The original Let It Die was famous for its absolutely amazing soundtrack. Akira Yamaoka went and got in touch with a HUNDRED of his favourite indie bands and commissioned each to do a track named 'let it die'. The result was borderline mystical. They're AI-generating the music here. Fuck that.

And there's a whole article you can read after the headline, too! Here it is. Sharing links to writing you appreciate really does make a huge difference even for publications of our size.

What a great headline

I dunno, I think if the AI Revolution Was Inevitable the architects of the AI Revolution wouldn't white knuckle gripp their chairs and squeal like little piggies at every single bit of pushback.

After many years I finally did it 21 Hero Story is such a massive fucking achievement and I couldnt be happier I love SA2 Speedrunning Thank you everyone 🥳

Really giving away the game when someone in AAA games complains about having to disclose GenAI in development, especially if they say "everybody's using it anyway" I thought y'all wanted to show off & brag about your shiny expensive toys. Especially to those investors who definitely buy your games.

today is turkey day, the day invented to celebrate them

Okay real talk I don't dislike Steam doing their whole Steam Awards thing each year even if it's mostly a popularity contest But can anyone genuinely name any game offhand that has ever won a Steam award Like is that even a thing that actually happens

An undersung neat aspect of games like Ape Escape and Astro Bot is that the things you collect in those games are alive. They have little interactions with the world, some have unique animations and bits of personality you just don't get out of inanimate collectables, and that's really cool.

Look at the sample of headlines about the shooter. Only the UK's Guardian notes in the headline that the shooter of the National Guard troops was trained by the CIA. Wonder why US media wants to downplay that?!

Happy Thisgiving

just asking a question

Many men feel the stripper really likes them. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something

i just go to dio's arrest in the phantom blood manga and nobody fucking told me this post was literally what happened

david byrne voice

Sometimes I wonder if part of the reason we don't view rereleases of games that use titles with the words "remastered" and "directors cuts" is because of the familiarity of those words despite the fact they are by and large inaccurate descriptors for games

More than anything the people who partake so heavily in AI generation are all too often just plain boring You don't want to actually say anything, you just want the sliver of joy that comes with anything you can remotely say "I made this thing" that doesn't involve pointing at your toilet

not beating the “AI art is lazy” allegations

i take frenzy damage every time i see someone go "well i just use it for the boring stuff". what are you TALKING about? if it's boring or unimportant, why are you putting it in? NPC dialogue is fertile ground for worldbuilding, creating verisimilitude, conveying important information, and hijinks!!

They’re called “Shmups” because you SHMOVE UP the screen

🚨 BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani to require all NYC students to carry a 3DS.

The problem with competitive singles Pokemon is early gens have more fun metas but I hate lead metagames lol

Santa Ragione spoke up, but how many more won't because of this exact problem? If you're a primarily PC developer, Steam *is* your lifeblood. Steam might be great for consumers but they are absolutely, 100% a monopoly and it isn't healthy that their competitors are not viable.

It's objectively strange that Chrono Trigger is the name of a JRPG series about time travellers dealing with a crisis, and Time Crisis a series of light gun games.

"you have not played the game unless you've played the game" is one of my more annoying but unshakable opinions

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The lesson to learn from stories of humanoid robots in sci-fi is that it's okay for a person to look and act a bit different from everyone else, not that automatons are real and that they are your fuckin friend IRL lol

Persona: Daisoujou

Uni says hi

Genuine question, what the heck actually made Kevin Hart so popular I swear almost everything I've seen him do or say that wasn't in a script he looked either kinda or very much like an asshole Hell the first standup bit I saw of him, a pretty famous one too, was of him admitting to infidelity

I love SMT

Spoke to my source familiar with internal workings at Mastercard. The holiday call campaign re payment processor censorship is working, there is a lot of pressure being felt from your calls. This is resulting in increased response times at a core moment for Mastercard due to the holiday season

i dont usually do stuff like this but a good friend of mine was recently diagnosed with cancer. anything at all helps, even just spreading the word. www.gofundme.com/f/help-cover...

wow, honey. you sure have listened to the Orgy cover of Blue Monday 200 times today. are you depressed or about to buy four synthesizers online for other, different bad reasons

this point really hits the nail on the head of why localization workers are so frustrated by “AI” loc companies. freelancers have to beg for a single dollar wage increase, while tens of millions are dumped into a machine designed to replace them. the machine doesn’t even work. freelancers do.

It saddens me that the Xbox 360 overlapped with the era of Japanese racism in Western gaming. It was a safe haven for genres like shmups and visual novels after Sony told them to fuck off from the PS3. It pushed the envelope in many ways yet Microsoft pissed all that momentum away ever since.

Being in a Japanese discord server with a food channel is an exercise in torture any time I open that channel man

It's genuinely funny to me how despite how similar the games are in many ways, I ended up feeling far better about Silksong than I ever did the original Hollow Knight. Games are weird man.

A lot of modern internet discourse feels like people grew up watching YouTubers who exaggerate everything for engagement and thought that was how you're supposed to behave

every fucking time i think of it