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This HAS to be his year for a nom, right? If SINNERS is a real Oscar player and MBJ gets snubbed again, that'd be some PRIME bullshit.

For gamers who aren't in game dev, you should know that we are in one of the worst periods in game dev history in terms of industry stability and the reason you're not seeing that play out through products is because the average development window of games is 3-7 years so it hasn't reached you yet.

Sounds like George R.R. Martin's OpenAI suit is going pretty well for him Sounds like George R.R. Martin's OpenAI suit is going pretty well for him

Martin, Jonathan Franzen, John Grisham, and a group of other authors sued the tech giant in 2023.

Also: that bit about employees supposedly being "more concerned with adhering to schedules for shifts and breaks" is... curious.

Would certainly want to hear from the employees themselves about the state of affairs.

That 17% accuracy number on Q's about individual taxes *is* already terrible, without a doubt.

Kinda feel like "the shitty plagiarism box that invents nonsense and pivots to bigotry with minimal prompting" isn't really the solution here?

CRA says AI will help boost call centre accuracy for taxpayers seeking info - National | Globalnews.ca A senior CRA official told MPs the agency is looking to roll out more 'senior and standardized' training and introduce 'automation' to improve the accuracy of CRA agents' advice.

Oh.

Oh no.

So this is about to get dumb and bad, huh?

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The no politics in games crowd cheering on the federal government straight up using video games as a form of propaganda are going to be very surprised when the government starts deciding what games they can or cannot play, and who can make them.

That's A LOT of peoples' childhoods right there

The Not Really Ghostbusters - Celebrity Endorsement

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I think there's a video essay to be had in the Rise and Fall of "Nintendo, Hire This Man!" - How it changed from a genuine plea for Nintendo to catch up with technological trends to a sarcastic jab mocking the shallow artlessness of GAMERS™️ demanding the highest end graphics...
#FizzVsGaming

...wait is he really gonna try to "I'm obviously against SLAVERY but it was mostly about States Rights" for NAZISM?

Because I don't even think any of the actual Nazis tried that one.

Retro Difficulty - Gator Days Transcript Panel 1 Gustopher throws up his arms in frustration. He's sitting on the ground and playing an old video game. The game is proving to be difficult. He is wearing a shirt that depicts a face represented by a large G and two smaller Gs representing the eyes. Mewbert is watching from the couch. She is confident that she could beat it easily. Gustopher: THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE! How did anyone beat this old game? Panel 2 Gustopher's dad chimes in to note how the game is definitely beatable. Nougat is comfortably sitting on his lap and happy to be recieving pets. August: It takes practice, memorization, and perseverance. Gustopher: Is that how you beat it? Panel 3 August looks suspiciously to the side. He is filled with sudden wave of shame. Nougat doesn't notice anything. She's just enjoying the pets. August: Well... Panel 4 August decides to come clean. August: There's also a code for infinite life. Gustopher: CHEATING! Nougat is no longer pleased. Not because of August's use of cheat codes but because his pets have slowed down. Nougat will remember that. Mewbert isn't really paying attention to any of this anymore.

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I think very often people do not realize the sheer *scale* of government, particularly the US government.

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I mean... he not "wrong?" But by this same logic, "XBox's actual biggest competition" is also, like... "a particularly yummy sandwich" or "hot singles in your area" so I'm not sure what point he thinks he's actually making? 🤔

My mom got me into Trek when I was a kid and most Trek fans I know/ encounter are women. And the lead of my Star Trek show was a woman, as was the captain of the ship. So shut the fuck up.

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MY ANCESTRESSES DID NOT BIND THOSE KIRK/SPOCK ZINES BY HAND FOR THIS SLANDEROUS ASS OMISSION

its remarkable to see random suburbanites in their fucking PJs have more courage than the vast majority of america's political, social, and civil elites

I don't know that anything will ever hit people the way "Sonic on Nintendo hardware" did in the 2000s, but this... this has to come close, for many. Feels like the next to last domino that could possibly fall before the the concept of consoles or "games industry" as we've known it goes completely 👀

DoorDash and DARVO attacks on working-class women A woman said her customer exposed himself to her. How did she become the villain?

The types of viral DARVO rhetoric that have been leveraged against celebrity women like Amber Heard are now being weaponized against everyday, working-class women who report sexual violence. And AI is helping accelerate these narratives. My latest dispatch from hell:
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Halo has survived for 20+ years on the basis of a few pretty good action games, some books people liked, and the IDEA that this pile of second-hand Starship Troopers scraps could be an actual franchise.

It makes sense that "just do the first one again" would become the explicit mandate.

The simple truth is people love this stuff and will watch it if you let them, not by putting it behind a premium fee. I fell in love with these cartoons as a kid because they used to be on TV all the time so I could, ya know, watch them lmao.

...I am so tired.

I have a hunch that, for the third or fourth time, we are going to watch a tentpole halo game underperform due to bad management and prioritization, followed by a reboot built around how they're correcting course this time we promise

It's not lost on me that the part of the White House we are destroying is the part that has to do with women's history in the White House.

truly incredible maneuver. Brian Bloom’s performance is a revelation, rueful that all he can do is narrate through a world where you and he must do endless violence so others might be free