"there are NOT two wolves inside of you. please acquire additional wolves and/or wolf capacity and try again"

soulframe is a game about being a disney princess doing ecoterrorism against the vogons

king shit

oh my god??

*extremely google LLM engineer voice* oh my god disc horse bot is sapient

Breaking: on two counts, the High Court has ruled that the Labour government's proscription of the campaign group Palestine Action was unlawful – a win for its co-founder Huda Ammori, who sought a judicial review of the ban

HMMMMMMMM intensifies

Horton Hears The Who

This week I learned that no one, diverse ages, I spoke to knew that US health care use to be nonprofit legally (prior to Nixon) & a huge shift really occurred in the 90s when the last of the non profits that were trying to stay low as possible had to move to for profit to remain competitive.

there's a versatile Chinese word 油腻 that's hard to translate. the core meaning is oily/greasy, but it can be applied to anything from music, writing, to people. when applied to people, "smarmy" is similar but not exactly the same. for me 油腻 is the perfect word for describing AI writing

everytime i, as a queer, would get told "don't you care about QUEERS though?" to try and justify ignoring a dem's problems, the question i'd always have is "what makes me so important? compared to the palestinian, the immigrant?" and we now watch the same people tell queers they gotta just take it.

i'm still processing how i feel about this and whether i'm going to play the game or not but whatever i do, this is clearly art

this kind of rubedo-baiting will not stand

Five Tiers of RPG Publishing Hasbro’s annual earnings came out this week, so I took a look. It is truly staggering how much Wizards of the Coast has changed the company since they were acquired; when looking at unadjusted earnings the Wizards of the Coast and Digital Games division was the only…

suspect most of my UK friends have already seen this but just in case

no word gives me chills here more than "scale"

the industry is already snuffling around for ways to make indie dev every bit as exploitative but AAA gamedev really deserves to die out

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it. I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.” 1/

Ballas, thousands of years before the Operator crafted the Paracesis, pictured with the Paracesis on his hip

nena should sue for copyright infringement

cartesian dualism: NOT. EVEN. ONCE.

AOL could come in with a steel chair right now and relaunch AIM

chatting around the office jouissance cooler

I'M TIRED OF PULP 'ZINES SAYIN' FLAT BUTTS ARE THE THING TAKE THE AVERAGE PICKMAN AND ASK HIM THAT SHE GOTTA PACK MUCH BACK KADATH FACE WITH INNSMOUTH BOOTY MY PROGENY OF YIG WANTS NONE UNLESS YOU GOT BUNS FTHAGN

honestly i almost never see "lived experience" deployed as anything but an excuse for why understanding other people is impossible and you shouldn't bother trying. it describes something that does exist but which is completely trivial if you don't go on to establish shared points of reference

One thing is clear from this week's mess: Artists should not work with Steve Jackson Games.

Whale evolution makes me uncomfortable

Another article making the same point from a game dev point of view: mimidoshima.neocities.org/main/posts/2...

according to a pediatric ER doctor my wife follows on Instagram they have started to see children coming in sick because their parents are asking ChatGPT what the correct dosage is on over the counter medication instead of just looking at the instructions on the bottle

My favorite artifact in the "you don't need AI to do art" discourse is, of course, screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's sketch of the facehugger to explain it to Giger.

not anti-natalist, just "we gotta stop having children until we figure this shit out"

damn language barrier, I wonder what this is about

i realize this phenomenon exists in every medium but it kills me every time i see someone talking about Monte Cook's reheated slop like it's proof of how vibrant and diverse TTRPG design is Numenera is like a homeopathic tincture of interesting design. it sat next to a good game on a shelf once.

Guile... Guinan... Guilenan

this is the lockpicking lawyer, and what i have for you today,

because failure is meaningful

frieren is yuri but with heterosexuals send tweet

when i was working as a a night clerk after graduating law school we had someone call in, RIGHT after COVID-19 hit the news, basically saying that they'd seen an Asian person coughing and demanding that we do something about it

i'm pretty sure that Duviri citizens are dead people transformed into embodied emotions, mostly but not exclusively Zariman passengers, that Margulis landed there upon dying and was remade into Love as Ballas became the Warden, and that Love was stolen from Duviri and ultimately became the Lotus

Feel like a few of my mutuals will get a kick out of this.

*laughs in legal aid*

i'm laughing but seriously lady just fucking resign

imo the way you square the circle here is that these guys are basically making up conspiracy theories about themselves as an ego trip. it's self-mythologizing; there's a reason these losers call their companies shit like "Palantir". petty gangsters dressing up like they're wizards and supervillains