Tom Davies

It would be lovely if the video games industry would let the people who make the games buy food

Well, happy 29th anniversary to the greatest ‘reverse ferret’ ever issued by a media outlet

jon ronson has written a book about men who go crazy online and he's dedicated an entire chapter to graham linehan. graham is not going to like the observer review.

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Proud to announce the next game Vampirium: 1997 Dracula is king of the United British Empire. Kill his enemies and find your own path through a minimalist immersive sim sandbox. Wishlists and retweets massively appreciated (and, you know, massively helpful) store.steampowered.com/app/4035190/...

I would not listen to Tim. I once saw him deposit a clutch of glistening eggs from his ovipositor.

The confusion and conflation of ‘generative ai that is built on stolen artwork’ and ‘machine learning, character behaviour modelling and proc gen’ is intentional on the part of the grifters peddling the former. They benefit from murkiness of classification, because the latter predates their bollocks

it's crazy to use AI in CONCEPT ART bcuz it will never be able to CREATE its own CONCEPTS. so not only are you saying you're too lazy to pay someone or to do the work yourself, you're also saying your okay with building all of your shit on unoriginal ideas and almagamation of existing work.

Generative AI: worsen your reputation and mildly lower your productivity in one easy step.

I just find this really sad. Imagine being so certain that you need slop machines to do your work, that you convince yourself that EVERYBODY must need them.

So many people are self sabotaging by deskilling via this nonsense right now. Want an edge in 2027? Don’t build reliance on bad tools into your process in 2025.

if you see this post, your actions are: - if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this - if you don't have a spare buck, just repost your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive

Speaking as someone who has been around large concentrations of Trek fans there are not only tons of women who love Trek and can recite it chapter & verse across multiple series, but the vast majority of Trek fans that critique do so on creative grounds, not “because woke”

*gasp*

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

From ‘The Onion’ Editorial Board: It Is Journalism’s Sacred Duty To Endanger The Lives Of As Many Trans People As Possible https://theonion.com/it-is-journalism-s-sacred-duty-to-endanger-the-lives-of-1850126997/

Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results: 1) Does UBI work? (yes) 2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)

It was always true, but now fully undeniable that their principle role is to take up space and prevent a viable and actual party to the left gaining a foothold. You know, radical leftists ideas like opposing genocide and leaving trans people alone for a bit.

Everyone in uk politics gestures to the left of their actual position (tories dress as centrists, labour dress as the left, Lib Dems run around in circles hoping someone will love them) but labour has absolutely dropped the last shred of pretence, impossible to turn a blind eye to it. Suicidal.

starmer is doing all the anti-immigrant and anti-trans "popularism" stuff the centrists are demanding US dems do and this is the predictable result:

Rowling could've lived in her castle and tweeted "Hagrid wants you to brush your teeth and have a happy St. Swithin's Day!" a few times a year and HP would've had the same legacy as Pooh or Middle-earth, but she consciously chose Evil For Evil's Sake like a badly written children's fantasy villain

When Michael Jordan felt boxed in by his success in basketball he tried baseball. When Gary Brooks became synonymous with country he created Chris Gaines. And when JK Rowling created the most successful kids books of all time she reinvented herself as a petty, weirdo transphobia influencer.

My sister THE MAYOR OF BERKELEY hosted our family reunion so I made a shirt to explain my role in our familial unit. See: -The mayor gave a chartered bus tour of her city, then helped cook breakfast for 50 people while on a zoom. -I found a decomposing wild turkey carcass & poked it with a stick.

The problem is we aren't getting our news from reputable sources, like the newsboy shouting "extra! extra!"

"But the marketplace of ideas..." If someone turns up to your marketplace selling poisoned apples, you don't sit back and trust in market forces, you send that Disney villain packing asap.

Perhaps the Gamers are alright

Xbox has officially delayed Fable to 2026: ‘It’s definitely worth the wait’ vgc.news/news/xbox-ha...

these guys spent 60 kajillion dollars to make a computer forget how to do math

Also, don't quote them. Don't screengrab them. Don't dunk on them. Protect this site, protect your peace, and moreover, protect the peace of other people who don't want to see it, regardless of how awesome your sick burn is.

The reason companies want to put AI in everything even though we actively hate it, is the same reason they were all in on Bitcoin, and crypto, and NFTs, and quantum computing. It's because these companies can no longer make the line go up selling us products. They've maxed out on that.

It's weird that Looking for Alaska is the second-most banned book in the U.S., and mostly challenged by evangelical Christians, because the novel is about Radical Hope and how forgiveness is available to all people at all times, which are Christian concepts I wrote about because I'm a Christian.

It seems much nicer here.