Kratos somberly reckoning with his violent and aspiring to be a better father while his dead wife is doing double jumps and air combos in another realm is so fucking funny. imagine if Laura Palmer was doing DOOM shit in the Black Lodge

This article is SO fucking funny. "The real problem is there aren't enough 50+ game designers!" Yeah, agreed. Any thoughts on why that might be? Like maybe the fact that this industry fires treats anyone over 35 as "not hungry enough", and relies on burning out a steady stream of younger devs? no?

While I am sure there will be a long road ahead, voluntary recognition of the union is a very good sign and an initial hurdle that a lot of companies have recently failed to clear.

Fyi to those unfamiliar with the history: “your sex life makes you too vulnerable to blackmail and so we must ban you from government work” is what we did to queer people in America throughout most of the 20th century

Scammers called my dad pretending to have kidnapped my sister and he said they used an AI generated voice clip of my sister to try to sell the scam. Anyway, Sam Altman should be sent to prison.

one thing that often goes unmentioned is how amazing it is to share and discover sex and kinks with a partner as your relationship progresses. it's truly wonderful and leads to a lot of growth and brings you closer over time.

just answered a spam call that began witn an AI generation of my own voice talking to the AI spammer. not sure what the angle was but that was deeply unsettling

Hey artists!! Post some art you made from before Bluesky!!

ROTFL Louis Pasteur stays winning.

All you need to know about this kind of piece is that nobody in the UK actually calls it "DEI". That is a 100% US term.

With just four mainstream media platforms publishing 17,000 anti-trans articles over 5 years there is no justification for any LGBTQ+ outlet to publish anything by any transphobe.

granpappy is a big ol softie when it comes to the grandkids

Ok Imma write a thread 🧵 But in summary: You'll be able to have a shop without setting up a website while swapping out payment processors if you're banned or barred from one service without losing your entire shop/crowd source structure/account identity.

Really interesting 🧵 on differing attitudes to safety culture (among other things)

I just noticed something strange: For research I was going back through old episodes of Top Gear, and a very strong predictor of which cast members went alt-right is how they feel about safety culture. Don't worry this gets interesting. It just doesn't fit easily into a bsky post.

Good morning, Bluesky

save them!!

man the new platform 8 update is wild

Really can't emphasize enough that it's actually genuinely misleading to call it anything but what it is legally, which is illegal.

The Fourth Geneva Convention is actually as explicit as it possibly could be when it comes to the transfer of civilians into occupied territory by a state. It is illegal and even amounts to a crime of war aka a war crime, which is what Smotrich will be charged with by the ICC later this year.

And even if one were to be overly charitable, the "many" in this case would be 190+ countries versus the 2, exactly 2, who do not.

Good example of a headline that is literally just untrue and amounts to malpractice— there is no "seeing" settlements in occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank as illegal, they are factually illegal. UNSCR 2334 and the Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice from July 2024 say so.

lmao

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University admins two years ago: all opinions must heard on college campuses even if they threaten our students University admins today: no more student speakers at graduation, here are 40 emails about how to handle “disruptions” at commencement because we don’t want students using these two words

another doja tweet has hit endor

“The Left needs to rediscover its patriotism” is corporate centrist speak for abandon any critique of white supremacist, patriarchal, colonist capitalism and embrace liberal mythologies that run cover for authoritarian exploitation here and around the world. In other words, stop being leftists.

heya, Darkblooms~ in case you didn't know, your dollwitch is happily a nonbinary, demiromantic, asexual, and sapphic entity. ( & plural! Crowe & IRIS say hi ❤️‍🩹🩶 ) and I'm loud and proud to be so~ 🖤💜 | #vtuber | #MournwitchCrafts | #2SLGBTQIA+ |

The funniest combination of beliefs is that C++ must be completely replaced with Rust for security reasons and also that all software should be 100% vibe coded. Incredibly this is also the modal belief in my profession

Belching the alphabet is just excessive. The most anyone need burp is the opening to “Down With The Sickness”, anything further is gilding the lily

This is literally what happened. Dude checked the cost of what a fine to get out of jail is for this kinda thing, made a fucking bet on a gambling app, and then went and made the bet happen. America is a fucking joke of a country.

We live in the dumbest timeline

This is a fundamental misunderstanding of consent: ⬇️ "If a vulnerable person appears passive or does not actively protest their arrangements, the law may recognise this as "consent" — even if they are subjected to routine physical restraint or chemical sedation..." Horrific.

Similar things been happening in the software industry. Bunch of software devs found out that "co-authored by Copilot" was silently being added to their Github commits, even when AI was explicitly disabled. Good sign when companies need to sneak their products in without telling you, right?

Note: We do not use AI. Period. We pay humans to create our games, end-to-end. Adobe recently implemented a feature that quietly injected AI alt text into Umdaar. We've removed it, updated the PDF, and disabled the feature. We apologize for the error, please download the latest PDF. Also: Fuck AI.

It is annoying though that women must first and foremost be deemed desirable to men. Even if she was unconventional in her appearance who gives a fuck, it’s a video game. You’re there to beat ass lmao play a doll dress up game if you’re worried about whose hot and who isn’t 😭

Faye looks exactly like her actress, I recognized her immediately despite having only seen her in one other piece of media. Suggesting she’s unattractive is, again, bait considering by societal standards she falls into idealized beauty standards, but it’s cruel nonetheless

It’s rage bait at this point to call female video game characters ugly so I never engage with it, but it’s certainly a choice to call a character that when their face belongs to a real person ☠️

I'm not a fan of putting actors faces into games as opposed to designing a character however one major upside is having proof that the people bitching are just upset at seeing a real woman for the first time.

the witness took 8 years to develop before it was cool

i’m crying dude. number one on the list of Not Allowed To Talk

did it dodge the allegations or did it just stop releasing video games

it's fucked up that they've let uncharted dodge the allegations. that's a game of nonstop "ok i can do this woahhah crap oh that just happened"

god of war's wife should be doing crackdown jumps

as more people bring up forspoken as a shorthand whenever there's a talky cinematic game they dont like i feel compelled to mention that whatever else you thought about it, forspoken did have schmovement

it is funny that god of war is now a chill all ages adventure where you talk to a shiny cube and fight demons with your magic sword but the game about popular children's cartoon character wolverine is bloodier than kill bill

So basically they AI generate most of the assets then make their teams clean up the mess

corporations basically want consumers to think that IPs have inherent value rather than are only as good as the people making it

I think there's something hypnotic about how corporations view brands vs how humans do