The headline here undersells the argument a fair bit, but the actual quotes still display at best willful ignorance and at worst one more reason I am wishing Arrowhead a very kollektivavtal nu

Well today is a quality lesson in keeping the log error-free and teaching people to report minor-looking problems - because the underlying cause of the minor hiccup is a major breakage from months ago that just hasn’t had bad consequences yet, that’s always fun

This is *excellent*, highly recommend, and I am oh-so-partial to the section about the failure of imagination that is plaguing so many nominally progressive communities. We saw a lot of that in the shape of the itch payment processing backlash!

Having Feelings about how the Danish jewelry law (which IIRC passed with support from socio-democrats) went mostly unremarked by the hot takes collective but now that an English-speaking country is doing it everyone is yelling

Sometimes the Waypoint Radio revisit brings you interesting takes, and sometimes it brings you Patrick’s 2019 Schlocktober flicks “really straining the bounds of reality in finding inanimate objects that should not murder you finding ways to murder you, which is how I got Death Spa and The Mangler”

-These were far right protests, rather than the traditional slogans demanding justice there are countless videos where you see people chanting VIVA CRISTO REY -The most representative generation in these protests was boomers, there was nothing gen-z about it

“Un collectif de perdu, dix de retrouvés” - cursed use of a French aphorism about break-ups to talk about militant burnout

Anywoo I really need some of the people arguing about designing games for shorter attention spans to talk to teachers once in their lives? It is actually bad out there and it’s getting worse via a mix of popular social media platforms, extremely unresolved pandemic trauma, and postviral brain damage

This, and- it’s easy to say as a pesky genderfucky anarchist who cannot have “correct” papers, but, please don’t off yourself over the inability to make the State recognize you? It has no legitimacy to begin with! Building communities where we support each other is vital for this very reason

… okay the whole thing’s a mess but *this bit* is especially hilarious / tragic / not a great sign about serious journalism

Sorry for being gauche but if you want to get invested in media about witches that isn’t racist garbage that enables a transphobe, check out a game made by a majority of trans people including yours truly. Bonus it helps fund my hopeful escape from this hell.

The weirdest thing about this discourse is that states with shorter school closures have the same amount of learning loss! I keep waiting for all the punditry on this to catch up with basic facts

I would not have a career without Battlefield and I nonetheless co-sign this wholeheartedly. The things I felt it do to my brain were bad and I’m glad I stepped far, far away. Let’s find other ways, other settings, other verbs to scratch the same itch, thanks

Well that’s going on the watchlist www.thegauntlet.news/p/pluribus-c...

So help me gods I went looking for the bad piece someone was sub…skeeting? and it is ever-hilarious to see denunciations of elite queer pretentiousness that my fairly literate self struggles to parse because it’s so fucking verbose and pretentious

In order to support them through this difficult time, the STJV is setting up a support fund, with all the money raised being distributed equally among them. Any contribution that doesn't burden you is welcome.

My kingdom for a broader understanding that healthcare workers are a lot mode cop-adjacent than many people - even trans - like to think, yes even nurses and not just doctors. The main difference is that I’m not going to kick them out on sight because most of us do in fact need to interact with them

Très bon texte de @sudeducation.bsky.social qui rappelle que l'extrême-droite constitue (aussi) un danger vital pour les personnes handicapées. Très bon thread de @uneseuleecole.bsky.social qui rappelle qu'hélas à gauche, c'est pas beaucoup mieux 😔

Can confirm, very pretty edition of a truly excellent book, A++ would buy again

appreciate this article breaking down a taxonomy of knowledge games (also, unfortunately, known as metroidbrainias) azhdarchid.com/against-metr...

The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.

Apropos of nothing everyone should play a game of this trustandsafety.fun

It likely does not help that Bluesky was one of the six social media sites that got the letter from Clay Higgins, chair of the law enforcement subcommittee of the House oversight committee, about violent rhetoric after Charlie Kirk's death: clayhiggins.house.gov/2025/09/15/h...

I do NOT ever want to see “nuclear” and “genAI” in the same sentence unless it’s a reactualization of Boris Vian’s Java Des Bombes Atomiques and what we could do to those pesky CEOs, thank you very much

Worth noting that this is *one* major incident on a long long loooooooong list and the fury has been boiling for years

The “uh that’s more dust than I’d expect here” to “WE ARE AT WAR” pipeline: Found a case moth larva, luckily nowhere near the stash and isolated, but meaning urgent deep cleaning to remove / kill any eggs plus thorough inspection of ALL textiles is due, grr. Might need to buy parasitic wasps again

Gods I am so glad I am now fluent and can get Swedish humor, because there is no way I can accurately translate how much snark the language can pack in an innocuous sentence. Truly THE tongue of passive-aggression. And oh it is beautiful when deployed for good

Fatta hur illa man betett sig om fucking _Nestlé_ säger ifrån. Som om satan själv skulle säga ”chilla lite nu va”

geoff keighley is the only person in the entire games industry who I would be glad if he was replaced by AI, mainly because it would be hard to tell

Bless the ridiculous GTA fan entertaining the hypothesis that the people fired from Rockstar were leaking information. You don’t have *thirty* leakers. Ever. That’s not a thing. If you’re firing this many people at once, something else is going on, and it’s not leaking info about the game

I went to meet the 'Rockstar 31', the developers who were suddenly fired from their work on GTA 6 for what the studio has described as gross misconduct. That's not what the workers call it though. They have another couple of words they prefer to use: union busting. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...

Just want you to know that when I asked Geoff why he gave the silent treatment to an open letter written by his own "future of games" program (& co-signed by 3000+ industry peers), he replied: "Because that's my show and nobody gets to tell me how I should use my platform". 💀💀💀

technology that makes people more productive is inherently used to perpetuate capitalism, that’s why I make videogames, technology that makes people less productive

Can we stop rediscovering every third month that Tim Sweeney is a tech bro with opinions that are at best boring, at least conservative and at worst proto-fascist?

James Bond discourse pretending that the series ever HAD true continuity outside of a couple movies (and even then) is beyond ridiculous. It’s all vibes and nods to previous entries, fuck’s sake

Oh, wait, I thought L was saying that kids were succeeding more in prison due to finally getting accommodations and that it was horrifying, not that L was ADVOCATING FOR PUTTING KIDS IN PRISON, silly me (Sweden is still swedening hard)

Bon il est cool leur article mais le validisme de gauche et NOTAMMENT DANS L’ÉDUCATION ce serait bien de le dénoncer au passage quand même

*sigh* Fine, FINE, what happened that we have Dialogue Choices Discourse, is it Doc again

It's live! www.kickstarter.com/projects/maj...

The name (and fashion habits) of the kid from the Louvre photo have me wondering exactly how filthy rich the family is

Ce matin, je vous parle d'IA générative et des personnes étrangères 2 prémisses 1. L'IA générative a un énorme avantage : elle comprend toutes les langues, répond ds ttes les langues et passe d'une langue à une autre en 1 seconde 2. Toutes les associations de France voient leur budget s'effondrer

This fantastic essay by @maxgladstone.bsky.social precisely and elegantly captures the feeling that the Internet has moved beyond "eternal September," but as a natural consequence of its attention capitalizing nature.

D'you ever see a movie so bad you have to blog about it? lia-sae.net/articles/202...

i don't have much to say other than that this article is really, really good and i suggest everyone give it a read in terms of how to view, what to keep in mind when engaging w/ interactive historical fiction, and our participation in a glorified past that exists w/in unique contexts.

Something worth noting: Rockstar is leaning HEAVILY on the excuse that the unionising employees were "leaking private company information" They want people to assume this means game info or assets. But I will bet you CASH MONEY this translates to: 'they were comparing salaries and work contracts"

Jeebus okay that’s a LOT of new filters set to “Hide” by default. Considering the amount of power users on here I’m baffled it did not come with a “Hello, we’ve got new settings, so you know!” update pop-up, that’s bad UX

I occasionally get emails on the Fibraquelle adress about blog articles I wrote and I’m glad for that. But today’s edition was daring to not even say hi and then ask for my time solving a fiddly technical problem because the alternative was AVL charging thousands for complex tech, LMAO

Metric Tip xkcd.com/3164/

If you’re having a hard time reproing a bug, it would then introduce this fun little issue of “is this even a real bug, or is it a ‘we hired liebot, the chatbot that lies’ problem”

Ah yes. QA. The field where what’s important is semantics and writing good tickets that are accurate to facts. Great fit for LLMs, that (no). This is labor hostility and union-busting disguised as VC hype disguised as technical innovation and it’s not okay www.videogameschronicle.com/news/square-...