Peter T
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Peter T
@ptran42.bsky.social
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Giving social media another spin. Big ol' nerd, particularly for Transformers, Persona, and Like a Dragon/Yakuza.
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"Buzzword, buzzword, buzzword; appease the shareholders and they're all who matter."

Fuck off, EA.
"EA and Stability AI partner to empower artists, designers, and developers"

"The partnership will help unlock faster iteration, accelerate workflows, and expand creative possibilities"

www.ea.com/news/ea-part...
I was already going to buy 'Marvel Cosmic Invasion' when it comes out on 1st December.

Knowing that Brute Force are making cameos in it only reaffirms my confidence in the game.
Screenshot from the new Marvel Comics game, you gotta be kidding me.
I consider this a hate crime to cinema itself.
David and Larry Ellisons’ sloptastic vision for Hollywood is coming into focus:

“Paramount has reportedly signed a $200M+ multiyear deal for Higgsfield AI to use mass-use Popcorn AI model that ingests dailies and script notes, then outputs regional cuts: new leads, alternate jokes, revised endings”
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"why are games so expensive"
"why are mass layoffs happening"
"why are games getting cancelled"
"why did that popular studio close"

it's capitalism. capitalism is why all of this is happening. the rampant prioritizing of profit over the all else, from price and quality to dev health and well being.
SCOOP: For the last two years, Microsoft has pushed Xbox to hit profit margins of 30%, an ambitious target that's far higher than the industry average.

This chase for profit has led Xbox to raise prices, cut thousands of jobs, and rethink everything.

Story: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Microsoft Pushes Xbox Division to Hit Higher Profit Margins
Management’s goal of 30% profit margins for gaming has led to job losses, canceled projects
www.bloomberg.com
The M.A.S.K. adaptations will continue until morale improves.
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guys cmonnn. it’s time to leave Prince Andrew alone
I've argued before that stories (through whichever medium) are meant to be experienced and reflected upon, rather than being treated as obstacles to be solved and beaten as fast as possible.

(Much like the difference between savouring a meal and just chugging a blended smoothie of it.)
It's a Captain America film with both Sam Wilson and Isaiah Bradley*, but instead of really digging into their histories for good drama and having something meaningful to say about race, it just treads water with two of the Hulk's enemies there.

*No less where Isiah has been set up and imprisoned
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This feels like a variant on the Vimes Boot Theory of Economics: stealing a $2 candy bar could get you criminally charged, but stealing $23K of event services will get you months of payment requests and eventual dismissal of your debt: www.syracuse.com/politics/cny...
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The entire "free speech on campus" moral panic was manufactured to blackmail us into making space in intellectual life for bigots and charlatans who couldn't get there on their own merits. Its a DEI scheme for fascism. Congratulations to everyone who took it at face value.
“Following his lecture, Yarvin will debate the legendary British historian David Starkey on history and the future of conservatism.” Everything about this is so cursed. Masks off at the University of Oxford.
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One of my favourite moments in 'Yakuza: Like a Dragon'.

Glad to see it being used here.
Ichiban sign spotted at No Kings protest in Chicago
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It seems pointless to fact check someone saying "curry isn't proper British food like fish and chips", just like it's futile to correct someone saying "there are no pronouns in the Bible". They haven't made a mistake. What they're saying is, "Britain is a white country".
GI Robot has one personality trait, and it is the best personality trait.

(I also enjoyed the brief little snapshots of DC history through him.)
a cartoon character with the number 2 on their hat
Alt: GI Robot is happy (From 'Creature Commandos', episode 4)
media.tenor.com
Fuck the monarchy, and I hope that he drags all of his chums down with him.
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i’m so sick of this cowardly use of language.
I visit an artist's Etsy page one time, and I'm now forever inundated with obnoxiously twee Etsy adverts on YouTube.

It's that or the (still) many different online gambling/live sports betting ads that make me genuinely quite angry.
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There is an actual life-changing conflict between WFH being cheaper and more efficient, an entire layer of middle managers who need to have meetings to feel alive, and the commercial real estate cabal that runs all cities. It’s going to get so fucking weird.
remote work is like birth control or UBI atp where there’s overwhelming research consensus they improve quality of life for people they apply to, yet access is impeded or blocked by the ruling class because the thought of marginalized ppl having rich full lives makes steam come out their ears
2. Rolling Stone is owned by a large media conglomerate, which is ending remote work across its brands.

My home is Portland, Oregon, ~1,000 miles from the nearest office, so this marks the end of the line for me at RS.
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As you may have noticed, white supremacists want to stop the influx of hardworking young people (aka immigration) while somehow forcing white women to have lots more babies to compensate, but they refuse to make having kids more affordable and less arduous an experience.
RFK Jr: "When my uncle was president, the fertility rate in this country was 3.5%. Today it is 1.6%. The replacement rate -- in other words the amount of fertility you need to keep your population even -- is 2.1%. We are below replacement. That is a national security threat to our country."
Cybertruck drivers would be the type to insist on wearing driver's gloves as well.
Yeesh. Best of luck getting home.

(Euston is such a miserable place to travel from.)