everyone dislikes genai in games, but kids and story-focused players the most. sounds like we'll be ok. just have to stay the course here and the "inevitable" new technology nobody likes will die. again. quanticfoundry.com/2025/12/18/g...

A new Abnormal Mapping! We played Mega Man 7 & 8 and talk about the highs and lows of jumping and shooting. Mega Man 8 remains cool as hell one of the best www.abnormalmapping.com/the-abnormal...

I'm reminded of how when I was in high school my mom bought a house that hadn't been updated since the seventies, and before she could start fixing up the place, she had us help her scrub all the tar from the walls and rip out the formerly-orange-but-now-brown shag carpeting.

my dude

Damn this fight's gonna be real close

R. Dorothy wayneright, but she's a bunny!!💖✨ :3 #BigO #anime #art #fanart #theBigO #digitalart #dorothy #rogersmith

BREADBRAIN #robotalchemicdrive

Right winger from a left wing family: "I used racist message boards as a form of escapism because my feminist mother tried to make me wear deodorant." Leftist from a right wing family: "My parents beat me for believing dinosaurs existed. My father thinks I'm gay because I tried poetry once."

Business meetings in Like a Dragon

can't fucking wait to turn 36 and become a double adult who can watch mega pornography and buy the good cigs that make you healthier

"Woe to those who have not cleaned their houses - it is said that the Schnabelperchten will cut open their stomachs with long scissors and empty the rubbish into them" ✂️

He looks like an amoral US sentator in a Japanese action game that ends up as the final boss and his name is something like "James Panzer"

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.

The Highguard backlash is making me feel crazy the same way Concords did.

genuinely what is the difference between that game as pitched in one single trailer and like battlefield six. its got titanfall pedigree it'll probably play well. literally its only crime is not being an established enough brand for the geoff keighley closing trailer, as if that matters

i say this as someone who does not like most big budget AAA live service games even a tiny bit, like nothing could interest me less, and yet: the backlash to that highguard trailer makes me feel legitimately crazy

Angela Basset as Mace in “Strange Days” gotta be about as cool as a human is able to be

might be one of my new favorite adult swim shows. it strikes such a subtle balance between post-postmodernism and surrealist humor. the heart is the joke but it has so much heart that it is insanely endearing. if i could describe it as anything, it's like the opposite of Beavis and Butthead

Louise was the best!

Just a reminder that makes this confusion even more "fun..." teams at multiple large studios (which will remain unnamed) are rumored to be labeling more classical algorithmic techniques (like anything proc gen) as "AI" to mollify execs/investors' desire to slap that sticker on everything

Remember Mindseye

the big difference between procgen and "ai" is that procgen is straightforwardly a creative/authoring process like any other, whereas "ai" by its nature precludes both things. but even with procgen you can approach it from a cynical direction and fuck yourself www.joewintergreen.com/an-insult-to...

Gaming on macOS

(transferring to Arthur’s school from Arthur) so what the fuck are you guys

My smell

Who is she....

did i say tomorrow i meant saturday oops ! my gay ass is not finishing the last chunk of editing that fast lol dont wanna cut corners for no reason n stuff either here have a picture of mr cool to make up for it lol

also new video dropping tomorrow ! 3 MYSTERIOUS PSP GAMES super very very proud of this one heres a sneak preview !

Bro Neil Druckman needs to go They need to get rid of that bitch

Why call him this when Pixel, creator of Cave Story is right there

Someone. Brought. In a raccoon into work???

you cannot assume that people like this "like" tolkien in any way that matters, everything is just an aesthetic to them, t hey do not have the faculties to understand text, much less subtext that aside, the one ring at least worked

the difference between a hero and a karen is context

Thanks to the immense pressure that's been applied onto the company from both inside and out, Microsoft has just terminated some of its contracts with the IDF, including the particular unit responsible for capturing these phone calls. And a key part of that pressure came from a boycott.

now thats a headline right there

Can somebody help us get over $1,000? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybj1...

I like that when I joined bluesky it was a place for sickos to not be bothered by Nazis but now it has a reputation for being super libbed up so when I say something like "do you think Wolverine got regular boners or did it pop in and out like his claws" someone will stop by to say "VOTE!"

remember when leonard nimoy was begging for his life and optimus prime shot him in the face in cold blood

Remember when that one guy shot Abe and it kicked off months of embarrassing political investigations because he was just right.

A "98% complete" version of the cancelled Game Boy Color Resident Evil port has been shared online. The newly preserved build, made right as the game was cancelled, may finally let players play through the port in its entirety and reach the ending. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/a-98-co...

doing pretty ok lately, has a job that takes an entire minute to explain

I think especially in the era of online hyper-awareness people trap themselves in a loop of treating it like their responsibility to be ware of everything and fight every injustice and that's basically just self harm, you're liable to just give up entirely if you try to shoulder all the world's evil

I was wrestling with this all of yesterday based on a producers comments from July + the Larian stuff. It's all about as clear as mud and I'm exhausted. What has become clear is that unless I'm inside a studio or someones a big dramatic proponent I won't really know one way or another and it's shit

Guys posting pages from the 1995 Sears catalogue on $70 cartridges to demonstrate how good we have it today real quiet right now.

So it turns out this game rules. Idk why I hadn't heard of it before. I guess people consider it kind of derivative but I don't know of anything else that fills the weird niche of "Oblivion if it were also Fable and God of War"

i know no one likes to talk about blizzard but it's really common knowledge that their alphas, etc. literally have huge placeholder text that says things like "CUTSCENE HERE" or "NPC TEXT" for unfinished or in development cutscenes or dialogue. and idk. that seems like it should remain normal.

it's really annoying that even trying to look into what is or isn't using gen AI and what's intentional vs unintentional is just met with big broad "stop defending AI" statements, like we should know not to take the shotgun approach by now

if AI is a hardline no for you, as it is for many of us, you gotta start getting into truly independent shit or simply accept the slop. i don't think AI is "inevitable" but i do think the tech-adjacent games industry is currently and in the near future saturated with it