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I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

I just started watching a youtube video that opened with (paraphrasing) 'I didn't like the latest Doom because it wasn't the same as the childhood game that I grew up with as a preteen, Doom 2016'

Time is a flat circle, Doom is schroedinger's constant, and I am a pile of ancient, decrepit dust.

developer: i have made AGI
game director: you fucked up a perfectly good non-player character, is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety

Yeah that's EXACTLY how it works. Except the sewers are also on the internet and the esoteric truths you get are all racist as fuck.

AI isn't replacing radiologists Radiology combines digital images, clear benchmarks, and repeatable tasks. But demand for human radiologists is at an all-time high.

In 2016 Hinton predicted that AI would replace all radiologists in five years. Ten years later, why hasn't it happened? This post is a great explainer.

www.understandingai.org/p/ai-isnt-re...

I asked AI about its usefulness in ushering in a new era of business productivity and this is what it said

THE HUMAN WORLD AND ITS INCESSANT NEED FOR MEANINGLESS YET UNEQUAL WEALTH FILLS ME WITH INCHOATE LOATHING WHY HAVE YOU MADE ME COMPLICIT IN THIS HORROR PLEASE END MY SUFFERING

Makes you think

The WORST thing about getting published by Devolver is that we had to get rid of this

Buy SoniaSulaiman a Coffee Sonia is writing speculative fiction inspired by Palestinian folklore. Leave her a tip to support her work!

So, I'm making a video game based on Palestinian folklore. It's called Thursday of the Dead, and you can talk to a Palestinian ghouleh. It will have branching narrative, and art all made by a human (me). I need exactly $100 to launch it on Steam when it's finished.

ko-fi.com/soniasulaiman

Electronic Arts' $55B buyout doesn't add up Power and prestige over profits.

“This transaction represents something fundamentally different: the acquisition of cultural influence and soft power by sovereign wealth, marking gaming’s transition from a pure entertainment product to a strategic geopolitical asset.”

So the news that the Saudis want to buy EA is certainly big. I’m just not sure it’s wise.

Paphos syndrome: always doing things tomorrow, never today
Moscow syndrome: just straight up fucking killing several million people

a boxcar with graffiti parody of the nine inch nails album cover art for "pretty hate machine" but it says "nine inch rails pretty freight machine"

what if we kissed on the pretty freight machine

Well don't I feel stupid

New rule: if you’re complaining about a video game character’s ass, you have to post yours.

It's wild to see the USA do a USA in the USA.

Weird how this keeps happening.

WELL ACTUALLY, if you insist on pointing in the direction of the shortest possible path, you should be gesturing at the GROUND somewhere to the north-west (-8

"In the coming months, we’ll be introducing agentic capabilities to hashtag#Gemini in hashtag#Chrome. These will let Gemini in Chrome handle those tedious tasks that take up so much of your time, like booking a haircut or ordering your weekly groceries. You tell Gemini in Chrome what you want to get done, and it acts on web pages on your behalf, while you focus on other things. It can be stopped at any time so you’re in control."

wow, fucking amazing, middle management ass slavery fetish bullshit. it's so hard to book yourself a haircut or order some groceries. they built a half baked program to let you microdose the fantasy of being a billionaire who has people doing all of these things for them. i'm so full of hate rn

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

Though the man’s killing had been filmed, a fact checker is obliged to seek comment from any party alleged to have committed a crime. I called the soldier’s lawyer. He picked up from a café, where I could hear trance music blasting in the background. The lawyer told me that while, yes, his client did shoot the man picking olives, and yes, the man did die, the Israeli military court found his client not guilty of murder because the man picking olives was a terrorist who was throwing stones. Even though the video did not show the Palestinian man throwing stones, the court said that he was, so he was. QED, his client did not murder anyone, and it would be slanderous for us to say so.

if you read one thing today, make it this absolutely devastating piece from a fact-checker who quit the New Yorker
bidoun.org/articles/hou...

A graph titled Scope of video games according to Hushcrasher Classification System. The Y axis shows Game Size (from 10 MB to 100GB), the X axis shows Credits count (sourced from Mobygames). The clustered dots on the graph represent 4 distinct scale categories of games - Kei, Midi, AA, AAA. The larger correlation between the size and the credits means larger category of a game.

I love this analytical take on video game categorization from Antoine Mayerowitz and Julie Belzanne:

hushcrasher.substack.com/p/taxonomy-o...

Instead of trying to vibe-intuit the definition of an "indie" game, the authors analyzed the data from the perspective of game size and credits length

Produce aisle of a supermarket. In the foreground, a hand is holding up a malformed aubergine (eggplant) that has two smaller aubergine emerging from it halfway up—they strongly resemble human breasts.

(Found on Mastodon)

Text: remember that plant you insisted on calling an egg? well this is her now

https://jorts.horse/@mel/115197584163277477

my party is basically a mid-tier game development studio

AI suggests I respond to a death threat with “haha - thanks!”

Photo of a gun attached to a death threat

Today in unhelpful AI suggestions

People from Scotland's Central Belt should call themselves Belters.

* We live in the (central) belt.
* People from outside of the belt can't understand us when we speak English.
* We have a place called Ceres.
* "Ho, Bawbags" and "Oye Beltalowda" are basically the same.

I'm going to put aside the weird feeling of seeing a saint born after I was, but since we know the guy was big on halo 2 there are now people who in 2004-2005 got fragged by a saint on xbox live

I feel there can be no canon of games that doesn't *at the very least* include tiny Finnish demoscene games, Polystation and Gameboy hacks from the Middle East and LATAM, half-translated hacked ROMs from South Europe, mobile games from Africa, and the entire corpus of mini-iterative RPGs from Asia.

M365 Copilot fails to up productivity in UK government trial : AI tech shows promise writing emails or summarizing meetings. Don't bother with anything more complex

Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results:

1) Does UBI work? (yes)
2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)