Correction: a far more severe version of that crime!

An extremely funny thing about retro rereleases that use unlicensed emulators is that you are basically committing the exact same crime (using software outside of the terms of its license) that has you so scared of downloading roms in the first place but now someone has monetized it.

New: 150 unionized ProPublica workers are on strike TODAY over AI, layoff protections, wages, and more. They're asking readers to not visit ProPublica or engage with content on other platforms. It's the first work stoppage of its kind at the newsroom. www.theverge.com/news/908401/...

tfw you're so halfling's weed you don't need a cart you can just float

mods are asleep post camera falling out of plane and landing in a pig pen to be licked by a pig

my like fifteen minutes of gaming time before i pass out after work can be happily filled with stuff i never got around to from the past forty years before they started doing shit like this

the last temptation of christ was so funny when i watched it because it’s one of the best films ever made but it’s also what if the bible had an anime original ending. jesus in the infinite tsukuyomi

listening to this for the six thousandth time is the closest i get to celebrating youtu.be/URWa0rbB1Kw?...

Again - BlueSky was originally Jack Dorsey’s pet project to make a Web3 social media / NFT trading post until a bunch of trans furries got ahold of invite codes and started mass-proliferating them to other trans furries and then suddenly BlueSky was 90% queers and annoying leftists and Jack fled.

as others have noted, he’s even using the same language.

what do you MEAN this was just a test from the IT department

hi yeah I'd like to report a phishing attempt

Me finally returning to a Red Lobster to finish the job I started two years ago:

fundamental issues between catholicism and various protestantisms were what activities "counted" to what ends in the eyes of an invisible presence, and could you get out of a bad thing you did and if so how, etc; "modernity" is about depersonalizing/demystifying that presence to something secular

not to hop on my "michael boss babies the world through the protestant reformation" tricycle again but it's almost as if there's an institution, or set of institutions, forcing us to yield up the intangible capillaries of everyday belief and action to a totalizing affective-behavioral regime!!!

this is in fact the design of the thing: it's all about being able to make choices for which the subject is not ultimately responsible (and also to the same point: why it both reproduces and induces business owner-style brainrot) www.forbes.com/sites/leslie...

This is something tech people don't grasp about nonfiction writing: the process of deep research, of deciding which little details are interesting or which obscure anecdotes have historical value, is all part of the creative work of writing. It's not grunt work. It can't just be automated.

the thing about armored trooper VOTOMs is that when people are talking about how cool and important it is they never tell you that chirico is consistently drawn like he's one of those hockey players who needs special pants because normal pants can't handle how fat their asses and thighs are

The entire Votoms journey is one of the best you can take in anime, with the all time best next time ons in the form m.youtube.com/watch?v=TYHZ...

That's right

Billy Bat is real He is coming to your house soon

thank god i found it again

my gundam tcg locals is like half filipino american men and for some reason it's really funny when someone drops this card and says "we're goin to the philippines", thanks gundam hathaway

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It's the final day of PAX East and the Indiepocalypse booth (24098, just look around, you'll find it) is approaching the 'what you see is what I've got' state. Hurry down and pick up some unique indie games before they're gone!

@attie.ai, for those who wanna press the funny buttons too

Longtime college friend of mine, Mike Prinke, was among those laid off at Epic Games: he has been fighting terminal brain cancer, and now he, his wife, and kid, have no income or health insurance. Sharing here in hopes it can reach the right people on their behalf. #epicgames

The industry has been on fire for the last 3+ years. The problem is capitalism and we aren't solving that one on our own.

Every time I see someone say "indies will save us", I think about all the game dev mutuals I have who have made it very clear the same problems facing AAA funding are impacting indies, too.

lately, whenever a new manga artist shows up on NHK, they look like this

the great tragedy of homestar runner fading into the night the past decade and a half is that we'll never have a national spelling bee championship where a sixth grader has to spell "fhqwhgads"

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Just a reminder that they still intend to do this, dont let the backlash die down, keep cancelling your subscription.

This is probably the most lasting impact of the Trump administration, and the one that will ensure the death of the American imperial era.

It's so funny that they have a "bay of pigs veterans association". If I was a bay of pigs veteran you would never hear about it. I'd take that shit to my grave

So, um... this is bad. Really bad. I looked at the letters that were translated by the AI, and the very first one I found was almost entirely hallucination. Thread:

"Will this game have gen-AI slop or not? I only have X time/money for the games I purchase." "Will this game release on a platform later or not, given a deceptive descriptor of 'exclusive'? I only have X time/money for the games I purchase." Adding uncertainty in uncertain times... seems unwise!

Perhaps these concerns might be overstated, but they come at a time where there are no shortage of alternatives people can spend their time and money. A game I wouldn't want to play!

People are expressing fear and/or disavowal of future Dragon Quest games or other SQEX MMOs over this, and, hats off to everyone involved in adding more drops of poison to the well.

It is not rocket science that developers who are paid/treated well and given creative control make better games. The people up top literally just don't care: they want their money for themselves.

They can't say it out loud because the answer to how AI is making games faster/better to develop is "we don't have to pay as many wages." But Anna, "AI is just making workers more productive." So are those workers getting a raise? No. Are they continuing to staff up? No. Are the game worse? Yes.

"Oh, we didn't mean to leave them in game." Really? Because I suspect either you did and thought people would be too stupid to notice (in which case you don't respect your audience) or you did and didn't believe it matters (in which case you don't respect yourselves and your work)

This needs to stop being a position that we really accept as an explanation at all for all this. In the worst case, it's probably a lie and in an only slightly better case it still shows a lack of care for both their craft but also the final work that is made. Neither of these is okay.

genuinely one of the scariest things about AI is how isolationist its use cases always are conversations that just support you blindly, movies and games that are specifically tailored to just you, it's always trying to cut human interaction out of life

also idk man, i just do not believe them!! this has happened enough times to avoid it ahead of time; you clearly believe in the tech because *you're using it in development*. to cry it's an accident is way too convenient a deflection, one that absolves them of the wrongdoing of using it at all

i do not think these excuses get a pass anymore, and if you're willing to give an inch to this garbage now it says a lot more about where you stand than it does the ppl actually using this stuff