More of this plz

Hearing the phrase "non-important game dialogue" and its derivatives makes me want to chew through sheet metal.

Rewatched the original Star Wars (A New Hope) today. Obviously 'I love Star Wars' is baked in, but if you've not watched it in a while you can easily forget that the back half of that movie is some of the most genuinely thrilling stuff on film, back to back. 1977 must not have known what hit it.

Many men feel the stripper really likes them. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something

I am Someone. (It's 8. 8 is the best.)

Attempted going back to Twitter, and was immediately reminded of why I left to begin with, def still a nazi shithole full of the most illiterate dumbfucks imaginable, bleak doesn't begin to cover it. Then I remembered I had an account on here, so might as well use it. Will be posting backlog now

A little later than planned, but I am finally on my way to #AdventureX! Excited to see folks after what feels like an eternity.

why did i read it

I love paywalls now.

While on tour promoting 'Wake Up Dead Man', Rian Johnson goes off on AI for “making everything worse in every single way.” bit.ly/47UBPfH

He said "Amen" straight into the drop Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible

At this point Labour really need to change their name, because they long ago abrogated their responsibility to serve the working class. This is just a parody at this point.

Concept art by Kevin Dart for Big Hero 6 (2014), dir. Don Hall and Chris Williams, Walt Disney Animation Studios

I can understand asking for nuance in these discussions, but deliberately muddying the water by bringing up automation tools that people understand are not generative AI and asking for a middle ground is disingenuous. The nuanced position is that people are roundly rejecting the tech, respect that.

Notably doesn't clarify if AI transforms gaming *for the better*.

(spending 9 billion dollars to make a robot say "i have always loved you") hard times create strong men

'Four cones wins, but in order to get a cone you have to build a civilization. Which is where the spirit cards come in'

your outie got to meet the pope

One of my favourite movies genres is 'absolutely pissing it down.'

22 years ago today, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World sailed into cinemas. Revisit Peter Weir’s epic craftsmanship in our deep dive ⬇️⬇️⬇️ cinephiliabeyond.org/subject-requ...

Officially lived long enough (and it wasn't that long honestly) to see the literal horror of a Black Mirror episode come to life. We are fully in the Torment Nexus now.

I realize we're fighting against huge cultural forces re: attention spans, but one of my guiding ideologies in game development is, though possibly naive, if you want a player to speak your game's language, you have to actually speak it. I don't think you should meet players where they are.

What's pissing me off about the Anno 117 GenAI use is that this is a really great game (yes, I'm still playing it: I paid for it pre-finding out) that clearly has a lot of love and genuine craft in it. So why screw the pooch with AI art? Is that really worth it? To piss away all that goodwill?

If this industry could stop laying people off for five fucking seconds, I swear...

CLAIM: The government is run by a secret society of pedophiles RATING: FALSE. This society is in no way a secret

it's on miro. it's literally on figma. you have to log into okta. it's in jira. it's on zoom. it's on pureref. it's on flow. it's on perforce. it's on slack. you can find it on slack. you can go to slack and find it. log onto slack right now. you can slack it. slack has it for you. it's on slack.

farewell. you may never hear from me again.

The birth of the author

I’ve seen a few folks go for the “if you simply must watch that new Harry Potter show just pirate it” and sorry. No. Just no. Just don’t watch it. At all. Ever. Break free of it. It’s time. You’ll be ok. I promise. I know it mattered to you as a kid. Find new things, it’s healthier. Just move on.

Been trying to update my letterboxd with regularity these days. If you'd like to follow along with my pointless movie ramblings, why not give me a follow: letterboxd.com/Pete_Stewart/

if you don’t hire VO actors you don’t get to make them laugh, which is one of the great joys in life

Gonna make sure every piece of dialogue I write today has choices in it out of pure spite.

This is an excellently-written review, and maybe the first I've seen that considers both the base quality of the game AND its moral and artistic integrity, especially in the face of the studio's AI use.

A brief defence of dialogue choices (286 words):

If you thought Frankenstein's Tower in the Guillermo del Toro movie looked cool, check out the real-world inspiration behind it...

Cowards die many times before their deaths, The valiant never taste of death but once.

Some days, the aesthetic just has to be A Baseball™ (by way of Persona 5).

Loved loved loved Frankenstein. And his monster.

HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE

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Fortnite makes me feel absolutely insane. What a fever dream of a game.

2026 Primary Woke Wave

this is an obvious overcorrection that misleads the polling data and will lead to disaster in the Heartland. the results of tonight show that the Democrats should moderate: adopting two or at most three of the five pillars of Islam

Bill Ackman gotta be on the third draft of a tweet longer than Middlemarch right now

[Exit Clown.]

There are more of us than there are of them.