Ive made the progress I needed to declare (with ~80% confidence): New Video Wednesday!!!!

The funny thing about this is that I feel like there's a half dozen British empire "Canadian Blitzkrieg" contingency plans in the records for trying to force America to the negotiatin table if it ended up on the wrong side of history* any time from 1820-1945 *Britain's ambitions

In the first month of our campaign OVER 2,000 people have signed our boycott Xbox pledge! So far that's: 🎮 1,913 gamers 🔨 296 game workers & developers ✏️ 179 game writers 👾 146 streamers Thank you for your support with our launch, we can’t wait to build the campaign bigger and better next year!

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

love that software developers are advertising AI functionality in every single app now and it's up to you to try to figure out if they mean "this has spellcheck" or "everything you create in this app will sync in real-time to sam altman's personal laptop" or something in between

"Productivity areas" is indeed the place where most studios will be using AI and where they see least moral argument against them, and candidly, probably the lowest returns on efficiency. I've checked job listings for various companies and seen "introduce AI to workflow" as expectations all over.

rubbing two candy canes together hookways and asking myself if this is yaoi or yuri

Every Christmas week, I eat a big bowl of buttered pasta to spite Norway

In the missiom Khallos Express around the mid to end part of the level you can find a casino room with a slideshow you can easily miss showing the games future missions being played.(images by muckluck)

Just randomly remembered when the self-annointed "cool anime watchers" (Bleach fans) called people who watched Naruto "Naru-tards"

Also screw the BBC for its naked agenda. It refused to carry a hugely expensive first ever YouGov survey we commissioned showing how awful trans lives in the UK have become because it was "not strong enough" but there's no piece of anti-trans hatred too petty for it to platform.

The Escapist is really what all gaming journalism would look like if the top level money guys had zero shame and felt like they could get away with it. This is the point it all converges on under our current organization of the attention economy. Don't think it can't happen to your faves.

As usual I'll shout out @remapradio.bsky.social, @aftermath.site, @bloodgodpod.bsky.social, @secondwindgroup.com, @vgbees.com, @rogue.site, @skyboxcritics.com . We're still doing cool stuff with no ads over at @3ma.bsky.social if you're into strategy and tactics.

I think this post nails the actual problem, for researchers at least—AI hallucinations would simply not be a problem in academic work if we’d not normalized citation-as-signaling rather than actual engagement—you can only cite a fake paper if you’re not in the habit of reading the papers you cite

i try to never do things like this but we were displaced very suddenly this week. it's a hard financial hit. our new apartment is unfurnished. my friend suggested i make a Throne wish list so i don't have to finish editing this video on the floor. anything helps, thank you 🩵 throne.com/lolasebastian

please, please, please watch this. its shorter than most video essays on youtube rn. u can do it. please watch this. dont look away. youtu.be/Ybj10537yi4?...

Heads of small European studios love stepping into controversy they absolutely had no reason to get into, and it's so funny how often this happens.

program where I kiss outlanders to the province of morrowind call that Mwahs for Nwahs

You'll never guess what script I'm writing next

tell that to my ex wife ayooo

Which ocean is the most woke?

My firefox alternative

#ai #mozilla #firefox #fuckAI #genAI #fuckGenAI

The employees? Yes, they love the 8-ball, well, most of them, or well, the ones that talk to me say they love it. I told them the 8-ball had some great ideas and there were people in the room who nodded, which I'm pretty sure is a sign of unanimous approval for the 8-ball.

That thing where trans men have too much blood sometimes will ideally lead to a world where people are given medical "Service leeches" and then inevitably to people making aesthetic blogs and little homes for their leech #myleech

[extremely boss voice] everyone at the company is more or less ok with this

Lmao, a fake slop channel stole my whole Jordan Peterson video and just pitch shifted the whole thing down

It's always so interesting to see the paradox of Nazism like this. Their hate is grounded in the holocaust being "a lie" thus proving Jews are deceitful and evil... but they also wish the Holocaust wasn't a lie, but then also argue it couldn't have been because there weren't 6 million jews period.

New video's just dropped, I'm talking about Peep Show. The best piece of centrist TV ever made. youtu.be/ljlje9VIJG4

It's very funny to me that we got Divinity II before Divinity

Going from Miss Piggy being on stage to a video of a woman going full cowgirl on a lizard man while some dude is being burned alive was certainly a tonal shift for the game awards. lol

I was playing Heroes of Might and Magic III and... I was so thoroughly convinced I found the roblox oof in the game, but no, extracting the files, it's just a different "ooh" wince sound for the hobgoblin.

I'm hoping for more articles on this situation, because we cannot stay quiet: www.gamesradar.com/games/simula...

I do not believe "has muslims" is a valid reason for a negative review, and Valve too often tolerate hate on their platforms.

I think about this a lot.

that’s craaaazy

I simply love this idea that even absolute slop requires crunch somehow. Seriously, is the only value proposition here that there's no actors to pay????

This lady was the Steve Jobs of the Online Death Threat Industry for like 10 years. Not to be a dick, but fucking spare me.

no idea

It's very funny to me how using BCE and CE triggers nazis

[39:52] EU5 and the Middle Kingdom

The kind of moments that this is poking fun at are, sincerely, when I felt most confident American democracy was doomed. I want history books to reflect this. I want Comey et al to be branded shameless grifters. I want all those books on a list of humiliation.

A new report on dietary findings in a select area of Pompeii likely inhabited by enslaved people came out in Scavi di Pompei. Many newspapers are now running w/a headline about Roman slaves “eating better” than free Romans. pompeiisites.org/e-journal-de... Let’s discuss why this is problematic

the thing about online queer discourse is unless you dig into things it's hard to tell if someone is speaking from a place of nuance and decades of lived experience or whether you're reading the untested absolutes of the most 15-year-old alive

For the final Bandcamp Friday of 2025, my band Civil Elegies has released a live album, mixed/mastered by me (I did the artwork layout too) with the money going to making our new full-length next year. Pretty proud of this one. FFO Melvins, Swans, Godflesh etc. Listen/support us here:

NEW VIDEO! To me, the best satire helps us envision a better world. Grand Theft Auto, as made by a Rockstar that treats its workers as terribly as it has done, says this is as good as it gets. Here's a video discussing why I've personally had enough of that. Enjoy! Shares appreciated!

*taking long drag of cigarette, staring at the skyline as it rains outside my penthouse window* "It was in that moment I began to fear that I was the only one seriously committed to Anarcho-Stalinism"

Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨

...I feel (At least partly) freed from having to make a video on the subject now. It's been in my notes as a topic to cover for probably two years, and I've put it off over and over. Maybe I'll be free to talk instead about Kosinski and works like his Painted Bird which are treated as non-fiction.

"The games industry in particular is at the intersection of entertainment and tech...there are a lot of connections between the games industry and the genocide that Israel is committing against the Palestinian people." kotaku.com/no-games-for...