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For Arc Raiders to ride the wave of human sociability all the way to the bank, while also being so contemptuous of the thing that makes us social animals in its own workflow demonstrates a lack of artistic integrity that I find impossible to ignore.

Our review: https://bit.ly/49bVn01

I'll be the fun police.

Don't play Arc Raiders. Do better. Play a game with real voice acting.

i think it's good actually that a videogame prominently featuring AI voice acting is finding success while my VA friends haven't found steady work in years and have their rates forcibly ground into dust over the few reliable gigs left

but hey the game is really fun right!!!!!!!

You Should Play Bad Games

Playing bad games doesn't ruin your credibility, it actually makes you learn about what you like. You start noticing effort, weird ideas, stuff that polished games smooth over.
Play more broken, weird, and ambitious trash; it’s good for your taste and good for your brain.
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I genuinely wonder when people are gonna start voting with their wallets and stop rewarding companies for using AI, Arc Raiders using it for genAI voices is frankly disgusting and it blows my mind that some people will defend it, and now Arc Raiders is sitting at 3rd top selling on Steam

cohost being gleefully eviscerated and now itch as well – single digit teams are going to make mistakes. they should receive feedback when they do, but treating them like faceless corporations will ensure that only the faceless corporations will stick around to provide these services.

ai is really just a tool for people who dont give a shit about anything to see how much of other people's time and money they can waste it's wild, it's wilder to me how much general audiences just don't care but what can you do

tweet that reads "the student that does not cheat has internalized the moral code of the oppressor."

Dress it up in progressive language but you're cheating yourself by not doing the work. This is the worst thing about AI: millions of students refusing to learn, taking zero interest in the world around them, empty in mind and heart. Your punishment is the person you will become.

i am pretty immune to losers joining this platform because i block them immediately but im making it clear that if u screenshot their posts to dunk on them "without giving them the engagement" or whatever i will block you too. take your shit back to twitter.

it’s time

the newest destiny raid has these in it and im over it i dont wanna stare at my toes in an fps to see if a guy is gonna hit me

bro it’s okay that you need ai to help you write an email. anubis has weighed your soul against the feather of fate and found you unworthy. prepare to be devoured

“is my calculator horny?“ our tech columnist asks. “i entered 5318008 into it and turned it upside down. what i saw surprised me”

it should be illegal to adjust prices for inflation. that’s not how anything works. when talking about the price things cost for normal people in different years you should be adjusting to average income

it's Mario Kart, Michael. what could it cost? eighty dollars?

i feel like not enough games (and movies and tv honestly) culture critics and writers have reckoned with the fact the audience has been aggressively propagandized to by the companies making things to be loudly and violently anti labor. they want their treats and fuck you for caring about people.

Oh shoot, he kept doing these post Gamespot? I need to catch up then

Get the idea of “good, sane, kind billionaire” out of your head. There is no way to become a billionaire without extreme exploitation and moral debasement. There is no and will never be a “good, sane, kind” billionaire.

Effectively weaving between melee combat, parries, Discharge Cancels, and shooting is key to surviving in the Toyko Ruins.

東京遺跡で生き続けるため、近接戦闘、パリー、ディスチャージキャンセル、射撃を全部上手く使う必要があります

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#nightmareoperator
#gamedev #ps1 #psx #indiegame

What's YOUR intended purpose, you coward? Can you not recognize a friend when you see him?!

Cars will need fewer screens and more buttons to earn five-star safety rating in Europe Euro NCAP will release new testing guidelines in 2026.

Next year, the EU will require cars to have buttons & dials -- not just touchscreens -- to get a top safety rating.

This is a great move. Drivers can fiddle with knobs & buttons without taking their eyes off the road, but they can't do that with touchscreens.

(Even better: Tesla will hate this)

a good example of how the world is getting dumber. the new politico playbook writer didn't know who FDR was until a reader told him about that whole "new deal" thing. this newsletter is read by every important person in DC.

I feel pretty strongly that if you're warming up to the idea of forcibly annexing an ally because you think it'll net your party more seats in congress, you should be barred from ever talking about American politics again

This is as much the era of MCU good guys will save us pornography as “aspirational” bad guys. Hear me out, how about instead of asking artists to take on the responsibility of guiding society toward virtue we put money into our schools and go back to teaching media literacy and the humanities.

Some of the best writing last year came from games that embraced a bit of ambiguity and left some room for interpretation. 1000xResist, Mouthwashing, Sorry We're Closed... but by and large, I feel like games are still so deathly afraid that players could miss something, and the writing suffers.

y'all ever see a take so bad you are forced to immediately go to sleep?

god please let the AI bubble burst soon, i know it's going to take half the economy with it i'm just sick of every tech product i use begging me to try their shitty fucking AI content generation