good time to get into games that run on potatoes

The Squamish people of what is now Vancouver were illegally dispossessed of their land 100 years ago. They sued, got the land back, and used their sovereignty to ignore local zoning and build 6,000 new homes over the loud objections of nearby wealthy NIMBYs. Now other tribes are getting in the game.

"Bust a Hip" tbqh

as a private company whos primary source of income is 30% of others sales and selling gambling to teenagers, valve could have eaten some of the price increase they absolutely wouldnt tho, less yacht money

Honestly, if you're surprised, why are you surprised? Kojima is like the walking stereotype for a dude that would be hyped by generative LLMs, everything in his canon screams that he'd be psyched for this

"you didn't spend 3 years of your life making something specifically for me, a stranger, and i am personally offended by this" - people who also leave comments like "what can i substitute if i don't like beans" on a bean soup recipe

gamers are going to make this stuff about them but the redistribution of computing power to be something only for the wealthy and corporate really sucks

I give zero percent probability to the AI apocalypse.

YES... HA HA HA... YES! www.pcgamer.com/games/action...

this is actually what burned me out on self-publishing. from 2016 - 2018 the get rich quick grifters realized that Kindle Unlimited could be a money printing machine if you exploited it cleverly enough and they came in, flooded the zone, wrecked all the discoverability options, and broke the system

so like lemme weigh in on this as someone who is more financially comfortable than many in my generational cohort: everything I have gained seems precarious and temporary because I know the people with real money will take it all from me the second they get an opportunity and no one will protect me.

They stole the internet’s knowledge and all the work that went into it and they want to sell it back to us for a fee. What a business model.

Jesus that can’t be right (does math) FUCK

I played a chunk of Derelict Star last night (on my 81" TV, as god intended) and yep it's the real deal. Kind of overwhelming in its cleverness, and super inspiring.

YES... HA HA HA... YES! www.pcgamer.com/games/action...

The US borrowed almost three times as much as all of its advanced-economy counterparts *combined* last year, and is on track to continue doing so in the coming years:

hey folks - we're doing the Unearthed Treasure Room stream again next week, on June 3rd on each of our youtube channels!! see this thread for more info:

This is the best explanation of the male loneliness crisis I have heard.

*mouth full of chips* yeah im a bit of a bon vivant

Putting the common good over profit is the essence of socialism. Putting profit over people is the essence of capitalism. Without corporate media influence, people choose socialism over capitalism. This is why 6 corporations own 90% of the media to ensure people never wake up.

What makes this even scarier is the realization that Trump and his most diehard supporters think this is a positive side effect.

Times have been tough in this Ohio town ever since they closed the old tax cheating factory. So when Donald Trump announced a deal where neither he nor his sons would ever have to pay taxes again, they finally had something to cheer about. But now the woke mob wants to take that all away.

Most Orwellian war of my lifetime

i don't think we're at Jump Ship point yet, but we have *got* to figure out an alternative to youtube sooner rather than later because it absolutely will get Way Worse and take a lot of the stuff i love and rely on down with it

Imagine if Nixon had demanded that the Watergate burglars receive a massive taxpayer reward and that all future investigations into him and the whole cabal be blocked forever. Sounds bad? Well, things are much worse than that today.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ There is no (inter)national security so long as Trump is in power. Good luck everybody.

'LLMs' shortcomings may be so large that they undermine the entire business model of OpenAI, Anthropic, etc. If so, then these companies are trying to ride hype to a potential IPO as a major risk transfer from founders to equity investors.' research.panmureliberum.com/view/FD91B03...

"Did some car travel this week -- the number of people back to wearing seatbelts is truly shocking. I feel sad for the people who live their lives in fear over over-hyped car crashes." Don't wear a seatbelt once: near 0 chance of a bad result. Never wear a seatbelt: near 1 chance of a bad result.

Since there is mask discourse again (when isn't there), I will say again, wearing a mask has MASSIVELY improved my quality of life. I used to get sick all the time. I haven't had as much as a cold since 2019. I'm absolutely going to keep wearing a mask, even if half the world thinks I'm a poor fool.

for this kind of media to work it needs to be hyper-specific to the personal story of the people that made it. you can't just amalgamate a bunch of nostalgic touchstones across decades and expect that to land with any truth. i don't want to connect with a product; i want to connect with a person.

And Derelict Star has no lack of thought out movement mechanics it has SO many mechanics that seem invisible at first and they're all picked to suit the game, not picked to hit gamefeel checkboxes. You should play it!!

Genuinely, this concern about AI is one of the reasons why I think having friction in video games is good and why it's increasingly important to have games that simply exist instead of catering to our expectations. Reposting this message from Kojima about "pre-digested" art:

Converting to Catholicism so I can tell my bosses using unregulated AI is against my religion and I will sue them like that cake lady who hated gay people if they make me use it

Now you can keep track of how many billions the AI companies are losing on AI. (Red is spending, green is revenue.) isaiprofitable.com

Fun anime fact: the show Texhnolyze (same writer as Lain) uses a Juno Reactor song for its opening that samples Burt Lancaster in The Swimmer.

I heard a story once about a CFO at a large company who cut the headcount by 100 after installing Dyson hand dryers in office toilets, because the business case said they’d save every worker 30 seconds per toilet trip, which across the workforce added up to 100 people. AI cuts remind me of this.

The current heatwave in France, which would be typical as a "canicule" in August, is an insane statistical anomaly that could become the largest deviation from the norm ever measured

The reason Skynet sent the T-800 back in Terminator is because it didn't know how many Ns were in John Connor

I've been through the desert on a horse with a name His name's James, that's what my horse is named When I bought him, they said, "this horse is named James" I said, "wow, nice to know, that's a really great name" Laaaa laaaa la la la laa laa

Going out with friends? When you get where you're going, you should split up and sit at tables with strangers, otherwise it's just another echo chamber.

Fun with paper (ie bits of various collages I’ve been working on) ❤️

I don’t “network,” I make friends. Other artists are not my competition, they’re my beloved peers and sources of inspiration. We all have the same goal; to share our art. I’m not gonna corporatize my human relationships with them. I am in my sandbox playing and I hope they join me.

That third one is god tier. No one doing it like my man Adrian

A huge component of the post-Trump MAGA civil war will be the divide between people who claim he is speaking to them from heaven and the people who claim that he simply faked his death to outwit the deep state

It’s very important for people to work at businesses at a level that gives some insight to the business so you can realize that every business is a train wreck.

Suzanne Vega releases “Luka” 39 years ago this weekend. She said she once received a fan letter about it: “Dear Suzanne, Luka is the most compelling piece of music I’ve heard in a long time. There are no words 2 tell U all the things I feel when I hear it. I thank God 4 U, Prince”