A prominent commentator in the fighting game community, Sajam, has announced he will not participate in future EVO events following its acquisition by the Saudi government.

Capcom is on board with the Saudi ownership and so is Namco. SNK has also been Saudi controlled for years now. I think it's time for gamers to start boycotting companies.

I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?

waking up and seeing "oh yeah the President of the United States raped a 13 year old pregnant girl and was present when her newborn child was killed and disposed of in lake michigan" is wild, I hope the country collapses under its own weight soon because fuck, man

🚨BREAKING: GRETA THUNBERG ARRESTED UNDER TERRORISM ACT FOR SUPPORTING 'PALESTINE ACTION PRISONERS'

So apparently there are many Epstein files on the DOJ website where you can highlight the redacted text, copy it, and paste it onto another document to read the redactions

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

This was entirely about purging a trans instructor from the school and they succeeded. It was aided by a lot of dumb liberals taking it at face value arguing the minutia of grading rubrics while ignoring the obvious bad faith efforts behind this.

It was always only about destroying a trans woman and turning manufactured outrage into a career in media. This is the message: they can destroy any trans person they want on a whim, for nothing more than daring to exist and demand to be treated with dignity.

That paper was objectively a 0% level effort regardless of the topic. Disgusting result. It didn't even really catch on in the media like they'd hoped, but the TA is still gone.

The 60 Minutes episode on CECOT that Bari Weiss tried to spike has leaked. youtu.be/lenFGZ5WUTA?...

Important context here: when Peter Thiel and David Sacks began their war on diversity as undergrads at Stanford, thirty years ago, the very first tactic they adopted was to normalize slurs that had already been stigmatized out of mainstream society. This return of these hateful terms was a key goal.

for privacy 404 media is blurring videos shared to the story but there was a clip we had of a flock condor camera following a man so closely we could see exactly what he was looking at on his phone a must read scoop:

Sorry We're Closed is currently free to claim on Epic Games Store✨

this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will

Look up news reports about seat belts becoming compulsory to see an example of fhis

Israel is potentially bringing back the death penalty… exclusively for Palestinians. But don’t you DARE call it an apartheid state. www.cbc.ca/news/world/i...

For years, S*n 'journalists' covered up the sexual abuse by a famous cis man while telling everybody to hate trans women in order to protect women. This isn't even the first time this has happened. How so many cis people don't see what's happening is revealing.

Do you notice how, the higher the evidence stacks up that our ruling class is basically just a gaggle of coercive arse-grabbers covering up for each other, the more extreme their terror of foreign sex criminals and transgenders lurking in toilet cubicles grows

Big day for printer ink-wasting pranks

I previously placed a yarn order that quickly quintupled in price as I found some funky colours. Because of that, this dragon was made out of too much time on my hands 😂 #dragon #plushie #amigurumi #handmade #art #crochet

First, go to @nogamesforgenocide.com and sign the pledge: nogamesforgenocide.com/take-action/... Then, don't buy Game Pass, games or hardware from @xbox.com until @microsoft.com stops being complicit in genocide.

Lost Evri delivery? It's not just corporate incompetence - it's because of worker exploitation Evri drivers earn as little as £7 an hour, while Evri rakes in nearly £120m in profit. When drivers aren’t paid for failed deliveries, they’re pushed to cut corners and it’s customers who pay the price.

Wow, FUCK YOU Humble. www.humblebundle.com/software/com...

French publishing house Harlequin decided to use AI translation instead of human translations. All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin

Mandatory crunch time to complete a demo is not what we sign up for as video game workers, yet it's a reality we're all too familiar with as studio execs exploit our passion for the games that we create and love. And it won't stop unless we organize.

Fun game: When a game developer posts something supporting the use of AI, google their name with the word "allegations." Every. Single. Time.

avellone got found out and realized he didn't have to pretend to be a likable human ever again

being trans is not a negative outcome and neither is being autistic

here's some storyboards done by Sam Raimi for Evil Dead 2. Raimi may be an amazing filmmaker, but he's not really a draftsman. But that's completely immaterial to the purpose of these storyboards, which is to VISUALIZE the rhythm, composition and purpose of a shot. They don't have to look pretty.

Why We're Boycotting Xbox: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybj1...

Watch this video, and DO NOT give Xbox any of your money. If you can get off of Microsoft's ecosystems more generally, maybe also do that wherever possible.

Hahaha ever since Craig of the Creek became the latest victim of Zaslav’s merger bloodbath I haven’t been able to find a steady job. This man has ruined careers, ruined peoples lives, and gets paid MILLIONS for it. Hahaha hahaha

Oh good this provides me with a chance to finally say this: Hey did we just brush aside all the weird shit about the devs of KCD aside for the second game? The whole WE ARE SO HISTORICALLY ACCURATE THERE ARE ONLY WHITE PEOPLE IN THIS GAME, IGNORE THAT EVIDENCE THAT POC LIVED IN EUROPE

Anyone else remember when Daniel Vavra said that there couldn’t be non-white people or gays in his game because “historical accuracy”?

A hacker gained control of a 1,100 mobile phone farm powering covert, AI-generated ads on TikTok.

every article about Elon that doesn’t start with the fact that he starved thousands of children to death is malpractice this man should not be walking around free let alone as a respectable member of society

Our first big Christmas update is with an amazing recovery of the final build of Resident Evil on Gameboy Color. Hotgen's impressive conversion that got canned. This is much closer to completion, and seems completable too. Lots to discover! www.gamesthatwerent.com/2025/12/resi...

NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇

so this confirms everything people speculated, and makes him sound worse because he admits it's not helping, provides no benefit over regular whiteboxing or reference photos, but he still insists it's somehow crucial to use it because what if someone else benefits from it first. CEO brain.

Similar to how voice AI use has been suggested; for 'scratch' or reference. I know many actors, myself among them, who got jobs from the scratch work. Every example of AI being used I've seen is cutting away a job that someone coming up would take or get on their journey. Maybe that's the point.

Well I guess I'm switching to Waterfox cause there's zero way I'm gonna be caught with a browser that calls itself "Floorp"

The US Administration has banned Americans from *adopting babies* from much of the African continent. Adopting. Babies. What trait do those babies have that, when they grow up as fully American adults, would make them a threat to our country in any form?

The thing thats so insidious about using AI this way is that one of the main ways artists get hired are studios looking for art references and they find us and reach out. This is removing a major avenue to get work if they can just generate nameless derivations of our ideas.

I'm not sure if people realize the murder strikes are taking place across a large region. It's quite staggering. www.newsweek.com/map-us-strik...

Larian's horrible hirring process is an open secret in the industry – insane amounts of unpaid work in "writing tests", excessive numbers of interviews, months and months of back and forth, etc. Everyone in games narrative circles has heard the stories at this point, probably from multiple people.

Using genAI for concept art is so fucking stupid because like... that's where you get the cool shit. Thats the blue sky phase where artists make pieces of art that will be seen by a teenager later and change their life forever. Why would you want to start from mediocre. Why would you do that.