Evan Torner

Our gaming group literally had the slang phrase "pulling a Fargo," which meant "engaging in extremely unnecessary violence during a routine police traffic stop"

The Game Narrative Kaleidoscope - Ebook Edition THE GAME NARRATIVE KALEIDOSCOPE brings together over 100 short essays on the craft of writing for games. With contributions from the writers behind some of the world's most successful titles - such a...

The Game Narrative Kaleidoscope is now in eBook format ✨

Over 100 essays on writing for video games, from a bunch of super-smart writer-types! But now you can pretend it's smut while you read it! You can even blush at some of the essays to make it extra convincing!!!!

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YouTube video by BoneyMVEVO Boney M. - Rivers of Babylon (Sopot Festival 1979)

Day 64 #MusicVideoTime

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AI does not enhance “efficiency.” AI is a permission structure for a totalizing regime of austerity and labor immiseration.

🚨🚨[Stanford & Harvard just
published an utterly unsettling #Al paper: “Agents of Chaos”. It shows that when autonomous Al agents are placed in open, competitive environments, they naturally drift toward manipulation, collusion & strategic sabotage.
It's a massive, systems-level warning.]🚨

@hekabeohnename.bsky.social and I are looking for articles on (printed) zines and games culture. #mediahistory #gamestudies

Evidence Grows That Google's AI Overviews Have Eviscerated the Media Industry Google's AI overviews have eviscerated the media landscape, with some top publications losing up to 97 percent of their web traffic.

Welp. The internet had a nice run.

Some outlets have lost over 90% of their traffic since the "AI" summaries rolled out.

"...the four worst-hit publications [now] get less monthly web traffic combined than the r/ChatGPT subreddit gets on its own."

The Drop in International Students Last Year Was Worse Than We Thought Visa issuances nosedived 36 percent, possibly reflecting weakening global interest in studying in the United States.

NEW: The bad news about international-student enrollments at American colleges just got worse. An exclusive @chronicle.com analysis of just-released State Department data shows new visa issuances in the summer of 2025 dropped by more than a third. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

Bennett Foddy (Getting Over It) held a talk yesteday about his unconventional games - "Why Did I make this"? #gamedev #gamedesign @foddy.net www.twitch.tv/videos/27148...

This is how it was— it's a return.

Despite all they sacrificed, Fannie Lou Hammer's Freedom Party, the first integrated Dem delegation, was denied seats at the DNC.

When they were offered two seats, which they refused on principle, the entire all white Mississippi delegation walked out anyway.

Trump’s War Insurance Decree Follows Predictable Pattern Legal and accountability questions keep accumulating because Trump’s governing style relies on answering them after the fact.

We thought risk society (predicated on the biggest risks, incl wars, remaining uninsurable) was the worst. Enter post-risk society, where cheap war insurance is encouraged (at least demagogically) to stoke wars. Even Cato dudes are mortified. www.cato.org/blog/trumps-...

"Wir können nicht dauerhaft erwarten, dass Professorinnen und Professoren auf höchstem Niveau exzellente Forschung betreiben, Drittmittel einwerben, international sichtbar sind und sich zugleich permanent mit Institutionen messen lassen müssen, die ganz andere Strukturen haben".

adventure games from the 80s were intentionally designed to be tricky, mean and occasionally counterintuitive so that you could get stuck for long periods of time. this was called “value for your dollar”

"The story of the Zong is often narrated as a triumph over slavery. A triumph that took 52 years and resulted in compensation for slave owners only... 245 years after the events of the Zong, humanity is still discarding lives deemed not human enough to the open seas, to fire, to hunger, to war."

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Fox News praised US “AI superweapons” allegedly used in Iran.

But the footage they aired shows Ukraine’s STING interceptor drone, developed by Ukrainian engineers from the @WildHornets.blusky team.

Ukraine noticed quickly.
www.kyivpost.com/post/71361%E...

Quite an opening paragraph.

We now tend to mark the "end of history" thesis as a certain form of neoliberal triumphalism before the fascist right in N America, Europe, and elsewhere watched the fall of communism, cackles "now's our chance!", and assumed the fleshy forms of Newt Gingrich & Jörg Haider.

He is one of those Extremely Credulous Elite Dudes who reminds us why many of us are real academics who work from archives and careful excavation of the past, while others are memelords who make sweeping statements over bottles of wine after reading too much Hegel or Kuhn.

In 1989, of course, Fukuyama saw "the end of history" via the triumph of "Western liberal democracy," precisely before the ravenous 1990s "shock therapy" imposed by said democracy on Russia & E Europe would become the midwife of our Horrifying Present.

pages.ucsd.edu/~bslantchev/...

Marathon is about looking at computer terminals while robots and disembodied entities of varying degrees of cursed vibes talk to you in riddles and boy is a lot of that happening.

YouTube video by Carpenter Brut † CARPENTER BRUT - SPEED OR PERISH † Directed by Seth Ickerman (Official Music Video)

Day 63 #MusicVideoTime

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I think the team's pride in their work is an important part of the equation.

I also think that the team's efforts poured into this game were not sufficiently valued by their employer, and that's a data point for all those of us pushing ourselves 130% right now.

#EU leaders should never belittle role of int'l law or apply it selectively - as they've done since #USA/#Israel's strikes on #Iran & retaliatory strikes on neighboring countries.

It goes against #EU values & its long-term interests.

Our take 👇
www.hrw.org/news/2026/03... @eudiplomacy.bsky.social

We learn, gradually and then all at once, that few of the extraordinary exertions we make on behalf of our employers are ever appropriately valued. It is suspect to even the make the effort.

Ihm gehört Zürich: Henning Conle, 82, Immobilien-Milliardär, mutmasslicher AfD-Unterstützer Henning Conle hat sich in Zürich unbemerkt von der Öffentlichkeit ein Immobilienimperium aufgebaut. Bekannt wurde er erst in den letzten Jahren als mutmasslicher Spender der AfD.

(1) Hinter Rechtsextremisten stehen häufig Milliardäre. (2) Niemand sollte soviel besitzen dürfen.

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

Flow chart showing OpenAI, Google Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, Perplexity, ProRate.ai, IBM, Mistral, Anthropic, Nvidia, in that order with the biggest deals, with OpenAI having 21 deals, Google 17, Meta 8, Microsoft 4, Amazon 3.

Check out this interactive website by Nana Mgbechikwere, showing BigTech and "AI" companies' media capture.

No wonder the public is getting misinformed.

They say it is inspired by @surveillancewatch.bsky.social, which ❤️

nananwachukwu.github.io

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

We're in the middle of a lightning storm, but I sure could use a shower rn