Will never stop quietly simmering my blood how many extremely decent, knowledgeable people are incessantly keen to maintain newsletters on that site. They can’t seem to help themselves because convenience. Such a blatant foot-in-mouth scenario

I’m sorry but people talking about talent as an unfair quality that needs to be Harrison Bergeroned away by AI have exactly the same energy as people saying it’s unfair that attractive people have more people attracted to them and the government should legislate their right to a hot wife

Vibe coding is working as expected: it'll kill the open-source, secure, and ideologically maintained alternatives to make sure you have to pay the oligarchs to do anything at all, and they can control what you're allowed to make. www.404media.co/vibe-coding-...

To be clear, this is not a referendum on the quality of AI content. Markets are spooked because they believe tools like Project Genie will allow anyone to generate a video game. This is not actually possible. If you are a trader and would like to pay me 10 million dollars to explain why, hmu

This is great, but as a game dev “delete jira tickets” at the bottom of this list had me snorting my coffee

I regret to inform everyone that the smartest money people out there are, overwhelmingly, dumb as a rock www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...

It's been fun seeing The Consultants lose their mind about how they don't get this ad, which is the coolest shit she's done yet. (Also, yes, that's Matt Mercer, who I've come to learn since this ad dropped is more famous than Michael Jordan.)

"Our standing rule is: If one of us brings up using GenAI in any of our work, then it's safe to assume we've been assimilated by The Thing and should be burned alive by Kurt Russell," said a game design consultant in the US.

i’d also be super interested in talking to people at these companies about the vibe after your bosses ate popcorn with the president during a political assassination. signal in bio.

Video games do not cause violence. But we as an industry are clearly not ready to have a conversation about how we've normalized a military fantasy

Nails the core undeniable disparity between the US and the rest of the world. Nowhere else has or will have this issue on this relentless self-fulfilling scale

Nintendo’s games feel special in a way other developers can’t quite imitate. But why? According to @mackeza.bsky.social, author of Super Nintendo, an upcoming book about the Mario and Zelda maker, it’s because teams are intergenerational

discoveries are by definition not objects of intellectual property - patentable subject matter or copyrightable work - let alone the fact that OpenAI is flagrantly free-riding on other peoples' labour and outputs

Head banging moron collective. One minister quoted here genuinely says “children are being driven in to virtual private networks” That is not a thing, remotely in the same universe as what a VPN is or what it does. Fuck off in to the sun with your meddling www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-priv...

It is extremely exciting to be goverened by people who literally do not understand how computer make beep.

we're getting all the downsides of cyberpunk (social alienation, ruthless hyper capitalism, digital mass surveillance state) but none of the promised upsides (cheap street food, cool jackets, super drugs that make you really fast and strong before they kill you)

Behind the scenes on Bladerunner

The first seven minutes of Fallout S2E6 are staggeringly good. So well crafted

It cannot be made clearer. If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

Nothing but this gif is what I’ve seen a seriously cringe flow of on here just this evening local time. Tons of usual normal people just can’t help themselves but post embarrassing one-up demented shit

i heard we were trying to improve US-UK relations

The most important technological revolution of our lifetime has nothing to do with AI: Important to realize also that, once constructed, solar infrastructure just keeps working*, for decades, with very little additional cost. There's no need for a constant stream of inputs like fossil fuels.

This thread is an insane read. 2026 “Speed” remake auditioned from a rest stop by a bus driver who’s clearly lost it

Society parried the ozone layer, acid rain, and Y2K back to back and instead of going "wow, parrying is badass" a lot of people went "society didn't even get hit so I guess there's no need to learn how to parry" and instantly took a thousand hits

Andor was cooking so unbelievably hard good grief

Results like these are even more special when you hardcore don’t expect them in the slightest. Mint is putting it mildly Fuck off city

In my head, I keep comparing this to the dotcom bust, where everyone was building companies built for broadband a decade early, but these companies are built for a world that cannot co-exist with humans.

I spent an excessive number of years moderating a gaming forum and I learned a great deal about community spaces and cultivation, whether I wanted to or not. I have critical advice for anyone who runs a game store or gaming convention. Please share this thread with people who run those things.

The Death Star analogy isn't perfect and was not meant to imply everyone has the choice to just leave whenever they want. The point with the Death Star analogy is that if you are on Alderaan, what you see is a Death Star

"GenAI is the futu--

For all that the media has spent years freaking out about what social media does to our brains, I don’t understand why there appears to be little effort to grapple with the fact that these chatbots are, for some not insignificant portion of the population, literally psychosis machines

As much as I would love this expansion to be a thing, there’s technical and production aspects that to me don’t add up Will quietly hold out hope for a few months that something close to resembling this does see the light of day www.videogameschronicle.com/news/the-wit...

International law won't constrain Trump's thirst for oil. But every solar panel that goes up makes crude reserves that much less valuable billmckibben.substack.com/p/just-possi...

Yeep, my urge for a gaming PC is out to bed once again. Barring a miraculous scalp on a pre-built, that I can’t realistically afford for a few months regardless The below bump would also mean all-AMD builds are equally unworkable

“According to Newsis, an RTX 5090 which was released at a price point of $1999 could eventually increase to $5000 this year” Fuck me, I casually dismissed a post while scrolling on another site saying “GPU prices could go up by 150%” the above is bang on if true www.eurogamer.net/amd-and-nvid...

Right now Greenland and Canada are watching the world's response to the motherfucker doing the illegal invasion he said he was going to do.

Grok becoming a mass mainstream nudify app with baked-in viral distribution was entirely predictable; the only surprise is how long it took. So much of the risk scenario for this assumed mainstream AI model creators would limit its output and this would be a targeted harassment/niche model issue.

All-AMD is the order of the day for me, when the component market eventually cools. Great piece www.pcgamer.com/software/lin...

Our Solar System is orbiting the center of our Galaxy at about 220 km/s so in 2025 we collectively traveled something like 7 billion kilometers across the Milky Way. Once in a while, when you have a moment, it’s worthwhile to take a look around, see where you are, and appreciate how far you’ve come.

Just completed the finale of Dispatch. Had to enforce a diet of one episode a day due to inevitable Christmas shenanigans Loved every minute, what a stellar experience Potential season 2 please and thank you

Today is the last day that you can repost this image

As someone incredibly keen to get away from core consoles, I’ve reached a point that I’m all in on a Steam Machine no matter the data centre excruciating inflation on the RRP Simultaneously, the whiplash when the shiteAI bubble goes off like a nuke will be an experience to get excited for

this dude is incapable of shutting the fuck up and the garbage U.S. press is pathologically compelled to parrot and stenograph every last brain fart he has until we've all gone mad and tapped out

What a prescient pair of posts directly under one another on my feed

Unless Santa straps a green light to Rudolph's tail and has Rudolph fly sideways with his nose pointed to the left of the sled, he is technically in violation of 14 CFR 25.1385(b), SERA.3215, and ICAO Annex 2, 3.2.3.1 (b) requiring positional lights for all aircraft operating at night.

This is fantastic, sobering and prescient from @mackeza.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/games/2025/d...

Task difficulty tier list of game development