Chris Why

Chris Why

@chriswhy.bsky.social

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mads 🐼
@smadseli.northsky.social

it cannot actually be ignored or danced around that the closure of BioWare came so soon after the Saudi and Jared Kushner acquisition of EA. they absolutely did take the studio making EA’s broadly queerest games out back and shoot it old yeller style. do not let yourself or colleagues ignore that

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Allie
@rally.luckyraven.cc

Replying to @rally.luckyraven.cc

Reciting "There's No Ethical Consumption Under Capitalism" is not an affirmation that the absence of ethical choices means just do whatever, it means that in a moral absence it's incumbent upon us to create & enact sound decisionmaking into being. The void is not carte blanche, it's space to build.

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PLDH
@pldhnet.bsky.social

The Switch 2 is on a strong run of some really great, vivid boxarts. Lots of personality and colour.

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Katie Mack
@astrokatie.com

There are endless studies showing this and also the financial and societal benefits of universal basic income and or housing-first policies but the U.S. never goes for any of it because it would require allowing the poor to receive benefits that the rich consider “undeserved”

Jen Taub@jentaub.bsky.social

“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...

ysph.yale.eduUniversal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study ProjectsA single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it

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cola
@colamander.bsky.social

I was looking up if pallas cats are fat or if they just have really long fur and the difference between their winter and summer coats almost made me throw up laughing.

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Micah
@rincewind.run

if the moderate wing of the Dem party would spend even half of the energy they are spending fighting the DSA on fighting Trump they wouldn't be losing so many primaries to the DSA

Peter Baker@peterbakernyt.bsky.social

"We are preparing for the next war that is coming": Abdul El-Sayed's victory in Michigan and the rise of DSA candidates in multiple states have Democrats at odds with each other over the identity and future of the party. @shanegoldmacher.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/u...

nytimes.comModerate Democrats Prepare for ‘War’ Against an Ascendant LeftOne moderate group says the progressive wins are “deeply troubling” and is planning a $15 million effort against democratic socialism.

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Rikaku
@beastmasterrika.bsky.social

Fuck off. If anything is "millennial", it's those cool transparent colors our iMacs, Gameboys, and Tamagotchis came in. No fucking millennial likes the house flipper grey. Call it a millennial paint job when I can see through the exterior of a car because it's Glacier Purple like my GBA.

Jack Saint@lackingsaint.bsky.social

No fuck off we're not calling this "Millennial grey" this shit was dictated completely by boomer retiree house flippers we absolutely had NO say in this

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Jonathan Kennedy
@getradified.net

Shout out to A24 for building its reputation off of incredibly talented filmmakers, having a great marketing team to convince people that it was A24 that was making the films they were distributing and then absolutely selling those filmmakers out to get in on the worst thing possible for filmmakers.

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com

Exclusive: Google is investing in independent movie studio A24 as part of a new AI research partnership between the two companies.

on.wsj.comGoogle Investing in ‘Backrooms’ Studio A24The search giant is putting about $75 million into the studio as part of an artificial intelligence research partnership.

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Mathew Buck
@filmbrainbmb.bsky.social

A24 announces that they want to put storyboard artists out of work. That's what the headline should be written as. Becuase we should be honest about what these AI "tools" are trying to do, and who it is trying to circumvent. variety.com/2026/film/ne...

variety.comGoogle Invests $75 Million in A24 to Develop AI-Powered Filmmaking ToolsA24 and Google have struck an AI research partnership that will see the independent studio work to develop new AI-powered technologies for filmmakers.

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(DO NOT SPOIL ME ON WEIRD ROUTE) MilkyWay
@curlysquare.bsky.social

Calvin and Hobbes strip that says it quite well;

tctc@toastcrust.bsky.social

even if LLM actually made gamedev more efficient, which I see no reason to believe it has or will, that won't reduce crunch, because the business people will just push harder until you're crunching again. When a tool increases worker productivity, that doesn't translate into better work hours.

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Ultimate Pullahoko
@pullahoko.bsky.social

This is what every game developer sounds like right now.

Game Informer@gameinformer.com

Sega confirms and responds to generative AI content in the new Crazy Taxi. "Generative AI was used to support our teams during the development of background assets for Crazy Taxi: World Tour," Sega says. gameinformer.com/2026/06/07/s...