When I visited IO Interactive last December for Game Informer's 007 First Light cover story, there was a palpable excitement around the Copenhagen-based studio every time they even mentioned Project Fantasy, even if they couldn't say anything about it. IO is such a talented studio, and I hate this.

The “move fast and break things” mentality showcased by Xbox at this present moment is spiderwebbing out to impact tens of internal and external companies and thousands of games industry workers. It is actively rewriting Xbox’s overall place and legacy within the games industry.

When this is all said and done, the fallout of Xbox’s panicked overhaul will very likely be more catastrophic for the games industry than Embracer’s acquisition spree. When Xbox pulls funding or reconsiders partners, those studios and agencies, even if not owned by Xbox, are still heavily impacted.

Just yesterday, we heard Xbox was cutting loose its longstanding relationship with Assembly. Next thing you know, Assembly laid off longtime employees. Today, Xbox pulls funding from IO Interactive’s next project. Then, the very successful IO Interactive posts that it must now consider layoffs.

I once had a director tell me i "wasn't being professional" because I pitched a dating sim. I told him that romance novels make the most money and asked why he wanted to leave money on the table. He reported me to HR who did nothing because she agreed with me.

It's like they read my mind

One of my favorite pictures is this one by Whitey Schafer from 1940. It was created to break all of the Hays Code in just one frame.

The Met put its entire collection online for free so I made a game out of it! 10 artifacts a day, and you guess where and when each one's from. Anthropeum.com if anyone wants to give it a shot and leave feedback :) #history #archeology #arthistory #museums

Me in 2006: This Sci Fi book is stupid! How would a society just forget how to do sophisticated and advanced thinking? Me in 2026: ok yeah fair enough

Socialist Mayor Reigns of Terror Continue with Yet Another Sports Championship Victory: tinyurl.com/3f39hzcb

This is why "moving to the center" and "get elected first, then maybe think about more radical things" is BULLSHIT. When evil is pushing, and you fail to push back because you're afraid of what people will think, what people actually think is THE EVIL THING MUST BE RIGHT.

31% of Democrats polled said being transgender is "morally wrong". Five years ago it would have been a fraction of that. The propaganda is working, the silence from Democrats is deafening, & all of this is why every step backward can't go ignored for even a moment. news.gallup.com/poll/710810/...

I want to uplift the "white supremacist" part because we're all in this fight together. Do No Harm, at its founding, was a lobbying group concerned with ensuring there were fewer Black doctors in America and too much being done to prevent Black patients from having worse health outcomes.

Hey free advice … support trans rights whats-helping-today.beehiiv.com/p/transgende...

Happy Pride Month. If you're a gay man, please remember your power. People often think that gay men are innately fashionable, which means if you wear some stupid shit for long enough, straight people, including homophobes, will copy you and then you can laugh at them.

I’ve always been a sucker for lanky dorks

The woman credited with creating rectangular-shaped Spam musubi is Japanese-American Barbara Funamura, who made the snack in 1983 while managing a restaurant on Kauai. It combined a slice of Spam with sushi rice and dried seaweed.

If there's one thing I care about more than trans rights its that people at the lowest rungs of society have gifts and talents that equal that at the highest, and their gifts are being squandered, and no one really internalizes that or cares.

Yeah farmers are a lot more classist than people realize. Like... that whole "We're real America & better & more authentic than all those city folk" thing? That's not farmers bein' folksy. That's just millionaires doing classism. They think they're better than you because they have land & estates.

Yeah and if I'm not mistaken, they didn't even sell the farm. Just sold auctioned off the herd for a cash infusion. So they still have the property (e.g. most of their wealth) intact. And it's still cranking out passive income from the cell phone tower & frack lease.

Right? We're hearing a lot about "ooh farm bankruptcies are up," but that's because ALL bankruptcies are up. Because the economy is trash! All around!

Actually, assuming I've found all the contiguous property owned by the family and LLCs, it's 1143 acres across 6 parcels

This article isn't a story about poor farmers being pushed out. It's a story about millionaires liquidating their least profitable asset (a dairy herd) to shore up their financial position. While still keeping most of their income-generating asset wealth intact.

Hi! I'm a farmer! This NYT article is sweet, saccharine bullshit. Farmers knew Trump was going to hurt our business. Because he already did a trade war in his 1st term. I even did a video on why so many farmers support Trump, WHILE knowing he'd hurt our farms.

My biggest conspiracy theory is that telling working class people that engagement in the arts is a middle / upper class thing and to do so makes you a class traitor is a psyop to make them disengaged with themselves and the world and the beauty of being human, so that they accept worse treatment.

Here's the thing: If legislators didn't intend for HB 249 to be used against women wearing leggings and low-rise jeans, if they didn't mean for it to be used against trans people existing... THEY COULD FIX THE LANGUAGE. They drafted it that way for a reason. It's naive to think they won't use it.

Of course, the article also doesn't mention that this was done in service of banning trans people from public spaces. Instead, they let the legislator run wild saying this about "men" in women's locker rooms and "protecting children's innocence." This is how gender fascism advances.

Media needs to stop with "critics say" and just quote the actual language of the bill. HB 249 creates a new category of "seminudity" which can be used to arrest women who aren't nude, but are wearing clothing — leggings, t-shirts without bras — that religious groups feel is too provocative.

DOJ demanded voter files from all 50 states. DOJ sued 31 states for refusing their demand. My law firm intervened to protect voters in those cases. DOJ is now 0-5. My firm is 5-0. Lesson: When we fight we win.

My most regressive opinion: modern SFF covers suck. I've never looked at a minimalist cover for a book and said "damn I need to read this" but I HAVE looked at a cover with a bangin' spaceship or a mech or a hotted babe with a gun and gone "dang okay maybe this'll be good"

"I avoid politics." No bestie, you avoid uncomfortable conversations about politics. From the moment you were born til the day you die, you've been thoroughly and utterly enmeshed in the policies, systems, and governance of a society that shapes your experience. You just try not to think about it.

So campus speech. Much viewpoint diversity. Very marketplace of ideas.

Our Lady of Perpetually Online

for those who might be interested, the National Theater is streaming their production of The Importance of Being Earnest (starring Ncuti Gatwa!) for one week on YouTube for FREE youtu.be/obX-HGs-PS8?...

I’m so tired of being expected to concede to the apathy and antisocial behavior of others. “Well, nobody else is wearing a mask.” “Everybody else is at least trying AI.” “Microsoft is just everywhere.” Okay, and? Do you or do you not want to at least TRY to be better?

Play 'You Are Elon Musk', the sequel to 'You Are Jeff Bezos': aftermath.site/elon-musk-vide...

cannot stress enough that "separate the art from the artist" was meant for private individuals reconciling the art they love with its flawed creators and not meant for the ceo of a company driving a dump truck of money up to a bigot's front porch www.theverge.com/podcast/8914...

Huge NYT article on the back story of those two weeks in March/April 2025 when DOGE illegally terminated hundreds of NEH grants. Gift link!! www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...

"I think the LLM is conscious" makes a lot more sense when you realize a lot of people don't grasp the interiority of other people. If you view other people as a series of inputs and utilities, it makes a lot of sense that you would see inert code awaiting your prompt as conscious.

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Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

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"you need to learn how to use gAI or you'll get left behind!" counterpoint! the absolute fastest way to render yourself unemployable is to build your skillset around a tool that does your thinking for you, that everyone has access to, and that one company can change or take away at any time

Nancy 2/22/26… 🪱WOIMS🪱

Boss, it's the fascism.

I think it’s a bad (but also wildly unsustainable) development that every business in America except Costco has decided that their *real* customers are billionaires and private equity firms.