Somehow I have found myself in the margins of minecraft SMP server faction politics. Luckily I need not engage.

I'm obsessed with this Gregor Samsa necklace?! Please, he's just a bug. 🥺 He's just a giant bug freak. He just wants rotten food and no milk and someone to talk to him. He just wants to hang out in the living room.

"And I never say no" We need to have a serious talk about the way "AI companion" apps not only prey on the vulnerable, but are priming their users to ignore consent and to conflate love with control. We need AI regulations across so many sectors, but this area is particularly horrifying.

Looking back on 2025, we released Bounty Star on October 23 with Dinogod. Bounty Star is an over-the-shoulder 3D action game that combines mech combat and customization with farming and base building.

you know, these days, many people time of year. but this season, try when to everything a special time — it just might become which with you

Merry Midwinter (observed). All I want for xmas is civil rights for all no matter their identity or origin and the surplus value of their labor for all workers.

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i'm sure i'm not the first to point this out but they seem to have confused themselves so badly that they don't even think there are two genders anymore

I think this could work

Bari Weiss won't hear your remarks about how disgusted you are with her toadying to the admin but on the other hand yes she will, these people are absolute dogs for attention and would eat their own vomit on live TV if it meant even three people would notice them

This guy is on the shortlist for my secretary of commerce

AI still can’t do this

this is a Canadian petition to uphold charter rights for transgender and minority communities if youre Canadian, please sign it. if youre not Canadian, please share it. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

brain: Reverse Threads: Clothing for people who like to screw machines but not _that_ way me: holy fuck i just woke up and haven't had coffee can you slow your roll

wait wait hold the fucking phone they canceled pride celebration stuff and at the same time collabed with rowling? that's so fucking on the nose jesus christ

we 💛 our amazingly talented crossword constructors: here's 50 of our crossword editor @xws.bsky.social's favorite puzzmo midis from 2026, all of which are now free to play 💝 blog.puzzmo.com/posts/2025/1...

We spoke to a dozen professional concept artists who are currently or have previously worked in game development about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs any easier. Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder. thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc...

Many good things here but I told people Kentucky Route Zero was my game of the decade for the 2010s and I stand by that.

beating a dead horse but part of what makes art both worthwhile to the creator of it and interesting to the beholder is that you can’t actually beam ideas from your head into exactly what you imagined that way when you make it yourself, and the left turns and fingerprints are all part of it

there is no begging for a "please grant me the right to exist", there is only a statement of "i will not only exist, but i will thrive in the face of your attempts to exterminate me. and you are far too weak to stop it" - and i think more trans people are starting to understand and accept this.

If any journalist wants to talk to a trans man with a PhD in Human Genomics who was trained in labs that studied the evolution of sex, I'm right here Or just keep platforming Republicans who have a 5th grade understanding of biology so they get more trans people killed, sure 🤷🏻‍♂️

The year is 2035. There are three game studios left. Each one produces a game every 10 years, killing 250+ developers in the process. They all accidentally make the same game because they used genAI in preproduction. They sell 500 million units each, missing quarterly targets. Everyone is laid off.

WE HAVE A TELESCOPE 🚀 The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has been fully assembled here in the cleanroom at NASA Goddard 😀🚀 and is on track to launch next fall!

I love stories of change, of redemption, of folks who never stop striving to be better, because they remind you to be better yourself, to do what you can to plant those seeds in the world, never knowing if they'll sprout. Many won't, but some might. And "might" is reason enough to plant them. 13/end

Getting third hand anxiety at the thought of placeholder text that is not immediately clearly placeholder and also is not a direction for the intention for the final text.

I've made it a personal goal to stop using the term "content" when referring to media made by artists. The word implies mass-produced filler and calling someone's hard work their "content" has started to feel kinda like an insult. Like human art made strictly for quick consumption

There's the "I want shorter games worse graphics not kidding etc etc" phrase, how about "I want artists to be able to make mistakes and make weird unappealing shit sometimes and not starve"

YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TO SPEAK UP, COOP. EARS FULL OF SPICE. BROKE THREE EARBUDS TRYING TO SCRAPE IT OUT. WORMSIGN? NEVER CARED FOR WORMS, BUT THE BIRDS LOVE 'EM.

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Please bear this in mind if you consider grabbing Hogwarts Legacy for free, thinking that you can accept/play it without it now doing harm. It's free to you but comes with a cost elsewhere.

THEY'VE PUT ME ON THE POCKETSTATION COOP. I'M BEING RENDERED IN A 32 BY 32 GRID OF MONOCHROME PIXELS. THE BOYS BACK AT QUANTICO SAID THEY'RE GOING TO RELOCATE ME TO A "DOKO DEMO ISSYO" UNTIL THEY CAN GET THIS STRAIGHTENED OUT.

“It's not my duty as Mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. For me it's the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you're going to put them.” — Mayor of Pontevedra, Spain (re-elected 6 times)

Doom studio id Software unionizes to secure AI protections, benefits: "We see the direction the industry is headed" aftermath.site/id-software-un...

forgive me father for I have blogged simulacrum.pika.page/posts/but-th...

people are blogging about the game awards so it's time to link to my blog post from 2023 where I said what is still my firm opinion to this day auratriolo.com/blog/2023/12...

I want an alternate 1970s spec-fic where everyone lost their shit over ELIZA, convinced it was Real AI and could think, which sped up the adoption of computers in everything and a bubble economy built around "thinking" machines that just repeat what you said as a question.

none of these people wrote the code or built the hardware. But also none of these people DESIGNED the code or the hardware. None of them "architected" anything. They're people choosing where the money goes, probably the most overpaid job for the skill & talent required, irrespective of success.

I can say with complete certainty that you will lose nothing by just ignoring The Game Awards. You do not need to give it any cultural power. It is purely a vehicle for marketing, and an ongoing insult to the people and craft we all take part in.

anti ai, pro hag

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i loved @jaymcastello.bsky.social's analysis of the original ending of hades 2 (aftermath.site/hades-2-endi...) and now i also love jay's new analysis of the new/patched ending of hades 2 www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMa6...

holy moly, ok! we did it?? we made a collection??? it's the first 13 games, bundled up with unlockable dev notes, updated audio, some sneaky bug fixes, cloud saves, and Steam Deck support!! store.steampowered.com/app/4044300/...