Need some ecstatic dance music to get your June started? you’ll enjoy this week’s @BBCR1 Essential Mix from @ErisDrew! Hailing from my home town of Chicago, we were lucky to get a custom track for the @AppleArcade exclusive @Tetris_Beat from Eris 🏳️‍🌈🦄👯 https://t.co/6cC3GPjJbk

I can hear myself in Kramer’s voice as I explain to my wife why I’m making oat milk creamer for her coffee: “It’s a scam, Jerry! Big Oat Milk has you in their pocket, paying $12.99 for forty seven cents worth of oats! It’s oats and water, Jerry! Open your eyes!”

You’re welcome @JimGaffigan. I’ll be waiting for my commission check 😂

A toddler is like The Terminator but for rooms and cabinets you don’t want them getting in to.

Just picked up Carrie Sun’s new book after listening to the latest @Slate Money Book Club interview from @felixsalmon. Please, keep them coming, Felix! Love this new series and it’s already introduced me to a ton of great stories. https://t.co/Lvc7rrhc5V

So hype for @WalkerAndRoyce tonight at @triocharleston! I think I’ll just listen to the amazing “Get Down Down” with @reggiewatts on repeat until the show starts 😆 https://t.co/B83A2j8zGv

This @boilerroomtv see by Romy (of The xx) is pure 🔥. Just staying up late, hosting a 1 person rave in my teeny tiny closet/office, designing some UI/UX and this is the fuel I need!!!

such a nice appreciation article by @joemuggs: deeon was “someone who finds their groove and sticks with it, regardless of fashion or fad, always 100% focused on the dancefloor” some nice words from @RP_BOO_ & @janarush312

For these and more amazing stories about the birth of Epic, the birth of Gears and the many creative lives of modern renaissance man @therealcliffyb, do yourself a favor and listen to the full @DeconFun interview: https://t.co/bioknILbUU

And the money quote "One of the many mistakes I made with Boss Key was I was trying to make a AAA game with a tiny team. And by the time our game came out it was right in the path of the juggernaut that was Overwatch and we couldn't compete."

(5) Be really careful and considerate with your go to market strategy and timing. If you're launching a multiplayer ecosystem you need to make sure you have your player mix just right.

(4) Start small. Be careful with what you make and how you market it.

(3) Pay your employees fairly and keep the coffers full.

(2) You need to know your employees, but don't get too close, because if you have to fire your friends it's the hardest thing to do.

So what advice did he have for all the aspiring gaming entrepreneurs out there, like me, working hard to build the game studio of their dreams? (1) Make sure to partner with the right people

He is so much more than just the dude weilding the life-sized chainsaw gun. When I asked him which of these endeavors was the most difficult, his answer was unequivocal: CEO

You know @therealcliffyb as the Lead Designer and face of Gears of War and Unreal Tournament. But in his life after Epic Games he has been a CEO, an angel investor, a restauranteur, a Tony-winning Broadway investor and producer, a memoirist and now, a comic book author... 🧵

Like a lot of people, I'm deeply excited about what the lovely folks at Larian accomplished with Baldur's Gate 3, but I want to gently, pre-emptively push back against players taking that excitement and using it to apply criticism or a "raised standard" to RPGs going forward 1/10

Let’s hope this becomes a thing, not because I love Meta, but because I hate the constant drama of Twitter under its new ownership