gatorpearl
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trans rights are human rights. people can't be illegal. there is no planet B. generative AI must disappear. it's about time we're upfront with what we stand for.
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🎄 Happy holidays! ❄️
Celebrate with today's not featured file, unused music from one of the BS-X magazine issues.
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Celebrate with today's not featured file, unused music from one of the BS-X magazine issues.
tcrf.net/BS-X_Magazines
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December 22, 2025 at 11:51 PM
🎄 Happy holidays! ❄️
Celebrate with today's not featured file, unused music from one of the BS-X magazine issues.
tcrf.net/BS-X_Magazines
tcrf.net/index.php?ti...
Celebrate with today's not featured file, unused music from one of the BS-X magazine issues.
tcrf.net/BS-X_Magazines
tcrf.net/index.php?ti...
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The Xbox Boycott (Still) Matters
YouTube video by People Make Games
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December 18, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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My response to anything over the next two weeks
December 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
My response to anything over the next two weeks
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"we USE ai, but our game wont CONTAIN it" is a clarification that no one has ever cared about & now CEOs are using it as a wedge to get their foot in the door as a part of a long term plan into normalizing AI, just like how 'it's just placeholder' was used with E33. dont cede even an inch of ground
December 16, 2025 at 9:12 PM
"we USE ai, but our game wont CONTAIN it" is a clarification that no one has ever cared about & now CEOs are using it as a wedge to get their foot in the door as a part of a long term plan into normalizing AI, just like how 'it's just placeholder' was used with E33. dont cede even an inch of ground
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Look man I don’t think the people being poisoned by data centers really care if you remove the generated assets before shipping, and I don’t really care if you “only” use the machine that stole my shit and convinced teens to off themselves for internal PowerPoints.
Cool motive. Still bullshit tho.
Cool motive. Still bullshit tho.
December 16, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Look man I don’t think the people being poisoned by data centers really care if you remove the generated assets before shipping, and I don’t really care if you “only” use the machine that stole my shit and convinced teens to off themselves for internal PowerPoints.
Cool motive. Still bullshit tho.
Cool motive. Still bullshit tho.
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funny enough i just wrote a blog post kinda about this feeling surasshu.com/i-swear-to-g...
December 15, 2025 at 11:47 PM
funny enough i just wrote a blog post kinda about this feeling surasshu.com/i-swear-to-g...
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Since Polygon is leaving it out of the headline: Epic Games partnered with The Game Awards to put money into the pocket of a bigot who uses her wealth to further the genocide of trans people through lawsuits and legislation. Every 'free' game gives money directly to JKR, and they are complicit.
Epic Games partnered with The Game Awards to give away this week's free game on the Epic Games Store.
Hogwarts Legacy is now at the right price: $0
Epic Games partnered with The Game Awards to give away this week's free game on the Epic Games Store.
www.polygon.com
December 13, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Since Polygon is leaving it out of the headline: Epic Games partnered with The Game Awards to put money into the pocket of a bigot who uses her wealth to further the genocide of trans people through lawsuits and legislation. Every 'free' game gives money directly to JKR, and they are complicit.
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The handmade, human qualities of your work are more valuable than they've ever been. Don't doubt that for a second.
December 11, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The handmade, human qualities of your work are more valuable than they've ever been. Don't doubt that for a second.
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I ❤️ MY OFFLINE MEDIA LIBRARY
December 11, 2025 at 12:16 AM
I ❤️ MY OFFLINE MEDIA LIBRARY
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Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it.
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
How to quit Spotify
This Black Friday, here's a guide to finding the best Spotify alternative
www.bloodinthemachine.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it.
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
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This is a kind of epiphany that I kinda *felt* but never was able to put to words, and it is brilliant.
When executives (and their marketing sycophants) say something, it's not because they believe it's *true*, it's what they *want* to happen.
When executives (and their marketing sycophants) say something, it's not because they believe it's *true*, it's what they *want* to happen.
NEW VIDEO: Big business is a death cult worshipping a many-faced Techno God. In an industry full of takers who want to eradicate the makers, so-called AI promises a nonsensical fantasy where games are made for free and sold to a world of laid off former workers. It is unhinged.
youtu.be/xcB_kqpYNhc
youtu.be/xcB_kqpYNhc
Execucult Of The Techno God
YouTube video by Stephanie Sterling
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December 6, 2025 at 1:57 PM
This is a kind of epiphany that I kinda *felt* but never was able to put to words, and it is brilliant.
When executives (and their marketing sycophants) say something, it's not because they believe it's *true*, it's what they *want* to happen.
When executives (and their marketing sycophants) say something, it's not because they believe it's *true*, it's what they *want* to happen.
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If I lose even 0.00001% of that, no one would trust me with money ever again, and they'd be right.
Mark Zuckerberg’s gamble on the "Metaverse" has lost his company more than $77 billion.
December 6, 2025 at 8:16 AM
If I lose even 0.00001% of that, no one would trust me with money ever again, and they'd be right.
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Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨
December 3, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨
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Stop using Spotify oh my GOD
December 3, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Stop using Spotify oh my GOD
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i will not be hearing any spotify wrapped excuses this year
December 3, 2025 at 3:31 PM
i will not be hearing any spotify wrapped excuses this year
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In addition to promoting fascism, devaluing music, and ripping off artists to fund AI murder drones, Spotify is using your listening history to track your "vibe" across time, location, and life events scraped from your aggregated digital identity.
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Spotify stands by ICE recruitment ads despite artist backlash
Spotify stands by ICE recruitment ads despite artist backlash
www.avclub.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:58 PM
In addition to promoting fascism, devaluing music, and ripping off artists to fund AI murder drones, Spotify is using your listening history to track your "vibe" across time, location, and life events scraped from your aggregated digital identity.
www.avclub.com/spotify-stan...
www.avclub.com/spotify-stan...
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You don’t actually gotta hand it to the people complying in advance
December 3, 2025 at 1:20 PM
You don’t actually gotta hand it to the people complying in advance
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Here's that post: www.instagram.com/reel/DRV1V7r...
December 3, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Here's that post: www.instagram.com/reel/DRV1V7r...
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When writing this piece, I kept thinking back to this Instagram post I saw from a trans woman the other day. This is what I'm talking about. Watch this:
December 3, 2025 at 12:35 AM
When writing this piece, I kept thinking back to this Instagram post I saw from a trans woman the other day. This is what I'm talking about. Watch this:
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Wild story, a font service was bought out by a US company and now they are absolutely dogshit and it'll particularly heavily affect JP games, especially service titles.
Wild story, a font service was bought out by a US company and now they are absolutely dogshit and it'll particularly heavily affect JP games, especially service titles.
December 1, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Wild story, a font service was bought out by a US company and now they are absolutely dogshit and it'll particularly heavily affect JP games, especially service titles.
Wild story, a font service was bought out by a US company and now they are absolutely dogshit and it'll particularly heavily affect JP games, especially service titles.
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My biggest hater take is probably that I find Fortnite to be absolutely dystopian. It's giving me feelings of dread and despair to see all these intellectual properties™ come together in a franchise slurry.
December 1, 2025 at 11:34 PM
My biggest hater take is probably that I find Fortnite to be absolutely dystopian. It's giving me feelings of dread and despair to see all these intellectual properties™ come together in a franchise slurry.