Old Man Syms

People abroad don't understand the level of interference Meta & bots had in these elections. 5 days before the election a far-right politician posted a fake news video that got 157 MILLION views on Instagram in 24hs. For reference, GTA 6's reveal trailer got 90 million views on YouTube in 24hs.

lol Ed Sheeran's band quit

The day I believe "coding is solved" is the day they open source Claude code because they are proud of how excellently the AI has written it instead of accidentally leaking it and revealing how it is the largest dumpster fire I have ever seen

Dilma Rousseff is a left-wing icon who fought the dictatorship in the 70s, was arrested & tortured, then became our 1st female president and reached 79% approval rate, being re-elected before the 2016 right-wing coup. All Americans saw were false corruption charges. You're not immune to propaganda

Major Chinese tech companies recently shut down their popular AI companion services to comply with new regulations that ban the platforms from manipulating emotions or replacing social interactions. Some users are upset, uninstalling apps in protest or trying to train new ones.

calibration process #pico8 #dailycarts

Scroll of Taiwu is a great example of this... One of the most important "indie" games of the last decade, it changed what Steam meant as a market and created an entire new genre, selling 3.4M copies and spawning countless successors. Anglosphere media had nothing to say about it, zero curiosity.

US government just approved the request of Californian tech bros to launch a giant mirror in space. An incredibly bad idea for all sorts of reasons, as the post below explains: mastodon.social/@sundogplane...

Israel's genocide means joy cannot be allowed to exist in Gaza, and thus they surgically murder anyone who creates joy in the death camp that they made out of Gaza.

I'm enjoying seeing people post their favorite physical games - I'm honestly jealous. Back then, those did not exist in Brazil unless you were VERY wealthy. We just had CD cases full of pirate discs. Super cheap, but no box, no manual... some were just regular CD-Rs... I have no attachment to them.

🥳 Mina the Hollower + UNSIGHTED 🥳 Looking for pixel art, top-down, Zelda-likes/Metroidvanias with challenging combat and puzzles? Look no further!! If you already have one of the games, this is a perfect opportunity to gift a friend and support the devs :) store.steampowered.com/bundle/76343...

🇪🇨 Good luck to Ecuador's soccer team in tonight's game against Mexico—a rivalry that happened before in 2002, as depicted in the game despelote (on sale on Steam right now.) ¡Sí se puede! ⚽️ despelote.game

Since we can now have 10 images per post, let me recommend 10 recent indie games! All from the past 3 years, no big obvious hits. No AI or genocide support either! Names & descriptions on Alt Text.

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A "piece that was killed" is something we hear over and over again working with press promoting Dreams on a Pillow, not just now but across the years. In some cases the content had been fully written & was pulled right before or even after publishing. In others, it never was allowed past concept.

If you found yourself reading about the oppressed people of Palestine and went "But... what am i gonna do!" Well, you can support this game and help lift the dehumanization campaign been put on these people (and Arabs generally) by helping the game production. Change starts from within. Thanks.

Yo so here’s the thing: Fuck JK Rowling. Have some self-respect and don’t watch the cynical money-grab. It directly supports transphobia and hate. Other books and shows exist.

I ask you to take 3 minutes out of your day to read this, as a reminder of what true evil looks like. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Caves of Qud

Last week, for the first time in 20 years, a man died from a treatable snake bite on my home island of Martinique. He had asked chatGPT what to do instead of going the hospital. He missed the 6 hours treatable window.

It's almost time for Ramadan, as Muslims tonight peered to the crescent moon to see if the month of Ramadan starts tonight or the day after. As with every year, I'm starting this thread so that people can ask questions, and learn about Ramadan from one person's perspective of it.

I wish I could properly explain this to my non-Brazilian followers, but we just built a mecha Lula lol

Relooted is not only a neat puzzle game with grand heists and a charming cast, but also a challenge to who owns and tells African history. Plus, it's one of the few games to capture Africa's diversity well, pulling artifacts from all across the continent. My review: www.avclub.com/relooted-gam...

The US cutting off oil to Cuba is truly one of the most depraved acts it is possible to imagine. Hospitals will close, food production will collapse, people will starve. It is urgent for US citizens, and every sane person, to oppose this barbarism with all their might.

日本共産党って？ 企業献金ゼロ #TaxtheRich #しんぶん赤旗は日本共産党の新聞

Interesting to play 7554, the Vietnamese FPS about the Indochina War. The intro is a historical recap of the Spanish, French, Japanese, British and French (again!) fucking them over, to the point you're desperate to help the Việt Minh once the game starts. No wonder the US army funds military FPS.

i can hear this gif

Hero's Adventure is 50% OFF: store.steampowered.com/app/1948980/... One of the best RPGs I ever played, got over 130 hours in it. It's an open-world martial arts RPG with unparallel levels of freedom - join or destroy any faction, siege / save towns, become emperor, hunt secret arts, marry, etc...

In light of the Future Class news, may I suggest you watch and share the documentary "Blood on our Controllers -The Complicity of the Game Industry in the Palestinian Genocide" that fellow alumni @pyrofoux.bsky.social worked on: www.youtube.com/watch?v=g748...

It's wild to see the USA do a USA in the USA.

The game is set during the War of Canudos, when the Brazilian army massacred a community of poor farmers & former slaves, killing over 25,000 people. It's the kind of game you play and think how video games still have many settings, cultures and events to explore.

This is exactly--and I mean exactly--how Holocaust deniers have long discredited the Final Solution being a concerted effort & high-level order. "The Jews in the camps all died of typhoid outbreaks"

RIP David Cope