Going into 2026, a reminder for everyone who's fallen off the creative wagon, game dev, writing, art, music, whatever, no matter how long:

the larian stuff sucks to hear a lot. you have to be a true all-timer loser to think generative AI is useful for concepting ideas or artwork. you let the machine do the fun part you dumbass. it doesnt tell me you think efficiently it tells me youre a fuckass who's given up on being interesting

One thing you will never think after reading a great book or listening to a great album or seeing a great piece of art is, “I’m really glad this person remained cautious while they were making this and guarded against being perceived as weird.”

A major part of having dogs is asking why is that wet

Also we've fetishized "debate” in these spaces as some kind of civic good, when what matters is competence, trust, shared purpose. Medicine, engineering, boardrooms aren’t organized around debate or requirements of false balance. We've poisoned public discourse by insisting it be adversarial.

i don't think that,s right, google,

my timeline is full of competitive splatoon players posting the tag "#LIGHTUP". it is also the first night of hanukkah. clearly the hashtag is for the holiday and not at all related to the top level team named moonlight or the tournament they're playing in right now

It’s also bad, functionally, to use AI for placeholder art because you want placeholder art to be obviously bad. That way, you don’t accidentally ship with if. Anyone who uses AI for placeholder art really just wants an excuse to use AI, and they’d use it for final art if they could.

The most powerful narrative device a game can deploy is "throw you back to the main menu but it's different"

Sorry I think using AI for placeholders is also bad ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I know you only care about finished art but placeholder art also needs to be made by a human being who also needs to be paid for that But placeholder midjourney slop cuts that artist out

I honestly think that many people don't know what their public libraries offer besides books. I think that everyone should go on a public library treasure hunt in 2026. Go explore what your library systems offer at no cost to you. Report back to me :)

you should all play more indie games made by 1 to 4 gay people in their bedrooms

Game Awards last year took place during a videogame strike against AI The strike wasn’t mentioned or acknowledged despite many VO performers working on the games that are heralded every year and even appearing on stage This year a game that features AI voiceover gets a podium to accept an award.

The Protector ™️

remember in xenoblade 2 when nia kept hugging onto pyra because "she's warm" and nia wouldn't let go

brutal

seeing a bunch of buzz about neo twewy being a sequel to a plot that was scrapped and everyone is accepting this without questioning the source (this isn’t what happened)

i find it funny how during this time of year people try to be inclusive by just taking christmas stuff and saying "holiday" instead of "christmas" you draw a character in red and green with a santa hat on and a christmas tree in the background and say "holiday outfit". where is any other holiday

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you would be so much happier if you didn’t feel the need to review every piece of media you consume

calculated

Somebody in the comments was like "flame war sounds so corny though" YES THAT'S THE POINT, "discourse" gives what amounts to turbo-dorks arguing on the internet (I'm one of them I'm allowed to use that term) an unearned veneer of legitimacy.

me when i have to reset the xc2 final boss for the 3rd time (i didn't have a chain attack ready)

im calling the police

one of Pikmin's biggest mysteries is How The Fuck Did Louie Explode That Wall

online friendship is crazy. like yeah we go way back. we talk about weird shit exclusively and we've seen each other in person between zero and four times

Twitter punishes you for replying to accounts that don't follow you, for getting muted or blocked, for not paying for premium, even for swearing. Every incentive pushes you toward being an anti-social, status-obsessed striver who treats basic interaction like a liability It's genuinely miserable

I'm begging any artists still using Twitter claiming it's integral to their work to just leave. It's been revealed the site works off a made up "credit score" from hell and punishes you for posting like a normal human being. Abandon Twitter for good. It's time. It's been time.

>>> Be me, video game >>> released on the GameCube 24 years ago today >>> Underrated gem on a console that didn't sell very well >>> Further games in the series would never replicate what made it special. I'm Pikmin 1, picture unrelated.

(RACHEL walks past children playing. Her biological clock ticks. She’s thirty, almost dead.) LITTLE GIRL: Are you excited for the County Hanukkah Fair? RACHEL: Not really. I’m not super into Hanukkah.

Just did a test of the new Mario Kart World patch and I think Nintendo really outdid themselves this time.

xenoblade 2 is so good and so hard to recommend

You gotta be silly, dude. At least a little bit. You gotta have a spring in your step and a smile in your heart or else none of this matters

Torigoth Happy 8th Anniversary to Xenoblade Chronicles 2! #Xenoblade2_fes25

i'm seeing so much xenoblade 2 fanart on my feed for its anniversary and it makes me want to play the game and at least do a challenge battle or something. i love that game but right now i am not able to play it at all unless i either delete my save data or buy the dlc a second time

#Xenoblade2_fes25 Happy 8th Anniversary!

Today's #screenshotsaturday...is a brand new game?! Yes, this is my next video game, an Astropods sequel w/ no current name! Featuring an all-new art style alongside a day/night cycle?? Stay tuned for more news! #indiegame #gamedev

i hate when people say kindness has no reward. do you not find it rewarding to see people be happy. sorry but that's miserable

In Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, Mario and Luigi's level-up stat gains are bizarrely based on what level Bowser is currently at. If he is at a "good" level, they will be several times more powerful. The game does not tell you which levels are good and which are bad.

God yeah holy shit this feels so fucking funny to do

scylla hades 2

take this with a big grain of salt because I could be misremembering but I remember reading a Pokémon translator saying he translated a line as "soft, loamy soil" to teach kids a new word and he was right. I did learn what loamy meant from Pokémon in fact

i finished an online city trial and was looking at the other players' licenses and for some reason it put my name on one of them. what and it gave them a different global win power and class that is not theirs or mine