The fact that a relatively minor game publisher owns freaking Game Informer will never not be weird to me

Since Meta is launching its first "Superintelligence Labs" AI model today, here's a look back at why this whole "Superintelligence" thing is giving me "metaverse" flashbacks arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/m...

An extremely funny thing about retro rereleases that use unlicensed emulators is that you are basically committing the exact same crime (using software outside of the terms of its license) that has you so scared of downloading roms in the first place but now someone has monetized it.

Vibe check: Do we still think Half-Life 3 is gonna launch alongside Steam Machine? arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/...

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Like most topics these days, there is no room for nuance in these conversations. AI (choose your own definition) must be either 100% good or 100% bad in 100% of scenarios. I've said it before. AI works when it is used as a force multiplier. Not a Force.

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Saw a lot of people pointing to *screenshots* of Steam client code pointing to a supposed "framerate estimator" feature being planned for Steam, but no one *linking to the actual code change itself* So I tracked it down. Here ya go: github.com/SteamTrackin... (arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/...)

“I have a feeling that everyone likes using AI tools to try doing someone else’s profession. They’re much less keen when someone else uses it for their profession.” (via kottke.org/26/04/004868...)

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Just encountered the "5K2K" resolution acronym in the wild for the first time and I am calling for a stop to this inflation of Ks until we can figure out what the hell is going on

I saw this and I had to share it with you. Im sorry.

between hegseth saying the US still plans to seize iran's uranium and israel behaving as if they're not a party to this cease fire (because they're not) and bombing the shit out of lebanon, i'll be surprised if there's still any cease fire to speak of by end of day

Looks like Trump forgot to ask someone about the ceasefire agreement...

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in persian culture, telling someone "we're going to kill you all" is considered deeply offensive

A pretty good question

Sure does

When Dems retake the House, this should be their first order of business. Pass two resolutions: One for impeachment, one stating no money will be appropriated until Trump is gone. The former makes clear why the latter is necessary & non-negotiable.

(watching a movie where a character announces that he will destroy a city if they don't meet his specific demands by a certain deadline) oh that's probably the good guy in this movie

Random Q, but does anyone know how to track changes in the Steam client itself on SteamDB? I feel like I've done this before but for some reason can't find it today...

For Ars, I took a look at the instant and reflexive willingness of a lot of people On Here to blame yesterday's temporary outage on "vibe coding." arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/b...

Seems entirely plausible (and could lead to another temporary market bump)

I think people are allowed to draw conclusions about the American people based on their decision to put this man in office bsky.app/profile/pear...

Whatever happens, this is a deeply shameful episode in American history that will leave a permanent stain on the country. Repeatedly vowing to commit war crimes against millions of innocent civilians is beyond the pale.

The media told us, based on the amount of coverage they devoted to it, that the number one military-related issue of the 2024 campaign was whether Tim Walz retiring from the National Guard after 21 years was too soon or not.

RIP Yoshihisa Kishimoto, not only did he create some of the most influential beat em ups of all time, but he also designed/directed Road Avenger(Road Blaster) and Cobra Command aka Thunder Storm (1984), two of the best FMV games ever.

Possibly the peak of "imagine if Biden has said it"

He's rarely sounded more like a toddler, which is saying something

Sounds like an un-hoopy frood who doesn't know where his towel is

You say you got a real solution We-ell, you know…

Seeing a lot of people saying "lol Bluesky broke after the devs admitted to using vibe coding" but... I can't seem to find the original quote they are all alluding to Any help?

The JCPOA was an amazing deal that prevented the things Trumpists are pretending to be waging war (illegally initiated, illegally conducted) against. They cancelled it because Obama insulted Trump at the WHCA dinner. (Also, they didn’t understand it. But mostly the narcissistic injury.)

A lot of you were not around for the early days when Twitter went down all the time and it shows

Me, joking: I can’t believe we chose “destroying the economy” and “losing wars” over “being nice to trans people occasionally” Conservatives, dead serious: it was a tough choice, but I’m glad we picked “destroying the economy” and “losing wars” over “being nice to trans people occasionally”

It was a weird time where read-only storage capacities suddenly jumped like 20x while processing power remained on the old Moore's Law curve, so people had to get really creative to use that space at all effectively for a few years

Nothing I could say about the GOP base is as illustrative as the fact that Trump understands that posting black people in what his audience considers a “white space” will make them incandescently angry bsky.app/profile/atru...

if ever a sentence needed an "allegedly" it's that one but I guess that only gets deployed as a crude libel defense

Oh my God, not a subtle but pointed statement with their attire! How will Trump survive???

I mean, how do you explain this as somebody buying copilot? “Oh just ignore that”?

my entire timeline on x is now just iranian embassies demonstrating a facility with the english language that puts everything i've ever read from the trump administration to shame

One of these political leaders has been repeatedly portrayed as an untrustworthy radical hostile to others because of his religious beliefs. You’’ll never guess which one!

Separate from everything else, this really betrays how much the strait closure is getting to Trump

Games that make you beat the entire game to unlock interesting features behind “new game +” This is what cheat codes are for!

its the CRT vs LCD/LED tv chart in like 2005:

The speed with which the faintest “it happened” rumor gets vague posted all over here suggests this site is gonna just absolutely crash when it actually happens

Someone in my inbox just responded to an accidental “Reply All” press mailing to request his name be taken off the list, copying all ~375 recipients in the process. Friends, this thread had been dormant since *March of 2023*. How?!?! Why?!?! I am dying. I am legit dead.

For years I've been looking for the right guest to do a pod on this. The car-sales model that is dictated by law in the US -- you must go to a dealership & suffer for hours in order to buy one -- is one of the most nakedly anti-social special interest giveaways in history. Needs to be killed dead.

This is an amazing idea

joke at 01:05:15 in the cassette played only one day in 1992 on Kmart's 30th anniversary: "Since our first store opened 30 years ago today, another new K-Mart has opened every 4 days. Scientists predict that at this rate by the year 2450 over 2/3 of the Earth's surface will be covered with K-Marts."