We have forcibly installed the Stupid Machine in all of your homes but, of course, under no circumstances should you trust the Stupid Machine.

like i am not going to devote a fraction of my brain to being upset for longer than a minute, but this says about all you need to know about the legitimacy of TGA's awards at least as it applies to music

the ball is not the protagonist of pinball. you are not the protagonist of pinball. the hole is the protagonist. you are the villain. she is starving

the way nintendo gets about women in their games is so funny in how, like, specific the way they are. it's not an outright loathing, it's like having to watch a 70s action super team anime do the extremely out of touch focus episode on the one lady in the cast. and kept doing that episode into 2025

puzzle depot has the sauce

Y’all have got to stop trying to teach people magic with edh

The problem with people increasingly using "puzzle game" to super-expansively mean any game that might require thinking is that it's not a very useful term when you start lumping Stephen's Sausage Roll, sudoku, Myst, and Epigraph under the same umbrella.

writing a companion piece to A Report on the Banality of Evil that’s just A Report on How Evil is Also Deeply Cringe

my experience trying to get people to read umineko since completing it

Again, to every videogame writer who wrote funny emails to read in an immersive sim/etc. where I rolled my eyes and said out loud, "lol like anyone would ever email something this on the nose", again, sorry, I was wrong, life sucks, you nailed it

valve hardware thoughts: - i do not think the steam machine will sell more than 2 million units - 2 million units would probably be a massive success for the steam machine - whether or not the frame sells comes down almost exclusively to cost - controller looks cool

In Super Mario Galaxy, the stars on the letters of the logo spell "u r mr gay", while for the movie it says "he mr gay". This is because you are watching Mario, not playing him.

One horrific thing to me is that the president- a man who has gotten away with everything including literal murder up to this point- seems extremely nervous about anything regarding Epstein coming out. Like how bad does it have to be

The insistence on making these robots bipedal is probably the most obvious giveaway that it's all a big carny gimmick

i LOVE eating DEHYDRATED COCKTAIL GARNISHES!!

Choices in games are fake? Wait until you find out about the rest of games!

regular content updates for years because that is what the gamers who bought it for $5 in a sale deserve.

TypeScript is a psychology experiment designed to see if you can read "the JavaScript API you know and love, but with the safety of strong typing!" and get so distracted by how much you like strongly typed languages that you forget that you do not, in fact, neither know nor love the JavaScript API

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

I keep seeing regular Americans taking more risks every day to fight tyranny, want, and cynicism than I see from the opposition party, and I imagine many of those regular Americans are asking themselves what the value proposition of such an opposition party is, really

a persistent suspicion I have is that devils hole pupfish probably goes crazy soaked in armagnac then roasted

how are other multiplayer indie devs coordinating/wrangling playtesters #gamedev

every clip people post about northernlion is him saying some "you need to touch grass. engage in earthly virtues, the pleasures of the spirit and the mind. reject dopamine. seek transcendence" while he plays 'Subway Surfers But It Makes You Addicted to Slot Machines' in the background

Stop Killing Games was debated in the UK Parliament, and received the exact answer you'd expect www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/co...

today my day was ruined by webcrawlers. yet another thing i have in common with australians or supervillains

I know we're all ready to celebrate Cuomo moving to Florida, but we all need to be better people and stop celebrating when disasters pass through red states.

on cohost we called this "poster's delight"

i will make fun of new yorkers any chance I get but it is genuinely inspiring how much they love their own city

Cuomo Announces Plan To Govern New York City As Independent https://theonion.com/cuomo-announces-plan-to-govern-new-york-city-as-independent/

many are calling it the Great Bluesky Lib Out of '25

i’m libbing out

team fortress 3

You have better things to be doing than getting mad at a negative review of a game.

Me Too was Pearl Harbor for elites. Most of them saw Harvey Weinstein and thought, "that could be me," and since then every hint of accountability for elites, or mass movements by peasants, has further convinced them they are facing an existential threat that must be destroyed at all costs.

incredibly wacky news: Tactical Nexus is implementing a paid currency you can use to buy cosmetic badges you can display in-game. (the game is singleplayer). You can also earn the paid currency by clicking a button repeatedly for 5 seconds and not paying any real money at all.

On Saints Row we had a debug npc named Skinballs (lol) that was literally just four spheres wrapped in different shades of skin texture so we could test lighting for different skin tones during development. But teams need to plan for that kind of testing with intentionality, and not enough do.

[2015] DUDES: We made a website where you can look up a charity and see what % of donations it spends on admin overhead ME: Hey that rules DUDES: It's called effective altruism [2025] ME: Holy fuck. What the fuck are you guys doing. Why are you doing that. What the fuck is any of this. Fuck

Real saving grace that these nincompoops' first move was to purge the intelligence services of everyone who was in any way good at their job

i should be able to click a button at the beginning of a sports season that says “i’m normal” and i don’t get served any ads for crypto or gambling

the popularity of both balatro and vampire survivors has me concerned for the critical thinking skills of gamers

"master chief comes to playstation" would've brought about *generational* posting in the early-mid 2010s. now it's just saddened, somewhat amused acceptance. the world has changed.

a tweet i saw that really opened my third eye said basically that there's no such thing as red states and blue states, there's just states where the big city/ies that everyone else hates are a big enough portion of the population to dominate politics and states where they aren't

gacha games

if you respond to this with "that's why i play indie games" you would be upset if indie games also cost as much as they should

wholesome is an aesthetic movement (and a fairly empty one at that) masquerading as a political movement and that has led to some pretty nasty politics in wholesome games