mattaukamp

mattaukamp

@mattaukamp.bsky.social

Writer, podcaster, "journalist", "comedian", cool friggin dude. I host the podcasts Save Your Game zencastr.com/Save-Your-Game and Every Folk Song everyfolksong.xyz.

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Not to be a buzzkill but I dont think there's going to be a Blue Wave. There's never ANY wave. It's always a bunch of narrow victories and losses. If you're still counting on voters alone to fix things, you really really have not been paying attention.

Reason #5473 why there should be no billionaires (let alone trillionaires): The Supreme Court says political contributions are free speech. Free speech isnt free speech if some people get have 758,999,990 more of it than 99% of the country.

Mike Nellis@mikenellis.bsky.social

Elon Musk has spent more money on American elections in the last two years than George Soros has in his entire life.

They just lie. They just say what they want and there are no consequences, no mass media debunking, no shouts of disagreement from the crowd. It's just wild what has happened to the National political stage. It was never good, but it didn't used to be this bad.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

I dont understand why a random guy Ive never hears of before cheating on his wife should make me suddenly have to see 80 pictures of him every time I pick up my phone.

"You idiots. You absolute morons. He's pointing the automatic rifle 4 inches to the RIGHT of the screaming child being held by a man who rescued from drowning in the ocean, not AT him. 🙄🙄🙄"

former blizzard game dev@jazzpomegranate.com

this was our immigration system before ice

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Anything that angers Airbnb hosts is a plus in my book.

Caroline Haskins@carolinehaskins.bsky.social

Airbnb is banning its hosts from making guests do things like “stripping the bed, taking trash offsite, or washing and putting away dishes.” The hosts....are not taking it well: www.wired.com/story/airbnb...

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Airbnb went from a cheap way to crash in a spare bedroom or rent a vacation house for a weekend and turned into "what if hotels openly hated you and acted like they were doing you a favor by letting you give them hundreds of dollars to stay there, and also it's more expensive"

Caroline Haskins@carolinehaskins.bsky.social

Airbnb is banning its hosts from making guests do things like “stripping the bed, taking trash offsite, or washing and putting away dishes.” The hosts....are not taking it well: www.wired.com/story/airbnb...

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I stg Nathan Fielder is out here trying to teach America remedial media literacy and god bless him for it

Casablanca is actually bad because they didn't have any scenes where someone sits down and explains whether Rick was a good guy or bad guy. And no one showed the audience how to play "As Time Goes By" on a piano. 2 stars.

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Lol what? Its not an investigation about Theranos! It's half an investigative character study of Elizabeth Holmes, and half an interregation of Nathan Fielder's motive and ouvre. That IS truth. It's a little ridiculous to criticize art for not being something it was never trying to be.

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Most of these game studios are not closing because they're not PROFITABLE. They're closing because they're not showing GROWTH. The system of investor capitalism is ruining literally everything you care about.

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After years of Republican criminality and Democratic timidity, @ryanlcooper.com argues that Democrats can’t afford to “fritter away” another majority. If they don’t establish real consequences for attacks on democracy, he warns, they may not get another chance. zeteo.com/p/this-might...

Once again, support for Israel does not mean a person is in support of the Jewish people. Many anti-semites also support Israel. It often only means that the person is anti-Palestinian. Hateful people can seem like convenient allies, but they will always turn on you at their convenience.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com

Last time Trump used this antisemitic slur, he said he didn’t know what it meant. Then he used it again. trib.al/wpF9Clb

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Further, many people who are pro-Israel are Christian supremacists who believe that this is fulfilling a Biblical prophecy. A prophecy that ALSO ends with the elimination of the Jewish faith. So give that a think, as well.

Once again, support for Israel does not mean a person is in support of the Jewish people. Many anti-semites also support Israel. It often only means that the person is anti-Palestinian. Hateful people can seem like convenient allies, but they will always turn on you at their convenience.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com

Last time Trump used this antisemitic slur, he said he didn’t know what it meant. Then he used it again. trib.al/wpF9Clb

The inverse is also true. Support for Palestine or opposition to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land does NOT mean a person is anti-semitic. It often means that person is simply pro-human rights. That person is de facto an ally to any person who is oppressed, regardless of race or ethnicity.

Going to be honest: I am not going to even try to wade into Next Fest this go-around. Too much AI slop to find actual games made by actual artists. Many of them don't even disclose. I'm giving the whole thing a miss until Steam can find a way to get this garbage under control.

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Now that Steam Next Fest has started I want to remind everybody to not give games with AI any attention, to help you with this you can download this neat extension that will make it A LOT easier to filter through the slop! github.com/seeeeew/aiwa...

github.comGitHub - seeeeew/aiwarningforsteam: Browser extension to increase the visibility of AI Generated Content Disclosures in the Steam store.Browser extension to increase the visibility of AI Generated Content Disclosures in the Steam store. - seeeeew/aiwarningforsteam

Hey so the PSA for the game "Mystery of Oak Island" by Visionaire Studio UG. They appear to be working to cover up the use of AI in their game, despite it being fairly obvious and used extensively.

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Seems like at least some of the AI sound assets were initially used to fill in for a voice actor who was dear to the developer and unable to finish the project. These have since been replaced by a different voice actor - partially due to the reaction to the original AI disclosure.

Hey so the PSA for the game "Mystery of Oak Island" by Visionaire Studio UG. They appear to be working to cover up the use of AI in their game, despite it being fairly obvious and used extensively.

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Visionaire Studio UG is deliberately trying to hide their usage of AI in the game "Mystery of Oak Island", removing their disclosures from Steam and attempting to redirect the conversation when asked about it. You can still find their AI disclosures on IMDB and Archive dot org.

Discussions with the developers are ongoing. They say they've removed all AI sounds from the game. I will continue to look into this and update this thread as I go. If it turns out that no AI has made it to the final product, I will delete this thread and issue an apology, but I remain doubtful.

Hey so the PSA for the game "Mystery of Oak Island" by Visionaire Studio UG. They appear to be working to cover up the use of AI in their game, despite it being fairly obvious and used extensively.

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Hey so the PSA for the game "Mystery of Oak Island" by Visionaire Studio UG. They appear to be working to cover up the use of AI in their game, despite it being fairly obvious and used extensively.

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By mid-2025, the disclosure had disappeared and the Steam page updated with new artwork and they released a demo in the current Steam Next Fest. The page now has screenshots that look like this:

As part of their promotional push, the studio emailed my podcast to promote their game as part of what seemed like a mailing list and I responded "Hey, these graphics look AI generated. Can you elaborate on your development process a little? We do not review AI games. Thanks"

Hey so the PSA for the game "Mystery of Oak Island" by Visionaire Studio UG. They appear to be working to cover up the use of AI in their game, despite it being fairly obvious and used extensively.

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They apparently kept working on it and launched their website in 2021, and at that time, the art and engine are still 3D. I imagine, given the time period, this art is actually human-made.

Hey so the PSA for the game "Mystery of Oak Island" by Visionaire Studio UG. They appear to be working to cover up the use of AI in their game, despite it being fairly obvious and used extensively.

Do not send me your fucking AI trash games to review on Save Your Game. I will not review them, but I will warn everyone in your Steam Discussion Board that your stupid genAI game is genAI.

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Emphasizing again that we cannot treat this as just business as usual. This is the President of the United States openly attacking an entire ethnic group.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "You go up to Minnesota -- number one place in the entire country for the sale of Mercedes-Benz. And Somalians are buying them. They come here with low IQs and no money and they get rich. Do we feel stupid? Our fraud division is getting them all."