Zach Clemente

you ever just youtu.be/huEtJw7pfLk?...

Listening to a report about Google chopping down a quarter of a million trees in Finland to build a data centre while washing out yoghurt pots for the recycling

The internet can be pretty gullible about tech products, but congrats to everyone who called exactly what this was going to be used for from the first moment they saw it.

Blind Alley No. 455

Saw The Devils yesterday and Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother today - having a good time.

I just want to name that people overcame this. Even against a stacked deck, the good fight is worth it. Win or lose, it's worth it. And sometimes the good guys win.

some of yall on here

further enshittification of the internet, this somehow went into my spam despite the invite only being good for tonight so i almost completely missed it

Now that this is out in the open, I can say that a certain book I did for a certain publisher affiliated with one of these people had generative expand used on my cover art without my permission, and it wasn’t removed before publication

If I was a freelance New Yorker illustrator, learning the art director was really good at using Claude would be a red flag

The best thing to happen this year

Weird literally all of my friends who know anything about computers have been saying this everyday for over a year so I just knew this? Like in 2025?

Maxis fucking prints money. They do it cheap and they crank out packs and updates on the regular, and Sims fans devour them. They are the proverbial cash cow. So why lay those people off when you're trying to cover an $18 billion buyout debt? This is why leveraged buyouts should be illegal.

Why do we persist in making games despite weeks like this one? This:

Sea House

Give the boy some chimkin

we should all be pissed off at this btw. if not because sex work is legitimate work and should be treated with respect, then because you should be concerned at attempts to gentrify online spaces as pretext to court investors and force out minorities so those spaces can become part of a portfolio.

OH.

I'm at MCM London all weekend, table M-12! Follow the main Artist Alley thoroughfare and turn left at Row M and I'll be there, with my things

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Based Sonicfox.

It’s important to realize that we, the players, are no longer the customers of video game companies. We’re just a source of money. The real customers are the investors, and no matter what, the companies need to keep them happy and show them that their investments are paying off.

No hay en la Tierra Tal brío

My first BW staff badge, 2006. It was a huge privilege to be a small part of something that brought so many people together all around the world. The thriving relationships made through BioWare games are a comforting legacy today. Here’s to the good times. 🍻

We’ve seen a lot of devistating cancellations and closures in the last three years but this one is unique in that this happened because the US president’s son-in-law made a sweetheart deal with a foreign government that has made deals with the president, as well. It’s blatant government corruption.

This is private equity, this is what it does. Buy up businesses, run them into the ground, and rip them apart for short-term profit. www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

Video games has decided to discontinue its once leading product, the video game

Part of my literal job is to fly out to physical game studios to rescue and recover historical materials that might be endangered and put them in a permanent archive. @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social is a 501(c)3 publicly funded to do that, my DMs are open, and I'm free for the next couple weeks...

"oh someone else will buy bioware or fund new studios or get the IP" WITH WHOSE MONEY

I’m tabling at LightBox Expo!!! Table 617!!! I’m so excited to see you all, LBX is by far my favorite show every year!!

🌞 Howl’s Moving Castle 🌙

So you're great at rich narrative action games? Do open world! Also, use our weird custom engine! Make the next one a massive multiplayer subscription game instead!

kid at my other job was asking what i thought the peak of video games was and in a professional capacity i said eras ebb and flow with tastes and needs, so every generation will have a different answer, there's great games always, etc etc in my head though i instantly thought "its this"

i cannot stress enough how, like every other SB baseball series, not knowing a single thing about baseball elevates the entire experience into the stratosphere youtu.be/p6gXBCvf8q0?...

You don't buy an Xbox for over $1,000. That requires saving and planning. No, you buy an Xbox when you have $300 and the Sarku Japan you ate at the mall didn't soak up the whiskey very well, so you and your friend decide to go to Gamestop

Another adjacent @jdcmedlock.bsky.social essential hit

I’ve been quiet here for a while, I am not sure if the app got more popular or not but I wanted to come back and try again. And also sharing some close ups from recent artworks. 🌸🌿✨

Local theater

René Magritte - "The Blank Signature" (1965)

Man, the first 2 episodes of season 3 of Sandbaggers do not fuck about

Listening to @noethematt.bsky.social moderate a talk about The Library Of Memories creators @mustachebabs.com and @lazyfishy.bsky.social for BBF

We've just launched a new kickstarter for preorders of 10 (!) new books ✨✨✨ www.kickstarter.com/projects/gla... Here's a preview of what's coming! Four of them due to finish printing this month...! ⭐️⚡️🌈 (There is an early bird tier open for the next couple of days.....)