Cook Maarten

It's a beaut!

PlayStation State of Play today? If there is no new BLOODBORNE 🩸 announcement, at least we got you covered next week! 🎨

Blessed Saint Maarten. Give to the poor (many have a GoFundMe).

I hadn't yet noticed that (because I am myself that very chatty squad mate talking over everything...)

I don't fully agree with Eurogamer's review of Arc, but I really appreciate that this topic is - and keeps getting - discussed.

It's one big Avatar.

And apparently you can lay off tens of thousands of people and the machine just keeps chugging along spitting out games?

Because the video game industry failed to humanize game creation to the public, it’s no surprise this is the art form where A.I. adoption is most easily accepted.

To most, games already come automagically “from the computer.” The idea that artists, writers, or actors are involved?

I'm super impressed by how smooth a launch ARC Raiders had. 700,000 concurrent players in the opening week, and it just works? I play on PC. Smooth, polished, cross play, everything.

Really impressive compared to some multi-billon dollar jank fests I know...

Opinion | Trump’s Tariff Rebate Contradictions He’s floating a $2,000 rebate to blunt the harm from his border taxes.

Other countries are paying the tariffs! But also, here's some money to compensate you for the tariffs you are now paying!

www.wsj.com/opinion/trum...

Really good cover art too. By Bengus/CRMK I think going by the style.

I saw a video of Zuckerberg's yacht. I suppose it was meant to impress, but it just reinforced my belief that becoming a (multi)billionaire is a curse. Ivory tower shit.

The sun is free. Roasting a fish on the beach, at peace, unhurried, with friends and loved ones. Give me that.

I've watched a few Yorgos Lanthimos films now, most recently Poor Things. At best, I find them style over substance. At worst, just tedious and shallow. I think I'll be giving Bugonia a pass as a result.

Cool game. Playing it on PC without a hitch straight out the gate.

Tesla Shareholders Approve Elon Musk’s $1 Trillion Pay Package The new package, which includes 12 chunks of stock, could give Musk control over as much as 25% of Tesla if he hits a series of milestones.

There are people dying of hunger.

www.wsj.com/business/aut...

Can a bad tree bear good fruit? That's usually what pops in my head when I see the people building this 'A.I. revolution'

The whole concept of there being multilingual users is so alien to American tech. All those lofty A.I. claims and they can't even get autocorrect to work properly.

"In the internal documents, Meta weighs the costs of beefing up its enforcement of scam ads against the toll of financial penalties from governments for failing to protect its users."

It's more lucrative for them let fraud fester. So they do.

Opinion | Free the Air-Traffic Controllers Spin the system off from government, so flights won’t be hostage to D.C.

The elites cares about air travel, as that impacts them directly. The poor not having enough to eat? Shrug.

www.wsj.com/opinion/air-...

Remodeling your ballroom while your people go hungry is some of the most Marie Antoinette shit I've seen in a while.

If anyone was looking for solid evidence that a crash is imminent, here it is:

Does Europe have its problems? Yes. A lot of them actually. But if you believe in the power of liberal, free and open societies, you know the economy is not the only metric.

Worth repeating: US and Chinese media and pundits do not report neutrally about Europe. The arrogant and triumphant reporting about Europe's supposed weaknesses are selective.

Who needs to beg online for insulin? Europeans? Which countries have millions in serfdom to oligarchs? Europeans?

Sorry, maar ik zie toch echt teveel linkse politici met antisemitische hondenfluitjes in de weer. Altijd die "voorbehouden" die andere minderheden niet krijgen. Net zolang draaien totdat die Joodse burger die in elkaar getrapt is, het aan zichzelf te danken had (een beetje), want Israel.

Dick Cheney (and the TV show '24') sold Americans on the idea that tortur.... I mean "enhanced interrogation techniques" were an OK means to an end.

I disliked both for that reason.

Never saw this Fallout artwork by Simon Bisley before. Very cool. Bisley was a big deal when I was growing up. I remember his art for PS1 game Loaded.

There is something patently absurd in all the moaning about EU unity as a contrast to America when we are now in week 5 of a US government shutdown that increasingly looks permanent

House of Dynamite looks so Netflix cheap man. Definitely not Bigelow's best otherwise.

What is it about Skyrim and Fallout that says 'grand adventure' so much more than an Avowed or Outer Worlds?

A Sudanese massacre foretold: the grim familiarity of the RSF’s rampage through El Fasher Atrocities unfolding in El Fasher since it fell to paramilitary forces follow a bleak pattern seen in Rwanda, Liberia and Sudan itself, including lack of international action

Grim. And the UAE supplies the US and UK-bought weapons to the RSF...

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...