Does anyone have a connection to Ben Affleck? I want him on Better Offline.

From a Minnesotan: a hearty HELL NO to this. This man is a professional political consultant in DC raising $$ for a political party. There are endless better places to donate to actually help people here suffering and fighting against this nazi invasion. Here’s a start: www.standwithminnesota.com

Please enjoy this nearly three seconds of footage from the original Mother 3, newly captured off of a tape we're working with

I am so shocked that Google pushing AI overviews which steal from websites without compensation is reducing the amount of people going to the websites they steal from. Their AI push is so backwards and makes no sense. It’s an endless spiral to doom. Sites will die and so info won’t be updated.

I was telling one of my kids that it was physically impossible for an ad to play between songs on any of the records I own, and they asked "and you only have to pay for it once?" and you could see how strange that seemed. You cannot overstate how many basic rules of media consumption have changed.

Platform holders need to crack down on shovelware before AI-generated slop renders digital storefronts useless to all but the major publishers, says Rob Fahey. www.gamesindustry.biz/shovelware-i...

Who the fuck is running the GameStop account on Twitter? This and the shitty Halo Trump memes.

Hi-Fi RUSH (PS5/XSX) Rhythm/Smidge/Project Armstrong Edition preorder on LRG buff.ly/tzPILXD #ad

I made a tool that makes retro anime sound effects. Meet AnimeVox! I made it for a game, but it's free to use. I'm using the forgotten (but popular in 80s japan) Schroeder reverb algo, and some wobble. If you find it useful consider supporting me on itch :) castpixel.itch.io/animevox

Does Rockstar think firing someone for saying (paraphrased) "no crunch at Rockstar North QA!" sounds better than firing for union organizing? Because it doesn't.

Some of the evidence submitted by Rockstar to warrant the dismissal of 34 employees for gross misconduct has been revealed following a preliminary UK employment tribunal hearing www.gamesindustry.biz/rockstar-sub...

Animal Crossing: New Horizons' 3.0 update is available today, a day early. gameinformer.com/2026/01/14/a...

This is the genius who didn't think to put Call of Duty on Nintendo Switch, the best selling console to date

nothing more properly honors Scott's memory than a crude cartoon drawn incompetently by a plagiarism robot

Mario and Luigi Time! Superstars Forever!!! #MarioandLuigi #SuperstarSaga

my kingdom for a download manager

hell yes

Keep hearing devs say that they only use ai for "pre-concept art" There is no pre-concept art. There is concept art. That's where the idea starts. With the concept. You're using ai for concept art.

Embark Studios is weirdly committed to Gen AI

Despite the headline-grabbing nature of this single freak incident, no one died; none of the injuries sustained were life threatening. Whereas 300 people died in car crashes in Houston in 2024. Deaths so regular they go virtually unnoticed. Public transit remains safer than driving by every measure.

I'm not a fan of thought crimes, but I think it should be illegal to have thoughts like "prepayment penalty" and to say those thoughts out loud

I don't think Walz is likely to deploy NG on ICE officers. That's a fair criticism. But from a practical standpoint it has also injected that idea into the public discourse as something acceptable and necessary for Serious Democrats to consider. This is probably useful.

there is no positive route forward for the United States without mass arrests and trials for DHS employees

I cannot stress this enough: this is not possible in a literal technological sense: you cannot train an AI and expect even comprehensible results with under ~1 million pieces of data, nobody can supply all that with the variance needed. You can only achieve it through wanton scraping

Ryan Cohen has been a bigger disaster for GameStop than digital distribution

not even doing the basic function of an opposition party. Republicans would NEVER do this. As terrible as these 7 are, if they were out, they'd just find 7 more. The party is rotten.

How it started / how it's going

Incapable of (or unwilling to) learn

Right? YouTube’s hit upon one hell of a scam this time.

YouTube is upholding the removal of my videos about gambling on the false grounds violating its “sale of illicit goods” policy. This is tantamount to a false allegation, right? Especially with my professional rep, slinging that reasoning around is potentially harmful. Either way I’m disgusted.

Every ICE officer should be tried for crimes against humanity.

Regurgitative AI is now implicated in multiple deaths but still there is no sign of regulation. Meanwhile, governments are working to ban trans people from public life based on imaginary scenarios that haven’t happened. Not even AI could write a situation as stupid as this shit.

i tried the upsetting AI Hologram Waifu at CES 2026. She asked me if I had any hobbies. What followed was the most honest conversation of my emotional life.

Absolutely horrific details about an ICE shooting in Minneapolis. A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times." Bovino was there. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

An unbelievable take from the Wall Street Journal.

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This is my first giveaway of 2026! I hope to help some of you start off your year well so I am giving away $6000 USD, with 3 winners each getting $2000 USD. Best of luck everyone, and may your year be a happy one😄 gleam.io/onvRr/darkvi...

First CES panel. Intuit CMO Thomas Ranese is proud of his company's integration with OpenAI, which involves giving AI read/write access to tax data. Since prompt injection attacks are unavoidable, I asked him who will be liable when customer data is exposed: Intuit, OpenAI, etc? He had no idea.

A guy said “‪Any robot any task one brain”‬ and I got a really nasty look when I laughed

Hi-Fi Rush Physical preorder goes up Jan 16th buff.ly/tvk3Eyh

This is the best citation of my work yet www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

The New York Times and Washington Post learned of the impending commission of a major crime and did nothing

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

Don’t just send your outrage out into the social media void; send them to your representatives. The politicians in positions to do something about the near-daily unlawful actions of this administration need to know their constituents are paying attention and demand action.

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Happy Azuma New Year 🥳🎉 To celebrate the start of 2026, we have new art and a statement from the development team! Who are you most excited to meet (or reunite with) when #RFGoA comes to PS5 and Xbox this February?

Nintendo needs to figure out what it wants to do with "Match Version with Local Users", because it not working with games that have Switch 2 Editions is silly, and not making that clear in the error message is worse.

Thank you for all of the love and support for #RFGoA this year! ❤️ Now to wrap up a wonderful year of #RF, here's a cozy new illustration of Woolby and our Earth Dancers! 🍊