Damn good for him!

For a great look at how 90s website design would look in the modern age, please visit the officedepot website.

Once again I scroll through my feed, and once again I'm seeing posts that make me think, "WHO the hell are y'all following on this site?"

Pity the tech charlatan who measures his kid's erections

Let's GOOOOOOO on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/arm...

Another minor quirk about Cyberpunk2077 that is a bit lackluster is that I think all the abilities in the 2nd Tier of every skill tree are *far and away* better than the ones at the end of the upgrade path. Except maybe for Intelligence, but I haven't looked at that one too closely.

I'm currently using the Stealthrunner mod that gives extra stuff for playing in stealth, and there *is* a Faction Reputation mod that will have gangs come after you if they identify you? But it's not quite the radiant aggression-response system I was looking for.

They should have had an Adam Smasher type dude come after your ass in Cyberpunk 2077 if you did gigs without stealth. Like they should have kept track of how openly aggressive you were, and after a certain threshold send a big slab of metal at you to rip you apart.

Picked up a few things from the Square Enix store in LA, so please enjoy these photos of my Dragon Quest shrine that I had to reorganize for peace of mind. :)

Blessed with posts that people like, cursed with videos algorithms hate. Such is the life of a True Poster.

The ICE murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo deserves the same fury as Renee Good and Alex Pretti

it's so vital to have journalists who cover the video game industry, so we have full context on shit like this

OH we're so fucked.

ICE claims that Araujo drove into one of their SUVs with his van and then tried to run over an agent. There were no marks on the van and KHOU11's Jeremy Rogalski found surveillance footage showing ICE chasing Araujo and cutting him off. Renee Good all over again.

There is a huge opportunity for an actually dedicated and invested team of people to purposely make things someone else has done badly with AI, easily do it better without AI, and become so well-known and popular for it that they score unlimited oral sex for life.

hardly the worst part of this, but an utterly needless shovelful of salt in the wound

You can literally make a successful game and get laid off anyway. The games industry hates workers.

It's wild to finally be making a game that I've been imagining in my mind for ten years. I'll get asked a question by the team about some world detail, and the answer comes naturally. I'll think, "how the hell did I just think of that?" But in reality, I've been thinking about it for TEN YEARS.

This is a PSA to Todd Howard: You can go anywhere. I'm fairly certain if you tried to crowdfund a game for a bazillion dollars, it would meet its goal. I think if you sneezed and it sounded like a one-word game pitch, someone would write you a check.

is it good that every single games studio i still own is having all its staff leak comments like "we cant possibly make games under these conditions" in ten thousand articles

Forgot my headphones at home, so now I gotta listen to three Republican cat ladies talk about conspiracy theories. Some great hits here: Charlie Kirk isn't actually dead, the liberals are loving that Planter(?) guy that turned out to be a [TW: SA and More], and if you don't drink olive oil, you die.

ah. the site is broken once again.

Gotta be careful troubleshooting my PS2 issues, because I'm getting close to pulling the trigger on Ship of Theseus-ing the damn thing into a cyborg.

Still a ton of good stuff in most modding communities. Unfortunately, a lot of people are (unsurprisingly) starting to upload garbage mods that break on impact because they made them with ChatGPT or Claude or whatever. Usual suspects though: authors with an ego problem.

So I'm doing my nightly mod scrolling and I find this thing. Now obviously I immediately assume it's a vibecoded thing because Stardew's pretty bad right? Oh but it gets SOOOOO much worse. The mod author is using *their own tokens.* *PAID FOR TOKENS,* and letting ANYONE WITH THE MOD USE THEM.

I am five years old

Cullen, Cynthia, and Leon have not stopped saying "Chud Wars?" in this call I'm sharing with all three of them, and I think I might go insane.

Granblue Drake be like...you used to call me on my Sandalphon

Here is an old minute long review for Johnny Mnemonic I did a long time ago for one of those mini essay collections. Please go watch Johnny Mnemonic. And then watch it again, but watch the Black and White Cut.

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Gen Alpha's too young to remember, and Gen Z might be too, but we used to call them dollar williams.

They remembered to use alliteration in their loc'd title. This may be a good one.

I'm watching childhood trauma happen in real-time this is maddening.

Lady who brought her kids to the Barnes and Noble to home-school them in public, your son is proud of his work and wants you to look at it so that he can get some validation for his efforts. STOP FUCKIN TELLIN HIM TO GO SIT DOWN WHILE YOU FUCK AROUND ON YOUR PHONE AND YOUR LAPTOP.

Unfortunately I am not immune to 1920s haircuts and adjacent.

It has been criminally underreported but Kelsey Pfendler has just rowed solo across the Pacific Ocean from the US coast to Hawaii in record time. A 2,400-mile unsupported journey in 43 days, 17 hours, and 55 minutes. Notably beating the Men’s record by 9 whole days.

I wanna voice a batshit insane guy in a video game. I think I'd be really good at it.

A new Obsidian Fallout game in entirely the worst time for one, for entirely the worst reasons, bearing entirely the worst expectations, with entirely the worst consequences hanging over the heads of people who are entirely not paid or supported enough to work a miracle. What could go wrong?

Something you will never stop doing as a writer, even if you've written 1000 things and used a word 10000 times, is use a word in a sentence as it comes naturally, and immediately ask yourself, "am I using that right?" And you will stop everything to look it up and make sure.

the subtext to a lot of my opinion writing during my time at kotaku was “do you have a principled reason for being mad at the controversy du jour or are you mad someone is taking your toys” and it’s really a shame how that question is always relevant in the games space (This is not about layoffs)

Unfortunately, HR made our office manager take this down almost immediately. They said because it's in a common area, it had to be removed. We've used common areas for many things as a team, including fan works, but HR seems to believe that a Celebration of Service is inappropriate.

In the future everyone will be mistaken for a criminal for fifteen minutes

Makes sense that as we watch the industry collapse, we look to veterans in it who've shown some level of humanity or introspection during their careers for inspiration or words of wisdom. All of which is sorely lacking in this industry in the modern day.

I’m just going to add on my favorite quote from him in this year’s Hobonichi (his company)

Bethesda HR Forced Staff To Remove Small Memorial To Laid-Off Colleagues

I think it's wild that it wasn't even three years ago that we were watching Microsoft acquiring studios, and seemingly overnight it and every other major company is salting the earth its subsidiaries live on. The turn around was QUICK. No downtime, not even a moment to let it sit.

For anyone curious, if you don't know how or why you'd need this - you don't. The speeds that actually matter haven't seen all that much improvement in like a decade.

"Square Enix Try Not To Shut Down a Mobile Game Where They Tied Important Characters/Details From It Into Their Main Line Games Challenge" (Impossible):