“Pokemon shirt, with AI Generated artwork, sealed in a big TCG pack style package so it’s randomized” These people need to be bullied more

Buy my cool folk horror game in the Steam Summer Sayle. It‘s not bad my dude. Steep-ass discount and everything Thanks store.steampowered.com/app/720350/M...

please, i'm begging you, stop unironically using the term friendslop

I just got home after an incredibly long day, and the first thing I did was put this on. SO EXCITED to see what Andrew has put together. I adore the Museum collections, can’t wait to hear everything about them.

Uline is absolutely evil and you need to not be using them for anything no excuse refuseuline.com

It was a real treat being interviewed for this. Thanks so much @crapstacular.bsky.social and Rascal News!

Idk who’s stupider: The person saying this after laying off 300 people one of the best live games ever Or the investors that think this is true and good

Today I fire all of my guns at once and explode into space. Squeezing the trigger of every last professional skill I possess or lack until they're all clicking empty. Namco Museum Museum. YouTube Premiere event: Noon today, PDT. 5-minute countdown begins at 11:55 PDT. youtube.com/@mythicresonance

It's STEAM SUMMER SALE time! Which means I've updated my Steam Curator page with everything I've enjoyed recently. I'll also be picking out the best deals in this thread - bookmark this post! If you like what I do, consider tipping! (Ko-Fi/Paypal) - All tips go towards more indie games to research!

My problem with any “it’s okay to like D&D, it’s just popular” discussions is that it completely ignores anything problematic at all about the game, the company, or the fandom and becomes a weird mix of “good vibes only”/“let people enjoy things”

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Your AI poster is trash. Your AI logo is tacky. Your AI profile pic is pathetic I'm so sick of seeing slop fucking everywhere. Why is your work truck covered in AI images? Why is your menu showing me food that looks disgusting and doesn't exist? It's cheap and unprofessional looking.

People forget that "setting rich peoples houses on fire" is ALWAYS an option

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@eyepatchwolf.bsky.social nails it here. So much of what I love in anime and games was because of people excitedly sharing what THEY enjoyed, anyone trying to gatekeep for the "true fans" is just a weirdo that no one should talk to

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“We’re totally gonna port Fossil Fighters, trust me bro”

My problem with any “it’s okay to like D&D, it’s just popular” discussions is that it completely ignores anything problematic at all about the game, the company, or the fandom and becomes a weird mix of “good vibes only”/“let people enjoy things”

Imagine having Bungie -- Bungie, the studio that made Marathon and Halo and Destiny and Marathon, that level of generational talent, one of the best teams to ever do it, consistently, for 30 years -- and not knowing what to do with them. Then imagine firing nearly 300 of them. Clownshow shit.

Hmm, getting visibility on my GOTY25 video has been a bit of a struggle, but there's a steam sale on now and everyone always likes when I do a big thread of sale recommendations, and all of the games in my video are on sale, so what if... Hmm, delightfully devilish Casey! GOTY25 Steam Sale Recs! 🤠

If your a game dev and saying that ai has a place with in the industry just know your peers who are being made redundant every week due to mismanaged ai investments talent funding out of the industry and they see your posts.

you already know what's up (steam sale rec thread is what's up) as always, i focus primarily on older, obscure, and just plain weirder games, as big name titles don't need the help. with that said, onwards!

god what an unforced disaster to take the team that built and maintained Destiny 2 and just smash it into the rocks instead of investing in whatever that big pile of talent and skill can build next

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Louder for the people in the back, please. The computer is a revolutionary tool, and one we should be struggling to make CHEAPER. MORE ACCESSIBLE. Not less. Fuck AI.

An American just got sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for moving “Antifa” zines and there’s about 1000x as much media coverage of Trump’s reflecting pool 👍

there isn't a problem with the game's industry. there's a problem with every industry and every publicly traded company. getting a "nice CEO who cares" or whatever won't fix anything until things are addressed at a more fundamental societal level. the system will always drive towards this behavior.

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The absolute worst part is that the cultural memory of this as a whole will be reduced to "marathon killed destiny 2 and then bungie" & not "sony & upper management threw destiny 2 on the pyre, then the dev team, then marathon"

Our games industry is people. Our studios are people. Our teams people, our games by people for people. Our games are made by people, in groups of people, in teams of people, making people things for people. The magic is people, and the people deserve so much better than all this. I am so sorry.

The Marielda Soundtrack, in an extra-special 10th Anniversary Edition, is now available to pre-order on vinyl at lostincult.co.uk/marielda

This puts into words what I couldn't re: the "Make Destiny 3" campaigns Destiny 2 feels like an impossible game in the current climate, for every reason possible. The amount of knowledge and skill lost possible forever is incalculable, solely due to the greed and mismanagement of a few execs

Bungie folks impacted by the layoffs: please let me know if you see anything on our careers page that is a fit for you. I will gladly help with application advice and recommendations: www.cdprojektred.com/en/jobs

We're so excited to announce that our Marielda 10th Anniversary Vinyl Soundtrack Edition is available to pre-order now at lostincult.co.uk/marielda!

Tonight! 7pm EST, join @faunandgames.bsky.social and I as we show @huetwo.art around the world of Palia! We're also going to hunt the gay plushies! Come join us! ❤️

CEOs are killing the video game industry. Every single one.

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Good morning Bsky!! We're spending the day grinding in Mementos, as it may be the last chance before the final boss. So let's work on boosting some Personas and figuring out our final team!!! www.twitch.tv/mattcaulder

Seeing a lot of “the heat only kills the elderly and those with existing conditions, stop complaining” and feeling a familiar sense of disappointment. I don’t know how to explain that you should care about people etc etc but also: we are all people and vulnerable.

Adding to this, Tangia and FrostyTools gotta go. Tangia, like Monster, uses stolen voices for genAI based TTS. Every part of Frosty is genAI. You cannot be against generative AI and using these tools on your streams.

Oh right, and it has an automatic subscription on top of this. Dude fuck this game and the execs who did this.

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Hot take: If a major part of a video game is only available in the $100 version, it’s a $100 video game with a cheaper, worse version.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it as many times as I need to: If you’re making short form videos about video games, and you don’t clearly and plainly state the name of the game in the video and description, you’re just stealing someone else’s work to farm for views.

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Sam Raimi didn't strap a Super 8 camera to a 2x4 so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

this is officially the last thing i'll write about the fgc. very fitting that it's on kotaku. please check it out.

LGBT wraps up tomorrow at midnight and we're like, one pledge away from our enamel pin stretch goal. 👀