PeterVersus

Californians, please vote Yes on 3 NO on 39 YES YES on 40 NO on 41, 42, 43 and bay folks, YES on RTM When in doubt, look for what the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association says and do the opposite.

NEW: Remedy's latest game, Control Resonant, is filled with art galleries. The galleries are filled with real art When I began talking to Remedy about it, I was delighted to discover who the artists are: many are the game developers' parents My story... www.gamefile.news/p/control-re...

Nathan Fielder should do another doc like that about Peter Molyneux

Updated rankings for AI boosters: Most surprising - Steven Soderbergh Least surprising - Peter Molyneux

This post made me remember a interview from 11 years ago: www.rockpapershotgun.com/peter-molyne...

My mental model for who is the *most*, the very most, likely to go all-in on AI is someone who *used* to be very creative and capable, sometimes 20 or 30 or 40 years ago, but since has moved upward into a position where they pretty much just tell other creative people what to do

“Years do odd things to identity.” A poem by Ursula K. Le Guin.

They found a long-dead plague flea at the library. There is so much cool stuff to be found in old books. Not just history but also biology and even genetics in the gunk. Eraser dust from cleaning, for instance, holds information about sheep pox. Libraries are cool. www.youtube.com/shorts/xKuaG...

Not only an incredible talent, but a rare talent who also thought it was funny to just voice random memes every once in a while

everyone is freaking the fuck out right now and going wild etc etc because two good things have happened in the same day and that’s unprecedented for the last few years

BREAKING: Flávio Bolsonaro admitted to hospital for “tube time”

Lula Goes HARD

Just discovered “ai-enhanced” photos for real estate listings

never coveted a backpack more

Biggest double-take I’ve done reading a single line of text

Uhhh, so in like, summer 2022 I went to a Chinese restaurant in Chicago and me and all of my friends got fortune cookies that had ads for FTX in them. This was like... 4 months before FTX collapsed?

Not the top Steam review of Dressmaker making me cry this morning!

Found out I share a birthday with Nathan Fielder, so astrology is real now

Thank you to the driver of this Ford Explorer for making my day.

I originally made this edit about Twitter, but honestly I think it might actually apply to Bluesky too (but for slightly different reasons)

We had a second golden age of game demos and it got ruined in like a year

The killer seems to have tried to hide the body, almost as if they knew committing murder would get them in trouble

why do we bash "dead beat" children for not being there for their parents but we never question if the parent has bad vibes? or if they're just unpleasant to be around?

This happened to me once

Chorvs

Very underrated arcadey space shooter. Writing's a little overwrought and it takes a bit to get up to speed (wait until you get your Nothing Personnel Kid teleport that puts you right behind any enemy), but once it's there, it's great fun for the entire rest of the way. Also looks gorgeous still.

Working on my pundit brain

Elon Musk funded a stunt show and people are treating it like it’s serious business news

once again reminded how the designer of the furby sincerely believes they are alive radiolab.org/podcast/more...

7 year old giggling: when goku, gets super hungry, he eats like 30 meals in a row Me sounding exactly like Jesse Gemstone: I know how much goku eats

For safety reasons, I treat all baked potatoes as if they were loaded.

Big Streaming doesn't want you to know that Kanopy is kind of like Amazon Prime Video except that you have to pay for Prime and Kanopy is free. Oh also Prime shows ads even though you pay for it and Kanopy doesn't show ads even though you don't pay for it. Oh and Bezos doesn't get Kanopy's data.

If you're having a trolley problem every 2 years then you're basically just feeding people to trolleys.

Oh god. I just saw that Quake VR mod that won't let you install it unless you sign off on a multi-point checklist acknowledging and agreeing to the dev's pro-AI manifesto. I think this might be the single most insecure thing I've seen in the history of modding.

pet peeve of mine that you see in all sorts of contexts: posing questions that "need to be answered" that have been answered many times. this just mires the debate in an endless loop where one side has to argue and the other just asks the same questions over and over.

When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.

THIS IS VERY GOOD

it’s worth underlining that the amount which a modern live game is not this is directly the result of devs fighting inch by inch, for months if not years, against the guy at every corporation who demands an explanation for why you aren’t doing this at all times

That this bot, which posts random stills and clips from the thousands of hours of VHS transfers on archive.org, landed on *this specific frame* feels like finding the monkey at the typewriter that managed to write Hamlet.