there is an implicit pact on social media. you can be as horny as you want, so long as you're willing to be made fun of for it. taking umbrage at being made fun of for hornyposting disturbs the balance.

the fear 2 dev team donation.......... I fucking loved fear 2 as it was one of the few games I was able to own and finish, I'm so sad monolith is gone, and I'm glad they had one last presence here

"resident evil 2 second-run knife only with a rock band controller" is a very gdq combination of words

This sucks but I think non-Americans being justifiably angry at Americans for what the American government is doing and threatening to do, and Americans experiencing that anger and frustration personally in ways that are unpleasant, is probably an important part of any path back to stability

that splitgate guy will forever live in my head as the guy who said "i'm sick of playing the same FPS every year. we're releasing a free-to-play battle royale live-service shooter today."

it's in a jar. the hologram anime girls by the gamer fuckboy corp are in a jar. I don't need to make a joke about this literally that's the fucking joke. the setup, the punchline, all in one fucking product

"em dashes are AI" i didn't memorize alt+0151 and option+shift+hyphen to be accused of such treachery

Commissioners and artists, be aware of this if you use the PayPal

MAIKA has been retired from purchase and is now discontinued. This means that all Voctro Labs voicebanks (and therefore all Spanish voicebanks for the VOCALOID engine) are officially discontinued.

there has to be a safe way to discuss the trauma bonding between laid-off game developers and their ongoing live service products that are sorta continuations of the AAA work they were torn way from. it's giving the full "could a depressed person make this" claymation www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCUz...

The reason BSKY is 'boring' is because before all this algorithm tuning, if you wanted to find something that would be interesting to you, you had to look for it. You had to... search... and keep tabs... and write things down... it was actually really nice and felt rewarding but maybe I'm old.

....never mind, apparently they want to use playthrough footage. lol. lmao

I decided to read the full patent and this is substantially funnier than I expected - they want to generate the AI "helper" from footage of other people playing the game, including, they specifically note, footage scraped from social media and youtube bc everyone on socials/youtube is an expert

america: greatest country in the world. playing my video games on narrow streams of internet infrastructure where if one section is targeted, it takes out five services with it. as I turn on a stream to cope, I get fed ai slop ads for recently-legalized gambling services. love it here.

I hate the slang "AI" bc this is literally just bot and NPC behavior ramped up, but now they're patenting it in a way that sounds good to an investor bro who buys every single AAA game and doesn't get past the second level

really mostly enjoyed 100 meters. I know sports anime, and masculine-centered anime in general, gets super preachy at the end, and it dragged the ending a bit, but I generally liked it

MAGFEST OOMFIE CHECK 🎉

I want whatever the heck keanu reeves and alexandria grant have going on, it's outright contagious in-person 🥹

if any idiot racist worked in hospitality in NYC for long enough, I think the biggest shock would be how many south americans come off-peak/non-vacation dates because many of those countries have more vacation time than us

MAGFEST OOMFIE CHECK 🎉

the best part of traveling is a bunch of adults watching youtube videos on their phones on the external speakers because every person in this country is as smart and self-aware as an ipad kid now

magical

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You’ll survive, but you’ll be funnier in a way that worries people

so it’s going well then

Michiya Kato shows how they animated the rippling hallway in Paprika (2006), dir. Satoshi Kon, Madhouse

Folks, i don't even like Parker Molloy, and anyone who's still on Substack has no actual solidarity, BUT it's not "inciting furry hatred" to post a baffled skeet asking why someone is modding a game for children to give the characters giant boobs.

Reading Chotiner interviews with people who actually know what they're talking about is interesting because you realize his main skill is not "gotchas" but just like, facilitating effective communication. when that runs into someone who's used to dissimulating they get humiliated.

We had a good run

there's a video of a guy crashing out at a live mamma mia performance, but the girls behind him went, "we were just singing along".......... and you know what, the man is absolutely right. shut the fuck up

Insane flex apnews.com/article/zohr...

Anime matsuri was a cartoonishly evil event run by one of the worst men I've ever known. John once turned my friend's (a recent widows) first birthday dinner without her husband into a pity party for John because people were being mean to him online

the secret to a good time is learning where all the trans hotties are going

Believe me the whole "you can disobey illegal orders" shit only flies on paper. They will threaten to end the lives of the soldiers just as easily as they end the lives of Venezuelans. The soldiers code is a bunch of nonsense.

idk man, living in nyc and hearing about all this venezuelan shit blows. the us does some fuckshit, everyone's forced here, everyone's deported (not even back there, half the time), then they bomb the country. my friends just wanna vibe, they wanna be happy and have friends like everyone else

i woke my roommate up yelling into the schumer voicemail box this morning

The Mayor of New York City @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social has released a statement:

I don’t love you and I’m not holding your hand: call your Senator and tell them that the must shut down the government on January 30th until this ends, a thing that Democrats have the hard power to do at this very moment.

writing about an arc raiders hit and it just hit me: if the voice acting is ethically sourced and the actors are paid fairly, they're literally just using their own custom kasane teto (granted, I wish any of these actors for any of these voice projects got paid royalties)

It's a big day for those fluent in the good grammar of civility looking to deploy decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

1. try not to post things that will get you arrested 2. try not to post things that will make your friends want to off themselves

"international law must be followed" is european for "thoughts and prayers"

can we just mass stop paying federal taxes in 2026 because none of us can afford to support a war we don't even want

Congrats to Bari on supplanting X as the Weiss House Press Corps

Cancel the LA Olympics, scrap the World Cup, the United States cannot be a trusted part of the international community so long as the White House operates this violently and with impunity.

Remember how appalled we all were in 2022 when Russia completely unprovoked attacked Ukraine? That is what we’re doing tonight with Venezuela. We are the bad guys here. Everyone who supports this is supporting unprovoked murder. Fuck every last one of them