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I ran a workshop a few years ago on game AI - stealth patrols, pathfinding, race waypoints, alpha beta pruning, state machine behaviors - made clear on our page and promos it has nothing to do with LLMs. some clueless folks still expected chatgpt

new CEO of Microsoft Gaming: same level of clueless

Also, remember, if you want to help with the campaign, you can always donate/sign up for info/volunteer at www.kluweoc.com

It’s going to take all of us to beat back MAGA, but I’ve never been afraid of hard work.

"AI has long been part of gaming and will continue to be" is so heckin disingenuous. I've been a game AI engineer for almost 20 years, which has absolutely nothing to do with the current bubble of generative AI that is burning the world to solve no actual problems.

A group of four colorful bat plushies, two large and two small.

Speaking of my shop, I just added these four little buddies!

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I set up a mailing list for when I update the shop with new bats! (Which I'm about to do soon)

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Tunic, Night in the Woods Publisher Says TikTok Is Creating and Running Racist GenAI Ads for Its Games Without Permission - IGN Publisher Finji says that TikTok has been using generative AI to modify its ads on the platform without permission and pushing those ads to its users without Finji's knowledge, including at least one ...

Every time I’ve run meta ads for my business it’s been byzantine wackamole to keep genAI features turned off. They’ll just randomly turn some feature on to try to “prove” how good it is. This cautionary story from TikTok is exactly why this is a terrible practice.

“Make bad game? Fired. Make good game? Fired. Make incredibly successful game? Believe it or not, also fired.” Original source of meme is from Parks and Recreation.

the video game industry is a mess

Can't remember which day exactly that you're not supposed to clean your house to retain Lunar New Year's luck, so I haven't cleaned my house for the past week just to be safe.

The left tried for decades to pass green energy subsidies, passed them, the subsidies worked, and now literally the entire planet's electricity grid is going to convert to solar+battery. It just doesn't feel like "tech" because it mostly produces kinda boring blue collar jobs instead of billionaires

lol they have so little confidence in this demand being sustained, at all, that they're not wasting a penny of capex

We have a new cozy game coming on March 11 🦊

It's called Piece by Piece! You run a repair shop, fixing up all sorts of items and heirlooms for deer, mice and badgers

A lovely little experience for hiding yourself away from the world for a few evenings 🩷

store.steampowered.com/app/3179050/...

Update on HB 1834, about which I had an article on Saturday. Sounds like it's dead for this session.

Age verification is definitely something to continue to keep an eye on, as well as the possibility for a more comprehensive data privacy bill for the state.

www.theurbanist.org/2026/02/14/w...

so much this 💯

if people want shorter games with worse graphics made with less work many exist but not enough people buy them for developers to be paid more (or even recoup costs)

similar to "there should be more variety in games" there's so much! gotta look for it! won't have CoD marketing budget

HAL JORDAN: In brightest day, in blackest

BEASTIE BOYS: NIGHT!

HAL JORDAN: No evil shall escape my

BEASTIE BOYS: SIGHT!

HAL JORDAN: This is awkward because when I invited you I thought I was messaging Beast Boy from the Teen Titans.

Amazon’s Ring cancels controversial partnership with tech company Flock amid privacy concerns | CNN Business Ring, the Amazon-owned video doorbell company, has canceled its partnership with technology firm Flock Safety, the company said Thursday.

I totally missed this on Friday. Good news for Ring owners!

www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/t...

Replying to @mista_dobalinabros got one big happy family😈 #happyvalentinesday #conyhawk #love TikTok video by Cony Hawk

To bring Valentine's Day to a close, i give you: Cony Hawks in love.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZThxv5Gs1/

Young woman anime style illustration pointing to a board says I finally discovered the three types of male fantasies. the top one says fight in a desperate last stand against All odds. the middle one says slowly bleeding to death in a snow-covered field. the bottom says digging a hole. each text box has an illustration of people fighting or someone dying in the winter but the bottom one for digging a hole shows the meme of the guys from when KFC had soy nuggets and they look really excited and I think they call them soy jacks but they're both looking at the camera with an open mouth like oh man as they point behind them making eye contact with the camera. the woman is in very tight-fitting clothes with large breasts and hair that goes down past the shoulder, but her eyes look alarmingly open and bizarre. she sort of has fangs now that I notice her mouth. don't know what that's about.

the 3 types of commercially viable videogames

#stitch with @sim booktoks badly How does media decide who to care about part 2 #nancyguthrie TikTok video by sim booktoks badly

This is a REALLY good breakdown on how to look at the news with critical thinking without it turning into magical thinking.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZThx2tdRK/

‘Rental market is largely frozen’: San Diego rent prices fall in national rankings National rents are down 2% annually but Zumper said Southern California is seeing more of a slowdown because of increased supply.

San Diego rents fall 5.5%—proof that building housing works.

Add 6,000 apartments, prices drop.

This eases pressure on voucher programs, helps low-income renters, makes the city more accessible.

Want sustained affordability? Keep building.

www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/02/04/r...

A large yellow bat plushie hugging a small blue bat plushie, with a red heart between them that says "Love"

Added these two buddies to my shop. A few more days of my Valentine's sale: code LOVE at checkout will give $10 off!

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The layoffs across games and games journalism have been disproportionately affecting the women in the industry, and even more so, black women.

Support the indies that champion their voices before it's too late (& please share more in the replies)

@aftermath.site @mothership.blog

Post a tree that you photographed

A man holding a sign that says "you just lost to the woke agenda" with various images of the Seahawks and Seattle celebrities.

At the Seahawks victory parade and the vibes are immaculate.

a collage of four faces with the word play in the upper left corner Alt: a collage of four faces morphing between men and women of different races, from the michael jackson music video for black or white. the faces seem to be singing the lyrics to that song. the corner has a VCR style "play" next to a flashing triangle arrow indicative of old VHS animation. the original music video only shows one of these faces on screen at a time, this gif shows 4 at once just to fit more into the same time.

in 1991 we thought for sure we'd see more and more morphing going on, had no idea that was basically going to be peak morphing. weird that somehow when we see the effect used in the past decades it actually looks worse? (ex. pure CGI, plus radically sharper display resolutions can't hide it as well)

always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay

Digital asbestos.

Blue grey bat plushie with pink polka dot wings and ears holding a heart that says "love"

I'm doing a Valentine's sale on my bats between now and February 15th!

Use the code LOVE at checkout for $10 off!

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Quick reminder for folks looking to support original stories by real human beings that Kickstarters are the most direct way to do so!

Our first project of the year launches in a bit over a week! click through to follow the preview page and score FREE domestic shipping!

hey remember when I got shit on for years for trying to warn people that GamerGate was just Nazis and not just about harassing women and not just about some “consumer revolt”