"User choice is a problem." is such an insane way to start your article.

Dad mode isn’t so fucking funny now is it

the thing about newsom is that he chronically sells out low salience liberal causes to the chagrin of the base for almost no political benefit. starmerism, basically. a guy who would have no friends or allies left 15 minutes into his presidency.

I saw an interesting argument a few weeks ago along these lines (about AI ads specifically) It boils down to the idea that young people see AI as a tool for bullshitting people (teachers, parents, whoever) but they don't want to be on the receiving end of BS, and they're keenly aware when it happens

Top comment on r/technology lol www.reddit.com/r/technology...

my thought with all those at Epic today. it should be illegal to lay off 20% of your workforce on a whim. it's not perfect, but there are more protections against this sort of thing in Europe. support politicians with legitimate connections to labor unions.

I’m at ICE HQ

Oh well this shit should be over with pretty shortly lol

the dril candles tweet was actually about epic somehow spending too much on fortnite all this time

"we're spending significantly more than we're making" being a sentence uttered for fucking Fortnite is one of those wholly genuine "where do I even start" kind of sentences

I am dead convinced they believe this because they take all their futurism cues from TV shows, where characters talk to the computer so that what they’re doing is legible to the audience, because it’s a dramatic presentation.

This is precisely how a government sets up the framework to install a backdoor, create a firewall, and switch off the internet when it's convenient for them.

a) Some video games are genuinely better without voice acting (see: Undertale) b) Voice acting is so much cheaper than people realize. I'm directing an indie game and even at SAG rates, with as much voiced dialogue as Hades, we're probably not going to break even $30k. One session is like $500.

yeah so I don’t think the choice we’re being offered is “pay the police to play Candy Crush or pay them to lock up your neighbors” it’s that this even *being a job* is a choice and we can unmake it at any time

for all the doubters and haters out there

trying to convince my friend that there really was a nintendo DS launch title called “Penn & Teller’s Shithead Basketball”

guy commissioning a bust of himself: how will you determine the shipping charges me: weigh a head of you

In underfunded fields, people tend to do their own work. In overfunded fields, people pay others to do everything, including “their” research and writing. It’s not an accident that AI is an overfunded field that grew out of other overfunded fields.

Dog lmao

my working assumption is that Trump is mad at Reuters

Every picture of ICE agents in airports is just this again

There's a certain level of arrogance in someone like Mike Ybarra telling us to shut up and eat the slop. Like... WE'RE the customers. WE have the power in this relationship, and can easily take our money elsewhere if we don't like what we see. We're allowed to be fussy, because *we* choose *them*.

nasu I am going to end you

this one was pretty fun! probably my favourite level so far

king's quest 6 bookstore appreciation post. books taking up half the screen. sick

Pretty clear that a lot of people assume that "apartheid" here is being used simply as an insult, rather than as a legal term to refer to the system of political-military-economic control that the State of Israel has established in the West Bank and Gaza.

clicked this on my youtube feed thinking "oh cool! a new OSTER project song" and was not expecting literally anything that followed www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydvO...

Do not keep making me post this.😤

Several years ago, a bunch of states banned employers from requiring workers to have RFID chips placed under their skin. IIRC, this was b/c of reporting on one unhinged company.

I was in multiple rooms at GDC where management of games studios let their hair down and said "everyone's using it, gamers hate it so we just have to hide it now", but none were actually able to explain if and how AI were making games faster to develop or better at all

So, um... this is bad. Really bad. I looked at the letters that were translated by the AI, and the very first one I found was almost entirely hallucination. Thread:

Placeholder assets in a game should look obnoxiously temporary, so obvious that no one would mistake it for the final asset. In past games we've used the doge dog (rip) as an icon, hot pink versions of characters, our CEO's head, etc. If you use a temp asset that seems passable, it may stay there.

damn girl are you 200 goombas? because you are stacked to illegitimate levels

there were like 3 separate occasions where i pressed a switch hoping it would be the exit and it was Not

he's here to tell me no cheating

Way more tricks in here than I knew existed, this is well worth knowing

"How does one hate a country, or love one?" Ursula Le Guin always out there expressing my exact feelings in trying times.

Publishers when a live service game is ready to launch

things I know about the archive: 1. it exists 2. it's blue 3. it's "cryo" <- NEW!

Haha

That's not a slight. Being good at games is not a measure of your worth, and even people who are good at them will struggle at some point. It's okay to be bad at a game. But our job is to play these things on tight deadlines. You learn to get good fast or you don't last. It's part of the gig.

An all-timer.

is this the "rapture" i've been hearing about

If you were someone pinging critics with ‘it’s just lighting cleanup’ a few days ago, I need you to use this as a jumping off point to thinking about your susceptibility to talking points and marketing rhetoric more generally. It was right there in front of all of our faces.

INVENTOR: i have just created the push button MARKETING GUY: should i do a press release INVENTOR: that’s how it works, yes

Came out of the post office, saw that a guy had cut my saddle bag off my bike and was about to take off with it. I yelled "Please wait my cat's medicine is in there!" He started to run, and this grandma-age lady goes "SHE SAID HER CAT'S MEDICINE IS IN THERE" and WALLOPED him with her grocery bag.