Ross Weisfish

It’s release day for my latest book! Vampire Detective Agency: First Bite. It’s a #paranormal #romance with a mystery and some stakes. Get it? Haha. Yes, the story is better than my puns. #booksky

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In its quest for money, Xbox is alienating its fans and everything it once was — will it even be worth it in the end, Microsoft? Microsoft's quest for new users and new revenue threatens hollowing out everything Xbox once was. Socials are a wasteland, the hate is on a level not seen since 2013. Does Xbox even care, and does it ...

In its quest for money, Xbox is alienating its fans and everything it once was — will it even be worth it in the end, Microsoft?

A humble opinion: www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/... #Xbox

It’s kind of crazy that Nazis and the KKK have recently become controversial bad guys because a bunch of bitter online dorks assumed it was about them

AI companies are spending billions on deals with each other, which boost their value.

This has helped twenty billionaires tied to AI add $450B to their fortunes in 2025.

Meanwhile, an MIT study found that 95% of companies using AI haven't seen returns on investment.

Be warned.

woman aiming camera at viewer, swirly lights behind her

Still learning how to use a manual focus Petzval 55 f/1.7 MKII Art lens on my #Sony A7C2, but I really love the swirly bokeh it creates. Looking forward to seeing how Christmas lights dance in portrait photos in December. #Portland

(Seen here, my wife shooting me with her Fujifilm XE5)

A healthy democracy, where the leader and his followers spent a week threatening the destruction of the UN because the president fucked up an escalator briefly, and we all just moved on largely because the president was busy invading his own people’s territory in part because he got mad at a tv

One should assume, if one had not already, that every single thing the GOP has to say about pretty much anything is a lie or fabrication.

moon rising over Portland Oregon

woman taking photo of moonrise

tea ceremony

stream, stone lantern in the distance

Some photos from the O-Tsukimi (Moonviewing Festival) at the #Portland Japanese Garden last night. Taken with a combo of a standard 24-50mm Sony lens and a Petzval 55mm (swirly backgrounds!).

I've been trying to put my finger on why ICE/DHS lies feel so much more outrageous than normal cop lies, and I think it's because they don't lie like cops, they lie like aggressively stupid criminals

In Which I Have a Thought on Taylor Swift and Her Latest Album It’s a thought I first had over on Metafilter, in a thread about Swift and The Life of a Showgirl, which came out last Friday and has already racked up 3.5+ million in sales. It will almost c…

I had thoughts on a famous person and their most recent work

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Thinking I've got a solution to a puzzle, only to have to wait until the right set of rooms appeared on the same is why I gave up on Blue Prince. Brilliant game otherwise.

Cartoon: Shutting down Big news: my new Kickstarter is live! It’s been five years since my last book, which is too long (my usual schedule is every two to three years, but I’ve had bad luck with traditional publishers latel...

new toon: shutting down

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It’s fucking insane that armed men wearing masks in unmarked cars are pulling people off the streets and disappearing them without due process, and military are being sent into states against the will of their governors, are we are all just going about our days taking our kids to school and shit.

Really glad there's just an absolute deluge of good video games to get lost in right now cause every time I open the internet to catch up on what's going on... just immense anger.

There are some people that should never, ever know a moment's peace when the tide starts turning back.

Really, truly amazing that OpenAI wants us to believe that they are worth a trillion dollars but also they are so desperate for revenue that they created an infinite SlopTok app that opens them up to a billion lawsuits just so that they can maybe someday make it even worse by filling it with ads.

one of the upsides to stephen miller being a relatively young man is that life imprisonment is a very long time in prison

I have been relatively unplugged this week and I would definitely recommend it

I see "Game Pass devalues games and is killing the industry" is back in vogue.

Free to Play titles are far bigger and far more detrimental to gaming's future than anything else.

Game Pass is barely a spec on the ass of F2P in the 'devalue full-priced games' argument.

C. For now. When the next console cycle starts, I'm gonna be taking a long look at just building a PC. It increasingly feels like MS doesn't want to be in the console biz.

It’s striking just how much of everything sucking can be tied back to our information systems, including news and enthusiast press, being completely broken by years of downsizing and bad management.

No. Don’t. It’s really fucking bad.

most of your favorite (still living) comedians are now assholes because the personality trait that drove them to success (desperately needing love from everyone) is emotional kryptonite once you are rich, successful, well known, and still fucking hate yourself.

Trumpnomics: Get tariff money from US consumers on Chinese goods. Our farmers can’t sell their products because the Chinese refuse to pay our tariffs. China buys from farmers in Argentina instead. We send Argentina $20 billion. Then we pay our farmers to throw their crops away.

Pete Hegseth has challenged America’s generals to look more like him. Does that mean his Pentagon make-up room is now open for all?

On a more serious note, Collins thinks the Riyadh lineup reflects something dire about both American politics and the bifurcated woke-versus-anti-woke comedy scene. Collins says there’s “a lot of money” behind enticing anti-woke comics to shill for the political project on the right. “I also like money, but I think getting hundreds of thousands of dollars to tell jokes for 10 minutes about ‘airline food is bad’ is actually illustrative of a much larger thing: The stuff that’s getting greenlit is not necessarily popular with the populace. It’s popular with rich people who are sick of being yelled at in the media. They are using some of these people as vehicles for whatever the comedy equivalent of greenwashing is.”

A quick note about money and comedy and power.

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Is it ever! This is exactly the kind of price/part vs feature breakout I was looking for. Thank you!

Strange how all the gamers concerned about the sustainability of Xbox GamePass never worry about PC devs on Steam.

I feel like part of the miss for them is thinking Ubisoft and Fortnite perks would soften the blow. Neither fit the needs of an Ultimate subscriber. Ubi games are massive, so you can’t play that many in a year anyway. Fortnite eats a ton of playtime, so you wouldn’t have time for the other GP games.

Basically this last year if you want a 4k disc you need to preorder. They don’t always do more print runs. But I think Tron is likely to get one.

Anyone know of a good resource for PC gaming hardware? Ie what to buy/build/avoid? Is there a prebuilt brand that's good? Looking to retire my Xbox as it seems even MS is looking to do the same.