Adam

it's gotta be so miserable living like this, man. to not find incredible joy in working with others, to see the discovery that comes from the clashing of different tastes and experiences colliding as an obstacle and not the whole goddamn point of it all.

I appreciate that people want a new Mass Effect, but the future where fans advocate for the work itself and not the people who make it is the one the vultures at EA want. If you'll take it however you get it, they can keep treating people who make what you love as expendable.

yeh tbh if AI is so great you should be proud of it, you should disclose it everywhere and put a bunch of stickers yourself that you used it for your project showing everyone how cool and cutting edge you are, no? like, it's the future right? you love it right??

in fact, especially in the arts, I would still be anti-AI even in the case where the models create *better* art than humans

The invincible airplane

Kenney hit the infamous "two billionaires with one post" achievement, remains very rare, also shows once again that money does not equal intelligence, capability, or insight: Kenney is obviously right.

you know how the evil thing in dead space wants to turn all living beings into dead tissue and clump it all together into like a planet-sized mass of undead flesh. well saying "ethical AI is possible" is like saying "hypothetically you could make the big necrotic flesh planet through ethical means"

Toshiko Hishida, A Glass, 1997 Silkscreen

a cool thing about indie animation is that it's expected to save the entire industry, every show has to look better than the things the fans grew up on or it's a waste of time, there's no union to be found anywhere, no budget for any of it, and asking the audience to pay anything to watch is illegal

Every Earthbound enemy looks like this

Keep thinking about a post I saw that said something like, "The best way to understand your political opponents is to sit down at a table with them and have a conversation." Yeah I did that and here's what I understand now: they swallow and regurgitate propaganda 24/7 and live in another dimension.

I love when racing games have extreme rubber-banding but only for AI opponents!

"Are you really going to avoid games made with AI at all? Concepts, temp textures, anything?" Yes, I am not entirely sure how you can buy games with confidence in their quality otherwise. The market is competitive, I am not wasting money on inferior products.

Going to my first actual Ren Faire today. Pretty stoked even if I don't have a costume and I'm worried I'll be too exhausted to move by mid afternoon

Gods With Badges. A narrative tactics game examining the systems of law enforcement as officer Harrow McLellan gradually becomes separated from the people she is supposed to serve and protect. This is one of our most ambitious projects yet. Wishlist today store.steampowered.com/app/4462400/...

This is a better epilogue to my January story about the private equity firm profiting off of ICE's cruelest flights than I could have ever possibly hoped for. CHICAGO: You went to the mat and protected (at a minimum!) thousands of immigrants from torture. Take a bow. prospect.org/2026/10/02/i...

Blue Seascape, Wave Effect - Georges Lacombe,1893

Well they basically destroyed its functionality these past few years to make space for their slop software but I was sad to see they finally got rid of the normal google assistant.

I think I've reached a point where I'm ready to just bite the bullet on the fact that, yes, we should gatekeep art, actually we do not owe you access to the sum total of every single professional creative skill that was extracted from humanity and put into the machine, without our consent

“Keep Smiling, never mind the Bills” (1904) by Jaques Browne

As a lifelong DMC and fan of the direction of Capcom up until recently, Im disappointed by the decision to destroy the credibility of their work and their embrace of AI in their engine workflow. I am no longer comfortable purchasing or supporting Capcom products. It's been a fine run. Rest in piss.

I imagine the way AI has destroyed and scraped dozens of websites and databases and quite literally slowed down the Internet will be remembered historically as a manmade destruction of an ecosystem in the same way that the Dust Bowl is now.

gavin newsom you will never be president because your vibes are “stinky”

it doesn't matter why i started writing. it only matters that i keep doing it

I feel like I have so much I want to say but it’s just this incoherent ramble. But do you know how much it weighs on me to be the one woman on staff at GameSpot? To be one of VERY few women in the industry? To be one of ever fewer moms? To walk into press events and be the *sole* woman?

Just a lil guy and his mulberry branch 🪾

REM Deadlock sketch

"Dawn" and "Night" by Detroit-based artist Micah Ulrich

Re: relevance in the design: I think it's important that if a player invests in a skill or ability in character creation, the first hour should give you a rewarding way to use it. It's sort of the promise we're making to the player. I think Eric Fenstermaker did a great job in Goodsprings w/ this.

rip annie dillard

Anyway! #pixelart #ドット絵

May i entertain you with coquette gengar #pokemon

My latest newsletter is a friendly bit of political advice for Democrats.

Stop, criminell!

not to do the 'repost stuff from other sites' thing but a friend sent this to me like YES we need uncosiness in games

I collabbed with ReBoxy to get a classic PC Big Box physical edition of The Drifter made! As a collector of old DOS game big boxes this is the coolest :D Contains a CD-ROM, manual I helped write, a poster, digital codes, the lot! You can get your hands on it here- store.reboxy.net/p/the-drifter

Look diesel going up to six bucks a gallon isn't ideal but it would only be a big deal if we were a huge country where the vast majority of our consumer goods, commodities, building materials, and food were transported almost entirely by vehicles that run on it

Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe.

I am having a particularly frustrating week, so here’s one of the best things I’ve ever done. The eruption of Sarychev Peak in the Aleutian Islands, seen by the crew of the space station. www.nasa.gov/image-articl...