I don't think this requires further comment from me.

one of the specific things i remember reading about cats is that they are (we think) characterised understanding, like, conceptually understanding, that humans are not cats, we are Different from them, but they don't understand what exactly we *are*, and spend a lot of time trying to figure it out

i have a smart scale from withings and it sometimes tells me that my muscle mass has increased or decreased by 5 pounds in the last 24 hours but no i'm sure this is good

im glad the government posting halo memes is revealing that half the people reporting on it are fine with it

reading about this man and my scream rising to a higher and higher pitch

despite my disdain i've never quite managed to get rid of my reflexive browsing of tvtropes after finishing moderately interesting video games but since they've embraced a very obnoxious anti ad blocker stance i might just be able to kick the habit at last

it was pretty incompetent of them to be trying in the first place but wow amazon's attempt to build a steam competitor was done incredibly incompetently. oh well. i'm sure the executives responsible are bearing the brunt of the consequences.

At a fundamental level, we have to accept much of silicon valley has gone insane.

Adverts should be representative of traditional British families

the quintissential people's response to generative ai and a bunch of the tech industry generally. "fuck off! will you just *fuck off*!". we'd all scream it in their faces if we could. tech ceos must understand that they are hated

genuinely heartened by the audience response. more and more the mainstream understanding of AI is "that annoying bullshit we hate"

hell yeah python is woke now

god i miss Scrapheap Challenge

Hey there. You’ve had several kinds of food now, so it’s time to tell you about meals. Meals are when you combine different foods into one larger food. This way you can enjoy several flavors at once. Well, I’ve got nothing left to teach you. But I’ve heard someone in the city can tell you more.

Ninja Gaiden 4 was one of my most anticipated games of the year and I'm not playing it in accordance with the BDS Microsoft boycott, and it turns out that actually nothing bad happens to you if you don't play a video game.

Brianna keeps getting written about, even if not especially her own mother, like she tragically killed herself rather than was murdered in a transphobic hate crime

finally getting around to Taiji. i knew it was inspired by The Witness, but bloody hell

If you're using Windows 11, Microsoft is now surveilling you in a new way. This may already be turned on on your computer, and you would not be notified; it activates whenever they detect you are in a "game", which in my experience Microsoft often false-positives on doublepulsar.com/microsoft-bu...

the documented problem with the gaming audience is that they buy one AAA game, one live service game and a single indie game that goes viral every year. with the decimation of the press and the ballooning of game sizes the idea of a generalist gamer that tries new things is basically non-existent

45% of all AI answers had at least one significant issue. 31% of responses showed serious sourcing problems – missing, misleading, or incorrect attributions. 20% contained major accuracy issues, including hallucinated details and outdated information. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

getting the "my studio is uber for games" hypercapitalist guy to write my story about unionisation to inflict maximum cognitohazard to anyone who Knows

"Uber but for Gamedev" is a perfect description of a certain person because, just like Uber, they waltzed onto the scene with BIG CLAIMS about disrupting the industry and making it safer but just enabled abusers to run around unchecked while they stole wages from their mostly ESL gig economy staff.

Bluesky is not good at the task they set out to do

society would be massively improved if ring doorbells were banned completely actually

WHO'S GOT EYES ON ASSANE DIOP??

Oh they’re really protecting the pedophiles this is bad

so ball x pit is very good

tomonobu itagaki? dead? now? weeks before the triumphant return of ninja gaiden? it cannot be

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Them: need help doing things? Me: yes Them: we have a doing things medication Me: ooh Them: hahahahaha guess what you have to do to get it? Me: oh no Them: things.

i will funnel the entire fortune into lobbying every government on earth to make it illegal to make a video game with assorted complex interlocking gameplay systems but also with trophies for getting extremely specific unlikely outcomes that are supposed to be emergent and surprising

started Dead Cells again and am being rapidly reminded why Dead Cells got on the very very very short list of games i have simply given up on despite my pathological inability to quit games

You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't

This is "debanking", and its a problem that has plagued sex workers for decades. It isnt right when its targetting sex workers and its not right when its targetting game devs and creators either. Give paypros and your givt reps your grievances and demand that debanking of adult content stop

so the doctor says "you should check out this comic. it's only four panels long, but it's really evocative. really puts things in perspective" and the man says "but doctor, I'm not a patient here. I'm looking for my fiancée"

GUESS WHO'S BACK BACK AGAIN DOC'S BACK TELL A FRIEND That's right. It's time for part 3 of the FPS series; this time, a lot of assorted thoughts on what makes for good enemy design. This one was fun as hell to write. docseuss.medium.com/building-a-b...

So this guy was pretty much wrong about everything.

to be frank think there needs to be more discourse about how Hades/2's menus are almost all, despite being very beautiful, also very bad

“Everyone who is rich enough or close enough to reactionary politics is effectively in a cult with beliefs loonier than the median Heaven’s Gate member” is a relatively straightforward description of the current moment. I don’t know how we live like this

it is not polite to say so but no discussion of the state of the games industry/press can really avoid the reality that the audience is just. really really bad.

Hack of age verification firm may have exposed Discord users’ ID photos

Wes Streeting extended the puberty-blocker ban on 6 November 2024. Leia died by suicide on 11 November 2024.

I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".

gonna nip this one in the bud and say that this is basically impossible for ANY western company to do but godddd i want to dream!!!

"This Whole Thing Smacks Of Gondor," i holler as i overturn my uncle's funeral pyre and turn the 4th Age of Man into the 4th Age of Shit