Douglas Houserman | he/him

Design Director @ Blizzard. My posts represent my own opinions, not those of my employer.

[Douglas Houserman | he/him @ShadeGameDev]

Unhappy with Musk’s actions. Follow me on Threads.

https://t.co/VspbdoU4Ij

[Douglas Houserman | he/him @ShadeGameDev]

Passionate game developers are hurting.

[Destiny Bulletin @DestinyBulletn]

🚨 The official White House X account has posted an AI-generated image of Destiny 2's character menu screen featuring Donald Trump.

[Douglas Houserman | he/him @ShadeGameDev]

@PaulTassi It’s heartbreaking. I can’t believe this is the last patch.

[Douglas Houserman | he/him @ShadeGameDev]

To all my friends at @Bungie, I cannot wait to try everything you’ve been cooking in Destiny. It is heartbreaking to see that game suffer a fatal blow, but I’ll be there with you until the end. All the love in the world!

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

Authoritarian vibes.

[Douglas Houserman | he/him @ShadeGameDev]

Really sad to hear about what has happened to Destiny. I wish Bungie the best with Marathon and any future projects.

[Paul Tassi @PaulTassi]

The reality is that now, more than ever, people should want Marathon to win. If it can thrive, it can expand in interesting ways, it can give Bungie runway and leeway with Sony for future projects. It's all upside if you want more Bungie games or even more Destiny. Marathon dying from here doesn't help anyone. Though that does not mean I'm going to just cheerlead if things don't turn around

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

Instead of trying to earn more votes, Republican officials across the South are executing a systematic effort to dismantle Black political representation in Congress through gerrymandering.

It's time for broad reforms to end this kind of gerrymandering for good.

[Douglas Houserman | he/him @ShadeGameDev]

@DustinBrowder @CyderKnight @terrorjester @Aedrareforged I’m getting games in like 30-90 seconds. Masters and GM can wait quite a while.

There’s been a lot of cool updates recently, like bringing back Haunted Mines, going back to launch tower aggro rules, buffing some of the wackier unused heroes. Good stuff!!

[Dustin Browder @DustinBrowder]

@BeanJuiceStudio As a Dev, you are a boxer. An MMA fighter.

If you want to win, you have to risk getting choked out in front of 1000s of people.

Sometimes, even if you are really good. You will lose. Or be wrong. Or a make a mistake. Whatever.

Is OK.

[Douglas Houserman | he/him @ShadeGameDev]

Congrats to the team! Wildgate is great and I highly recommend it!

[Dustin Browder @DustinBrowder]

Dear Wildgate...

Xbox Game Pass is very good for us

For those of you have not played:

💰On Sale on Steam $7.49 US
🏴‍☠️New "Extraction" Mode
🤗Custom Lobbies
🚀Longer TTK, Boarding Nerfed

Now is the time people, the servers are hot

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

Trump called it…

[Douglas Houserman | he/him @ShadeGameDev]

Elon was never anti-war.

[Marathon Bulletin @TauCetiGG]

TheBurntPeanut has to play Marathon off-stream because people are *that* mad about the game online 🙃

📷HutchMF

[Douglas Houserman | he/him @ShadeGameDev]

I want to thank @Bungie and @MarathonTheGame for including me and other former employees in the launch credits of the game.

Bungie is such a wonderful company. They’ve always led by example.

[CNN @CNN]

Supreme Court rules that Trump's sweeping emergency tariffs are illegal.
https://t.co/D4cEdbZsCH

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

This is what happens when you give an autocrat a second chance. Better prepared, greater sense of urgency to dismantle the democratic guardrails.

[The Daily Show @TheDailyShow]

Europeans may feel threatened, but they're mostly just happy they're not Americans right now

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

Cynics and defeatists share the same story as authoritarians do: that nothing is worth trying, the conclusion is foregone, hope is naïve, and attempts to resist are too small or futile.

Don’t listen to them. Do not give up. Try. A better world is possible. We will win. We must.

[Dan Pfeiffer @danpfeiffer]

This worked great in Iraq.

I can't imagine anything going wrong.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

BREAKING: Pam Bondi has charged Nicolás Maduro with “possession of machine guns” under the National Firearms Act of 1934, a U.S. gun law.

Think about how absurd that is.

By that logic, China or Russia can kidnap Trump and sentence him to death for “possessing” 5,200 nuclear warheads under their domestic laws.

American presidents are now supposedly immune from prosecution for their official acts, yet foreign presidents can be arrested for allegedly violating U.S. statutes that do not apply to foreign citizens, in foreign countries.

You can hate Maduro and still recognize that this precedent is reckless, hypocritical, and dangerous, because once domestic law becomes a weapon against foreign leaders, no country gets to complain when it’s done to us next.