Kathryn Fedchun

Unpopular opinion, I guess, but I just think it’s better to know things rather than not to know them and to be able to do things rather than not be able to do things

Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

“Make bad game? Fired. Make good game? Fired. Make incredibly successful game? Believe it or not, also fired.” Original source of meme is from Parks and Recreation.

the video game industry is a mess

Send thoughts and prayers to @kathrynfedchun.bsky.social, who is embarking on a road trip with her thesis supervisor (me). Will we run out of stuff to talk about in the next four and a half hours?

GM: Charisma check.

Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]

GM: that’s a d6 how did you

Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

OCAF - Ottawa Comics Arts Festival - April 4th - 10am to 3pm

hello we're having a one day comics festival in Ottawa this April and I'm never going to shut up about it tell your friends!!!

ottawacomicsfestival.com

Scott Adams dying at 68 rather than 69 is the perfect capstone to a life of being almost — but not quite — funny

That might be a collection of images, but a “visual narrative” it ain’t.

Ah, age-based social media bans. The abstinence education of digital literacy.

Graphic of CasaCon's logo above a yellow house with red and green string lights, covered in snow with a blue background. Below, RoCCET Lab's logo, an ampersand, and CSSN's logo. Text reads: Casa Con. December 12 - 14. Convention Policy Demon Hunters. RoCCET Lab & CSSN Cosplayer Survivor Support Network.

Friday, 12/12 at 7pm Eastern—it’s official! CSSN will be a part of “Convention Policy Demon Hunters,” a collaborative panel with RoCCET Lab (Carleton University) about what we’ve learned from evaluating convention harassment policies over the years.

CasaCon is FREE! Join here: discord.gg/QBtxV8gGmA

Watching old @dimension20.bsky.social shows--I can tell roughly how old a show is based on Ally Beardsley's green hair 💅🏻

picture of a beautiful blonde haired man pressing a perfume bottle to his bare chest in the style of birth of venus. the cover of the visual novel series parfum nostalgique on steam

This itch.io creator day, Parfum Nostalgique is on sale for FREE, which is 100% off the original price of FREE or PWYT (pay with your tears).
If you haven't played yet, this is your sign from the angels. Or the demons. Or the therapist-by-day dom-by-night vampires.

priro.itch.io/parfum-nosta...

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

the cover of digital games, physical spaces. a smiling blond man with long hair holds a game handheld with hearts on the screen. he wears a striped shirt and an apron with a silly fish on it.

My free 43-page guide to bridging the gap between digital games and physical spaces has been released.

Great for devs who want to bring indie games to local markets, shops, or spaces, and for organizers and business space owners to better understand indie devs!

priro.itch.io/digital-game...

hire all the fired political teen vogue writers and make a new magazine call teen rogue.

we’ll all subscribe en masse

Open Letter to Protect Tri-Council EDI Data **Edited to add: we have received more than 4000 signatures for our letter but adding any more than 2000 names to this public page seems to be causing our Form to crash! Rest assured that we have all ...

Canadian members of the Academic Hivemind: I've signed. And, I hope you'll consider doing likewise docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Only 4 pitchers have recorded a Pitcher’s Cycle — striking out every batter in the opposing lineup — in the World Series:

Trey Yesavage, 2025 G5
Randy Johnson, 2001 G2
Bob Gibson, 1968 G1
Jesse Barnes, 1921 G6

I don't even really *like* baseball ⚾️💤

An adorable raccoon.

Night in the Woods

Incidentally, we usually use the term “EDI” in Canada, as if there were any question about whose homework Poilievre is copying for this political slop.

As Steam cracks down on adult games, one dev urges taking back control Game developers fear for the future of games with LGBTQ themes, which is leading some to pursue alternate (and way cooler) forms of distribution

Thank you Patricia & Polygon for covering this story when so many others have dropped it. Shout out also to TheGamer, RPS, PC Gamer, Automaton, 80 Level

www.polygon.com/steam-adult-...

photo of a bee covered all-over with bright orange pollen.

this is the most pollen ive ever seen on a single bug, shes having the time of her life

A Journey to the End of the World (of Minecraft)

In 2014 I wrote for @newyorker.com about @kurtjmac.bsky.social, a YouTuber who began walking in Minecraft and never stopped. His quest was to reach the Far Lands, a place at the limits of the algorithmic world, where the landscape breaks apart. On Saturday, after fourteen years, he arrived:

Kate Fedchun PhD Candidate @ Carleton University VGSSIG Graduate Student Representative Research interests: the queer indie game scene(s), game bundles, and queer survival. Most played video game: League of Legends (over 1700 hours) Indie favourite: Sword and Sworcery

Introducing our VGSSIG grad student rep for this year, @kathrynfedchun.bsky.social! A PhD candidate at Carleton University, she is researching the queer indie game scene(s), game bundles, and queer survival on itch. She's played 1700+ hours (yikes) of League of Legends. Indie fave: Sword & Sworcery.

Photograph of slide with house on fire in the sims with the subtitle Is this queer failure?

Photo of @qgcon.bsky.social out of context

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Likewise!!! So much queer energy I'm still coming down from it all 💖 it was truly an honour 🥹

Ahh thank you!!!! I'm so glad you enjoyed it 🥰 and hell yeah!! We are all bundled together 🥹💖 qgcon was so amazing ✨

Anyway it was an honor to talk in a panel with @kathrynfedchun.bsky.social and @princerosalium.bsky.social on Spite, Survival, and Joy. QGCon is a testament to the tenacity of queer people and I am definitely invigorated by my time there.