Jem Alexander

In my restless dreams I see that blinking green light.

I think about this at least once a month.

AI is obviously an utterly destructive thing, but holy shit today my rage towards it is especially hot.

It has ruined so, so SO much. And what do we actually have to show for it? What have we, as a society, gained that has made it worthwhile for what we're losing, and losing more of every day?

Been listening to the .hack//SIGN OST since this was announced. 🥲

👏👏👏

Either way he’s escaping the depths of Moria - by wing or by helicopter.

YouTube video by Legacy of Kain Legacy of Kain: Ascendance Announcement Trailer

Haaaang on, they announced the first new game in the Legacy of Kain series in TWENTY THREE YEARS and it wasn’t even in the State of Play alongside the Defiance remaster? (And it looks pretty good???)

we’re so back!!!

Heyyy, congrats! That'll be me next year. 😱

Neuromancer trilogy and Earthsea Cycle currently. Can’t subvert the genre(s) without a solid grasp of the fundamentals.

MONSTIES

So can you be gay in Tomodachi Life this time or what?

Also remembering when Corbyn suggested free national broadband internet and all the sensible centrists chuckled and said it was ridiculous, but apparently "free" training in a spiraling software fad of limited purpose is now a flagship policy and a sound investment.

It's so annoying to me that I can only like this post once.

A copy of the Rascal Year One book, collecting a series of the Tabletop news site’s best essays from its first year in business.

Finally got round to reading this and devoured it before immediately doubling my @rascal.news subscription. This is the sport of writing I want. Brave, raw, emotional and dripping with integrity. Despite constant reminders of the hells of this world, it offers hope.

Oh no. Creatures and Furcadia. We lived parallel lives. What next, Finfin on Teo The Magic Planet? Beasts and Bumpkins?

Is this Animorphs?

Fantastic game! Stylistically AND in terms of translating the ‘kill boss get new weapon’ loop into an RPG with little to no compromise. Pretty sure I tried to turn it into a TTRPG back then, but I was 11 so failed lol.

Absolute banger year. I started as a journo in 2007 and I didn’t realise how good we had it at the time. 2008 also awesome. What a one-two punch. Never bettered.

If ‘the Chosen One’ ends up being an intergalactic mistranslation of ‘the last of the Chozo’, I’m so extremely here for it.

Wait has Samus always been the Chosen One because she uses Chozon technology?? Is that intended? I can’t tell if I’m being stupid for not getting it all these years or if I’m seeing things that aren’t there.

THE TYPING IT OUT *IS* THE EXPRESSING

No more heroes, friends. They will always disappoint.

Made up example of how I write placeholder text: Player enters via door. BOB at bar. Angry because of earlier scene. Subtext of Laura's infidelty. Talks about upcoming TKTK event. Throws APPLE. BOB: Catch! LAURA: Something something forbidden fruit. BOB: (Subtext) I know you're sleeping with Mike. Bob makes excuses, leaves. Laura flustered, bites apple.

Googling to check if I've been doing placeholder text wrong all this time???

It’s me, the The Lost Room enjoyer! I have been summoned. The Booth At The End has a similar vibe. It’s a web show from the 2010 that got re-edited for tv. About a mysterious man who sits in a diner who is visited by people with various wishes. All set in the diner. It’s fantastic. Also, Fringe.

Things You Can Make ChatGPT Write for You - Hayley DeRoche Your last words But before them What to murmur to a lover in bed What to say in the group chat when someone's Sister mother brother is dead and The apology you could never quite get right for a friend And hell why not make the robot compose your proposal Your wedding toast, too Your best friend's birthday roast You could ask it to write a custom lullaby For the baby snuffling at your breast. You can cradle to grave away Every warm human word You could ever have said And when they chisel your gravestone For your final rest We can ask ChatGPT Because it knew you best

Love it 🙌

"videogame" is not ensouled
"computer game" contains a great deal of spirit

it's really cool how our medium is effectively monopolized by less than a half-handful of storefronts obsessed with infantilizing and coddling an audience against anything provocative, while still somehow stocking thousands of factory-churned AI hentai slop games.