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Someone near our house is playing the most annoying music at full festival volume and I've been trying the past two hours to kill them with my mind

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SIGNALIS IN SEOUL QUEER PARADE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

🌿🌸 transparent jacket 🌸🌿

I've already depicted you as the concerned baby about to be crushed by a bookshelf and me as the happy, safe baby sitting next to a sturdy bookshelf

It’s tempting to laugh at LLMs gassing credulous people up but it’s genuinely terrifying to unleash this product on people susceptible to mental illness with no real safeguards.

David Lynch’s family is considering releasing his final script “People can then sit with his ideas. It would be very sad if people didn’t get to see it” (via The Times)

Eight years ago, Hitman developer IO Interactive was bleeding so much money that Square Enix paid to get rid of it. Now it's one of the largest privately owned video-game companies in the world, with 500 employees. I spoke to IO's CEO about how that happened: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

how i did i feel about not-E3 this year? well… www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEsg...

Why does Tony Hawk in THPS 3+4 look like Tim Robinson trying to cosplay Tony Hawk?

One element of the Dragon Age story that I want to emphasize: If the team had known in 2021 (after the single-player pivot) that they'd ship in Oct 2024, it'd be a much different game. Instead they were always under the impression they had to finish in 6-12 months, which led to all sorts of problems

Here's my Date Everything review! Had to publish this one independently, the first game I've ever done this for, because this? This rules. malindy.medium.com/i-dated-the-...

Wikipedia wanted to use AI summaries at the top of article pages. Editors said please please don't www.404media.co/wikipedia-pa...

NEW: What went wrong with Dragon Age: The Veilguard? Why was the writing so tonally inconsistent? Why did it feel so shallow? Why were there so few choices? Really, after ten years of turbulence, it was a miracle that anything came out at all. This is the story: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I’ve never forgotten this picture from 2016 and how it completely reshaped my understanding of how the media covers protests.

Everyone I knew who covered disinformation got laid off, their bosses got bullied into firing them, or they changed their beats from actual Nazi harassment campaigns. It cannot be stressed the damage the paid-for Substack “free speech” guys did in the service of fascism and against real free speech.

Ocean level breakdown 🌊 Never posted this on Bluesky so here it is o/ #pixelart #indiedev #GameMaker

People simply don’t think about survivors when they have these conversations. Like just think for one second about what you are saying when you say that a woman being sexual promotes or encourages sexual violence. Use your noggin.

mindseye is a cancelled ps4 game that has been leaked onto the internet and you'll never be able to convince me its anything else

Got blindsided by a German translation today LMAO What a treat it can be sometimes to know both languages djwidhakdbejf

This is genocide. By definition. Your opinions and feelings about it do not change the goal and the result. The people of Palestine are being exterminated by people hiding their extremism behind the faith of the innocent. This has to stop.

People will be like "oh you need AI for concept art" when in fact all that's required is a notebook and a terrible sketch, and you too can earn the ire of your production artists as they try to figure out what the hell you were trying to communicate.

In the Disney lawsuit, 10 pages are dedicated to citing the work we did. In pursuit of this evidence, Midjourney banned me 3 times and updated their ToS. The first ban encouraged me to dig a lot deeper, so I'd like to congratulate CEO David Holz on his massive unforced error.

Who are we losing this time?

If anyone knows of a way to get a hold of YouTube and stop Slope's channel from being deleted, please reach out! This is totally unfair.

We’re proud to announce Kitamura’s Blueprints! I’ve been working with Mega Man creator AK on chronicling Mega Man’s history since we met early last year. I’m excited for people to finally read everything he has to say about the first two MM games. Please support the project if you can!

I couldn't NOT do this.

Rest in peace, RuneScape. I’ve played this stupid Java game for 22 years. I’ve had countless accounts and even more memories. Never again. Jagex changed ownership and started considering *stark* monetization changes, which was my exit-ramp. This is just the epilogue to my disappointment. :( Ggez

leftists: centrist liberals always bend the knee to fascism me in the past: oh come on it's gotta be more complicated than that (it wasn't more complicated than that)

trump figured out that he couldnt end the war in europe like he promised so he decided to start one here with the united states

Greta Thunberg, arriving back in Europe after her abduction by Israel in international waters, explains in 40 seconds why western governments are colluding in genocide:

Terrible director making terrible movies is also a terrible person