I’m not the type of person who’s like “uwu take care of urself while our country does war crimes” but I’m also crying at work

Ok, so you know how you sometimes pick up a kitty and a little purr comes out? Like a little air just whuffs past their purrbox? Great stuff. Great stuff. Anyway, do you think that could happen if you picked up a cheetah?

SAY IT LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK

Tweet from @dandouglas – “i'm the CEO of an AAA games studio, and as you might guess, we're pretty psyched about making games! but we never let making games get in the way of our true passion: laying off loads of staff fucking constantly”

Oh for sure, but it got you in the door and to a few talks at least

There also isn’t an expo pass anymore, the minimum to get in as an indie or student is $500, where it has previously $300. I imagine several individuals and companies decided that price increase wasn’t worth it

Meme that says “therapy is cool but I need societal change”

One of my favourite books I've read in maybe the last decade -- and now with a lil signature cocktail! :D

went to the store

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AI Summary ✨

Grammy-nominated R&B singer Jon B. posted that he is going to the stove – perhaps to "cook up" another hot, hot radio single. Frogs and toads, which are the same, can live on the Sun and often choose to.

Me: recovery isn’t linear.

Me when recovery isn’t linear: wtf.

Cartoon. Person says to other person „We invented a robot that answers questions.“, adding, „we just have to feed it 10 baby giraffes a day“. The other person asks „But it answers the questions correctly?“ Person responds „Oh my goodness, no. No no no no no.“ By Aram J. French Appropriated due to missing alt text

My doomer-worry about AI is not that the LLMs become omnipotent and take over the world but that the wealthy and powerful use it as a means to consolidate power and marginalize or lay off skilled workers and also everything about our technological and political and social life gets worse

sigh

I really liked this papers breakdown of virtual social interactions and the different needs and risks that should be considered. Great for game designers of course, and super interesting to think about as a community professional and digital anthropologist. polarisgamedesign.com/2025/toolkit...

“Frieren, my magic curses you to become… 100 years younger! Mwuh-ha… Ha?”

“Elf.”

“Right, right… Why is your hair—“

“It’s a perm. They were popular back then.”

“I see. So…”

“Zoltraak.”

This is also why we should practice solidarity between different forms of art, with regards to Gen AI, and refuse slop in all its forms, at all stages of the process. According due respect to other people's work - the same respect we'd like accorded to ours - that should be the goal.

We had a good run

Most of us did not choose to write or draw or design so that we could put products on the shelf. We chose to do it because it’s a set of skills we enjoy exercising, that give us fulfillment.

It’s like asking a pro pitcher to just let a machine pitch for them. Fuck off and give me the ball.

"they don't know how to express the idea" here's rian johnson's storyboard for knives out

pick up a pencil and a napkin

I have been thinking this the entire time I've been watching pluribus! So glad someone else had this thought

and listen making art is frustrating and miserable sometimes and sometimes it's not working and you need to go and sit on the toilet for a while and come back and redo a section you spent a week on and that is the Process and it is a thing that is Yours and it should not belong to a computer

the good that you do persists in this world

I miss a lot of things about my grandmothers, but what strikes me is how little -- if any -- of it is centered in what a Large Language Model or generated images or video or audio could give me back.

It's the rooms that my imagination still dwells in.

The food I still eat.

Haptics of presence.

I think it's important to make art so you can confront the whirling bladed nightmare at the center of your brain and come out the other side different and gayer

Kaiju press conference

I’m a firm believer that with SHIN GODZILLA returning to theaters, Toho should also re-release the figurines of the kaiju giving apologetic press conferences.

every “ancient tradition” was invented between 1848-1870 and every “modern perversion” is so ancient as to predate writing

3 panel comic by irregulargalaxydudes. A chicken asks, “How you doing, chief?” A giraffe replies, “Besides the ceaseless rage that our society is built on suffering, division and a ruling class of cold unfeeling sociopaths who will grind each and every one of us into dust to eke out a few pennies more to line their gilded vaults? I’m fine, how are you?” Chicken: “Same.”

Literally every convo I have these days.

Dosa Divas Announcement Trailer YouTube video by Outerloop Games

Our next game, Dosa Divas. Battle an evil fast food empire in this spicy narrative turn-based RPG. Two sisters and their upgradable spirit-mech cook delicious meals, fight corpos, build up your reputation with local communities, and reconcile with loved ones. youtu.be/jzOKSPSVYwY?...

Embarrassing for the whole show tbh