bro you gotta join the metaverse bro its the future bro cmon bro we spent so much money on fortnite

I hate to be a "book better" guy, but this trailer is bumming me the fuck out. www.youtube.com/watch?v=65Ax...

no offense to any nonprofit public service but I think I've found the worst merch of all time

The first No Kings rally I attended, the crowd spontaneously broke into singing This Land is Your Land. Peaceful protest is the most patriotic thing you can do.

Literally making ourselves dumber for no good reason.

Me only read book with small word. Small word make me feel smart.

lmao poor yorick. they got his ass

Sooo excited to announce that our game, Petunia's Purgatory, will be released on July 16th! It's been such a fun journey working on this game and my wife and I couldn't be happier with how it turned out. #gamedev #indiegames store.steampowered.com/app/4009450/...

This sums up the entire economy now. It's speculation and gambling all the way down.

The “secret” about Backrooms is that it’s just a good movie, by any yardstick. The way to replicate its success is to support & develop young writers & directors. And to give me a modest 5 million dollars to make my movie.

I'm at the Retail Space Available I'm at the Taco Bell I'm at the combination Retail Space Available and Taco Bell.

The thing that drives me nuts is that every big studio exec is like "oh you know AI will let us be more efficient and sharpen our processes and ship games faster" and at the same time every AAA production is SO wasteful and SO inefficient largely because of upper-management malfeasance

Imagine owning Double Fine and even *considering* closing it. The history of Double Fine is the history of the games industry itself. This is a crime.

love hearing about how indies "need" to use ai because its soooo hard. thats funny. i seem to be on a tiny team and we're doing fine without it? weird?

I need an inappropriate 90's magazine ad for every modern game now plz

yessss

Michigan Governor caught on hot mic with Oracle CEO Clay Magouyrk, discussing citizen opposition to AI data centers, bragging how she ignores their concerns: “We’re used to people saying 'f*ck no,' & doing it anyway.”🇺🇸

the ai debate really comes down to whether you want to consume product or consume art. There's nothing new to be discovered in getting the statistical amalgamation of what everyone else has already done.

I think good game design is just as much about what you leave *out* of a game as what you put *in*. Unless you do a postmortem or write a design diary, players will never know what you intentionally didn't put into a game. #gamedev

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Executives convince themselves that *they* made the game (through overseeing the people who actually made it), so it makes perfect sense that they would be obsessed with AI.

AI artist *opening the doordash bag they took from their neighbour's doorstep* I AM SUCH A GREAT COOK!

The idea that you can experience something like the Sistine Chapel, or the Mona Lisa, or the Great Wall of China from looking at pictures on Wikipedia, is so depressing I'm not sure how to put it in words.

This is exactly it for me. If a character is “bad” because their world has made them so, that’s implicitly hopeful; the world can also redeem. But if characters are simply good - and worse, pure - that tells us the world can be divided into deserving and damned, and that‘s the root of fascism

Console exclusives benefit no one but the console maker. Not good for players, not good for the devs (if they rely on sales revenue). If you, as a consumer, demand that they make games JUST for your console (b/c you need validation of your purchasing choices) please get off the internet.

“i bought this before he went crazy” sticker on a Ford

If this were the case, there would also be no point to leaving your house or doing anything at all. Which is exactly what extremely online conservatives want the world to look like. They want everyone frightened, ignorant, and caught in an endless X scroll

Hey #PitchYaGame folks! Petunia's Purgatory is a creepy-cute idle farming game that lives at the bottom of your screen. Grow twisted crops, sacrifice odd animals, and feed the elder god. Make sure to manage your sanity or the game might invade your desktop! store.steampowered.com/app/4009450/...

Ignoring the fact that AI sucks regardless, using AI to create voices in other languages is super risky b/c unless you speak those languages, you have NO idea if the result is any good.

Vote Steyer!

Tom Steyer being full-throated in his support of trans rights and trans athletes pushed me off the fence. Of course I'm concerned about voting for a billionaire but who the hell else is doing anything remotely like this right now?

Becerra takes money from terrible people and companies. Steyer does this. I know he's a billionaire and that has its own problems, but when you don't take money from terrible people and companies you can do basic humanistic shit without worrying. He's worth your vote, or at least a look.

Somewhere along the way, tech went from: "Here's a problem that people have, let's make a product that solves that." to "Here's a product no one wants, how do we force people to buy it?" And it fucking sucks.

THIS is the message we need to be spreading. AI isn't going to become sentient and obliterate us tomorrow, it's going to make us dumb, boring, and less human.

(*me trying to force someone to put on the One Ring*) Oh my God, it's just a TOOL. It only goes bad for people who don't know what they're doing! Oh, you think Sauron destroying the land is bad? Digging up hobbit holes is way worse for the environment. It's actually classist you won't put it on.

Semiotic anthropologist here w/alt-text! As I tell students & everyone who will listen: One of the great lessons of anthropology is that we built this. All of it. And we choose throughout our days how we will continue or change the world we have built. We can & must build differently.

So, @edzitron.com ate his Wheatties this morning

we’re sooooooo close to the bubble popping in ai i can literally taste it

When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

You don't need AI to buy things wholesale and sell them to people at break-even retail prices without the insatiable drive to maximize profit at all costs. You just need a fucking calculator.

Games ARE friction. We intentionally set up obstacles for ourselves because overcoming them is FUN.

I know this dude is a billionaire but this is so refreshing compared to Newsom dragging out right-wing talking points about trans folks.

We're 95% done with our game, we just need to make all the levels, write the story, balance it and localize it.

Health care privatization in America is an absolute disaster of our own making. Tear the whole system down.

I've been reading @add-hawk.bsky.social's book The Score, which is fantastic, but this paragraph summed up so much of how I've been feeling lately.

hell yeah she did dude