Gooboo the Wretched

I saw an interview with an AI bro in his 50s say that “The young people are embracing AI! It’s the old people who are scared!” No. It’s the old, established people in power who LOVE this stuff. Because it means they don’t have to hire anyone and no longer have to pretend to get along with people.

Giant Dragon 'Threads Of Fate' PlayStation

the biggest presidential scandal in history but the political media largely acts as if it's not happening. hasan piker has received more mainstream political media coverage over the last 6 months than trump's connections with epstein has

Fisherman Horizon Final Fantasy VIII Square February 11, 1999

sorry i need to publicly be a hater for a second but what do you mean the giant 230k+ signature save mass effect petition is only about the IP and not the devs that were laid off

making games so you can hopefully afford to make more games is literally a different industry from grinding up people so number goes up and it is harmful to pretend otherwise regardless of whether or not we share a platform or a binary format

there’s no such thing as “strategic bigotry.” I know this because there is no amount of money you could pay me to become a bigot. the democrats who do this agree to do it because they’re bigots

We tried "everyone is entitled to an opinion" for three straight decades and all we have to show for it is four thousand cases of measles and a death cult running the government. It's time for people who don't know what they're talking about to shut the fuck up.

even abstracted into hypothetical maths this doesn't make any sense. picking the lesser evil still makes things more evil, just by a lesser amount

Games are made by people and game studios are made of people but game studios are also made of institutional knowledge, continuity, practices, standards, technology, resources, and IP. And those things do mean something, and it is a loss when they're discarded.

please stop replying to game devs saying things like "well look on the bright side those laid off devs can start their own indie studios now" because eventually one of us is going to snap and "WITH WHAT FUCKING MONEY" would be a shitty last thing to hear before you die

Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First https://theonion.com/protestors-criticized-for-looting-businesses-without-fo-1843735351/

Repeated infections being a “fact of life” is a framing designed to make you think something is naturally inevitable rather than the expected result of a series of public health decisions designed with something other than your health and safety at the forefront.

why do we bash "dead beat" children for not being there for their parents but we never question if the parent has bad vibes? or if they're just unpleasant to be around?

i do unironically think people that are cosmopolitan need sorta paradoxically be more chauvinist about it tbh. places and people that are cosmopolitan in outlook are better than places that are provincially minded. the kind of performative handwringing about not being 'authentic' is bad and weak.

The "golden age of gaming" isn't one where the vast majority of people who love games can't afford the equipment to play them and where those who make the games get their ideas (and ability to pay rent) stolen from them.

I’m not a producer but if I was I would start every meeting by getting people to plot their status on this

One would be good and the other would be bad because one cause is good and the other is bad. We are not in the realm of procedural justice concerns anymore, liberalism is not obligated to be neutral on the question of its own existence.

The reason abortion is popular right now is that roughly three generations of women have had access to it and we all know someone (possibly ourselves) whose life has been saved by it.

I believe that empathy works the same way. To some large degree empathy is all projection — you can only ever approach understanding of how someone else feels. If actually empathizing with a particular person is something that matters to you, you can never stop paying attention to them

Disability can happen to anyone at any time. It’s not due to deconditioning or a moral failing. Many chronic illnesses are the result of a viral infection from which the body never recovers. We need more awareness, treatments & clean air to reduce viral spread. www.bbc.com/sport/athlet...

UX, the most important things in games and also has no awards because good ones are completely invisible ^^

An explanation on why Big Walk isn't available on Xbox. bigwalk.game/xbox

another day in the layoff industry

I think Ossoff captures something that Newsom never did: the Dem base wants you to fight but they want real shit not goofy memes and too-online riffs

it’s worth underlining that the amount which a modern live game is not this is directly the result of devs fighting inch by inch, for months if not years, against the guy at every corporation who demands an explanation for why you aren’t doing this at all times

Excellent piece by @jamellebouie.net

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The same political movement is simultaneously 1. Telling us "you can't undo AI, it's here, you can't undo a technology" 2. Undoing— successfully— the most life-saving single technology in history other than boiling water www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/u...

missed National Coming Out Day. but came across this screenshot of the mass email i sent 12 years ago!

Your daily reminder that more people are playing and buying PC games than ever before. This is a growing industry. The only reason the industry is struggling is because the people are the top are vacuuming up all the money made to divert it to AI in an unhinged all-in multi-trillion-dollar gamble.

there is much pain in the world but not in this room

Two sides of the industry:

- Fully open source - Free - No Generative AI whatsoever. Godot Asset Store: store.godotengine.org/asset/philip... I want to send huge Thank Yous to all contributors, this release would literally not exist at all without them.

Damn that strongly worded letter they are threatening to write at some point sounds absolutely scathing

There is absolutely no viable path forward for this country that doesn’t hinge on extreme accountability for everyone involved in this administration. They’re going to whine about politicization and credulous media types will echo them, but the thing is, they’ve committed tons of obvious crimes!