I’m always stunned by the LinkedIn posts that are essentially “I use AI because otherwise I am bad at my job”

Wow, sure would be pretty crazy if a ton of experts in the artificial intelligence field relentlessly warned everyone about this state of affairs being inevitable over and over for years.

vertical shmups have names like "Understated Sadness" and sidescrolling shmups have names like "Glorbian"

Pretty happy with this one Jan 11th 2026 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 Less than 13 minutes #cluesbysam cluesbysam.com

Slightly diminish a game: Somewhat Charted

That’s unfair; it also convinces people to kill themselves.

How I’m entering the new year

I think Okonomi’s game of the year is also Clair Obscur

Just gonna say this again for games sphere cus we get the same question: Networking doesn't mean schmoozing up to famous people, it means making friends with your peers. Then in 10 years, 20, one of you might be famous? And sure you're still helping each other cus well yeah friends. Make. Friends.

"I did not hit her, I did NAHT. Oh hi Grimace!"

The “free speech” and “cancel culture” panics have led to overt state censorship because that was always their purpose. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Do you ever think about the British English names for music notation and get scared

Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is. GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart. But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.

far too many people view narrative this way and it is one of the biggest causes of why a game's narrative does not fully connect, narrative specialists are either brought in too late to do anything or just completely ignored and overruled at every turn because "the final text is all narrative is"

Last year I saw an argument that Die Hard is about winning a miraculous victory, against insurmountable odds, to defend a hilltop fortress from invaders—so it is actually a Hanukkah movie

this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous this is worth sharing and educating people about

No, you’re a VAN

I have limited expectations for a Street Fighter movie, but “Andrew Koji kicks people” is one of those magic phrases like “Michelle Yeoh has a sword”

Is it The Ascension of the Jackdaw?!

Yes please. This is so incredibly my jam. 🙏

I don’t understand why the Game Awards “pre-show” is a pre-show. There are awards. There are trailers & reveals. That’s just the show.

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

VIDEO GAMS

also it’s tiresome and we’re all busy but this is another reminder why in this low-info, AI-poisoned, high-bullshit social media ecosystem we all are unfortunately in now, it’s CRITICAL to check up on primary sources even/especially if the conclusions are something that “seems right”.

in the movies this is the screensaver on the computers at the world’s most evil company

Mark zuckerberg, summer 2021: “within five years, people will see us as primarily a metaverse company.” Mark Zuckerberg, winter 2025: “jk jk guys. But hey the AI revolution is inevitable amirite?”

Pretty much ANY statistic you see cited to frighten you about vaccines comes from the VAERS database. (Including the recent evidence-free missive from Vinay Prasad). Here's why VAERS can NEVER be a proper source for population-level vaccine risk estimates. Thread [1/9]

I remember Dawning Realization Month for the NFT people too. Think this is going to take much longer because of how wrapped up the whole economy is in this, but it really feels like it's happening.

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead was a real contender for my favorite theatre experience. RIP Tom Stoppard

It has some games, there weren’t much, Developers felt afraid to touch, A small matte metal cube with chamfered grooves yeah, And even though it all went wrong, That Kickstarter was so damn strong, Crowd funded micro-console they call Ouya

What a great headline

As 2025 winds to a close, we say goodbye to a few members of our team whose work was instrumental in bringing Ambrosia Sky: Act One to life. Each of these folks is an incredible talent. Though we've made the difficult decision to part ways for now, I'd be lucky to work with any of them again.

there is almost no feedback I will reflexively ignore as a game developer but “you shouldn’t name something X because people don’t know that word” is one of them. oh no! You might learn a new word! God forbid you take away a piece of knowledge from a game that’s not a brand of gun or some shit lol

you will not in a million years guess what this thread is about

and 3) please be wary of anything that seems to invite the response "ah, of course [American government institution] is secretly run by Israel!"

re: roblox dude's interview crashout. the thing he wants to say but can't is "at scale, kids are gonna get hurt. that is the price for scale." the thing nobody wants to say out loud is "maybe scaling to a level where harm isn't manageable is bad, and scale should be contained"

Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…

I love the escapism and wish-fulfillment of video games. My character can sleep and wake up refreshed and energized? Wow. Oh, to live in this fiction.

she’s a 10 but Excel thinks she’s October

the average salary of tens of thousands of games industry professionals is actually now $0, hope that clears things up

“I don’t have love handles. I have ergonomic grips.” — things I say to my wife

every company in 2025

"The AI industry’s most important product at this moment is not a chatbot or a video generator; it’s the story the AI industry is telling about itself.... According to an MIT study, 95% of businesses that have deployed generative AI have gotten no value from it." www.theringer.com/2025/11/04/t...

BREAKING NEWS from the NY Times: political candidates are chosen through primary elections rather than by party leadership in smoke-filled back rooms.

100% correct. The Dem ads about Trump weren't just "orange man bad." They were: I'm focused on lowering costs while my GOP opponent is serving Trump, who is raising costs with tariffs, canceling infrastructure, etc.

oh my god they actually did it lmao