Nicole Carpenter

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Pokemon collection
lots of tiny pots on a messy table
Hockey player (me!!) standing and waiting to get on the ice. She’s wearing a white helmet and black jersey
Raccoon moving baby by mouth
tiny pottery on pottery wheel
lots of little pottery
Tiny pottery
tiny clay microphone
four tiny pots
a woman with tattoos making a mini piece of pottery
Holding a tiny hockey skate
tiny hockey skate in the palm of a hand
Rose in a tiny vase
Three little hockey skates in various sizes, propped up on paint tubes
tiny hockey skate made of clay held in a hand. It’s very small
wet bowl
Hot dog pottery
Painting of a terrier type dog held by a woman with tattoos, inside a car
two dogs snuggled on a woman wearing a bruins shirt
screenshot of the NYT front page
painting of azaleas
screenshot from nintendo gamer lawsuit re: tariffs
Drawing of daffodils
Overwatch skin with a fountain pen
Skate blade cracked in half
Nicole playing hockey
drawings in a notebook of different foot items
Two brown dogs snuggling
Quote: "I agree with you. I hear you. I don’t think they need to get past anything. I think they need to do critical thinking. Look at what the articles say. The fact is they may have spoken to this person or met them [on Roblox], but then they were coerced. They went off to a different platform. It reminds me of, a few years ago, there were two young British school girls who went off to fight for ISIS. They were taken away. Bad actors, extremism, all of these things—they’re out there looking for our children. They’re out there looking for our children in shopping malls, school yards. Online is kind of the same thing. We have to be vigilant in all of these areas. I just refuse to put it 100% on parents, which is why we do have the parent council to listen to parents’ concerns. It’s really important to hear what parents have to say and to say, “OK, I get it right now. You’re not feeling [like we’re] very trustworthy. We’re going to gain your trust back.” Talk to your children. Play with them, and you will see what this game is about, what the platform is about."
a brown puppy standing on a yellow couch
n June 2024, Activision Blizzard lawyers called Wolfy's mom and told her about her son's behavior online. Activision Blizzard counsel called again days later and spoke to someone who claimed to be a brother's friend, per the complaint. That day, Activision Blizzard's lawyers called the home again and spoke to the mother, "who claimed to have no memory of the conversation four days prior," lawyers wrote in the complaint. Wolfy shut down the Devware server shortly after, saying that he was complying with a cease-and-desist from Activision Blizzard. But Activision Blizzard claims he did not stop selling hacks. The complaint claims that the two hackers pretended to sell the Devware Discord server to another company, which lawyers say was a "front" to start selling a new hack—the Zenith hacking software, which basically included the same features as the Devware hack. They partnered with hack resellers to sell the software, lawyers say. Websites linked in the complaint appear to be no longer active, but a version of the Zenith hack appears to sell for $50 for a three-month subscription on third-party cheating websites. Activision Blizzard sent another cease-and-desist in March 2025, and Wolfy again posted online that he's not "providing any services related to Activision Publishing," per the complaint. Activision Blizzard's lawyers say nothing's changed in his behavior since then—and then there were the "two high-profile cyber-attacks which caused the multiplayer servers for Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III" to crash. Activision Blizzard's lawyers say Wolfy used Zenith to do those attacks. In November 2025, Activision Blizzard sent another cease-and-desist letter. He didn't respond, Activision Blizzard's lawyers say, and instead Wolfy posted online: "I AM BACK."
Blizzard Albany and Austin QA union's contract ratification means there are now a handful of union contracts in the video game industry, including at Sega of America and Microsoft. There's been an increase in recognized unions, but the majority of them remain in negotiations—some for years. Davis, Cameron, and Gant hope other unions in the video game industry can look to their contract ratification as a source of hope. "There's this common saying about planting a tree whose shade you might never sit in," Cameron said. "We planted a little sapling, and we're getting some of the leaves right now. But with time and effort, and more people participating in this—it should be something people know that could get involved in—we can grow that into something even bigger that grows a whole canopy of shade, so to speak, for so many more people."
messy desk, but the focus is on three fountain pens
Photo of a 2026 planner decorated with colorful stickers
"I think a big part of [reverse engineering] is just being curious and motivated," Real said. "I'm very interested in 'lost media' and the like so I initially gravitated towards Concord because of the very large wave it made online as well as its incredibly short lifespan. Over the course of the project I began to respect a lot of the design choices I initially questioned and I think that also motivated me to keep working on it. I think part of it is wanting other people to see what I saw."
candles on a birthday cake
a line of bruins players on the bench congratulating each other
Screenshot of a newpaper article about desktop games