Thinking about how all that money could have gone to the SALARIES and BENEFITS of employees (including the ones who were let go) instead of paying for people to figure out uses for AI.

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My mental conception of of Valve is that it’s mostly a bunch of well meaning nerds all working on various projects like getting HDMI to work in Linux and then there’s one office where Dana Carvey as the Church Lady works and just decides which yuri VNs are a thought felony.

Proof of the unban double-tap. They really said “oops, sorry, oops” in the time it took for me to read my email, try to log in and see my account was…deactivated?!

I know there is a lot going on, but I think it's worth throwing some light on Peter Thiel running off to Argentina after having his "steroid-user games" turn out to be a goofy flop. It's been a tough week for the white supremacist, techno-feudalist! Long may his shit streak continue.

This is seriously fucked. Like for starters they’re using commercial web analytics that are in no way in line with federal privacy disclosure requirements…

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People that are horny for capitalism will often say that capitalism drives innovation. No, necessity drives innovation. We made the tractor because we needed food and farming sucks. Capitalism made it so that we destroy 20-40% of a crop to preserve its market value.

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This kind of shit talking only works when you can walk the walk to back it up and Tim Sweeney just fired 1000 people because his infinite money printer isn't growing as fast as he wants it to.

Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

Here’s an automated list of people who are struggling with overdue bills/rent/evictions in the Black Community. The list shows 1-2 people at a time, it lets you give aid to someone directly. Once someone reaches their goal another is automatically added. Browse & give someone even $1 if you can.

Xerox tech in those old Disney films replaced inking. All it did was copy the artist's drawings onto cells. AI makes up entirely new stuff the artist didn't intend based on training data from other artists who didn't agree to be part of the process. To claim they're the same is preposterous.

As someone involved with the Lancer TRPG, which has a core rulebook printing published via Dark Horse, I unequivocally support the workers' unionization efforts, and hope that leadership chooses to do the right thing and voluntarily recognize the union

"let people enjoy things" is over. we must want things to be good

Should the economy be regulated by a democratic society to ensure that it creates opportunity and benefit for everyone? Or should it be a plaything for approximately a dozen of the world's most odious assholes? Who knows

I'm still not over that Triple Threat of genAI animated slop that Amazon announced lol All three projects are spectacularly shitty, and for completely different reasons:

why am i just finding out about ICE terrorizing this city and people? why is no one in the media talking about this beyond independent outlets? this is horrifying

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‘Amphibia’ creator Matt Braly speaks out against the use of AI in animation: “If you need to partner with AI to get a greenlight on your project, it ain’t worth it.”

The clashes at Delaney Hall are becoming a vortex drawing in all sides. Gregory Bovino, former "Commander at Large" of ICE under fired DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, is threatening to go to New Jersey to initiate extra-state fascist street action. All out to Delaney Hall! crimethinc.com/DelaneyHall

Real good bit about the slippery slope of genAI use. A battle we're already fighting, especially against the C-suite.

"The plan is to kill off publicly funded academic science in this country. The motives include sheer bloody-minded hostility along with a desire to get their own hands on the funding...it’s mostly stupidity, arrogance, and greed"

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One of my favorite parts, when Yuji Naka hated the English title for Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg and suggested another name for the title:

oh my god

I think the (unforeseen?) consequence of automated plagiarism bursting will be that human beings will expect to get paid every time they are asked for corrections from the unnecessarily wealthy in the future, not unlike how it costs everyone for the automated plagiarism machines to regenerate junk.

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(Waiter accidentally brings me the wrong dish) Friend: "Wait, isn't that chicken? I thought you were vegan?" Me:

Nintendo announced a $50 Switch 2 price increase 5 months in advance and everyone called them evil and greedy and told people to pirate their games People found out about the *minimum* $240 price increase for the Steam Deck by checking its store page. There was no announcement. Almost no criticism

I wonder how many convoluted and often oversized and indestructible mechanisms to close and open doors or chests stem from one bad day with small flimsy keys and multiple-failure-capable devices. How much of game design is "I wish this were how my house/workplace/economy worked, reality blows?"

Unless you are doing it on a professional basis, you are not required to make art to spec; and even if you are doing it on a professional basis, you are not required to make art that meets impossible standards.

You have the right as a human being to make art. That includes art that is not perfect. That includes art that is not good.

Time to call your reps again bc they are inexplicably spending time on bullshit book banning bills!!! find your rep here: reps.fyi

They stole the internet’s knowledge and all the work that went into it and they want to sell it back to us for a fee. What a business model.

I've been on the site for like 90 seconds. The cool Myst games we could have made for less than two minutes of investment in the thievery machine man.

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White peolle don’t even understand how dumb other white people made them…on purpose. What’s worse they refuse to educate themselves OR believe us when taught. We gotta leave them behind. It’s what we should’ve done the first time around.

heads up that one of the best pieces of media to ever exist is only 12 dollars and forty-nine cents right now that is the deal of the century if you havent played this game at this point you really owe it to yourself as someone who enjoys good things.

your regular reminder that the national shoplifting crisis was a manufactured moral panic largely engineered by corporations in order to cover up their own mismanagement — and that wage theft is the largest category of theft in the U.S.

Not letting creatives work on side projects is legitimately evil and I hate it. It should not be legal, such contracts should all be unenforceable by law. What are we doing as a society? Capitalism is the enemy of art and science.

Look all I do want to say is... I do think think it's *noteworthy* that the people who are most strictly adhering to BDS guidelines for games coverage re: Microsoft right now are the people who really could use the $200 dollars or whatever from writing an article.

So ah, hey, hi. Bad news. I was ah, misquoted how much this procedure is going to be and how much my insurance was going to help. By a LOT. And I get told this a week out. Lovely. I aint got ANY idea how to drum up almost 5 thousand more in a week. gofund.me/974875c0c