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oh brother, another bad post from political influencer beltway brian. i am furious at beltway brian all of the time. i share screencaps of beltway brian's posts with people who have no idea who he is. i hate all of beltway brian's posts and i read all of them every single day, including weekends
December 27, 2025 at 5:47 PM
oh brother, another bad post from political influencer beltway brian. i am furious at beltway brian all of the time. i share screencaps of beltway brian's posts with people who have no idea who he is. i hate all of beltway brian's posts and i read all of them every single day, including weekends
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Most of us did not choose to write or draw or design so that we could put products on the shelf. We chose to do it because it’s a set of skills we enjoy exercising, that give us fulfillment.
It’s like asking a pro pitcher to just let a machine pitch for them. Fuck off and give me the ball.
It’s like asking a pro pitcher to just let a machine pitch for them. Fuck off and give me the ball.
December 18, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Most of us did not choose to write or draw or design so that we could put products on the shelf. We chose to do it because it’s a set of skills we enjoy exercising, that give us fulfillment.
It’s like asking a pro pitcher to just let a machine pitch for them. Fuck off and give me the ball.
It’s like asking a pro pitcher to just let a machine pitch for them. Fuck off and give me the ball.
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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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the larian stuff sucks to hear a lot. you have to be a true all-timer loser to think generative AI is useful for concepting ideas or artwork. you let the machine do the fun part you dumbass. it doesnt tell me you think efficiently it tells me youre a fuckass who's given up on being interesting
December 16, 2025 at 4:49 PM
the larian stuff sucks to hear a lot. you have to be a true all-timer loser to think generative AI is useful for concepting ideas or artwork. you let the machine do the fun part you dumbass. it doesnt tell me you think efficiently it tells me youre a fuckass who's given up on being interesting
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consider my feedback: i loved working at @larianstudios.com until AI. reconsider and change your direction, like, yesterday. show your employees some respect. they are world-class & do not need AI assistance to come up with amazing ideas.
December 16, 2025 at 4:21 PM
consider my feedback: i loved working at @larianstudios.com until AI. reconsider and change your direction, like, yesterday. show your employees some respect. they are world-class & do not need AI assistance to come up with amazing ideas.
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I want to re-emphasize, the guy who has made HUNDREDS of videos calling people in the industry slurs, calling for them to be fired, calling all the studios that are showing games "woke and gay" and has harassed multiple journalists covering the show over the years is at the Game Awards.
LOL hey everyone in the industry who is at the Game Awards, the guy who has made countless videos harassing you is there!
December 12, 2025 at 1:35 AM
I want to re-emphasize, the guy who has made HUNDREDS of videos calling people in the industry slurs, calling for them to be fired, calling all the studios that are showing games "woke and gay" and has harassed multiple journalists covering the show over the years is at the Game Awards.
Just go to 2025.gamesrecap.io tomorrow or one of the many other places that will compile every trailer. Save yourself some time and you get to not support that loser.
Tonight is the VGA but you can do something more productive than watch it: read a book, bake a cake, purchase and play an indie game, etc.
Don't give more views to this circus of a show!
Don't give more views to this circus of a show!
“Don’t gather some of the most brilliant activists in the industry, treat us like crap, and then expect us to do nothing about it.” After the Game Awards cancelled its Future Class programme, @alyssamerc.bsky.social talked to its former honorees
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
December 11, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Just go to 2025.gamesrecap.io tomorrow or one of the many other places that will compile every trailer. Save yourself some time and you get to not support that loser.
Oh those studios are dead dead aren't they?
"a Warner Bros Discovery spokesperson confirmed the recently-restructured video game division, which includes studios such as Mortal Kombat creator NetherRealm, Batman: Arkham developer Rocksteady, and LEGO custodian TT Games, will be joining Netflix."
www.gamedeveloper.com/business/yes...
www.gamedeveloper.com/business/yes...
December 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Oh those studios are dead dead aren't they?
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hey if you're a dev who worked on a game that was nominated, i know it's hard with the Discourse but i hope you're proud of yourself and the work you did
November 17, 2025 at 6:22 PM
hey if you're a dev who worked on a game that was nominated, i know it's hard with the Discourse but i hope you're proud of yourself and the work you did
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the children yearn for bj blazkowicz’s monologues
November 14, 2025 at 5:37 PM
the children yearn for bj blazkowicz’s monologues
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Glad to see Polygon cover the resistance of game developers to generative AI--and to be able to speak briefly to one of the greatest dangers of this entire thing.
Gen AI doubles down on making MORE SPACE for production issues that *already make games worse.*
www.polygon.com/arc-raiders-...
Gen AI doubles down on making MORE SPACE for production issues that *already make games worse.*
www.polygon.com/arc-raiders-...
November 12, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Glad to see Polygon cover the resistance of game developers to generative AI--and to be able to speak briefly to one of the greatest dangers of this entire thing.
Gen AI doubles down on making MORE SPACE for production issues that *already make games worse.*
www.polygon.com/arc-raiders-...
Gen AI doubles down on making MORE SPACE for production issues that *already make games worse.*
www.polygon.com/arc-raiders-...
If I was unsure how I felt about Arc Raiders use of AI (I wasn't), knowing Tim Sweeney was defending it would be enough to let me know I should appose it
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney has defended AI following Eurogamer's 2/5 Arc Raiders review, which criticised the game's use use of AI voice generation. "AI dialog generation + human personality and tuning could totally transform gaming," Sweeney said.
www.gamesindustry.biz/epics-tim-sw...
www.gamesindustry.biz/epics-tim-sw...
Epic's Tim Sweeney wades into the Arc Raiders AI row
"This technology increases human productivity in some areas by integer multiples"
www.gamesindustry.biz
November 11, 2025 at 9:09 PM
If I was unsure how I felt about Arc Raiders use of AI (I wasn't), knowing Tim Sweeney was defending it would be enough to let me know I should appose it
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“Don’t gather some of the most brilliant activists in the industry, treat us like crap, and then expect us to do nothing about it.” After the Game Awards cancelled its Future Class programme, @alyssamerc.bsky.social talked to its former honorees
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
“We were effectively props”: young stars of game development feel let down by the ‘gaming Oscars’
Announced in 2020 by the Game Awards as an inclusive programme for the industry’s next generation, the Future Class initiative has now been discontinued. Inductees describe clashes with organisers and...
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
“Don’t gather some of the most brilliant activists in the industry, treat us like crap, and then expect us to do nothing about it.” After the Game Awards cancelled its Future Class programme, @alyssamerc.bsky.social talked to its former honorees
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
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Nothing will make me consider someones opinion invalid faster than "Well people in Japan think this obviously morally bad thing is completely fine actually *shrug*"
The level of ignorance (and probably racism) you have to have to think 100+ million all think identically is staggering.
The level of ignorance (and probably racism) you have to have to think 100+ million all think identically is staggering.
November 1, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Nothing will make me consider someones opinion invalid faster than "Well people in Japan think this obviously morally bad thing is completely fine actually *shrug*"
The level of ignorance (and probably racism) you have to have to think 100+ million all think identically is staggering.
The level of ignorance (and probably racism) you have to have to think 100+ million all think identically is staggering.
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Hi and welcome to my post-mortem on why we did not take over Steam’s marketshare.
Slide #1: We did not tell anyone we were trying to do this.
Sorry, guys. This one is on me. I honestly just forgot. Like, I had it as a reminder on my phone, but it was there for so long, I just ignored it. Whoops.
Slide #1: We did not tell anyone we were trying to do this.
Sorry, guys. This one is on me. I honestly just forgot. Like, I had it as a reminder on my phone, but it was there for so long, I just ignored it. Whoops.
October 29, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Hi and welcome to my post-mortem on why we did not take over Steam’s marketshare.
Slide #1: We did not tell anyone we were trying to do this.
Sorry, guys. This one is on me. I honestly just forgot. Like, I had it as a reminder on my phone, but it was there for so long, I just ignored it. Whoops.
Slide #1: We did not tell anyone we were trying to do this.
Sorry, guys. This one is on me. I honestly just forgot. Like, I had it as a reminder on my phone, but it was there for so long, I just ignored it. Whoops.
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it's cool to see that this game's starting pitcher is still hanging in there
October 28, 2025 at 6:32 AM
it's cool to see that this game's starting pitcher is still hanging in there
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October 27, 2025 at 11:51 PM
This industry is beyond parody sometimes. We are actually getting remakes of remakes of games where the original versions still play great! An incredible waste of everyone's time. Just put MCC on PS5. It's 100x better value than whatever this is.
Halo: Campaign Evolved announced, coming 2026 for Xbox Series/PC/Steam/PS5 in 2026 www.xbox.com/en-US/games/...
October 24, 2025 at 11:47 PM
This industry is beyond parody sometimes. We are actually getting remakes of remakes of games where the original versions still play great! An incredible waste of everyone's time. Just put MCC on PS5. It's 100x better value than whatever this is.
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![Disco Elysium screenshot, wherein I am extremely rude to Harry (who I would... maybe?... date? but it isn't his looks it's more that he's self-destructive and also wearing piss-stained trousers)
Dialog as follows:
MIRROR - What are you doing with your die, why is your shirt hanging open like laundry on the line...
What does it even *mean*? What is the message you're trying to convey?
YOU - I'm twenty years old. My breasts are juicy and succulent. I am a god damn verdant field waiting to be ploughed, in a *tired 5 acres and an aging mule* kind of way. I possess a certain charm.
MIRROR - That might have been true thirty years ago, but the plot is fallow and the farmer left you for a larger, newer, factory-owned operation.
ELECTROCHEMISTRY [Impossible: Failure] - It's too late. Like an illuminated masterpiece by the modern master Thomas Kinkade, your value isn't what it used to be. You're dusty, poorly framed, and have lost the fleeting, almost quixotic appeal you had in the 90's.
The jugs have been milked, and you're no dairy maid. You're the mule.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:di3xrpx4l3bsgmktdirfsxcv/bafkreifdv2xdx4422h4qp33def6vnxlhe7x2wevq73k2yzo2wkidapmpwu@jpeg)
Ubisoft really had a game that would have gotten me to give AC another shot and just nixed it to protect the racists feelings. Coward company.
SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan
Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke
www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...
Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke
www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...
Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year
Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File
www.gamefile.news
October 8, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Ubisoft really had a game that would have gotten me to give AC another shot and just nixed it to protect the racists feelings. Coward company.
I do everything I can to keep ignore gaming discourse because it's largely unimportant and uninteresting, but some of Silksong's discourse coming from games media is....baffling
September 13, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I do everything I can to keep ignore gaming discourse because it's largely unimportant and uninteresting, but some of Silksong's discourse coming from games media is....baffling
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November 17, 2024 at 11:57 PM