Matt "Matt "qwilman" Bixler" Bixler

story of my fuckin life

I podcast I listen to called it "the most almost-there game of all time" and I can't believe how accurate that is

line and colour drawing of robo bounty hunter type generic design #276 (2017)

robobountyhuntergenericdesign #276 (2017)

Oh so these are the people I can blame for animation designing the few female characters there with generic pretty features instead of actual interesting design???

Scene from Paper Mario: Color Splash where a panicked Toad says: “Mario! Princess Peach has been kidnapped by Bowser! No one could have predicted this!”

An announcer at the Golden Coliseum says: “Mario the war criminal emerges victorious!”

Mario inspecting a ridiculously thick book entitled “The Internet (Print Edition).”

A Yellow Rescue Toad in the poisonous Plum Park says: “My investigation of the concert confirmed my suspicions: jazz hands are the height of entertainment!”

It is a darn shame that this Paper Mario is unlikely to ever leave its eternal Wii U imprisonment. Sticker Star can rot on the 3DS forever, but this one very much deserves to be preserved for future players.

if you aren't watching CITY the animation you're missing some of the most joyful and interesting animation ever made, i'm SO blown away by it

cup holder, the sword bearer

Hey Americans, if this passes you'll be uploading your ID to every social media and website to access it.

Sakura Kasugano from Street Fighter

Daily Rabbit — Fake

How Hayao Miyazaki storyboarded the car chase in The Castle of Cagliostro (1979), dir. Hayao Miyazaki, Tokyo Movie Shinsha

Today, IGN Entertainment announced that it would be laying off eight members of the IGN Creators Guild. This is 12% of our bargaining unit, and comes just days after our sister union, the Ziff Davis Creators Guild, underwent similar layoffs impacting 15% of their members. It also comes just months after our multibillion-dollar parent company, Ziff Davis, instituted a company-wide buyout that shrunk our unit numbers, with the express intent of avoiding future layoffs. And it comes just a little over one year after three of our members were laid off almost immediately after our union went public. The company has told us that the reason for this layoff stems from a Ziff Davis-mandate to cut costs despite several quarters in a row of year-over-year revenue increases, to which IGN Entertainment responded by coming for our members' jobs. This is perplexing to us, as we are told again and again that IGN Entertainment has had a tremendously successful year thus far thanks to their hard work. In just the last few months, our members have been absolutely essential to major events and livestreams, including San Diego ComicCon, Summer of Gaming, and IGN Live. Every single person impacted today was involved in and critical to the success of those events. Meanwhile, IGN Entertainment continues to spend money on costly acquisitions, only to turn around and gut those companies in the same way it is cutting away at IGN itself. For instance, last year, it acquired Gamer Network, and almost immediately laid off a number of staff critical to making those sites successful. The company has not responded to the union's questions about whether its budget for future acquisitions is being reconsidered as a cost-saving measure alongside these other apparently necessary personnel cuts. At a time when it is more necessary than ever to support its creators, IGN Entertainment is choosing to eliminate the individuals who ensure IGN remains competitive as generative AI

threatens our reach. We have been told that expert opinion pieces, original interviews, and work that leverages our staff's deep knowledge of gaming, tech, and entertainment are all essential to combating AI summarization and regurgitation of our work. Management has responded by cutting several individuals who do that exact work, as well as others whose job it is to ensure that these written and video pieces are published in a speedy manner — another component of combating AI we're told is critical. This continued cycle of repeated, aggressive cuts to our staff and being asked to do more with less, only for management to continue to spend on new business it isn't interested in sustaining cannot continue. We will enforce our interim agreement that guarantees better severance and other protections to laid off members, as well as demand additional support for those impacted. We will continue to bargain over our first contract with the aim of enshrining even better protections against further layoffs, working conditions continuously degraded by understaffing, and the encroachment of generative AI. And we won't stop fighting to ensure IGN remains the best destination for trustworthy, original, exciting, and creative work covering video games, entertainment, and tech. While IGN Entertainment management may not value us, we value one another and the incredible work we can do together. Behind the articles, videos, social posts, playlists, and maps of IGN are human beings, not just numbers on a spreadsheet to be pushed around when some number at the top isn't big enough. Without us, there is no IGN.

Today, IGN laid off eight extremely valuable members of our union and workforce via directive from our parent company, Ziff Davis. This, after two incredibly successful live events IGN Live and SDCC, and yet another corporate acquisition.

Please take a moment to read and share our full statement:

An Xbox menu screenshot. There is a promo ad that reads "Accessibility features on Xbox," along with a diagram of a controller mixed with the handicapped parking symbol. It looks like a tiny dude sitting on a controller.

get your big ass off my controller

One of the most poisonous pieces to any creative process is when the “ideas guy” uses his undeserved yet pungent sense of confidence to convince actually useful people to go crazy fixing all these problems he creates. Then, if it happens to work out, watch this man take as much credit as possible.

Yiiiikes. Most global entry visas for normies do cover business activities. For instance I've filmed in several other countries on a contract basis and not required any type of work visa. This is overreach by minimal standards of global travel. Awful.

i've spent my entire adult life with the phrase 'was it a wriggler BLBLBLBLBLLBLBLBL' in my brain because hank hill spent 22 minutes dithering over W's handshake, were any of you even paying attention

sadly a pretty common Al take I've been seeing lately: 'the thing *I* do? oh no that's special, Al could never possibly get it right. but everything else I don't know shit about? yeah it's probably fine for that'

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

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Just a reminder and warning if some of you never got DMs like this:

It's a famous scam tactic to gather infos from you. Saddly those DMs comes from people you follow that got hacked.
Best is to report those.

I checked my Twitter fast and got like 20+ of those, they really want to hack me too.

The Trivial Tales of Luna Lesser
For the Sake of Clarity
Pages 1-4
#lunalesser

root and tooting

oof, and that's ANOTHER artist I've followed for years I have to drop for using AI horseshit. a actual-ass illustrator and painter too, what the fuck

A cowboy named Root N. Tootin

Valve pushes back after Mastercard denies quashing adult content on game platforms Mastercard said it has not 'evaluated any game or required restrictions of any activity on game creator sites and platforms,' but Valve begs to differ.

Valve pushes back after Mastercard denies quashing adult content on game platforms

Same with “We just plugged in the game. No patches.” Yeah there’s something almost magical about pressing “Start” and being done with it, but no updates also meant no fixing games — and games were just as broken back then. You could literally trash your game by playing it normally eg the Sketch bug⬇️

The Midnight Gospel🪐

For context: Microsoft has built its AI data centers in Atlanta, and as a result, GA Power has shunted the cost onto the rest of us. Last summer, for my apartment, my bill was $200 two months in a row. The year before it barely broke $100. And it didn't drop in price until near mid-Oct.

It's a big part of what makes the episodes where he's really gotta put in the work so good. When he gets the guy who runs the military school he's so fucking excited and proud of himself, I love it.

T-Rex: Sherlock Holmes, who wasn't real despite me thinking about him a LOT more than the VAST MAJORITY of real people actually alive right now, frowned. T-Rex: His latest case was WAY too easy!

T-Rex: Someone had been found murdered, and someone ELSE had been found stuffing their blood-soaked clothes into a garbage can while muttering "I gotta get rid of this on account of the murder I just did". Pfft. T-Rex: See, I just said this case was way too easy, and I was right!!

Utahraptor: Easy, you say? A little TOO easy? BECAUSE IT WAS A SETUP?? T-Rex: Nope! T-Rex: There was no twist, no reveal: the clothes guy did it, the end. Watson was annoyed, because this case wasn't even a short story. It was barely a paragraph, and his audience wanted THRILLING TALES. Utahraptor: Ah, so then WATSON started committing mysterious crimes so he'd have books to sell?

T-Rex: Again, no - both men simply went home and slept uneventfully. T-Rex: REALISM DEMANDS BORING, UTAHRAPTOR

you never appreciate boring until the day things simply refuse to stop being Not Boring

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