Zadie Smith telling it like it is.

If your game has voice acting, then working with the voice actors is half of your writing process. It's not complete until you've heard it interpreted and reimagined by a voice actor. And they always reimagine it in ways that elevate the writing, in ways you never would have imagined yourself.

I really do appreciate the variety of genres being presented here. Good stuff. #Stateofplay

I'm here to tell you that voice actors (even very very good ones) are not expensive, more than make up for their cost in the value they bring to your game, and if Baldur's Gate can record real actors for every line of dialogue in the game, so can you for your 100 generic barks or even specific ones.

“Don’t gather some of the most brilliant activists in the industry, treat us like crap, and then expect us to do nothing about it.” After the Game Awards cancelled its Future Class programme, @alyssamerc.bsky.social talked to its former honorees www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...

Fuckin' hell. Here's a grotesque accusation made *without evidence*, would you care to comment on it and help validate it to some degree? - NYT

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?

This term is so social media-brained. Coined by people who can't imagine themselves without an audience, or that anyone could genuinely want to pass time in any other form than Stare at Phone

I don't know if Adhoc Studio have said anything about it, but I do hope that there will be a soundtrack for 'Dispatch' released when season 1 finishes up (extra points for that karaoke track). I have had 'Radio' by Belshy stuck in my head all weekend; great song for such a fun scene with everyone.

Moore rather gave the game away on Today just now when he mentioned climate change as one of the things on which the BBC should be impartial. Treating the truth and lies as though they are equal isn't impartiality, it's an abdication of the most basic journalistic responsibility

This is how to write a headline about repeated liars.

Joyce Carol Oates absolutely reading Elon Musk for filth is pretty incredible, but something I'd point out is his feigned interest in games, and how fake that was, paying people to boost his accounts and play for him, and the rare time we actually got to see him play, he was absolutely miserable.

The same dudes who fetishize the supposed lost strength and competence of their forefathers want computers to write their emails for them.

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

Part of the reason I think there isn’t as much pressure around stopping ChatGPT re: suicide/psychosis as compared to stuff like Panera Lemonade is because people are inclined to blame it on mental illness versus the tech, a kind of victim-blaming mentality that fits neatly into just world fallacy

“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states

This is interesting drama to follow lol TLDR, the people who made the AI coke commercial are denying it and generating fake concept art, actual concept artists are ripping it all apart as fake because the guy has no idea how any of this works

I've been catching up on 'Dispatch' this weekend, ahead of the final two episodes coming out next week. I'm really enjoying it, especially as someone who has a fondness for narrative-focused games.

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

The ability to convince capital markets to hand you a trillion dollars on the strength of obvious bullshit paired with the inability to get a single human to sincerely and spontaneously say they love you is some real punishment of the gods shit.

Seven *more* families? And this is only the families who have the means to sue, and (critically) the families who FOUND OUT. How many more vulnerable people has ChatGPT convinced? Will we ever know? Fuck all this. techcrunch.com/2025/11/07/s...

The cure to the loneliness epidemic is just liking things.

I’ve been able to confirm that these cuts impact people of a wide range of experience and seniority levels. Spoke with one person who has been there for well over a decade who was cut today. This is awful.

I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.

This is an abomination and OpenAI need to be wiped out. (The bro-talk purple prose to attempt to make it's yes-man answers more personal is just ghastly.)

Me, looking at what's happening in the news each day: (And yes, it's always the billionaires acting like bastards.)

Something worth noting: Rockstar is leaning HEAVILY on the excuse that the unionising employees were "leaking private company information" They want people to assume this means game info or assets. But I will bet you CASH MONEY this translates to: 'they were comparing salaries and work contracts"

I seem to remember whole congressional hearings about the terrible destructive force that is violence in video games and yet, there is a very strange quiet about an unregulated technology that coaches people to suicide.

We had fucking congressional hearings over Mortal Kombat.

This story is infinitely more important than GTA getting delayed. Don't let me catch you moaning about waiting longer for a video game if you're not mad about why it happened.

For some reason the media is not mentioning that the reason GTA6 is being delayed is they fired 40 staff over threats of unionization and now the rest of their staff are revolting

I feel like reminding people that any body language analysis or similar practice that says "If this person is fidgeting or messing with their hair or avoiding eye contact, they're being DECEPTIVE" is bullshit because neurodivergent folks do that shit ALL THE TIME.

Stop saying the cop was assaulted by a sandwich You have to use the passive voice. The officer was impacted by a sweet onion chicken teriyaki of unclear origin

The haters said they couldn't do it. And they were right. Honestly, great call from the haters.

every AI ad is like “hey gemini, what would i have for lunch?” and then the phone is like “sandwich” and the guy is like “wow”

As always, it's appalling at the same time it's so cheap, tawdry, and embarrassing. What a pathetic, shabby little gangster.

Stop sharing AI slop. It's one thing if you don't know or just made a mistake. No need to breathe down someones neck b/c its harder to tell nowadays. But if you do know (ESPECIALLY IF YOU DO KNOW) even if you're posting it to make fun of it or sharing it unironically... consider not doing that.

The "take time to think" advisory line doesn't mean anything when you're constantly bombarded with unblockable online adverts for mobile sports betting/gambling apps promising things like £30 of bets for £10 investment, free spins, rewards, and other shite to hook people on these dreadful things.

An apt visual summary: gaudy, tacky, and pathetically cheap.

I quit watching the World Cup during university, due to my sheer contempt of FIFA. Nice to see the dickheads find new ways to reinforce it

Coke’s money saving claim for its AI commercial is weird in that they could just spend nothing, put out the pre-existing trucks ad and get exactly the same results, and we know this cos that is what they in fact did for about 25 years

In Memoriam: Cheney Haunted By People He Didn't Manage To Kill In Iraq War

New awareness campaign

Even though Halloween was yesterday, I'm finally able to sit down and watch a horror film this evening. With all of the different options available, I ultimately decided to rewatch 'Jaws' for its 50th anniversary. Yes, 'Jaws' is a thriller, but I'd say that it counts, being the icon that it is.

And who pays the King? UK taxpayers. If taxes are going to fund this asshole for the rest of his life, just put him in jail. It's much cheaper!

they buy themselves treats because they know without drastic structural changes, those will be the only treats they get the era of delayed gratification is over: the billionaires stole the gratification part, all they’re left with is delay

Got the day off from work, so I caught up on the latest episode of 'Taskmaster' and will now play a lot of 'Ghost of Yōtei' before maybe watching a horror film this evening. It's a good plan.

They literally ruin everything they touch

Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.