Sometimes I feel like eating something solid and drinking water “flip the switch” more than coffee. I might’ve also just desensitized myself to caffeine lol, I legitimately drink it every day.

13 episodes. 16mm film scans. Native HD. How such a milestone anniversary SHOULD be celebrated.

Tyranny from Critical Role

Melinoe

Idc what anyone says, I thought that Direct was FANTASTIC.

A lot of great and shocking reveals, especially RE9 coming to Switch 2.

The Mario stuff was cute, Prime 4 looks AMAZING, the third party lineup for Switch 2 looks STRONG.

And ending with a new Fire Emblem was the cherry on top for me.

The most common thing i heard at Gamescom was actually "I had a friend who worked at Xbox but they left recently"

As I've mentioned before. Revenue is up YoY. there is no shortage of revenue. The games industry's revenue dwarfs every other popular entertainment medium.

You’re wrong in this instance, and you should do some research before responding further

the big anti-trans NYT story today relies entirely on a data point refuted by my reporting in December for @rollingstone.com, citing a poll figure that the pollster told me in an interview does not reflect how the electorate felt about trans rights in 2024

15 hidden gems in the Steam Summer Sale you've still got time to grab Hipster picks for oddball tastes, all without destroying your wallet.

Whoo, my Summer Sale Hidden Gems roundup is live on PC Gamer.

There's one almost-mainstream game in there. And a lot of stuff with under 100 user reviews.

Jesus, the comments are getting more and more hostile with each hidden gem roundup I do for PC Gamer.

Folks get upset at even *hearing* about games that haven't sold big.

Or….get it for like $3 on the steam sale 😂

Xbox has now spent more than half of its existence attempting to correct the mistakes of the Xbox One era.

Today, like so many other missteps, can be tracked directly back to how badly it misread the room in 2013.

One mistake people make with these letters is assume they're written for humans, but they're not. There's no contrast.

They're written for shareholders, & for them, this text is just a non-stop parade of good news. Record numbers? All verticals up? Layoffs?! What a feast, for them, what a feast.

Well, you should. “Because it’s wrong” is a perfectly valid reason to oppose something.

And it IS wrong. I don’t care is some court said it was legal, it’s still wrong. AND illegal, because the scraping is basically piracy!! You’re making an argument in my favor 😂

You do if you’re gonna feed it into a machine to create products BASED on that work that you didn’t pay for. The person running the AI is committing the act, but not the interpretation. You can’t upload someone’s painting to a printer, make a bunch of copies and sell them. This is the exact same.

All AI companies that illegally and immorally scraped the internet wholesale to build their models’ databases, thereby creating derivative works from artists’ pieces without their consent or compensation. So yes, it is a “””””theft””””” issue

No, they wouldn’t. You’re the one making arguments in favor of giant corporations and fucking over consumers and artists, not me. The big difference is that people make art, machines don’t.

On the grounds that Generative AI is built of rampant theft?

More of this. Enough of the moderate language. Call them what they are, over and over again.

Ok this is my last cross post for tonight. For the “boo hoo, noone will do art for me for free” #gamedev crowd. Maybe it’s because your ideas are shit and boring?

I can’t begin to tell you how incredible localization teams are.

They don’t “just” translate - they rewrite jokes and idioms to recreate the same emotional (or funny) in a different culture and language style, and give invaluable advice on character, regional dialects, and cultural norms

But you’re talking like he’s some sort of parody character, that thinks he’s hot stuff and then fails spectacularly

Badasses*

No I know, I played the game too. It’s just that, he does legitimately defeat all of his opponents, he’s just corny about it 😂

Kinda like Dante, they’re jokesters and kind of goofballs…but also legitimately harasses who can back up the talk

…I think that’s the fanart talking

On Friday night, we walked the length of Manhattan, from Inwood Hill to Battery Park.

New Yorkers deserve a Mayor they can see, hear, even yell at. The city is in the streets.

I wanna believe it’s the game-key cards, they’re objectively less valuable than normal on-the-cart games. I just know any parent who asks what they even are is gonna feel like they’re being ripped off

Jeez dude, chill out. It’s not that serious 😂