All of the companies that make the software I use are increasing their prices, to account for an "investment" in AI. I'm sat here imagining how my clients would feel if I added 30% to each invoice, because I "really got into gambling".

Chris Person takes a look at Horses, "the indie game that is too scandalous for either Valve or Epic, is only beyond the pale if you're not familiar with any other art form" (quoted from the article blurb). aftermath.site/horses-indie... At least read this paragraph:

With Awful Emblem having now been out in the wild for a few days, I wanted to take a minute and reflect on things before people start finishing and we deal with feedback, working on 1.1, and whatnot. This one's a little ramble-y and personal, so bear with me. artix.bearblog.dev/awful-emblem...

I'm at the combination

i wrote music about an egg from tumblr i put it on my tumblr i have a tumblr

we actually life in hell

A third hotfix!? I hope it's the last one! 😅 Awful Emblem v1.03 has been released: feuniverse.us/t/awful-embl...

I really wish people would stop using slop to just mean 'thing I don't like' or 'stuff that is part of a trend'. Neither of those are inherently worthy of being called slop. You really gotta earn that title by being low-quality, low effort products of greed and laziness.

The Awful Emblem hotfixes don't stop with tonight's 1.02 update! Get it here: feuniverse.us/t/awful-embl...

i’m genuinely so convinced all of this has been a planned operation by the student and her mother (who is commenting on this publicly, and associated closely with the republican party), and big far right propaganda account going all in on it. this is designed to oust trans people from public life

🚨Anyone who downloaded Awful Emblem needs to download a 1.01 hotfix! Summoner summons were broken in 1.0 but have now been hotfixed. Download links have been updated on FEUniverse and Something Awful: feuniverse.us/t/awful-embl...

The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.

If you can believe it, Awful Emblem v1.0 has just released! It's real, and finished! It's only been a decade in the making! It's a full-length vanilla+ FE8 romhack with totally unique characters, setting, storyline, and more. Check it out! 🎉🎉🎉 feuniverse.us/t/awful-embl...

youtuber who does old console ROMhacks for a hobby: i made the n64 do raytracing just to see if i could and it does five thousand FPS or something triple-A game studio: if you're experiencing stuttering on the lowest settings, consider just not being poor? your graphics card is five months old??

If you can believe it, Awful Emblem v1.0 has just released! It's real, and finished! It's only been a decade in the making! It's a full-length vanilla+ FE8 romhack with totally unique characters, setting, storyline, and more. Check it out! 🎉🎉🎉 feuniverse.us/t/awful-embl...

100% This clip is really bad. Absolutely hollow. But important to remember also that as this tech becomes "better" and more advanced, simply it being "bad" isn't going to cut it as a rhetorical argument. Slop like this must be opposed because it's fundamentally anti-human, regardless of "quality"

dark souls should make a fromsoft game quest 64

what i love is that in 1990 judas priest got brought to trial over the claim that subliminal messages in the recording "better by you better than me" caused two suicides and now in 2025 openai seems to be generating a suicide a week with its superliminal messages and the US government is funding it

The LP I sat in on with @fpzero.bsky.social of X-Fusion is complete and ready for viewing in its entirety if you missed out on any of the episodes. The last one went up today. Quite the ride, start to finish. #blutoid www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWB1...

It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.

donald trump endorsed zohran mamdani before chuck schumer lmao

Just so it's clear. It's not allowing AI because it's trying to create a clean dataset for training AI. It's not because any of the involved parties actually care about human created art. Demons can lie to you. You have to rebuke them categorically, rather than fold when they say the right words.

I’m howling.

when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor

Every developer with a nominated game has the chance to do the funniest thing ever...

can't imagine why video games are struggling when the prevailing business model is "we didn't pay any people to make this, but you can pay us (monthly) to play it, and pay even more to play the whole thing, but also you don't own it"

Email from a student who turned in a ChatGPT essay. Not even looking at the ChatGPT output in the apology 🥴

Why am I so against generative AI in games? Because I simply do not want my initial reaction to art to be one of suspicion and scrutiny, AI slop is fundamentally damaging my relationship to art and artistry, and I am deeply resentful that it is forcing me to be guarded when I should be wowed.

It's time!!! Independent Games Festival judging is wrapping up and thus comes my list of IGF Games I Want To Talk About for the year! As usual, I'll threadpost this later (maybe tomorrow) but people willing to click on a link can read it in full right now on my blog! auratriolo.com/blog/2025/11...

everyone who wants Democrats to focus on throwing immigrants and trans people under the bus needs to explain why this is not going to be the end result

3 years ago today, Riot Games offered me a job making more money than I ever thought I’d make in my life. I had 19 interviews over 2.5 months to get it. Partner and I were moving to LA for it. I put in notice at my job and apartment. 2 weeks later they rescinded the offer due to “headcount issues”.

"one day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this"

Nuke the industry from orbit.

guys guys, you have to stay focused. they only put a stupid side kick character on metroid prime 4 to distract from the epstein files

i think peter thiel should have his fortune stripped on the way to prison and everyone who worked at gawker in 2014-16 should get $100 million

Well, fuck. Revoking any and all Peripeteia recommendations (and I wish I could un-back it on Kickstarter) based on the very thinly veiled transphobia from the dev (the first one in the screenshots here). I hate this.

the very nasty people of Avalanche have been very unfair and hurt our beautiful mako reactors which are so green, so beautiful, we love them, we're all going to see mother

this has to be the single greatest image in the history of sports

Look guys I’ve spent the last day playing this over and over again. Don’t read the comments first and stick it through to the second verse. It is in fact one of the funniest things I’ve ever heard.

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

🏈 JAX 29 - 36 HOU FINAL ✅ That's Scorigami!! It's the 1094th unique final score in NFL history.

There's a round of GOTY discussion going around, and I realized that a lot of my favourite games this year have been absolute Sicko Picks. So here's a few games I've loved so far in 2025, starting with a mild one: Babushka's Glitch Dungeon. A scrunkly lil' puzzle-metroidvania with so many fun verbs

this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028