Demon_Stephen

Demon_Stephen

@demonstephen.bsky.social

I like science, video games, and Warhammer 40k

102 followers473 following103 posts

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El-Sayed on Vance: Is that Peter Thiel's boy with that Ohio charisma? The last thing that he said that made any sense was Hillbilly Elegy—after he said that Donald Trump had no business being president of anything. And then he decided to suck up to power.

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If you're curious what a non-preservationist gaming ecosystem looks like, you can look at the mobile stores, where most of the shit you remember does not exist in any form anymore.

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Microsoft this week: We're laying off half the industry. Sony: We're ending physical games. Nintendo: have u seen this splatoon weapon we call it the bloblobber

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I don’t want this point to be lost in the discourse. Going digital-only means inequity for people who cannot afford internet or constantly purchasing new games. Libraries provide opportunities for people to experience games they otherwise wouldn’t be able to afford, and that will be lost.

ErikT@erik45824291.bsky.social

My child loves going to the library and checking out a new video game every week. Going digital only eliminates libraries as a way people can access games.

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Once Elon Musk did an apperance at a Dave Chapelle show in San Francisco and was booed so fiercly that colleagues called the cops for a wellness check and if New York doesn't out-do that tonight, then what are we even doing here.

Bobby Silverman@robertsilverman.bsky.social

Nothing says “fun basketball atmosphere” like prison walls

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Replying to @peachsaliva.bsky.social

I'm excited to watch! You inspired me to really buckle down and make a new art piece just for the occasion. I hope you like it, and also if you want to see the heinous first attempt at it from yesterday morning, I'll send it to you, but it is embarrassingly bad lmfao Glad I could do this in time!

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I brought it up on the show but there's a thing in Restaurants called the Death Spiral. Pretty simply it's that once you start firing staff to cut costs, you've started the process to killing your restaurant because quality will only go down, which will lead to less sales, and cutting more costs.

ama_kill_you@amakillyou.bsky.social

I'll really never understand the reasoning of laying off experienced valuable people. It's just robbing yourself

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We got an email to Castle Super Beast a few months ago asking when the crash was going to happen, only for me and @wooliewoolz.bsky.social to point out we've been covering layoffs during the news sections for something like 70 weeks in a row. We're IN it.

We’re in a video game crash. You can’t look at 45K jobs lost, games in dev for 5-10 years shuttered in a week or a month, jacked prices on hardware to 30%+ vs launch, and component prices through the roof due to garbage SlopTech and tariffs and draw any different conclusion.

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Absolutely, but I think there's a really sinister human shield mentality going around for devs that people are somehow supposed to lend sympathy to Sony or Tencent or Bungies management for making the bad calls. The ire should be directed towards the C-suite that managed these decisions.

Syrinx@syrinxfloofs.bsky.social

There's a wierd evil mindset going around that makes folks want more concord/highguard to happen. I'd personally rather have a good game and people not to lose thier jobs than have a chuckle of schadenfreude

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Replying to @posindustries.bsky.social

Riot got the exact fighting game they asked for with the exact business model they demanded and then act shocked and fire their most loyal, longtime employees with almost zero notice because the game didn't immediately make 300 gorillion dollars.

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anyway i made a patched version of 2xko that doesn't require vanguard for archival reasons, can't connect to servers (obviously) but it also allows modding so there's the potential to reimplement online for when the game inevitably sunsets

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My favorite artifact in the "you don't need AI to do art" discourse is, of course, screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's sketch of the facehugger to explain it to Giger.

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BREAKING: Young people have taken over the Hilton in NYC where ICE agents are staying. We will not stand by while Hilton houses ICE in our city. As long as Hilton chooses to host fascists, we will disrupt their operations.

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this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to jump out of a helicopter to kidnap a head of state and his wife so some oil ceos can make a lot of money. we’ll be watching from a resort in florida that still serves wedge salad and checking how many retweets we get. good luck soldier