I will not support a game if they use AI at ANY level. I don't care how minimal it is, I don't care how "ethical" they say it is. Gen AI at its core is such a pathetic excuse to substitute real passion and work and that lack of humanity disgusts me. Do better.

I really like this wording/concept. I've always hated, specifically, calling the X-Men by their "human names". Especially in the fandoms. It feels like deadnaming, a lot of the time. Especially for those who are visibly trans. I mean Mutant. But to hang Gay on a hatrack at the end of the day…

😂 Love the sarcasm.

I know it's just because I'm rereading discworld, kupo, but I really wish that the internet had gone with "inhumed" instead of "unalived," were society so set on euphemism. "Self-inhumed" sounds quite posh. I would've also accepted "Craig'd"

SEGA has canceled their Super Game, which was a AAA live service game aimed at global audiences. This came after weak F2P game performance last year, including Sonic Rumble Party. They are shifting focus away from F2P games & have already moved 100 people to full game development. #SonicNews

Fuck Stripe, kupo.

My cats are often interested in whatever I eat. Unless it's not safe (onion), I let them smell or taste if they want to. Normally they don't, but fish, chicken, corn, etc gets a lick or nibble So: furiously googling if cabbage and peppers are safe after my cat ran off with a mouthful of kimchi XD

I've argued that sex and love are central to life's experiences, even in the contrast by those who don't feel or dig those things (Aro/Ace rep is important! Their intimacy just looks different!) and it's infuriating how many people just never want to feel *anything ever*.

i am really sick of the anti-sex attitude in fandom in general. "gooner art style", "this is for gooners", "the gooners will ruin this" PLEASE get off the internet and experience life, demonizing intimacy makes you sound sheltered at best and like a demented Baptist boomer at worst

like. aren't you tired of treating your fandom with corpo-approved family friendly gloves? don't you want to enjoy stuff like the adult you actually are, not the Ageless Sexless Heterosexual Christian Consumer Blob that corporations perceive you to be?

"Wah! People want right-wing stuff, so we're abandoning left-wing stuff, even though we didn't actually *do* the things we needed to at scale!" Fuck you. Biden didn't go after Exxon. He didn't work to weaken the petro-dollar. You say you worked with these people, but don't know their failures?

"I can't give you 80, so I'll give you 0! What kind of math is that?!" "...girl math..." "YOU'RE TOO SALMACIAN FOR GIRL MATH!" @thundalarchsys.bsky.social

Dawkins spending his entire career berating basically pretty normal people for being so stupid as to believe in God and then immediately giving himself Roko's Basilisk Derangement Syndrome after talking to the AI catgirl waifus is just the funniest shit.

Today the US federal regime released a 16 page "counter terrorism strategy" that includes this. Trans pogroms begin in earnest soon. Please save trans lives in any way you can think of. Please.

No, brain, we do not need to delve into TI-83 emulation just because you're vaguely curious about the ending of a tiny RPG you played fifteen or twenty years ago. ... yes, you can put it on the list. Drat.

I drew a cursed CD-i Krystal to go with my cursed CD-i Fox McCloud. Cursing the curser with twice the curse. Good! #StarFox #Krystal #Zelda

I drew this so that those who don't like the new Star Fox design know it could always look worse. "Gee. It sure is [Quite. Too quite...] around the [Lylat System]!" "My [Fox]! This peace is what all true [Cornerians] strive for!" "I just wonder what [Andross] is up to!" #StarFox #PixelArt #Zelda

really don't think it is that hard to connect "it's dangerous to allow gov't bans on expression on only the basis of personal disgust" with "right now the people who make the decisions on what is disgusting are the horribly bigoted reactionaries who are disgusted if a woman wears pants"

I use my game design stuff as a framework for lots of things. And it shares a universe/schema with my books. Which means that any time I doodle or make something I'm working on both. A funny conversation idea, a neat shape turned into a monster, a spilled drink turning into a map, kupo!

@kayin.moe has been talking about achievements again. So it got me thinking about hostile design, kupo! Like, a game with purely negative achievements: x amount of dying, got the bad ending, didn't save the puppy, tried to buy something without money, lost X amount of hours due to not saving.

listen, if enough of us block billy to where he shows up on clearsky, some very funny things will happen. maybe they'll even change how blocks work. if not for your own safety, if not in defiance of the perfidious and thin-skinned moderation of this site, do it for the comedy

Warning! You might see posts in the wild claiming "Hogwarts Legacy is free right now!" but this is malware, if you try and run it, it'll install Hogwarts Legacy on your PC.

Illiterigotmancy is the very worse kind of fortune telling. Also the easiest: it's always an ill omen when you see an illiterigot, kupo...

I like seeing sports stuff trend on bsky. Compared to FB or BirdSite, there's so much love and passion and stuff. Also more than common society (so far as it's local to me). So much wholesomeness. I don't "get" sports, really, but that doesn't stop me from loving seeing people happy.

Hi! I'm a farmer! This NYT article is sweet, saccharine bullshit. Farmers knew Trump was going to hurt our business. Because he already did a trade war in his 1st term. I even did a video on why so many farmers support Trump, WHILE knowing he'd hurt our farms.

it's so fucked up that 'roguelike' now means you get three random upgrades at the end of a level instead of "occasionally the game will generate a gnome with a wand of death and obliterate you (in the event that you havent already died accidentally falling down a set of stairs while overencumbered)"

not unfollow, not mute, block. if someone’s a bad person in other people’s mentions but not in yours, it’s because they’re worried you’re going to block them, and you should.

Everyone is like "oh you're a poet? You're not working class anymore then you class traitor" like bitch stop doing the work of the powerful for them.

My biggest conspiracy theory is that telling working class people that engagement in the arts is a middle / upper class thing and to do so makes you a class traitor is a psyop to make them disengaged with themselves and the world and the beauty of being human, so that they accept worse treatment.

AI psychosis is just “I really think the stripper likes me” for guys who don’t leave their house

I really believe when we went from "watching randos play at the local arcade" to "watching the best playing on twitch" the way people interact with arcadey games was completely distorted unrealistic expectations and impossible standards of performance started being set and such.

"players will eventually find the optimal solution to everything and learn to execute it" true! "therefore we should just cut out the middle man and--" NO NO NO NO NO

Bring back the ancient knowledge

We're entering a time where drawing the wrong thing will cost your freedom. Either all fiction is okay or none of it is; putting a line in the sand, even just to make the most extreme stuff illegal, allows that line to be moved. And moved it will be, until the police are at your door too

I suddenly wonder how much social anxiety, to whatever extent, is tied to Seinfeld and Friends showing people judging everyone around them en masse as a central fixture of television for a time. I know media stokes insecurity, but I wish there was a way to know the ripples of the stone...

Hi, new people! I'm Kerry, and I write about all sorts of games* in an engaging, personal way** on my ad-free, reader supported site! Come take a look! *Seriously, ALL THE GAMES. So, so many games. All by myself! **So I've been told kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com

The revamped battle system is coming along nicely! It's using multi-threading now and is just overall much snappier. It makes grinding out random encounters much quicker! Plus you can finally see your own custom winged one in battles! 🐉⚔️🐗 #GameDev #GBStudio #Retro #IndieGame #GameBoy #PixelArt

This is excellent. This is a winning strat, and I wish more people knew about this instead of everyone thinking the Dems are just Nazi Newman and whatever the fuck Schumer is doing. I'm not a Dem, but they're damn good allies.

Deviantart was THE leading platform for artists. Anyone who was anyone was on that website, from brand new artists, to seasoned professionals, to passionate appreciators & fans. It's incredible that they literally had everything, and then lost it all. Ignoring users, investing into crypto, AI, etc.

Woke up from a short nap and I was tangled up in the blankets, feeling disoriented. Sat up and my first thought was "Aww… legs? Drat." … I am now *deeply* invested and curious as to what the hell my brain was doing that that was my response to still having legs.

Fully agree with this. Right wingers trying to demonize blocking is hilarious; so not give those shitweasles the time of day.

my favorite factoid about it though was that these backgrounds were added purely because they looked cool and weren't anything tied to a specific narrative and you know what that's real as fuck I dig that

Hit my calorie count, yesterday, and finally got to bed on time after a week of trying to fix my sleep schedule, kupo! … immediately got skewered by two rounds of nightmares, a headache, and slipping on the bathroom floor. Maybe tomorrow night, kupo…

For those missing the text: “Levine's expertise, deferred to on Thursday, has regularly been the topic of criticism from the right. A trans woman, Levine had acted in her role to advance and support the provision of gender-affirming medical care, including for minors.”

Here's my original character Waffles the Wizard. He was hired by the king to maintain the ley lines that used to work great.

If they’re going to make Mako reactors then we have no choice but to form Avalanche