Fair to wonder why we don't comment a lot on the development of Goodbye Volcano High, the challenges of developing it and the compromises that had to be made for it to exist at all, but uh, look at the temperature of any conversation about it online and think about that a second longer.

Endlight (2023)

I've said it before but one of the most revelatory things about reading Marxist theory is seeing just how much genAI automation is just the same old business-as-usual capitalism. Here's Ernest Mandel's Late Capitalism in 1972.

checking our office CO2 monitor after the holidays, wondering if this is our plants breathing 🪴

women only want one thing and it’s disgusting

With these two (wonderful documentaries) watched, I've finished my first cohort of double-features 🎉 My watchlist has obviously still been growing over the past 2½ years, so I've added the following to the spreadsheet at the top of this thread. 🍿 #NickFlix

what's the neoliberal thing where everything gets turned into a number to be tallied, a contextless metric to be computed?

I posted about the stupid facebook ai stickers they put out before killing that feature after the Vice article that quoted me

Doctor Zhivago (1960) "A village betrays us, a village is burned. The point's made." "Your point. Their village." Heaven's Gate (1980) "You offset every effort we make to protect our property and that of members of your own class." "You're not in my class, Canton. You never will be." #NickFlix

current mood is yelling at the score during the Doctor Zhivago overture for spoiling the whole dang movie

🌼 RECITAL Hear JAZMIN DESTINY LOPEZ recite their latest: An auspices by a cyclone. Bring your own tubes. Second & Poppy.

VIA 15 HFX 🛤️ MTL

Resharing this old piece from 2020 #pixelart

If your birthday is during the Chaos Days you should be entitled to 1 (one) crime, I think.

Held off reading this because I worried it would make me emotional. I only did back end support work on GVH but the whole team cared so much about what they delivered. Turns out I was right, it did make me emotional! Such wonderful, talented folks in here. 🦕☄️❤️

i got books.

Q calling Jean-Luc an "obtuse piece of flotsam"

oh, you're a Serious Games scholar? i prefer frivolous bullshit, myself.

I’ve been informed that Wolf Parade’s “I’ll Believe in Anything” has been having a moment thanks to Ice Fuckers or wtv it’s called and I’m here to say that hockey smut is alright

genai and algorithms in general are great because you can just press a button and generate plausible deniability.

merry xmas! I've gained a stupid number of new followers thanks to twitter exodus and rami's starter pack (thanks @ramiismail.com) what to know: free Palestine, mask indoors, trans rights, unionize, all these struggles are connected Also I'm sorry in advance, I have posters madness

Having a brief Michael Hogan appreciation moment

my dudes… you rock

dudes rock

dudes rock

also please observe the alien cat butt

buy games on itch.

can someone pass by my old apartment in NDG and either pick up a dank package of BC bud that was mistakenly delivered there three days ago or at least interact with my former landlords whom i never want to see again

it is once again the most time of year

Why We're Boycotting Xbox: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybj1...

I'm very, very cynical about Video Games, but occasionally I will remember the opening sequence of JETT and the end sequence of FRACT and I will remember that there is beauty, somewhere. www.richardeflanagan.com/fractosc www.jett.fyi

hey you! do you enjoy LIGHT i highly recommend promesa if you enjoy LIGHT

all of my itch.io games are free, so i can't put them in the holiday sale, but i did just update MOOD's suggested donation to $6.66 thanks to a generous and eagle-eyed tear//and//rip afficionado. nicknicknicknick.itch.io

never apologize for bullying CEOs, they're worse than gamers

I'm super upset about it, but yeah, if you can't make guarantees there was no GenAI in your development, I'm just gonna replay Morrowind man

Sundogs!! A small patch before we go on holidays for new players to have a bit of guidance of what to do after the tutorial. We'll be back in the new year with bug fixes and updates. Now's your time to shine!

Young Suns is using some advanced PBR (potentially bald rendering)

Since Polygon is leaving it out of the headline: Epic Games partnered with The Game Awards to put money into the pocket of a bigot who uses her wealth to further the genocide of trans people through lawsuits and legislation. Every 'free' game gives money directly to JKR, and they are complicit.

sign up for our final newsletter of the year if you want a look at a bunch of behind the scenes of Young Sun's development and some GVH trivia. It'll be going out on Thursday! buttondown.com/ko_op

you don't need AI, you can just ship placeholder no one will mind

[disciples, 400BC or wtv] go piss, christ [MFAs, 20x6 CE] go, piss christ

Machine-learned AI is terrible for idea generation. The algorithm is designed to *produce the most predictable next token* Even as you try to push it to originality, it fights you and tries to pull it back to the most average tropes. Its a PREDICTABILITY MACHINE.

All of our public institutions are being dismantled so a handful of filthy rich capitalists and can eek out a few more years of short-term profits by selling off the parts.

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AI has actively made life worse for literally everyone - tech is now more expensive - you cannot trust most media of reality anymore - programs barely function - energy prices - literal psychosis - your voice can be literally stolen for evil - more spyware but hey, you can avoid paying an artist.

i know Valve can’t do 3s but how are they at 2048

postmedia and tim hortons are american corporations and i’m begging people to process that.

trying to imagine unnecessarily Wrapped apps. Calculator going “August was a great month for multiplication.” 1password like “Queen, you used a lot of passwords this year and tyV5/h7h9-xekvy was your favourite!” Calendar just shows you how many hours were spent in meetings, & it’s probably too many.