Exactly. My kid just got a lifetime ban from something half his classmates are not lifetime banned from. It doesn't matter if it's an icky bad thing. Politicians think lots of things are icky and bad.

Because telling one group of people something is illegal for them, but legal for everyone else, and doing it over an issue that we're supposed to think is 'a good reason', is fine now?

You've already seen how "online safety" is being abused in this way.

Ban it for everyone if it's so wonderful.

Dispatch's soundtrack is great. I've been branching out from that lately. And it reminded me of the good old days, finding bands from games.

HiFi Rush got my kids into NiN!

Lots of strange reactions to this game, and then this one managed to top them all.

Oh wow, hers is gorgeous and it's no contest

"Just pop on the next one" like it's a bloody bus and a bit of a rummage for spare change.

The only flight I didn't take was cancelled due to a fault. EasyJet didn't bother putting another on and told us all to 'book another'. There weren't any. We were shown a door and left outside. Trip over.

I've felt awful about ditching three recent 'top' titles, but I was basically stuck in the intros with no clue as to the controls or exit. Wasn't WASD. Wasn't arrow keys. Hadn't been told what was happening or where I was supposed to go or what I was doing (one was a sort of dream sequence.)

I have no idea what we're supposed to do with that headline. Yay, stop watching athletes and watch robots do it instead?

as AI generated writing improves I will increasingly dial up how much of a mess my writing is to ensure it comes across as unmistakably human. run-on sentences. skipped words. typos so egregious spell check or search clearly couldn't help me and could never come from a machine's statistical training

BloodNSoil.AI: we want to destroy democracy and use sentient computerised weapons to eradicate cultures we see as lesser

The Labour Party: please enjoy our health service

That looks like Waitrose bathroom and kitchen cleaner.

I always find this a tiny bit funny, like the answer isn't exactly the answer to the question that was asked...

Yeah they're really forgetting the Prim thing, aren't they.

Smart phone. Had a basic Nokia and hated being told to spend money I didn't have on something I didn't need.

And how people would act as if life was somehow impossible without one, "how do you cope?" same way you did three years ago dear.

It wasn't what I was getting at. Gratz for not being able to read.

(Also it was some other rando who brought up that game. I said "trailers", plural, over "years", also plural, which is actually more than one trailer.)

AI cooked your brains.

Add your own if you feel you have a fresh take. I don't need mine illustrating.

They aren't actually asking.

Yes, thank you, you see what I did is infer it with subtlety, not post it

"Examining a craft knife is violence" right yeah remind me about the fucking trailers the last few years we've had to tolerate.

Did this feel like the right thread to share this?

i really do enjoy how everyone on this island is obliged to go about not voicing the chiefest reason why Things Are Bad And Expensive, because voters will think they're Making Excuses For Themselves, even though that reason is literally We Strangled Our Trading Relationships With Our Own Hands

I'm not a driver, so I have no idea what the thinking is behind that wide open Mad Max space they have after the M6 Toll.

Are we racing!?

AI bros: whyyyyy do people not all love our product? Probably they're too stupid & backwards to understand it!
Also AI bros: FINALLY, CEOs! A Prole Replacement that you don't have to pay any wages to, will never say no & will never call HR on you! We've presented it as a young woman for some reason

Make these people share their TAM/SAM/SOM, I have questions.

Why do real business owners have to write complex market research documents full of legit data re: who the customer is, what need the product solves, how the need isn't being met etc, & these dickheads can just go "fuck it, dunno, maybe people don't know what to order. Give me millions of dollars."

Also also a lot of dad games are about a guy being a bad dad and then gradually becoming a good dad, and if you tried to make a game about a bad mom becoming a good mom it would get raked so hard over the coals for her being “unlikable” it would make your fucking head spin.

My daughter just introduced me to The Amazing Digital Circus. That was pretty damn good, and now I am all hyped for the finale.

She used to circumvent family internet controls to watch all the new indie animations over the last few years. I respected the effort. Love a bit of sneakiness.

I remember this girl in a bar was like "You are so, like, a Capricorn, right?" I said no, Scorpio.

"Oh, I knew it!" she says.

... no you didn't 🫠

TV news people: when covering the London Games Festival this month, maybe concentrate on the profound cultural impact of the medium rather than leading FOR THE BILLIONTH TIME on how much money they make. Thanks byeeeeee