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We can't keep doing this. That's how we end up here, corpos buying + selling IP like real estate while folks who deserve the rewards are tossed out like collateral damage It's part of what makes execs feel confident saying oh we can just GenAI some more. Nobody cares *who* makes it We have to care

Resharing this because it's such a formative memory... To most people BioWare means Mass Effect / Dragon Age, but NWN was revolutionary - the "Western RPG Maker". It's the only entry on the CRPG Book with 4 pages, because 2 are just about its Aurora Toolset. Hell, we have The Witcher because of it!

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...

New arcade opened next to my place with Japanese rhythm games. This is my life now

This, to me, is what AAA gaming should look like

Malazan Empire under Mallick Rel

I've just learned that Freeplay has removed me as a sponsor for Parallels due to an accusation from a speaker that I am a "zionist". Where did the speaker get this idea? Because Unpacking was included in a listicle in an online Jewish publication a few days ago. I didn't even know about the article.

This, to me, is absolutely a reason to vote Liberal. Nothing this rancid CAQ government has done is more despicable and damaging than its attack on our English universities.

PQ sought meeting with U.S. officials in Washington, State Department says montrealgazette.com/quebec-elect...

Seems like the new Malazan book is once again going to be released much later in Canada than the rest of the world. Fortunately, the last one released so late I'm still not done with it

calling this "misalignment" instead of "negligence" is an accountability dodge. we already have laws about cyber crimes and there's no scale of ML model you can incorporate into your code that makes you not responsible for running it

Happy Bi Day to my invisible wife

I take one week off and I miss a group of vigilantes smashing my office's ground floor cafeteria

Fun / yikes drewdevault.com/weird-guys/

There's a guy near the London Bridge who's out with a full drum kit playing all day. Dudes rock

DOGE is still running the show: The Bureau of Land Management gave its state directors *3 days* to list public lands that could be turned over to Big Tech to build AI hyperscalers, after Interior Secretary Doug Burgum met with Amazon CEO Andrew Jassy

BREAKING: Blizzard union workers have ratified a historic contract that has secured guardrails around AI usage, layoff protections, remote/hybrid work benefits, and much more.

throng.cee.wtf i've invented a new way to browse bluesky

“Voters will be provided with a QR code to access English translations.” English Quebecers least likely to understand French well are seniors. Notorious users of QR codes. 😒https://montrealgazette.com/news/provincial-news/provincial-politics/voting-information-mailings-french-only-elections-quebec/

The symbol for the Warhammer 40k Adepta Sororitas looks like a Québecois Megadeth fan club logo

Being a new Linux user is all about finding out your new keyboard can only be customized through a QKM firmware and realizing how Linux gets the reputation that it has

Late 2030s news: "Rogue astronomer claims the light of the nearest stars has started disappearing. Anthropic announces new 2.5 Decillion parameters model."

Client: "We have a fuel problem with this car. You've worked at a gas station, please investigate this." Me: "What led you to believe it's a problem with the fuel specifically?" Client: *radio silence for 2 hours* "We don't have this issue with the electric car. Hurry up, this is a P0."

Guy who's only read Malazan reading his second SFF series: "Getting big Malazan vibes from the Horus Heresy series"

HAPPY 20th ANNIVERSARY DWARF FORTRESS! 💪⛏️

went down a whole Marazhai rabbit hole and now this fuckin space elf is about to make me have to play a fuckin warhammer game

Turns out I never posted this here when I made it in 2024. Québécois Miku Ça bien l'air que je n'ai jamais posté ça quand j'lai dessiné en 2024. Miku Québécoise.

No one understands bird fans better than an artist doing a bunch of variants unprompted just so everyone except corvid fans feel included

New candidate for top 5 best beetle moses faces

My good friend Dollie has recently gone through a pretty traumatic accident while visiting the US and has encountered major expenses as a result. If you have a few $$ to spare, please take a look at their story here chuffed.org/project/1914...

Bethesda Games Studios’ Montreal workers are being treated especially poorly by XBOX and we won’t stand for it. Here are the details. If this upsets you let Microsoft know: feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/ide...

Pentiment director emphasizes the importance of RPG players not controlling everything

After several years running touting its big push to develop video games in-house, Hasbro has canceled multiple in-development projects and seems to be backing off. https://kotaku.com/hasbro-56-million-impairment-charge-video-games-canceled-2000718018

Say what you will about the state of Bluesky, but the Bloodless Quant versus Treatlerite debate is my optimist view of a healthy full political spectrum after we've moved past giving reactionaries any kind of power in society

Many people, including one former BLS economist, seem to read this as an attack on the concept of charts or statistics and not on a particularly unpleasant and dickish way of engaging with people.

GTA releases are so infrequent now that an entire new generation has to learn that they don't release on PC at launch for the first time

Hanes: Who is behind the growing number of hate crimes in Montreal? montrealgazette.com/opinion/colu...

Pedestrianized streets in Montreal are something else! All the business patios were full of customers, and tons of people were laughing, chatting, and dancing in the street. Who wouldn't want more of this in their city?

Everyone is so used to products being from either a top 100 global company trying to establish a new market monopoly, or a startup trying to go x1000, that they can't understand that sometimes it's possible for someone to just release something that a few people will buy and get value out of it

Happy 30th birthday, King's Field II! This was the game released as just 'King's Field' outside of Japan and gave us our first taste of Fromsoftware. This is one of my core early PS1 game memories. Fighting carnivorous plants by swing a sword slowly and carefully.

Bevy 0.19 is out now! It features Next Generation Scenes, Render Bigger Scenes Faster, Contact Shadows, More Feathers Widgets, Text Input, Richer Text, App Settings, Post Processing Effects, Improved Skinned Mesh Culling, and more! bevy.org/news/bevy-0-19

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