Snowwraith

This is not the worst thing happening because of AI but it is emblematic of the whole endeavour which is to say: who the fuck is this for? Nobody benefits from poisoning this particular well. None of us can drink the water, none of us can sell it... Why even do this???

I don’t know how people could say that programming and art are completely different disciplines when both workflows involve going ‘This will never work, I’m a failure’, changing one thing, then thinking you might be the smartest person alive

This article does not discuss one major reason why chocolate in the West got worse - Ghana and Ivory Coast, the two African countries that are the biggest suppliers of cacao globally, got organised and started demanding fair prices for it. www.reuters.com/world/africa...

Yeah this is the more damning part of the interview that the translation kinda glossed over tbh.

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.

I am not getting any younger, but am not yet as old as the first past the post voting system, which predates the flush toilet, calculus and even the printing press. Perhaps it is time to get rid of it.

Imo there's a sliding scale of tutorialization "trust" in terms of how tightly it holds your hand, with the extreme trustless end being "you can't even move the cursor off the correct thing let alone pick it" and there's a direct correlation between lack of trust and me failing to retain taught info

This story is completely insane, I can't even imagine going through this without snapping

So many #Godentropy #崩壊3rd #HonkaiImpact3rd

perpetual proponent of this and reduced # of channels

Some people called you a bad name because you did a thing that is currently very loaded and has very real ethical implications. Okay. Me and my friends got SA and death threats for just existing.

Two University of Leicester students speak out over ‘absurd’ and ‘Orwellian’ decision by the BBC and ITV Studios to edit out pride pins worn on University Challenge

I think there's something interesting here about expectations that is really important. So, it is a deeply held belief that these games are shallow quarter munchers, before people actually play them, that's the perception there. If you think a game is already shallow and unfair, why learn?

Glad to see staff is so considerate to newer gamers in advance of the OoT remake. Not everyone has played through the game before, it's a lot harder to spoil the later temples when bluesky is blocking adult Links.

are the links banned if they go to, like, idk... a site that peddles anti-trans rhetoric or something? or are the bsky staff just pissed that some folks make money off showing their tits babies

Well messing around in the Guns of Eschaton demo I feel has won me over because this is kind of clunky comedy of errors I love as I fail to shoot the weakpoints of legs (in the right order).

We see how these companies are acting on their home turf these days. Lawmakers elsewhere should be extremely vigilant with anything these companies want to do on their turf. Though of course our fuckass right-wing government was busy blindly hyping up Google for this "amazing data center investment"

The CEO of AMD, Lisa Su, is Jensen Huang's first cousin. Shit you not. AMD ain't doing fuck.

please stop replying to game devs saying things like "well look on the bright side those laid off devs can start their own indie studios now" because eventually one of us is going to snap and "WITH WHAT FUCKING MONEY" would be a shitty last thing to hear before you die

if you know anyone who is running a php *anything* let them know *immediately*

some irate thoughts from the other website after yet another sly aside caught in a random baseball video about how worthless liberal arts degrees are

I sincerely believe we're at a tipping point right now where AI usage, especially AI code usage, is on the verge of becoming normalized in some sections of the indie scene, and I dunno, if we can't push back against that then I think we're pretty conclusively on the back foot against AI as a whole

right now there's no guarantee AI usage becomes embedded in indie games. We're a scene. We don't HAVE to be this. Individual choices couldn't matter more in this moment. To see that you can make a small, positive impact at mild inconvenience to yourself and say "nah" is to give up on a better world.

I'll be honest, there is nothing more demoralizing to me than devs saying "I know AI is built on theft, and anti-labour, and harms the environment, but I'm going to use it anyway bc I don't believe individual choices matter". This is how a movement fails. www.molleindustria.org/blog/future-...

interesting to note a slight wording difference between the cancellation announcement that was datamined from the game a few hours in advance and the actual one that went up ("the visas necessary to enter the US were denied" got changed to the more passive "we were unable to obtain...")

Popular crimes in the UK, 2026: - being transgender in a room with another person - anti-war protest in any way other than the magical correct way, which is a secret - not giving mark zuck your credit card details - not checking your kink is on the list of Government Approved Kinks - imgur

The perfect metaphor for Apple design these days

Wow, came away from the newest Street Fighter movie having more to say about it than I thought I would. REALLY liked parts, REALLY disliked other parts. Today's Yoko Shinomura's birthday, & everybody should know she composed SFII's original OST, even though credit keeps going to Capcom Sound Team.

im in tears this is the funniest class ever

the thing that's always scary to me when we get to talks about international union pressure in a field is that at some point that involves tackling concepts like "american corporations are known to pay for assassinations of foreign labour leadership when it saves them money"

feel like this tension in coverage is only gonna get worse as the press continues from the perspective of the bosses organizing and benefiting from the contractors but the vast majority of games workers find themselves among the 900+ contractors and not the chosen special 75 person ‘core team’

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

HAPPPPYYY BIRTHDAY TO THEEEEEMM WHEEEEEEE

Seeing a lot of people call Biddy Blas a Glup Shitto, but he's only a blorbo right now. He has to show up in a second piece of media with the expectation that you already know who he is. THEN he's a Glup Shitto.

did a somersault

Honestly this is really becoming intolerable.

Hey man, what about human translators? No?

I JUST NOTICED THEY ACCIDENTALLY GAVE CLAUDE THE KNIGHTS OF SEIROS BANNER INSTEAD OF THE ALLIANCE BANNER did they get them mixed up😭😭😭

not this decomp but wrote up a few notes on another one i saw earlier today, to hopefully inform people on just how bad AI decomp code really is. sure, maybe you get the outline of the code (but ghidra can do that too, without costing $56k) and even though this matches its completely unusable