I am literally producing on a Palestinian game project where we have a "in case of our creative director getting massacred" contingency plan, and people dare to tell me to "focus on video games". Even my video games life is directly affected by the on-going genocide.

I'm against what the Israeli army has been doing in Gaza too but I'm also against Iran bombing the fuck out of Israel. The part where civilians have human rights and should be safe is the common thread. Yes? Yes.

I was tired of debating Middle Eastern policy with almost everyone before today's events, but here's my current position: Anyone telling you the life of one person is worth more than another based on their citizenship is wrong. All of this is wrong.

ugh I did too (on a sale on PS5, in a world where I am only good at playing games on PC) haha. I will play more than two hours of it someday *tucks it back on the shelf*

I skipped Valhalla after _gorging_ myself on Odyssey and don't regret it fwiw. Can't play everything! :p

PC Gaming PSA: Assassin’s Creed Mirage — the Deluxe Edition — is $15 over at the Ubisoft Connect store after fall coupon. (AUTUMN24 at checkout.) If you are team Wait One Year for those games, today is the day.

Never in human history has “I’ll put this under the bed so I don’t lose it” worked out.

The call for papers is out if you’d like to apply to speak (virtual options possible): nacvgm.org/cfp2025/

sadly the “going just to feel like a PhD person, please recruit me” conference is the much less fun AMS / SMT annual meetings, which I also attend (Chicago / Jacksonville this year, I’m just at the former). GSC is networking with composers / performers and it rules. NACVGM: meet more folks like us

You should definitely be hitting up the relevant conferences if you aren’t already! (NACVGM is in Cleveland this spring; GameSoundCon is the last week of October in Burbank.)