Reject physically-based lighting solutions. Return to vertex coloring.

So, the usuals peddling this is the press forcing this game into your Steam library is genuinely just trying to retain their relevance - they need an enemy, the enemy always needs to "feel bigger", as they need to be able to claim victimhood if someone fires back in kind. It's all content to them.

We’ve heard your feedback 📢 From today through Early Access launch, you can pre-purchase and pre-load Subnautica 2 on Steam! You can also pre-purchase on Epic Games. We'll update with news about Xbox when we have it. 🔗 : https://unknownworlds.com/en/news/subnautica-2-pre-purchase-pre-load

It's so cool how closing a program doesn't actually close it anymore. I hope they take away the Minimize button next

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From the top rope. From downtown. From left field.

This implies people in Washington are just misguided or need a wake-up call. No. You do not commit the amount of evil these people have committed without meaning to. They know what's happening. They're doing it on purpose.

fyi it started this week!

When I describe my personal design aesthetic to other game designers, I tell them that I don’t design for balance but rather drama. This is a great illustration of that.

it's so fucked up that 'roguelike' now means you get three random upgrades at the end of a level instead of "occasionally the game will generate a gnome with a wand of death and obliterate you (in the event that you havent already died accidentally falling down a set of stairs while overencumbered)"

More second art pass. I'm currently studying at the Metroid Prime school of "just put cracks everywhere"

The depths are calling… 🐟 The Subnautica 2 Early Access cinematic trailer is out now! Make sure you watch all the way to the end for a surprise 🫣 🎞️: https://youtu.be/8EZhCzFaQuw

ELIZABETH WARREN: Did Donald Trump lose the 2020 election? KEVIN WARSH: Uhm, we try to keep politics if I'm confirmed out of the Federal Reserve WARREN: I'm just asking a factual question WARSH: I believe this body certified the election WARREN: That's not the question I'm asking

Sen. Kennedy to Warsh: "My worry is that a lot of this stuff about artificial intelligence making us more productive is a bunch of hype by people who want to sell stock and an IPO. I'd be careful there."

Inconvenience? I just had to dig seven pages deep to find the unsubscribe for one of the four TV subscriptions I need, I'm measured & optimized against in my supermarket, lamps, music, games, and travel. Every service I love gets enshittified to buy billionaires yachts worth 100 times my house.

Is there any reason for wanting to keep your emissions secret that isn't deeply gross? Cause the only one I can think of is that they are even worse then expected.

Extremely serious item acquisitions in Curse of Strahd today

Turns out people are generally good and when there's no incentive to being mean, people treat each other well Mind-blowing

I think I was like 10 years old when my parents showed me Short Circuit and I ended up spending the whole time counting how many "bad words" they said (seriously it's like one every 2 minutes)

Unions for digital media workers needs to happen yesterday.

Also screw wealthy CEO’s and corporations laying off the very people that made them wildly successful, just for short term gains. Folks with institutional knowledge, with decades of work, dedication and success all dismissed. For what? Who knows but it’ll make a great bonus for an exec.

Arizona families are being outbid for starter homes by hedge funds. We can’t let Wall Street turn our neighborhoods into their personal investment portfolios. We need to ban these practices and put families first again.

Techbros are used to being able to do whatever they want with zero repercussions. AI, however, presents the grimmest existential threat to the human experience that tech has ever presented. I've never seen such widespread pushback against a piece of tech before. Screw AI and the people making it.

The Democrats are wondering where the campus protests are? The Democrats who abetted and armed and funded Israel's genocide, who first demonized and then criminalized student protests? The Democrats who were in power as the institutional leaders protecting the students were ousted? Those Democrats?

Modeling pass 2 electric boogaloo

via "criticism of United States foreign policy"

As a reminder, Israel and the United States have already committed untold war crimes in Iran, including damaging or destroying civilian schools, institutes, researchers, power plants, infrastructure - it's just war crimes all day every day between the two of them. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/...

In 1953 Iran had a functioning democracy. A free press. Seven political parties. Women in universities. Women granted voting rights in municipal councils in 1952. A secular prime minister named Mosaddegh who believed Iran's oil belonged to Iran. The US and Britain decided he had to go.

Expect Western news to imminently report about Lebanon's hospitals "failing" after "having been damaged" as opposed to the truth, which is Israel is committing a further ethnic cleansing in Lebanon, ensuring the Lebanese are exterminated or unable to live in their homes. apnews.com/article/leba...

It's a good reminder that our leaders cannot do anything about a genocide or two or three but will comprehensively reject and respond with massive military force might a country claim reparations for war crimes by charging fees for traveling its waters.

Between the environmental issues, corporate agenda, direct pollution and quality of life dips towards entire cities caused by data centers, uncompensated labor, and crashes on job stability, if you see no evil in that you're just soulless.

Very few things are more groan-worthy than someone with influence pretending a giant outcry is because everybody misunderstood them, instead of the simple truth that everybody understands exactly what they're selling but not wanting it.

Mad respect to Andy Weir as a storyteller but... I've read all 3 of his published books and they ALL contain social commentary whether he realizes he put it in there or not. It is extremely difficult, and in most cases not even WORTH it, to write a story that doesn't comment on social issues.

You know what *else* is terminally destructive to the body it's a part of and should be removed immediately? Tim Sweeney.

Last week, an Epic Games employee with terminal brain cancer was included in a mass layoff, losing his life insurance coverage. CEO Tim Sweeney says Epic has since reached out to the employee's family to "solve" the insurance issue. gameinformer.com/2026/03/30/a...

Israel prohibiting Palm Sunday Mass in Jerusalem is just a reminder that Israel is an ethnosupremacist genocidal apartheid state - they've started with Palestine and Lebanon and Iran but they won't stop to destroy you, wherever you are, whatever you are - unless you are an Israeli Zionist.

We’ve always known Trump is an impatient bully. He’d rather strong-arm other nations instead of engaging in diplomacy. He’s attacked multiple and has said Cuba is “next.” While he’s focused on wars, folks at home can’t afford gas or groceries. This needs to stop.

Thanks to AI, Google has become perhaps the largest source of misinformation in the world. This one is just completely made up!

I don't think people understand how hard it is to work in the video-game industry right now. If you've been laid off, it can take months if not years to find new work. If you haven't been laid off, you're anxious that you will be laid off. This week's column: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

I'm actually very excited for this Starfield update but I cannot overlook the fact that it took 2.7 years for a game whose whole point is "explore space" to add a feature that lets you fly through space

More art pass posting because mmmm I love second pass

This past weekend, the new movie Project Hail Mary was a smash hit, bringing in nearly $141 million at the box office. But many years ago, before he was writing novels adapted into mega-hit films, Andy Weir was fired from his dream job... at Blizzard Entertainment. Excerpt from my latest book:

Kinda crazy that there were zero eyes batted at a bunch of 10- to 12-year-olds reading The Hunger Games. Lots of those "videogames cause violence" types handing their kids a book about children snapping each others' necks. What a time to be alive.

Did you know that in the history of tracking press murders, Israel has murdered more press than any other war, conflict, government, or military. At number two is the whole Iraq invasion & conflict, which still led to less press murdered in a decade than Israel systemically murdered in just 2 years.

The fact that Jim Carrey keeps retiring but then someone says "hey they're making another Sonic the Hedgehog movie" and he goes "ehhhh maybe I'm not retired" is just incredible

Families are making impossible choices: Pay bills or fill up the gas tank. Buy groceries or pick up a prescription. They deserve to not just get by, but get ahead. That’s what I’m working to deliver. For someone making $50k a year, my tax plan could save them over $2,800.

92 pages of Krafton getting chewed out for trying to destroy the makers of Subnautica and effectively steal life-changing sums of money from the studio's staff, all because their CEO used ChatGPT to formulate an illegal takeover strategy. That was absolutely delicious to read.

Subnautica devs v. Krafton ruling is ABSOLUTELY stunning. Start at the top of page 32 and read until the end of that section on page 37. Krafton CEO was warned by their legal personnel to not follow ChatGPT into what is likely Some Of The Dumbest Legal Shit Ever, CEO believed the plagiarism bot.

YESSSS

BREAKING: A Delaware judge has ruled that Krafton must *reinstate* Ted Gill, the fired CEO of Subnautica 2 maker Unknown Worlds. In the ruling, the judge accuses Krafton's CEO of using ChatGPT to come up with a strategy to get out of paying Unknown Worlds a $250 million bonus. Story coming shortly