In my mind, current movie "The Rip" is just about a big fart. Like... idk... a very significant, reality-bending butt toot. I don't have to explain the premise further and I'm confident it's already more interesting than whatever the actual movie is about. Farts.

Hate how my brain went from "Who were Orko and Snarf again?" over "Oh, right those two." to "Yeah, that thought totally makes sense."

The company that had to shut down 400 stores this month thinks incelposting is going to to bring customers back

So unless the any% route turns out to be absurdly long, I think I have found my next speed game. Loving #BigHops so far!

So, a good friend gifted me the new 3d platformer with a frog, which means I am now morally obligated to learn how to speedrun it. Let's get frogging!

it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI

I feel that. I had and am still having a grand old time with Worldjust hanging out and crusing, and the way I've seen some people be almost giddy about shitting on this game feels kinda childish. Like... not that big company game would need defending just saying: Dislike the game more chill maybe?

UNBEATABLE is the Night in the Woods of the 2020s. By that I mean: If you are in your 20s and even mildly neurodivergent and/or queer, this game will SPEAK to you.

#JoyCons Nintendo man: "Yo, check this out. I bought a purple car!" The purple car:

#JoyCons Nintendo man: "Yo, check this out. I bought a purple car!" The purple car:

That's not "light-green" and "light-purple". It's black with some highlights at most.

Omg, that was so much better than that joke of a "finale", I'm in tears. Well played. #StrangerThings #EvenStrangererThings

Critics want subtlety. Traumatized kids need clarity. Stranger Things doesn't win because it's subtle. It wins because it's not afraid to say the truth out loud to the people who need to hear it most. www.kameronhurley.com/we-are-the-s...

Yeah, it has long been the case that adult-oriented businesses have to be careful or risk the wrath of everyone from prosecutors to payment-processing companies, but "prominent social media company owned by world's richest person swiftly became world's largest CSAM producer" produces no reaction.

The first game I finished this year was Sowjet-Unterzögersdorf (Sektor 1) and.... I kinda recommend it? www.monochrom.at/suz-game/sek...

One of the best games of all time.

People say they love coffee and then they're really snobby about it. I however LOVE coffee. I drink and cherish it in all it's forms, shapes, colors, and viscosities. Learn from me, coffeeheads. All coffees are good. (feel free to use this post as an allegory or don't)

I really loved the specific experience of thinking I'd stumbled upon something optional, grinding it like a madman, and then reallizing at the end that it was mandatory the whole time.

Given his past records of predictions, I'm now wondering if dead people will actually start resurrecting.

Oh wow. This is mad interesting and def worth giving a watch

I really enjoyed that K-Pop Demon Hunters movie this year. I've watched it three times The music was great, and k-pop music is an undeniable phenomenon. But also this....

The tech bros will do everything in their power to prevent any regulation of AI, because regulation is a pin and AI is a bubble. And they are going to make America eat that loss somehow. Even as they sit on billions.

I hate these charts so much because they imply chatgpt is comparable to the internet or phones You could create the same graphic for full screen pop-up advertising on websites and make them look like ultra-rapid technology adoption when really they were just baked unavoidably into the internet

The comedic cohesion machine in my brain now wants a subtweet by Rick Astley, saying he wouldn't habe recognized that place for the life of him.

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

Let me be clear.. EVERYBODY who has admin or mod privileges in ANY discord server that is even remotely adjacent to gamedev needs to @ everyone about what's going on, and they need to do it YESTERDAY. More ppl got caught up in this, coulda been avoided. Dont click links from ANYONE w/o interrogation

This isn't new knowledge but through my interactions with cool people I have learned that you only actually become genuinely cool once you stop caring about the appearance of being cool. This, however, makes said coolness imperceivable by people who care too much about coolness.

Tbf, I have seen more people dunk on (real?) people complain about the insignificance of avatar than I have seen people actually complaining about the insignificance of avatar.

"Mami, Mami, können wir Weihnachten?" "Wir haben Weihnachten zu Hause." Weihnachten zu Hause:

Finally finished Angeline Era by @even-kei.bsky.social and @hantani.bsky.social. One of the most video game. I wasn't ready for the Last-few-hour-ride the game would take. This is literature I'm feeling Irish folklore, diaspora, WW2 internment camps in the US, escapism, introspection. Isle of THIS.

A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty: My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media. Huh? When did I say that?!

Happy holidays to all y'all. The only thing I wish for is for boomers to go back to sharing cringey but harmless holiday memes instead of grotesque, unsettling AI videos. Thank-y.

A prominent commentator in the fighting game community, Sajam, has announced he will not participate in future EVO events following its acquisition by the Saudi government.

I only pirated your game at the conceptual stages. In every other stage, from installation to playing the game to beating it, there was no piracy involved.

I feel like there isn’t a table big enough for Jesus to flip when I see stuff like this.

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

I’ve been in game dev for 26 years and I can’t remember any other time where a specific tech was being insistently and persistently pushed on devs as a group in the public sphere. Why would it? Cui bono? Why would any given dev have an interest in other devs using tech they don’t have a stake in?

I think between Horses by @santaragione.com, Angeline Era by Analgesic Productions/ @hantani.bsky.social, and Stray Children by @oniongames.bsky.social , the real winner is whoever buys and plays these games. ❤

played through all of Horses today and i dont know if id say its the best game this year but it's definitely the most a game has ever been of This Year if you still have not played it and can deal with upsetting imagery, you should do that www.horses.wtf/index.html

I don't need ChatGPT, I can just type any prompts to these two and I can rely on them to kick me out regardless

If there's one positive side effect of the AI debacles of the past 5-ish years, then that my impostor syndrome is basically healed.

Also this game is having so many jokes at the expense of the player that are still harmlessly kind and honestly hilarious. Nothing like it.

This game got so many MOMENTS, it's an utter joy. Just a barrage of completely optional and gameplay-wise utterly USELESS bits to discover that make you go... yeah... video games. (go play @angelineera.bsky.social if you like video games is what I'm trying to say)

I'm gonna call the game Ynfluenced and you cannot stop me.

This is a steal and you should get them.

Quantic Foundry does legit trustworthy analysis of gamer behaviour, and these survey results are shockingly negative toward genAI, to the point where I’m more hopeful that data driven mobile and AAA backpedals on their uses.

If you're not trans, I don't think I can fully explain how important this is. It's so powerful that one of the most circulated science media publications in the world has come out and said "trans children are real and providing transition care improves their lives." That's groundbreaking.

I say this with zero irony: if you are even tangentially a part of a retro video game community, it is your civic duty to push back against this company and shun anyone who doesn't. This is fascism tapping gently at the door and as soon as you let it in, it's going to invite its friends.

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