Vote with your wallet. Send the message that this is simply unacceptable. And I hope the German government rakes them over the coals for taking 6M Euros from a cultural fund and then using AI localization. It’s one Eff You after another to players and now cultural institutions.

i wrote an article recently about how powerful silence is in super metroid and i am thinking about it today for i guess no reason www.avclub.com/super-metroi...

DO NOT TALK TO SAMUS WHILE SHE IS WORKING

This is so bleak. What the hell.

So I did the thing before I chickened out (or came to my senses) and threw up a GFM as a stop gap measure. I hate doing it more than anyone will hate seeing another fund raiser. gofund.me/f5615787f

Glad BlueSky did this. When I saw Patton Oswalt saying Megyn Kelly should be fed into a woodchipper feet first for defending raping children based on what age she thinks is okay, I thought, "yes, comedian Patton Oswalt is going to, in real life, feed Megyn Kelly into a woodchipper feet first."

this is actually really something. The NY Times stuff is bonkers.

They really should call it the GabeCube, missed opportunity

This is started by some dear ex coworkers of mine and I wish them all the luck in trying to recapture that old bundle magic.

Authoritarianism scholar & journalist Sarah Kendzior has been banned here for no apparent reason and the head of the "Trust and Safety Team" is currently sephirothposting about it in case you all are wondering about the state of this platform

If your game has voice acting, then working with the voice actors is half of your writing process. It's not complete until you've heard it interpreted and reimagined by a voice actor. And they always reimagine it in ways that elevate the writing, in ways you never would have imagined yourself.

what fictional villain traumatized you as a kid? (I love this movie now, but jesus christ)

guy who watches Pluribus and immediately recognizes the main character from her role as the "Tutorial Witch" in the 1997 Magic the Gathering computer game

Michael Shannon cooking with gas here:

there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all

I'm hearing the same thing. Dems are nearing a surrender. I'm shocked. Largest protest in history + best election night in years + polling showing we're kicking their ass in public opinion. And now Dems may cave. It ain't over til it's over, so please do call if you've got a Dem senator.

It really troubles me that after this conversation Cohh still went on to stream the game anyway. If we're only dismissing AI slop when the game is bad but ignoring it when the game is good, what are we even doing?

I feel for voice actors facing this stuff in contracts, and I wonder if any of them got paid "more" for their voice acting work to just be used in perpetuity after training a text-to-speech program, it can't also be the same quality www.polygon.com/arc-raiders-...

Some very interesting questions this year. 👀 gdconf.typeform.com/SOTI26

"Hold On" by Wilson Phillips but it's these nerds singing it

bluesky mods retire bitch

this genuinely feels like a moment history books will look back on where the Democratic Party was forced to either fix its hearts or die

good things are possible!!!!

Tagging @tenaciouschi.bsky.social for reasons

1) Schumer said that God appointed him to the Senate to serve Israel. Not the US. 2) Cuomo is Netanyahu’s lawyer against war crimes charges, on a team with Dershowitz 3) Mamdani wants Netanyahu arrested for war crimes in accordance with ICC warrant That’s why this happens: bsky.app/profile/whoo...

For better or for worse, The Xbox Kinect was released 15 years ago today.

Growing my collection. 😎

Tokusatsu lives!!

Well phooey. Guess I’ll have to eat these all myself!

friends in the US, here’s a great website that lists food assistance sites and services near you. if you need it, take it. it’s given with love and goodwill to you from your community for those with resources to spare—please consider donating to your local 💖 foodsearch.net

It's a global failure of the working class these people aren't afraid of saying shit like this.

smelly

Reminders: 1. Do not donate food to food banks. Just give them money to buy at wholesale prices. Stretch that dollar. No one thinks you're fucking Mother Teresa for donating that old can of yam from last year's thanksgiving. 2. If you see someone stealing food. No you didn't.

I think about this LeGuin essay a lot. (link in next post; you should read it too.)

Honey, the ghoul is straddling one of the gargoyles on the building and pretending to ride it again. Yeah, cackling and everything.

This power outage is bumming me out but at least I got to catch up on some sleep.

Finding my way back to my roots 🦌👾 #art #horror

Here's the stream. She did the mocap as well as the voice acting: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ek5...

Tonight I took part in an extremely chaotic DnD adventure with some awesome people and we managed to raise over $11,000 for Make A Wish International! If you'd still like to donate and possibly pick up an awesome reward you can do so right here: donate.tiltify.com/f3e05f02-1f0...

all of us to each other lately

Just a reminder that cash works better than food donations. Food donations take up volunteer time to make sure you're not donating something inedible (happens far too often) and also food banks get better discounts so their money can go farther than yours can

ADHD problems. (iykyk)

old bay sweater 🦀🦐🍗 thank you very much 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

Today marks the two-year anniversary of a great modern sci-fi show: Scavengers Reign. 🥰 A new classic that is only officially available in a few countries.

🍊🐻 Capybara (2022) #telekitneticart #formline #indigenousart

Penfold is a hamster?! This mole-like creature with the coke bottle glasses?!?

Dozens of costumed roller skaters gathered in the south waterfront Thursday night, where they rolled their way down to the ICE building to create an impromptu roller rink and dance party. "We are full of love & acceptance, and will do everything we can to protect our community and promote love!"

Fun Itagaki note: you would not, from his public persona, think of Itagaki as a guy that liked anything but blood and boobs in games, but he once gave this interview to GameTrailers where he went on for minutes over how good Pikmin and Chibi Robo are. www.restart.run/articles/dea...

Too damn young. Rest in peace, you legend.