Under my administration we captured 3 gray aliens and 2 green

i think this picture, from a public promo stream for a video games starring one of the most popular comic book characters of all time owned by the disney corporation, should be used on every single story about storefronts taking down lgbt content

I think an interesting and annoying thing with tech is it can be a space you 'live' but have minimal control over. If you got some living room that looks like its out of the early 2000s, its gonna stay that way, whether you like it or hate it, or just don't have the money to change it.

rise and shine!!!

comic panel of batman and raphael from tmnt batman: this is where i saw my parents die raphael raphael: discord hug emoji

2.1 Lenses, Not Boxes I wondered whether this section was necessary, but games discourse seems to repeatedly find itself adrift in questions of whether _ counts as a _. We have seen the question repeatedly: Do games count as art? Do games without goals count as games? Is The Sims a game? Are hypertexts interactive fiction? Are Twine pieces literature? In fairness to the researchers cited here, all of whom I respect immensely, many of these sources pose or imply the question rhetorically. Still, the necessity of such a framing frustrates me. "Is _ a _?" is, in my opinion, a fruitless question. The question can never be answered to anyone's satisfaction, and it often serves as either a provocation to espouse politics or as a cover to institute gatekeeping. Its agenda is usually opaque to onlookers and bewildering to those trying to advance the field from across disciplines. We should be thinking in lenses, not boxes. It is always more interesting to ask "If we think of _ through the lens of _, what do we learn?" We know it is more interesting to ask "What do we learn by considering Tom Stoppard through the lens of poststructuralism?" than to ask "Is Stoppard's work poststructuralist?" And while some works may be more or less fruitful when examined through different lenses, sometimes the most unlikely pairings of lenses and objects are the most rewarding. Certainly any of the questions above would be much better served by reframing them in this way.

Wow we’re having “games are art” discourse again! Just gonna leave this here.

From my dissertation:

... GTA is a JRPG. You have a big open world map you can easily traverse aside from a few plot barriers, all the actual gameplay happens when you trigger encounters.

I am going to keep screaming this EVERY time:

do you know how fucking many hoops animal behaviorists have to jump through to get research alleging that animals feel happiness or sadness published

and the WALL STREET JOURNAL prints that LINES OF CODE WITH NO BRAIN STEM can SELF REFLECT

that being said i hate how fans will flatten FS's storytelling down into nothing but "lore", and ignore the themes and narrative purpose OF said lore

EU Admits Israeli War Crimes A leaked EU internal audit report from 2024 admits Israel has committed “war crimes” in Gaza.

A leaked EU internal audit report from 2024 admits Israel has committed “war crimes” in Gaza, further proof that EU leaders have been supporting and partnering with Israel with full knowledge of its genocidal crimes against 2.3M Palestinians in Gaza.

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How do we make money off of boomers developing AI cults? I assume they'll want trinkets and stuff

Both Rolling Stone and 404 have covered this in detail, would recommend reading this article though it's horrifying www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

As a bonus, here's an uninterrupted gif of the most important part of that clip that I should be able to share without getting blasted off to smithereens, since it's part of the demo. Use it responsibly.

This business is so fucking cooked, man.

the goldfish shark girl thing is a mood!

Similar to how social media made it infinitely easier to find insular bubbles where people could reinforce each other's delusions, AI might exponentially speed up people's mental decline.

And the CEOs are purposefully lying about what this tech actually is. It's not intelligence. It's Clippy 2.0

The same way a lot of people didn't realize how big the QAnon problem was until those fuckers literally stormed the capital, I fear we're a year or two away from a shocking discovery of just how many "seemingly normal" people have lost their minds "talking" with ChatGPT.

Welp

#pixelart #tattoo #pixeltattoo

Target's bold "Pride" collection this year features a colorless hoodie with the words "Out Loud & Proud" written teeny tiny only the string.

this is art

213 Killed In How Do You Pronounce That?

embarrassing problem; i can't cum unless I am either jacking off or having intercourse,

Shadowheart reclines against a red background. She is wearing a blindingly white suit and is being nudged backward by Karlach's heel

I couldn't r e s i s t...🌶🌶🌶 #bg3

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finally finished the robot

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People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies Marriages and families are falling apart as people are sucked into fantasy worlds of spiritual prophecy by AI tools like OpenAI's ChatGPT

Here's the Rolling Stone article at the heart of it. ChatGPT is serving as a personal validation slot machine for people who need actual help.