With “Wikimedia Enterprise”, AI companies have to use (and pay for) dedicated APIs to scrape data, which helps to limit the strain on Wikimedia servers. (See eg arstechnica.com/information-...) This is a good thing for Wikimedia and for its readers.

Again, we don't hate the head of Epic enough.

Here is a video of a frozen creek that had begun to thaw, and the water was flowing beneath the thin ice on top. I took this because it was soothing and wonderfully bloopy and I wanted to listen to it for hours. You are all welcome to enjoy it, too. Let your brain settle here and rest for a moment.

The concept of "Trying to trick people into giving specific answers in what amounts to a customer survey" is wrong at so many levels. Like, you're supposed to WANT to get accurate answers in those.

So how we feelin' about that Epic ecosystem nowadays? We all feel confident that Fortnite is a good spot for kids to hang out?

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Featuring a trans woman so prominently at his inauguration like this was an absolutely baller move by Zohran

Happy almost christmas~

Gamers. It’s time

I wrote a new blog, "Dear @falcom.co.jp , Please Stop Using Generative AI In Your Company." This blog is a letter of sorts to one of my favorite developers. I hope the message reaches them and can cross the language barrier so they can course correct immediately. www.justinmikos.com/blog/dear-fa...

I’d like to see Falcom stop using Generative AI in their company as I’d hate to see one of my favorite developers go downhill and have some of my favorite games ruined. Spread the word and make a positive difference! famiboards.com/threads/let%...

consider my feedback: i loved working at @larianstudios.com until AI. reconsider and change your direction, like, yesterday. show your employees some respect. they are world-class & do not need AI assistance to come up with amazing ideas.

People in the Larian discord immediately went “oh but Larian using AI is not thaaat bad” Ik smeek deze mensen oprecht om met een raket de zon in te vliegen

Epic pays for licensing fees for the games they give away for free as promotions. Which means even if YOU aren't paying for it, you're giving money to JK Rowling to harm transgender people AND elevating her stature by giving her franchise higher numbers. NO TERF WIZARD GAME. NO TERF WIZARD SHOW.

They finally put peak on NSO 🥹

[metroid] samstrong selfie

pals you gotta quit spotify

a company that makes up 26% of the consumer marketshare for RAM just dropped out of the consumer market to sell exclusively to AI datacentres we are so fucked

Wasn’t gonna bother with future Sims stuff anyway but it’s funny how the next game is rumoured to have the same development history as TS4: - Starts as a multiplayer game - MP doesn’t work out for whatever reason - Salvage it into a really barebones single-player game Same shit different decade 😭

got some more rejections from jobs i applied for, and that's most likely the last news i'll receive on that front for a bit, so uhhh, shares/donations appreciated so i can cover december's bills. we got hit with another high electric bill too. $100/$500.

HANG MET HAKEN EN MET OGEN AAN ELKAAAAAAAR FRIS GEWASSEN HANG IK TE DROGEN STIJG IK NEER, NAAR DE WILDERNIIIIIIIIIIIS

This pic goes HARDER! 🔥🔥🔥

Samus protect - Metroid Prime 4 Beyond #MetroidPrime4

Open AI loses copyright case in Germany. Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."

If the Steam Machine is under €500 and has decent enough specs (and maybe FSR4?) then it might be day one for me

Heb de Vlaams gedubte Mario Galaxy film trailer gekeken en het is zoals de vorige weer echt dikke zever, Bowser zijn geluidjes terwijl hij verft in het begin zijn precies niet eens gedubt 😭

The PS5 turning 5 years old is hilarious because what do you mean it still only has one true exclusive actually worth a damn after all this time??? With past PS consoles people could get those as a sportsball box with a few cool exclusives, now it’s *just* an overpriced sportsball box for most lol

Co-stealing this because I’m curious 🤔

ICYMI

A day late but I've been on HRT for a year and a half now! Today's also the second day of my increased dosage LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOO No prog *yet*, though 😔

The best time to cancel your Xbox game pass was at the start of the BDS boycott, the second best time was when they jumped all prices up and laid off thousands, the third best time is fucking now

nipple nation where you at

Xbox fans tonight

Just watched the gameplay for the Halo CE remake, im hyped

Thought about it and I’m probably a 1, *maybe* at most a 2

Trans speedrunners be like "okay we got bad rng on the character creation but if we spam E repeatedly a chest will appear"

I know everyone‘s playing Z-A right now but I want to highlight this magnificent little creature from SV’s DLC

Quickly popping in to say that the publisher of the Sims, one of the most popular queer-positive game series ever, possibly falling into ownership of the Saudis is fucking BLEAK and means absolutely nothing good back on my internet break I go now 🚶🏻‍♀️

Guess I’m 21 now Cool!

Sony still employs Neil Druckmann, a Zionist with family living in occupied Palestinian territory, but gladly fired a senior artist because she made a joke about the death of a Nazi Don’t give Sony your money

im not saying this to defend modern nintendo but if you ever see someone going UNDER IWATA THEY WOULDN'T DO THIS SHIT just remind them that when iwata was in charge of nintendo, they literally shat a fucking SNES ROM onto a wii disc and sold it

Good morning! Charlie Kirk was a piece of shit Nazi & I'm glad he's dead & I'm glad another piece of shit Nazi did it. Eat yourselves. Rest in piss. While I'm at it, I wish ill on JK Rowling. Every1 who plays Hogwarts Legacy is a dickhead. If bsky keeps banning trans women then fuck it to death.

The fact that both the WSJ and the Guardian have retracted their trans and leftist stories related to the shooter and now a day later a new one is being formed about a possible "trans roommate or lover" shows how desperate they are to pin this on someone who is LGBTQ+

James Lambert (the dude who developed Portal 64) admitting to hearing about all the bad shit going on in the world right now but choosing Charlie Kirk getting shot to start talking about politics in a YouTube community post (in a very Centrist™️ way)… Unfathomably rancid vibe

Hanging this on my wall like it's a corona bikini girl poster from the late 90s