Not too dissimilar from doomscrolling. Gotta protect your mental health, especially these days But that doesn't mean you should give up. Just be mindful

Not trying to talk down to anyone here, but if A.I news is genuinely upsetting you, I think its worth filtering how much of it you take in. Def keep fighting and letting companies know you wont accept it. That matters. But if engaging with it nonstop is hurting you, its okay to step back for a bit

I use Vivaldi, which is an early chromium fork, if you're looking for a replacement that's good. You can change almost everything, even right click menus. It can use Chrome add-ons but also has native adblockers which work very well. No ads, no AI, no bullshit 😌

New on the Ponett Gazette: I reviewed Metroid Prime 4: Beyond! It's a very flawed game that clearly went through development hell, but ultimately I think it ended up being a *mostly* faithful and enjoyable new entry in the series. Mostly. ponett.dog/blog/mp4

AI has actively made life worse for literally everyone - tech is now more expensive - you cannot trust most media of reality anymore - programs barely function - energy prices - literal psychosis - your voice can be literally stolen for evil - more spyware but hey, you can avoid paying an artist.

Jax was pretty much always the MVP of Amazing Digital Circus, but man, this episode, maybe more than the last one, really shows just how much he's affected by his surroundings and how much he truly cares more than he lets on.

Anti-A.I. stamps! For illustrations, comics, photos and all your creative works, printed and digital! You can download the transparent file for free here: ko-fi.com/i/IT6T718NAKF (but consider donating please 😘)

I want to re-emphasize, the guy who has made HUNDREDS of videos calling people in the industry slurs, calling for them to be fired, calling all the studios that are showing games "woke and gay" and has harassed multiple journalists covering the show over the years is at the Game Awards.

Christmas Micaiah

We’re deeply honored that HADES II is in the running for Game of the Year and more at #TheGameAwards tonight, especially since we’re in the company of such an amazing group of wildly different and beautiful games. Congratulations to all our fellow nominees — we salute you!! 🙏👏

2025, much like 2023, has been another really great year for games. If only the games industry didn't suck for people making games, wasn't full of shitty leadership, and wasn't facing threats like censorship and AI, then this would truly be a be golden age of gaming.

KOSA is back along with 17 other dangerous censorship and surveillance laws that congress is trying to ram through. CALL UR REPRESENTATIVE TODAY AND TELL THEM —no KOSA —do not repeal Section 230 —no online digital ID laws —no age verification laws CALL NOW!!!! We are about to lose the internet

Sad news, Jeff Garcia, the voice of Sheen in Jimmy Neutron, and Pip in Barnyard, passed away at age 50 due to complications from a collapsed lung.

I think shows like Hazbin or JJBA give a lot of credit to the idea of a creator vomiting their id all over the screen/page and it being a success due to how genuine it feels. Meanwhile, you have creators trying to remove any personality from their work and they end up making something for nobody.

Crunchyroll's feedback form is here, if anyone is looking for it. And for the record, you can submit feedback even if you don't have an active account: help.crunchyroll.com/hc/en-us/req...

MERRY CHRISTMAS YA FILTHY BEAVERS Playing in 60+ cities for December, get your tickets fast for HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS: A NORTHWOODS CHRISTMAS! TICKETS: linktr.ee/hundredsofbe...

help help I can't stop buying cool books "for my kids"

Also if youre screaming about CR and their subtitles but are silent on Amazon *dubbing an entire show* with AI then its clear you only cared because it effects your subs and not the entire anime localization sphere. A company with more money than god should not be dubbing using AI

And special-interest podcasts!

[2022] A while back I made modern AU edits of all the #FE3H girls, here are the Black Eagles 🦅

my partner and i can no longer buy a home together because they were fired by Rockstar, without warning, *checks notes* for talking about working conditions with their colleagues in a private union discord server. 🙂

these are super old but i still like them [ #fireemblem #fe3h ]

#SaveSpeech if you're Canadian, you may have heard about a handful of bills that have free speech and anti-surveillance orgs worried, so ive made a cheat sheet of info about what makes each one worrying! We need to block these bills! please contact your reps! oncanadaproject.ca/findyourrep

Takumi Miyajima, the woman who wrote tales of symphonia, she had several characters keep their placeholder names because she doesn't like naming characters. One of them, Yuan, appears to have been named that because his VA was voicing Ewan McGregor in the jp dub of the prequal star wars movies.

COMPLETE - The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy (All 100 Endings) This game is something special. It has its ups and downs, but the amount of depth, expansive character writing, dense worldbuilding and incredible narrative variance makes it a marvel of interactive writing. Long live the SDU.

what happens when you put the two axe lords in the same room #fireemblem #fe7 #fe3h

Today

Samus meeting Elma~ both games sharing Dec 4th as their release date~ #Metroid #メトロイド #MetroidPrime4 #XenobladeX #ゼノブレイドX #ゼノブレイドクロス

In just 1 week you have: - Paid for my wedding - Paid to fix my bathroom that flooded Oct 2024 - Paid to replace my broken Dryer - Paid for Nugget's future allergy medication That's the impact you're having on my life. From the bottom of my heart - thank you! 🤎💚

Rebecca was one of the founders of Interplay, worked as a programmer on companies like EA, Microsoft and Ubisoft, helped building the PSP and PS4 operating systems and won the 1980 National Space Invaders Championship! RIP to one of the greatest :(

Also in light of recent news and discourse, please have a very old 2011 art of Link and Samus + baby uwu I am pretty sure I drew these while sitting around and tabling during the FanExpo convention? lol #art #legendofzelda #metroid

anyways my GOTY is Hundred Line

The man who gave us Super Broly and the new golden age of the One Piece anime. Thank you for your vision and incredible work. RIP

NO FUCKING WAY. God, that's so sad.

My hot take is that having double standards against Nintendo is mega cringe. Every company does stupid shit, but Nintendo always takes the hit even if they weren't the first to do something.

Geoff Keighley really is the perfect representative of the gaming industry: -unreservedly self serving -pretends to care about the people actually making the product -loves to make performative gestures that ultimately go nowhere and help no one -would almost certainly sell out to the saudis

"Which of These Endangers Jews?" New art at @truthdig.com ft. Zohran Mamdani and Jonathan Greenblatt: www.truthdig.com/cartoons/whi...

look at these amazing colouring books i got at the Dollarama

Kazuki Motoyama / 本山一城, author of several manga adaptations of Super Mario, has passed away according to his sister. He was 69 years old. www.instagram.com/p/DPSXpYukhQd/ www.mariowiki.com/Kazuki_Motoy...

Some years ago an Antarctic diver encountered a leopard seal who, instead of attacking her, brought her half-dead penguins for her to “hunt.” Every time the diver let the penguin get away, the seal seemed confused, even exasperated. ⬇️

i have one more character to do. i might actually finish drawing every single playable character in fe7 TODAY

The copyright for Roger Rabbit has been reverted back to its initial author, Gary K. Wolf. “I now have back the rights to all my characters, all my books. I can, basically, do my own Roger Rabbit projects.”

Blue Prince developer announces 'a plea for help': one of the game's lead playtesters 'has only a few months to find a living kidney donor' www.pcgamer.com/games/puzzle...

Donald Trump watching Zohran Mamdani sweep the NYC elections in less than 10 minutes:

OpenAI pirated large numbers of books and used them to train models. OpenAI then deleted the dataset with the pirated books, and employees sent each other messages about doing so. A lawsuit could now force the company to pay $150,000 per book, adding up to billions in damages.