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This is why JKR is a danger to queer people, and people need to wake up to this sooner rather than later. She is picking fights with human rights groups, because they support the existence of trans people and our human rights.

It’s also extremely insistent on the idea that losing is not the end. It’s just a thing that happens. Giving up is the end.

"Believe in the me that believes in you" was bars in 08. Its a fucking holy anthemic prayer right now because it acknowledges that belief in yourself is hard if not impossible "Oh you don't believe in yourself, that's fine, believe in me and that'll carry us both" BARRSSSSS

Gurren Lagann is correct about its central conceit that the entirety of the power of the human spirit is ignited at the intersection of hope, belief, faith & trust. And that despair not only limits imagination but is also a spiritual death that leaves us helpless when facing humanity’s adversaries.

⚽🕹️ The first official World Cup computer game was a fiasco. WORLD CUP CARNIVAL: MEXICO '86 was just a tweaked re-release of Artic Computing's World Cup Football, to cash in on the tournament at over 4× the original price. 💸 Its awfulness has been saved for posterity ⤵️ archive.org/search?tab=a...

FYI, this is malware. If you see this, don’t do this

they fired most of the people who made this already btw

PR statement vs anonymous responses like this one calling it a "bloodbath" (from Gamesbeat)

It’s not that they don’t know games are made by people. It’s that they desperately wish they didn’t have to be and want a world where “people-made games” are boutique experiences alongside the yearly factory-made money producers that the C-suite doesn’t think needs artistry.

rhythm pools 02 - "effervesce" my next album, coming August 7. song: "taste of blood", video by me cover art by Jennifer Burton 2 Mello Logo by @ethanredd.bsky.social

YOUNG LADYS DON'T PLAY FIGHTING GAMES (this is an endorsement for the anime of the same name, not the beginning of a decent into alt right griftery)

"executives with no understanding of the industry" seems to be an endemic problem across industries: higher education, medicine, you name it, a bunch of suits with MBAs and unearned arrogance are destroying everything around us, and for some reason, we're supposed to accept that they know best

to be fair to john carmack, he's also a dumb piece of shit that deadnamed burger becky when she passed, was a speaker at an "anti woke" convention, and had the id office cat put down when it peed on his couch.

Oh so fuck this game, actually.

when it's 2:30am, and i'm looking for better marimba samples, things are either going really well or really badly!

Weeks prior to major layoffs at id Software, co-studio directors Marty Stratton and Hugo Martin told This Week in Videogames that "muscle memory" and a well-trained team were key to the developer's consistency and success. id Software has released three Doom games, with expansions, in 10 years.

I think the funniest part of the broadly misinformed GitS discourse going on at the moment is the erasure of any entry between specifically the first Oshii film and this new TV show. Some people didn't grow up with Laughing Man as the avatar of 30% of guys online and it shows

«Adapt or die / Adáptate o muere» ❌ A menudo nos encontramos con el discurso de la inevitabilidad de la IA generativa, cuyo propósito es coartar el rol activo de los ciudadanos y frenar el movimiento colectivo que busca salvaguardar los derechos que los actuales modelos generativos transgreden.

we need to do something about kotaro uchikoshi

¡ATENCIÓN! 🚨 META lanzó un nuevo generador IA de imágenes, llamado Muse, y cambió la configuración dejando POR DEFECTO la opción de que nuestros contenidos de IG (fotos, videos o audios) sean accesibles para que cualquiera los use con ese modelo de IA generativa 🚨 Hay que desactivarlo manualmente 👇

listen--the internet is absolute hell for survivors of sexual assault right now. but use this opportunity to shut people out of your lives that would post things like the statements in the screenshot.

the rise of internet gambling is arousing genuinely puritanical feelings in me and I don't like it but like, it's bad enough when you know the casino or the track always has an edge. it's worse when the house is AMONG THE RICHEST GUYS IN HISTORY AND SEES A WAY TO GET MORE OF YOUR SCRATCH

Saw a meme of GenZ baffled by how pre-internet travel worked, and realized we’ve crossed an enshittification threshold where IRL services that once seemed outdated, like travel agents, now seem luxurious: “You meet with a human expert who plans out your whole trip with you” sounds incredible now tbh

Oh cool, an Easter egg feature that traps you in a driverless car and kidnaps you when it's decided you've misbehaved. Imagine what a hacker group or ICE can do with this. The fact that this is even functionally possible is horrifying.

Was going to say 'this is comparable to when EA killed Origin' But it's so much worse. Origin was a long, painful downward spiral of meddling, mismanagement and hubris. Id made banger after banger without fail until their literal LAST DAY. Released their biggest expansion the day after the layoffs

weird call to still (reportedly) have a desire to use a proprietary engine when you've sacked seemingly most of the people who built and/or are trained in it.

id Software worked with various ideas before Xbox cuts, including a new Perfect Dark, John Wick style new IP, and co-op DOOM id has been "nuked into the dirt" and "relegated to support studio size", said one former dev. gamesbeat.com/inside-a-stu... www.videogameschronicle.com/news/id-soft...

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Game Pass wasn't the bad idea. The bad idea was trying to shift Xbox into a subscription-based service group with a massive sub count to align with things like Office 365 in the first place. If anything was going to be able to meet that goal, it was Game Pass. The goal itself was unrealistic.

I think if you needed any more evidence that the cuts are shortsighted and focused on cutting as deep and as fast as possible with little regard for the future, this is pretty definitive. That engine felt like magic in some spots. A colossal waste of talent and resources.

"La Rata", Sega Genesis style

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I see I need to make a clearer point. Framing things this way puts the blame on the consumer - the consumer that spends hundreds of millions of dollars on subs every month - as though it is their fault for freeloading. But is it the consumer's fault that the model was built the way it was? No.

Amazing being this fucking bad at managing your studios and not having one iota of respect or see any value in one of the titans of the industry.

bro they laid off the Doom 2016 developers. that's like if you laid off the studio that made arguably one of the best first-person shooters of all time, like Doom 2016

To players who are mad: we see you! The secret sauce to saving the games industry is developing player solidarity with workers. If you're seeing what's happening to gamedevs across our artform and you're mad about how devs are being treated? Tell them!

Something that grinds my gears about the entire ip regime in games is that it encourages this kind of studio zombification, where you hollow out a place of all of its talent and retain the “IP” as if the name of a game series is separable from the people who made it

this is the kind of thing you desperately throw together so that dumbasses who love BRANDS and will willfully ignore the fact that everyone working on this new game just lost 60 colleagues will go on twitter and be like "credit where credit is due"

Jason breaks down the math on PlayStation going digital (and why Xbox is also extremely likely to as well). In a potential world of $1k+ consoles which could result in a reduction of the installed bases on new consoles (if they can even get made), the console mfgs will prioritize profitability.

ChatGPT posters and flyers are polluting real life and driving me insane. Please respond to this with the worst ones you've seen irl. I'll post some in the thread www.404media.co/we-are-livin...

UPDATE: I've obtained a WARN notice filed in Texas that reveals 136 employees have been laid off at id Software (including remote workers), with another 22 people being ousted at Bethesda Game Studios' office in Austin. The overwhelming majority of those laid off were CWA union members.

the video is about the quality of fast food but everything feels like this lately

Imagine doing this to id and saying with a straight face "grow and extend an enduring portfolio of franchises players love"

I hate this headline. I hate it so much. Let me tell you why. It makes it sound like the AI was "cast" in a movie, except the movie is being made by the same people who made Tilly, it's all in house, I might as well announce that Dan Olson has been cast as the host of a Folding Ideas doc.