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"Mother always said to leave when your winning is not ethical" ~James Bellamy, "Upstairs Downstairs" S5E15

Corrected Correction! You never want to have to correct a correction, but I followed this post saying I'd missed that Capcom recently said Monster Hunter Rise reached 20 million, making RE2R the third But, no, Capcom announced RER2's 20m, THEN Rise's 20m

Im glad I saved this before deactivating my twitter and losing my discord where I had posted it

Just remember: last Friday surveys showed Bolsonaro winning for more than 4% to Lula. Final election result was quite the opposite. Don't trust polls: go and vote.

As an annual donor, I received this @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social annual report in the mail yesterday. Y’all, I had NO IDEA there were only about 1,000 of us out there funding this org. We gotta get that number higher! Every dollar matters! gamehistory.org/donate/

The Switch hardware and games will be released in Indonesia on Dec 10 without a regional eShop. It reaffirms the importance of physical media in Nintendo’s business strategy. Note that Pokémon Pokopia is among the launch titles, because Game-Key Cards don’t use the eShop but their own server. 2/

Geez Louise Part II of Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave is exhausting! Sure, it's trimmed down and only focuses on battles but those are LONG battles! I feel like Part II is honestly one or two chapters too long 🤔 I'm considering caving and doing the skip for the other routes instead of replaying it

Everyone keeps asking me how I’m feeling about early voting so far. I’m feeling like nobody *actually* knows anything, and this is the most important midterm of our lives. I’d rather be us than them, but we can’t get comfortable. We can’t get complacent. Go vote like we’re down 3%.

Reading this Famitsu interview Uchikoshi did and it seems that the reason the Crash Keys game was canceled was because *Uchikoshi* wanted to use AI, not the publisher. This snippet is driving me nuts. Makes all the posturing with Hundred Line read extremely shallow.

It's that special time of year when they give the danger-kitties pumpkins to play with at The Wildcat Sanctuary in Sandstone, Minnesota. A much-needed timeline cleanse. 🐯🎃 (📷: wildcatsanctuary.org)

Corporate profits are at record highs — but revenue from corporate taxes has plummeted thanks to the tax cuts in Trump and Republicans’ big, ugly bill. Meanwhile, workers’ wages are stagnant and their share of the nation’s income is at a record low. Trickle-down economics was always a hoax.

Hey Bluesky👋, I am 3D animator in the film world, but my heart kept pulling me toward a small, very personal game idea. So I started making a game where you draw your own fish -> you feed them, watch them grow & make friends, & maybe one day, one of them turns golden 🐟✨ #TeaseYaGame #Illustration

After 1.5 years of pouring my heart into my very first game, I'm so excited to finally announce that... Drawquarium is coming to Steam on November 13! 🥹 Draw your own fish, bring them to life, and create your little underwater world, even as a live wallpaper! Like+RT = ♥️ #IndieGames #Cozygames

our inboxes are insane places right now

When I see stories about companies like Microsoft offering buyouts to 60,000 employees, all I can think about is how small journalism is as an industry. I think NPR has about 1,000 people. Public media as a whole was around 19,000 before Congress disolved the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Something I spoke about before was how transphobia is often an expression of misogyny, it gives people who hate women an outlet and sets trans women up as a class of women it's socially okay to be misogynistic towards, while also providing an ideological justification for that misogyny.

oh my god NEVER DO THIS I mean, maybe do this if you want to make a sacrifice to help a family member, we all do that, but just understand if anybody ever floats the idea of doing something like this it has the potential to become a nightmare that rips your family apart

Some folks have really tied themselves into knots with this belief bordering on zealotry that the release of the New Big Game is going to have millions and millions of new people buying current gen consoles next month that they'll twist every single piece of info into that story no matter what.

Inflation eating up worker pay. Household debt and student loan defaults at a record high. 8 million people have lost healthcare. 5 million people have lost food stamps — including 2 million children. Gas prices skyrocketing. Trump says, "Pretend I'm on the ballot." Please do.

Black box programs that update every week are not repeatable. Every calculation I do in R, I could do the long way with a pencil on paper. That is not the case with ChatGPT.

Incredible and incredibly horrifying

Also for what it is worth, it DIDN'T actually label them as illustrative — and the deception was only apparent because I know the data well. That's scary, because if you use AI for everything, you wouldn't know the data well enough to catch its deceptions.

Your monthly reminder that if you're using ChatGPT to do your science, you're failing your colleagues, community, and all of us. Here, ChatGPT makes up data and presents it as the real thing — then apologizes when confronted.

Never forget this: The forces rigging our economy, undermining our democracy, polluting our planet, and stoking hatred are counting on you to give up. Cynicism is how they win. Don't give in. Instead, get out the vote. ⬇️ www.inequalitymediacivicaction.org/gotv

Game-Key Cards give consumers additional rights such as first sale doctrine and property inheritance over bog-standard digital games. Apparently that’s too much for some publishers.

I realize lots of other people share misinfo. But that’s precisely what has set scicommers apart from day one. I’d love to have the water convo. And I could go have a slop talk with a chatbot any minute of the day. I want more here.

Your posts and insights have been valuable to me because you’ve applied your own skepticism and expertise to a topic—including going to the primary literature—and then have written out your findings clearly while provided me with ways to independently verify your claims...

Thank you, I appreciate your reply, though I disagree with it. First, we are not random people, we are science communicators. It’s our job to know the primary literature, check it for accuracy, and report it clearly. Asking Claude makes you an unverified plot no difference from the average user…

These are incredible!

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that normal Starlink operating speeds were restored after more than a week of disruptions. n.pr/4yyf3UN

Cystic Fibrosis, which not long ago was a terminal disease, has essentially been cured.

According to a popular Japanese YouTuber, who visited Nintendo Museum 23 times, the museum display discloses the codename for Game Boy Advance prototype: “Game Boy Style” (img below). This is the first time I heard of it, and couldn’t find any corroborating accounts. 1/

Boy do I have an article for you :) gamehistory.org/where-in-nor...

Nintendo remade their old Ocarina ad this week, and thankfully left out one very 1998 line. had a dig into the original:

Since 2020, a sliver of Microsoft execs' annual compensation has been tied to an Xbox-related performance target The target's been missed in 5 of the last 6 years Most recent target aimed for Xbox content/services revenue growth of 4.3%. But it shrunk 6% Item 2: www.gamefile.news/i/221687599/...

President Donald Trump is signaling a full-on embrace of Vladimir Putin and Russia – and of big-power relations – as he faces adverse midterm results and a potential lame-duck presidency. #putin #trump #midterms www.csmonitor.com/USA/Foreign-...

New games writing! www.nintendoworldreport.com/review/77806...

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An AI chatbot submitted a fake tip about an unsolved murder to Philadelphia police. No human told it to. It happened during a routine test, and the AI company didn't discover it until months later. A closer look at the risks of AI agents acting on their own: theconversation.com/an-ai-models...

New SEC filings show that Mark Zuckerberg is preparing to pay California’s billionaire tax without losing control of Meta. So billionaires can afford to pay the tax? And they won't lose control of their companies or flee the state? Don’t fall for billionaires’ propaganda. Vote YES on Prop 40.

I love games like Tomodachi and Rhythm Heaven doing gangbusters because it lets Xenoblade continue to get sequels. Everyone eats!

🤌ABBA superfan clocking in for duty🤌

Every gothic horror:

Oh yeah, but there’s a big difference between $300M and $500M. That moves you from needing 4M to over 7M to break even (using back of the napkin math). Gears is what, a 3-5M (at best) selling series, one that has been relatively cold since the original trilogy.

thank you nintendo switch sports resort coffee ad

This is an auspicious day! After four years, Sully has learned to get up on the counter with his sister! He is in awe at this new world he has discovered.