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Since apparently this isn't making it beyond UK news yet, Rockstar petitioned a British court to section an 18 year old autistic kid under the mental health act for hacking their server and leaking a short GTA 6 clip a couple of years ago. No trial, no term of sentence, just locked up in hospital.

Sellattii vaan, että voitaisiinko palauttaa sen verran perinteisiä arvoja että opeteltaisiin hyviä tapoja keskustelussa ja priorisoitaisiin yleistä resilienssiä hybridivaikuttamista vastaan. PS: jos et koe olevasi sirpaloitunut hetero, tämä sarjakuva ei puhu sinulle, mutta voisit jakaa sen.

Tämä Laitisen kommentti on kyllä paljastava monella tapaa siitä miten Pride nähdään mediassa yhä sellaisena koko perheen mehukesteinä, eikä yhteiskunnan marginaaleissa elävien vähemmistöjen ihmisoikeuksien mielenosoituksena. Värikkäät asut ja tyhjät iskulauseet miellyttävät koska ne ei vaadi mitään.

Allowing data centres to use carbon offsets, one of the most useless, divisive and generally unhelpful mechanisms for tackling climate change, would be a ridiculous concession to Big Tech power by the EU 🧵🧵 1/4 www.ft.com/content/2135...

Me: Okay, there's been a thunderstorm, the heatwave should be over now. (New health bar appears) (The sun is now named 'Sol, Starflame of Regret') (Objectively the greatest piece of classical music ever recorded starts playing).

It had to happen one day.

My beautiful horse. #makeaterriblecomicday2026

Bullshit Jobs

At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/

Game failure? Layoffs Game success? Layoffs Game delayed? Layoffs Game delivered? Layoffs Game announced? Layoffs Game unannounced? Layoffs Game good? Layoffs Game bad? Layoffs Game AI? Layoffs Game no-AI? Layoffs Game hated? Layoffs Game beloved? Layoffs Money cares more for layoffs than games.

Our team is enjoying the DiGRA 2026 conference in Maynooth! We presented our work on 'Intersectional pleasures and limits of game cultural participation and belonging in Finland' and are also involved in several other presentations and workshops. Our work is funded by the RCF #SuomenAkatemia.

The world’s first trillionaire took away our Ebola response capacity, gave us screwworms, hollowed out our government so he could pay less taxes, and condemned millions of the world’s most vulnerable people to death.

Peliviikko etsii kuvittajaa julisteelle. Mä olen jo yhden piirtänyt, niin välitän vaan tiedoksi teille kaikille muille kuvittajille. Mikäli olet kiinnostunut, lähetä sähköpostia ja esimerkkejä töistäsi osoitteeseen: [email protected] (Altista löytyy alkuperäisen face-postauksen teksti)

The DiGRA Conference 2026 on the theme ‘intersectional pleasures’ will be organised 14–18 June in Maynooth, Ireland. Our research group is well represented at the event – here we have collected a list of the 16 presentations featuring our team members: gameresearchlab.tuni.fi/gamelab-at-d...

Still doing research at Vectorama today. They have robots too! They are from the Educational Consortium OSAO. They can be seen walking around the event, sometimes guiding visitors and doing impromptu dancing shows.

Me: Doing super serious academic research about cultural accessibility and social sustainability of game events Also me: OMG they have nyancats on the floor and they're ANIMATED!!! best event 100% no questions asked

Routledge has now confirmed that the volume we have been working on for some time, Cultural Game Studies: Critical Approaches,will be out on 10 July 2026 and is available for preorder from 19 June 2026. There is a 20 % discount code attached, and there are also review copies (links in comments).

Would love to see more attention given to this! Feels like AI use is far too often attributed to laziness and poor personal morals etc., rather than precarious work, work overload and constant pressure. This said, "work more, work faster, compromise on quality" is a terrible solution.

i need this website to stop shitting it’s diapers over NSFW stuff when the median age in here is fucking 35 like give us a fucking break 💀

Without question, the best two minutes on the internet. Take a break from the awful news cycle and enjoy this haircut and....feedback from the internet.

So much Anger. 😊 Always happy to have a chance to visit Norway, and this time has been exceptionally awesome meeting so many new people & hearing about their research!

AI always calling your ideas “fantastic” can feel inauthentic, but what are sycophancy’s deeper harms? We find that in the common use case of seeking AI advice on interpersonal situations—specifically conflicts—sycophancy makes people feel more right & less willing to apologize.

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:

institutions are shunning/banning queer and "deviant" sexuality, while desensitizing/oversaturating heteronormative sexuality through mainstream online cultures like gaming to the point where middle school kids say "glaze" and "gooning" bodies now mean nothing to culture except sexualized ownership

This is a cat checkpoint. Relinquish your most recent cat picture on your phone.

It's not 1536, but Anne Boleyn has taken over the news. Recently a team of computer scientists, electrical engineers and a historical novelist think they have discovered the “true face” of Anne (& her mother) by applying AI-based computational facial recognition to Holbein sketches. The catch? /1

Not for nothing I just gave a talk at the UNCG game studies conference about digital live service logics influencing analog game design

Rawbraining it

‘We aren’t socialists, we’re just better at accounting’ is a killer line.

Every guy in a videogame:

finally, perspective grid knowledge will be useful irl

Diving into the 1st community for my #PhD #thesis. The future we were promised: #Frutigeraero is a retrofuturism I grew up with. The skeuomorphic, saturated, soulful look instilled in me a deep optimism for the world. Nostalgia here is both for the past that was and the future that could still be.

Meanwhile, at Tumblr... (www.tumblr.com/dduane/81542...)

'We've been a little bit too romantic about the idea that we should have employees and give people long-term job security' is an extraordinary thing for a video games CEO to say on record: aftermath.site/video-game-job...

Here we go! Presenting the prompt list for #Mayllennial 2026, a daily art prompt challenge in May, filled with millennial nostalgia… and struggles. ✨ Draw, write, or create however much you want, however much effort you want. ☺️ Have fun!

"Adults who do not know how to play at all have suppressed something within themselves.”

"At a time when there are so many other reasons why children might be suffering from mental illness, focusing attention on social media seems almost irresponsible – or perhaps it is just a convenient way of distracting attention from other problems that are seen as much too awkward to confront."

you can no longer read this. I've removed all the "public nudity" (sex words) and submitted it for review. So, as per Patreon, keep in mind: describing sex counts as public indecency. Yes, really. I hope I live to see the death of puritanism. This is hell.

2 years ago I was unsuccessfully dodging cars and eating garbage. Now I’m the lord of all I survey; follow me for more lifestyle advice (before/after)

"From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch." ― Edgar Mitchell

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

A viral dog rescue from 2016 is now immortalized with a statue in Kazakhstan. When a dog fell into the Sayran reservoir, bystanders formed a human chain to pull him to safety. The statue is a reminder of the value of unity, solidarity and collective action. 14/10 for all

Wanna hear about current studies on game events and communities? Our (free!) game studies Spring Seminar registration is now open! Also... I'm presenting a keynote on social sustainability at the seminar. So excited for the opportunity!

see? here's the thing. A lot of people are like, the earth is fucked, it's beyond salvation, it's hit the tipping point, but time and time again we see that if we just fucking fixed the problem, it rebounds so incredibly fast. Imagine what could be done if people actually cared

We compiled our favorite moments of dogs enjoying snow this winter for you! We hope you love it ❤️ 14/10 for all

Hallituksen kehysriihessä sakset osoittavat jälleen järjestöjen suuntaan, vaikka sote-järjestöjen valtionavustuksia on leikattu jo lähes 40 prosentilla. Sote-järjestöt vapaaehtoisineen ovat keskeinen osa suomalaista hyvinvointiyhteiskuntaa. Allekirjoita vetoomus! https://ow.ly/qxMj50YulPZ