Chris

The decision to focus on live service games has to be one of the worst things Sony has ever done, and the fallout has been insane. Broken studios. So much lost dev time and money. It's so maddening and sad.

We've finally come full circle. People are longing for less chatter dialogue in their games by referencing ocarina, a game that people consistently complained about Navi being too talkative to the point of it being a meme for 20 odd years.

SCORPION: take me across the river
FROG: if I do that, you'll sting me
S: if I sting you, we'll both drown
F: ok, that makes sense
*halfway across the river*
F: so?
S: so what?
F: sting me
S: what?
F: sting me, like you promised
S: no
F: sting me so we'll both drown
S: *crying* what is happening?

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

i made a version of wikipedia you can doomscroll
xikipedia.org

4. Careless People

A memoir about being in Facebook as it became, well, what it is now; a powerful corrupted tool. If that sounds depressing, the writer actually does a good job keeping it an entertaining read with humor and anecdotes. Got invested quickly and this was my favorite this month.

3. Several People Are Typing
Extremely funny sci-fi that was very hard to put down. Being trapped in slack is quite the premise, and it really does make the most of it. From meme's, group chats, and custom emoji's, I finished this in an afternoon and really liked it.

2. The Adventure Zone: The Suffering Game
I got this a while ago but didn't read it until now. It's been fun revisiting an actual play D&D podcast this way, allowing for edits and a more natural flow. I do think it took off some edges from the original, but it sets up well for the finale.

1. Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow
I heard good things about this for a while and the movie trailer got me to finally read it. Tom King is still very verbose, setting a distinct tone between admiration and excitement. Really enjoyed the art too especially when it gets weird in the action scenes.

I know new years resolutions are old hat, but I really want to try and read more this year, and I figured why not use Blue Sky to try and keep me accountable! So every month I'm going to post what I've read and quick reviews for each. Let's start it right with the 4 Books I read in January!

An unbelievable thing happened last night. 3,083 people from the @minnmax.com and @giantbomb.bsky.social community stepped up to protect the people in Minneapolis from ICE.

You can still donate to VEAP here - bit.ly/iceoutminneapolis

Here's the archive - youtube.com/live/SMcO71c...

"Everything we do is legal, ethical, and moral."

Don't believe ICE and their lies, please help share what's happening in Minneapolis. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY

They were so cute, so cute, lined up😌✨
　
かわいいと、
かわいいが、
並んで😌
　
🐶⭐️✨
ーーーーーーーーーーーー
#Cutedog #kirby
#カービィ #커비 #星之卡比

As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.

ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.

How To Help if You are Outside Minnesota Last edited January 22, 2026 I’m going to assume that if you’re reading this, you more or less understand the situation in Minnesota and I don’t have to explain it to you! That sa…

If you’re outside of Minnesota and you’re wondering how to help, this guide is excellent.

And seriously. Take down your Ring doorbell TODAY.

Stopped by NPR and found myself a perfectly sized desk.

Mamdani: I am in support of abolishing ICE… I'm tired of waking up every day and seeing a new image of someone being dragged out of a car, dragged out of their home, dragged out of their life.

Nothing is normal and no one is okay. You're doing great. Says Skeletor clearly losing it.

We're going to need a bigger Hague.

As you read the news today, watch who phrases the news as an "illegal invasion and regime change" versus "bringing democracy". It'll tell you everything you need to know about the news source you're reading, and frankly should decide whether you ever read them seriously again.

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Tiny Tim, who did NOT hit her. He did not. Oh hi, ghost

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Morgan Esq. and Detective London from of the Devil. Text reads ‘of the Devil, Episode 2 // His due’.

Just one day until OF THE DEVIL: EPISODE 2 drops.
An all-new mystery, all-new characters, all-new cybernoir thrills.
Let’s go down to the lower wards. With Morgan. ❤️

Creator of Hit Game Shovel Knight Is at a ‘Make or Break’ Moment Yacht Club Games needs its next title, Mina the Hollower, to be a success.

NEW: Yacht Club Games needs a hit. In recent years the maker of Shovel Knight has had to lay off staff, pause a 3D project, and delay their next game indefinitely.

The good news is that Mina the Hollower could be special. For Businessweek, this is their story: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

comparison between apple's finder icon and mine. apple's is the split blue and white smiley face, mine is two blue and white anime girls making out

comparison between discord's icon and mine. mine is like a screaming cat on a blue/purple slimy background

comparison between celsys's clip studio paint icon and mine. mine is similar but rotated with some comic styling and pink and blue highlights

comparison between mozilla's firefox icon and mine. mine is similar but looks closer to the old firefox icon and brings back the little arm and gives the fox a cute little smiley face

last week i remembered that macOS lets you set your own icons and that *I* have the power to delegitimize the professionalism of the software that runs on my machine, so here's a thread of the 16 new icons i've made so far

i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')

this is fucking insane

HE'S COME TO COLLECT.

of the Devil - Episode 2: December 18th.

10. The baby announcement At the end of a meeting, a colleague asked their boss to stay on the line for a couple of minutes. The colleague then confidentially shared the great news that they were expecting a baby, and they and their boss talked about a few next steps to plan for parental leave. The AI notetaker then sent out notes to everyone who had attended the meeting with the headline, “Colleague Is Having a Baby.”

19. The equipment I recently saw a ~$50,000 piece of industrial equipment damaged and taken out of commission for about a month because Google AI search told a worker that the tightening torque of a screw was 50 ft*lb instead of 50 in*lb. This resulted in them over-tightening the screw by a factor of 12, which unfortunately didn’t strip the threaded hole (which would have been a smaller problem) but instead warped a bearing assembly that required a full rebuild at considerable difficulty and expense. The kicker is that the correct torque value was clearly printed in the service manual that is stored in the machine.

1. The fake initiative Our execs usually send out a hype email right before the annual employee morale survey, emphasizing wins from the past year, basically trying to put people in a positive frame of mind. Last year’s included the announcement of a major new program we knew employees really wanted. But it was a bit surprising, because it fell in an area my team was responsible for, and we were out of the loop, despite advocating strenuously for this over the years. So I went to the exec to a) convey enthusiasm for his newfound dedication to launching this program and b) ask what support he needed from my team/get us involved again. It turned out the program wasn’t launching at all; he had just asked AI to edit the email to make it sound more exciting and appealing, and it had done so by … launching my initiative.

16. The scam We work with a lot of small businesses just starting up, and as a result are asked to recommend professional services often. Knowing this, a client passed on a discreet warning about the bookkeeping firm we’d recommended to them. They had issues with their accounting software, Quickbooks, and called for help. It was right when Google started providing AI summaries for everything, and apparently their account rep pulled the phone number for Quickbooks’ support out of the AI summary, rather than off the website. You can probably guess where this is going. The number wasn’t legit, but instead put him in contact with a scammer who’d managed astroturf their way into the AI summary. The account rep gave the scammer full access to our client’s accounting software before he realized his error. Our client didn’t share a lot of details about the damages — I got the sense that they were saying very little because they were planning legal action — but they wanted to let us know so we wouldn’t recommend them again.

"The mainstream understanding of AI is as an interefering piece of shit which doesn't work" pt II

www.askamanager.org/2025/11/the-...

i finally see that jeffery epstein did kill himself, he was getting too many emails.