We gather here at PEACOCK SQUARE, 2-4 PM PT TODAY to celebrate the life of a once vibrant game industry, killed far too soon by greedy bosses. Wear your mourning fit, and join us for a candlelight vigil in front of The Game Awards, because THE INDUSTRY IS DEAD! actionnetwork.org/events/the-i...

I can't wait to reread the bullets of the OpenAI/Disney press release with no additional reporting or context in a certain Hollywood AI expert's writeup.

If you are a comic artist or writer that wants to talk to me, on or off the record, about the Disney OpenAI deal, shoot me a line. [email protected]

$1 billion is basically nothing

When is Valve going to stop pretending to be libertarian and do it for real? Give us the ability review reviewers

I struggle to capture what is amazing about Swan Boy on the regular. Maybe it's because it feels so unlike modern four panel social media comics. Part of it is Branson is funny but unconcerned with Doing a Joke. I'm not doing it, am I?

Japanese Monk Racks Brain For Haiku That Will Knock Them On Their Asses https://theonion.com/japanese-monk-racksbrain-for-haiku-that-will-knockthem-on-their-asses/

So curious why Coca Cola has no shame but McD’s Netherlands does

the new trailer for all you need is kill looks so good. absolutely kickass. youtu.be/9qLddg1goaA?...

DS9 works so well because someone thought to ask “hey what if the guest characters didn’t leave at the end of the episode”

Me cracking open my Star Trek oral histories in a rush to see what’s in there on Cardassians (this whole thread is great btw)

“Sentences that mean less the more you think about them.” Is an excellent way to describe AI writing.

why do audio people get all the good guis, why can't game engines look like this

as you dig through coverage of the Netflix Warner Bros merger, play a little game with me: notice how many of them mention, at ALL, the two decade history of disastrous previous Time Warner mergers, and the massive layoffs, price hikes, and quality erosion that resulted

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Apple Music has a perfectly cromulent wrap up also, but my listening is always warped by whatever weird stuff I listen to on repeat while writing, so you're not seeing none o that

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BIRDS GET THE LASER

Re: ads: LLMs are such a mid product and so expensive that they’re having to speed run enshittification before they’ve locked in their market. I don’t actually have a reference for what happens if you do that, but if they’re already churning people and the apps are all commoditized…

I think some of the pushback against "ludonarrative dissonance" is just that there has been no other breakout behind-the-curtain design concept since. Imagine if movie nerds in the 1930s could only talk about fade out transitions for a decade.

Every once in a while an idea pops into your head that’s so crisp and commercial it makes a cash register sound

Why should we have to tell you if your flour has sawdust in it?

Aram has a pretty thorough takedown of this study. I'll just add that one of the most insidious things about bubble hype is that narratives require you to step into their logic, when the entire premise is nonsense. For example, think of all the...

Seeing a Darwin’s Paradox trailer served as a YouTube ad is such a relief. Watched the whole thing. Hey what if ads were for things you actually wanted

how long does pikachu live

Time to mention of "private equity"? 37 words.

Not only *are* many devs theatre kids, many more *should* be

As someone who has spent a chunk of the year tracking their paid subscribers number, lol, lmao

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So happy to see how this story has progressed

CAG remains not just relevant but essential, even 20 years on

California: let’s do this

This is cool, practical, and educational. Reminds me of a friend who wrote on Pacific Drive and also did a bunch of the UI.

This neighborhood coyote has learned to cross York and it is weird how often I see him now.

ya'll aint ready for the discourse happening on the wall of my local punk bar in 2018

YouTube also seems to think I want to work for ICE. Sick of that trash ad.

I for one welcome the rain the rain

Alright Demonschool is awesome.

I’m still laughing at TurboTax being like 5% of OpenAI’s business revenue. Real titans of industry stuff.

F R I N O S

Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.

I found Rebecca online after learning she did the infamous 3DO DOOM port and had a blast learning all she's done. It's been heartbreaking to see her lose Janelle and now this. Fuck cancer. What a legend.

I remember when Photoshop would update and have actually useful tools to actually do things. Anyway I guess the Topaz upscaler is nice.

license plate data merged with credit header data, marriage records, vehicle ownership, and voter registrations, in one app for ICE agents. oh and it sends push notifications when someone they're seeking is nearby. 🆒: www.404media.co/this-app-let...

TurboTax with the gall to advertise that their new stores will help you with complicated tax codes when they’re the reason the tax code is complicated.

I remember when gaming was a religion

Man Predator Badlands rules at least as much as Prey did. Let Trachtenberg do whatever he wants.