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Banks are targeting individuals by name because of their "high risk" line of work who are too outspoken. This is why we need you to stand up for nsfw creators

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So a funny thing: as much as I loathe the NPC barker there has actually been one instance where I've actually enjoyed such a character... And it's an indie porn RPG of all things. But in it the NPC is actually successfully funny with a lot of deranged commentary to offer. No voice acting also helps

The part I hate most is when they decide to have the bark delay by some time as a "oh if the player doesn't notice it, THEN we'll give them a hint", then when I play I enter the room and am like "oh what a cool room, I will explore and enjoy the ambiance a minute" and I exceed the timer and it Barks

steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back

"can we please make the game on the assumption that whoever is playing has decided to so" has always got me blank stares at work unforch

this is so cart-before-horse to me. i don't accept that people's attention spans are shorter in a way that has to matter. the problem is that we keep thinking that and "complying in advance" with the imagined boogieman of "people not paying attention nowadays". nothing done in that direction helps

The "player felt a negative emotion for a moment in a playtest, that's now a Pri 1 problem" instinct in AAA prod is a huge tarpit for our industry

friday soapbox: as a designer, if you want something to be a skillful action for players, and you want growth in this skill to be very deep/meaningful, then you need to also let players be bad at it. sometimes horrendously bad. players hate this pain, and designers often want to mitigate it away.

Working on an "about me" page for my website and I thought I'd just write something quick & short just to have something in there but somehow I've already written over 1000 words. How did this happen

Genuinely flabbergasted. The previous Metroid Prime 4 footage hadn't exactly been inspiring either but this MacKenzie stuff is reaching lows that even Other M didn't manage to touch upon, and Other M was complete and utter ass in every way What in the everliving fuck was Nintendo and Retro thinking

Thatcher's government did this with Section 28, banned the "promotion of homosexuality" as a danger to children, while actively protecting Jimmy Savile and who knows how many other pedophiles. It's the same damn playbook.

Sarah Kendzior's response: substack.com/@sarahkendzi...

Even if you're completely on Bluesky's side on this, thinking that quoting a Johnny Cash lyric in an obvious joke about a Johnny Cash article should be treated like a serious death threat, What the fuck do you mean, "Our mod team's turnaround time on responding to Death Threats is a month?"

The room is almost all elephant. Almost none of it isn’t. Pretty much solid elephant. So there’s no room to talk about it. -Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room” #everynightapoem

Why does everything have to happen so much

The biggest fuck you of #ChatControl is how it imposes mass surveillance on every European... Except the politicians proposing it. Oh no, their own privacy is important and worth protecting, but the plebs need to be monitored at all times "for their own good"! Slimy pieces of shit, the lot of them

friendly reminder, its not over til its fully over. keep flooding them. fightchatcontrol.eu the website has DIRECT PHONE NUMBERS of representatives. even one call can help, far more than you think.

Hidden in the controversial about UK "choking ban" proposal are a host of even more egregious proposals that could: * make camming illegal * redefine escort ads as pimping * render model contracts unenforceable * criminalize discussions of teen sexuality And a whole lot more ...

An alarming story, but also a fascinating one - it's clear that the wildly irregular pronunciation of English is one of the fundamental issues that has led to such poor educational techniques. At least that would be essentially unimaginable here in Finland, as Finnish pronunciation is super regular

Watching more people discover this infuriating fact and getting righteously furious about it is at least good reinforcement that we are correct to be righteously furious about it

I wrote more words about how it feels to be a translator watching the games press report on AI and labor, coming from a field that's fought these battles for decades. It may look like I'm beating up on one outlet, but it's not about them; I've been trying to write this for me and my peers all year.

You know, as much as I've enjoyed games like Hades, I have to say that "choose one of three" is only really interesting when you have skip as a fourth option and it's the right one to pick most of the time. It increases how meaningful the choices are by so much! It's why Slay the Spire is so good!

In far less important news, my wife bought a paper star lantern that turned out to be far more massive than expected. It's hanging on the balcony now and keeps jumpscaring us when we round the corner to the living room so we're calling it Mega Starmie now

Project 2025 explicitly wants to categorize everything they don't like as porn. Laws that target porn will target you. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjWU... www.freespeechcoalition.com

Did my part and sent a bunch of emails using the Fight Chat Control website, highly recommend doing the same if you're an EU citizen. Chat Control must be heavily resisted at every opportunity to prevent EU from turning into a mass surveillance society where privacy is dead save for the ruling class

If any Europeans I can reach out there value your privacy and democracy in general, I strongly urge you to contact your MEPs about this. Again, the European Parliament wants the power to ACCESS ALL YOUR ENCRYPTED DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS, no suspicion or proof of wrongdoing needed.

Extremely badass illustration technique

“Meta’s own research suggests its products have become a pillar of the global fraud economy. A May 2025 presentation by its safety staff estimated that the company’s platforms were involved in a third of all successful scams in the U.S.” jesus

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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

The whole of the internet is now run on the things that would have not made it past your email junk filter 20 years ago.

Oh, looks like I haven't told this on Bluesky yet so a funny story related to this: I've attended one (1) Anime Expo in my life, back in 2019. At the time basically all Yen Press licenses got extremely bland EN titles. Anyway, I attended the YP industry panel to hear about their latest licenses. 1/5

I do think it's fair to bully people for using "Boku no Hero Academia" but I don't think it's entirely black and white either. Sometimes licensed names just suck (especially older ones), so I wouldn't fault anyone for using a romaji title in that case. Or using JP nicknames when full titles are long

applying for jobs again

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Back when #lightnovels only got unofficial fan translations, I tried to get into them multiple times but I always gave up eventually. Only when I started reading professional human translations did the medium really click for me. Any publisher trying to peddle MTL to me will not be getting my money

November is always a fun month for art with good boob day and all the other good [something] days

Gotta say, it is rather frustrating to see a Japanese person with at least some grasp of English say "EN-JP machine #translation is total trash" but then in the same sentence go "but JP-EN MTL is totally fine most of the time". How do you not realize how obviously mirrored something like this is!

A good showcase of how rich people threatening to leave because of slightly increased taxes are simply full of shit most of the time. Applicable to anywhere in the world pretty much

Happy to lend my expertise to this article. Light Novels are already being pirated with machine translation. Publishers have been beaten to the punch — and will need human translation to earn their readers’ dollar.

Something worth noting: Rockstar is leaning HEAVILY on the excuse that the unionising employees were "leaking private company information" They want people to assume this means game info or assets. But I will bet you CASH MONEY this translates to: 'they were comparing salaries and work contracts"

All that would happen if the EN publishers used AI to translate light novels, is that they would have a much worse product that STILL would come out later than the serialized version, AND it would cost $$$--whereas the fan/AI-translated serialized episodes would be free and faster.

The idea that EN publishers would use AI for speed is hilarious, because most LNs start out serialized as web novels or published in magazines. They're already pirated and fan/AI-translated by impatient fans long before the JP side even publishes them as novels.

Game company sows misinformation to cover up union busting, fans fall for it, actual employee posts explaining the employees were fired to prevent the studio unionizing This is *unacceptable*