Nothing makes me shout at the tv like when I pause to point something out and the screen gets covered in an advertisement why did the reformists of the 20th century condemn us to this capitalist hell

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if you can understand that nominating a transphobe will alienate the non-transphobe vote and potentially lose you the election, you should understand that the winning move is then to simply not nominate a transphobe rather than try to browbeat the oppressed into voting for their own oppressors

Part of the reason I find most discussion/the hype cycle of GTA6 uninteresting because almost none of it is about the game itself. Its about games that have to move around it, its about how much it can get away costing, its about how it will affect the industry. Not gameplay or narrative.

nuremberg trials is no longer the moderate position. the scarecrow trials from the dark knight rises when bane takes control of gotham is now the moderate position

“The government is allowed to post real death threats on social media but you’re not allowed to post sarcastic death threats on social media” is actually a pretty apt distillation of power and violence

Groundhog Day but you're the target in a Hitman level

The classic Oz books are great fun (especially the sequels), anyone with a bit of spare time and a penchant for whimsy should burn through them. We have a set of all but one of the ones written by L Frank Baum, and the one we did not have, I read on Internet Archive! They truly do essential work.

My stance towards generative AI has been the same for the past 3 years: why the fuck would I ever want to read or view something made by someone who didn't want to take the time to make it? Why is my time less valuable than theirs? Get outta here

them: so what are your hobbies? me: i love coming home and being at home and sitting inside my home and staying home.

touching grass gets a lot of hype, but i also sincerely think most people don't look at the sky enough

and my apologies for obviously not using the superior version

game awards 2016: we signed a sponsorship deal with schick, here is a bit razor mascot man. he's buff for some reason game awards 2025: we signed a sponsorship deal with a company that knowingly sells ad time to the government agency that kidnaps immigrants

I know, I know, Discourse is bad and all that. Can I just take ONE minute to vent? This year's Innovation in Accessibility Award represent the same issue EVERY year with TGA – it's ALWAYS AAA games that have the best marketing.

Re-upping this for no reason! www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...

the Geoffies continue to have dull taste reminder that instead of wasting your time watching Kojima get all the time in the world to ramble about nothing while other devs are rushed offstage, you could play Crazy Taxi and check bsky in between runs to check for trailers and have a much better time

I hope nobody cares and nobody watches. Don't fucking watch it for the trailers either. They get posted on youtube right after. Just don't watch it. Don't reward Keighley and his muppets for fucking over the Future Class. Don't watch it. Don't.

“You know, fair use is fair use and we need to make sure that we’re not stealing people’s intellectual property and rights but..." No! There is no "but" here! That statement ends with a period, not a "but".

Ana decided to call out payment processors and their unilateral response was attempting to fuck up her life and that should be bigger news than it is as of now

you do not, in fact, have to hand it to the "jews have orbital space lasers that caused the LA fires" lady

i still think it's kinda gross how Expedition 33 got caught doing the same "uhhh that AI texture was totally just a placeholder that slipped into the full game" thing and everyone let it slide because they *like* E33 and "uwu they're just smol bean indie studio"

This was Acti’s excuse for the Zombies calling card and then they next game they published they egregiously used AI for multiple calling cards so

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they also made Captain Falcon a bounty hunter and he doesn't do much of that either someone at Nintendo definitely heard "kids in America love Boba Fett, the bounty hunter from Star Wars" back in the late '80s/early '90s and then got the impression that "bounty hunter" basically meant "space hero"

They're de-banking people for kink content online now They'll come for you and your interests next - there's already been movement against vtubers in general, and games like Corpse Party are having their western releases canned over concerns about this stuff Get loud before it's too late

This is powerfully embarrassing

"If you hate GenAI you're going to have to stop playing new games when they all start using it" My brother in Christ, my backlog is literally thousands of games long. I have lifetimes worth of earlier titles to play, & I will gladly do that instead of boiling the oceans for a new CoD or whatever

I feel we just should just not have any sort of conversation about possible ethical ways to use GenAI while the ongoing corpo push to use it in the most anti-artist, anti-human way is still a thing. There should be a unified push to reject the entire thing whole until it's dead.

It is very funny that this Pope is just going to get jerseys from now on. Everyone decided that's what this Pope likes and that is it. It's like if your grandmother got you a puzzle for Christmas one year and you said you liked it so your entire extended family is like "oh that's the puzzle kid"

In Super Mario 64, parts of Lethal Lava Land are actually made out of leather, which simply appears to be stone due to the low resolution of the textures.

can now add ">looks like an atmosphereless dumbed down MCU quipfest" to the chain of takes, i guess

re: Metroid previews we all know those troopers people are complaining about are fucking doomed, right? Like, that overview trailer could not be more "I'm one day from retirement, sure hope nobody shoots me" they're gonna die horribly and making them very annoying makes it very funny

the discourse leading up to Metroid Prime 4's release is going to be miserable, but I was excited about what Bakalar showed me: youtu.be/jLWvZ1KnzpI

Yakuza 0 (2015)

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Every office has an executive tier whose emails are like: saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3 and a worker tier whose emails are like: Dear Jim, First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…

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The Republican president is a pedophile who has doubled my healthcare costs and let scores of violent criminals out of jail. But a Democratic mayor-elect wants to make busses free in a city I don't live in. I have never felt more politically homeless.

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Richter! Grant him your strength! [Castlevania: Dracula X] #strugglesofgame

we gotta get like three VPNs deep with signal chats set to a disappearing turnaround of minutes to be able to use adult words instead of "unalive" or "grape" meanwhile our political elite are apparently just emailing each other plaintext "up for sex crimes tonight ?"

Been saying Geoff is a piece of shit for years, but no one listened to me. "you just don't like him" Yeah, there's fucking reasons for that.

Also it sure feels like Valve is priming themselves to take MS's spot in the console space lmao.

ngl I have next-to-zero interest in VR but I am weirdly interested in the steamcube

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they circumsized a Series X

Rosalina is a Metroid fan We won

If GenAI was truly “inevitable” and “the future,” you wouldn’t have rich executives putting out statements like this again and again. They know how unpopular it is (even as they’re ignorant of it crumbling around them), and keep trying to browbeat us into accepting it. They won’t succeed.