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Wow, straight up cancelling the whole thing a week before it'd launch, I think that might be unprecedented? I really feel for the people working there, so many stories out of Wizards these days indicate they're being pushed to make too much too fast, and the cracks are really starting to show.

You should go see this!! I can't think of any recent film that is this in conversation with games. This is a movie that connects Buster Keaton silent film slapstick, Let's Plays, and the systemic logic of videogames, without any dialogue but an off the charts gags-per-minute.

ok they deleted and reposted it for some reason but, reminder: this is a survey of GDC attendees only which self-selects for highly paid, senior devs and management which is to say: this is most likely what a result skewed _against_ unionization looks like right now

Today there was an attempted ICE raid in Bensonhurst & community members showed up. Even though NYPD collaborated with ICE by trying to disburse the crowd; community members stood their ground & ICE left without kidnapping a single person per the rapid response groups I'm on. We protect us!

Wow on those stats vs Adams this time four years ago. It's a whole order of magnitude change on the # of people vs amount given. Adams' transition: 884 people, donating $1,129 each Mamdani's: 12,707 people, donating $77.65 each

“Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, said [Whitney Hu, a community activist and organizer with South Brooklyn Mutual Aid], ‘you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street.’”

There’s an objectively correct answer to this question and it’s from a video game and I’m tired of anyone pretending it’s anything other than the one we all know it is

The thing that strikes me about replacing voice actors with AI slop is that, in the scope of a big AA/AAA production it barely saves money? These people aren't even full time. It's immizerating people because immizerating people is your goal, nothing more.

The largest mass media- NYT, CNN, CBS, etc- are owned by billionaires. They own media not to make money, but to control the information space to be friendly to class interests. Those outlets will never report positive political outcomes for regular people in any kind of objective framing.

I'm finding Monster Train 2 to be mostly only okay, but I will say that in a year with a lot of sequels, it's one of the few that adheres to the Pokémon Gold/Silver sequel standard of excellence- namely, that the direct sequel contains basically the whole of the first game in its entirety.

The back half of this is interesting too. He shows I think genuine disbelief in how development can possibly happen if rent can't be maximized to extract a profit- Market fundamentalism so absolute that alternatives can't even be imagined. Libraries, eg, must be so utterly baffling and alien to him.

Something that Zohran's win has got me thinking about is the ongoing collapse of 'mainstream'/corporate media for liberal consent manufacture. We usually think of the negatives, post-truth fake news etc, but it also has benefits- no one is tuning in to see them punch left and tear down progressives.

They aren't afraid of Mamdani, they are worried about what he would unleash among VOTERS. That those voters would say: "actually, we're not buying this centrist bullshit you've been shoveling for decades, we want something else." That's what's being litigated in these Dem elites are worried essays.

AS WAS FORETOLD!!! It's wild that when I posted this, it still felt like a longshot hope. Everyone out campaigning that day was trying not to get their hopes up too much, prepared for disappointment. And then since that afternoon he beat Cuomo's ass TWICE hahaha

people thinking an NPC that outputs different text forever is good remind me of (no shade to people reading this it applies to I love y'all) new game programmers who are sure randomizing everything will lead to replayability without enough understanding of design yet to first achieve one playability

"Meanwhile Yennefer, Geralt’s sorceress squeeze, had launched her own search for Ciri, largely via a portal system called, with devastating perspicacity, The Portal System."

I was going over my notes from this and checking out the talks I missed, and I was thinking about just how incredible an event this is! So well organized, such a labor of love, and what a cool crowd. So much enthusiasm from both speakers and attendees, I felt so inspired and creatively refreshed!

Hey if you're attending Roguelike Celebration, I'm giving a talk in about an hour, watch it live on the @roguelike.club stream at 6:45pm Eastern! I'm giving a little lightning talk on an underused mechanic for deckbuilders

Of course the @roguelike.club audience is made up of the kind of people that can be asked “what’s your favourite SQL variant?” and instantly start slamming chat

Something sort of compelling about how surreal and dreamlike this is. No spatial consistency, reality nauseatingly shifting whenever not directly in view. Like a nightmare held together by 2 second long stitches of videogame logic.

This short is just shy of six years old.

Probably my biggest tip for new parents would be to make sure all the caregivers have seen Rocky IV, so when you say "If he cries, he cries" in a voice like Ivan Drago, everyone appreciates the joke

Can't wait to get an AI signed copy of my AI generated issue of ... wait a minute... bonerme?

”im addicted to this Buddhism game” —things someone who is good at buddhism would say???

I had a dream last night where everyone was crowding around this arcade cabinet called HORSE ASSASSIN. But I couldn't get a look at it, so I'm not sure if it was about assassinating horses, or if you played as a horse who is an assassin.

"Magick is the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will." Aleister Crowley - Magick in Theory and Practice (1929)

Fantastic piece about the unionization victory of teachers at the Manhattan School of Music. Some really far-ranging takeaways, definitely relevant to other precarious lines of work like games- brooklynrail.org/2025/10/fiel...

Be safe, and don't you dare go hollow.

This picture makes me laugh every single time I read my kid's book about visiting the doctor. She looks like a "without downloading new pictures how are you feeling?" meme that's come to life

Lot of interesting stuff in this survey- Looking through it, another one that jumped out at me is the "Is there anyone who speaks for people like you?". 60% of all respondents say no. Of Democrats Bernie is the top answer (at 4%), AOC is 3rd, and Mamdani places ahead of basically all elected Dems.

"I have been asked by many people about the life and times of Amelia Earhart" might just be the thing that finally breaks me

One the things I'm really loving about Consume Me is how unmistakably it takes place in NYC, in subtle but detailed and grounded ways. Reading on the subway, going on dates at museums, the manhattan mall, doing laundry in the basement. I grew up here too, and I never see the city shown like this.

A restaurant down the block from me has gone viral on tiktok, and it's been really funny seeing literally 4 hour long lines at a place my partner and I considered "eh, pretty okay, but good given how close it is"

Interesting preview of the bubble collapse here. Nvidia is sort of paying to rent their own GPUs from the companies that buy those GPUs to resell compute, so that those companies can raise more debt, to buy more GPUs. It's driving demand by using debt, whole thing seems liable to topple over.

Yoda: yeah hi sorry but I didn’t even like this guy before he was evil and the last time I saw him he was killing children Luke: thank you for your wisdom Master Yoda Yoda: no I’m saying it’s bullshit I have to sit on a log with this guy Obi: yeah I wasn’t going to say anything but he murdered me

My toddler has apparently just accepted that when I pretend to talk for the dog (doing a little voice, wiggling her paw to punctuate etc) it really is the dog who's talking. Anyway so now he shows her books and asks her for help with puzzles.

KIM KITSURAGI - "What is it, detective? Can you make it out?" BULLET - "if you read this you are gay lmao" 1. "It, um, doesn't say anything." 2. "Transgender ideology. My old foe." 3. [Espirit de Corps - Medium 10] "I think you should read it for yourself, Kim."

A relevant extension of this: it's not hypocrisy when those on the right mourn their own, but care nothing for other victims of violence. It's not a contradiction- they are in favor of using violence against their enemies! It being used against them is the part they don't like, not violence itself.

"Forget, but never Forgive"

Mario accurately reflecting the findings of "10 Hours of Walking in NYC as a Man" (2014)

If you're an indie developer, you should hang this screenshot on your wall and use it as inspiration to never give up

I noticed this mural at the Prospect Park zoo of... monkeys fighting a mountain lion? It feels like a monument that monkeys themselves commissioned to celebrate some epic battle. Can't find out anything about it, but it's New Deal era. This is why we need publicly funded arts programs people!

This being surprising is hard for me to reckon. Having lived here for 20+ years, and in big cities for most of my life, it's just how civil life works! I can't even really conceive of just how atomized and car-dependent many people's everyday lives are elsewhere. I don't even have a license.

Fantastic show! Lot of great games and I saw lot of folks playing the Suzzzy Show by @bugfoe.lol!

I just had to see what this actually looked like, and... that's it. Between rounds that face appears and winks at you, or wiggles her nose. Nothing links it to the theme (a spider-themed Centipede/Invaders riff). Just like, "Yeah, and we threw a face in there, cool!". 1982 was a different time.