What does it mean to embrace the evolution of a franchise? Especially when that franchise is something like Pokémon, which basically defined a genre and then...changed a lot? @srtrzinski.bsky.social explores the big questions, just in time for the New Year! www.gamerswithglasses.com/features/shi...

It's December 29th in California, and that means that @optional.bsky.social is thinking about... Halloween. It's time to talk about @draknek.bsky.social's Spooky Express.

Having lost or broken all their gods, they decided to worship arrogant assholes. That went about as well as you might have expected.

"it wouldn't be the way if there weren't jokes about it"

We're just over the moon to be sharing this with you: the one and only @hannahnicklin.bsky.social on South of the Circle and how developers use in-game choices to give players space in which to perform the story. www.gamerswithglasses.com/features/per...

Getting off of bsky for the rest of the day after being jumped one too many times by the Jake Paul KO clip. I'm not defending Paul, I'm not even criticising people for wanting to watch that repeatedly. All I'm saying is that I f*cking don't watch boxing for a gods-dammed reason.

a little bit of hope means you want to know about the world, no matter what it's done to you

I had to watch Alabama's ban on gender affirming care for minors go into effect. It impacted multiple people in my life. It is cruel beyond words. Pick up the phone. Call all of your reps. Don't tell me it won't matter--I call Tommy Tuberville. EVERY FUCKIN' TIME. I won't gift them silence on this.

Go PATHS! Go community solidarity 💖🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️! Go Aotearoa! We can win this.

"What, me worry?"

Tokyo Godfathers is now available to watch on the Criterion Channel ❤️

It seems there are exactly two kinds of stories about generative AI: 1) wildly exuberant stories about what this stuff will do sometime really soon (trust us!), and 2) stories like this about how some actual use of gen AI fails fantastically oh, wait, I forgot: 3) gen AI is pretty good at fraud

People keep telling me their reaction to reading it is a renewed interest in their own creativity and rediscovering the delight of really thinking about something, which is such a gift to me, but really it's a gift they're giving themselves and that is everything to me.

So there is already an ai-generated whitewashing campaign to bury the name of the Muslim man, Ahmed al Ahmed, who disarmed one of the Bondi Beach shooters, and replace his identity with a white guy name and that’s why even a thimble of our potable water powering this tech is too fucking much.

When we say “billionaires should not exist,” what we mean is: Instead of billionaires… Everyone should have healthcare. Everyone should have housing. Everyone should have access to healthy food and clean water. Billionaires are a policy failure.

epic will pay for every game that gets claimed this way so yes, you are still giving money to rowling (and by extension an international campaign against trans people) by claiming this there are other, better franchises - let this one go

Having a meltdown over every email and article I've ever written and then eventually bludgeoning my way through it is what made me the writer I am, and if I can still keep doing that to this day, so can you. Fuck AI.

This is doing really well and I want it to continue doing really well. The ban is stupid as hell and I think we should choose to stop making the world worse, because that would be a cool thing for humanity to do. If you know anyone who would be interested in the bundle, give them a shout.

In other news, the whole thing about Calibri v. TNR isn't about a font face, it's about the fact that Calibri is easier for people with some disabilities to read. They think any accommodation, however painless, should stop.

I always think about the fact that there is probably an absolute gem of a game out there that I just don't know about because it has been buried by everything else. It's the sad reality of gamedev that even a brilliant game can be lost to the ages for a million different non game related reasons.

tired: Amelia Bedilia was silly and foolish and excessively literal wired: Amelia Bedilia was engaging in malicious compliance and class solidarity against the oligarchs

I'm a trans author in the global south. Please back my Kickstarter for Legendary X-Knights, a superhero story about queer heroes of different ages and backgrounds saving the world from war. Together we can make a better future for queer people across the world. www.kickstarter.com/projects/jam...

This is like Mr Rogers picking up Mjolnir

For a moment, I thought Battle Suit Aces featured relationship-building between members of an all-asexual crew trying to save humanity from space kaiju. Turns out I misunderstood the meaning of "Aces" in this context, but this is still really awesome and life-affirming.

What was the last game you played that made you say, "I love this crew"? For @exalclaw.bsky.social, that game is Battle Suit Aces by @team.trinketstudios.com, showcasing "a future where people can love without being driven by fear of the known and unknown." www.gamerswithglasses.com/reviews/batt...

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A reminder that Iron Circus is gonna get WALLOPED with Baker & Taylor bankruptcy backdraft for the next several months, turning our usual distro payout into bills. If you'd like to help a small business making weird-ass comics weather the storm, a 💥30% OFF💥 sale is on now! store.ironcircus.com

1. New Zealand doctors are officially suing to reverse the country's ban on puberty blockers for gender affirming care. “These regulations are being enacted based on politics, not on clinical evidence." Subscribe to support our journalism. www.erininthemorning.com/p/were-takin...

In 2025, America's free press comes with a price tag. ABC and CBS paid millions to settle frivolous lawsuits. The CPB—now defunded—is shutting down. Mario Guevara was deported to El Salvador. Help us keep fighting to defend journalists, press freedom—and democracy—at: pen.org/GT25TH #GivingTuesday

Remember your favorite creator possibly might be struggling with imposter syndrome and doubt and this timeline sucks.. so if you find yourself thinking “wow I really relate to this persons work” or that persons work gives you joy, you should probably tell them. It’s a hard time to be a creative.

"Kristi Fulnecky, a lawyer who defended a number of January 6 rioters, has been busy on social media. She’s been retweeting posts that say things like 'If you claim to be a transgender — you should be banned from working in any school. Transgenderism is a mental illness'" That's what it's all about

FOMO is bunk. Go ahead, miss out a little - you'll be glad you did.

You'll be visited by 3 spirits The three spirits

🎄Gamer Holiday Shopping Tips🎄 1. Boycott Microsoft and EA 2. Buy cool indie games instead 3. Donate the money you saved to support the people of Palestine, Sudan, and Ukraine, and to trans folk who need help. 4. Enjoy!

Business services today.

Microsoft, in their own words, about their own product: "agentic AI applications introduce novel security risks, such as cross-prompt injection (XPIA), [...] leading to unintended actions like data exfiltration or malware installation" aftermath.site/microsoft-wi...

To all who've been wondering what demos to try: we've got you covered. Next Fest correspondent @skycherry.bsky.social returns with four handpicked recommendations, featuring @astralshiftpro.com, @regularstudio.bsky.social, RageForDragons, and Crimson Dusk. www.gamerswithglasses.com/gwg-recommen...

@mayorhere.bsky.social asks: are the Hitman games really about stealth, or are they more about the social cues that we use to make decisions about authority and compliance? "Nobody questioned why I was there. The uniform answered that question for them." www.gamerswithglasses.com/features/hit...

same ideological pool of academics who rewrote NZ education policy... key people are implants from the Heritage network think tank network bevanholloway.com/2024/08/28/h...

"The world itself is run on ignorance. Not just social ignorance but straight-up factual ignorance." - the incomparable (but fully comprehensible) @edzitron.com from: podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/b...

Obit from @thesicktimes.org by Alice’s friend @mileswgriffis.bsky.social thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...

Without downloading any new pics, describe your gender (plz include alt text)

Good morning, Asia. While you were sleeping, one of our most-read articles was about the ChatGPT maker’s cash burn on.ft.com/43oDIi3

Looks interesting.

Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.

Why is SpongeBob in Sonic Racing? What is Spider-Man doing in MtG? What's the deal with Fortnite's Santa Dogg? As @corndruid.bsky.social describes, it all goes back to Mimikyu. Read on to see how IP mashups and the MCU paved the road to the slop factory. www.gamerswithglasses.com/features/eve...

Also, you know that old tradition, the Twelve Days of Halloween? Aw man, you forgot this year? Well don't worry, GwG has you covered, because after that one we've still got at least one more article from the series that we started for Halloween.

Stop trying to make "fetch" happen, Gretchen. aftermath.site/ai-is-the-ul...

NZ First is only a political party on paper. In every way that matters, it's an endlessly rolling political campaign with no real goals other than (re-)election. thespinoff.co.nz/politics/06-... thespinoff.co.nz/politics/06-...