Dr. Sven Dingus

"So, tell us a bit about yourself." Me:

Another video game mashup

hidden away in the closet, his portrait slowly becomes gayer and gayer

A distinctly British approach to A.I. NB - still my favourite panel I’ve ever written.

This week's Look Outside character is CLYDE! The well-armed, protective pill bug from the basement! Draw this little guy! I will collect art I can find and make a post about em next week, before I announce the next one. Use the tags #WeeklyLookOutside and #WLO_Clyde !

we cannot co-exist with people like this. we either find a way to excise them, or we let them choke us with their ignorance.

a message from the future

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

Fulci? Damn near killed me! Me and @fiendly.bsky.social play Night At The Gates of Hell over on Twitch!

if millennials could afford homes this wouldnt be a problem but this is going to hit the generation like a truck

new tingler 'NOT POUNDED BY THE SENTIENT TESLO FLYING CAR BECAUSE IT’S OBVIOUSLY FAKE BUT I’M SURE PEOPLE WHO THINK THE PIRATES AT THEME PARKS ARE REAL AND BIRTHDAY PARTY MAGICIANS ARE ACTUAL WIZARDS ARE PUMPED.' out now here www.amazon.com/dp/B0HNHXRGJ2/ and patreon www.patreon.com/chucktingle/...

Goddammit it's a miserable process going through the 8000-ish demos in Next Fest (starts later today) and seeing the overwhelming use of AI in so many games. I recommend this browser plugin for making it easier to spot - github.com/seeeeew/aiwa... - but Valve REALLY needs to make it a required tag.

Hey, anyone who said "gee, Control sure is easy, I hope they make the sequel so much harder"? Eat an industrial-sized bag of dicks.

Ysabel Yates'... I mean Cookie Monster's superb takedown of why GenAI in the workplace sucks.

The begging will continue until... something improves. Currently interviewing for a second job and trying to keep up some streaming n shit for folks who like that. I'd gladly take likes/comments/shares on my creative output, but spare change would be great too

Y'all should watch some of the videos I've done on horror games. I guarantee there's a game in this playlist that you will love but have never heard of elsewhere: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

The In Memorium at the Oscars this year lasted longer. And it was missing multiple names!

this is easy: flying cars have never been cool and a fixation on them is an indication of being a mark akin to a Disney Adult but for science fiction horseshit

Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama For Tax Purposes

Watching The Blacklist. The show's in a weird place between police procedural and prestige formats, like it has ambitions to be the latter, but has the budget of the former, so it's stuck in the middle without being satisfying. Goddamn, if James Spader isn't the best thing in it though

Finished Hellraiser: Revival. The bits that were good were amazing. The bits that were bad fucking suuuuuucked. Unsurprisingly, the story was the best part, felt like a genuine continuation of the story with some neat twists. Overall, the best 7.5 you'll play all year

Remembering that time when some big name accounts were arguing that X is all good now and the algorithm has been de-Elon'd. Wait, that was yesterday. The same time this was happening.

So Danny Trejo was manipulated and tricked into being in Ben Shapiro's newest film. Holy shit.

The devs who say they need to use genai to code a little faster should know they are helping to normalise tools that physically harm others. There is so many costs many will just not think about but it’s there and why I’m not going to suport your games if your using it.

I know it's meant to be a legit classic, but I don't know if I *get* Don't Look Now. Shame really, I've had people talking it up for years

Sadly I think even Cliffy B saying Unreal Tournament and Gears has always been diverse will not break Gamergaters out of their AI-accelerated conspiratorial psychosis. Still unpacking ways we can deprogram people for a chapter book, feel free to send me any research/recs!

the year is 2030 and i no longer consume anything that isn't personalized to me. every game, every book, every movie extends to the limits of my own imagination and no further. i haven't been surprised in five years. i cry softly, in bewilderment, if i see a word i don't know

*record scratch* Yeah. That's me. Up to the tits in the middle of Fuckpile Mountain. And you may be wondering just how I got here...

Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.

It begins

The way you can tell a movie from a single frame

Reading Witchblade probably for the first time since the 90s and I'm only now noticing how, every couple of issues, there's randomly a big splash page of women in latex or just straight up fetish gear. Not sure how I missed it, it's not subtle, but it is interesting

Rewatching Yellowjackets and I suggest we retitle the pilot to "Isn't It Ironic (Don't You Think)" because holy shit so much of it is darkly hilarious in hindsight

Rewatching Videodrome, and the line about how "soon, all of us will have special names" always makes me laugh. The where James Woods is asked if he wants a VHS tape or Betamax is a close second, but for other, less prophetic reasons

Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.

$200/$300 I don't think I deserve it, but it's certainly a load off my mind. Endless thanks, contributor