I know everyone is fed up with the state of the world but what if you didn’t take it out on people you have mild disagreements with on social media

There's this horror anthology manga called The Creepy and Freaky and it's really good.

Geoff allegedly set up a program to get the marginalized for photo ops and then dumped them like a sack of bricks, refused to give free tickets for them TO GET THEIR AWARD, and then took sponsor money for the program, and pocketed it. No, I will not be watching his dogshit awards, even to clown on.

Why am I so against generative AI in games? Because I simply do not want my initial reaction to art to be one of suspicion and scrutiny, AI slop is fundamentally damaging my relationship to art and artistry, and I am deeply resentful that it is forcing me to be guarded when I should be wowed.

Pumpkin house (it was eaten within 30 minutes)

Genuinely, as someone who plays several live service games I always have a checklist that's like - Ask yourself if you're having fun - Never have a "forever game", play or read or do other stuff alongside it - Don't set paid subs to auto-renew - Think about what you want, not what the game wants

train worker waking me up to check my ticket

I'm at the Target boycott, I'm at the Starbucks boycott, I'm at the combination Target boycott and Starbucks boycott

Jack Dorsey is real close to Musk. DiVine is made by RabbleLabs, on their site you will find a widget called "And Other Things" that takes you to another domain and explains a lot of stuff about their/Nostr's Ai. Most likely they just want a free dataset of tons of actual videos to train on.

Two things can be true: 1.) The Game Awards are meaningless and we shouldn't take them all that seriously. 2.) Award shows of its scale DO rewrite the mainstream history of the art form, whether they deserve to or not, and its okay to care that it's so thoughtless despite having that responsibility.

okay sorry i try to not look at or think about ffxiv drama from the other evil site because it is exhausting and i simply do not care but someone calling the girl that was edating 8 guys at the same time "boyfriend limit cut" is too fucking funny to not post about here

Considering AI voices in games was the example used in article, here’s some nuance: Voice actors are increasingly pressured into giving up their voice prints in perpetuity for some of these games. Some for cheap; others are finding these terms snuck into contracts. Not an “extreme”, but reality.

it's uhhh looking very bad for me this month! we're not making enough money and my grandmother keeps buying random bullshit so we're looking at a really annoying financial situation for the rest of the month! awesome i love being poor in america!!

this is sauceless If your Zelda is leaning Tolkien Lite then you need to readjust

finally a normal software license that definitely holds up really well

Rebecca Heineman doesn't have much time left. If you can, please donate for her and her family to make end of life arrangements. One last kindness we can offer for a legend of the games industry and loud and proud trans woman: www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebec...

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"Get his ass” Is so unreasonably funny to me. A huge win for the English language. Today's version of "seize him" imo

The Tepig sprite and animation I did for @somecallmejohnny.com 's Extra Life charity event, for our custom Pokemon Crystal ROM hack. #pokemon #tepig #pixelart #ドット絵

any small town high school in the midwest or southwest produces these guys by the truckload

corbeau

From a reddit post discussing ICE moving into Charlotte

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DYING

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3 years ago today, Riot Games offered me a job making more money than I ever thought I’d make in my life. I had 19 interviews over 2.5 months to get it. Partner and I were moving to LA for it. I put in notice at my job and apartment. 2 weeks later they rescinded the offer due to “headcount issues”.

"can we please make the game on the assumption that whoever is playing has decided to so" has always got me blank stares at work unforch

I'm going to voice something really controversial about the "annoying nerdy side character in new Metroid game" thing. I think someone should draw Samus pegging him

LOSING IT

Alright, I think I'm about ready. Let's raise some money for kids in need. www.twitch.tv/somecallmejohnny

In honor of Sonic Rush's 20th anniversary, we dug into the archives and found some original concept art of Blaze the Cat! Enjoy!

Hey. This is the BEST POSSIBLE SEASON to badger Visa and Mastercard into fucking off about their shitty fake-moral-panic over LGBTQ+ spending habits and content on retail platforms. Fuck ALL THE WAY OFF, VISA and Mastercard. No one wants to hear jack shit from you. You're a fucking receipt printer.

Banjo-Tooie Ending E

It's a great cosmic joke that neurodivergence both runs in families and gets diagnosed based on parent reports. I was diagnosed at 30 because a man who has eaten potatoes every day for 57 years and a woman who collects loose buttons decided I was a perfectly normal child.

"one day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this"

steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back

‘The Owl House’ creator Dana Terrace responds to Disney+ funding AI-generated short form content in new tweet: “Unsubscribe from Disney+. Pirate Owl House. I don’t care. Fuck gen AI.”

C'est moi

I hate when that happens

KIRO 7 ran an article and two TV pieces on the theft of a box truck full of arcade PCBs, artwork, and machines from my workplace yesterday. If anyone in the Seattle area sees someone offloading a ton of CPS2/NAOMI/Neo Geo PCBs, stuff of that nature, please reach out. www.kiro7.com/news/local/g...

"Malort advent calendar" is already such an unhinged concept but every little window just having Malort in it really pushes it over the edge into something transcendently funny

#neopets part 1

From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."

Incredible piece of data journalism here from @wsj.com. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Standing By The Perimeter Fence And Screaming For Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing Day today all who celebrate