Dan Bridge

Brooks Law

we’re about to speedrun this realization across every institution in society aren’t we

I worked at Epic Games for two years. This is real, and the strategy behind it is smarter than most people realize. Tim Sweeney has spent nearly two decades buying North Carolina forest land. 50,000+ acres across 15 counties. He’s now one of the largest private landowners in the state. The purchases started in 2008, right after the real estate collapse wiped out developers who had been planning golf resorts and luxury communities on biodiverse wilderness. Sweeney paid $15 million for Box Creek Wilderness, a 7,000-acre stretch in the Blue Ridge foothills containing 130+ rare and threatened species. Developers had owned 5,000 of those acres before the crash. He bought them for conservation prices when nobody else was bidding. He runs the acquisitions through an LLC called “130 of Chatham.” He buys the land, holds it for years, then either donates it to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, sells it at a discount to state parks, or hands it to land trusts. In 2021, he donated 7,500 acres in the Roan Highlands to the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy. Largest private land donation in North Carolina history. The part people miss: he told the News & Observer that since 2021, land got too expensive to keep buying. So he shifted focus to converting his existing 50,000 acres into permanent conservation status. He’s locking the land into legal structures that make development impossible regardless of who owns it in the future. A billionaire worth roughly $6 billion is spending tens of millions acquiring wilderness specifically during economic downturns, then giving it away or placing it under permanent legal protection. The land will outlast him, Epic Games, and Fortnite. That’s the part that separates Sweeney from billionaires who write checks to get their name on a building. The building depreciates. The forest compounds.

@RaveofRavendale ❤️

The same week that we launched our game Piece by Piece on Steam Another studio also launched a game called Piece by Piece on Steam so I told my lawyers to get ready, and we created a Steam bundle that contains both games at a discounted price

“I think it’s completely illegal… it’s a small group of maniacs who decided they’re going to do that.” Talking Heads founding member David Byrne discusses US military strikes on Iran and whether artists have an ability to impact politics. #Newsnight

By the math, 100k is achievable by many developers, especially solo devs. $15 game and about 300-400 reviews. (10k sales) That's your target. You just can't spend 3 years on a game and hopefully you can repeat and roll one success into another and back catalog sales kick in.

Blizzard veteran Rob Pardo says 'love' is the most important development milestone gamedeveloper.com/production/bli…

Been working run-time terraforming and tilemaps, here we're applying Unity's TileRules "in the dark" - works really well, allows for huge caverns without tanking the framerate! Idlings palatinegames.itch.io/idlings #terraria #lemmings

@rhipratchett ❤️

Eleven years since you crossed the black sands. I wish I could say that the world is better than you left it (although it will always be better for having had you in it) but at least there is a new Young Sam to help carry on the Pratchett name and ethos. Love you always ❤️

Vast caverns. Adorable explorers. Zero survival instincts. Idlings. #terraria meets #lemmings #terraria #wishlistwednesday palatinegames.itch.io/idlings

Lemmings Meets Terraria in Idlings - Summer 2026 palatinegames.itch.io/idlings #terraria #lemmings

@annamlulis @ChampagneAng ❤️

This is Alex Roca Campillo. He has cerebral palsy and became the first person in the world with a 76% disability to finish a marathon. Alex showed the world that a person’s inabilities don’t determine their value or potential. Truly inspiration ❤️

Idlings! Our next project

@simonrug They look like they’re enjoying themselves and playing for Tandy, bodes well 🤞🎉

Wales try scorer Rhys Carre: “We are showing our people that we are coming back. “We are showing improvement and we are showing we are in the fight until the last play of these games. “We are getting there. I think we are building something nicely.”

This AI ad is wild 😂 twitter.com/brahma_4u/stat…

@GreyAlien So pleased for you, testament to dedication and perseverance! Hope they all buy it 🎉🤞

OMG, we hit 50,000 WISHLISTS! This has never happened to us before. Huge thanks to everyone who has wishlisted it, streamed it, and who has kept sharing our posts to help reach a wider audience. Much appreciated. store.steampowered.com/app/3414580/Fo… #steamnextfest

@Aussious In 1995, PlayStation - run by a bunch of music industry folks - entered games. They brought in discs, new marketing techniques, signed new styles of games (Wipeout etc)… It made gaming bigger, because it infused what made our medium fun, with what made their medium cool

Ah man Lauren, way to take the mickey, speaking to Jalibert in French and then translating live to Welsh. Leave it out @laurenemmaj!!!

Someone else is probably making an identical game… only better