Snipehunter

Oh shit. Hide your d20s kids, the satanic panic is back.

HEADLINE: CREATIVE WORKS CAN NO LONGER BE MINED BY AI WITHOUT CONSENT IN AUSTRALIA NEW REGULATIONS PROTECT ARTISTS' RIGHTS IN THE AGE OF AI

See, look, U.S.A., it's this easy

(and should have been done immediately upon the knowledge that these cheats and grifters were STEALING our work)

That's Ryan Seabury and Scott Brown, the creative head and studio head at the time I worked on Auto Assault. I wasn't being vague on purpose, just saving characters. :)

There are too many to name them all, but, let me name a pair: Ryan and Scott, who were part of the folks who ran NetDevil.

Our time together was complicated, but I kept coming back because the games they saw were the games I wanted made and they wanted to make them the right way.

As a guy who's been forced to work with LLMs for a little bit now, I can safely say: Nothing is more infuriating than trying to troubleshoot a technical problem with an LLM...

...so of course "replace tech support" is the first thing corpos did.

GAME OVER: $25k+ of tech stolen from Kent arcade Tens of thousands of dollars worth of vintage video game equipment was stolen from a Kent arcade this week.

KIRO 7 ran an article and two TV pieces on the theft of a box truck full of arcade PCBs, artwork, and machines from my workplace yesterday. If anyone in the Seattle area sees someone offloading a ton of CPS2/NAOMI/Neo Geo PCBs, stuff of that nature, please reach out.

www.kiro7.com/news/local/g...

This, I say as a long-time student of history and economics who holds an MBA, is correct:

Get your racist nazi ass out of here, JD. You think people who had to sneak into the country to get here can afford fucking houses? How much do you think they cost?

You want to know why they're expensive? Landlords. Plain and simple. Houses are income streams, instead of, you know, HOUSES.

Triple-O gaming.

Is coming? So he didn't watch secret invasion either, huh?

That said, I do think a properly spec'd combat robot trained exclusively on Tribes would be fucking terrifying.

Training your robots on video games sounds great. Cheaply available, complex and varied, the perfect testbed... until you've got a robot army hopped up on 30 years of combat games and adversarial play. Just sayin'.

I mean, if it tastes good, and you like it, call it a frick'n cocoa burrito for all the world ought to care.

Obviously these people are, on a literal, factual level, insane. But it's interesting to think about this in terms of what it suggests about the actual function of bus fares and similar user fees: to keep undesirable people out of public spaces.

Stunning banner cloud over the Rock of Gibraltar.

Credit: Met Office Gibraltar

“We were effectively props”: young stars of game development feel let down by the ‘gaming Oscars’ Announced in 2020 by the Game Awards as an inclusive programme for the industry’s next generation, the Future Class initiative has now been discontinued. Inductees describe clashes with organisers and...

“Don’t gather some of the most brilliant activists in the industry, treat us like crap, and then expect us to do nothing about it.” After the Game Awards cancelled its Future Class programme, @alyssamerc.bsky.social talked to its former honorees

www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...

Democrats need to be very careful about claiming to be able to influence “affordability”. Hard to do. Many facets of the economy are outside the government’s control.
Simple things that are easy to do and easy to explain:

1. Increase the minimum wage
2. UBI
3. Properly fund ACA
4. Fix the tax law

Soft Rains is such a great studio name. :)

I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:

@megaran.com Congrats on the Grammy nod!

I understand why we shut down American airspace for a few days after 9-11 to avoid a repeat attack but imagine shutting down American airspace to avoid releasing the Epstein files.

modified NYTimes heading: Opinion interesting times Should Men Be Allowed To Drag Their Itchy Buttholes Across The Carpet Of Society? A viewpoint just as valid as the tripe this paper constantly platforms via conservative dullards. Nov. 6, 2025

Post an anime you love

Let me guess, the secrets they were sharing were working conditions and the forum was at a pro-unionization site.

(Not saying I know, just saying that if a studio wanted to lay off a bunch of people who were about to unionize, they'd need a pretext... and boy, does this sound like one.)

Maybe it's worth reminding the "They shut down the government, not the regime" crowd that what really happened is the party in power demanded we choose between providing health care for the infirm or food for the famished.

Does that sound like a thing the good guys do?

A few months ago Jeff Bezos expressed interest in buying Conde Nast, the parent company of Teen Vogue.

Teen Vogue has been a leader in political coverage and critical of the current regime.

I hope the elimination of their political coverage isn’t designed to woo Bezos…

It sucks because Direct File was one of the first times a lot of people ever had a positive experience using a government website or service.

As a while you're in there: 100% tariff on pleasure craft over 100ft in any dimension or over $200k in value unless it's your single domicile. Not on boats and planes from X country, mind you.

You could direct the money to mass transport.

Most valuable property taxed at the highest rate for your house count and then steps down from there.