What the hell www.newyorker.com/culture/prog...

A man in India made thousands of dollars scamming 'super dumb' MAGA fans on IG with a fake AI influencer • Helped pay for his med school • Tried a liberal version but it didnt work “Democrats know it’s AI slop .. The MAGA crowd is made up [of] super dumb people. And they fall for it" (via WIRED)

okay so AI is absolutely cratering imminently and I need all of you to PROMISE me you won't take the high road, and will laugh and rub it in their faces as much as possible. I need you to laugh and go 'WE TOLD YOU SO, BITCH" at every opportunity, PLEASE be extremely mean and ruthless

Switch 2's "Boost Mode" for Metroid Prime Remastered is pretty neat, of particular note, the minimap in the first image basically made a generational leap. A SW2 Edition update would still be great.

Retro Studios after releasing a 78 MC game vs Pearl Abyss after releasing a 78 MC game

DLSS 5 looks like gen AI for video games. Grace looks totally different with DLSS 5

I try not to do ranty threads anymore, but man, this Valve GDC graph has just rubbed me up unbelievably badly This was presented as a good thing - "more games are finding success!" -- when actually the data has just been presented in a tricksy way to make it look like everything is fine

Added context: Nintendo is not alone. Other companies that have sued over Trump's tariffs recently include FedEx, UPS, Barnes & Noble, Costco, Revlon, Prada, Staples... In terms of gaming companies, I haven't seen others Great scoop by @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social www.reuters.com/business/aut...

I cannot stop laughing at this clip of SmashJT trying to play Marathon. He's been shitting on it for MONTHS and claiming every journalists praising it is a shill and he WILLINGLY UPLOADED FOOTAGE of himself missing 95% of his shots with an SMG ON A STATIONARY TURRET FROM 200 METERS AWAY.

it's all just art. "porn" is just art that makes you horny, in precisely the way that "horror" is art that makes you scared and "metroidvania" is art that makes you write video essays

NEW: A hobbyist has created Nearby Glasses, an app that warns you if someone close by is wearing smart glasses. 404 Media spoke to the creator who said he was inspired by our coverage that uncovers how men are wearing Meta's Ray-Bans to covertly film massage parlor workers.

The story that Elon Musk committed voter fraud has gotten next to no coverage -- one of those things you can't make come up on a Google search. But I think it's time for Dems to go on offensive abt right wing coddling of this immigrant interfering in our elections. newrepublic.com/post/206857/...

Game exec walks into a curry house. “Make me a pizza?”

Bluesky was literally meant to be a cryptobro social network for grifters, LinkedIn sludge, and libertarians who know way too much about age of consent laws. Jack Dorsey *left* when instead of weird and off-putting cryptonerds, trans people started hanging out here.

Sir, a second sad Mario render has hit the YouTube clickbait thumbnail repository

Had a dream that there was global panic about the world running out of oxygen, Nintendo was the only video game company to make a statement about it, and the internet collectively spent its final hours on Earth debating whether Nintendo was being genuine or not

On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast. The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me. But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.

Pro tip: stop making Metroid games set between Super and Fusion. That place is cursed and radioactive.

Samus. That’s it, that’s the post.

This is creepy as hell. Will Musk be asked by reporters to explain this?

Still can't believe the latest Epstein Files release just casually confirmed the anti-SJW movement was planned by pedophiles. "The entire reactionary anti-woke backlash was masterminded by child traffickers" is the kinda shit I'd say as hyperbolic agitprop, but it was true the whole time.

concerning

Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream will include same-sex relationships and non-binary characters, fulfilling Nintendo's previous promise to make future Tomodachi games more inclusive. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/tomodac...

Mad props to Nintendo and Sakamoto for being true to their promise and deliver on this!

I think there's a serious issue with people believing that negative reception to a game is somehow "more honest" than positive reception, and that if someone hates something, they are to be trusted. It leaves little room for honest, dissenting opinion.

wait, so Visa, Mastercard et. al can go after video game storefronts for six fucking months for having porn games but the moment X/Grok starts generating ACTUAL CHILD PORN they CHANGE THEIR POLICIES? dawg,

Game: Metal Gear Stupid 3: Steak Eater Console: Nintendo Wii Created by: Virgile Uploaded on: November 1st, 2007

the fallacy that negative cynicism is an innately more "intellectual" critical stance blinds us from the fact that this, too, is shilling

Every game attempts to onboard new players, some do more, others do less, that's game design. That said, there is something unpleasant about making people wait 8 years for a game that, behind the scenes, was, at its very core, never meant for them, while also charging full premium + several upsells.

this isn't a defense of highguard but i'm not sure why people STILL post screenshots of a new steam game being Overwhelmingly Negative as if it's a self-explanatory red flag anymore when steam users will mass-reviewbomb games if a woman is wearing pants in them

"Sorry Samsung, but this Metroid is in her Prime too!" I published this one years ago, but when asked how tall it is, I just had to try this #3Dprinting

There is evil and then there is this

We're 8 minutes into Trump's speech unveiling his 'Board of Peace' and this is what he's talked about: - How many countries he's bombed. - How much oil he's taken out of Venezuela. - How large the US military budget is. - How he won the popular vote. - How much investment he's bringing into the US.

This is a real sentence in a new NYT article about how the US has changed since Trump, lol.

who the fuck WANTS their posts to go viral, have you ever had that actually happen? it's like getting a winning pull on a slot machine if wasps started pouring out the bottom instead of quarters

this is genuinely incredible

Meta has removed or restricted dozens of accounts belonging to abortion access providers, queer groups and reproductive health organizations in the past weeks in what campaigners call one of the “biggest waves of censorship” on its platforms in years.

The award for "Most Workers Laid Off" goes to... EMBRACER GROUP For laying off roughly 7800 workers between July 2023 and July 2025

don't claim it. doesn't matter that it's free. Don't.

[metroid] samstrong selfie

Help me Miyamoto, I broke Sylux. Could've made a dramatic pause to show bewilderment, but I wasn't gonna miss the chance to pelt him in case he reactivated. He didn't, that's how the fight ended lmao.

Looks like the internet hasn't recovered from the existence of a 20 minute NPC interaction, will be waiting for Prime 4 outside of here.

Should've led the previews with the yuri Nintendo. Always lead with the yuri.

I find incredible how each showcase of Metroid Prime 4 makes everyone more apprehensive to it. As expected, the game is not open world and there is quite a bit going on in Sol Valley, good stuff... Only for MCU guy to come in and bring it all down. Probably still better than Prime 3, low bar but eh.

Insane level of detail on this thing. Not sure if I'll get the other two, but at least this one is crazy good fit for the shelf.