dyke spiegel......

iron rule of British politics is even if a guy who dresses as a bin becomes prime minister he will have been to Oxbridge

The computer lost the mandate of heaven when the humble, helpful "program" was replaced with the insidious "app"

incredible of playstation to announce the end of physical disc production the week after they deleted all the movies you bought digitally from your account

What do you _mean_ BTS have a music video based on The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, how would that even work

Hey remember when Microsoft were showing those big splash panels with all the devs they'd acquired

Really happy with this overall, it's about as close to an outright ban as can be realistically policed in the current world. Particularly keen on "No AI-generated text in human-to-human communication", which I've not seen in similar policies.

Right now the world is full of people who want to code and write and paint and film stuff and people who want to play and read and look at and watch stuff and nobody is allowed to do any of that because some unrelated third guy isn't making enough money off the deal

The empty case of GTAVI symbolises the emptiness of the experience

10 billion pounds funding to curing hayfever

I will not accept an argument that art and creativity have been uniquely democratised in the last few years since the invention of genAI. What a disservice to human history. How little regard you must have for the billions of souls that struggled through unimaginable suffering to express themselves.

Started rewatching Durarara!! this week on a whim and: 1) still a banger 2) if it came out now it'd be an absolute Discourse Machine

The fact that children are unable to casually participate in hobbies anymore because everything is about blind consumerism and reselling instead of the love of the game. I think we should publicly humiliate scalpers more

Truly inspiring to see large corporations like Unity and Epic openly learn from each other and create true interoperability, in that both engines now equally and seamlessly support "moving to Godot". www.unrealengine.com/news/the-roa...

lmao poor yorick. they got his ass

This manifesto is extremely important to me as someone who both makes games and critiques them

Hard to overstate how disgusting this is

Couldn't ask for a better setlist for this, just 6 of the best. Giving it "this is a slow one" before battering into Dog's Blood is a great bit.

Need everyone to start posting about how First Light is crap so I can pick it up on the cheap, please and thanks

The story of Icarus provides us with a valuable lesson: never fuck up real bad

Good photo from my tech talk last night, looking like I'm about to start battering an audience member

“You’re so good on stage but need to talk about something more interesting” is the funniest feedback I’ve ever had, thank you kind(?) stranger

I have been the victim of a scam

The incident is racist neo-Nazis wandering around in a pack and attacking anyone they decide looks like an immigrant.

Putting together slides for a tech talk on Thursday and as is tradition this is my current state

Mm, no, very unwise

Summer Frames Fest

How bout that God of War huh

Top tip for game devs: if you're thinking of putting this character in your game, fucking don't

James Bond would cut down ULEZ cameras

Section 28 was passed on this day in 1988. It didn’t come out of nowhere. It came from a society where 75% of people thought homosexuality was wrong. It came from a society that believed ignorance was better for children than any knowledge of lesbian or gay lives. 🧵 1/16

On the tube

Reading someone comparing buying Zero Parades to buying blood diamonds has made my day, previously untapped levels of Discourse

the press rn: can't believe everyone voted for the party we haven't stopped speaking about for 3 years

Piss Island

don’t

Doing a fake podcast making fun of bad podcasts in your podcast is the worst patter that folks just can't seem to help doing

Hasbro marketing Mood Swings as a "get your friends to buy it too, they're all different!" and then selling it through their own personal scalper site is an incredible decision.

The sun has finally appeared so it's time to listen to this on loop, as is tradition

People will ask, were the 90s really all that great and I'm like buddy, have you heard the Hackers soundtrack? Have you watched the movie Hackers? All of your answers are in there

demeter when her daughter goes missing

Joker 3 should be a reboot. 1h30m of him reading actual 2026 news headlines and going completely insane, then 10m of him getting battered by neds as soon as he leaves the house.

Bet I could still get it with a hammer

There only two types of video games if you think about it: ones I like (good) and ones you lot like (shite)

I make cute, weird and funky little games for game jams with @chrisdeebrown.bsky.social which you should check out, if you're cool. meghan0n.itch.io

you shouldn’t learn about bands from shady TikTok manipulation, you should learn about bands by hanging out with a girl you like but are also extremely afraid of