how it feels to show someone your oc

my main source of income right now is editing and localization. if AI takes those jobs, I'm fucking cooked

face/off is the perfect movie

literally me rn

The HBO algorithm now thinks I want to see sports related content because I watched Heated Rivalry. Buddy.

it's plurbin time

This is the games writer equivalent of that guy who does reload animations with vacuums

When you let ChatGPT write your stories for you, you get some bonkers facts wrong - like this special tournament celebrating 100 years of professional soccer in Japan (false!) or Nintendo cofounding Kyoto Sanga in 1933 (false! origin club was founded in 1922 and Nintendo became sponsor in 1994).

uh www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

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AI is a cancer.

please imagine its christmas so this meme pops off PLEASE

The existence of Area Man implies the existence of Perimeter Man & Volume Man but those guys have their shit together I guess

That protagonists should be likeable. Fuck that, who wants to read about functional people??

Well, happy anniversary to one of the finest of festive exchanges

In a way though, LLM adoption is the natural endpoint of decades of software UX design intended to deskill, demean, and disempower users. Almost no software people use daily has automation affordances or even decent UI customization options.

wild that this simultaneously implicates Trump and contains some of the best evidence that Epstein actually killed himself

Unfortunately it’s not enough to begin production on a new game. If sales keep steady, we might be able to fund a new prototype in the future, but please keep in mind the team has had to, and will have to, keep working other jobs and projects.

As you might have read, the game's success will allow us to pay off the loans we took to finish development. That alone is a huge relief, and it makes us infinitely more serene than the alternative!

DOJ briefly uploaded this letter from Jeff Epstein to serial child molester Larry Nassar: "Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."

Will note: this is probably the direct result of workshy Bari Weiss waiting until Friday before a Sunday air date to spike the story. International rebroadcasters probably get the recordings early to vet locally and run through local standards and practices. She forgot and no one told her :)

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I don’t think this is a conspiracy theory. Investors have all moved from games to AI. Games are still hugely profitable but they don’t promise “exponential growth” after the initial spike during Covid. AI is the new hotness, so execs need the rank and file to use it. That’s where the money is.

Yeah, this is the thing about it, isn't it. If you had some kind of advantage over the competition – why are you so invested in making sure everyone else has it?

Regular reminder that the majority of the people who dreamed up the stories you love are, like, BROKE broke, and that most of the money spent on their work was given to Some Guy™️ instead.

Yeah. Great. Thanks LinkedIn

Bari only pulled this program after the promos started airing, which means she probably got a phone call. So she's not just bad at her ostensible job of running CBS news, but she's also bad at her *actual* job of running interference for the Trump admin

man I love avocados but I really wish they weren't so hard to cut

how bad are things going when Dylan Byers won't even tell the story you want him to

ummmmmm buddy i dont think so

This comment is in the same pantheon as "50% of Roger Federer's name is 'er'."

who is going to gdc

Idk man maybe it’s cause I spent a long time a prose writer, but a lot of the time when I’m working with an artist I’m like. Just fuck me up. I don’t need AI to show you what I’m thinking because what the artist is thinking is probably better

Funny animal videos no longer being trustworthy just fucking sucks all around. I love the wonder of animal behavior and what it says about the experience of being alive. It's because it happened in reality that it's so fun. It's not fun if it was just made up. There's no wonder there.

Uuuuuuuuuuuuurgh for *fuck's* sake

incredibly fucked to compared the quantity of good game writers out of work atm with... whatever the fuck 2 dollar-an-article hack wrote this

I know he’s only using it as a general example, but when talking about this with artist and writer friends I often say a variation of: genai doesn’t impact me as much as it does you so I can be more nuanced, but the moment someone hands me a generated design doc I will go absolutely nuclear

I can't believe Mr. Marbles is fucking dead what's the point of anything

When you have to name 9 swords before content lock

they reinvented renaissance catholicism from first principles and made the gold fake

“Here’s your meal, full of delicious lead” I don’t want it. No thank you. “Well, what about if we just use lead in the cooking process? You can’t even taste the lead in the final meal” I’m leaving. “You’re being childish. Soon everyone will be cooking with lead” have you fucking listened to yourself

No.

"have a mental breakdown and move to taiwan in the middle of a pandemic" kind of sounds like a bad idea but it was probably the best career move i ever made

definitely feeling a certain degree of "fuck it, we ball" on here recently from fellow devs. like the fact that there's basically no industry left to get blacklisted from has everyone fully unleashed

earlier this year a Certain Studio strung me along for about six months. after repeatedly telling me i was the front-runner, i heard nothing for about six weeks, before I was then rejected by form email. they'd wanted me to move cross-country for a year contract. 2025, baaaabyyyy

All of these people should grow up and back off! www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/s...