joey schutz

Funlad in space

AIM FOR THE STARS: FUNLAND NO. 5 HAS LANDED

@oniongames.bsky.social's YOSHIRO KIMURA on life on Earth. @lukewasthefish.bsky.social on life on alien worlds (or at least SLC). @kaittremblay.bsky.social on death in the cosmos.

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i guess it probably can't really be a one to one with stocks, since stocks are direct ownership of companies, which predictive markets ofc aren't. so idk maybe what i just said doesn't make any sense lol

finance we are seeing, i.e. "shadow banks" (blackrock, etc) and whatnot, as opposed to the more traditional banking systems? but i'm not too sure, i don't know enough about predictive markets or even really shadow banks atm to make a confident case for that. but it's a thought!

the rise of stocks was both a way for corporations (new at the time, from individual capitalist owners) to keep up with rising financialization, but also for banks to exert control on those same corporations. i wonder if predictive markets are a similar thing, but keeping up with the new form of...

The Fall and Rise of American Finance The Fall and Rise of American Finance traces the collapse and reconstitution of American financial power from the disintegration of robber baron J. P. Morgan’s vast empire to the rise of finance behem...

probably not haha i just happen to be reading up on fictitious capital at the moment! :) right now i'm reading this book which is really good:
www.versobooks.com/products/283...

and the basic argument is that banks and finance have been inextricable with capital from the get go. they argue that...

important bits or maybe i'm not understanding your point, in which case apologies!)

that said, corporations ended up using stocks as new avenues for finance capital, and they have definitely become deeply entangled with corporate financing. but i wonder if predictive markets ultimately boil down to something similar? (that said i'm not *super* strong on this so maybe i'm missing...

makes profit on commodity sales, and returns it in interest. if the production fails, the loan defaults. but stocks don't really work like that, so marx called them "fictitious." so it's not that they don't fit into capital circulation (they do!) but they are unmoored from production itself

oh yeah for sure! but i think the "fictitious capital" idea is mostly that the *evaluations* of stocks are actually not one-to-one with actual production. for example, loans ultimately are tied to production: industrial-capitalist receives loan, uses it to purchase fixed capital [machines/etc], ...

i am a bit out of my depth here so might be wrong! but would they both be best thought of as "fictitious capital"? that is, capital divorced from actual production. and in that sense, it's just another market to make gains on?

portugal world

poster for the show. the text reads: Pratt Games Arts. Fall 2025. Senior Prototype Playtest. Friday, December 12th. Doors at 5:45pm. Talks from 6 to 7 pm. Playtest from 7 to 9pm. At Boshi's Place, located at 1002 Metropolitan Avenue, in Brooklyn

Join us on December 12th for an end of semester showcase & playtest of capstone works in progress from Pratt Game Arts seniors!

YouTube video by GameSpot FULL Sony E3 2018 Press Conference

and idk it captured this whole deal where sony was presenting themselves as The Artsy Alternative To Xbox. here's the video:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqAV...

the example that jumps to mind for me is from 2018, so later! but also more around the time i was following games more closely. but sony had their e3 press conference in a tent, and opened with the last of us composer performing on a banjo with dim lighting lol

mmm that's fair and probably true! good points :)

is usually relegated to exclusively nuovo awards, aka "the weird games" category; but sylvie lime would never be considered for a design award. they don't break into the imaginary for that kind of stuff

i guess what i am trying to say is that i think the whole "games are art" thing ultimately just codified into a kind of Prestige AAA Game (of which naughty dog feels perhaps most emblematic). meanwhile Anthology of the Killer can't even get a narrative nomination at the IGF! that kind of game...

absolutely did

the new call of duty to Art Status, in between frantic commercial runs.

obviously i am painting with a broad brush here! ofc there were people who *did* champion works on the margins. but i don't think that entire sphere of games ever benefited from games' art status, honestly, while Naughty Dog...

my knowledge, was talking about seiklus or revenge of the sunfish lol. the discourse i saw was perfectly happy to exclude those works, and they have remained excluded. and now i think that whole discourse has morphed into, as you say, The Game Awards, where we high five each other for elevating ...

really i mean all of it! maybe this is a result of the circles i ran in, but when i saw the "games are art" discourse, it really centered on like, ocarina of time. when it veered into the "weird," the weirdest it really got was shadow of the colossus. i like shadow of the colossus! but no one, to...

ofc i do think games are an art form. but i also feel that that whole cultural battle was mostly waged by and on behalf of large corporations who wanted to lend cultural prestige to their multi million dollar IPs, and theyve been perfectly happy to stamp out aesthetic risk from their work and others

the HORSES stuff is obviously ridiculous and depressing, but it is also worth asking ourselves: who has benefited from the "games are art" campaign? it has certainly not been the artgame makers, whose work continues to be shunned and dismissed as "not games"

Totally forgot to share the piece that I wrote for GI.biz - but that's besides the point; The point is that folks at @santaragione.com make very fascinating games and that we should put money where our mouths are and buy Horses (which is bonkers in the best way possible) when it comes out! 🐴

The Hater's Guide To NVIDIA This piece has a generous 3000+ word introduction, because I want as many people to understand NVIDIA as possible. The (thousands of) words after the premium break get into arduous detail, but I’ve wr...

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www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...

I wrote a short writeup on miscellaneous game release gotchas & pitfalls... enjoy!

blendogames.com/news/post/20...

you can place a checkpoint by taking a deep breath (in real life) in our game. that you can then float back to as you spacewalk in a bubble.

(you can also parkour up uncharted mountains with your friends, of course)

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On the Hierarchy of Angels by d.h. croasdill a videotoy after Paul Klee

new videotoy
hyperlibrary.itch.io/angels

And say we figured out the best way to do that is to do it with better and better A.I. models. Would you pick that? Roose: Yeah. Baszucki: Good, so you’re aligning with what we did. High-five. Roose: But I’ve also been covering social networks —— Baszucki: Thank you for supporting our Roblox decision matrix. Roose: But I also remember 15 years ago when —— Baszucki: I’m so glad you guys are aligned with the way we run Roblox. High-five. Roose: Right, I also remember 15 years ago when Mark Zuckerberg was saying —— Baszucki: Is this a stealth interview where actually you love everything we’re doing and you’re here to stealthily support it?

Baszucki: The scale we’re at is absolutely mind-boggling right now. Like absolutely mind-boggling. And every system: image review, text review, all of that, constantly getting better and better. Newton: I mean, look, Dave, I can tell you’re getting a little bit frustrated here. Baszucki: I’m actually not frustrated. I just, I’m so excited to talk — I thought we were going to be talking about fun, funny things in the industry and all of that. So I’m not frustrated, I’m just kind of figuring out how much fun time I have with you guys and how much fun time we have versus kind of this superfocus. But I’m happy to talk about whatever you guys want.

this is a bizarre interview

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/p...

which is ofc to say that the school is doing fine, its finances have just been severely mismanaged / misallocated. despite this, their solution is not to rollback admin spending, but to gut the humanities programs

drive.google.com/file/d/1UNMF...