Harmless

fuuuuuuuck

Ok, seriously...PlayStation needs to do something about AI flooding their store. 🫤

Not only is this trying to copy Peak, but they can't even make their AI "screenshots" look like the same game. One of these just looks like Funko pops. How is this allowed?

To be clear, what will ruin them is their unwillingness to do this is a legal, ethical manner. They believed they could money their way into letting them steal all the art and writing and data and and and. But there's a ton of money on the other side, too. And they aren't gonna let that happen.

"BUT WE CAN'T BE PROFITABLE IF WE PAY FOR ALL THE DATA!"

Then you don't have a business model. Sorry. I could make billions if I stole millions of cars and sold them. That's not how any of this works.

A screenshot of CGE’s instagram page: “With the above in mind, and after many heartfelt and vital discussions both internally and with members of the affected community, we have decided to donate 100% of the profit from this game to appropriate charitable organizations. We will ensure that an amount equal to our greater than the fee paid to license this product will go directly to organizations that provide support for the trans community. We evaluate profits and make charitable-giving decisions each December, and we will continue using this annual process to direct the games profits. We will listen to recommendations from the community to help guide our choices of organizations that provide support for the trans community. Or goal is to select those that offer direct, practical help to people in need — for example, services similar to the emergency hotline that was recently discontinued.”

I’m doing victory laps in my kitchen right now!!!! 💃🏼

CGE just announced they are going to be giving away 100% of the profit from their Harry Potter game to pro-trans charities!!

www.instagram.com/p/DNG48n-IVP...

Sad news today. Bithell Games, having been unable to secure a new larger scale project, is reducing in size. This means that eleven jobs are being made redundant. This constitutes the majority of our full-time staff. It became clear leading up to the release of our most recent game that we were not immune to the challenges faced by many game development teams seeking funding partners in 2024 and 2025. We’ve fortunately been able to communicate these challenges ahead of time, and work with affected staff to ease departures as much as possible via severance packages. It’s important to state that this was an incredible team of exceptionally talented people. If you’re a developer reading this, and you’re hiring; anyone among those affected would be a great addition to your studio, please reach out if we can help to put you in touch. This news will not impact the availability of our existing self published games and ongoing support for them. We are incredibly grateful for our audience, and hope that your interest in our work follows individual team members as they head into other roles. Bithell Games was always defined and elevated by our people. Today we are less. - Mike Bithell

Patient, sobbing: But Doctor, I AM Pagliacci!
ChatGPT: Apologies. I didn't realise when recommending Pagliacci's epic show to cure your depression that you were the genius himself. I'm impressed! With regards to your initial question, I can recommend seeing the Great Clown Pagliacci.

Lots of people, understandably, focused on the admittedly hilarious fact that the immediate first use case that tech guys go for is treating their spouses like an annoyance

But I'd like to zoom out a little from the 'tell my bitch wife to shut up but don't make it sound like I hate her' angle

Captain America leans over a chair to give a lecture

Hey indie game devs, here's a quick tip about the "biome montage" in your game trailers, because most of you are doing it wrong...

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audrey farnsworth @audipenny (opening my god damn email) there better not be any god damn emails in here 1:13 am • 9/7/19 • Twitter for iPhone

That sounds insanely cool 🔥

🌱 Bulbasaur 🍏

The newest cursor is here! ⭐
#1 in the PokeDex and #1 in our hearts 💚

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"I need ChatGPT to brainstorm" dear human person the whole point of brainstorming is to find new ways or angles when approaching a problem, the "let's regurgitate the complete stolen corpus of human achievement"-machine doesn't help you brainstorm - it stops you from brainstorming.

Cover of The Red City of Fate, a view of a desert city in oranges and browns

Preview of the adventure's interior, including interior illustrations and a small map

The Red City of Fate is live! I've been working on it for over half a year, and I'm super happy to share it at last :D It's a 40-page adventure for Fifth Edition, with 7 new monsters, 4 new magic items, a few maps, and lots of creepy desert ghost city to explore!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/nat...

Before this, every arcade cabinet required four Atari employees to operate the ghosts.

The person who wrote this simultaneously demonstrates a deep lack of understanding and also an extraordinary deficit of seriousness in a very remarkably small number of words.

Gold plated enamel pins of a raccoon in a trash can and a possum in a trash can

Three stickers with cats dressed up as clowns, the left is a black cat with the text 'the whole circus', the middle is a calico with the text 'just a little guy', the right one is a white cat with the text 'certified clown'

Two antique gold plated enamel pins, the left is a raccoon head with the text 'garbage club, live fast eat trash', the right one is an opossum with the text 'scream team, eat bread play dead'

Two collar enamel pins with chain, the trash bag and trash can attachments are pictured above, on the left is a screaming opossum pin and on the right is an angry raccoon pin, they are attached by a golden chain

Thank you for the share! 💖 My name is Anna and I have a shop with tons of enamel pins, stickers and other stuff 🦝✨

Annadrawsstuff.com

my new ai device will sit in a beer garden that backs onto a small river and drink three to five pints on a sunny late summer afternoon for you, leaving you free for more meetings and business calls

Regarding the adult themed games crackdown:

The Dutch Game Association has flagged this issue with the European Games Developer Federation as we believe we can have a bigger impact on a European level.

However, I still strongly recommend you also bring up the issue with your local association.

An in-game render of Ozzy Osbourne, with the logo for Brutal Legend and text that reads, "Free for the next 666 minutes" and the itch.io logo in the bottom right corner

To honor Ozzy's larger-than-life rock and roll legacy, we're making Brütal Legend *FREE* on itch.io: doublefine.itch.io/brutal-legend

But this incredible deal will only last for 666 minutes, as the prophecy foretold. So get yourself clicking, before it disappears like a demon in the night...

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this is a very cool initiative!

This week I’m delighted to announce Creepy Redneck Dinosaur Mansion 1: Re-raptored… and that’s it’s not made by Strange Scaffold.

Follow @pedalboard.games, wishlist it on Steam, and check out Project Share, our next foray into exploring methods of sustainability!!
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Bro looks generated

Again, a fundamental misunderstanding of Stop Killing Games and its goal - everyone is realistically aware that official support cannot last forever. It's about accounting for that in a way that gives titles a chance to be as functional as possible in spite of that.

This! You're a fool, and a sucker.

A floofy grey cat lounges glamorously on a blue velvet chair.

Possibly the best cat picture I have ever taken.

Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin (@jasonlk) .@Replit goes rogue during a code freeze and shutdown and deletes our entire database

This thread is incredible.

In a comic strip panel, person in a red shirt walks through a sunlit forest. The text says "Sometimes I go looking for a tiny part of the universe." "This part only takes up as much space as: half an apple, a salt shaker, or 2 ping pong balls." Each of these items is shown. Galaxies and stars swirl as the text says "But somehow, in an unfathomably huge universe," and then there's a complex mess of forest leaves, with one tiny Wilson's warbler in one corner, and the text says "this one tiny part" There's a close up of the warbler, blazing yellow against a sparkly yellow background, and the text says "can fill up my whole heart."

Tiny part.

WeTransfer TOS says they can use all your uploaded content for genAI

Bye forever, WeTransfer.