All of these links went to promotion of this story earlier today. All these links are dead now — that's how thoroughly they've scrubbed this.

Disco is only 3.99 right now, in case anyone wants a present for a Steam friend

Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it

Games industry experts: What are the games of the last three years that have been the most enlightening for your craft? The games that showed you something new or helped give you an insight you’d not had before? I need to build up my backlog, give me your recs!

like - when someone finds the phone number of a lady they heard about online and calls her to threaten to kill her - when they put down the phone, imagine what the rest of their life is like. Imagine how they are to the people that know them!!!

the source problem with what feels like the majority of things in America is: there's a nontrivial percentage of people who are obsessively aggrieved with things to the point of mental illness, they have nothing going on in their lives and no community that would moderate their behavior at all

Larian CEO Swen Vincke says everyone at the Baldur’s Gate 3 studio is “more or less OK” with the way AI is being used on its new game. We’re not so sure about that.

Any Māori/Pasifika people want to chat Avatar and representation for something I’m writing? DMs open!

The Epstein Files, everybody!

Just tried to search for Trump’s name in the Epstein files library on the DOJ’s website. You’ll be *shocked* to learn that there’s no mention of him whatsoever!

5 minutes later, folks are still just standing around and waiting for Trump (keep in mind this event was supposed to start more than 70 minutes ago).

i saw this on douyin (the Chinese tiktok) and the video it marked as AI was not AI. so, i like the idea in theory but be really careful with this

You might be thinking, "CPSC, does a dry Christmas tree really burn that much faster than a well-watered tree?" Friend, let's find out together by watching this PSA.

Benoit Blanc taking my cat's side in the case of I Have Never Been Fed Once, Ever

I'm so lost on Swen's (Larian CEO) doubling down on using ChatGPT for powerpoints and pre-production concepting despite A) admitting it adds no value to the pipeline and B) having no shareholder interests pressing down on him. Literally just seems like he got grifted and this is sunk cost phallacy

you can tell AI is so good because everyone who uses it has to offer a really defensive justification beforehand

if benoit blanc had to solve a killing on lego island he would likely latch onto pepper roni as his guide through the complexities of this twisted web he finds himself in

VERMIS III PREORDER??? hollow-press.net/collections/...

Now in its ninth year, our annual poll, organised by by Jiří Anger, Veronika Hanáková, Kevin B. Lee and Occitane Lacurie, showcases a record 255 vital video essays, nominated by 72 international voters www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

don't think this will really change anything besides marketing copy but the demonstration of hostility here alarms me

Me and @strucci.bsky.social the entire time watching the season premiere of Fallout

artists are paid to think and problem solve! that's actually the fun part! the nice drawing(s) are just the output!

i have received, from clients, quickly photoshopped concepts, scenes acted out with action figures, lego sets, stick figures, scenes from movies with a "but xyz different instead", and I could go on. all of these were helpful and they had the average amount of note passes there's really no excuse

may be too twee but if it isn't this looks fun!

same thing with Okiku in One Piece, she's like "I'm a woman" and everyone is like "ok cool :)" and they move on

The next time you’re tempted to beat yourself up over a silly mistake at work, think of the poor guy who pulled a real-life “Sorry, I’m sorry, I’m trying to remove it” after publicly hearting a photo of Jeffrey Epstein.

FOUR new deaths in ICE detention. That puts the total this year at 30 people dead; the highest in ICE's history and worse than even during the COVID years. It's clear that the system is breaking down. Many of these are preventable deaths.

Most of us did not choose to write or draw or design so that we could put products on the shelf. We chose to do it because it’s a set of skills we enjoy exercising, that give us fulfillment. It’s like asking a pro pitcher to just let a machine pitch for them. Fuck off and give me the ball.

Shoulda gone with this quote instead

if i had a dime for every NYT employee who hung out with jeffrey epstein i would have at least two which isn’t that many but it’s still weird

We can do even more.

Katherine Long deserves a crown.

One thing to remember about McCarthyism is it didn't last forever and those who collaborated are rightly remembered as craven and pathetic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhLP... Any favors won from this admin are temporary. Live a life you can be proud of 10, 20 years from now and stick by your principles

WaPo covered NSPM-7 ! The dam is breaking

after a month, i can say that BLANKSWORD is one of the most rewarding creative projects i've ever had the honor to be involved with. everyone on the team is a literal treasure and i hope that the finished game itself changes something in you, maybe forever.

i'm so very tired of hearing about AI. please play the demo for the game i'm helping out with and talk about that instead. for me store.steampowered.com/app/3484670/...

Re: And Then There Were None, any mystery novel audiobook recommendations? I prefer shorter ones, 6 hours was perfect. Will listen to more Christie but open to whatever

i'm hardlined anti-genAI/LLM (I think things should have to be useful before we start calling them useful and good before we start calling them good. also it makes you stupid) and it's very easy! i recommend it. other people love to act like it's hard bc they want to outsource their brain. it's not!

Listened to the And Then There Were None audiobook (it's available on Hoopla! With DAN STEVENS reading it!!!) Super interesting seeing it laid out how influential Christie was to every mystery film/series I've enjoyed. Sucks that racism haunts the book so intensely though, takes away from enjoyment

Primary these ghouls www.congress.gov/votes/house/...

This is a good point and something to always keep in mind

Mistakenly went to reddit to read reactions to the new Fallout season and saw a comment from someone who seemed genuinely upset that the show is "making Mr. House into a villain"

I liked Fallout 4 a lot on release as like a funny retrofuturistic game I could turn my brain off and play so it's funny how fast playing FNV for the first time in my 30s turned me into a Fallout 4 hater

Really enjoyed Fallout s2e1! I think people who don't like the show just have completely different expectations/needs from a Fallout adaptation than I do. It's retrofuturistic social satire and gore with some well-acted, compelling characters and old timey needle drops. I am happy

this is why you don't give them an inch

Went all-in on my picks this year lol :) www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

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MY 4-YEAR OLD: *calmly, while coloring a picture of the Grinch* If baby grinches die, we can eat them. If they’re clean. That’s ok