My one conspiracy theory (everyone gets a pass on one) is that the corporate elites are actively working to roll back the general spread of literacy, education, and critical thinking, ideally back to around the days of serfdom

'AI is coming' I tell the museum stakeholders as I proudly cut the ribbon of our new Artificial Insemination exhibition

This list of alternative (non-transphobia-supporting) fantasy/magic games still holds up, but even more have been released since it ran. Try Avowed or Eternal Strands! lifehacker.com/10-wizarding...

Dont accept this- they still get money/reimbursed for the claims. Meaning profits still go towards queen transphobe.

Christ man Seance of Blake Manor is so so good. Get yourselves a copy right this moment you rascals store.steampowered.com/app/1395520/...

Absolutely fucking wild that it's Piers fucking Morgan taking this guy down a peg. Real 'worst guy you know just made a great point.jpg' energy

"I'm not in denial, I'm in open rebellion" damn that quote goes hard

Will Arnett was on Conan and told a story about how Conan dealt with the death of his parents by accusing Jason Bateman of killing them. It’s so funny.

Extremely well deserved, well done Sherma

I’ve sometimes fallen into the trap of thinking that complementing a creative person for their work is less sophisticated or desired than discussion or debate about it but very often the best thing you can say to them is hell yeah and that doesn’t make you dumb it just makes you nice

It’s funny what kind of “productivity” gets these dork’s skirts blowing up isn’t it AI’s big lie is that it will boost productivity, and there’s not a shred of evidence for it appropriately accommodating people with ADHD literally helps us be more productive and they’re like no no no not like that

It's not the worst thing Apple or any tech company has ever done obviously but easily the irritation that I come into contact with the most regularly is the elimination of the headphone jack

we could have good things, too, you know

just incredibly thrilled to announce that after months and months of uncertainty over the future of the game, and several I have bought Zombies, Run!, the game I co-created and have been making for the past 12 years: zombiesrungame.com observer.co.uk/the-critics/...

big bugs bunny getting elmer fudd to marry him vibes in the white house currently i see

TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that? We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to

Fuck, AI IS the new motion smoothing

My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨

the moral of the story here is, after committing a serious crime, immediately google • how to prove innocence falsely accused • normal to feel deep empathy for others? • recipes that take four hours to make starting at 9pm • how to report legitimate windfall to irs reddit • best orphan charities

i love writing about crypto crime because these dudes do this constantly

this sounds like a great idea. luckily there are no extremely serious consequences to providing false information to the Internal Revenue Service

We will be paying the price for this unforgivable sin for generations to come

Needs a GameCube handle tbh

No genAI at Kaizen Game Works either, in Promise Mascot Agency or Paradise Killer. All pure, human nonsense and love.

We don’t use generative AI at Strange Scaffold and I can confirm that a *lot* of other studios are not—whether indie or AAA. Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.

Pretty sure you have to start fighting to keep fighting, Charles

Six people died from tampered Tylenol and the company pulled 30 million bottles off the market. ChatGPT is accused of urging seven people towards suicide, and OpenAI just assures us they’re still working out the kinks. Billions in investment, zero accountability.

I seem to remember whole congressional hearings about the terrible destructive force that is violence in video games and yet, there is a very strange quiet about an unregulated technology that coaches people to suicide.

ANOTHER case of ChatGPT-related (hell, -encouraged) suicide. Look I'm not out here saying 'ChatGPT is gonna make us all kill ourselves' but it is fucking WILD that not only is this tech totally lacking in regulation and oversight despite its laundry list of serious issues (this, insecure code...

Mamdani winning and Cheney kicking the bucket in one 24 hour period? I thought it was still another month til Christmas...

I think more than anything this opening betrays a crushing lack of imagination. To not vibe with a game or series is one thing. To be utterly unable to conceive of why a series might have lasted nearly 30 years and have a vibrant fandom just tells me you don't know what you're talking about.

That’s a fantastic comparison, because the reason they added lead to gasoline was just to increase convenience a tiny bit, and they’ve poisoned the world in the process. The good news is: Impossible as it may seem, we banned it worldwide and its bad effects are now mostly gone. Makes you think.

YES YESSSSSSSS

Went back to Hollow Knight post-Silksong which has been a fascinating experience - it stills holds up easily, but you can really feel the difference between controlling the Knight and Hornet.

Every basic income pilot scheme ends up showing the same thing: people are happier, more stable, and generally the government (or other issuing body) manages to profit from it too! If anyone tells you these programs are unworkable, they are either lying or misinformed.

Boy this game has some bonkers status effects. I feel like I might start drowning in the depth of these systems

So I finished up Silksong the other day, 100% (because I am that kind of sicko). Spent about two hours on turn final boss but felt real good to get it down! One thing I will say - I simply cannot fathom doing a Steel Soul run of this game

I don't think I've ever rolled as many natural 1s as I have in today's DnD session 🥲

Kind of feels like he should be fighting a little fucking harder then rather than repeatedly telling everyone how great Reform's ideas are but that they should just let Labour do them instead

I hope there will come a day soon where it dawns on someone in Starmer’s team that their strategy of communicating “Nigel Farage is right about everything but please vote for us instead” is fuelling these disastrous figures rather than mitigating them, but today is not that day

BREAKING: Wes Streeting is a hateful little turd

OK scratch that I've reached Bilewater 🥲

You know, this is somehow an angle on the US gun crisis I'd never really considered: it's fundamentally a different environment for gun ownership and use these days than it was even a few decades ago...

So I ended up coming to Silksong later than intended but I am well into it now - what a game! What a beautiful, smart, haunting, extremely fucking hard game

at this point if you are still claiming to be "in the center" or "both sides have good points" when one side is sending the thought police to strip people of their citizenship you're either a liar or a moron