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Caves of Qud is a totally normal RPG where you can get a mace that lets you create temporal clones of yourself and also damages your relationship with... flowers? Because it gives you a bonus to behead them? It's been like 10 years and I still don't understand this game.

Calm down Anakin.

[Screams in Berlin interpretation]

Turns Out There Was Voter Fraud in Georgia—by Elon Musk The state board of elections found Musk’s PAC sent prefilled ballot applications.

The story that Elon Musk committed voter fraud has gotten next to no coverage -- one of those things you can't make come up on a Google search.

But I think it's time for Dems to go on offensive abt right wing coddling of this immigrant interfering in our elections.

newrepublic.com/post/206857/...

this entire division is cooked. its impossible to look at the timing, bond's complete departure and the credentials of spencer's replacement and not assume it's a sinking ship

Halo meme

Upon Review, It Looks Like President Nyarlathotep’s Small Business Soul Harvest Is Technically Against the Rules “The Supreme Court dealt a major blow to President Trump’s economic policy on Friday, ruling that he had exceeded his authority when he imposed tar...

"With all due respect to President Nyarlathotep, we do not believe the Necro-Administration's contention that 'Phantom Warlocks Only We Can See' was reason enough to initiate multiple soul harvest taxes directed at small business owners."

The sundowning of the American empire

the year is 2026 the top charting switch games are

diablo 2 (?)
a star trek voyager game (????)
caves of qud (?????????)

I hate our nazi pedophile gambling slop future

from reddit r/ExperiencedDevs • 21h ago Tech-Cowboy An AI CEO finally said something honest (Meta Dax Raad from anoma.ly might be the only CEO speaking honestly about Al right now. His most recent take: "everyone's talking about their teams like they were at the peak of efficiency and bottlenecked by ability to produce code here's what things actually look like - your org rarely has good ideas. ideas being expensive to implement was actually helping - majority of workers have no reason to be super motivated, they want to do their 9-5 and get back to their life - they're not using Al to be 10x more effective they're using it to churn out their tasks with less energy spend - the 2 people on your team that actually tried are now flattened by the slop code everyone is producing, they will quit soon - even when you produce work faster you're still bottlenecked by bureaucracy and the dozen other realities of shipping something real - your CFO is like what do you mean each engineer now costs $2000 extra per month in LLM bills"

someone in AI fucked up and actually told the truth

a cartoon character is sitting in a chair in a dark room with candles ALT: a cartoon character is sitting in a chair in a dark room with candles

remember japan studio

my kids are hard at work on the worst idea i've ever had and you'll never guess what happens if it doesn't pan out

Walter White labeled as "me teaching a game" Saul labeled as "Let's just start playing and figure it out as we go." We're done when I say we're done.

> Bluepoint was working on a God of War live-service game until it was canceled early last year.

ah,

IT'S GOT WHAT PLANTS CRAVE

UK blocking Trump from using RAF bases for strikes on Iran The disagreement over the use of British sites is behind the US president’s withdrawal of support for the Chagos Islands deal, The Times understands

"The Times understands that the UK is yet to give permission for the US to use the bases in the event that Trump orders a strike on Iran, owing to concerns that it would be a breach of international law."

This is a BIG deal given the US-UK military relationship.

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition Nintendo Switch 2 Edition is now available with a $5 upgrade for existing owners. The Switch 2 Edition offers up to 4K, up to 60fps, and more. A physical Switch 2 Edition release will arrive on April 16: www.rpgsite.net/news/19677-x...

It is notable that Andrew has been arrested for "misconduct in public office", which is precisely what the US Supreme Court decided no American president can ever be charged with.

Head and shoulders image of a white haired man with a white goatee looking off into the distance to the right. Some buildings and a bit of water are visible behind him. Ryan Dancey, former COO of Alderac Entertainment Group.

Text from a LinkedIn post which says: Ryan Dancey Author Chief Operating Officer at Alderac Entertainment Group I have zero reason to believe that an AI couldn't "come up with Tiny Towns or Flip Seven or Cubitos". I can prompt any of several AIs RIGHT NOW and get ideas for games as good as those. The gaming industry doesn't exist because humans create otherwise unobtainable ideas. It exists because many many previous games exist, feed into the minds of designers, who produce new variants on those themes. People then apply risk capital against those ideas to see if there's a product market fit. Sometimes there is, and sometimes there is not. (In fact, much more often than not). Extremely occasionally (twice in my lifetime: D&D and Magic: the Gathering) a human has produced an all new form of gaming entertainment. Those moments are so rare and incandescent that they echo across decades. Game publishing isn't an industry of unique special ideas. It's an industry about execution, marketing, and attention to detail. All things AIs are great at.

Ryan Dancey, a more than 30-year veteran of the tabletop gaming industry, has lost his COO job at publisher AEG a day after saying AI could generate game ideas as good as his company’s titles Tiny Towns and Cubitos:

boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...

So the joycon mouse function on the Switch 2 is actually really good? I could legitimately see myself playing a strategy game or FPS on this thing.

I literally just described Qud to a friend as "Ultima but Gamma World and way weirder than that sounds like it would be".

lot of negativity towards AI lately, but consider :

are these tools ethical or environmentally sustainable? No.

*but* do they enable great things that people want? Also no.

*but* are they being made by well meaning people for good reasons? Once again, no.

maybe you're not being negative *enough*

A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".

2026 basically

These aren't people. They are barely creatures.

There is no suffering that would surpass what they deserve.

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland.

And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.