It's kinda fucked up how timeless It's A Wonderful Life is.

The confusion and conflation of ‘generative ai that is built on stolen artwork’ and ‘machine learning, character behaviour modelling and proc gen’ is intentional on the part of the grifters peddling the former. They benefit from murkiness of classification, because the latter predates their bollocks

Marxists: AI is a technology for capital to crush labor power and take control of everything. Sensible people: this is doomerism and hysteria. Navarro: AI is a technology for us to crush labor power and take control of everything.

a highlight of my year @concertshub.bsky.social

This photo from Christmas 2012 popped up today and it's such a funny time capsule of video games. The Wii Remote on the coffee table. The Kinect on top of the TV.

Packers were too beat up and then a head hunter took Love out of the game. Valiant effort, but they couldn't hang on. GG's to the Bears. Classic game!

Josh Jacobs has only played two snaps since the fumble with his knee injury. So right now, Packers down their starting QB (Love), RB (Jacobs), WR2 (Doubs), TE1 (Kraft), TE3 (Fitzpatrick), C (Jenkins), and RT (Tom).

Every day I grow more confident in our choice to cut off our press relationship with ModRetro. I only wish I had done so sooner.

This is absolutely monstrous. Made from Anduril's (Founder Palmer Luckey's arms company) drone metal, soaked in blood. Please do not support (or continue not supporting, as a lot of you are lovely peeps) anything from ModRetro.

I say this with zero irony: if you are even tangentially a part of a retro video game community, it is your civic duty to push back against this company and shun anyone who doesn't. This is fascism tapping gently at the door and as soon as you let it in, it's going to invite its friends.

He does this every Friday.

Listening to Packer Transplants and my 4-year-old heard the Bears mentioned and he turned to me and goes "daddy the bears still suck" @aaronnagler.bsky.social

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Huh. Wonder what happened in 2020 and beyond

"Stan Mikita's Donuts" is an all-timer background movie gag.

This entire weekend

Both of my kids got really into the Packers this year and my youngest is asking if Micah Parsons needs a bandaid while my oldest is seemingly seeking Christ after the injuries and started reading the children's bible my parents gave him

I never saw that much Micah when he was on the Cowboys but dude always popped out. Watching him in the Packers was like getting to watch Mozart conduct every week. Win, lose, or draw - I'll miss watching the dude play. Hope he comes back healthy.

A real "other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?" kinda game.

Philip Rivers, who did NOT die,

OPE! He just scooted right past ya #ProBowlVote    + Josh Jacobs 📺: CBS

Folks I emphasize as always, if you don't actually show up for the things you want, they stop getting made. Sometimes you gotta be okay with taking a chance on that 7/10 game knowing it's the only way those creators get to keep making the stuff you wanna see

Since the supreme court overruled the Federal ban on sports betting in 2018, Americans have collectively lost over $245b participating in it

Truly hits the nail on the head of why The Game Awards bothers me more and more every year and drives my overall nihilism about the "games industry"

Josh hits it.

Tim Robinson is funny as hell, but he also employs people of every race, age, gender identification, sexual orientation, size and shape. He strikes me as a genuinely good dude.

"Hey @jtsknight92.bsky.social can you make an entire trailer for our game in literally one day?" "Yeah np." (if you hire him give him more than one day please!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWac...

I had played the demo for this and didn't like it but I saw a flurry of people say they liked this a lot so I guess I'm trying it in advance of the new one....

Game Awards last year took place during a videogame strike against AI The strike wasn’t mentioned or acknowledged despite many VO performers working on the games that are heralded every year and even appearing on stage This year a game that features AI voiceover gets a podium to accept an award.

Similarly, I believe Musk is a self serving disinformation peddler - whereas Jon has been loudly supporting him, before and after the nazi salutes. I find Jon’s support of these people and these beliefs to be harmful, distasteful, and a waste of a platform.

I believe Trump is a self serving authoritarian who's dismantling democracy, trying to make trans people illegal, and wanting to set up concentration camps for immigrants - whereas Jon in February called him "the best President we have had in my entire life".

Additionally, in recent years it has become increasingly clear that Jon’s beliefs/priorities and mine are not aligned. He’s adversarial to people talking about privilege and representation, is dismissive of diversity efforts, has dabbled in covid trutherism, and is pro-MAGA.

So, “Order of the Sinking Star” by Thekla was just announced, which takes several small free games (two of which are mine) and gives them a major graphical upgrade and mashes up their rulesets. I haven’t been very involved but it’s a great concept and looks cool.

our record label told me to send them a statement on “i90” and i only wanted to howl at congress to treat my siblings and i like human beings instead of bigotry playthings

Bob Iger says that Disney's OpenAI deal is designed to respect and protect the artists and art that made the studio legendary. Wrote about how that's complete and utter bullshit

game awards hype is impossible to parse because geoff would treat a new studio founded by one of the guys who ran bungie into the ground releasing a two-second teaser clip with adulation normally reserved for the return of the christian god

I can't wait to go home, crack open a cold one, and not watch this thing at all

Metroid Prime 4 is 2020s Skyward Sword

Look, all I'm saying is it's interesting that Geoff can coordinate having a muppet in almost every single one of his shows, but can't acknowledge Future Class.

sam altman is being sued by his SISTER for sexual abuse. who gives a shit about his dogshit product that’s corroding brains and vaporizing the planet??? what is going on in this fuckin world

I wonder how the football game is going... Oh my god

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Game Awards this week huh

My oldest after that game: "the Bears still kinda suck" #gopackgo

Also how I'm feeling two days after.

hey this is one of the coolest puzzle games I've ever seen. It's like learning a new language and it's mind-bending and brilliant. I do know Syrenne (who worked on it) but I'll make it very clear I've bought this game on two platforms and will buy it on a third next week. Absolute masterpiece.

all i'm saying is that the only people who use the term search action are the people who think they're too good to say metroidvania

Informed guesstimate: I think the original version started as something radically new and different and Nintendo (probably wisely?) was like "nah we gotta do a by-the-books Prime sequel" and rebooted it. From there, idk AAA games take ~5 years to develop and this likely got delayed by the pandemic