The essence of this guy's defence in using AI is that he wrote the "evidence-based" report and then used AI to put references throughout. Sounds like absolute hokum to me, and I have heard a lot of students' defences re using AI in their assessments. newsroom.co.nz/2026/07/09/p...

it isn't what it is, or it won't be when i get through with it

me playing disco elysium: this representation of the busy, fractured nature of human thinking is so relatable every NPC in the game: the way this harry guy thinks is insane and scary me: aw nuts

i'm sure there must be a historical or cultural reason that for French words we just make a loanword (steal it) but for German words we say "oh the Germans have a word for that"

passed 5,000 words on this genAI primer project and not even close to finished, it is going to be... uh... kind of long; but you will be able to jump around and it will save your place if you don't read it all at once i just want all the coherent info and criticism accessible in one place

good work everyone

we laid off the people who develop the games, we laid off the journalists who cover the games, everyone is freelance and there’s no freelance budget. It’s probably fine though

someone in chat linked one of those dumbass "get an AI to look after your sick and annoying family" schedule/alert services to let us behold the horror of it

binface is unironically exactly the kind of politician the world needs

the zombies are the residents evil, leon is the resident good, and claire is the resident badass

Dude I saw you autosave before walking up to me whats up man we cool

strange to live in a games industry time where getting hired by 5 guys working in a borrowed office or deciding to start your own solo gamedev studio are somehow smarter financial decisions than taking any kind of triple-A games work

cut enough jobs and there will be nobody left alive to complain about job cuts, it's a perfect system

would you pick ice age or fire age for your climate change ending?

NEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...

no more physical games? well then i will buy physical games twice as hard

my brain at 10:14am on a wednesday: "shiny versions of Pokemon trainers that have slightly different character designs"

sometimes i fight to make good things happen but sometimes just because it makes bad people miserable

has a pokemon-like ever actually had memorable creatures? feels weird that the "little guy collector" genre doesn't really exist but i suspect designers just aren't good enough at making little guys

in theory there are a lot of complex problems in the world, but in practice everything is solved with more empathy and the destruction of capitalism

tim sweeney? more like tim's a weenie

got an email about doing writing work for an "interactive audio story" system; was it an AI thing? you bet your sweet cheeks it was

got an email about doing writing work for an "interactive audio story" system; was it an AI thing? you bet your sweet cheeks it was

"let's see Paul Allen's game boy"

funniest thing about programmers is that 99% of them communicate about their expertise area like aliens but have no awareness of it... then when someone gets mad or confused they're like I MADE PERFECT SENSE ACTUALLY, WHAT IS THE ISSUE HERE??? it's that you're an alien, dude, come to terms with it

my weekly D&D got cancelled a bit ago, i haven't written anything fun for months, my ttrpg design is stalled and every time i think about something cool to draw i simply... don't draw feels like i died but they forced me to stick around after

i used to think i paced when i was bored but when my mental health got better it turns out i pace when anxious and i was just... always anxious

over and above wealth inequality, environmental collapse, corrupt politics, social turmoil... i think people are becoming increasingly fucked off with living in a world where nothing gets done about anything, ever

my 13yo was a few years back being indoctrinated by his mum into making genAI art, and his brain is not naturally inclined to critical thought, yet he has independently decided his school speech this year will be 'Why AI is Bad' genuinely happy that even if all else fails, my kids are doing good

we could have been making cool things like trading card paper you can upload a gif into and cures for cancer, but we made the machine that steals everything so Steve doesn't have to read his emails

me trying to figure out why on EARTH i would be getting emails about an "AI hackathon"... it's because i signed up to this hub ages ago to lodge feedback about the government's genAI bot being ~♡a huge pile of shit♡~

i said something weird to an artist i like (weird like... it made sense to me as a compliment but it didn't have enough context so it just sounded like i was an insane person) and obviously instead of clarifying i simply never spoke to them ever again

it's not the worst genAI sin ever, but each time i see someone back up their information on something with a screenshot of google's "AI overview" or answer a question we were discussing by reading the overview off their phone... i suffer psychic brain bleed youtubers are especially awful with this

i like it when the instant noodles are round because my saucepan is also round

my wife is mad at me because i injected our daughter with an untested virus strain, and i said "honey, the virus manifests as a carrier state infection in subjects under 5 years old," and apparently our daughter is 11 so now she's mad about two things

yes

the threat system is super easy to remember: GREEN is all okay, YELLOW is situation normal, ORANGE is standard active monitoring, AMBER is high level normal, GOLD is security notified, and RED is 4 minutes until facility self-destruct

The Fucking Point, a short on how AI sucks. Now in one big, easily reskeetable post.

Yet another reminder for staff to avoid spitting in public areas unless you are a Spitter Class BOW, submitting a spit test to medical, or your mouth is full of blood for WORK REASONS ONLY. My point is, there are plenty of places to spit if you need it.

once you come to terms with the fact that capitalism is a machine that produces more capitalism at any cost, these intensifying cycles of games industry executives killing studios and firing all their actual workers start making a lot more sense

holy shit YES PLEASE, i love how this immediately merges plot and mechanics before you see a scrap of gameplay ludonarrative synergy, baby

this is how i think about every moment of every day (yes i do have sleep problems)

oscillating uncomfortably between entirely giving up and caring way too much, this must be what gwen stacy's neck felt like

they could have made a lot of money just selling genAI bots as interactive porn generators... i mean they still would have been unethical horror boxes, but at least that's doing a real task they would be passable at

finally saw the cursed pizza vending machine at Wellington Train Station; i like to imagine there's a little man inside making the pizza... a Mechanical Italian, if you will