Demonschool is a cool game that I wanna talk about (I already have a rant loaded about the one aspect of the game that's a bit "meh" in my opinion) (because of course I do)... ...but SADLY I'm having to much fun actually playing the game so I guess this rant has to wait until I'm done.

guy whose mission is to defend corporations: nooooo you don't understand, it's not a fair comparison because the youtube guy is doing small-scale experiments motivated by an in-depth understanding of the hardware, while triple-A studios have a scope set by executives who don't know anything!

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??

Two sides of the same spunky woman #shehulk

Neon Genesis Evangelion Episode 9 Mind, Matching, Moment Both of You, Dance Like You Want to Win!

It's only a matter of time before humanities departments will be forced to accept AI-authored assignments, as part of revised university policy to cooperate with these billionaires. It's already happening, and our response needs to be decisive. Because our students' ability to *think* is at stake.

Universities are assembling larger and larger teams to deal with academic integrity issues--mostly focused on AI--while simultaneously holding AI "writing" contests, AI-themed events, "hey, come play with these fun tools!" The messages are so mixed, it's criminal. Because AI is bloated with money.

Ok man I gotta ask, if approximately 12% of jobs/tasks can be automated by a program that is dumber than a middle schooler isn't that just admitting 12% of work is just complete bullshit

From years ago and another service.

"It's impossible to tell definitively if someone is using AI!" —Someone who has never contemplated the plagiarism-detection mechanism of, for instance, asking a student what a word they used in their paper means.

I am allowed to fail students for AI use, and I do, and I say I will, repeatedly and emphatically. As a result, I wind up having to fail very few students for AI use.

The right is full of grown-ass adults who are afraid of vaccines, kid's books, and anyone Twitter or OAN tells them to fear, including the entirety of NYC, and NYC is full of people who cheerfully chase federal agents out of the state and then do stunts on Citibikes; you tell ME who's going to win.

"They can't just stop being cops and soldiers! There are consequences!" Yeah. Fighting evil comes with risks and consequences. So the fuck what? Being trans has ruined my ability to participate in society to a meaningful extent, but here I am. You want me to be sad that you're scared? Grow up.

In short: The city tried to demolish a tent encampment of homeless people, came in with heavy machinery, didn’t check whether anyone was inside, crushed a man, claimed it was a suspected overdose, offered a hollow apology with empty promises, and is now being sued.

It’s incredibly funny people flipped out about a guy running the most standard ass municipal government policy playbook imaginable.

Mario sunshine loves introducing new bizarre rules and acting like they're some fact of life you should have already known

bluesky's weird-ass post hiding is actively making my experience on the site worse. i always have to show in replies because the autohidden ones are always *without fail* things i actively want to see, but it also shows messages from accounts i've muted in the same place!

rich dudes got freakier after butlers fell out of fashion, like say what you will about having domestic servants but clearly it was some sort of moderating force on old rich dudes having a fancy man follow you around saying shit like "oh dear sir, that wouldn't be very becoming"

For UTDR fans that can’t read: Minor pretends to be adult. Lies and gets other person to pretend they’re married. Grooms younger minors. Threatens victims for years into adulthood to stay quiet and not talk about it. Victims try to have something done and are repeatedly downplayed and ignored.

What even is there to dissect? It's like trying to analyze an unpainted canvas. Like, obviously this is terrible but in a strange way I am downright *awed* by the blandness of it all, "maximalist plainness" should be an oxymoron yet somehow she made it reality.

Seen discourse re: AI dubbing about how “dubs are this bad anyways, screw those cliques who throw in amogus references” That’s intellectually dishonest. Even the cheesiest 4Kids dub can make me feel something real over AI. I say this as someone who prefers subs, too.

I did a comic about this three years ago.

There’s no accessible research that proves these deaths and Kennedy refuses to release his data so this is all a “take my word for it” situation, which means they’re lying.

This is a fucking nightmare.

Reality according to doomers: "Trump is turning ICE into an unstoppable army that answers only to him!!!" Actual reality:

The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste

so fucking tired of people saying AI "democratizes" creative skills, it's fucking privatizing it you dumb fuck, they're stealing your creativity from you and selling it back to you at a premium the ability to draw and write and sing and fucking whatever else came free with your fucking humanity

Every time I see another Vampire Survivors copycat, I throw up because of this. It is everywhere now. All of Steam has become one singular Skinner box, and slot machines are the One True Gameplay Mechanic. Just give in, buddy! Obey the demon in your head, reject meaning and embrace the grind!

i semi-regularly think about this concept and way of describing it and crack up. absurd

There are two outspoken Zionists on Stranger Things who have suffered zero consequences for publicly stating genocidal nonsense during the past 2 years. If you can't manage to boycott, or at least pirate that show, you can go to hell

"send back the things we gave to the genociders to commit war crimes against you so we can safeguard ourselves" is so peak USA-Israel that no satire would be able to get away with it

I think the first priority always has to be making something that's genuinely worth peoples' time and money. Not just something that's capable of taking peoples' time and money. Again nothing against dopamine loops in games or viral success or w/e, it's just... idk.

Falls irgendwelche Schlaumeier monieren, warum denn die Blockierenden in Gießen mit Masken zu sehen sind: 1. Hessen hat Palantir 2. Es ist nicht gerade empfehlenswert mit Gesicht in Fascho Chatgruppen zu landen. 3. Gerade Covid- und Influenza-Welle am Laufen

Anmerkung: Und wenn ich es recht sehe, haben auch in Hessen die Grünen der Software Palantir zugestimmt www.fr.de/politik/urte... Wie sie es in Ba-Wü taten und in NRW sogar die Erweiterung für das KI-Training Bei den Demos werden von den Demonstranten Daten gesammelt - von den "Geschützten" auch?

Eine grundsätzliche Erfahrung: Polizeiliche Pressemeldungen stellen die einseitige Sichtweise der Polizei dar und sind keine seriöse Quelle. #Gießen

I'm starting to feel kind of grumpy about how some indie and AA games copy so many of the practices that harm AAA. Like, dopamine loops and such can be compelling in a good way, but when we're implementing fomo shops, daily grinds, etc just like big companies... idk it feels wrong to me.

People will say anything on here. “We used to be a proper country,” no we didn’t. That’s not true.

Morrigan and Lilith full piece up on Patreon!

Of the Game Awards controversies right now this one is the most frustrating. When I attended via Future Class, I was seated next to an award-winning game dev. We were both on our phones. During a break a director came up to him, got in his ear, and said "seat fillers shouldn't be on their phones".

in abstract this really represents how the larger game industry much prefers to have loyal fandoms do all the unpaid work to represent the interests of big companies while treating the actual people who work on games as completely disposable

"please clap" ass award show

games are central to the media consumption of many people who have come up in the world with zero cultural or media literacy. that's part of why so many are eager to watch, like children, as the corporate political order redraws the lines around basic standards for free expression and thought.

Well we all know that a large portion of the venue needed to be reserved for the (checks notes) 30 remaining games journalists

Devs were only allowed a few (I believe two) tickets per nomination before Geoff charged them. Resale tickets were in the hundreds. And we all know what happened to Future Class (if you don’t, read my piece).

PAIN.

Another reason why they tied the fate of the entire economy to the AI-bubble. The tech will never be profitable (or even come close to breaking even), so the solution is to engineer a new "TOO BIG TO FAIL"-situation, ensuring they'll stick around why everyone else has to pay the bills for it.

Like, we need to remember that these AI programs do not run on the ether - their ecological impact is because they're power hungry, computer intensive, heat producing systems. They're EXPENSIVE! If they don't make money, they GO AWAY.

die füttern also eine ki mit den daten der greise*innen. prima