This interview in Vanity Fair came out in 2010, and this exchange from it has lived rent-free in my head ever since.

Very thankful for this letter to Becky Pepper-Jackson (the 16 year-old trans girl SCOTUS ruled against yesterday) from James Dale, a gay man whose expulsion from the Boy Scouts was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2000.

As the director of a historical video game preservation institution, and someone who has dedicated his entire adult life to this cause, this is accurate. We have attempted to work with the industry's trade organization to find a legal path forward, but they refuse to offer a meaningful alternative.

hey everyone sorry it's Monday to apologise here is a totally free game about jumping on a trampoline that I made for you just jump on the trampoline and have a good time no twists or surprises definitely not not-jam.itch.io/battery-acid...

This got a snort

"Why do all cars look the same?" is essentially the same question as "why do all passenger jets look the same?" Aerodynamics is a solved problem with only one answer.

My headline: Expanding my List of Boycotted Corporations with Riot Games

I've been seeing a few people who came into games writing/journalism like a decade after I did and they talk about my peers who've got some of the few jobs remaining as if they "made it" and I would like to be clear: virtually none of us made it, even (perhaps especially) the people who seemed to

so, Big Tim, let me get this right: - people don't want to buy games made with genAI - you want to scam them into buying it anyway - Valve lightly discourages this - you say that discouraging you and your pals from scamming people is irresponsible - you're happy to say this out loud, on the record?

I know this is not the biggest concern going these days, but it stresses me out that basically every artist/writer/critic is now expected to create their own tiny empire instead of getting paid by any existing entity to perform a job they've worked to get good at!!!!

re-watching the x-files after not really watching it since it aired and scully buys a bag of groceries and her total is $11.17 and she pays with a check. life comes at you fast.

So patronizing

I bought some FGC merch for the first time this year and it was for Combo Breaker '26 No coasts, no kings, no princes either

tragic news . . . . . remember u always

Graphic design is my passion.

reading a few paras down this obituary--an obituary!!!--this was beyond a record scratch

You need to be in an office to ask Claude to spend tokens to do your job for you.

Weyland-Yutani from Aliens is a surprisingly realistic portrayal of companies nowadays because you never get any real idea of how they actually make money but they certainly have a desire to do evil and sometimes Paul Reiser is there

60% drop in reviews if people even smell AI on your game - full supports the investors, developers, and publishers that took a hard "no gen-AI" stance, despite grifters' proclamations that they were "going to be left behind".

i love auto caption features

anyway, like we were saying when we warned that, as always, execs would learn the complete wrong lesson www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

things are getting out of hand

lmao poor yorick. they got his ass

Wow Huang wants governmental regulation and licensing of AI just like automobiles wow

Given that we’re now desperately trying to undo the mistake of ceding our streets to cars because we realized 100 years too late the environmental and social damage of that choice, this is actually a great metaphor, just not the one he thinks.

when I got laid off from Vice, I later found out that members of the c-suite had awarded themselves bonuses that were higher than my annual salary. I hope that answers your question.

Nothing is more depressing than watching young artists give other young artists advice like “only use one colour palette in everything you do to have a more recognizable brand” and “draw everything with a target audience in mind”

today I discovered this incredible story of a minor league pitcher who is 6'4 wears glasses and a ginger beard who hurt his elbow and went to the doc for Tommy John surgery and was mistaken for a pitcher from a diff team who was also there for TJ surgery on same day anyway heres their pics and names

someone on jeopardy thought that the huffington post was the first place to report on lincoln's death. reopen the schools

The irony is they are replacing all their non-union humans with agents run by a single organization that can demand changes in wages (aka token costs) overnight without bargaining.

omg are you kidding me Tomodachi Life

People like Kane and many many others that do care about human art and the creative process have been a beacon of hope while trying to navigate making art in this current climate.

Here's an easter egg in the new Lego Batman that I think all of you will REALLY appreciate. It's so good, I had to make a video.

had never seen this one and it's killing me

how it feels trying to get anything done in suburban america without a car

you know what fucking month it is

do NOT bother him while he's playing Dragon Quest VIII

I am obsessed with this finalist in this year's Michigan “I voted” sticker design contest

Thank you New York Magazine Approval Matrix for amplifying my niche licensing dispute stereogum.com/tip