Not every game needs to be the next Fortnite. Not every show needs to be prestige TV with only 10 episodes.   Let devs and creatives create the stories they want without pressuring them into following restrictive trends.

This feels like the death rattle of Google's search engine, which worked perfectly fine until a couple years ago. And these tech companies wonder why people don't want AI slop in everything. Everything it touches is becomes worse.

I truly despise the prediction markets and how they've turned every aspect of our lives and human tragedy into a casino.   They are also yet another example of how much corruption and grifting have become normalized.

I don't think the “animation community” really cares about animation.   They don’t help support new shows. They find any bad faith excuse to hate on indies. They’ll call you a “shill” for liking something.   They care more about getting likes than animation.

Your reactionary take on *insert new and/or popular media here* does not make you interesting. Hating it does not make you special. Acting smug and superior about hating it does not make you better than everyone else. It will always be weird how people still act like this.

Wikipedia truly feels like one of the last remnants of the Old Internet that has survived relatively unscathed. It is one of the few online spaces left that's free from AI slop and right-wing propaganda. It also has free information, so it's not shocking that the right hates it.

Appeasing MAGA, bigots, and the far-right is never going to work out the way centrists and corporations think it will. They're still going to hate you and all you end up doing is alienating your own base and customers.

Seeing those young people boo AI bootlickers gives me hope. It tells me that the youth aren't as into AI slop as they're made out to be, people are tired of it, and that these tech people are entitled jerks who are unprepared for any sort of criticism and pushback.

What I like about the Clone Wars show, along with the great voice cast, is that they gave the background Jedi characters and clone troopers actual personalities, and they would devote whole arcs to exploring different worlds like Mon Calamari. It really fleshed out Star Wars lore.

Did Bluesky crash again for anyone else? Seems to be happening much more often now.

I can't help but notice how nobody else in the press seems to notice or care that he (and apparently now RFK Jr) has been rotting like a Fallout ghoul before our eyes. Interesting double standard.

I swear I've seen at least a dozen different fan arts of Kit on my timeline this weekend and would not be shocked at all if she becomes the internet's next big breakout indie character like Pomni, Loona, and Charlie. So I'm hopeful Glitch picks up Gameoverse.

I just don't understand what the appeal of staying on Twitter is when the algorithm punishes anyone who isn't a Nazi and you're surrounded by the worst people on the internet. You do you, but am I glad I stopped going there.

I think that some nerds and other terminally online losers simply love the idea of being fans of something niche or independent. They want their fandom to be successful, yet will turn on it the second it becomes popular because they can’t stand the thought of liking something mainstream.

If you're wondering why the discourse on anything connected to pop culture sucks now, I made a flow chart that I think explains the chuds' and grifters' process for manipulating it.

RIP Tom Kane. Too many voice roles to list, but if you ever watched The Clone Wars show, then you heard his voice both as Yoda and as the iconic narrator who helped to set the tone for every episode.

I’ve accepted that I’ll never be able to draw despite having ideas for fan art and wanting to bring my OCs to life.   Yet you will never, ever see me using the slop machine. I respect actual artists too much and I would never lower myself to use it. You couldn’t pay me to use gen AI garbage.

I swear, the puritan weirdos who are terrified of seeing even a little bit of skin on fictional characters would not have survived 80s, 90s, and 00s animation.

I'm pleased to tell you that Homer and Bob are now married.

The Discourse™ would not have been able to handle this episode if it came out today.

The "Bluesky is an echo chamber" crowd amuses me when they ignore that Twitter was turned into a right-wing echo chamber, most of Western news outlets and studios are owned by right-wing billionaires, and social media algorithms push right-wing propaganda.

What's even more interesting is that these revivals are actually good and The Simpsons is the best it has been since about the time this promo aired. (Haven't seen Malcolm, but heard good things about it, and I think X-Files is in good hands.)

Elon has more money than any human will ever have, or should have. Yet he will never be able to buy a personality, being funny, or ultimately being liked. Some things can never be bought.

Why does the animation community seem to hate animation now? They’ve especially turned on indie animation, and will think of any BS reason to tear it down and cheer for it to fail.   They chant “support indie animation”, yet get mad when it is successful.

Lol. Keep booing the tech bros. You know that it really bothers them. I also think this is another example of how people are tired of AI shit being literally everywhere and forced into everything.

There is a conversation to be had about the male gaze, but calling every attractive character design or female character showing skin "goonerbait" is bad faith, misogynist, and anti-sex. So is Zoey from Kpop Demon Hunters "goonerbait" now because she wears revealing outfits?

Anyone who non-ironically uses the term "industry plant" is outing themselves as a moron who has no idea how the games industry works, but also as a total loser who should never be taken seriously again.

Remember when hbomberguy exposed James Somerton as a serial plagiarist and the whole internet agreed that plagiarism was a bad thing that needed to be addressed? Then gen AI slop takes off and suddenly many people don't care about plagiarism anymore.

I can't draw, but I did create Miis of Kit and Miss Information in Tomodachi Life. And I also made pets of Kaboodle and Flappers. #Gameoverse #TomodachiLife

I have no desire to travel to America for a very long time. The POTUS has been threatening my country and there's a non-zero chance that innocent tourists will be arrested by government goons for no reason. That's enough for me to avoid travel to the US.

It's honestly just sad whenever a studio or a dev goes all in on AI slop and completely throws away their reputation for slop they know, or at least should know, that most people don't want near their art and entertainment. It's like NFTs, but even more pathetic.

Why do so many streaming shows look so dark and grey to the point where you can barely see the characters?

As someone who makes occasional typos, I still think an edit feature would be a good idea so long as it can be implemented without being abused. Otherwise, you can just delete the post and post the corrected version a few seconds later.

Another reason why I can’t stand the chuds, puritans, and clout chasers is that people who actually do have genuine, good faith, and personal reasons for disliking something are going to be unfairly lumped in with them.

Kit is cute in each of her outfits that she presumably wears for each different game world, depending on the theme.   Giving me Mario Party 2 vibes where the characters would have different costumes for each board. #Gameoverse

Pop culture discourse on social media is so exhausting and needlessly toxic, but more than anything else, it’s just so incredibly dumb now.

I get the feeling that opposing data centers will be a very popular position for politicians to run on, and I'm just going to assume that the ones who support them are taking bribes from shitty tech companies.

Conservatives really can't enjoy and they did this entirely to themselves. Look at how they're crashing out over The Odyssey because a beautiful Black woman is in it. They care more about their bigotry and culture war grift than enjoying anything.

Forums were much less toxic than social media. I miss that.   I think that’s because you had forums for more niche topics, and if the mods were competent, trolls and Nazis would actually be banned. People went to the forums because they loved talking about that thing, not hating everything.

AI shit is why I'm in no rush to replace my 5 year old PC or my 5 year old phone. I don't trust any new tech not to be flooded with AI garbage on it that will also probably spy on me. As long as my old tech works, then I'm good with it.

The NES. I began to play as soon as I was old enough to pick up the controller and figure out that pressing the buttons made Mario move. Think I was maybe two years old at the time, so around 1990 (yes, I'm old). The GameBoy Color was the first console I owned myself.

The #Gameoverse pilot was really damn good and I'd recommend it. There is clearly a love for video games in this show (especially from the 16 bit and N64 eras), the characters are fun, the voice cast is great, and I'd recognize Grant Kirkhope's music anywhere.

It increasingly feels like film nerds and the animation community spend more time on social media complaining about film and animation than they do actually watching and appreciating it. This is especially true for gaming.

We get it. You don’t like that popular media. You’re not special. You’re not better than anyone else.   Why do people involved in hatedoms always act like they want a fucking medal or something?

Two of the best things I've done for my mental health recently is leave Twitter, and the other one is be unapologetic about blocking people and limiting replies. Why should I care if some terminally online loser gets mad they can't reply to me? That's a them problem.

Getting mad that a person of color is cast in something or that non-white characters exist is simply another sign of racism, especially if it is coming from someone who already has a history of racism and bigotry.

There's a big difference between the current state of the world upsetting you (as it should) and deliberately choosing to be miserable 24/7 while making other people miserable along with you.

These are probably my top travel destinations that I've always wanted to visit: Tokyo, Japan Reykjavík, Iceland Sydney, Australia Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

I think some people forget that MAGA is deeply unpopular outside of it. Going MAGA and desperately trying to appeal to them is going to backfire and I suspect it'll cost you customers and fans.

This is big "we're sorry we got caught" energy. "AI is a tool" is a dead giveaway. Nobody wants AI slop anywhere near creative spaces, and it's wild how some studios will throw away their entire reputation for it, as the Party Animals devs found out the hard way.