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Now in your podcatcher: SHELVED BY GENRE continues THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING, taking time to discuss our love of bathtime with the fellas, ominous hedges, and of course, the man himself, the greatest secret Peter Jackson was too cowardly to film: rangedtouch.com/2026/03/13/t...

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This write-up and my notes on Flantz’s talk (from the end of my previously posted huge thread) seem to me like the most accurate summaries of the “state of AI in games” as it appears via this year’s GDC. Hodgepodge amidst grift-noise; hustles in the dark; inconsistent hedging; hazy outlook

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YES YES YES YES

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CYBERMETAL STREETS: March 24. A lofi heavy metal cyberpunk 28mm skirmish game set in Pentagram City and compatible with Cybermetal 2012 RPG.

Grab your sharpest knife and your spiciest falafel wrap and meet me in the junkyard.

Pwyw digital and free/trade scrappy diy zines from me at Adepticon.

Indie deckbuilder All Will Rise's dev joins No Games For Genocide boycott and plans to hand back funding it received from Microsoft "We encourage others in the industry to join us and take a stand."

all will rise is handing back Microsoft money & pledging @nogamesforgenocide.com — it’s a difficult thing to do when funding and attention are scarce commodities for indies like us, but we hope more of our fellow devs and indie studios will join us in taking a stand 🔥
www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out:

www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

of course but at one point it at least did have the economic structure of a monoculture and then the pieces that were economically excluded — at this point there’s not even an oriented economic center

very aligned with Michigan dog man values

I’m much more interested in the game now than I was a few minutes ago!

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Yeah I am unaware of even an attempt at a global analysis of what was played 2020-21 other than universal number go up. I have a suspicion, pure speculation, that “what we played” in the pandemic is actually what anglophone audiences watched people play as streaming viewership went through the roof.

What Was Lost: A Queer Accounting of the NY Times Book Review, 2013-2022 “Goodbye, Pamela Paul,” was the headline of Andrea Long Chu’s now-iconic, recently ASME-nominated New York Magazine farewell to the former NY Times Book Review editor, when Paul left the paper two …

*taps internet microphone*

After months of work, a project i've been coordinating for @literaryhub.bsky.social in conjunction with @maris.bsky.social is now live ...

We've commissioned 13 reviews of books by LGBTQ folks not covered by the NYTBR under Pamela Paul ...

lithub.com/what-was-los...

I still think we speak a lot in terms of monoculture (I do this all the time) but in reality the monoculture is absolute and complete fragmentation

This is a great piece from Lewis. Keza’s comment makes me wonder about how to draw the bounds of the “we” in games today: I didn’t play those games in peak pandemic (I played CoD) and I’m not playing these games now (I’ve gone to the tabletop, a much different kind of sociality).

make the game

behold my handwriting

I do all of my design work on paper in a composition grid notebook. Amberspire has 79 numbered pages of work

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so excited to be judging A MAZE entries this year - SO many cool and beautiful works to immerse myself in and share with you all 🔥

forgive me it’s a personal matter

The Witcher books are good.

we love a man who you look at and think "that's right, sometimes you wonder if you picked the right shirt for the day. that's My Experience"

I think I agree that's there's two beautiful performances in the film, but unfortunately they're somehow split up among five people!

Thought you’d like to know this finally arrived in Aotearoa @ckunzelman.bsky.social just in time for my sister’s birthday present

a movie I truly loved and also hated in basically equal measure

'eeeey, we're walking here! This month's JUST KING THINGS Bonus Ep is out for Patreon supporters, who can hear us discuss the film's real mixed bag of great performances and shoestring production that is 2025's adaptation of THE LONG WALK: www.patreon.com/posts/just-k...

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