goty

not to put too fine a point on it, but the fear that people are shaping themselves into forms that are legible to AI systems, thus dehumanizing themselves/others & ceding control, is something that kate crawford identified before the chat open beta debuted (the "labor" chapter in atlas of AI, 2021)

you know it smells crazy in there

thinking about Pastoral: To Die in the Country, again

the final accoutrements arrived

Nearby Habitats: Grubbin's home [pictured: Grubbin, who is real]

i'm cracking up!!!

this means that the bar for an AAA break-even is set impossibly high. innovation is depressed bc who can take a chance when stakes are so high? but audiences tire of stale spectacle. the solution? spray more marketing dollars to capture the audience, make the next more spectacular! a doom spiral

the thing about video games is its a terrible business, because they have to be made by a half dozen of the most elite creative professions working in harmony and they're priced worse than disposable single-person works

A talented and kind developer from the midwestern dev scene I was fortunate to meet on a few occasions, John Gibbons, passed away suddenly this week. His family is left with medical bills and related costs after an already difficult year of unemployment. www.gofundme.com/f/help-john-...

Ricky Nature

pleased to announce that i;m currently in talks to turn a doodle of tom bombadil doing the charleston that jrr tolkien scribbled on a pub napkin into a new major film

bro is cooked

💡Fun fact! There are no rainbows after it rains in Pokopia because God has abandoned the Pokémon too.

💡Fun fact! There are no rainbows after it rains in Pokopia because God has abandoned the Pokémon too.

Pokopia is giving me soooo many complicated feelings about ACNH

it's supposed to be -14C/7F on Saturday. I am beginning to think Montreal is experiencing an Ice Age

i do love when I have rare blocks of work that are not about listening to things I'm making so i can actually listen to things like such as podcasts

Ragebaiting My Mark Uncle Pt. 20

mom is back in the icu after a very scary day yesterday, which has set her recovery back. i posted a full update on the gfm and increased our goal by $10k. this is the scariest thing our family has ever experienced, and we are so thankful for all the support so far ❤️ www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

a chopped uncle's thesis

this game is crazy realistic

I couldn't be more excited to announce something I've been working on for a long time - Please welcome Belltower House Artist Residency, a multidisciplinary gift of time in my erstwhile home in southern New Mexico, now accepting applications for 2026. belltowerhouse.org

GDC recap part two: the gloomy future. Really, what I'm doing is lining up as complete a picture as I can of GDC's overall trajectory. I’m not just here to say "It's doomed." I suspect it's doomed but the details are interesting regardless. blog.zarfhome.com/2026/03/gdc-...

You should never read YouTube comments. Except on this video. They understood the brief.

this game is crazy realistic

It's sale season once again! Misericorde Vol. Two is less than ten dollars, and Vol. One is less than five. Get caught up, start the series for the first time, or give a friend the gift of depressed 15th century nuns 🗡️

producing "run-based" adaptations of classic literature for the modern gamer (copy of jane eyre where every sentence is printed three to seven times consecutively)

when the freaks dm me i usually figure out their Game fairly quickly. But this , to me, is a total mystery. I cannot assess the threat level

The Grey Void Sky of Montreal is looking very grey today

In San Francisco I commented to friends that the contrast between the amount of money spent on AI and the homelessness we were seeing made me sick. But even excluding AI, the amount Meta wasted on this trash could have accommodated every unhoused person we saw for life, with money to spare.

wow they hired DePiglio to be the new Eurovision mascot, it's about time his career blew up!! 👏👏👏

he can't help it...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8c-... Got another video put together, this one was ripped from VHS Track 6: BALANCED BUDGET (WGW) Growing Dread Bandcamp: ghoulnoise.bandcamp.com/album/growin... Ampwall: ampwall.com/a/ghoulnoise...

We masked on our flights and when indoors at GDC (aside from eating/drinking, infrequently) and mostly stayed outdoors as much as possible so far, four days out, neither of us is feeling any kind of con crud. 😌🤞

LRT on killing your inner lore master re: pokemon I'm playing Pokopia having never completed any pokemon game outside of Pokemon Snap! (go figure) and a lot of my enjoyment I think is coming from how LITTLE I know about pokemon writ large everything feels surprising and new because it is, to me

here is a @jakesteinberg.substack.com with a sophisticated reminder about lore's capacity to obfuscate rather than illuminate jakesteinberg.substack.com/p/kill-your-...

I can't believe it... they want couch gamers to go extinct, with our coffee tables and our not-isolating ourselves in the office where the PC is almost exclusively for doing work...

...how well does Marathon work on Steam deck? (bonus if you've played it docked with a controller while sitting on the couch which is the only way I will play a game)

how I feel finally opening my email after GDC

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I am enjoying Pokopia but it's also really funny how this game turbo activates my people pleaser neurons getting everyone's living situations as good as I possibly can while my empty tummy grumbles and my own abode doesn't yet register as "nice" living conditions 😭

New Doinksoft announcement tomorrow.

My partner and best friend Kyle suffered from two strokes last week. We need your help. gofund.me/e25c60dfb Anything helps, a like, a share, a donation. thank you for your support during this difficult time ❤️

Dorian Gray reboot where the protagonist's appearance keeps getting "improved" via DLSS5 while an old computer in the attic displays, idk, Nemesis from Resident Evil or something, haven't had time to workshop this properly

Do not, under any circumstances, let Volbeat see your human buttocks

seeing real live people on here talk about Oscar results in full-on sabremetrics mode like "it's remarkable that a movie with X, Y and Z tags and release statistics won this many awards" has reaffirmed my belief that Gregg Turkington (On Cinema character) is essential to understanding our present

Probably a good time to repost a bunch of games that reject photorealism in favor of a more hand-crafted, stylized and tonal immersion. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og6_...