Jane Ng

I went to a donut shop this morning, which is not something I usually do. It was so lovely. I wanted 2 donuts, pointed at them, and paid for it. That's it. It's a simple interaction. No fraud, no theft. I really miss that simplicity being the default. I'm just really tired of all the grift.

‘Desperado’ private commission for Samuel Dean of his character Baeloch from Samuel’s dark fantasy comic series.

when i was 7, my family bought a van from a place called "just buses", they had a sticker on the back that said that in kind of a sexy cursive font. i peeled it off, rearranged the letters and forgot about it. nobody noticed. finally my mum goes "wait since when the hell has our van said Lust Bus"

Solar has overtaken nuclear. A decade ago it supplied 1% of the world's power. In 2025 it met three quarters of global demand growth. Almost nobody saw it coming. I spoke to Jocelyn Timperley at BBC Future about why. www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

I've mostly let this live outside of my personal work, but Belltower House is now halfway through its second season of residents and it's been a true joy to help host artists to work and rest in the high desert I love

Loved this essay from @ijeomaoluo.bsky.social ijeomaoluo.substack.com/p/the-symbio...

In the last few weeks i've been bombarded with emails from people who have minor tech support problems. ChatGPT is telling them to email me, writing their emails, and compiling "evidence packets" after convincing them they have stumbled on a major story: www.404media.co/chatgpt-keep...

The moon is out there looking absolutely gorgeous tonight

‘Customers should be less informed about the products they buy’ is such a wild stance to take

I knew almost nothing about You Can See Everything before I saw it (don’t even think I saw the trailer) and holy moly what a masterpiece. I’m gonna think about this for a while. Esp in an age of AI this and that, what an incredible human film

since no one will shut up about ME2 today, a thread:

📣Calling all women and femme writers📣 I am looking to commission around 10 heartfelt essays surrounding video game criticism. If this sounds like something you are down to do them read on and I urge you to apply. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

lol love how they send one guy out to negotiate

Not the top Steam review of Dressmaker making me cry this morning!

Lights are reflected off a bulletproof screen as President Trump speaks during a campaign rally in Greenville, North Carolina. More photos of the week: reut.rs/4yGkBNh 📷 Evan Vucci

sorry but the replies here are whack. co-dev is good and healthy for the industry. co-dev means that when you finish your project, instead of laying off the surge of people you hired to finish the game, they go work on a different game with a different core team and different publisher.

Bioware forever.

One more for the afternoon crowd. Two of the last lines of dialogue I wrote on the last BioWare game I shipped.

“Sexuality certainly doesn’t have to be a character’s story, but in this case I felt like I had something to say. I’d never had the opportunity to put a piece of myself in a character I was writing, so it was a very personal experience.” www.thegamer.com/dragon-age-i...

If you ever wondered why the first Dragon Age took over 6 years to develop (and almost got canceled), this article goes into partly why: the team couldn't agree on what *kind* of fantasy our new fantasy game was going to be. Yes, there's an alternate universe out there where it was more Conan. 😉

Today is my birthday and I'd love if people would share my artwork 🥰🖤

Thank you to BioWare for so many things. Thank you to those who made Dragon Age: Inquisition for breaking my heart by making a game that dared to not give me what I wanted: agameofme.tumblr.com/post/1053367...

I knew this was likely, I try not to get emotional about the desolation of this industry, but Goddess this one fucking hurts. Vale, Bioware. You deserved so much better. So did Dragon Age and Mass Effect.

Bioware made games with depth, curiosity, and ambition. Their loss is gutting.

I love that in King County WA where I live, I can sign up to get text alerts when my ballot is received, and when they confirm that my signature is verified and my ballot will be counted. info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...

this is so perfect, so pure

North Carolina A&T students marched an hour each way to vote on the first day of early voting after their campus polling site was removed by the Guilford County Elections Board.

It was enormously fun to serve as lead writer on Star Wars: Galactic Racer alongside Duncan. It’s a very ambitious project and Fuse did an amazing job! (Fortunately, Sebulba returned and we got to help put him in a video game)

Lmao

mistakes were made

I'm immensely proud to announce that my texture library that's been in the making for nearly a decade is now available on my itchio store for indie devs to purchase commercial licenses. makkon.itch.io

There have been two occasions in my career where I had to go to war with teammates against mistaken understandings of probability. In both cases, it was because people expected large numbers of d6s to occasionally result in maximum damage. But the curves for 3d6 and 15d6 (e.g.) look like this:

DASHR - Dynamically Animated Skinned Heightfield Rendering Short video for now - I might do a longer one later? youtu.be/-Su9YrcazRk But there's ALL the details in the paper, and you can always Use The Source, Luke for the really deep info. github.com/tomforsyth10...