Lavos is here, just in time to record a podcast about chrono trigger with @scanlinemedia.com

A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.

State of late stage capitalism: lottery ticket vending machines and “buy 3 packs of cigarettes, get 1 free” signs in the airport. Chicago is NOT ok

while i was in The Sky they murdered destiny who am i kidding, this is just the mortician declaring time of death, they killed it back in 2020 when they started erasing parts of the game

@kyrie.scanlinemedia.com and I need to play Netrunner on stream sometime so the experts can be in chat and go "no you're misunderstanding that rule, no that's not how that card works." zero sarcasm, would be so helpful

So uh...some people might be aware of the fact that when they made a girl version of Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life, they just kinda had to pick from the dudes who were already there for the bachelors, none of them were designed with women in mind AND I FORGOT THE MANUAL JUST FUCKING SAYS THIS??

In Firefox, go to Settings > Search > Default Search Engine

Google unveils an even worse Search aftermath.site/google-search-...

listen i bet mandalorian and grogu sucks, but there's no way it's only 1% better than rise of skywalker. there's simply no way. not all ass tastes the same.

The whole “filler” discussion really just reminds me how easily a term used to describe something neutrally that eventually warped into being some sort of qualitative description Leads to shit like this and I fucking hate it

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if your aesthetic ideals are not possible to achieve in reality, simply opt out

why are you advertising “going to the movies” to me. i am literally in the theater. can you shut up and start the goddamn movie 30 minutes after the showtime already.

being an annoying guy for a second (“just a second? lol” yeah yeah get it out of your system) i’ve always disliked the translation “I’ve done something I can never take back” for Amuro. we all constantly do things we can’t take back. it’s more “something I can never make right.” that’s the problem.

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i should not be so tired that i need to go to bed, i should have a few hours left in me, but my brain is making dial-up sounds when i try to think, so that might be it...

ive never read any greek myths but i assume angelina jolie is in there

fucking people UP tonight

Did you know that Scanline Media covered the Endless Eight arc with its own podcast episode? Did you know we did it eight times? It is still the most creatively ambitious pod project I’ve done. scanlinemedia.com?s=Endless+ei...

was able to make this headline broadly applicable with some simple editing

I've already seen posts where he's like "oh I'm not a villain I just play with a lot of intensity" like brother you are not a little birthday boy you are playing for the Los Angeles Dodgers

Actually your delicious 5 star meal will taste even better if you make sure to ingest ingest a deadly dose of the vilest of poisons first

The BDS boycott has been really eye-opening about the complete moral bankruptcy of the world of full time games journalism and criticism. Big outlets who don’t care, unsurprising. Of course I am not surprised IGN, Kotaku, etc. feel no guilt over encouraging a genocide. But it’s not just them.

The best reviewed game of the year is on the BDS list bdsmovement.net/news/boycott...

The latest episode of Novel Not New is available now!!! @boocanan.bsky.social drops in to finish what we started, as we cover Fate/hollow ataraxia, the fandisc sequel to Fate/stay night. It’s an equally heartfelt and hilarious game, even if the pacing is off at times. www.patreon.com/posts/novel-...

The BDS boycott isn't going away until Microsoft divests from Israel or Israel stops trying to wipe out Palestine. So if you're tired of hearing about it, the best thing to do is get behind it so that more pressure can be put on Microsoft to do the right thing.

Watching LLM usage prices jump from sub-$50 to $1,000+ with the biggest evil grin imaginable

lmao guess it turns out the response to "how did sega turn out yakuza/rgg games on such a modest budget at such high fidelity so consistently?" is "the answer is obvious and You're Not Gonna Like It!"

innnncredible that they literally JUST made it canon (yesterday) that after Return of the Jedi, Luke Skywalker read about Cal Kestis in a book and went “what the fuck, man”

(definitely not angry voice) TOTAL WAR THREE KINGDOMS 2.

Games execs talking about crunch:

eBay Rejects Unsolicited Proposal from GameStop. "We have concluded that your proposal is neither credible nor attractive." www.prnewswire.com/news-release...

I'm planning to talk more about it on a future podcast, but I really want to shout out "Your Crown Is Mine" by @lyyycaena.bsky.social. It's a lite raising sim- think Long Live the Queen but less punishing and more romantic. A very propulsive read. store.steampowered.com/app/3541340/...

You might be thinking, 'I make normal games so I'm fine' but, uh, you don't get to decide what 'normal' is – they do. Put any description of queerness or sexual trauma in your game and you've given them cause to boot you from their platform. Voidheart wouldn't pass these guidelines, I think.

Around this time last year, Duolingo announced it was laying off a bunch of people to use AI extensively in its lessons. I paying for Duolingo at the time, I canceled my sub. I'd been using it for a few years at that point, and it was really helpful. My sub was annual, I rode it out til it expired.

got good news of the sort that feels almost miraculous and am kinda reeling? some part of the move that isn't 100% set in stone but is pretty certain and is just gigantic. having trouble processing it.

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I have reviewed Mixtape. This is the Hater Zone. Don't be surprised to find Hater Opinions here. I've warned you.

i know UFOs aren't real because war thunder hasn't leaked the specs yet

it smelled like chatgpt garbage, and lo and behold it's just scaremongering for ai services. get thee gone hallucinatory disinformation machine of fascism, may thermite get poured on your servers

is that good

We’ll be streaming more Tales of Symphonia tomorrow at 8am ET! (Assuming we wake up on time, lol) twitch.tv/scanlinemedia

architect: and i'm thinking a pair of fountains here in the lobby, to really sell the sophistication silph co president: oh i love that architect: so for music that plays non-diegetically, what were you thinking? president: what if a siren was also a ghost www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GOh...

for FUCK’S SAKE IT’S BEEN AN HOUR let in to see the fucking doctor so they can go “need anything? no? ok bye”

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…it’s just really something to take a series like Star Fox and remake that only entry 1) that already has two remakes 2) that couldn’t be easily improved in a remake if this was a Star Fox Command remake we’d be popping off

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