as a broke student, in 2001 a beer cost $2.20 at my local. the same beer is now $10+ wages did not increase by 5x might explain it!

I'm becoming increasingly convinced that cloud-based gaming will become the dominant way to game over the next decade or so. It's not because people don't want to own PCs or consoles, but rather because they simply cannot afford them. I don't think RAM prices will go down anytime soon.

it's crazy that this dude spent his entire childhood inside a Barnes and Noble

now put it on desktops

Every once in a while, I check my son's Steam reviews.

It seems like no one I know is playing Ghost of Yotei. I have a lot of thoughts on it, especially in relation to Assassin's Creed Shadows. but at this current moment, I'm fighting Takezo the Unrivaled, who is based on Miyamoto Musashi.

We will need Nuremberg-like trials

I have issues with Silent Hill f, but by and large it's an EXCELLENT game. It feels authentically Silent Hill while doing its own thing. Hinako is an interesting protagonist, and the game tries to tangle with thoughts about gender and relationships through the lens of 1960s Japanese culture.

Genuine question: for those enthusiastically pushing AI tools into every part of our education system—what checks/guardrails are there around algorithmic biases like this?

and yet he'll keep right on going out of pure hatred and spite (and access to literally the best healthcare)

SCOOP from me: Trump's AI action plan released last week makes a specific set of recommendations around loosening Clean Water Act permits for data centers — recommendations mirrored in letters sent to the administration by Big Tech lobbyists earlier this year:

I'm trying to finally finish House of Leaves. I stopped reading it because the narrator sucks real hard. The fiction about the house itself and the Navidson family is super compelling, but Johnny is just the far end opposite. And in between that, 200 pages of footnotes.

The fact that itchio is looking into alternate payment options and talking about all this like an ongoing situation instead of being like "these are the new rules and always will be, fuck off" says a lot about how much they care about this. I know you want to yell at them but they're working hard

Wanted to revisit this briefly and reemphasize this point - I agree in principle with the idea that you shouldn't sell your work for cut-rate, unsustainable pay, but that mostly assumes that alternatives exist

the research showing Google AI Overview is stopping people from clicking links is a huge huge huge problem not just for websites but for people's brains which are about to be absolutely mangled www.404media.co/googles-ai-i...

I bought a couch (My last one lasted 10 years).The bottom broke within 3 months. They tried to fix it, but failed. They replaced it. That one broke too. So I bought a totally different couch from a totally different retailer. Guess what happened. I just want to sit, you guys

FYI, this is why every website you love is laying off writers or closing up entirely.

I recently spoke with GameSpot about global illumination and how we approached it in #AssassinsCreedShadows www.gamespot.com/articles/the...

The entire 90s internet was like this. We had it so good. www.thick-coins.net

www.gamespot.com/articles/the... Really proud of this interview feature up on Gamespot!

Shrek's daughter is named Meechee CONFIRMED

Nice.

Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing

they never miss

Every person on Bluesky should know: * Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever * Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies * Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured * Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic www.404media.co/the-200-site...

I'm doing a good amount of reading about ray tracing lately for an upcoming piece of writing, and I went back to a piece I wrote about path and ray tracing a few years ago. While there are things I'd certainly change, I'm still really happy with it. www.gamespot.com/articles/nvi...

NEW LUMINES GAME preparing myself for RSIs to come.

good thing Chat GPT requests are so rich in nutrients and protein!!!

This gets worse and worse the further you read. Joss and his husband were repeatedly harassed. House burned down. Dog killed. Joss shot and killed after enduring homophobic slurs.

I wrote about Red Dead Redemption on its 15th anniversary, about how it embodied the Spaghetti Western/European Western genre of films in a way that sets it apart from Red Dead Redemption 2 and makes it its own special creation: www.gamespot.com/articles/red...

I would like it if my character could sit in Assassin's Creed Shadows, so that I don't feel like they're waiting for me while I watch fireflies bobbing around and moonlight filtering through summer trees. it makes me anxious.

berserk vibes

They should make a documentary about Disney vs. Desantis and call it The Iger Sanction (I'm watching The Eiger Sanction)

I never would've guessed this site's mascot would be an abstract mech named garland

you gotta be fuckin kidding me

The @googlepixel9.bsky.social Now Playing feature used to be such a useful feature. Now that it's Powered by Gemini, it can't identify half the songs that come up, and it thinks my Sonicare toothbrush is playing this song.

I understand the argument that the impeachment vote in the House is symbolic and thus potentially a "waste of time" but the people who make that argument never explain, and once again in this case have not explained, what *more valuable thing* they need to do with the time instead.

Now put all the shows back www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

Thunderbolts is neat but the number of nepo babies is crazy. Like Lewis Pullman and his dad, Bill, or Florence Pugh and her dad, Pepé Le.

This sums up how I feel about Fielder's work.

Hey @npr.org you can do much better than this weak headline www.npr.org/2025/05/12/n...

it's crazy that they didn't call "Fight or Flight" Bullet Plane www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdsH...

Let's not forget language lessons for Josie and special ed for Johnny. But also the cocaine was probably the reason she could do all that stuff. So yeah.

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Don't use @beeper.com with Facebook Messenger--you're risking getting your account suspended, possibly indefinitely.

most people who guy GTA, COD, Madden, and FC(formerly FIFA) aren't people who buy well, any other games. You might be, but most people aren't.

Four years since The Realest One was taken from us

I'm sorry, the SLIMIEST?

“Two million Palestinians in Gaza, nearly half of them children, are now surviving on a single meal every two or three days. …signs of prolonged starvation are becoming more frequent and alarming.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/o...