René Martin

I just realized I should be clear, since I have AI art in my banner, I am aggressively against GenAI in the creative professions. It’s a plagiarism engine and leads to objectively lesser creations. Actual humans do better work than the word-association machine.

I have a hypothesis that a lot of entertainment is being "ruined" by optimization on the part of the people consuming it because the finite amount of time combined with the sheer amount of content means people have this psychological urge to accelerate to the end state as quickly as possible

The first step towards normalizing imperialism is normalizing jokes about doing imperialism

this is the same exact shit as well-off muscovite vatniks going "why would putin attack ukraine, it's going to make my [INSERT IMPORTED LUXURY GOOD] so much more expensive

Still doing interviews. Still writing Four Corners puzzles. Any help here is deeply appreciated, even boosting it, tysm.

Lindsay Graham was, I think, one of the most contemptible figures in US politics, a titan of respectable bipartisan foreign policy for years who displayed no principles, no insight, and no beliefs beyond a gleeful and vicarious love of violence. An indictment of every institution he served in. RIP.

When Matt Stoller, Gallego, Sanders, the Pod Save Bros, Ryan Grim, and MattY were all on team Platner, you cannot possibly argue that this was one specific faction unless that faction is "misogynists" and no one wants to admit they have those in their camp, let alone do anything about it

There's way too many people, including a lot of anti-Platner types, who are revealing themselves to just be campists by attempting to pass the buck to a faction they don't like and it makes you look like enormous fucking clowns

This week, Microsoft GUTTED Bethesda, Zenimax, iD, & more. The C-suites treat the workers who make the games we love as disposable and don’t care they’re destroying the future of the industry! Let them know it has to STOP here: feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/ide...

to celebrate me posting some real content again how about another AMA about DVTL

THIS STUDIO MADE THE FAMOUS IDTECH ENGINE AND YOU'RE FORCING THEM TO USE FUCKING **UNREAL**??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? FUCK YOU

the studio that made the most important fps games of all time just got nuked into being a support studio you cant hate microsoft enough

dude what the absolute fuck

I wanted to write something thoughtful about XBOX's wanton destruction spree of their talent, portfolio, and future - on how XBOX has destroyed so much trust from both of its audiences - from developers and players. But how can I write anything thoughtful about such thoughtless greed?

i feel like drop site should remind us that ryan grim used to support platner openly because platner was his bartender in dc and that grim would find it personally advantageous to clear platner's name in order to not have to apologize for his lack of judgement and support for someone based on bias

Imprisoning Kennedy, despite his family connections, would be a powerful signal that Democrats are serious about imposing harsh consequences for corruption and misrule. It would send a shiver of fear down the spine of Trump cronies, precisely what you want for future deterrence.

As a reminder, everyone needs to thank Jenny Racicot. Her courage was not making us choose between women's safety and progressive politics, she saved us from a very dangerous man with her bravery. She isn't simply a victim, nor survivor. She's our hero right now.

the gall of this man. "the dream" is dead? he is lucky he's not in prison, lucky to live in a society that privileges the dreams of white men over the nightmares of the women they hurt. enough is fucking enough. The time has long come to end male impunity before it ends us all.

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Imagine doing this to id and saying with a straight face "grow and extend an enduring portfolio of franchises players love"

there is no new deal without the influence of actual socialists and communists within the larger roosevelt political coalition

this is like the literal opposite of true. the most fruitful eras of the modern democratic party coincided with periods where the walls separating political radicals from the mainstream were way less solid

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this is fucking wrecker shit. are you fucking kidding me

this is really well said www.liberalcurrents.com/graham-platn... @liberalcurrents.com

Many of you are not beating the allegations

If they ended up decimating id Software's tech team then I have no faith in anything they'll ever do again under the current leadership. Between last week and today's news...I just don't know what to say at this point.

It's really remarkable how the entire U.S. political and economic establishment is playing with a load gun with no safety so confident it couldn't actually ever go off

there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.

Has he lost his mind? Can he see or is he blind? Can he walk at all, or if he moves will he fall? Is he alive or dead? Has he thoughts within his head? We'll just pass him there. Why should we even care? Donald tariffed steel Mitch was his legal shield. Elected a second time, dooming all mankind.

This is a more personal piece than usual, and I'm really grateful to @liberalcurrents.com for giving me the space for it.

“A society that is threatened by children playing is a worthless society. A philosophy that can be threatened by children playing has no value to a free people.” www.liberalcurrents.com/there-is-no-...

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The USMNT and Knicks being really good except for the precise moment when Trump involves himself is really funny

Here. Fine. I wrote about drones. I hope you're all happy. othermeans.substack.com/p/generating...

If the U.S. wins tonight it will be because we’re a multiracial, cosmopolitan nation that brings together people from all over the world to enjoy the light of freedom and the Nazis who hate that can suck it!

A Statement from WoWGG-CWA on Today's Layoffs at Microsoft.