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Long overdue, I finally did a proper inventory of my movie collection and it turns out there are less than 5 Alien boxes overall. I expected worse.

Please be aware to _always_ have a plan B. For the first time in my life I did not and it's awful.

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

This, actually works. For me at least.

RSS is the *real internet*
It's what really enables podcasts to exist, not Spotify.

these people do not live on the same planet we do

Close to finishing Doom The Dark Ages, which completely re-ignited my love for this medium. What an experience so far, I am getting in a flow zen-like state, which I have missed since 90s arcade titles.

TANK vs TESLA

"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"

- ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

I played the entirety of the GTA franchise for about 30 minutes total way back on the PS1. Never touched this thing again ever and the "biggest media trailer release ever" will not change that. This franchise does _nothing_ for my taste and reading that GTA6 costs 2B$ to create is just sad.

‘An Overwhelmingly Negative And Demoralizing Force’: What It’s Like Working For A Company That’s Forcing AI On Its Developers - Aftermath 'I have had conversations about AI in a professional context that make me want to walk into the sea'

This is a very depressing read

"‘An Overwhelmingly Negative And Demoralizing Force’: What It’s Like Working For A Company That’s Forcing AI On Its Developers"

aftermath.site/ai-video-gam...

I hope everybody who has been involved in making these systems feels proud of the work they're destroying

Oh I see why Nintendo delayed the Switch 2 so long. They did not dare to reveal these prices. Videogames become very pricey again, don't they? And I paid 149,- Deutsche Mark for the Doom SNES port back then. It still hurts. 😂

How OpenAI's Ghibli frenzy took a dark turn real fast OpenAI's new image generator sparked a meme frenzy and a debate about copyright. Some argue that Sam Altman's company is exploiting artists' work.

www.businessinsider.com/openai-studi...

I don't think we realize yet how destructive this is in the long term to creative originality. IP theft at this scale is unprecedented, and it gets much worse real fast.

Senior TV producers take shelf-stacking jobs as UK industry remains in crisis Experienced figures doing entry-level roles amid prolonged work drought since Covid and rise of online content

Web 2.0 labeled this as "disruption" which now affects established entertainment giants. That's not gonna get better any time soon, probably worse even.

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m...

One of my all-time favorite games turns out was way ahead of its time in collision detection too.

🔥 Announcing Terminator 2D: NO FATE, coming to PS5, PS4, NSW, Xbox & PC on Sep 5, 2025!

Sarah, John & the T-800 take on Skynet & the T-1000 in this officially licensed 2D side-scroller complete with classic arcade gameplay & stunning pixel art!

🎬: (youtu.be/IkMFYMG3QLw)

Gene Hackman: a life in pictures The Oscar-winning actor, star of The French Connection and Unforgiven, has died at the age of 95. Here we look back on a that career that spanned five decades and numerous awards

With the passing of Gene Hackman sadly being picked up by major news, feeling grateful for this work in cinema. I wrote thousands of words about movies he carried. The Conversation might now clearly be my favorite of his.

www.theguardian.com/film/gallery...

James Bond Shocker: Amazon MGM Gains Creative Control of 007 Franchise as Producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson Step Back As Amazon MGM gains control of the James Bond franchise, Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli are stepping back to focus on other projects.

As a lifelong fan of this franchise, this is big. Time to settle expectations. This can not be good.

variety.com/2025/film/gl...

What utterly shocking and devastating news. Viktor and I tried to work on an ambitious transmedia sci-fi project together back in 2011 but sadly the funding wasn’t secured. Viktor was a man of supreme talent and intelligence and a rare intensity. Don’t know how to process this. A profound loss.

AI Tools Make Workers Less Critical, More Confident, Microsoft Study Finds A study of over 300 knowledge workers has revealed a concerning paradox: the more confidence people have in AI tools like ChatGPT, the less likely they

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This started with unfathomable amounts of data becoming accessible to all people via internet search in general, was multiplied by smartphones putting it into everyone's pocket, and is fuelled further now by AI.

This has been a very positive and promising DICE summit.

We are going to see a return - or better yet - a new shift towards sensations over statistics and delight over data.

Videogames are about to reach a whole new level.

Platforms need to rise up.

Microsoft's own research confirms something that was already pretty obvious: relying on a text generating machine to come up with answers erodes critical thinking, and is a method favoured by those who never liked doing critical thinking in the first place

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We need more games for people who aren’t “good” at games but who won’t be treated like brainless tap-monkeys.

Games that make you feel comforted instead of assaulted, delighted instead of distracted, invited instead of getting guilt-tripped by cynical FOMO-loops.

The world is dark and hard enough.

One thing about me is that I will fight Nazis until I’m six feet in the ground.

This is the whole internet now btw - the app stores, youtube, twitch, google adsense so online ads in general - everything is set up so small creators get the stick and big earners get cushy deals and the middlemen and rent-seakers get a hefty cut for nothing.

Most people don't care about quality My friend, the photographer Paul Clarke has an uncanny eye for detail. Every single shot he publishes is beautiful - they capture life in a way that I don't have the language to describe. I'm quite co...

This. Can someone please figure out how to make people care about quality at some point? Thanks in advance. Sincerely a fan.

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The Gentrification of Video Game History We’re not all suburban kids who got a Nintendo 64 for Christmas

Here we go, something I've been drafting for a long, long time: how the US-centric approach to video games and their history / culture basically gaslights us who come from other realities:
felipepepe.medium.com/the-gentrifi...

AKA, why LAN Houses, PokéTibia & Bomba Patch rule.

Compound Fracture on Steam It’s not our world yet. Investigate the facility, and keep your weapon ready.

It's fascinating to me how the Playstation's graphical flaws became a dedicated choice for game aesthetics these days, even though it's not really migrated well to non-CRT displays. I still like it.

store.steampowered.com/app/1460210/...

Someone I had a fallout with in the middle of the year reached out to me in an healthy adult kind of way, to settle things. Now I know how I want to be like when I grow up. 🥲

Thanksgiving 5-Day U.S. Box Office Hitting Amazing All-Time $420M High; AMC Boss Adam Aron Declares “A National Phenomenon” – Update Thanks to 'Moana 2', 'Wicked' and 'Gladiator II', the Thanksgiving box office is seeing an all-time domestic record of $422M.

THE BIG TAKEAWAY: while there is still a market for making movies for 50 year old white Gen Xers, the real money at the box office is in diverse movies for Gen Z & Gen A. The former have great home theater setups, the latter group don’t and want to get out of the house.

deadline.com/2024/11/box-...

'We didn't know what it was at first.' NASA aircraft uncovers site of secret Cold War nuclear missile tunnels under Greenland ice sheet "We were looking for the bed of the ice and out pops Camp Century. We didn't know what it was at first."

Well this could be way worse, like an ancient UFO containing an alien virus taking out mankind. 🤔

www.space.com/the-universe...