Bryan David

Planning my trip to the Willows Lodge in Washington. For friends traveling soon: flip.to/r/bdl3e @willowslodge

@afalkhatib You would’ve been a phenomenal addition. It’s sad that you weren’t able to share your voice on that stage

There were several attempts to get me on the DNC stage to speak and share a message of healing and unity - all were unsuccessful. I even offered to bring a hostage family and talk together about ending the war in Gaza, releasing the hostages, and confronting hate and extremism.

@EYakoby This is a terrible translation that inflames.

Over the past 30 days, 2 events have brought to me personally tears to my eyes. First was when my friend @afalkhatib family made it out of Gaza, and just hearing his nephew pronounce Luc. And second was when Amir told me about Noa and how happy he was to have his best friend back. Both of these families were incredibly important to me. I'm caught up in 2 different worlds, one where on social media the loudest voices don't seem to care about the other, but that can be changed if we stop elevating the extremists. Civilians didn't deserve any of this, my friends loved ones didn't deserve any of this, I count myself lucky to have been able to witness joy twice from people I care deeply about. But it doesn't stop that civilians are continue to pay the price, from the civilians of Gaza to the Hostages still held by Hamas. Support the protestors in Israel @AllHostages who are doing everything to get a Hostage Deal and end the War.

One of the things that brought me so much joy this week, was seeing Ahmed's nieces and nephews run around being out of Gaza and creating chaos around the apartment and baby Ahmed saying Luc. Seeing families be happy should be the goal, Hostage Deal now, more joy, less darkness.

The killings and deaths in Rafah are horrendous and heartbreaking. Even in the early phases of the attack on the crowded city in southern Gaza, IDF bombardment has claimed hundreds of lives and continues to cause unimaginable suffering. There has not been a meaningful evacuation of civilians, especially given the limits of where they can be placed amidst widespread destruction. There are also no actual plans to address the fact that the two arteries for bringing in desperately needed humanitarian aid and supplies into Gaza, the Rafah and Kerem Shalom crossings, are closed and out of commission. On the one hand, Israel has a compelling need to seize the Rafah crossing, which was the most visible and vital representation of Hamas’s continued control of the Gaza Strip. On the other hand, doing so has a cascade of humanitarian, tactical, political, and security implications that will make the current disaster exponentially worse: how will aid get into Gaza now; what happens to civilians trying to leave; no more ceasefire negotiations, reducing the prospect of hostages being released; and increasing the likelihood of the invasion being expanded given the inevitability of fierce resistance by Hamas’s remaining fighters. The Israeli war cabinet and Netanyahu’s regime are a pathetic excuse for a government that has shown extreme disregard for the hostages’ well-being and safety. Hamas is sufficiently degraded and contained, and instead of doing everything possible to retrieve the captives, a unique opportunity was missed to implement a deal that could have been a win-win for all. It goes without saying that Hamas are ruthless criminals who have been playing deadly roulette with their people’s fate and are certainly atrocious players in this equation. But there were missed opportunities that Netanyahu and his proxies sabotaged because they really truly don’t care about the hostages and could care even less about slaughtering thousands of civilians in Rafah while dueling it out with Hamas. Utter heartbreak – Palestinians and Israelis deserve better. It’s not lost on me that my brother’s kids/wife got out one day before everything went downhill and the Rafah crossing was seized. I’m so incredibly sad for the numerous Palestinian women, children, and civilians who didn’t have such an opportunity and are now stuck in hell. May this madness end soon.

People in Tel Aviv protesting for a hostage deal and new elections to get Netanyahu out.

This is why it's such a massive disconnect. People from the Middle East are like" WTF ARE YOU GUYS DOING? Meanwhile people in the West are waving around Hezbollah flags and cheering on the Islamic Republic.

At #GDC2024 , our roundtable focused on antisemitism experienced by our community and ways to combat it. This is our formal report. igda.org/news-archive/a…

This takes less than a minute to fill out. This needs to get hundreds of thousands to write, instead of protesting inside libraries or in subways, this can actually bring real change and stop the hunger in Gaza. It's so close, let's get this tweet of Ahmed to go viral.

Well at least now people are going fully honest with chants of “Jews on campus take a side”. So young jewish kids have to walk around non stop and make sure to tell everyone they don’t support Netanyahu? Do you need them to flagellate themselves too? x.com/youreverydayje…

We will be hosting a roundtable at #GDC2024! Antisemitism in the Games Industry Roundtable (Presented by the IGDA) on Wednesday, March 20 at 10:30 AM schedule.gdconf.com/session/antise…

@TheCartelDel Games have been $60 for over a decade.. with inflation I’m surprised they aren’t $90 at this point. With more ambition, size, fidelity.. honestly I’m happy to shell out a premium for the devs

So that Dragon's Dogma game from Capcom is gonna be $70? Is this the new price standard for games in 2024? Asking for a friend...

Let’s play a game. Who said it? Hamas or Hitler? Let’s gooooo! 🧵

@sadotthegamer Nah.. should’ve used clip of the choice of kicking the squirrel into a tree and murdering it. That had me a bit in shock of what to expect in the game with my decisions

Agreed. Here you go, Spider-Man 2 gameplay vs Baldur's Gate 3

Gamedev is hard...

@Frost_Giant @boudreauxjp @Clara_Morgen

Stormgate closed beta starts this December! Please Like and Repost, tagging two friends you want on your 3P co-op team! 🔑We'll randomly pick a few teams of three to receive closed beta keys. Wishlist Stormgate on Steam: bit.ly/stormgate #whataboutstormgate #rts

@PeterOvo5 GOW being god of war not gears of war* .. I haven’t had a chance to play Gears since like 1 or 2

@PeterOvo5 Dawg I work for MSFT and you bias as hell 😅. Regardless both consoles have great games, and I’m excited for hopefully a collab of worlds edge and SC 😁.. and ES6, and hopefully a viable update for starfield. But I just played GOW and that was incredible. Both are good.