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Game company sows misinformation to cover up union busting, fans fall for it, actual employee posts explaining the employees were fired to prevent the studio unionizing

This is *unacceptable*

Wired article from Julian Chokkattu from Nov 5th, 2025. "Whisper Into This AI-Powered Smart Ring to Organize Your Thoughts." It goes on: "A new company called Sandbar has unveiled a smart wearable called Stream Ring, which uses a microphone to record your softly spoken thoughts. And it’s powered by—you guessed it—an AI chatbot." Pictured is a bearded white man with the ugliest ring you've ever seen in your life on his, appropriately, middle finger. It's plain silver with a black inner lining, way too big, and barely catches the light.

you know i didn't think that The Lord of The Rings was a cautionary tale about rings

like, it's about war and shit, i didn't think the moral was 'why to not talk to a ring that alters your thoughts.' but damn with Palantir taken the "inventing the torment nexus" boys need to really stretch LOTR out

oh my god they actually did it lmao

#aceattorney

A four frame comic about Captain Torture. The first frame shows the sign "BREAKING NEWS" and the drawing of a man, with the words "CAPTAIN TORTURES PASSES AWAY" near him. The second frame shows a journalist holding a mic, as she says "A controversial and divisive figure, Captain torture will be remembered for his key role in history." The News title is "Mourning day for Captain-". The third frame shows three posts on social media. The first one is by a man called Paul James @Paulitician. He writes: "I didn't always agree with Captain Torture but he sure was a man who believed in something." The second post by James Paul @Avegetable reads: "I pay my respects to Captain Torture and his family. His heart was in the right place- with our country." The third post is by SonicVomit @SonicBleh , and reads "HE TORTURED PEOPLE". The fourth frame shows an interview on TV. An angry man on the right is saying: "Let me tell you something, Jen. I think it's SICK to celebrate Captain Torture's death. These people should be LOCKED UP, and also tortured-". The news below says: "Every president on earth pays homage-".

Captain Torture

to this day I really don't know if Oda planned all this but I can definitely say these panels have aged horrifyingly well 😭

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i hate "knew this guy was shit" posts as much as the next them but ever since this guy cropped my artist friend's watermark out of his youtube banner saying arguing it "didn't look right" i'd been side eyeing the fuck outta him lol

i think the paint isn't the problem but speaks to a wider issue of fidelity taking priority over true clarity in games youtu.be/Biay2i3hx_s

ConnorShawVA - Twitch they/them 🌷 socialist writer and video producer who psychoanalyzes development of both games & tech

streaming a NEW CASE in Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies. apollo is allowed into the plot again www.twitch.tv/connorshawva

Dipshits complain about this stuff because it's "woke" but they real reason anyone should complain about it is that D&D The Game fundamentally does nothing to support cozy bucolic fantasy romance, it's a game that is 90% systemized around dungeon fights

Ever After Reality: AI is a Plot Device in the Story Businesses Sell to Investors — Connor Sheri Shaw Mass layoffs are a sign of future-proofing, in the narrative bubble that is investment in AI.

i wrote last year about why companies investing in AI don't care that they're in a bubble and are just trying to make profit off it before it pops, which is why it's in a forever state of forceful integration yet complete uselessness: they understand that it's temporary sherishaw.net/blog/ever-af...

People will constantly say fiction has no impact on the world or politics whatsoever when Luffy out of any character resonates with everyone when the powerful need to be brought down a peg

Colorful fan-art illustration of Digimon's "Our War Game" movie made by Pistashi

Our War Game 👾

#brart #digimon #fanart #art

Starfinder: Afterlight 💫 Gather your crew and save the galaxy in this party-based RPG featuring Starfinder 2e ruleset where magic meets technology.

Hot dog! A Starfinder CRPG!

Starfinder's something that's always sounded cool to me but I can never find a group who wants to play with it over Pathfinder/D&D/something else. So this is pretty cool!

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Connor Sheri Shaw Tech can only be as kind to us as we are to one another.

updated the landing page for my portfolio to show more of my work off. maybe there's something i made you'd like and didn't know about sherishaw.net

Jay D@@jay.bsky.team You could try a poster's strike. I hear that works crystal @cim.bsky.social your user base consists entirely of people who are willing to migrate from social media websites that turn on them

It’s funny because it’s true

Idk I’ve been hating twilight for twenty years because of the Mormon bullshit and the books racism

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

You made this to personally hurt me and it’s what reminds me why I love you so much. Fuck you.

YouTube video by Connor Sheri Shaw Payday 3 Isn't Unique: Where We've Been

would really appreciate if you found the time to watch my history of the companies OVERKILL & STARBREEZE

you'll learn a lot about the past 25 years of the game development scene, and see how developers who are 'like family' get torn apart. no level of success pardons contempt.

youtu.be/TRH7tzeT300

oh my god complete vindication. he banned me over facts!

Meme of the sleeping shaq meme being used in the context of the US government using Pokémon as ICE raid propaganda and how Nintendo would rather sue fan games

Nintendo be like:

Will@cailwill.bsky.social • 23h Terminally Online Leftists chose Trump last year. Terminally Online Leftists chose fascism over a black woman. • •• Senator "Ow my neck"... @hontdog.bsky.social i'm gonna wine and dine your dad until i have the authority to take your phone away

Oh hey look, another YouTuber caught lying and trying to claim a neo-Nazi is “left leaning”

NOW AVAILABLE AS AN AUDIO TRACK! An hour dedicated to explaining what Starbreeze executives got up to that put PAYDAY 3 in its current state. #PAYDAY3

Download or listen in-browser. Hear the article spoken aloud & images described as you do the dishes or drive to work.
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Now i am certain theyre deliberately trying to cull this site

That both of Turning Point USA’s founders are dead from public health crises their organization worked hard to enable is a parable for our time.