KIRYU-CHAN! 🔪✨ #yakuza

People who use this technology do not want to be taught about a topic; they want the end result of having learned, without learning. I would guess for many this describes a feature, not a bug, of the technology.

The amount of people I know who have been laid off from games industry jobs and are deciding to leave games entirely as a result is not only extremely saddening (of course), but also genuinely scary. We have lost legitimately thousands of years of knowledge and experience in the last four years.

Our podcast launched 20 years ago today... so let's keep it going! @vegettoex.bsky.social reflects on old news, @saberbreaker.wegottapodcast.com joins to look back at the first Sparking! game, and @hujio.bsky.social joins to look back at the podcast itself! 👂🎙️📻👇 www.kanzenshuu.com/2025/11/20/p...

I'm not crying, you're crying. OK, we're both crying. 🙇‍♂️🙇‍♂️🙇‍♂️

Happy This Artificial Human Years to the @kanzenshuu.com podcast!

Congratulations to @kanzenshuu.com on 20 amazing years of Kanzenshuu the Podcast!! Truly the most engrossing source of Dragon Ball information and entertainment around. Our podcast wouldn't exist without it as inspiration, and as such, we talk about it a LOT. 👇 youtu.be/PEJB7eS-CDc

First off, MASSIVE thanks to @vegettoex.bsky.social and EVERYONE over at @kanzenshuu.com for all the news, documentation, and entertainment for well over 20 years. Second - being on this anniversary episode was an amazing honor, even if I had to replay Sparking! for the PS2 🙏🏻

It really needs to be pointed out how every one of these embarrassing statements is made by a c-suite executive and not an artist or even art department lead

‘The Owl House’ creator Dana Terrace responds to Disney+ funding AI-generated short form content in new tweet: “Unsubscribe from Disney+. Pirate Owl House. I don’t care. Fuck gen AI.”

Physical games no longer mean you own them and digital games can be archived.

Made an incredible discovery for language learning: Chrono Trigger DS lets you access the options menu to change the langauge *mid-dialogue box*. If you're having trouble with a line you can double-check the official localization without even closing the dialogue box. Feels very rare.

Stop quoting stuff CEOs say about game development. They don't know shit. Even game devs only know about their own tiny slice of gamedev, so the suits definitely have no idea. You don't have to listen to them or debunk them, sometimes you can just be like "that's idiotic" and live on.

the idea that lots of gamedevs are secretly using ai is booster bullshit what on earth would I use genAI tools for? Coming up with ideas? Writing? It’s shit at those making 3D models? Coding stuff? It’s shit at that too oh but it’s faster maybe? Did I mention it’s shit at things? seems important

Let's not let them just normalize this - at Denkiworks we don't use generative AI at all.

Started my day with a DM asking me to do professional translation work for free because "I promise I'm a good person and I've always advocated for paying creatives." Are you sure? Because that's literally the opposite of what you're doing right now by saying you can't pay me. #AmNotTranslating

See also: being a Japanese translator. "Not a penny to her name--wait, no. Wrong currency. Not a yen? Sounds bad. Hm." "They went to bed--uh-oh. They only have futons in this era. They went to futon? Ugh."

friendly reminder to never use machine translation for your game if you want your players to think you care about them

square trying to cut its QA and loc teams to the bone for a great AI pivot is absolutely crazy your entire thing is prestiege narrative jrpgs distributed worldwide

As reported by Retro Dodo, PCSX2, famous PS2 emulator, now runs almost every PS2 game. We need proper legal backing now. If companies let the ESA hunt archivists and want to replace games with remakes, let us legally preserve the OGs you don't care about at least.

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

A lot of angry people on here seem to scapegoat everyone EXCEPT the very people who are hurting us. Who is hurting us, you ask? Most of the people in power. The current hierarchy ain't it.

the entire tech industry

Boy it sure seems like they passed the Big Beautiful Bill to mostly help out a certain group of people. I can't put my finger on it, but...

My dad, explaining AI to my mom: “It doesn’t think. It copies stuff wrong.”

A bosozoku gang just roared by my hotel in Osaka! In the year of our lord 2025, bosozoku!! Did they time travel here from 1995???

Every single problem other fields are seeing, we saw first because we were deemed most expendable. Machine TL hallucinated. They said it'd make us more productive, not redundant. And more offers became about training and correcting. Loc has always been the canary and not enough people listened.

Picture this exact scenario, but it started happening a decade ago and now every agency you work with won't shut up about you taking more time for less pay to correct their magic machine's mistakes and you'll have just the slightest idea what your games' localizers have put up with this whole time.

“I’m not worried AI will take my job. I’m worried some executive or management person is going to *think* it can.” -Random YouTube comment

If only everyone could have predicted this www.thegamer.com/ea-generativ...

hey remember earlier this month when one of their art directors quit and posted something along the lines of "don't sacrifice your principles for your job" wonder what that was about

I’m so ready for the new katamari damacy ❤️

Another day, another random post bitterly defaced by yours truly, who only strives to keep it real 😇

Took them long enough. This should have been in the game from the very start, but better late than never, I guess.

If you smoke, you're an asshole. Period. I have yet to see ANY smoker even slightly respect the boundaries of other people, even around babies. Get it through your thick skulls that people might not want to breathe your smelly stick smoke.

Failure to return the shopping cart to one of the cart returns if you are able is a sign of someone who does not value the social contract.

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

Yeah? Go find me a copy of London After Midnight then. Films only endure because we make the effort to preserve them, despite changing technologies and commercial pressures. We can absolutely do this with games too, and to suggest otherwise is ridiculous.

真 #ペルソナ5 #persona5

Imagine what it was like to have the latest innovation be “whipped cream that sprays out of a can” instead of “what if you subscribed to a car” or “computer that lies to you”