Craig Bamford
@spacetalk.bsky.social
I write about space, in several places. Used to write about other stuff? But now pretty much it's space. I also talk about gaming here, though. Also politics, sadly and mostly unwillingly, but I do try to damp it down a bit
Also, near as anybody can tell, US ground kit holds up fairly well when the Ukrainians put it in action, they just never have enough of it, and the F-35 seems to be coming along okay
So this is literally just Wow The Navy Is Fucked
And yeah building ships is hard, so work with the Koreans on that
So this is literally just Wow The Navy Is Fucked
And yeah building ships is hard, so work with the Koreans on that
This is a wild framing.
The US can dominate everywhere in the world except 7000 miles away at an island 100 miles off another superpower’s coast.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The US can dominate everywhere in the world except 7000 miles away at an island 100 miles off another superpower’s coast.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | Overmatched: Why the U.S. Military Must Reinvent Itself
Investing in the old ways of war leaves America at risk.
www.nytimes.com
December 8, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Also, near as anybody can tell, US ground kit holds up fairly well when the Ukrainians put it in action, they just never have enough of it, and the F-35 seems to be coming along okay
So this is literally just Wow The Navy Is Fucked
And yeah building ships is hard, so work with the Koreans on that
So this is literally just Wow The Navy Is Fucked
And yeah building ships is hard, so work with the Koreans on that
Getting back into Atelier, and one example of the Localization is Hard problem is that the one I'm currently playing, "Escha & Logy", is actually "Escha to Logy" in Japanese.
They're studying remnants of a past apocalypse.
IOW, "Eschatology".
I feel for the localizers that had to kill that pun.
They're studying remnants of a past apocalypse.
IOW, "Eschatology".
I feel for the localizers that had to kill that pun.
December 8, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Getting back into Atelier, and one example of the Localization is Hard problem is that the one I'm currently playing, "Escha & Logy", is actually "Escha to Logy" in Japanese.
They're studying remnants of a past apocalypse.
IOW, "Eschatology".
I feel for the localizers that had to kill that pun.
They're studying remnants of a past apocalypse.
IOW, "Eschatology".
I feel for the localizers that had to kill that pun.
I kinda feel for this dude, because you know and I know and we all know that Nadella's the one forcing all this.
Windows' problem is exactly like Xbox's: MS leadership only cares about genAI investors and Azure revenue. Every other part of the business is in service of that.
Windows' problem is exactly like Xbox's: MS leadership only cares about genAI investors and Azure revenue. Every other part of the business is in service of that.
December 8, 2025 at 11:11 AM
I kinda feel for this dude, because you know and I know and we all know that Nadella's the one forcing all this.
Windows' problem is exactly like Xbox's: MS leadership only cares about genAI investors and Azure revenue. Every other part of the business is in service of that.
Windows' problem is exactly like Xbox's: MS leadership only cares about genAI investors and Azure revenue. Every other part of the business is in service of that.
I should probably stop scrolling the discover tab because good lord. There are SO many people here who don't simply think it's still the 2010s, they are convinced that it will be the 2010s again just as soon as Trump is gone
Same lines, same assumptions, same weird bad faith, all of it
Same lines, same assumptions, same weird bad faith, all of it
December 8, 2025 at 10:13 AM
I should probably stop scrolling the discover tab because good lord. There are SO many people here who don't simply think it's still the 2010s, they are convinced that it will be the 2010s again just as soon as Trump is gone
Same lines, same assumptions, same weird bad faith, all of it
Same lines, same assumptions, same weird bad faith, all of it
Reposted by Craig Bamford
Reposted by Craig Bamford
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December 8, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Pillars of 👀
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Reposted by Craig Bamford
Oh okay it's just the FULL seventh gen brainworms being let out here, huh, complete with the part where they get very normal about Japan
Q-Up and Candy Crush, say, are more serious works of game than Horses (which seems fine and even innocuous!) or whatever embarrassing anime RPG trash is on Steam or Nintendo EShop.
December 7, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Oh okay it's just the FULL seventh gen brainworms being let out here, huh, complete with the part where they get very normal about Japan
Ohhhh yeah I've been mildly crashing out on this thing for a minute
I get that the PayPros thing is very much a power thing, but it is DISGUSTING how the AI companies are getting a pass like this. And I'm honestly wondering if this isn't a quiet tactic to make people friendlier to the slop.
I get that the PayPros thing is very much a power thing, but it is DISGUSTING how the AI companies are getting a pass like this. And I'm honestly wondering if this isn't a quiet tactic to make people friendlier to the slop.
crazy all the websites and paypros are doing their big No Horny Allowed crackdown while every online advertisement now is iether "AI SEX HOT AI CHAT NO FILTER BOOB AI FURRY GIRLFRIEND only for adults ages 6+" or "NPR is now teaming up with Bumfights dot com to revolutionize gamified asset trading"
December 7, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Ohhhh yeah I've been mildly crashing out on this thing for a minute
I get that the PayPros thing is very much a power thing, but it is DISGUSTING how the AI companies are getting a pass like this. And I'm honestly wondering if this isn't a quiet tactic to make people friendlier to the slop.
I get that the PayPros thing is very much a power thing, but it is DISGUSTING how the AI companies are getting a pass like this. And I'm honestly wondering if this isn't a quiet tactic to make people friendlier to the slop.
COVID fucks with executive function and judgment, we just kinda pretend otherwise because CEOs forced everybody back into disease pit open plan offices
Can't remember if it was this bad before COVID but I'm seeing an alarming spreading of what I'll call Airport Behavior to other public places. Obliviousness to other people's existence, ineptitude at navigating the environment. "Is this your first time at the grocery store" type stuff
December 7, 2025 at 3:37 PM
COVID fucks with executive function and judgment, we just kinda pretend otherwise because CEOs forced everybody back into disease pit open plan offices
Like wayyyyy too many of the prominent Horses Discourse people spent the 2010s failing this test, and have never recanted once
Again if your stance is "media that I agree with & like should be protected from censorship" you are 100% in agreement with the censors, you're just quibbling on details
Again if your stance is "media that I agree with & like should be protected from censorship" you are 100% in agreement with the censors, you're just quibbling on details
This is a fair question to ask, but so is the opposite: do all the people complaining about the censorship of Horses also complain about the censorship of anime titty games and the like? Because you can only truly be against censorship by opposing it with both of these, not just one or the other.
December 7, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Like wayyyyy too many of the prominent Horses Discourse people spent the 2010s failing this test, and have never recanted once
Again if your stance is "media that I agree with & like should be protected from censorship" you are 100% in agreement with the censors, you're just quibbling on details
Again if your stance is "media that I agree with & like should be protected from censorship" you are 100% in agreement with the censors, you're just quibbling on details
Honestly tempted to just use an rfid spoofer, this is noxious
Maybe I'm stupid but finding out the Metroid Desert only has music if you get the amiboo really knocked a point off it for me
December 7, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Honestly tempted to just use an rfid spoofer, this is noxious
I mean, the thing that's kinda going on here is the collapse of pretext. SCOTUS decides which laws count because that's the role they have in the system, what's written in the constitution doesn't matter.
The core idea is that they, like the President, supersede all law and are not bound by it.
The core idea is that they, like the President, supersede all law and are not bound by it.
Counterpoint:
The Supreme Court lacks the authority to change the text of the Constitution.
So either it affirms the text or (further, and more completely) nukes its authority as Constitutional arbiter.
There’s no third option. Art III (courts) can’t just usurp Art V (amendments).
The Supreme Court lacks the authority to change the text of the Constitution.
So either it affirms the text or (further, and more completely) nukes its authority as Constitutional arbiter.
There’s no third option. Art III (courts) can’t just usurp Art V (amendments).
The Supreme Court will ultimately decide whether to uphold the longstanding principle that grants citizenship to the children of non-citizens born in the U.S., following a legal challenge by the Trump administration. n.pr/48E1oko
December 7, 2025 at 7:55 AM
I mean, the thing that's kinda going on here is the collapse of pretext. SCOTUS decides which laws count because that's the role they have in the system, what's written in the constitution doesn't matter.
The core idea is that they, like the President, supersede all law and are not bound by it.
The core idea is that they, like the President, supersede all law and are not bound by it.
Reposted by Craig Bamford
All super rich guys sound the same now. It’s all “I sleep four hours a night and spend the other twenty hours a day developing a product that’s going to bring us the best widespread poverty anyone’s ever seen.”
December 3, 2025 at 9:53 PM
All super rich guys sound the same now. It’s all “I sleep four hours a night and spend the other twenty hours a day developing a product that’s going to bring us the best widespread poverty anyone’s ever seen.”
Nice to see octopath doing well on switch 2, now give us the graphics patches for the first two
(And none of this "no upgrade path" nonsense)
(And none of this "no upgrade path" nonsense)
Nintendo Switch 2 eShop charts – December 7, 2025 – Metroid, Marvel, and Octopath battle for #1 https://nintendoeverything.com/nintendo-switch-2-eshop-charts-december-7-2025/
December 7, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Nice to see octopath doing well on switch 2, now give us the graphics patches for the first two
(And none of this "no upgrade path" nonsense)
(And none of this "no upgrade path" nonsense)
Finally hit the point in the new Gensh patch where Alice shows up and boy did she not disappoint
I haven't seen a character stroll in and effortlessly Bring The Fun like this since Emet-Selch showed up back in FF14, and with a similar sense of "oh this being is on a wholly other level"
I haven't seen a character stroll in and effortlessly Bring The Fun like this since Emet-Selch showed up back in FF14, and with a similar sense of "oh this being is on a wholly other level"
December 6, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Finally hit the point in the new Gensh patch where Alice shows up and boy did she not disappoint
I haven't seen a character stroll in and effortlessly Bring The Fun like this since Emet-Selch showed up back in FF14, and with a similar sense of "oh this being is on a wholly other level"
I haven't seen a character stroll in and effortlessly Bring The Fun like this since Emet-Selch showed up back in FF14, and with a similar sense of "oh this being is on a wholly other level"
Thoroughly annoyed at how any conversation about Valve's Review Commissars must be made through this thick miasma of gamer self-loathing
No, I don't care about the "Is Game...Art?" discourse, it's fucking tired and usually the onanism of dull critics
I want to know who the fucking Commissars are
No, I don't care about the "Is Game...Art?" discourse, it's fucking tired and usually the onanism of dull critics
I want to know who the fucking Commissars are
Despite the controversy, Horses is only shocking if you're unfamiliar with the history movies, theater, literature, or basically any art form that does not have stats. aftermath.site/horses-indie-g...
Horses Is Tame
Horses, the indie game that is too scandalous for either Valve or Epic, is only beyond the pale if you're not familiar with any other art form.
aftermath.site
December 6, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Thoroughly annoyed at how any conversation about Valve's Review Commissars must be made through this thick miasma of gamer self-loathing
No, I don't care about the "Is Game...Art?" discourse, it's fucking tired and usually the onanism of dull critics
I want to know who the fucking Commissars are
No, I don't care about the "Is Game...Art?" discourse, it's fucking tired and usually the onanism of dull critics
I want to know who the fucking Commissars are
Ohhhh boy I thought that they stopped eligibility for anything released after July, I am absolutely getting some vouchers before that ends next month
Huh, it's really silly that you can buy the switch version of Metroid 4 with a voucher, at 64 CDN, then upgrade it for 15, so a total price of 79.99 instead of 99.99.
Oh well!
Oh well!
December 6, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Ohhhh boy I thought that they stopped eligibility for anything released after July, I am absolutely getting some vouchers before that ends next month
I will never stop screaming THE GENAI PUSH IS ABOUT REDUCING THE PRICE OF TRADES TOO, they want all the office workers out there as plumbers so plumbers are cheaper to hire
So yes AI absolutely WILL fuck you over too, no escape from what needs to come
So yes AI absolutely WILL fuck you over too, no escape from what needs to come
Tbf the learn to code people were the guys who had to pay the programmers, and they’ve gotten what they wanted. Now they are trying to get everyone to into trades to lower their HVAC bills
December 6, 2025 at 11:53 AM
I will never stop screaming THE GENAI PUSH IS ABOUT REDUCING THE PRICE OF TRADES TOO, they want all the office workers out there as plumbers so plumbers are cheaper to hire
So yes AI absolutely WILL fuck you over too, no escape from what needs to come
So yes AI absolutely WILL fuck you over too, no escape from what needs to come
Star Rail is COOKED cooked. 3.8 looks like a weak filler patch to begin with, but the delay is going to make it even worse, and all Hoyo is doing about it is adding a third round of characters for sale to the patch.
If the rumors are true and they're ripping out Japan stuff, 4.0 could be gruesome.
If the rumors are true and they're ripping out Japan stuff, 4.0 could be gruesome.
Honkai: Star Rail 4.0 Delay Officially Confirmed By HoYoverse
Honkai: Star Rail 4.0 will take longer to arrive.
opencritic.com
December 6, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Star Rail is COOKED cooked. 3.8 looks like a weak filler patch to begin with, but the delay is going to make it even worse, and all Hoyo is doing about it is adding a third round of characters for sale to the patch.
If the rumors are true and they're ripping out Japan stuff, 4.0 could be gruesome.
If the rumors are true and they're ripping out Japan stuff, 4.0 could be gruesome.
Also, less officially, "don't buy a dime of defence equipment from any American defense primes under any circumstances", which is gonna be fun.
Among other things, they're going to need to make damn sure they have domestic launch capacity. Ariane needs Manhattan Project levels of focus.
Among other things, they're going to need to make damn sure they have domestic launch capacity. Ariane needs Manhattan Project levels of focus.
The NSS signals 2 big shifts for Europe
1. Europe will handle its own security now. They take the 5% commitment literally.
2. US plans lots of political interference to back the far right. This is what "restoring Europe’s civilizational self-confidence and Western identity" means.
Buckle up.
1. Europe will handle its own security now. They take the 5% commitment literally.
2. US plans lots of political interference to back the far right. This is what "restoring Europe’s civilizational self-confidence and Western identity" means.
Buckle up.
December 6, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Also, less officially, "don't buy a dime of defence equipment from any American defense primes under any circumstances", which is gonna be fun.
Among other things, they're going to need to make damn sure they have domestic launch capacity. Ariane needs Manhattan Project levels of focus.
Among other things, they're going to need to make damn sure they have domestic launch capacity. Ariane needs Manhattan Project levels of focus.
Yeah I'm sorry but this entire article AND the comments read like a weird metanarrative send-up of 2010s media crit
It didn't even establish its premise of "nobody watches anything other than battle shonen stuff", let alone do much to tell people what else they might like instead
It didn't even establish its premise of "nobody watches anything other than battle shonen stuff", let alone do much to tell people what else they might like instead
Anime features a wide variety of genres aimed at many audiences, and it's time Western audiences recognize that. www.avclub.com/time-to-go-b...
With anime more popular than ever, it's time to go beyond shonen
Anime features a wide variety of genres aimed at many audiences, and it's time overseas viewers recognize that.
www.avclub.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Yeah I'm sorry but this entire article AND the comments read like a weird metanarrative send-up of 2010s media crit
It didn't even establish its premise of "nobody watches anything other than battle shonen stuff", let alone do much to tell people what else they might like instead
It didn't even establish its premise of "nobody watches anything other than battle shonen stuff", let alone do much to tell people what else they might like instead
A giant number of creators internalized all that "actually it's problematic to draw boobs" stuff from the 2010s.
Way too many still haven't figured out that the people saying that were usually either chasing clout, trying to Outrun The Allegations, or just huuuuge gigaTERFs.
We know better now.
Way too many still haven't figured out that the people saying that were usually either chasing clout, trying to Outrun The Allegations, or just huuuuge gigaTERFs.
We know better now.
A lot of creators essentially saying "My work might contain nudity and sexual situations, but it's NOT porn. My work is important and artistic, while their work is dirty, which is still okay to hate and censor." But guess what! The purity squad makes no such distinction.
December 5, 2025 at 6:22 PM
A giant number of creators internalized all that "actually it's problematic to draw boobs" stuff from the 2010s.
Way too many still haven't figured out that the people saying that were usually either chasing clout, trying to Outrun The Allegations, or just huuuuge gigaTERFs.
We know better now.
Way too many still haven't figured out that the people saying that were usually either chasing clout, trying to Outrun The Allegations, or just huuuuge gigaTERFs.
We know better now.
It makes at least one key mistake, which is presuming infinite Chinese capacity to produce and use war materiel.
I think a lot of Americans just cannot get their heads around the idea that China is in deep, deep trouble as much as they are, or the Russians are. "Lay flat" malaise looms large.
I think a lot of Americans just cannot get their heads around the idea that China is in deep, deep trouble as much as they are, or the Russians are. "Lay flat" malaise looms large.
Oof, this is as serious a damnation of the US #NatSec community as I've read in quite some time
americanaffairsjournal.org/2025/02/amer...
americanaffairsjournal.org/2025/02/amer...
America’s National Security Wonderland - American Affairs Journal
While America is battling exhaustion and political polarization at home, it is now facing something it’s never faced abroad: it is locked into a security competition against multiple opponents who, wh...
americanaffairsjournal.org
December 5, 2025 at 7:32 AM
It makes at least one key mistake, which is presuming infinite Chinese capacity to produce and use war materiel.
I think a lot of Americans just cannot get their heads around the idea that China is in deep, deep trouble as much as they are, or the Russians are. "Lay flat" malaise looms large.
I think a lot of Americans just cannot get their heads around the idea that China is in deep, deep trouble as much as they are, or the Russians are. "Lay flat" malaise looms large.
The grand irony here is how this specific document is going to push Europe firmly in Xi's direction
Ditto with South and Central America
Ditto with South and Central America
NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY DROPPED
There is a LOT here, but omg NATO allies are going to seethe at this paragraph
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
There is a LOT here, but omg NATO allies are going to seethe at this paragraph
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
December 5, 2025 at 7:04 AM
The grand irony here is how this specific document is going to push Europe firmly in Xi's direction
Ditto with South and Central America
Ditto with South and Central America