The second FLEB game announced in our Thinky Direct was Some Puzzles, a surreal, FMV puzzle adventure! FLEB thinkygames.com/game...

Today Microsoft moved all its GitHub copilot subscribers to token-based billing. If you want to see what happens when people have to pay the actual costs of AI, the day is finally here. It's obvious that every customer sees the deep, meaningful value and isn't angry at all.

Finally got around to rolling credits on Disco Elysium. I'd gotten about a quarter of the way through it back in 2020, but for a variety of reasons got distracted and never finished it (until now). It really is a fantastic game. Variously funny and poignant, bleak and hopeful. One of a kind.

Love the glimpse into the beautiful mind that notated this used copy of Moby Dick I got

Shoutout to the very senior professor in HCI who gave a talk last month about how AI can do qualitative data analysis better than people now.

I've not seen any discussion about this, so I'm just going to throw it out there: The title "Zero Parades for Dead Spies" is very similar in format to "No Truce with the Furies", the working title for Disco Elysium. That has to be intentional, right? A way to invoke the feel without being obvious?

My copy of the book Project Hail Mary has some misprinted pages. It was kind of annoying having to track down another copy to finish the book, but considering the part of the book it's at, it's weirdly appropriate that it looks like the text is being devoured by microbes.

With Spirit Airlines shutting down, there is only one acceptable outcome: acquisition by Spirit Halloween.

I've been thinking about it. And I think there might only be three types of narrative game 1. Explore the Psyche of Man 2. Stuff Already Happened, And Now You're Here 3. Lesbian Bartender

When you use AI to do your writing, you are telling your audience: “I deserve your attention, but you do not deserve my effort.”

Conspiracy theory: Nvidia is banking on LLMs to keep the bubble going, so the real goal of DLSS 5 is to normalize and desensitize us to AI slop by making normal games look like it. Because it's either that or they really don't realize it looks like hot garbage.

we are at the point of "how can a legislative body force the executive and courts to follow the laws it is passing" and I do not think there are good answers to this question

Once again, immigration is not even a problem. Immigrants are not more criminal, they don't cost jobs, they don't harm the economy. There is no reason for any of this. It is hurting ourselves to hurt them.

I think it's worth reiterating to people who despair because they feel Newsom is inevitable: the non-incumbent candidate is almost never the person who is "obvious" this far out. If anything, Newsom trying to paint himself as the early choice just gives people more time to dislike him.

The latest move by Sticker Mule's owner. Please don't give these people your money (or honestly send them your artwork, you never know).

Archaeologists: D.C. Capitol May Have Once Been Used For Legislating https://theonion.com/archaeologists-d-c-capitol-may-have-once-been-used-for-legislating/

I want to live in a world where Democratic party leadership and elected officials are at least as radical as the host of Jeopardy

Basically I find it hard to avoid the conclusion that conservatism is an elaborate defense of selfishness, no matter how refined, and that it always tends towards fascism and authoritarianism. And that I can't think of any "good" form of it ever existing. Whereas left politics have enormous variety.

Democrats need to understand that they can just say “It’s insane to threaten Greenland” and “I don’t think ICE should murder Americans in the street” and you don’t need to pretend to link it to the affordability crisis. Say bad things are bad.

Cranking the jams today, because I don't want to risk even the tiniest chance of any moment of silence going to Dick Cheney.

On the way back from vacation in Minnesota, a small town had painted in giant letters on a concrete retaining wall "WE ♥ BURRITOS and Jesus" and while I had many questions (and a growing need to make a rest stop) we most definitely did not stop to ask them.

If Paramount wanted to dispel that their settlement was a bribe, they sure picked an interesting strategy and timing.

I've been told that AI "makes people more productive" and "it's not going away", but the same could be said for cocaine, and I feel like people might object if Google raised their prices and sent everyone an eight ball each month without even asking.

I always get so much rage on behalf of indie developers when I click on a developer name on a Steam page and instead of seeing a list of everything they've made, it takes me to the PUBLISHER page. Let indies build a following ffs

Just got done cancelling my internet service with TDS Telecom because I'm moving to an area that they don't provide service to. Absolutely ridiculous that in this day and age cancelling service requires a phone call. I was on the line for just shy of 45 minutes!

Finally got around to finishing Farscape. Only a bit over 20 years late.

Heard someone say they had enough books. You can never have enough books. Too many books, yes. But never enough.

Anything I have to fact check because it's more likely than not to just make up shit... is not useful.

Sandfall is going to do what they want with it, but I'm really hoping they take the classic Final Fantasy approach with Clair Obscur and make a series of sequels that have a similar vibe to Expedition 33 but with an entirely new world and characters each time. Just let each stand on its own.

In the library parking lot a little kid yelled at me "hey firecracker head! You've got a firecracker head!" What could I say? Kid totally had my number. Utterly destroyed.

I get why the focus is currently on Kilmar Abrego Garcia, but it's important to remember that every single person that has been sent from the US to CECOT is a constitutional crisis. It doesn't matter if any of them are or are not gang members. Every one of them is constitutionally owed due process!

Hey Lenovo and Microsoft: If I wanted to switch to Bing, I'm sure not going to do it just because a dumb driver updater app tried to trick me into it on an automatic update. I was already planning on never buying another Lenovo product, but BS like this just further cements that decision.

Really glad I bought a new computer while money still had value.

Wisconsin law pretty clearly states that it's a crime just to offer something of >$1 value to induce someone to go to the polls. Elon Musk did this publicly. So why is our AG not having him arrested?

I'd told myself I'd pick up Elden Ring when it was <$30, and with a coupon it was $30.20 on Fanatical, so I figured that was close enough. I'll give it more time, but so far I much prefer the Dark Souls games. It's the open world. I'm missing the more structured and confined level design.

Minority Leader @schumer.senate.gov really doing his best to secure a legacy of being forever spoken of in the same breath as the likes of Neville Chamberlain and Pierre Laval.

If @schumer.senate.gov doesn't get primaried I sure hope it's because he's already resigned in disgrace.