Liam Deane

One time when I was like 8 an elderly neighbour gave me £5 and fondly told me not to spend it all in one shop and I immediately went and spent it all at once on sweets and she found out and got really upset that I had spent it all in one shop, in violation of her express wishes

Momo@heyheymomo.bsky.social

Hello id like to spend all at once please

7 Aug

To be fair, the volume of sweets five Irish punts could buy in 1998 was enormous and very possibly life-threatening

bloomberg.comAI Mistakes Are Infuriating Gamers as Developers Seek SavingsGames and AI, seemingly a perfect match, are off to a rocky start

13 Apr

Dualsense sticks have started drifting

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Bryant Francis

@bryantfrancis.me

26 Feb

Bloomberg out here finally catching up to what we’ve been saying for ages: that genAI isn’t helping the game industry (with quotes from my colleague @liamdeane.bsky.social)

24 Feb

I honestly think this might be a case of unimaginative humans starting to copy the AI writing style.

Marie Le Conte@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com

er, is it just me or does this Guardian piece read like it was written by AI www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

20 Feb

If only there was some way of generalising this system to all medical bills

IGN@ign.com

Kunal Nayyar has said he's spending some of millions he made playing Raj Koothrappali in The Big Bang Theory to anonymously pay random people's medical bills. bit.ly/3OptbP6

theguardian.comHazardous substances found in all headphones tested by ToxFREE projectSubstances include chemicals that can cause cancer, neurodevelopmental problems and the feminisation of males You wear them at work, you wear them at play, you wear them to relax. You may even get sweaty in them at the gym. But an investigation into headphones has found every single pair tested contained substances hazardous to human health, including chemicals that can cause cancer, neurodevelopmental problems and the feminisation of males. Continue reading...

18 Feb

Great, going to have to stop adding powdered headphone to my meals now

The Guardian@theguardian.com

Hazardous substances found in all headphones tested by ToxFREE project

16 Feb

Every single American seems to be convinced that Fahrenheit is self-evidently more intuitive. It isn't! It's just what you're used to!

William B. Fuckley@opinionhaver.bsky.social

Celsius is the scientist temperature measurement in that it’s the most conceptually coherent , Fahrenheit is the engineer temperature measurement in that it’s actually optimized to be useful for it’s main use case of communicating everyday temperatures.

videogameschronicle.comA modder has built a handheld PS4 that can run for up to three hours | VGCThe device runs PS4 games natively and has a 7-inch OLED screen…

28 Jan

My "safe to use" handheld console is raising a lot of questions already answered by the console

VGC@videogameschronicle.com

As rumours of a PlayStation handheld continue, a hardware modder has created their own handheld PlayStation 4, which they say can run for up to three hours and is “stable, fully functional, and safe to use”. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/a-modde...

26 Jan

I love when you're looking at a hotel online and it's like "Double Room with Mountain View" and all the pictures defly avoid actually showing the view. Well I'm sure that's nothing to worry about, I'll take one non-refundable booking please!

23 Jan

Playing this game "Baldur's Gate 3". It's pretty good. Not sure why nobody ever mentioned this before.

22 Jan

America still not beating the "every map is just a population density map" allegations

Robert (Bob) Kubinec@rmkubinec.bsky.social

Wow, @gelliottmorris.com made a detailed map of Trump approval *at the sub-county level.* Of course, there are assumptions that have to be made, but it's quite rigorous. Certainly the best info in the public domain. 👀 southern Texas 👀 Check it out: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/a-very-det...

16 Jan

Peak PR performance

13 Jan

People love to rag on the Mercator projection, but when did you last see a Mercator projection world map? They basically haven't existed for decades! Unfairly scapegoated projection imo

10 Jan

Dante thought there were only seven circles of hell but that's because he never had to use Ubisoft Connect

nyti.msBefore You Buy an Air Fryer, Check for This Setting on Your OvenLove crispy, air-fried foods but don’t want to sacrifice the counter space for another appliance? Any oven with a convection setting can already do the job.

8 Jan

Who doesn't have an oven with a fan setting? Is this some new dreaded American thing?

The New York Times@nytimes.com

Love crispy, air-fried foods but don’t want to sacrifice the counter space for another appliance? Any oven with a convection setting can already do the job. Here's how to find out if your oven has this function: nyti.ms/4jpGPwK

30 Dec 2025

All news is local

IGN@ign.com

Idris Elba is now Sir Idris after the Cyberpunk 2077 and The Wire actor was knighted in the New Year Honors. https://bit.ly/4aEm7qW

30 Dec 2025

"the Cyberpunk 2077 and The Wire actor"

bit.lyHow to Watch The Lord of the Rings in Chronological Order

26 Dec 2025

Finally someone has cracked it

IGN@ign.com

We’ve put together this handy guide to make sure newcomers can properly navigate The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies.

Liam Deane reposted

Tom Warren

@tomwarren.co.uk

25 Dec 2025

Merry Christmas! 🎄 If you’re visiting family today, remember to turn off motion smoothing on their TV 👍

ft.trib.alNo, you can’t tell when something was written by AIContext matters as much as content in determining whether text is machine generated or not

24 Dec 2025

Counterpoint: yes you can

FT Edit@ftedit.ft.com

No, you can’t tell when something was written by AI ft.trib.al/tSEvrnq #FTEdit

24 Dec 2025

OK, sure, there are cases where it's hard to tell. But there are many, many cases where it is not.

Liam Deane reposted

Mike Drucker

@mikedrucker.bsky.social

12 Dec 2025

i stand by this statement every year

theguardian.comI now declare you throuple: how to plan a polyamorous weddingA throuple in Tennessee shares how they planned a fairytale wedding, from rings to first dance

11 Dec 2025

Step 1: reconsider your choices to this point

The Guardian@theguardian.com

I now declare you throuple: how to plan a polyamorous wedding

6 Dec 2025

I really struggle to grasp what Meta actually did with that $77bn of metaverse money. Like they didn't *literally* set it on fire, where did it all go?

5 Dec 2025

Such a horror to use a slightly aging device with a micro USB port. All that fiddling about, feeling like something is about to snap off at any moment. How did we live like this?

rte.ieFarrell: We don't want to just get past a quarter-finalGiven Ireland's tortured history at the Rugby World Cup, Andy Farrell knew well enough to avoid getting sucked in by the permutations of Ireland's draw when he spoke to the media on Wednesday.

4 Dec 2025

RTÉ Sport@sport.rte.ie

The supporters and the media can speculate and plot Ireland’s path in public, but if Andy Farrell is thinking ahead about who stands in the way of his side and World Cup glory, he will be doing so privately #RTESport

3 Dec 2025

Spotify Wrapped has been a malign influence on the world in so many ways but the worst is definitely establishing the practice of doing "end of year" lists in early December.

3 Dec 2025

A big chunk of the year hasn't happened yet! Hold your fire until Christmas at least, come on.

gamesindustry.bizThe Big Question: Will the games industry grow or plateau?Two essays from industry leaders examine what the future of the industry holds

2 Dec 2025

No surprise that the person arguing the "who needs revenue anyway?" side of this debate is an academic whose job doesn't depend on the commercial success of the industry.

GamesIndustry.biz@gibiz.bsky.social

Will the games industry start growing again? Or are we now in a post-growth phase? If so, what will that mean? Two industry leaders tackle both sides of the debate, and look at what the future might hold. www.gamesindustry.biz/the-big-ques...

26 Nov 2025

You don't know how many copies I think Cyberpunk has sold

Eurogamer@eurogamer.bsky.social

Cyberpunk 2077 has sold a lot more copies than you think - and faster than The Witcher 3 www.eurogamer.net/cyberpunk-20...

26 Nov 2025

It is not, in fact, more than I thought

26 Nov 2025

Did you know that CPDR is one of the most profitable studios in the industry? You need to sell a lot of games for that (few know this)

digitalfoundry.netProof That Recent Windows Update Harms Gaming PerformanceAC Shadows frame-rate drops by 33 to 50 percent.

Huh! I've played this game entirely in the period between the busted Windows update and the hotfix being released and was kind of baffled by the performance which seemed a lot worse than you'd expect and almost totally insenstive to tuning the graphics settings.

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Haha this has made the game so much more enjoyable. Turns out an extra 20fps is pretty helpful in a game that whose main activity is parrying.

Unfortunately however I am now Back On My Bullshit fiddling with all the graphics settings just when I'd finally given up tweaking them

digitalfoundry.netProof That Recent Windows Update Harms Gaming PerformanceAC Shadows frame-rate drops by 33 to 50 percent.

The world's premier PC gaming platform, everyone

24 Nov 2025

Listen up games people

Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social

Also my entire life I've pronounced it as g'DOH but apparently it's GOD-oh ?

It's annoying how long it takes to make TV these days but the complete collapse in quality of The Bear is a very strong argument for taking your time.

To me this mostly signals Unity and Epic bothh further deprioritising their game engines to the point that they barely see each other as competitors anymore.

Unity3D@unity.com

Unity 🤝 Epic Games Developers around the world will be able to bring their games to Fortnite while Unity’s cross-platform commerce platform is coming to @unrealengine.bsky.social soon. When ecosystems are open, everyone wins!

For each of them the engine is now largely a trojan horse for something else: for Unity, its ad and monetisation business; for Epic, building its UGC (sorry, "metaverse") ecosystem.

I don't think that's great news for developers. We've already seen Unity take its eye off the ball because of this and the same could easily happen with Epic. Catering increasingly to an audience of UGC creators doesn't mesh that well with Unreal's core market of AAA studios.

18 Nov 2025

"No funny stuff" remains undefeated

lastpositivist.bsky.social@lastpositivist.bsky.social

Honestly for the most part knowledge is actually justified true belief and you can sorta not worry about the counter-examples. It's fine.

14 Nov 2025

Unfortunately the concept of 'ZIRP' has now fully escaped containment as is being used to explain literally anything that's changed since the 2010s