Ai water use is greatly exaggerated, but not to worry, it's still infuriatingly terrible in many other ways youtu.be/H_c6MWk7PQc?...

The only gaming announcement this month that matters

Should sell it through their own website too. I remember when Red Candles (based in Taiwan) had their game Devotion removed from Steam because of the Chinese government. They got a lot of support on their own website. Kept the studio in business and they made the excellent Nine Sols too!

Santa Ragione are a well-known studio, covered by a great many mainstream outlets. Their latest game will not be releasing on Steam for... reasons? Steam won't tell them why, won't tell them what needs fixing, and won't communicate in general. Every other store will carry it. Just not Steam.

When an agency tells you that the "client doesn't credit" or that "they haven't asked" do not believe their lies.

Tolstoy? Needs a bit of fluff removing. The Lord of the Rings Extended Editions? Poorer pacing than the cinematic ones. A six and a half hour Marxian retrospective of Serial Experiments Lain and how it precluded the collapse of Enon? You do you, sir.

You know how I often say that ever piece of work is improved when the creator thinks it is completed, and then edited down by at least a third? There is one creative exception to this, and that is video essays on incredibly niche cultural matters.

for instance, GPT-3 took 700,000 liters of water to train. That sounds like a lot! It is roughly the amount of water used to raise the amount of beef that *two* Americans eat in a year.

in general the water claims for AI are *wildly* exaggerated - or reflect an inability to grasp the scale of our water use.

a lot of falsehoods are getting repeated about b) by people who rightly believe a), and it doesn't help credibility.

Rebecca was one of the founders of Interplay and programmed & designed for some of the most influential games of my youth, notably Bard's Tale I & III and Wasteland. She will be missed.

Ok here's my problem with this take. There are "media" bad actors who are trying to astroturf a particular narrative about Mamdani being antisemitic. There are also *Jewish people* who, after their analysis, decided Mamdani either flirted with or was antisemitic, & folks would rather erase them.

If you have been sharing that Malwarebytes article on the Gmail thing, you should note the giant correction up top. www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...

Welp, I'm 31 now lol

Welp, I'm 31 now lol

This is a super interesting look at cycling initiatives in London back in the 80s. youtu.be/HXORho_jxAs?...

It is important for you to realize that you have probably never once in your life sent a private email. That’s just not how email works. Sure, turn off whatever Gmail features you want, but you’re just playing whack-a-mole with the technical realities of email as a concept.

Checking in on MechaHitler

Grok has been reprogrammed to say Musk is better than everyone at everything, including blowjobs, piss drinking, playing quarterback, conquering Europe, etc.

Musk's ego was mortally wounded by Joyce Carol Oates and he's been on a narcissistic supply bender since

Things are still very hard. I need all the help I can get--I presently am trying to get a $14 payment taken care of today on top of getting some Uber/Lyft money raked up so that I can go visit dad a little later on. There's just a lot stacking up, I'm so stressed and worried. paypal.me/kittytama

I don't know which of my kouhais need to hear this, but because I'm seeing this in a ton of commercial J>E game locs: you really shouldn't retain quotation marks in the same places as the Japanese source text 9 times of 10, especially outside dialogue. Punctuation parity in general is often sloppy.

Our first Nine Sols apparel launched this week as part of our Black Friday sale! Here's a closer look at both prints on our Epic Exchange long sleeve: www.fangamer.com/collections/...

"Greeks living in Afghanistan were Buddhist 500 years before China and a thousand years before Southeast Asia" is one of those things that sounds made up but is in fact true

Nothing surprising here www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...

Our Nine Sols collection is growing—two new pins and the Epic Exchange long sleeve are available now as part of our Black Friday sale! www.fangamer.com/collections/...

Transperfect (big Language Services Provider mainly known for how poorly they treat translators) wants: - your experience - your creativity - your soul (probably) to feed its machines. All for 505 USD for 2 weeks of work (IF they accept your work). No AI allowed, how weird?

Lightning Returns Final Fantasy XIII

“Drawing all that sexy art of video game men might affect your professional art career” well well well

I went to meet the 'Rockstar 31', the developers who were suddenly fired from their work on GTA 6 for what the studio has described as gross misconduct. That's not what the workers call it though. They have another couple of words they prefer to use: union busting. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...

it's not 'performative' if you're taking pictures of random fucking strangers reading. they're just reading! you're the creepy one!

Even a simple factoid like this gets overlooked, but it was not long ago that *everyone* directly knew multiple examples of people taken away by this at something preposterous like age 22

Huh?

Hello everyone, we’re Red Candle Games. This year marks our studio’s 10th anniversary — thank you for your support. 🕯️🙏 youtu.be/yzZY6-v4yVU

Because SE's QA people are probably not in a position to defend themselves and their jobs in public, I want to spell out some of what it is they specifically do for us localizers, because nothing I've written here is rhetorical. SE QA acts as a final check on our work after translation and editing.

Game company sows misinformation to cover up union busting, fans fall for it, actual employee posts explaining the employees were fired to prevent the studio unionizing This is *unacceptable*

My very Christian mamatomo calls this bento design “Jesus in my heart.” Or at least she did, until I convinced that it must instead be called ハムアンドチーザス. You’re welcome, world.

When working, London's cycleways' #C3 #Embankment and #C6 #Blackfriars Road counters have recorded over #25million cycle journeys since they were installed in February 2018* *crowdsourced reports. Thanks to everyone who has shared pictures and scores 🙏 #CS3Count #CS6Count #LondonLovesCycling

The Japanese cast of Six are performing at the Vaudeville Theatre in London this week. If you're in London this week, you have to go see it! It's absolutely phenomenal!

As with Sadiq, Mamdani breaks people’s brains because they just cannot get around the concept of a socially liberal Muslim.

it fking GLOWS IN THE DARKKK if you somehow get me this thing ill literally draw u

another day another crazy cool piece of nine sols merch i find out about that apparently was sold exclusively at a hole in the wall pop up shop in harajuku for like a week and is now impossible to get 😭

Mamdami seems to project it as a strength. With Khan is feels more of a shrug and a "so what?"

While it is significant that New York can elect a Mayor who is & so identifies as an immigrant leader, the tendency to conflate Zohran Mamdani & Sadiq Khan as Mayors who are Muslim in high profile national/global cities (by opponents but also fans + media) overlooks significant contrasts