rip to one of the goats of all time. see you in valhalla brother

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

Knives out: the upper middle class are squabbling vicious children who do not deserve their inheritance Glass onion: the new elite are the stupidest murderous cunts alive and deserve your scorn Wake up dead man: those preaching anger as salvation are leading you to death, hope and kindness matter

I've laughed at this shit like a dozen times now. It just keeps on giving

One fun thing about the Japanese is we love the FUCK out of Christmas and have only the loosest concept of what is going on

Just awful news and right before Christmas too. My heart goes out to his family and everyone that was close to him.

This is a wild hack. a16z gave a million dollars to startup called Doublespeed. They use a phone farm to flood social media with AI generated influencers and ads. A hacker remotely broke into the phone farm, unmasking the AI influencers/fake accounts, gave us the data www.404media.co/hack-reveals...

If you trekked all the way to school this morning for work/learning, only for it to be cancelled -- my DMs are open!

Throwback to the Xmas when I spoofed mobile game ads too accurately, and no one clicked on the video.

We will be poorer for it if we outsource our compassion and creativity to a machine that can only ever approximate emotions because it’s never felt any. ChatGPT can only make you sound more empathetic. It can’t make you be more empathetic. Today’s column www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...

I am so ridiculously excited for this. Remedy is so cool.

Hell yeah Casey Hudson doing the Star War again

There are many material reasons why Netflix owning WB/HBO sucks but the pettiest one I have is they suck at distributing their own work or building up any enthusiasm. They have failed their way to the top with a strategy that doesn’t benefit the work.

Hey folks: this morning we're launching a monthlong fundraiser for @techdirt.com. Over the last year, we've been steadfast in not self-censoring, not capitulating, not sanewashing bullshit. But that's come at a cost. And we need help: rtb.techdirt.com/products/fri...

Load-bearing drywall

I saw Wake Up Dead Man opening night which was just spectacular and blindsided me with enormously moving moments. Ditched Telus and dropped my phone bill. Finay watched the super charming Roofman too. I've had an unusually great weekend y'all.

"why did you start a new website?"

If you work a studio that’s been nominated for a Game Award this year (or even years’ past), I would love to speak to you about your experience getting tickets! How many did your studio get? How many did you buy? This can be anonymous. DMs are open and email is alyssamerc[at]gmail[dot]com.

What a great headline

😈 Maleficent, the evil queen, had her goblins searching for Sleeping Beauty for 16 years. 🛑 BUT…. they were looking for a baby the whole time. Acceptance criteria fail! 🧠 This is why it’s so important for villains to leverage AGILE practices. Don’t let this become your team. My new ecourse will

demonschool credits all 145 people who touched the game over the course of its multi-year dev cycle AND explains what exactly they contributed. the rest of the games industry, which commonly omits people from credits entirely, should be taking notes

Snitching to corporate and getting 30 people fired is not mandatory — rats have to make that choice for themselves.

There's a lot to say about the Roblox CEO interview, and the right place to start is definitely his answers on children's safety, because that's kind of the fire that is hottest and closest. However, I have to also say, the polymarket stuff is real 'summation of our neoliberal dumpster fire' shit.

The first episode of the Arc Raiders series we produced for Embark is now live. For years folks were asking what happened to the original PvE hero-shooter version of the game. Well, now you know… youtu.be/tdorU3sjt_0?...

RIP to a games industry pioneer and legend, Rebecca Heineman (@burgerbecky.bsky.social) If your unfamiliar, look her up. Her career is like the story of videogames itself.

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

“Don’t gather some of the most brilliant activists in the industry, treat us like crap, and then expect us to do nothing about it.” After the Game Awards cancelled its Future Class programme, @alyssamerc.bsky.social talked to its former honorees www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...

I think this might be the first time they've referred to the end of Dispatch as a "season" finale

Finished episode two of Pluribus and I'm hooked hard. I'm so happy Vince Gilligan is taking a swing at sci-fi and it's incredible so far.

Every secondhand James Cameron story sounds like dialogue from 'ARCHER.' "Awesome guy. We watched Anime together. Also, that time my dad was kidnapped? I called him, he sent me $1 Million and a negotiator. The Marines said he wanted to ride along for the extraction, too - that guy loves to party!"

[ROB ZOMBIE, ABOUT TO WRITE ONE OF THE BEST SONGS EVER MADE] you ever think about the car grandpa munster drives

Winnipeg friends, make sure you jump on this survey so we can finally get some good, safe, bike lanes around here. If that's not enough for you the NIMBYs will get really mad if we do this

The short version: Despite layoffs, buying the game still puts money in the pockets of the developers who worked on it. Which is doubly important because they're out of a job. Boycotting the game in solidarity with them by screwing them out of money won't help anyone!

Championship baseball is a special kind of frustrating apparently

Don't forget to turn your clocks back in the middle of the 16th.

16 innings and a movie

give us 20 innings this time. make this a root canal. i'll be watching. fuck god and fuck you

Giving this baseball thing a try tonight. So far I've heard Chief Wiggum on commentary and watched a chest-bumping-almost-fight. Great start.

Alan Wake 2

I'm absolutely loving Dispatch. Everything about this game just hits right with me. Please @adhocstudio.com put that soundtrack out on vinyl or somewhere soon.

Imagine the Illusive Man from Mass Effect saying this

when you get your two friend groups together and they all get along

Canadian friends, your government is seeking commentary on GenAi strategies and policies. Please let them know exactly how you feel about GenAi, it’s impacts, and what next steps should be! Perhaps it’s respecting artists works, environmental considerations and so on! Share your thoughts here 👇

Arc Raiders has the juice

oooh. Bookmarking this! "How to turn off AI tools in Apple, Google, Microsoft, and more." Step-by-step instructions from Consumer Reports.

collar gate is the latest instance of a trumped-up non-issue blossoming into a large-scale psychosis event – and possibly the dumbest. it's also the modern internet doing exactly what it was engineered to do

Terrified he died but delighted that it’s just him talking about cocaine