Because they won't be 🥳 We invented Hell because otherwise all the injustice and corruption of this world would drive us insane 🥳🥳🥳

Oh yeah, because the game is both written and voiced in two dialects of English, we let you pick which you want to read and which you want to hear separately. Accessibility!

The video game industry decided to discontinue their product, the video game, in exchange for trying to make Fortnites. They have in recent years found out this doesn't work, so they have pivoted from making Fortnites to making ????????????????? nothing I guess

how far we've come

the Luddites were right

OK. Looking to raise another sixty quid to get gas and electricity. Got less than 50p left on the emergency credit on both and still a few days away from payday. Super grateful for any help getting there. My kofi: ko-fi.com/robfearon My PayPal: www.paypal.com/paypalme/ret...

Hey, it's been a while! I've been focusing on my character art render for the last few months; here's a Spinning Top Monk I have been working on for some time.

I wrote about things to plan early for if you want your game to be Steam Deck verified: blendogames.com/news/post/20...

“prince andrew arrested for involvement in the Epstein files” “yoon suk yeol convicted for declaring martial law”

Designing games is hard. What the fuck

The fact that Roblox continues to exist at all should be a point of shame to literally everyone

he was sitting in his office in a very dignified manner congratulating himself on how restrained he was being. "they'll remember me for my honorable conduct," he said, sipping some tea

If you have parents this stupid and you survive to adulthood unscathed physically, you should be legally able to take all their money and put them in a haunted house for their retirement

i think it’s funny every american on here is looking at yoon’s lifetime prison sentence going what’s it like to live my dream meanwhile a lotta koreans are like im so confused why isn’t he dead

The February issue of Unwinnable Monthly is OUT NOW. Our cover story is a musing on the game Suzerain, choice and political change. You can buy it for 8 bucks, but why would you when you can subscribe for five?! unwinnable.com/subscribe/

i read that stupid blog about the left "missing out" on AI and got big mad aftermath.site/anthropic-cl...

Heated Chivalry

Lord Hailsham used to trot out this line to American students who came to his talks: in the UK we have a republic masquerading as a monarchy whereas in the US you have a monarchy masquerading as a republic.

Not now, smiling fossil from the Carboniferous period

Book club scams are now threatening authors who don't fall for their BS. In December, I received an email from Herry Sharp, so-called CEO of "Super Book Lover Curator" praising my novella We Who Hunt Alexanders. Totally AI-generated and a scam so I didn't respond. Now Herry is threatening me. 1/

Luna trying to kiss Mercury this evening

Today has been a weird day! I didn't sleep at all last night! I fell asleep twice today! I was simultaneously overcaffeinated and tipsy on champagne! I still feel slightly manic! Exclamation points!!!!!!!!!1 Oh, we shipped a game, that's the context: store.steampowered.com/app/2781470/...

Seriously it's hilarious to me, the line on LLMs is "this is progress! you can't stop it!" from the same people who are trying to eliminate every gender transition surgery and, uh, the concept of the computer. Well, *you* think things can be de-invented! Let's de-invent the search engine that lies.

What's been odd to me is the Techlords saying "You can't fight back! It's progress! You can't just undo a technology!" while their own allies in the White House are trying, *with significant success*, to undo the invention of the MRNA vaccine. But not as much success as they want:

Call your house rep and tell them to support HB 2540 which will increase the amount disabled people can save from $2k to $10k and remove the marriage penalty where you lose your only source of income if you get married regardless of how little they make. Switchboard: (202) 224-3121

I understand why prison abolition is controversial but I don’t think you can get away from the fact that the most passionate prison abolitionists work closely with incarcerated people or were incarcerated themselves. The more you know about the logistics of incarceration the more you hate it.

the version of AI that runs on laptops is not the one that is being produced in bulk by billionaires for the goal of human immiseration. if decentralized laptop AI was what was being discussed in 99% of cases most of my objections would disappear

Some teeny tiny ceramic cats for this shop update! I have these calicos and some gray ones that will be available. You can get one this Friday, February 20th at 8pm Eastern time.

Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.

Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance. And you know why? Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.

Oppenheimer. Its choice to completely center a white man's pain while only alluding to the suffering he wrought was beyond the pale even for Christopher Nolan

Just applied for a job which is such an insanely perfect match that if I don't at least hear back from the employer I am prepared to call bullshit on the entire concept of job applications

"why are you against progress" I yell confidently as my sloppily-implemented algorithms prematurely murder your grandma

First fanart I do in ages ❄️ #ゴールデンカムイ #goldenkamuy

It was not inevitable that generative AI would lodge in the culture as an explicitly right-wing technology; that it has done so is the result of a series of ideological decisions by its makers, the ideology growing more overt and desperate as AI's very serious problems become more apparent

Since the troll column seems to have worked: The very very very very very very very obvious question is not "why hasn't the left embraced AI" but "why has the right so eagerly embraced a tech product built on theft, sold by fraud, and optimized for abuse and misinformation"

All I think about when I hear people say that it’s bad taste to dance on Hulk Hogan’s grave is that Emmett Till’s monument had to be replaced with a 500lb steel bulletproof monument because white people simply won’t stop riddling it with bullets. So now it just has tons of dents. From bullets.

Curly? More like Cuddly! I had to get a plush manifestation of my every nightmare as a disabled person. Personally traumatizing body horror made adorable.

Anything any technology has to offer, they pervert into a way to extort more of the little we have left. They don't care about anything and when they do care, they hate. They're jealous and resentful of the people that DO make and know and create. So I don't hate technology at all. I hate them.

I love technology. I've always loved space flight and computers, I loved electronics, and I was so excited for the future. But everything good we made was grabbed up by a few shitheads who wanted to take what we all did for humanity and cash in. They didn't even make it, they just stole it.

Someone doused Renee Good’s Minneapolis memorial and a nearby pile of wood with gasoline and started a fire at about 9 p.m. Tuesday.

We're horseposting post your horses.

A Cup of Silence - Opeyemi Olukotun Acrylic on canvas 150 x 120 cm www.instagram.com/opeyemioluko...

Cats have to be small but are allowed to get away with all crimes. It's the deal they made with Allah.

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

New technology? We don't even use the old technology!

i included this in my syllabi this year

"Is there technology the left is excited about?" is the kind of question you only ask if you're wildly naive about technology. mRNA vaccines. Heat pumps. Offshore wind. Urban mining. Sodium batteries. But god forbid we're not fawning over every new implementation of Making Computers Bad At Math.