my style here bsky
does anyone else have this issue? i get infinite "uploading images" load text or "failed to connect to network"
really stomping on my style here bsky
yes
new horror story about men, women, animals and appetites
please read and repost
medium.com/@leighalexan...
please read and repost
medium.com/@leighalexan...
November 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
yes
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ATTENTION!!! Only 7 more hours of sale, get it while it's hot (and 30% off) store.steampowered.com/app/3010070/...
November 10, 2025 at 10:39 AM
ATTENTION!!! Only 7 more hours of sale, get it while it's hot (and 30% off) store.steampowered.com/app/3010070/...
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new blog post: notes on quest design in Dread Delusion, a very good indie first person RPG / Morrowind-like www.blog.radiator.debacle.us/2025/11/drea...
The bleak and poignant open world sidequest design of Dread Delusion
World design / quest design review of Dread Delusion, a 2024 indie first person RPG / Morrowind-like
www.blog.radiator.debacle.us
November 7, 2025 at 1:04 AM
new blog post: notes on quest design in Dread Delusion, a very good indie first person RPG / Morrowind-like www.blog.radiator.debacle.us/2025/11/drea...
months ago i fell in love with a piano song and joked about my kid learning it for my birthday
well, it's my birthday today and i woke up, went in to say good morning to him and he looks at me, silently walks over to his piano and performs the most gorgeous rendition of that very song
this life 🥹
well, it's my birthday today and i woke up, went in to say good morning to him and he looks at me, silently walks over to his piano and performs the most gorgeous rendition of that very song
this life 🥹
November 9, 2025 at 5:38 AM
months ago i fell in love with a piano song and joked about my kid learning it for my birthday
well, it's my birthday today and i woke up, went in to say good morning to him and he looks at me, silently walks over to his piano and performs the most gorgeous rendition of that very song
this life 🥹
well, it's my birthday today and i woke up, went in to say good morning to him and he looks at me, silently walks over to his piano and performs the most gorgeous rendition of that very song
this life 🥹
i'm so, so curious what attendance is going to be like at GDC next year
especially curious to hear from people who usually attend every year - are you going/not going?
especially curious to hear from people who usually attend every year - are you going/not going?
November 9, 2025 at 4:12 AM
i'm so, so curious what attendance is going to be like at GDC next year
especially curious to hear from people who usually attend every year - are you going/not going?
especially curious to hear from people who usually attend every year - are you going/not going?
i think my fav moment i've ever experienced in a game is taking a few steps out of the starter town in morrowind when a body fell out of the sky & thudded at my feet
looted his corpse to find a letter gloating about his leaping spell creation & how he was going to have the last laugh
such whimsy 😌
looted his corpse to find a letter gloating about his leaping spell creation & how he was going to have the last laugh
such whimsy 😌
November 9, 2025 at 3:13 AM
i think my fav moment i've ever experienced in a game is taking a few steps out of the starter town in morrowind when a body fell out of the sky & thudded at my feet
looted his corpse to find a letter gloating about his leaping spell creation & how he was going to have the last laugh
such whimsy 😌
looted his corpse to find a letter gloating about his leaping spell creation & how he was going to have the last laugh
such whimsy 😌
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Come join my stream and watch me be absolutely terrible at Battlefield 6. FOR THE KIDS!
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WATCH: twitch.tv/sporkjenkins
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WATCH: twitch.tv/sporkjenkins
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November 9, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Come join my stream and watch me be absolutely terrible at Battlefield 6. FOR THE KIDS!
DONATE: bit.ly/CGELGlenn25
WATCH: twitch.tv/sporkjenkins
DONATE: bit.ly/CGELGlenn25
WATCH: twitch.tv/sporkjenkins
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I spent a year writing a book and now it's real WOWEE! So I made an unboxing video. Help me make it meme status 🙏🏾✨
Pre-order The Staff Designer from @rosenfeldmedia.com to get 15% off and it'll be delivered to your doorstep this December!!
Direct link: rosenfeldmedia.com/books/the-st...
Pre-order The Staff Designer from @rosenfeldmedia.com to get 15% off and it'll be delivered to your doorstep this December!!
Direct link: rosenfeldmedia.com/books/the-st...
November 4, 2025 at 12:00 AM
I spent a year writing a book and now it's real WOWEE! So I made an unboxing video. Help me make it meme status 🙏🏾✨
Pre-order The Staff Designer from @rosenfeldmedia.com to get 15% off and it'll be delivered to your doorstep this December!!
Direct link: rosenfeldmedia.com/books/the-st...
Pre-order The Staff Designer from @rosenfeldmedia.com to get 15% off and it'll be delivered to your doorstep this December!!
Direct link: rosenfeldmedia.com/books/the-st...
when you've lost so much you've got very little left to lose, the truth tends to get easier to speak
this is, genuinely, how revolutions happen
this is, genuinely, how revolutions happen
Yea it does feel like people are starting to be more willing to just say that a companies or brand is not doing right by people and less afraid to say it on main and publicly.
November 7, 2025 at 5:58 PM
when you've lost so much you've got very little left to lose, the truth tends to get easier to speak
this is, genuinely, how revolutions happen
this is, genuinely, how revolutions happen
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TWO WEEKS UNTIL DEMONSCHOOL
November 5, 2025 at 5:59 PM
TWO WEEKS UNTIL DEMONSCHOOL
the thing about having lots of money is that it literally gives you a form of madness
madness is a state of having departed from a shared default social reality, as well as having an incapacity to authentically connect to it
the ultrawealthy are sane only in their own insane worlds
madness is a state of having departed from a shared default social reality, as well as having an incapacity to authentically connect to it
the ultrawealthy are sane only in their own insane worlds
November 7, 2025 at 2:35 PM
the thing about having lots of money is that it literally gives you a form of madness
madness is a state of having departed from a shared default social reality, as well as having an incapacity to authentically connect to it
the ultrawealthy are sane only in their own insane worlds
madness is a state of having departed from a shared default social reality, as well as having an incapacity to authentically connect to it
the ultrawealthy are sane only in their own insane worlds
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Still thinking about the “official” 2023 Future Class meetup after we had to pay for our own travel to LA/hotel/tickets to the Game Awards, only to stand on a sidewalk outside a Starbucks where they wouldn’t even cover the cost of our shitty coffees 🫠
www.gamedeveloper.com/business/the...
www.gamedeveloper.com/business/the...
The Game Awards' Future Class program remains on ice
Future Class organizer Emily Weir has informed past honorees that The Game Awards has no active plans for the program.
www.gamedeveloper.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Still thinking about the “official” 2023 Future Class meetup after we had to pay for our own travel to LA/hotel/tickets to the Game Awards, only to stand on a sidewalk outside a Starbucks where they wouldn’t even cover the cost of our shitty coffees 🫠
www.gamedeveloper.com/business/the...
www.gamedeveloper.com/business/the...
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Honestly it feels really bad that when we asked them to put their money where their mouth was, TGAs instead killed the entire Future Class program.
November 5, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Honestly it feels really bad that when we asked them to put their money where their mouth was, TGAs instead killed the entire Future Class program.
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There was no Future Class last year and there will not be one this year, because we had the audacity to do the thing we were good at and the powers that be that had underestimated us were too cowardly to put their money where their mouths were. 🤷🏻♀️
I mean when you put 149 people known for their activism, advocacy, and organizing skills in the industry in a room and tell them they are the bright, bold, inclusive future of the industry, can you really be surprised when they start advocating and organizing themselves to create such a future 🤔
November 6, 2025 at 4:39 PM
There was no Future Class last year and there will not be one this year, because we had the audacity to do the thing we were good at and the powers that be that had underestimated us were too cowardly to put their money where their mouths were. 🤷🏻♀️
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We had to find out via the website!!! AND we asked what happened to the money!!
perhaps the most egregious thing that happened with the Future Class was when The Game Awards took money from Old Spice in the name of the FC & simply... pocketed it
it wasn't used to fund Future Class initiatives, it wasn't used to help lift marginalised developers
they just profited from us
it wasn't used to fund Future Class initiatives, it wasn't used to help lift marginalised developers
they just profited from us
November 7, 2025 at 6:15 AM
We had to find out via the website!!! AND we asked what happened to the money!!
perhaps the most egregious thing that happened with the Future Class was when The Game Awards took money from Old Spice in the name of the FC & simply... pocketed it
it wasn't used to fund Future Class initiatives, it wasn't used to help lift marginalised developers
they just profited from us
it wasn't used to fund Future Class initiatives, it wasn't used to help lift marginalised developers
they just profited from us
November 7, 2025 at 5:59 AM
perhaps the most egregious thing that happened with the Future Class was when The Game Awards took money from Old Spice in the name of the FC & simply... pocketed it
it wasn't used to fund Future Class initiatives, it wasn't used to help lift marginalised developers
they just profited from us
it wasn't used to fund Future Class initiatives, it wasn't used to help lift marginalised developers
they just profited from us
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The story I heard out of Future Class was pretty much exclusively people who got in feeling like they were being ignored in a near totally inactive Discord with no purpose or intent, while being plastered all over TGA's industry side promotion and messaging as tokens of diversity and youth.
EXCLUSIVE on @gamedeveloper.bsky.social: not only has The Game Awards not nominated a Future Class for 2025, it's told alumni it "does not have any active programming plans" for the award.
The Future Class page was taken down sometime this year—eliminating a definitive archive of honorees.
The Future Class page was taken down sometime this year—eliminating a definitive archive of honorees.
The Game Awards' Future Class program remains on ice
Future Class organizer Emily Weir has informed past honorees that The Game Awards has no active plans for the program.
www.gamedeveloper.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:10 PM
The story I heard out of Future Class was pretty much exclusively people who got in feeling like they were being ignored in a near totally inactive Discord with no purpose or intent, while being plastered all over TGA's industry side promotion and messaging as tokens of diversity and youth.
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The Future Class was created in 2020 when a lot of companies responded to online critiques and broader social justice movements with DEI initiatives.
Hard not to read part of the subtext here as the TGAs, like many other brands, trying to distance itself from "woke."
Hard not to read part of the subtext here as the TGAs, like many other brands, trying to distance itself from "woke."
EXCLUSIVE on @gamedeveloper.bsky.social: not only has The Game Awards not nominated a Future Class for 2025, it's told alumni it "does not have any active programming plans" for the award.
The Future Class page was taken down sometime this year—eliminating a definitive archive of honorees.
The Future Class page was taken down sometime this year—eliminating a definitive archive of honorees.
The Game Awards' Future Class program remains on ice
Future Class organizer Emily Weir has informed past honorees that The Game Awards has no active plans for the program.
www.gamedeveloper.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:10 PM
The Future Class was created in 2020 when a lot of companies responded to online critiques and broader social justice movements with DEI initiatives.
Hard not to read part of the subtext here as the TGAs, like many other brands, trying to distance itself from "woke."
Hard not to read part of the subtext here as the TGAs, like many other brands, trying to distance itself from "woke."
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I think for me it was that when after we were inducted and they said the program had "mentoring" they clarified that they were expecting US to mentor, not that they were going to find US mentors. I was like. Oh.
November 6, 2025 at 9:45 PM
I think for me it was that when after we were inducted and they said the program had "mentoring" they clarified that they were expecting US to mentor, not that they were going to find US mentors. I was like. Oh.
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Getting nominated & picked for Future Class was one of the highlights of my careers but it also contributed to the disillusionment of the industry.
Who I am, my story & my work was used as a prop to elevate powerful voices to further exploit me & other Marginalized folks for money & street cred.
Who I am, my story & my work was used as a prop to elevate powerful voices to further exploit me & other Marginalized folks for money & street cred.
November 6, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Getting nominated & picked for Future Class was one of the highlights of my careers but it also contributed to the disillusionment of the industry.
Who I am, my story & my work was used as a prop to elevate powerful voices to further exploit me & other Marginalized folks for money & street cred.
Who I am, my story & my work was used as a prop to elevate powerful voices to further exploit me & other Marginalized folks for money & street cred.
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What I found hilarious was getting the honor of being future class and then told we couldnt walk the red carpet. What was the nail in the head for me was being put in a corner a few years ago behind the camera and then made to feel like we should be thankful for even being in the room.
EXCLUSIVE on @gamedeveloper.bsky.social: not only has The Game Awards not nominated a Future Class for 2025, it's told alumni it "does not have any active programming plans" for the award.
The Future Class page was taken down sometime this year—eliminating a definitive archive of honorees.
The Future Class page was taken down sometime this year—eliminating a definitive archive of honorees.
The Game Awards' Future Class program remains on ice
Future Class organizer Emily Weir has informed past honorees that The Game Awards has no active plans for the program.
www.gamedeveloper.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:39 PM
What I found hilarious was getting the honor of being future class and then told we couldnt walk the red carpet. What was the nail in the head for me was being put in a corner a few years ago behind the camera and then made to feel like we should be thankful for even being in the room.