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My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

day 23 - typewriter rat #beansrattober #rattober2026

Scenes from an American Castlevania www.patreon.com/merrittk/pos...

There are two reasons I never had trouble accepting Trans people. One is that I got a good biology education even before going to Uni to study it. The other is that I did read Terry Pratchett's fantastic books. If you can do both, but at bare minimum read the books!

it’s my birthday today 😌 if you want to do something nice for me today please consider giving a dollar to The Base Mesh: www.thebasemesh.com base 3D models for games, professionally made… it’s an invaluable resource to me and i tell all my students about it! support & love for asset creators 🎉🎂🍰❤️

Last I'll post about this, but Elon Musk disagrees with me. This means I am onto something, and I feel more valid in my opinion than ever.

what cis liberals need to understand is that us trans people dont exist in isolation. when you throw us under the bus in order to get the mythical moderate voter to vote blue, you aren't just depressing the trans vote, you are also depressing the votes of all the people who care about us too

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The slop ouroboros created by stealing everyone's creative endeavors, potentially killing the concept of personal computers and ownership, and then selling it all back to us forever

Saying coding is not art is like saying architecture isn't art. Just because the end result is functional and not purely aesthetic doesn't mean it's not creative or artistic.

People never used mods like this seriously, they were always made to prove a point: in the past, they were made to flex your understanding of both the source and the target game, "I documented them so well, I can do this". Now they flex... that you have tokens to burn, I guess?

I like seeing the dev of the SNES core on the Pocket actually telling one of these dudes off. Holy shit.

folks, i can't tell you how many times i've rewatched this ad *that republicans are paying people to see*

OPENING ACT demo is LIVE! Big update with new lighting, story sections, and the first look at the playable hub area. There's a whole bunch of smaller fixes to make the experience better on controller as well as some extra surprises waiting for you. Find out how to get access below!

Since a dev shared his game concept last month, Steam has been flooded with vibe-coded slop clones. This is what "democratising creativity" actually looks like. Even with AI, your ideas are worthless as long as they can be plagiarised at scale. Gen AI was designed for plagiarism, NOT creativity.

Please help if able, one of my best friends hit a snag and could use a hand getting back into the saddle.

had a few things i needed to get off my chest ❤️

We just rolled out a big overhaul to the playtest, so if you have access to that on Steam, you should re-install it. Major changes to lighting, new cutscenes, and the first look at the S3PF Command hub is all available. Proper announcement and trailer coming next month.

Qliphah in Providence's Shadow releases in 2⃣ days! 🎉 We are counting down each day until release with amazing art from our Team Arc Creators! Today we are featuring @ultineet.com and this spectacular Rena Hizuki art! 🌟 #Qliphah #TeamArcCreators

Ah, hello prince. This is a nice day for rolling, isn't it? We got the idea for rolling up some things. Well, for you to do it. Maybe some fluffy things. Fluffy things with points in their mouths. They make a noise, aw aw? I don't know how it goes. Get a lot of them. Anyway goodbye, I don't love you

“An astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions” and the “largest theft of labor in human history” is what a Microsoft executive privately said about GenAi as shown in newly unsealed court filings. And these court filings get worse. These execs knew all along the immense theft they committed.

A Pleasant Bat #oc #originalcharacter #vtuber #bat

New Yorkers should know whether the apartment they’re looking at is real. That’s why we’re working to require apartment listings to clearly disclose when images and videos have been generated by AI. Finding a home in New York is hard enough without artificially generating more problems.

Snake is Back

this is porn, to me.

Just as a reminder, genAI images and videos aren't bad because they look bad. How close they get to the real thing is irrelevant. The reason they're bad is because ultimately genAI exists to put the creative process itself into the hands of corporations instead of actual creatives.

For years, New Yorkers have demanded access to City records about the lasting health impacts of the horrific September 11th attacks. For years, they have been denied and ignored. That ends today. nyc.gov/sept11docs

all the ai chodes posting ugly shit today going "LOOK AT WHAT I MADE IN 20 MINS, IT'S CRAZY, IT WAS SO FAST WOW AGI IS HERE" and it's like... a second ago they were all like "I COULD TAPE A BANANA TO THE WALL AND BE AN ARTIST TOO HUH NO EFFORT LOL SHIT ART" like how is this not the same thing

Technology being everywhere doesn’t mean it belongs everywhere. The tech industry wants us to believe that AI in early education is not only inevitable, but necessary. We don't see it that way. This week, we announced a moratorium on generative AI for public school students in 2-K to 8th grade.

i have made many-a silly comic about MGS4 and PW, and they are all nicely archived on my website!! enjoy!!! 🫡 mgs4: www.othatsraspberry.com/mgs4 pw: www.othatsraspberry.com/mgs-pw

I don’t do a lot of TikTok but quite honestly, hats off. A masterpiece

All the biggest announcements from Gamescom Opening Night Live aftermath.site/gamescom-openi...

Posting all of these today. I loved doing one on her birthday every year that I could. We have lost one of the brightest lights that has ever shined.

As summer festivities begin to wind down, we welcome the Rising as it returns to Eorzea on August 27! Grab a taco and check out what's arriving with the upcoming seasonal event on the FFXIV Official Blog! 🌮 sqex.to/FNics

today at @mothership.blog, it's jennifer lufau breaking down exactly what is so important and special about South of Midnight. free to read with just your email address! do not miss this game; compulsion games is indie now and both needs & deserves your support.

again i am just not that interested in debating whether human rights should theoretically extend to robots and ai when we currently don't even extend them to all humans

i highly recommend checking this incredible parody of modern history channel tv shows, its so well done with great production, you won't regret taking some time out to watch it www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEJM...

💛🤍NONBINARY CODED GAMES💜🖤 is live on Steam! For International Nonbinary Day, we're showcasing 150+ games by devs who are nonbinary, genderqueer, & outside the gender binary! Take a look and see the spectrum of what we have to offer 🌈 store.steampowered.com/curator/4610... #NonbinaryCodedGames

And this is just the beginning.

the media when the centrist loses by 1% vs the media when the leftist loses by (less than) 1%

"The games have wildly different reputations, but they seem to have come up in the same schoolyard. Soon after its release, the internet celebrated the fact that 2B's derriere was drawn by more polygons than the entirety of Ocarina of Time. False, but one understands why the thought was compelling."