I have been pouring over the details of Valve's announcements yesterday and I needed to write a blog about how smart a lot of them are for @aftermath.site aftermath.site/steam-machin...

I'd like more reviewers to take stands. If you find the use of generative AI in game development repugnant and you find its use ruins a game for you, then that's the review you should write. And that low score is the score you should give.

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Every $1 donation provides 4 or 5 meals from food banks. Even a donation of $5 right now can feed up to two dozen people. No, we shouldn’t have to do this. But we can.

Artists behind some of the most popular films of all time are also forging one of the most powerful organized resistances to AI. With solidarity, class action lawsuits and strong legislation, they're fighting to protect their livelihoods, and pop culture, from big tech. My latest:

I'm proud of the PSF for sticking up for their core values! pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...

RIP Drew Struzan - a man whose talent and imagination etched onto so many minds throughout the last 40+ years. His art & posters are some of the first visuals I think of when I think about cinema - an invitation to watch these stories and worlds. A massive loss 💔

ok this breakdown of AI writing indicators is incredible. Huge shout-out to the Wikipedia community for this

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So, I was looking for something entirely unrelated when I found this, which is apparently an ad for a Halloween horror marathon from 1961. That's plenty great on its own, but for my fellow Kansas City peeps, look at what the participating theaters are...

Why yes, it’s the 30-player only Donut map for #AgeOfSteam. Yes. Really. 😂🙀🫣🤯

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really proud of the work developer @joedewhurst.bsky.social put into the solo system. read how it all came together, with influences from the COIN Jacquard system to Ricky Royal's work for John Company by @wehrlegig.games @gmtgames.bsky.social #crossbronxexpressway

4 stars in the very last turn smh

Update: GMT's CROSS BRONX EXPRESSWAY game is shipping September 2025 👀 The designer (Non-Breaking Space) shared a photo of their game in front of the abandoned building (no longer there) & South Bronx street corner depicted on the box which was visited by Presidents Carter and Reagan 40+ years ago

Half-Price Books has some awesome stuff from time to time!

also i hate talking about this because every time i do it gets picked up somewhere, somehow and i get harassed for weeks but whatever, man. i'm really proud of the work we put into this, the research and the care and the nuance, and i will continue to share it. www.ign.com/articles/how...

Intel's 386 processor was popular in late 1980s microcomputers. From the outside, the 386 chip is a boring ceramic square. But I obtained a 3-dimensional CT X-ray scan from Lumafield, revealing six layers of complex wiring hidden inside the ceramic package. Let's take a closer look... 1/N

Just got out of Ghost's KC show. It was a no-phone concert which is a genius idea. Everybody was just hanging out in the moment instead of sitting on their phones. Definitely see them if they're close because the set was awesome!

I think we lost something when people stopped making websites and started making posts. Even MySpace was a way cooler form of social media that let you customize your page to the nth degree.

Reviewers including No Pun Included and Shut Up & Sit Down are boycotting Codenames publisher CGE for releasing a new Harry Potter-themed game while ignoring JK Rowling’s anti-trans rhetoric: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...

If LLMs were superintelligent, AI companies would use them secretly to build a perfect options trading system, the next Minecraft or Avatar, Gibson's Idoru, their own 'Employee as a Service', and keep every dime of profit. Instead, the public has to be bullied to use it. It's more an MLM than LLM.

I would personally burn down an antebellum mansion in exchange for one (1) meal of Ethiopian food yes it is in fact that good what is that guy talking about

apparently japan calls vampire survivors and the like 'mowing games' and they kinda nailed it with that one

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Return of the king

Drove a couple hours to a UFO convention

Finally got another copy of the classic Mechwarrior 2 boxed set after all these years, thanks to @artofbattletech.bsky.social. Got it in a big display case with my 100 MM Timberwolf based on the same box art. Absolute pure nostalgia moment. #battletech

This anonymous hate I got on tumblr is the best review that I could have asked for. I wish I had written “thinly veiled anti-Al rant disguised as ethical guidance” on the cover of the book a.co/d/92AHmvR

history in the making #RepBX @gmtgames.bsky.social

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Finally got around to installing Linux on an old 2015 Intel Macbook I had laying around and it's crazy how much faster everything feels. I might actually use this thing now

You know you can just not use AI, right? You can make a choice not to be part of this. Even if your job uses it, YOU don’t have to in your normal life. You don’t have to let your kids use it. You didn’t have it three years ago. You can just…be on Team Human. You can choose.

"Any advice for new graduates?"

If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow. The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.

somehow even the cable for this keyboard reminds me of the original Xbox...

Watch more Run Button playing Sonic CD youtu.be/Imzwllnae0Q

Spent too much time on this

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giving myself a gold star for this

transphobes go to the shadow realm

huntsman #battletech #miniaturepainting

I could be wrong about this but I really think most Americans do not want to be forced to “do their own research” about food & drug & product safety and would rather that the government agencies that have been sorting that all out for them for decades not be obliterated in the name of “efficiency.”

It’s a shame the Oblivion remaster didn’t lean into the colors of the original. The Riven remake really shows how it can be done. It just received an update for RT reflections even, which is awesome.

Counter-argument: You should use Sinners to springboard yourself into some other Black American horror like the following

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