When you’ve got one of the most corrupt organisations in the world and America’s most corrupt President it’s only to be expected I guess.

Imagine wanting to try and emulate Stalin and Mao a as life goals. www.wsj.com/world/china/...

Getting pretty tired of FIFA helping that convicted tax fraudster every step of the way.

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

HALO fans! Our remaining copies of the official, limited edition 'The Silent Cartographer' art print by @janurschel.bsky.social are now available in the store! Don't wait too long! #HaloCampaignEvolved #halo #masterchief

Maybe we shouldn't have started calling people 'human capital'.

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I think Xbox and PlayStation fail to realize you can’t build an ecosystem on just the masses. Sure, >70% of console owners only play FIFA, CoD, and Fortnite and don't care about physical games, but any nightclub thrives on a few tastemakers. The rest cumulatively buys more beer, but as soon...

Every time the news turns cyclical—like the 'how to spend your holidays' babble—I’m reminded of the horrors of immortality and its endless repeats. It's why vampires —and soon Bryan Johnson— are always depressed.

Remember when ICE was shooting people in the face and illegally deporting them and how we're still all talking about it?

Path of Heaven, OKAMI. Rereleased for our 15th Anniversary as a limited edition of 75, hand-numbered giclée printed on Hahnemühle PhotoRag Metallic Paper.

Among hobbyist gamers, the consumer sentiment towards Microsoft is very negative right now. But I never quite know how much that impacts overall video game spending. What percentage of "gamers" cares about the people and business of games?

Misselijkmakend, en dat wordt gefinancieerd door de Verenigde Arabische Emiraten. Die van dat gezellige Dubai idd., waar het volgens Nederlandse influencers zo goed toeven is... nos.nl/artikel/2621...

People thought Ubisoft was uniquely bad or something, in having to take that €1 billion loss due to impairment and restructuring costs. They were having to fix shit early. Which proved smart/good timing as now its everyone else's turn and...

Megacorps and industry are the biggest culprits for pumping massive CO₂ into the air, but the press has found that narrative again where somehow citizens wanting to use aircons to keep cool are the problem. F off.

Not a perfect movie by any means, but Michael Mann's Miami Vice is scandalously cool. GTA VI has big boots to fill.

Drove one of these today, and I was very impressed. The hype is real. The compact car to beat by a mile. Great looks, great handling and pleasant cabin. Didn't think I could fit behind the wheel comfortably, but no issue there even. Thumbs up to Renault.

Me: Okay, there's been a thunderstorm, the heatwave should be over now. (New health bar appears) (The sun is now named 'Sol, Starflame of Regret') (Objectively the greatest piece of classical music ever recorded starts playing).

And I thought the video game industry had it bad... Blaming this on China is only half the story btw. The high-energy cost is also a major factor. Shutting down those nuclear plants and relying on cheap Russian gas (Such a WTF decision) has been a historic self-own. www.ft.com/content/d076...

The Silent Carthographer. We're proud to present our fist official @halogame.bsky.social fine art print by @janurschel.bsky.social. Created to celebrate the original game's 25th Anniversary this year! #halo #masterchief #warthog

Wasn't this the entire business model of crypto gaming dorks? Transferring virtual goods across games?

"Vaker". Wat is dit voor slappe formulering? Meer dan de helft(!) van de jongvolwassenen heeft moeite rond te komen. Wonen, vervoer, energie is allemaal veel te duur, en de politiek komt maar niet met oplossingen. De makkelijkste: belasting verlagen en huizen bouwen. nos.nl/artikel/2619...

For a cube, it's not a particularly attractive cube that Steam machine.

I briefly looked at the Steam machine and its price point, and returned to playing Mina the Hollower on my 9-year old Switch.

Echt, het niveau van Nederlandse nieuwsredacties...

Young people should try not to work from home, more than ever you need a network of humans to grow a career. You need to build real connections, share experiences. You'll also need to know how to organize in a world ruled by megacorps. You really need those people skills.

“I thought that was it for me — they had knives, rifles and grenades.” June 19 marks the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict. Sexual violence is a weapon of war used by russian invaders against Ukrainians. Read the stories of survivors of russia’s war crimes🧵

Marathon artblast - this is not a drill www.artstation.com/karakter/alb...

Hacks unfortunately rates like a countdown from 9 to 4'ish over the course of five seasons. Make one or two or great seasons and leave it be. Season 5 looked absolutely horrible too. Some weird, bleached hyperreal look to it. www.metacritic.com/tv/hacks/cri...

De wachttijd voor een sociale huurwoning in Utrecht is nu 12 jaar. De kans dat een Utrechter nierstenen krijgt binnen 12 jaar, wordt aangereden als fietser, en 3 kabinetsformaties meemaakt, is groter dan de kans op een huis. I did the math. www.rtvutrecht.nl/nieuws/40567...

Using a 5-6x revenue multiple, Elon Musk could buy Xbox toss it in the ocean, destroy 20,000 jobs and still have $900 billion left. This is no exaggeration. Yes, I want you to hate.

No money is willing to invest in games right now. It's too risky, the market is oversaturated. All capital is going towards AI and other (supposedly) higher-yield opportunities. We're still looking at a huge amount of studio closures in the near future I'm afraid.

Xbox should just sell the business to Valve.

I think a lot of people miss that it is the Fellowship that's more important than the Ring. Harder to merchandise though.

I think that maybe visual artists see the hallucinations, and therefore the serious limitations, of current AI better than coders. Ask any AI at the moment, even the most powerful models in the world, to do a simple Ken Burns effect on a still image. Twice. Cannot be done.

Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds last night at Best Kept Secret was pretty magical. Fantastic concert.

"What is a man?" CASTLEVANIA by Kilian Eng. Giclee with screenprinted embellishments. Edition of 150. In celebration of the 40th Anniversary of the franchise.

I was disappointed to learn that AI cannot make gold. Apparently that requires particle accelerators and nuclear explosions. Stupid AI.

Musk's $1 trillion valuation will probably land at about $200 billion in the next 2 to 3 years, but America's $40 trillion debt will have increased to $50 trillion. The latter deserves more breathless media headlines than the former.

If people really grasped what a million times a million is... www.wsj.com/business/tri...

Since I see mostly coders ascribing "Godlike" qualities to AI: I would expect true AI to do things differently, not more efficient or autonomous. AI now codes and reasons in structures made by men, because it runs on structures made by men i.e. silicon. It is limited by the natural world.

Dracula is back! A deluxe Legacy rerelease of CASTLEVANIA by Kilian Eng is now available in the store as a fine art giclee with screenprinted embellishments! Limited to 150 copies!

@elonmusk is a genius in that he made other people pick up the tab for the dogshit Twitter acquisition by first rolling that into xAI and then xAI into SpaceX. In the history of the world, no drug-addled spending spree — to the tune of $40 billion — saw such a soft landing.

You know what, building data centers in space is actually a genius idea.

We've reached the stage where everybody just shrugs when Trump says anything. Powerless, hollow threats and lies that never amount to anything. Low energy Donny flailing.

Somewhere out there, a new Fumito Ueda launched his or her masterpiece, but in today's video game market the chances of that breaking through and finding an audience are so, so slim.

It's clear that people believe they can make money with AI, more than they believe in the value of AI. 50% of the modern markets is trying to make money of other people. It has very little to do with investing or value creation.

Crazy Taxi, Dan Clarke. Giclee on fine art paper. Limited edition of 100. www.cookandbecker.com/en/artwork/1...

He abandons everything and everyone. So, yes? The USA also has zero cards.