Matt Yang

People hawking AI games like to say "Wouldn't it be great if you could do ANYTHING in a video game??"

No, it wouldn't. It would be boring as hell. Good games present challenges and give you a *limited* set of tools to overcome them. Being all-powerful gets old real fast!

#gamedev

Really love the perspective and thanks for sharing the dissertation, I'll check it out!

I feel like another differentiator is that system/sandbox games usually DO have guardrails and pushbacks to make your decisions interesting. I feel like a game with absolutely no limits would get boring fast?

Oh my god some fucking tech dingdong posted this on Twitter with the caption "AI games are going to be amazing" totally seriously, you have to watch it. You have to. In full screen.

In case you think this is a joke

I don’t know if there’s a more perfect illustration of the utter fucking nonsense that creative pollution by AI will produce than this choice to illustrate the power of Paramount’s new “localization” and “customization” technology by face-swapping Brad Pitt into the lead role of GET OUT

Welcome to the largest day of peaceful protest we’ve ever seen in our lifetimes.

Today, we’re gonna speak out on a grander scale than Trump has ever seen. No Kings Day is going to be big, loud, boisterous, and joyful. Find your local event and let’s make history: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE #NoKings

Owning the libs by eating bland ass food

Blocked this so hard

You guys, the AI art lovers found me, help

Sigh

The internet was a mistake

Your ride at Universal Studios sucks

"i just use it to generate ideas"

Recently watched this show for the first time, great stuff!

JUICE

We got a kicker!

As usual with this issue, Harris is calling for a compromise that already exists. Every sporting body has standards for how long athletes must be on hormones before they can compete as women.

The problem isn’t that we’re ignoring ‘reasonable concerns,’ the problem is that republicans are lying.

@MorePerfectUS U.S. billionaires reached a record breaking $7.6 trillion in wealth as of September 2025, an increase of $4.7 trillion in the less than eight years. Most of that wealth hasn’t been taxed and won’t be taxed under our current system — per @4TaxFairness .

This is why everything sucks. It's not trans people. It's not immigrants. You are being robbed blind before your eyes and those same people also own all the tech and media networks to tell you that the cause is not them

Post a movie you like with a terrible rotten tomatoes score

3rd and Jauan!

Let's just not have a kicker anymore

Wild that they didn't call roughing

When we think of sexism, it's easy to think of *active* efforts to discriminate against women. But sexism also operates *passively* - like through our inaction on issues like childcare and paid family leave. In that context, return-to-office policies are sexist in consequence, even if not in design.

Anybody pretending to have a confident read on the motive of this shooting because of reported inscriptions on bullet shells that included video game references and "If you're reading this, you're gay LMAO" is a fool

Gun control

Completely agree. I find the runbacks in Silksong to be thrilling and very satisfying to master, almost like speedrunning.

I have to imagine there's a psychological thing going on here. Like, if the platforming section was INSIDE the boss room, I doubt people would complain as much.

Who is this even for? Who wants to listen to a disembodied AI voice talk generically about a topic without adding any additional insight?

This absolute banger

Richard Sherman advocates for 49ers to replace kicker Jake Moody after missed FG vs. Seahawks Former San Francisco star cornerback Richard Sherman advised the 49ers to replace kicker Jake Moody after his miss against the Seattle Seahawks.

Richard Sherman advised the 49ers to replace Jake Moody after the kicker’s missed field goal against the Seahawks 😳

Realizing the nightmarish healthcare system in the US is not only a burden to the people but also to the economy of this country. More American video games workers would be willing to work as freelancers / contractors if the health insurance wasn't tight to a full time job.