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a lot freaks me out about AI but 0% of my anxiety is about AGI. i think this is the part that freaks me out the most right now -- the many many indications that no one is at the wheel and no adults are present

you don’t have to like the game or agree with everything or indeed anything he says but you do have to be normal. the amount of combing through the article to find specific phrases to interpretate as uncharitably as possible has driven me crazy. who is this helping

The biggest victims of 2XKO’s failure are the FGC artists, who only had 1 year of being able to sell Ahri and Jinx prints before the dream ended. Think of how many of them made big plans for the future, bought houses, had kids, thinking they had a steady stream of income for years to come. Tragic…

you tell someone that you feel like something you like is losing its identity to appeal to a broader audience and they start talking to you like a shareholder

this comic is from 2014 and is one of the most singularly vindicated comics. even if it was already correct then it is even more correct now

Man I gotta say EVO Vegas gotta be in my top 5 favorite EVOs

Genuinely insane. Implications are crazy if they're willing to draw up new sprites & add them to 30 year old niche arcade games. This is some shit I'd do if I had unlimited money that has no chance of seeing a return so I can't but to fuck with it for the sake of it being interesting. Just crazy

This might be one of the most insane scandals in game history When Pokemon Go players scan PokeStops, theyve been unknowingly building a detailed visual model of the world which is being sold to a military contractor to build a no-GPS positioning for the new generation of unmanned killing machines

This year will be the 5th Combo Breaker held at the Schaumburg Convention Center, which means more editions of Combo Breaker will have taken place here than took place at Pheasant Run

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If America is so racist, then how come a wealthy white man has been lavishing me with gifts ever since his company started having cases before the Supreme Court, on which I sit? by Clarence Thomas

Imo there are lots of talented people in the FGC who could be great commentators or who could be even better at it than they already are, but very few of them approach anything like their potential ceilings. Even some of our best commentators, as good as they already are, could still improve imo

Imo only 2-3 of our entire crop of top commentators were really born for it, and you can prob name them right away. Most of the rest of us got into it by essentially historical accident, a combination of def having real skillsets but also being at the right place/right time + other people bowing out

They’re trying their hardest to get either a player or an umpire murdered

Controversial opinion but I do think you should actually play the video game if you're participating in discussions for the video game

People saying "10 EVOs is good! You're just hating because it's gonna give people opportunities!" is hyper reminding me of the last time I had to argue that, when all the best MKX players from around the US got flown to a compound in ATL and lived there for months/years as a front for selling drugs.

This might come off as biased, but Climax of Night started out with less than 200 people and there were 1,000+ of us in the building when it wrapped up last year. Several of us were bawling our eyes out. There is so much that can still be done without EVO that will matter to a whole lot of people.

“the president’s speech is going to be over two hours long!” they’re doing kalshi shit guys. they’re leaking a bunch of stuff about a super long speech and he’ll go about 2 minutes short of the supposed mark and everyone in the white house will make $200k on it

Did anyone make this yet?

If any of you make a single piece of information about The State of the Union known to me in any way you will receive an invoice for $100 per occurrence.

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I'm not really shocked when I see so many people clutching their pearls about the Evo situation when Evo has NOT been the center of community for quite some time. To say that fighting games/locals are doomed solely because of the new acquisition shows how little people actually supported the FGC

The EVO situation is dire.

This guy gets it.

Damn, there was some HUGE news regarding one of the backbones of the FGC today huh? 🎂HAPPY BIRFDAY @shib.live!!! They stay holding it down for every single FG, big or small. Give your flowers & coins to the dude who has saved the fgc more times than I can count! ko-fi.com/shiburizu

Seeing someone do the equivalent of shouting at the waiter over this EVO shit was very funny at least

what am i supposed to do now just donate & go back to work like usual? have a snack & look over some contracts like anything is normal, like it matters compared to the enormity of the kidnappings & deportations & concentration camps? like, hope he'll be ok, anyway, about these licensing terms? wtf

Rumbleverse needs to return!

I uploaded a thing. See you tomorrow.

I'm not even a fan of DOA's brand of horny but I hope it's just amazingly, unremarkedly the same. It's good for the ecosystem. We need stupid boob jiggle for proper biodiversity.

Really sorry to hear about all the layoffs at Riot today. I'm sad for so many of my friends who worked there for so long & had so little time with the release, that sucks. Imo the best part of 2XKO is that so many folks made salaries & careers out of it. I hope the future will be better for y'all

Kinda Fucked Up that in our lifetimes we've gone from "never share personal info on the internet" to "hand over your identity to the most incompetent corporations imaginable".

This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.

Getting old is admitting that you wish your favorite series' would actually just die, because them continuing to be alive is a much, much worse fate

tbh imo it's less this and more that they could see the winds shifting and they knew they could materially benefit from stoking it further because they were in the perfect position to do so. that's what guys like this do. when you've already in a position like that you can do whatever you want.

People talking about events needing tighter security due to the actions of one psychopath after I spent a weekend in overflowing bag check lines behind hordes of stinky fucking people please be so serious right now

The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll

The craziest thing about using gen AI for any type of marketing rn is that beyond any & all ethical concerns, it's just social suicide. I would like to imagine that even if someone did not give a shit whatsoever about the ramifications of AI, they'd at least care about the optics. But nah lol

We need an Every Single ICE Employee and Republican Elected Official is Going to Prison party.

the water thing about genAI is bullshit but the thing where it makes on-demand nudes and CSAM isn't and the thing where it talks you into killing yourself isn't and those seem pretty bad

When are we making one of these for EWC?

How cool is it that Japanese fighting game fans use to distribute their combo videos on VHS?

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