The game industry is so fucking back

mexico lost

Learning that erica schroeder did a full recording of luffy singing the national anthem and she just put it on her instagram after it being lost media for over two decades

Today, I want to import the time I ratio'd one of the best selling authors in the world for being a transphobic piece of shit.

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One thing leftist politicians should start rallying against? These fucking "service fees" that payment processors throw onto fucking *everything*. I just wanna pay my water bill, man.

"Trans people will always exist." Cool. "They can't kill us all." Comforting. Yeah, transness will survive, but *I* want to survive, too, y'know? But also, survival and existence aren't enough for me anymore, and they shouldn't be enough for allies either. I want to see my trans friends thrive.

this whole online ID verification push stuff is turning me into a weird crank at rapid speed because I've never seen such an unpopular policy forced through with such speed in so many countries simultaneously with basically zero real consent from any population, just pure elite collusion

Before anyone begins doomposting: There are still two stops it has to pass before it gets into law. And the senate doesn't like the House version of KOSA so there's a chance it doesn't pass. But don't just assume.

Baby, the DSA about to take over the party because what is THIS weakness?!

Yeah I really do not think people should be able to get millions of dollars if a fire starts

Happy 3-year anniversary to the absolute gremlin metal badass that is Nimona 🤘

Today on Astral City Mini, I speak candidly about my career in game localization and my anxiety about the state of this industry—but resolve to continue championing creativity.

Here's the actual whole poem: shawnsmucker.substack.com/p/please-use...

Reality is a camera trick. Films, games, police bodycams — all depict a version of the first-person perspective. We use those sources to unconsciously decide what “real life” should look like through that digital lens. The camera manipulates our expectations, always. youtu.be/BEM_qZEX5VU

its a demon joke

Whatever we do, we CANNOT let “predictors” gain traction as a term. He doesn’t get to sanitize this. Meta wants gamblers. 100 million regular, 18-34 year old gamblers.

The woman has spent years as the sole writer and director on an independent animated series with a rabid fan base that acts like they get her own writing more than she does. She deserves rest, a raise, limitless amounts of donuts, and a hug.

Hey so this new KOSA/KIDS Act proposal has a little note in it that creates a whole new special Trump-appointed team to regulate the internet. So no more Congress votes. No more checks & balances. Just whoever the president picks to decide the future of YOUR internet. You aren’t mad enough.

backlash works: arcsys has seemingly removed the AI content used in development of donutal

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH!!!!

Listen I don't need any more reasons to say AI is shit than the fact it managed to put out Myrient because of server costs and somehow not because of the big companies chomping on it

Even if we lived in a post-capitalist utopia with universal basic income, generative AI would still be a technology that should be rejected. We don't need it! Everything it can do can be done better by a person. It's a mostly useless technology with extremely high environmental costs.

RT myself to save a life. This one was heinous. Remember for whom the bell tolls — all phishing attempts are stupid and obvious until the one that catches you when you’re exhausted, high, disregulated, or old.

Die transphobe!!

The ending of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth

Come on man you ain’t gotta do Justin like that 😭

100% correct. I like Palworld, but Pocketpair talking about how gamers don't like AI so they won't use it, doesn't change the fact that they made and still sell a game that uses an AI image generator and also don't disclose it.

If you're wondering why Rockstar is going all out on the GTA 6 cover art reveal its the poisoning news results about them losing their union busting suit

At this point, it’s incredibly obvious that at least one person at Valve is a xenophobic shithead who makes life difficult for Japanese developers on purpose

This keeps happening over pettier and pettier stuff. Remember that a game can be refused for *implied* nudity even if nobody is actually naked.

Every industry is making billions of dollars and it's workers are getting paid barely above minimum wage and then fired, and all the money just disappears into a hole forever. It's gone. The rich will never spend it. It's number go up. This will destroy the economy

Are you fucking kidding me? I want to laugh, but I know these fuckers are banking on AI seizing all the writing jobs so real writers are desperate enough to work for peanuts and let an AI platform steal the credit. It’s just dark and perverse. Luckily I work for people who still *value* writers.

I’m willing to bet that the humiliation aspect of forcing writers into “AI training” jobs is actively enjoyed by tech bros. It’s *really* humiliating to sell out your craft, to write for no credit, to work at a severely reduced rate, all for the glory of tech designed to destroy your livelihood.

All uses of AI are costing someone… this sucks as the Game UI database is such a valuable resource.

I made a simple vtuber model for @renerighthere.bsky.social I think he likes it

Here’s the thing. As a company, divorced from the game companies it owns, I do straight up hate Microsoft.

GEKKOMON MASCOT!!! LOOK AT HIM HE'S SO CUTE!!!! #Digimon #Gekkomon

so-... you boycotting now, right?

sorry to the indie team with the sob story but your game either uses AI or it doesn't use AI and that decides whether or not i, and a lot of other people, buy and cover it. you opted out of sales when you signed up for claude, my man.

it is really important to be loud about this stuff because it's typically kept very quiet to enable people to go "See? Nothing happened, it was just people being dramatic"

Sucks that this 64 year old Rocky & Bullwinkle joke still hits now

Thinking about how I was told, once, that the original myth of the zombie was rooted in fear of personhood being so stripped from enslaved people that even death wasn't an escape from servitude. Just a useful body without a soul, working for the benefit of an infinite greed.

I'm even in a decent place financially like all things considered but there's things Im not doing as much or at all anymore. Take out? Maybe once a month Shopping for fun? Mostly gone. Donations/charity? Massively deprioritized (much to my consternation) Vacation? hahaha no.

The three genders (nonbuynary)