Yall we have at least six? Seven? Medical emergencies among the families partnered with this giving circle, including three little kids with hepatitis, one with a sister who's immuno-compromised. Help with care + medicine, and spread the word: linktr.ee/hopegivingci...

Put together a little CROWNBREAKERS retrotspective showing the progress from the earliest pre-prototypes in 2022 to the game as it is now, three years later and almost demo ready!

VGC asked a bunch of video game composers about their favourite music from 2025. 🎵 Game OST enthusiasts, this is for you! See what hits and what you might have missed from the musicians themselves. DL: www.videogameschronicle.com/features/thi...

"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.

Fossil fuel activists blocking traffic again.

I wrote a Your Guide to Farscape story a few years ago and I'm always so happy to see folks get into the show, which I love a lot. Talked to Brian Henson of Jim Henson Company for this as well. This was such a labor of love: www.ign.com/articles/201...

why offload emotions to AI for corpos to sell your secrets to advertisers when you can instead offload emotions in unhinged public bsky posting for all of us to see we'll admire your vulnerability and brave honesty until you delete the posts in a panic whereas with chatbots you don't get retractions

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Regular reminder that I am trying to build a corps of new Youtubers to cover indie RPGs. If you have any desire to do this, please let me know and I will give you what little knowledge I posses.

Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather

Viva Greta.

Essentially, I think that LLM-generated dialogue only makes sense if you believe that the product of writing is words. But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.

We're keen to challenge the predicate to the case brought by the (revoltingly homophobic) Christian Institute: that upholding the rights of those protected by the Equality Act is a contestable and political stance. So, thanks, I guess to them.

“there are only 7 full-time book critics left in the US: three at NYT ( Jacobs, Garner, Szalai), 2 at WaPo(Rothfeld, Charles), 1 each at WSJ (Sacks), NY mag (Chu), Slate (Miller) more people have walked on the moon than write book reviews for a living” worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/septemb...

There are a ton of wonderful people in this article discussing the realities of LLM based character interaction I always return to the fact that parser games are not mainstream juggernauts and that people don't want to have to learn to be improv actors to participate as a character in a setting

This is a wonderful summation of the beauty and value of human made art ❤️

i got to rant about LLM chatbots in games + my fears about the dead future that tech oligarchs want for all of us, alongside some very clever + thoughtful folks. thanks so much @samuelhorti.bsky.social for giving me the space & time to articulate all of this

Delighted to see this piece up! Massive thank you to all the women who shared their experience with me for this 🖤 www.gamesindustry.biz/a-decade-on-...

Greta Thunberg arrested for holding a sign opposing genocide. When peaceful protest is a crime, democracy is in deep trouble. Happening under a Labour Government.

Ah yes, we could never have predicted this, never www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

This how they did in my team in Jan. They kept them long enough to train bots, then fired them. I'm currently surviving doing work of 4 people, at breakneck pace. If you wonder why I have clear eyed view of where we are with LLMs, this is why. I was ground 0 www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/i-was-forc...

I don't need ChatGPT, I can just type any prompts to these two and I can rely on them to kick me out regardless

Put another way, *two-thirds* of people over 45 hate GenAI in games already, and we're really only two years in

‘Trans’ was never just a wedge issue trying to separate the T from the LGB - Billionaire media barons jumped on it as a tool to divide feminists, unions, and those working for EQUALITY. The Times gave a platform to TERFs to create dissent, not because it cares about women!

The VioGén algorithm gave Lina a medium risk score and as a result, the courts refused to give a restraining order. Within three weeks, she had been murdered. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

Once, a respected person in my field shared a link to one of my articles, alongside enthusiastic agreement with a "quote" from me that does not appear anywhere within the article, or elsewhere in my corpus. Frequently, others yell at me for "saying" things that likewise do not appear in the text.

It's a whole genre it's beautiful

Professional societies keep beclowning themselves buying into a lie about what an LLM "summary" is. They are inherently counterfeit: not an epistemic product of the ideas in the source, but summary-shaped text linguistically based on *other* works (in the training corpus) that use related language.

uh go go go

Quantic Foundry does legit trustworthy analysis of gamer behaviour, and these survey results are shockingly negative toward genAI, to the point where I’m more hopeful that data driven mobile and AAA backpedals on their uses.

CO₂ is plant food 🙃

As predicted the online safety act has succeeded only in making us less safe. Admit your mistake. Repeal it now.

In the broad sense, yes: and for the following specific reason

the other day I looked at a line that was difficult to localize and went “oh I see what’s happening here. there’s a Shakespeare reference baked in that we don’t want to lose”. you don’t get that without filling your head with all of these creative pieces you squirrel away because of their meaning

The year is 2035. There are three game studios left. Each one produces a game every 10 years, killing 250+ developers in the process. They all accidentally make the same game because they used genAI in preproduction. They sell 500 million units each, missing quarterly targets. Everyone is laid off.

Most of us did not choose to write or draw or design so that we could put products on the shelf. We chose to do it because it’s a set of skills we enjoy exercising, that give us fulfillment. It’s like asking a pro pitcher to just let a machine pitch for them. Fuck off and give me the ball.

Research is the MAGIC TIME on any project where I get to go have fun and explore. And 100% what you are looking for are the surprising and amazing details and textures that you could never make up

YES! this is what techbros who have let their creative selves wither call "procrastination" or "inefficiency" and try to technologise away, not understanding that it is the source of creativity and imagination and everything good

this is to me the same issue in terms of why I was upset about Larian: a pattern of behaving badly towards the labor that makes a game possible

just make smaller fucking games, dude

Like the post says, if Sam can make a great trailer for a game that looks impossibly difficult to turn into a good trailer, just imagine what she can do with everything else 👀 (hire her right now)

I fucking loathe these smug ass art-hating self-congratulating ghouls & the system that allows them to fail upwards into unfathomable wealth on the backs of 1000s of overworked creative people whose livelihoods get passed around like trading cards every time these dillwads have a stonks circle-jerk.

So love wobbegongs. Everything is good about the wobbegong. Its name. Its flattened Oscar the Grouch face. Its frondy bits. Its lazy life as a hungry rug. And it’s a shark. Outstanding animal 10/10

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.

the only reason I've never used GenAI is because if I did i'd feel like a sick artistic fraud. filthy, like I'd sold my mother's wedding ring for drugs, or cheated on my wife with her sister or kicked a baby into a river. that's the only reason. well that and everything it makes looks shit.

"I didn’t say we use it to develop concept art" just to make reference, get ideas from and outline composition lmao just 90% of what concept is🤣

Not to be like “everything is gender” but here the feminized left is tasked with reforming and assuaging the masculinized right, like so many mothers blowing on boo boos.

it's like he saw his shit approval ratings and said "Still too high"

The Irish Nazi Party used to be run by a fella who lived with his mum in a cottage in Ringsend. In those days, no one said you lived in an "echo chamber" if you didn't go around to listen to him.