RIP Marcia Lucas. The editor who made Star Wars good.

He'll be sad when Amazon stops payment on his last check, but he might get to keep and rebuild his goodwill as an artist, such that humans would want to work with him again.

UE5, team based in Cyprus, whiz-bang trailer that implies way more gameplay and experience than the team can deliver ... I wouldn't give it any benefit of the doubt either, @nickjcal.bsky.social -- too many bad actors in recent years, and Unreal just makes it too easy to fake and fudge.

Manga counts as comics.

Thanks @sigmagears9.bsky.social for planting the stake between those of us who like to keep past memories in a fog of nonjudgment where whatever good feelings remain can be preserved, and those who never really grew up and wish they could go back to a time when feelings justified everything.

"You don't own meat."

RIP. He got a little recognition from his stories later in life.

Crooked Media on Talarico's chances. All this without Adam Hoffman, and you know that'll matter.

From the creator of Ren Faire, the miniseries documentary for HBO, comes Lance Oppenheim's first fictionalized feature. Robert Pattinson is Chris Hansen. And this is the smartest movie trailer I've seen in a long time.

LET'S GO TALARICO.

Posting an anime we love? Bet. Only really long series I stuck with. And the theme songs weren't bad either. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HOh...

The new Apple campus is too close to what this map thinks will be a new data center. Otherwise, yeah.

Me in my Bluesky bubbles

Emil Kapaun became the priest of a tiny Catholic church in a very small town in the county where my mother lives: Pilsen, Kansas. He went to the Korean War as a chaplain and became the hero of a POW camp. He was venerated by Pope Francis last year, one step from sainthood.

I normally roll my eyes at all the paid advertorial plugs on sites like BC, but the official video for this campaign is actually inspired. What the intention is, I'm not sure, but apple flavored piss water beer has never been nor ever will be a good product. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOX9...

Saw I Love Boosters, now I dont want to see anything else.

The best NYC ever looked in under 4 minutes.

Back Mich-again. Until Monroe Community Media is acquired by Paramount.

RIP Rob Base.

This will dumpster the shopping center, originally around an Anderson's. But I shop at this HEB regularly -- and two more that are a little further drive away. www.mysanantonio.com/business/art...

You will soon have your god, and you will make it with your own hands. And it will tell you, kys."

Ultimately, past profit potential for video games has made everything worse for everyone who ever cared about them. And as ever, being a better capitalist doesn't make you better at business.

I've been using the line a lot, and dog still hunts: I fully support sending obscenely rich people into space on rocket ships.

Awful. But, I also expect this has been the unspoken legacy of more than one other game show where the prize is a date, marriage, etc. Yeah, I know about Rodney Alcala, but he was caught. Who wasn't?

Gary Oldman as Zorg, basically Hitler crossed with Ross Perot, was way ahead of his time as a supervillain. This is how I regard every tech CEO, only they've got the back-thumping robot in development already.

Pumpkin!

Still a good look. #atx #austincitylimits #klru #austinpbs www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaUt...

Games industry plant

JMS ain't afraid of no AI. jmichaelstraczynski.substack.com/p/silence-wh...

Dummymandering happened in Dallas, and now it might have happened to Memphis. If D's show up, they very well could win all three districts. This guy explains how it could happen.

By the director of Blackberry and Nirvanna the Band The Movie. It's about Bourdain. www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1MV...

⚠️ Chrome's update installs a 4GB AI model file to your device without your consent! To disable the shitty AI mode*, go to chrome://flags/ and search for these, toggle each to "disabled": optimization-guide-on-device-model prompt-api-for-gemini-nano ai-mode-omnibox-entry-point -

RIP Bill Wise. I didn't know him, but he made a mark on film out of Austin.

If you want to see how "AI lady" as I've read her regarded, is looking to build goodwill, well:

Young man goes to Dallas.

Well I did have fun wearing my Onion-Info Wars hoodie to an event tonight, but it doesn't look like the takeover is happening tomorrow, not that it's going to make much sense why to anyone.

Sorry to disappoint some people.

I didn't grow up with it, so I don't have a strong feeling about it, but beyond what's said here, Texans do sometimes like things better when they think it's just their own. And Whataburger isn't just in Texas anymore.

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars. We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director. Please stand by for more.

Amarillo by mornin'. AI compute center ain't comin'.

From the Sessions with Stan guy. Reflections on the inevitable end.

Hobo Fifth Doctor no longer practicing law in California, five years after making a spectactular ass of himself. He's also currently suspended from practicing in D.C. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

"Today, nobody is pretending that this is a joke any more." Yeah, because male loneliness and quixotic pursuit of identity and meaning in all the wrong places were the test bed for the current status quo. An "alpha" test. So now we have the proof of all that inadequacy that must be addressed.

Some perspective that will hopefully tamp down the last of the hand-wringing.

Hey all, Kevin here. Please read.

What a time to be an astronaut. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGJp...

Shame remains a great motivator.

I have no ties to this other than to say the mayor of a major city plugging a local gaming festival is nice. Then again, SF's mayor Daniel Lurie has done the same for GDC year over year. www.instagram.com/reel/DVwPhGA...

Space travel, folks.