imo this isn't the biggest problem w/ the story. yeah there will be some people who do this, but they were already doing that stuff. the bigger issue is the fact that Wildlight presented as a fully solvent studio, had Tencent backing and still folded like a card table after launch, likely on purpose

kotaku is a good website staffed by good people and it is really maddening and perplexing to me the way right wingers think a perpetually understaffed video game blog is responsible for everything they hate

'the company that maintains my boyfriend's AI persona has jacked up the price ten-fold' is pretty classic cyberpunk; that the persona or the relationship never meaningfully existed in the first place is a level of bitter irony that might be too much even for an often ironic genre.

You know things are bad when the WSJ puts it this plainly: "The rewards are going toward capital instead of labor. Profits have soared since the pandemic, and the market value attached to those profits even more. The result: Capital is triumphant, while the average worker ekes out marginal gains."

CONFIRMED BY SCIENCE: anyone more online than me is a loser phone addict and everyone less online than me are basic underdeveloped normies

Consider, they would want to time it for the show, but strix is coming out in a month, and no one has been working on potter shit at wizards in the last few production cycles. More relevant, you haven't seen a mass exodus of all the Trans folks working on magic, of which there are a lot.

It could be really bad for Discord if Californians contact the office of the Attorney General to report the potential violations of CCPA and CALOPPA citing the recent breach from a few months back where 1.5tb of user data and millions of IDs were leaked, but who can say for sure?

they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit

Lots of regular degular, never-done-an-activism folks have been activated in recent months and are working alongside a bunch of seasoned, die-hard, been-tired-for-ten-years-or-more organizers, and you don't know all of those stories bc most people are moving with a bit of discretion in these times.

Corporations will not exploit working people in NYC. Uber Eats, Fantuan & HungryPanda broke the law — shortchanging workers while raking in profits. Today, we secured $5M+ in restitution for 49,000 delivery workers. Let this be a warning: steal wages, face the consequences.

Some things to understand about people from Minnesota on here right now, a short thread:

We are going to fucking build an America that’s better than this.

I want to live in an America that is better than this because I know America is better than this. We are going to build an America that’s better than this.

“I think it’s kind of beautiful that there’s a finite nature to all of this.” For Esquire, I spoke with George Saunders about dying, living, and VIGIL, which hits shelves today. www.esquire.com/entertainmen...

ICE murdered Renée Good in broad daylight. Less than 3 weeks later, they killed Alex Pretti, shooting him 10 times. Every day, we watch as people are ripped from their cars, their homes, their lives. We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.

The person who publishes the Free Press — where the words “Minneapolis” and “Minnesota” never appear tonight — also runs CBS News.

the alt text field is where you imagine what guybrush threepwood might say if he examined your image

"bearing witness to events" literally just means recording what is happening so it cannot be elided or erased in the future, it does not mean you are required to watch execution videos as some duty, stop letting people who don't understand words tell you what to do

They are never, ever going to win in Minnesota.

As someone who spent the last 15 years working with aging brains & dementia, I can't stop thinking about this. It is gerontocracy: leaders who are substantially older than most of the adult population. When did we accept this? The new generations can't show up because the old generations never left.

Worth remembering that this is how companies force disabled workers out of their workforce. If any disabled workers impacted by this want to discuss, you can reach me at [email protected] and on signal: gabunting.89. Anonymity guaranteed.

dudes rock

Inverse's Gaming section is being shut down as the company "divests" from gaming content. I'm out of a job along with my wonderful co-writers. I've put my heart and soul into this job for four years. Gonna need to take time to process, but I'm now completely open for work - and boy do I need it.

ICE must be abolished. It has become a lawless, rogue agency. Federal law enforcement agencies must follow the law, if they're going to have any credibility enforcing it. We are demanding justice for Renee Good and the prosecution of ICE agent Jonathan Ross for her murder.

this is Minnesotan for "I am mad enough to bite through rebar"

the thing is i simply do not want to be given a report card in a game ever

This is, objectively, what happened. We know this because there is video evidence that this is, objectively, what happened. Don’t let anyone try and tell you otherwise

Chekhov has a gun On the mantle, it's not hard to find When they're setting the stage up, it's easy to see They'll introduce it in act one and it'll fire in act three Oh, I wish that I had Chekhov's gun Yeah, I wish that I had Chekhov's gun Where can I find a weapon like that?

“everything in you’re life is more expensive and Trump doesn’t give a shit” is a good message in the abstract and actually does apply in a lot of situations but you cannot stick literally every single thing that happens - such as the end of 80 years of American relations with Europe - into that box

seems to me the main reason bluesky has a lot of desperately unhappy people freaking out about politics and world affairs on it instead of being like twitter was in the middle of the last decade is that you are using and discussing it in 2025 instead of in the middle of the last decade

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Congestion pricing is an unqualified success in NYC. It would be great to see it expanded to every city with decent public transit options. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

An administration driven by greed, cruelty, and frankly a sort of empty-hearted boredom. The death of innocents so they can beat their chests and line their already fat wallets. Whatever comes next has to at least look like justice. We cannot just turn the page for the sake of one party’s comfort.

and to my Jewish friends, a happy go to the movies and eat Chinese food day

twitter: new update, every time you post, elon musk is literally going to break into your house and shit directly into your mouth users: that sucks but….i mean i HAVE to stay on there…..

Between this and vending machines that only dispense one pack every X minutes, I think it’s time to pack it up.

unfortunately

If I insisted that chanukah has no religious connotations because you can celebrate it without believing in god, I would sound insane.

My no-fun-at-parties take is that "christmas is a secular holiday" is an uncomfortable way of assuring me that christianity is the status quo and everything outside of that is an aberration. Sorry! It's still a christian holiday!! Just because you're an atheist doesn't make it secular!

Here’s a gift link to this stunner Washpost story, quoting the 60 Minutes correspondent on the CECOT story, who accuses Bari Weiss of spiking the piece all because the Trump Administration wouldn’t comment. “Government silence is a statement, not a VETO.” wapo.st/3YL4T3D

I will grant Palmer Luckey some credit for making it clear that any support of ModRetro is support of his shitty and evil beliefs, at least

I say this with zero irony: if you are even tangentially a part of a retro video game community, it is your civic duty to push back against this company and shun anyone who doesn't. This is fascism tapping gently at the door and as soon as you let it in, it's going to invite its friends.

Conservatives rebranded bigotry and every time the media uses “wokeness” as a euphemism they are helping a movement that it quite literally erasing the history marginalized people’s role in American life.

Magic is not about winning games. Magic is about pulling off a totally sick, elaborate, surprise move that keeps you alive one turn longer than you thought and forces your opponent to do slightly more work to kill you anyway.

Time is owned by Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce, which is currently trying to sell its AI tool to ICE in order to triple their recruitment. just a thing I think about sometimes while I’m at work, implementing his product for nonprofits.

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

The whole "um excuse me why are we concerned about Horses being banned when it's about what it's about? Um red flag much???" shit is so fuckin... soft, man. Weak weak shit. Deeply unserious.

Do I regret not getting the $23 Marietta novelty cocktail? Yes, yes I do

I love my city!