Somewhat gratifying to note that I made the Right Fucking Decision going into vidya instead of big tech back in the late 2000s. Sure, I could have retired by now if I went all in on the web, but looking at the state of the web today, I'm so fucking glad I'm not complicit in this absolute shit show.

Yes, slop generators may put you out of work in the short term, but in the long term it's going to erode the enterprises of the entrenched capital interests as they self-sabotage by building their businesses around unreliable technology in the name of efficiency, and you can outcompete them.

The WORLD-EGG has begun its descent! Our sword action shooting game BIRDCAGE, launches on PC; Tuesday November 18th. Play our new DEMO on Steam, right now! store.steampowered.com/app/2618150/...

Actually don't 100% hate the DX remaster since it sort of looks like the second game, strong Doom 3 has been announced but is not out yet but absolutely everyone is doing stencil shadows and crushed blacks now vibes

people: everything is so bland and anodyne and smooth and safe and utterly unremarkable where are the visionaries where are the storytellers where are the voices that you cannot help but hear also people: alan moore sucks wtf is up with his scripts

まるでハートな神秘の光𓂃 𓈒𓏸

The television must be bulbous. It is a domestic particle accelerator, an object with heft proportional to its power and influence. It needs a lead glass prison to contain its fury, the hissing angry light that paints on the stuff of match heads. The fire of the gods is not flat and unassuming

Anyone else feel like we might have passed the bit by bit phase and are now in the all at once phase?

Shower thought: One of the reasons normies are so puzzling to us sperglings is that we tend to be perfectly aware that we don't know what other people are thinking, we don't know what's on their minds. Normies, by contrast, actually seem to think that they do and don't know how wrong they are.

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Unpopular opinion: Please, for the love of god, just learn to program. You are so fucked without it. It's not a skill, it's a basic literacy. It's not hard, all the fucking tech bros can do it, and so can you. It's not fun. It's not interesting. But you can do really fun interesting things with it.

I wonder why all these great indie games are coming out of Australia where they have a massive public funding effort for videogame creators

Shower thought: AI is China's Star Wars program

Finally playing Hollow Knight for obvious reasons, and I'm a bit curious ... is it supposed to be difficult? I'm not very far in, got the dream nail maybe an hour ago and I've just defeated my second Warrior Dream before clearing Howling Cliffs. Does it get a lot harder, or is this sort of it?

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heyyy everybody~ im back at it again, paycheck is late so to pay the rent all the games including 10S FOREVER are half off on itch over the weekend <3 surely there are no problems with this timing as nobody is playing anything else today. does anybody else hear that alarm itch.io/s/159738/per...

One of the truly great threads

Don't worry everyone, the Xbox store on Windows works!

Having slowly nibbled away at Doom The Dork Ages for the past few months now, I'm pretty happy to say that it's the best Neo-Doom yet in pure gameplay terms. Really like the parrying gameplay and more constrained yet very fluid and intention-driven mobility, encounters get really intense late-game.

Literally the best in the biz

This is some of the hardest shit I've seen in my life

Me in 2020: yeah fuck experts zero so out of touch zero credibility no wonder people hate these losers Me in 2025, listening to normies talk about LLMs:

Me, satirically in 2017 vs The Grau, apparently not satirically, today

looking forward to seeing ai revolutionize the stock market

One year and 5 days already - Phantom Spark currently 50% off (~10 USD) store.steampowered.com/app/1924180/...

Excited to explore the weed/speed treadmill. Smoking weed at night makes you a bit passive and low-initiative in the morning, so you microdose speed to compensate, which makes you feel less passive and makes you feel focused despite actually being distracted. The US makes a lot more sense now!

(What am I doing? Nothing, nothing at all, I realized about 15 years ago that I could either distance myself as much as humanly possible from the working class, or get sucked down into the darkness with it, so I took a quick look at the state of left politics and then waved at the working class)

We need a functioning and capable left, which is why it is real goddamn good praxis to dunk, dunk, dunk on leftism as it currently stands because apart from some union work happening on the margins, it has basically been reduced to an aesthetic posture for disaffected, downwardly mobile PMCs.

The probably most damning indictment of extant leftist politics is that they are fundamentally parasitical: Instead of building parallel structures that compete with hegemonic capitalism, leftists infest capitalist structures. What would leftism be without capitalism as a host?

You could promote your political project by seizing the means of automation (or at least competing in the field or *gasp* disrupting it) but I get it you need clout

Keep on top of the important problems, people. That's how we'll get through this together. Just keep on complaining about people being on Twitter and policing the margins of ideology, that's how the foundations of utopia have always been built <3

One of the weird things about the AI marketing push is that the press is completely supine, just lying back and thinking of I don't know what. They got fucked, fucked, fucked by the last big wave of changes coming out of big tech, do they think they'll emerge unscathed from this? Why the boosterism?

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マッハはもっと、車輪はない、汚職は変わってない More machs, fewer wheels, just as much corruption.

So glad I don't give a fuck any longer, because otherwise it would probably be completely heartbreaking to watch the altgames community self-immolate for hyperindividualized microclout

Been really itching to get back to this lately...

Sorta wish cryogenics worked so I could go to sleep and wake up in a thousand years just to see what science has made of psychedelics

Been hosting a lot of guests in the last months, and filthy casuals just don't fucking know how to use Lush products. I will show them the bottles and say "you need way less of this than you think" and yet, AND YET! two showers later the whole fucking bottle of Honey I Washed The Kids is just gone.

People think A.I. is going to replace everything tangible, but what value is an A.I. version of your son? Can it give you its youthful blood? Can you measure the force of its erections? It can’t you help live forever in any meaningful way.

Why aren't there talent agencies for game developers? Or are there, and I just don't know because I'm not talented enough for any of them to want to represent me?

"AI" is the crystallization of a cultural trend where the administration of a business is seen as its true concern, while the product or service rendered by the business is just a byproduct. It promises pure administration without contradictions, pure organizational structure: Organs without a body.

Microdosing, or "I want to think of myself as someone who does drugs but I kind of am not really someone who does drugs"

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Window view 5 music: shibíre - the weight of feelings

Marginalised people try not to let the combined force of their crab bucket, victim and self-righteousness mentalities undermine platforms and initiatives especially catering to them challenge: infinite impossibility

Ah, another generation suddenly catches on to NYT being not just a beigeist middlebrow smug shite rag, but a sinister and pernicious political force really only legitimized by the now-failing ambient cultural norm that shitlibs are smol beans and not complicit in say warmongering