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Mo (Dr. rat) 🏳️‍🌈 @laughingtrendy.bsky.social · 8h

I remember creatives defending their positions of authority on the premise of fun purely through THEIR feeling.

Then we got into articulating it a bit better. Fun means a lot of things whether you're playing Tomb Raider or Siege. Are there gameplay loops in those? Yes. But that's not all there is.

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Mo (Dr. rat) 🏳️‍🌈 @laughingtrendy.bsky.social · 8h

While it is absolutely right that it's done harm, the "it's just fun" was also a buzzy harmful epidemic in the industry.

The idea of 'game loop' was to get out of saying that a game was simply fun and identify it better with more specific language. But this lead to being a buzz as well

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Mo (Dr. rat) 🏳️‍🌈 @laughingtrendy.bsky.social · 9h

there's a non-0 chance that he's seen this with how online he is

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Blinding Lights (Arabic Version) - Eurobeat Remix

YouTube video by Vikas Music

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 1d

(From www.gamedeveloper.com/production/h...)

How poor leadership slows down game development

No tool—AI or otherwise—can speed up game development if leaders don't rise to the occasion.

www.gamedeveloper.com

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Mo (Dr. rat) 🏳️‍🌈 @laughingtrendy.bsky.social · 1d

it's cuomover for dershowitz

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Auroch Digital @aurochdigital.bsky.social · 1d

In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war. Introducing: Warhammer Survivors, coming 2026.

The endless night closes around you in the universes of Warhammer. Pick a champion and eviscerate endless swarms of enemies ⚔️

Watch the trailer 👇

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Mo (Dr. rat) 🏳️‍🌈 @laughingtrendy.bsky.social · 2d

And don't get me wrong: our gut does a good job of giving an initial consideration! So I understand folks using anecdotes. But the gut is neither sufficient on its own, nor unbiased.

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Mo (Dr. rat) 🏳️‍🌈 @laughingtrendy.bsky.social · 2d

I wish this was the culture more in Community (and the video game industry). Not purely to reduce players to numbers, but to interpret better. Simultaneously to push the industry away from vibes-based decisions and inform ourselves before drastically undercutting players.

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Mo (Dr. rat) 🏳️‍🌈 @laughingtrendy.bsky.social · 2d

At the time this was profound. Perhaps profoundly different from the previous status quo, but by modern standards a rudimentary snapshot.

Now? I have equations from researchers to understand factors of engagement over time and pop models. It helps ground things substantially.

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Mo (Dr. rat) 🏳️‍🌈 @laughingtrendy.bsky.social · 2d

There's both a serious bit of wisdom AND naivety with that. Certainly some players will voice things, but is that indicative of the whole? Do they speak for everyone? Are they "right"?

So in an attempt to have SOME form of empirical data, I got analytics for our blogs. Viewership. Bounce rates!

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Mo (Dr. rat) 🏳️‍🌈 @laughingtrendy.bsky.social · 2d

I remember the very first Community task I inherited was maintaining a series of blogs on various subjects (UGC, Updates, Reveals, etc.). When I asked how I'd know if they were doing well, the response was "The players will let you know"

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Mo (Dr. rat) 🏳️‍🌈 @laughingtrendy.bsky.social · 2d

🧵 It still amazes me how little education material there is within the Community/PlayerExperience profession.

I know too many who's only tools available are vibes-based attempting to be some sort of bellweather.

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Seb Downie-Blackwell :soon: Games Ground @downieseb.bsky.social · 2d

Creatives dealing with production people. Yes you need to update your tasks. No we're not trying to throttle the creative process. Please leave the attitude at the door.

Raquel de Miranda @rdemiranda.bsky.social · 3d

I'd love for designers especially to be mindful of this (or anyone we directly collaborate with). If you admit to general contempt for the discipline even before we start to work together, well then it gets real awkward for us you know? And it's hard to trust you'll keep our interests at heart.

Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 3d

I'm going to be honest it is unpleasant to work in the discipline within the games industry that people seem to have especially-reserved venom for. Nobody seems really intent on calling out, eg, video game sountracks they think are middling as if it's really important to yell about.

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Mo (Dr. rat) 🏳️‍🌈 @laughingtrendy.bsky.social · 3d

In earnest, I've been marveling at the writing of this game. Outer Worlds 1 was fun as a take on the post-apocalyptic theme of capitalism. But OW2 feels refined and deep. I'm too early to feel definitive about this yet, but it's giving me Mass Effect 2 vibes as a development success.

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Mo (Dr. rat) 🏳️‍🌈 @laughingtrendy.bsky.social · 3d

Outer Worlds 2 having a radio song in the style of Hamilton singing is next level writing. Lin-Manuel Miranda singing about Auntie Cleo is buckwild.

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Mo (Dr. rat) 🏳️‍🌈 @laughingtrendy.bsky.social · 3d

Sponsored by Relaxium - we'll put you down!

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 8d

Denise Gough looking at a phone like wtf

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 9d

centrists will tell you to your face that we all need to abandon identity issues, and focus on kitchen table issues instead and yet when a leftist candidate runs a generational campaign based on kitchen table issues, it's the centrists weaponizing identity politics to smear the leftist.

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Mo (Dr. rat) 🏳️‍🌈 @laughingtrendy.bsky.social · 11d

you ever think about 9/11 larp

Mo (Dr. rat) 🏳️‍🌈 @laughingtrendy.bsky.social · 12d

I just want to talk to the person who convinced the team to do this. Please I want to talk to you. Just a quick chat. Please I need

larpventure.com/frostpunk

Frostpunk - Live Action Roleplay

A psychological survival-horror larp in the world of Frostpunk

larpventure.com

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Mo (Dr. rat) 🏳️‍🌈 @laughingtrendy.bsky.social · 12d

Like many political grifting, there's a trend to invent a problem (including those already solved) so that you can sell the solution.

They're trying to supply both supply AND demand.

Mo (Dr. rat) 🏳️‍🌈 @laughingtrendy.bsky.social · 13d

Sorry I was late to work AWS crashed so my shoes couldn't move

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Chris 🍂 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 28d

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 27d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 28d

Y'all told these motherfuckers it was OK to let trans people lose their rights. Now they're banking on people letting them abandon everyone who looks vaguely Latino as well as actual immigrants. Who are y'all advocating for moderation gonna abandon next?

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 28d

Durbin on whether Democrats can use reining in ICE in Chicago as a precondition to rein in the government says “can’t do that. It’s gotta be health care all the way.”

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