this is “Charlie Brown had hoes” of military history

It is 4:50am and I am wide awake for the third night in a row because some genius with my apartment complex decided that the complex pool needed 24-hour music and they installed the speaker DIRECTLY beneath my balcony.

I legitimately cannot stop thinking about how fucked up that whole Tupac thing is.

btw this is who runs Tupac's estate

Alright, I guess this will be my thread of posts relating to anything from the Summer Game Fest feed that I find particularly captivating.

Colleague walked by my desk while I was watching an Eyepatch Wolf video about how much Andrew Tate sucks at kickboxing but they only saw the Andrew Tate kickboxing clip and now I’m paranoid that they think I like this chinless predatory freak.

A friendly reminder to anyone watching the Summer Game Fest streams on YouTube: close the chat window. Just close it. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

"School Reunion" is one of my favorite episodes of Doctor Who precisely because it's 45 minutes of Anthony Head chewing every inch of scenery.

No shade on Summer Game Fest (like The Game Awards, which is basically Winter Game Fest and I wish he'd just own up to it) but it really does make me miss E3. ...I still cannot believe I have come around to missing E3...

I literally showed my partner "Repo: The Genetic Opera" just last week. He was fantastic in that, as he was in everything else. Damn.

I have no opinion of Graham Platner. I don’t live in Maine and my investment in his candidacy goes as far as “Susan Collins must go.” But what I find vexing about his scandal is that if he were a Republican, the ugly and irrefutable truth is that the New York Times doesn’t pen that story about him.

Good.

I like Hunter Biden. 😎👍

I'm only being mildly hyperbolic when I say this but if I ever start posting like a LinkedIn "influencer" I want one of y'all to hit me in the head with a fucking brick.

One day IT will happen. We won't know about it for, like, ten days, but we'll feel the change in the air.

the hot new AAA action game

I know that Bluesky is not indicative of reality, but the blowback to the use of genAI reaches far beyond any one social media platform. It's a scarlet letter on your game, and no amount of explanation or rationalization will wash that away. And I'd bet most of the development team rang this bell.

Half of these games will be punted to 2027. Mark my words.

Hey, @moderation.bsky.app, I would ask that you unfuck this fuckery and restore Wario 64.

Nothing says "pack it up, try again tomorrow" quite like having a bird literally shit on you while you're walking home from work.

Dear game studios, please don't ghost people after multiple interviews. It's fine if I'm not the right fit. Bummer, but ultimately fine. But honestly it's really disrespectful of my time and energy to not at least send a form letter, especially after multiple inquiries to you.

I've got the State of Play on and, while I've not been paying undivided attention (it's been on the second screen while I'm in meetings), I have been very impressed by everything that I *have* seen. Wolverine and Tomb Raider, especially, scratch very particular brain itches.

Happy 18th birthday to Loss. Via @knowyourmeme.com

Some news from me! I quit GameSpot to launch something new. Introducing @lookingfor.game, an independent weekly newsletter where I highlight upcoming PC games and deliver demo codes straight to your inbox. Sign up at lookingfor.game 🥳

It's a weird feeling, enjoying where you work and loving the people you work with but having all of that counter-balanced by your seething, bone-deep hatred for the physical location in which you are corporately mandated to live.

Oh hell yeah @amnesty.org comes out swinging: "Amnesty International finds that standalone generative AI systems... are fundamentally incompatible with IHRL. As such, Amnesty International is calling for a prohibition of such systems." www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

So, Ken Paxton has an ad accusing James Talarico of having "low T" and of being a vegan. Stephen Miller is on Fox saying Talarico is trans. Mike Lee of Utah (ugh) is now saying that Talarico will... ::checks notes:: ...sacrifice your children to Moloch.

In no universe will I be able to just jump into this without starting a new game. I look forward to mourning the 100+ hours I'm about to give Wild Hunt and its DLCs... again...

live your life in such a way that you would not disappoint Guillermo Del Toro

“This clearly heteronormative man is secretly trans” is, without question, the most pathetic attack line I’ve ever seen Republicans use. The good news is that it is a clear indicator that these cretinous roadkill munchers fear Talarico. The sad news is that this will work on far too many people.

So, it appears that the organizers for Trump’s birthday bash or whatever the shit just out-and-out lied to performers about what the gig was.

Peter Thiel moving to Argentina seems... on brand.

A thief believes everyone steals.

Steven Rosenbaum is a documented liar and bullshit artist who used (I'm being generous with the past-tense) genAI to wholesale make up quotes for a book he vomited out. Also, as a working writer who sits in front of a computer working longform AND on deadline, AI has not so much as sniffed my work.

Facebook (I will never call it “Meta”) announced subscription plans for Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. TL;DR: if you want anyone to see your shit, pay up.

...and you know what the fourth-worst part of this silly bullshit is? The card fuckin' sucks.

Pfft. Like Stephen Miller hasn't heard those exact words 92,647 times before. (I am okay with Democrats using plain language to tell these people to fuck themselves)

gamers are going to make this stuff about them but the redistribution of computing power to be something only for the wealthy and corporate really sucks

::squints:: ...isn't Vanilli dead?

Kojima being interested in "AI" should surprise absolutely nobody.

I’m going to get some mileage out of this, I think.

Not letting creatives work on side projects is legitimately evil and I hate it. It should not be legal, such contracts should all be unenforceable by law. What are we doing as a society? Capitalism is the enemy of art and science.

Alt text: it's a setting in Windows 11 Settings under: "Time & language > Typing > Typing Insights" and it shows as toggled to On. The description below explains that Windows is using artificial intelligence to help you type. I found it by searching "typing insights" in my start menu, personally.

for a piece I’m working on: destiny 2 devs of all eras, what’s your favorite thing you contributed to the game and why? can be big or small, still in the game or not. DMs are open and my email is [email protected]

What a fucking time to be alive...

“Please have 2+ years of experience with an engine we announced on Friday” really sums up the state of the games industry.