Kojima was not involved in the AI trailer for the Prada event. This was Nicolas Winding Refn’s event and he told me he made the trailer. The event was all human art. Refn has partnered with Prada to direct digital marketing including a “virtual muse” in 2021. www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...

happy pride month. we will not die out. we will live forever. they can threaten us, they can kill our sisters and brothers, but they cannot kill an idea. they cannot kill the human urge for change. there have always been trans people, and there always will be.

Getting a certain kind of vibe from the people who are arguing about how this is actually bad

Background/UI designer Yoshio Nishimura (Dragon's Crown, Odin's Sphere, Muramasa, 13 Sentinels) branches off on his own, becomes a farmer, and shows back up half a decade later with a self-produced JRPG that takes place inside of a fictional set of TTRPG books? That's a guaranteed day one pick-up.

i disagree with aftermath's justifications for covering forza horizon 6 because even small acts of solidarity are meaningful but also because they've abdicated responsibilities they gave themselves tellthemidied.blog/2026/05/25/i...

they're talking about me accidentally entering a vc with patricia in it when i was 15, in which basically nothing happened and i left immediately. i have no idea how it got twisted to imply that she was actively masturbating and i would very much like it if i wasnt a victim of an imaginary grooming

its actually insane how much people hate victims of sexual abuse

okay no but seriously THIS time the problematic trans woman definitely deserves it

While KH2 is the most fun KH game to go and replay, 358/2 Days is the closest the series has come to artistic perfection. The tedious mission loop where you're just looking forward to the next hangout scene with Axel and Xion perfectly puts the player in Roxas' position within the story.

Ngl today I had an existential crisis about why I even bother being critical about anything at all. I saw a post about how someone can't believe anyone dislikes x game, because it has y cute character in it.

Xenoblade Chronicles 2 achieves its ideal form completely outside itself. The story becomes easiest to love once nobody is actually playing it anymore. WE ARE ALL BECOMING MORE THICK: jakesteinberg.substack.com/p/we-are-all...

The negative reaction to Billie Eilish defending animals reveals that most modern “leftists” are just cosplaying. Too many people on the left are motivated, not by solidarity & liberation, but merely their own personal interests & social signaling, & any moral demand outside that results in outrage.

i have a very hard time parsing the value systems of people for whom taking sponsors for gacha games is not an ethical boundary but genAI apparently is where they draw the line? this isn't genAI apologism to be as absolutely clear as possible but like. how does that end up being your specific line.

when something I like includes a reference to something else: "oh damn, ball knower, good shit" when something I don't like includes a reference to something else:

Want to see me never vote for a Democrat again? This is how you make me never vote for a Democrat again. It’s obvious the DNC is owned by the same Oligarchs as the GOP. Your just voting for them because they’re more polite & you haven’t been paying attention. This isn’t a team sport, wake up!

the negative impacts of low effort high stimulus short form video is well attested but gamers in the comments shit their pants at the idea that video games could ever do anything but expand your mind and that to think otherwise is necessarily right wing

hilarious twitter poll causing right wingers to crash out because they can't comprehend most people are good.

Mfs will be like "ARR is actually good", and then their justification is that characters introduced in ARR are better used elsewhere. Bitch, that's not ARR being good, that's other expansions being good.

dont tell them i said it but: final fantasy 14 fans

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It's everyone in the world, so we can all safely press Blue.👍🏿 There aren't as many trash people in the world as it seems. Because many of the selfish, trash people are concentrated in the US, and they're very loud! So at times it can seem like the whole world is evil. It's not. The world is kind.

This is my take on the red/blue button hypothetical. Personally I think the vote would be close and I would take the risk.

Need more people to realize they're missing out from some of the Greatest Magic Battles committed on film bsky.app/profile/jayc...

If you're mad about this game's concept you're either a reactionary or a racist! Simple as!

I hate to drag up dumb discourse back up but I saw a bunch of allegedly Left leaning writers pearl clutching over this game being for predators and I just want to state that if you did that you're aligned with this woman but pretending to be woke about it. Think about that.

If you're complaining about the price of beef you never, not for one moment, cared about climate change.

Offer received and accepted, funemployment ends homies. I release my employment jelly to the wild now, thank you friend.

the extraction shooter is such a doomed genre its so funny. why did every big company go so hard on a type of game that is designed to be a miserable waste of time by 85% of the playerbase

What I'm learning is that many people believe plagiarism to work in a similar manner to sins and if you pay your indulgences you negate the crime you committed and are back to morally neutral and all the problems are solved.

i'm so happy this exists, "A Deadly Game of Cat and Also Cat" just randomly pops into my head constantly

Now, I am not insensitive to the situation you're in, I'm really not. I get it. But I think the US really doesn't understand the global power dynamic here: one of you IS worth a thousand of us. 3000 US folks died in 9/11 and the US murdered five million in response.

the replies to this are instructive about the american exceptionalism a lot of left leaning american have internalized, because it’s full of non-americans talking about brutal oppression and a lot of USians talking about how they are the most oppressed

Personally, if my government was considering wiping out an entire people and my mainstream media was contemplating the effects of nuclear war on the stock market, I wouldn't be going around posting "why is everyone being so mean to us". I think I know why everyone is being mean bruh

Because the tone is set by the site design, and you and I don't have control over that. We're trying to hold discussions in a medium that atomizes individual sentences into a form that *the site itself* will take out of context and shove in front of a stressed person, even if you do nothing.

So Erin Reed blocked me over this one but I’m going to take a few minutes to point out why this “reporting” is so bad and repost a few times to hopefully spread the word. TL;DR Erin either doesn’t understand anything about NYC law or politics or is outright lying about what’s happening here.

Xenogears PS1 (1998)

Mario Galaxy Movie Review

Not a big fan of this revisionism, because they just genuinely are that buggy. To say that most kids never encountered a glitch ignores entire basic parts of the game that don't function as intended. And also they weren't the Wright brothers, there was plenty of big RPGs on the Gameboy by 1996.

I’ve been describing supply loss from the closure of the Strait of Hormuz as an “air pocket” moving through the normal flow of oil out of the Gulf Helpful map from JPM highlighting when that air pocket will “land” in different major consuming regions: Asia this week, Europe next, N America two more

personally i think if you quote post/screenshot someone with hostility and then they do you back on the same website as if conversing, its not that weird. i think if the reaction to what you said w. your brain and typed w. your fingers swings back on you poorly, its a little bit your fault actually

Last post on this, I promise. Wild how people think they can get away with anything just by being a small account. If you're spewing vitriol in the QTs, you better be ready to get jumped on main. You literally chose the terms of the interaction, and decided on an abusive one

Listen up liberal, if you say I'm wrong, that's siding with the fascists. If I personally tell you to kill yourself though, that's a holy form of criticism, and maybe you should consider apologizing? Own up to your mistakes?

Bluesky has a serious illiteracy problem, and I'm not joking. There's a subsection of this website that thinks sending abuse, up to and including death threats, is a-okay if you just misread a person hard enough. Just gotta look through some of the quote retweets to see some outing themselves.

this is frankly obvious bullshit and it would be cool if people thought about the implications of 9C IN A GODDAMN 10KM RADIUS before uncritically boosting

Now at 201/400, half way there 🥹

Why is it that whenever people argue against AI in art, they try to counter the "democratizing art" talking point by saying "actually, you're just too much of a bitch to be an artist". Why is the kneejerk reaction here to make suffering the focal point of the artistic process.