There's a widespread misconception that Nintendo Directs killed E3. This is not true. What actually killed E3 was the industry's shift from physical to digital games. Here is a video about it www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnGr...

I’ve been sniggering at this screenshot of last nights Nintendo Direct for too long, yet my skepticism is running on overdrive that this cover art is truly genuine so it’s not the greatest sensation

WHITESIDES: The truth is the cheapest form of energy on a per unit basis is daytime solar. Is that not true? CHRIS WRIGHT: It depends-- WHITESIDES: No it doesn't depend! It's true. You are amazingly misleading the American public. WRIGHT: It depends-- WHITESIDES: No!

This is nonsensical. Libraries buy huge numbers of books you wouldn't otherwise sell. They're a massive discoverability vector for authors. The reasons behind the declining author earnings are not hard to guess. People read less, have less $ to spend, +media is being consolidated by megacorporations

I spent more time on this piece than almost anything else I've written in the last year. Building a better, more decentralized internet is an inherent necessity if you want a functioning democracy. I hope people find it a useful encapsulation of where we're at. www.liberalism.org/p/enshittifi...

Expanding bc I wanna talk about how this meetup went overall but don't wanna make a blog but talk about: Atprotocol, Bluesky, and the artist/NSFW creator communities specifically, how it went, and like WHY I went. First I am not content to simply sit and bitch.

it’s all going great, guys, keep it up, put AI in everything, can’t wait till hackers breach my AI-powered toaster oven to convince it to launch rogue nukes at a rival hacker group

I have seen these “you don’t even live in maine” takes a lot, and I need americans to understand: I don’t even live in the US, and if you want me to not comment on your shitty politicians, you need to stop them from destroying the whole world first. until then, everyone is allowed to comment.

one of the incredible things going on is for the past few years companies have been using millions of dollars of computer power for like $20/mo and concluding wow this is the future but are now facing the question is its trash output with no bottom line benefit worth paying millions of dollars to do

Brilliant. <writes new note on phone> Low effort First Light boss strat: stock up inventory with Coke cans and coffee mugs

🥱 Why does Batman not kill the Joker 🥱🥱 Why does Batman not give his money to charity 🤯🤯🤯 :

A million seconds is 11 days. A trillion seconds is 31,688 years. You could spend a million dollars every day for a hundred generations, almost 3,000 years, and not run out. Burn them. They are eating you. You are being harvested.

What's your favorite wholesome meme? Mine is definitely

AI in the current popular discourse is a grab bag of technologies, typically trained on large data sets, which turn human data into embedded representations and generate new human-understandable representations that people routinely confuse with the ability to make decisions.

Okay, I hate to do this, but I might need some financial support as my PC has gone kaput at the worst possible moment, right during the run up to the AA Showcase. If any of you are able to help offer support I'd really appreciate it x PayPal.me/LauraKBuzz

The 1TB OLED Deck is now £779 in the UK (unsure when this actually changed here simultaneously with the quoted post or not) How glad I am that I snapped up my Deck last December - now I’m far less confident personally in the Machine coming in under £899-£949

Oh no, this is going to seriously impact my current AI budget of (Checks notes) Absolutely fucking zero www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Oh my god www.eurogamer.net/rumoured-wit...

27 years ago

Funniest thing they could do is use the tolls to build offshore windmills

This piece from Chiles is from late 2020, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen it Happily, found the link and that’s something to read with my coffee Keep up the great work sir Video games are good for your mental health? Not if you play like me | Adrian Chiles www.theguardian.com/games/commen...

If you're trans and work for a sizable UK company or organisation, now is a great time to log into your HR portal and remove any information you can on your sex/gender, e.g. by replacing any information with "prefer not to say".

Absolute spot-on article about having AI forced on us by billionaires.

If you haven’t tuned in to Episode 28 of AnsweRED Podcast yet, this is your sign to hit play. Monika Rokita and Piotr Tyszko take us behind the scenes of what QA really looks like. 🎧 YouTube: cdpred.ly/AnsweREDPodc... 🎧 Spotify: cdpred.ly/AnsweREDpodc...

think it’s time we all get much clearer about what ‘creating home cooked meals’ is meant to entail. no one is suggesting you whip up a brand new restaurant quality Dish three times a day dumbass. slap together some spaghetti alla bullshit and call it a day

I am suspecting the next two weeks will require multiple ice cream sandwiches

Over a year ago, I had a call with @duckvalentine.bsky.social talking about Dreams on a Pillow. At that time the article was killed by executives. She was brave enough to fight against that, but it was out of her control I chose not to talk about it publicly to protect Rebekah from what could happen

I started on a Squier 25yrs ago. In the years since, owned perhaps 15 or so Fender/FMIC guitars. Won’t be buying another. I’m world-record seething at this disingenuous, hideously over-aggressive gleeful overreach from a single court win, cheering for every affected brand with my whole chest

Age verification "is a gift to every future dictator, every identity thief, and every would-be sexual exploiter of children, who will have access to the hacked, leaked, and badly secured troves of data that this doomed effort produces." Excellent read.

I am one of apparently quite a lot of eBay users around the world who totally missed this change. Had not a clue that this extremely basic UX function existed

A bunch of engineers spending a couple decades denigrating any field involved with soft squishy feelings has led to the literal inability to craft a narrative the average human wouldn't recoil from in horror.

in spite of every administrative roadblock this is going to keep happening, and they can't stop it

Rasheed is literally risking his life for this game. Israelis could decide to capture, torture, or murder him at any point for daring to share the truth of the Nakba or Palestinian culture. He truly believes in games and their power to tell these stories. Please help his courage not be in vain.

“Yo, N-Cube, the sweet N³, Grand Master Miyamoto takin' the big N into the next generation.” (Yes, this is a real cover)

Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition is $4.99 on GOG (preservation program) buff.ly/5hzKiKi #ad

I was wondering when they’d get to this point. The deluded captive audience is deservedly fucked at a world class level techcrunch.com/2026/05/15/o...

“We're building a rat's nest of tech debt that will be impossible to untangle when these models become prohibitively expensive (any minute now...).” www.404media.co/software-dev...

VERY excited to share this big project. Many games are made in Canada, but few are *set* here.
 So, I spoke to 20+ devs who have been making all kinds of games that take place in Canada.
 From showcasing stunning landscapes to telling diverse stories, these games paint a vivid portrait of Canada. 🍁

"If she has her own house, what will she need me for?" I don't know, dude, maybe be cool and fun to be around and be happy for her success instead being whiny little sad-ass troll about it? www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Is the Xbox 360 one of the best consoles ever? Classic games, red rings, and faceplates. All this and more on this month's episode of CVG: Chatting Vintage Games. Out now on Patreon at all tiers: www.patreon.com/posts/157958... Did you do the towel trick?

folx, I’ve been working on AI "ethics" for almost a decade now & hate to tell you there’s no such thing as "ethical AI" the only "ethical principle" that works is regulating the shit out of the industry & to take back control of our autonomy, fundamental rights, freedoms & right to exist w/out AI

Everything about these proposals, like any new “data centres” co-opted anywhere on the planet for this incessant bullshit is migraine inducing. The third and apparently largest of these is beside two old hotels, across the road from BC Place. I thought that render photo was a joke at first. Fuck

James Hetfield as the voice of my GPS: Take EXXXXITTTT FIIIIVE THENNNN TURRRRN RIIIIIIIGHT STRAAAAAAIGHT AHEEEAAAD THEN TAKE A LEFT PAST YOGURTLAND

“We Assume Flows Through the Strait of Hormuz Start to Recover in 5 Days and Fully Recover by Mid-April” - Goldman Sachs, just a few months ago

Celebrating Thirty Years of the Internet Archive with the ‘Class of 1996’ 🎓 Most Likely to Fix Your Computer: CNET Before YouTube tutorials, @CNET.com walked you through every crash, install & “have you tried turning it off and on again?” More #Classof96 ➡️ blog.archive.org/2026/05/07/c...

industry built on unpunished mass-scale theft continues to perform mass scale theft

The Mass Effect discourse is so fucking dumb. Yes, it's a pro-military pro-extrajudicial violence post-9/11 right wing wet dream AND it's a fun space opera romp that was a successor to KOTOR I can acknowledge that Die Hard is a conservative's movie and still think it's great. What are we doing here

Mass Effect will firmly remain an all-time personal favourite series. ME2 is cemented in my top 5 games of all time, but good grief does this particular post from an excellent thread smash undoubtedly valid critique out the park

I bought a Game Boy Advance with cash saved from a paper round. Core consoles of any stripe were too expensive for me personally on until a few years later, and the act of buying any of those was put on me Today, handheld wise I have a restored GBA & my trusty Switch 1, couldn’t be happier

Happy 100, big man