So Meta's #VR division is laying off 10% of their Metaverse staff. Seems surprising until you hear that they have over 15,000 staff - nearly twice as many as ALL of Nintendo.

Laputa. I saw Laputa in the 80s (a heavily cut version called something like *The Flying Island*) and absolutely loved it, then loved it even more when I got to see the proper version in around ~2001. It'll always have a special place in my heart.

It's great to see all the people here expressing their opposition to generative AI in gaming. Can I suggest, though - alongside avoiding games that use it - the Steam Winter Sale is coming up; consider actively buying a few games that don't. Indies really need this.

Thought this was particularly interesting: youtu.be/DFZe-dqQsag

During the last days of the dotcom bubble, we arrived at a weird place where companies saw a bump in share price just for putting ".com" at the end of their name, or referring to a website in a press release. Even if such things were nonsensical. Just putting that out there.

MiniDisc deserved better

Oh wow... Ubisoft... You were trying to make your games *stand out*? In the past I've been uimpressed by the way so many of your games have been samey and cookie-cutter, but at least I thought that was an *intentional* decision

#VR #SteamFrame #Deckard

My game company isn't.

Via Reddit, I've seen the recent developments in AI-generated video. All I'm gonna say - if you have young or aging family members, you *need* to start making very clear they must *not* trust video anymore, to assume that anything they see online, EVEN a video, is false until proven otherwise.

For the record, that appears to be these games: store.steampowered.com/bundle/18805...

"I just feel so sorry to all my fans for not being able to deliver my new work. Sorry. It is what it is. So it goes." RIP, Tomonobu Itagaki.

One curious thing on this site about speaking out against the encroachment of LLMs is that inevitably you get accused of being anti-tech. I don’t hate technology. I’ve used machine learning in my own code before. But I also recognize that oligarchs are so hellbent on pushing this tech for a reason.

Am I the only one who keeps being surprised, whenever I see that *thing* that this is what the newest iPhone looks like?! Looks aren't everything but I think for mass-market phones it's a pretty important design consideration, and this looks waaaay over-engineered for an Apple product.

Fox's law: As an anime parody franchise continues, the possibility of it getting a Mobile Suit Gundam-themed chapter trends towards 1.

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They probably need to ban the use of DLSS internally, give their team "ordinary" computers as defined by the Steam Survey, and insist they use them. Management too. Developers sometimes have absolute monster machines and carefully calibrated monitors, and this leads to complacency.

Wow, as they'd already said there would be no VR stuff I didn't watch it - but it's sounding like that was a good call as all signs I'm seeing suggest that the keynote at MetaConnect was an absolute shitshow

In recent weeks, I feel that we have found that all too many people can look at a person and mistake civility in their appearance for goodness of their intent, directness of their words for debating from a true position of good faith, and quiet within their spaces for happiness within their nation.

OK everyone, the Steam Frame! What is it? PLACE BETS NOW

This. I want tech with control panels that look like a light-up tray of Jolly Ranchers

PSA: If you use MailChimp. They've REMOVED the ability for free users to send a receipt email when people sign up for a mailing list. This basically makes the service near-useless for non-paying users, as most people encourage mailing list signups using some sort of freebie; can't do that now.

How the long weekend feels on Tuesday

So The Acolyte... Wasn't great. Some great fight scenes, and I really liked the premise, but honestly the show left me really cold. But this is a good take. Jacinto was great, and his character's goal was cool:

In a weird way, it's actually kinda exciting to read this 🤣 They're SO CLOSE to an important realisation. SOOOOO CLOSE.

Will be rolling my eyes at any journalists we writing up coverage of AI games biz Meshy after they sent an email out suggesting journos come by to take part in the ps5 / switch raffle

This whole "wishing ill" fiasco is *bizarre*. I mean, okay, sites have to react if a person makes an actionable threat against another. They'd probably get shut down if they didn't. But "I wish ill" is, at worst, *vague disapproval*. No revolution started with the rallying cry of "I wish ill".

#Booksky #Readersky #Books #Reading

Okay, hear me out... Bullet Train is the definitive live-action Cowboy Bebop movie

Personally I preferred the TNG years, like that one where Riker has a relationship with a person with a nonconformist gender identity or that one where Data lets his child choose its own gender. Not all this modern-day *woke-Trek*

I never get tired of the opportunities for creativity that #VRChat provides.

Is it bad to say that 12yo-me feels a bit called out

The staff of The Bull in Charlbury, Oxfordshire, showing true iron in these challenging times and teaching JD Vance a lesson he won't soon fucking forget

3,000 followers! Thanks, all of you, for taking an interest in my somewhat eclectic mix of game development talk, VR news and complaining about *gestures vaguely at everything*

I feel there's many in the A/I Ge/nerat%ed art crowd who really need to learn this.

I absolutely LOVED this game. It was part of a wave of big novelty arcade machines; this one had a near-full-size jetski. My local arcade had it, and I used to play it every time I passed. I could consistently "finish" both courses in 1st place/within the timer. Freakin' loved it.

Okay put it off for years but I've got a day off, it's hot enough that time feels like it's standing still and it flashed up on my Google TV home menu so... Time to watch Terminator: Genisys

Be honest 🔁 If you still initially think of this guy when you hear the word TikTok

Be honest 🔁 If you still initially think of this guy when you hear the word TikTok

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Yeah, but, like... None of us believe them?