been checking in on civ 7 and have sadly found that while its still not very good, it does at least make some of the nicest little island cities in series history

The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.

i say this with nothing but love for all of you to whom this applies, but the moral rot in elite journalism is because journalism is a trade and it should be done by tradespeople and instead it's been professionalized in a way that makes it cozy to capital instead

I dunno who needs to hear this but using AI at your Early Concept phase, or for ideation, is literally the worst place to deploy it It isn't creative, what it does is hand back tropes. That's what the model does: sift for likely responses to an input It's like building your foundation out of memes

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extremely cool storm clouds over canberra this week

I’ve been in game dev for 26 years and I can’t remember any other time where a specific tech was being insistently and persistently pushed on devs as a group in the public sphere. Why would it? Cui bono? Why would any given dev have an interest in other devs using tech they don’t have a stake in?

i think if you use genai for anything, even writing an email, you're both a moron and a huge baby, and i dont want to play your video game as a result. its not that hard!

on holidays so i am playing, uh, 2016's assassin's creed syndicate and you know what this game is still REALLY good

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me to everyone else at aftermath when its time to pay taxes:

every games writer who had a lawyer come after them for not crediting a getty photo properly is leaning forwards in their chair

Pretty disappointed in both @humblebundle.com and especially in @girlswhocode.bsky.social. Please teach girls how to code, don't push them into generative AI. That won't build their skills. Prioritize foundational programming skills and awaken their interest. "Tired of long days writing code"???

ready to risk it all

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you have to work hard, every day, to be this fucking stupid

local pet store where we get our dog's hair cut now has a cat adoption section, so today i got to meet this beautiful boy, who just gets to hang out in the middle of the store all day

(we don't mention it THAT often because we just...don't cover much if any MS or MS-owned stuff as a result)

lmao tinpot dictator shit

this is identical to the "sitename.doc" we had to pick a website name

escalating vince mcmahon meme but its flight sim! contrails! korea! etc

includes a handy timeline of 'We now have the goal for Naughty Dog to eliminate crunch' events, from 2020-25

its hot

seems a poignant week to repost this

REALLY good game. survival city-builder/management. gorgeous art, big blue skies, big blue waves (your city rolls up and down on them!), big nice whales

lets meet a new linkedin video game industry dipshit:

and mf doom

my 2014 goty list is still live on kotaku so i could just check lol wolf new order endless legend broforce far cry 4 bravely default ac unity shadow of mordor titanfall pro evo 2015 banner saga thats a GOOD list

i would walk over a LOT of broken glass to get one of these pods when theyre done with them.

show them you care!

my wife: dabbing the sweat off my feverish brow with a damp cloth, looking anxiously over at the doctor me: when the bubble bursts microsoft should sell xbox to sega, who can then release the next xbox as a rebadged dreamcast 2

couldnt really justify a blog about either of these individually, glad i got a chance to lump them together for this the medieval 3 one has bummed me out! stop being so weird about the series! fifa, meanwhile, lol

last week, warframe’s latest, arguably most anticipated update launched, and servers predictably took a tumble. by why does this always happen when big games launch or receive major updates? I asked @rebbford.bsky.social

ahahaha t2 no fate is GREAT

if you need AI to do your powerpoints or write your emails you shouldnt be in your job. those things ARE your job.

amazing fact i only just realised: i didnt play a single new console game in 2025. not one.

2025 puskas award goes to Santiago Montiel the audacity of the man to try that so far out lol

larians recruitment process features prominently in this:

mainstream political journalism in this country is beyond saving

enormous fan of @alloymag.bsky.social, which might be the best-looking website on the internet for me, a guy who spends more time in driving game menus than on the track alloymag.com

this is comfortably in "you should have deleted this" territory

"The second this golden age of animation became unprofitable it stopped. You can practically pin a date down to the very week this happened: on [11/15/24], ten days after Donald Trump’s second election, Disney removed an episode of Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur that dealt with trans athletes."

When stranger things first came out america was cringe. Now America is hungry rats eating the eyes out of a dead dog so it doesn’t really hit the same anymore