This is so slick

Why I’m embracing the latest uncool thing in gaming ‘Unc’ is meant to disparage older players who favour slow-paced shooters and epic narrative games, but the industry should make games for all generations

Or, as I wasn't allowed to headline it: long live the unc game

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sometimes I look at dishonored screenshots and go fuuuuck it's so good. fuck. I'll never forgive the gamers for not buying billions of copies of all the dishonored games

God, I wish BioWare said something like this about Mass Effect 3’s ending. I can’t prove it, but that was what slipped us into the bad timeline.

Creator scandals have turned morality clauses into brands’ go-to exit strategy High-profile influencer scandals is putting morality clauses – long buried in boilerplate – at the center of managing reputational risks.

I was able to use my wealth of reality TV knowledge and morbid curiosity about the Amanda Batula incident to unpack a *very* interesting aspect of creator/influencer contracts: the morality clause.

Read it here: digiday.com/media/creato...

It’s Hete Pines

DM me the site

Look up the owner, he’s a piece of shit.

Bald Breens digs into a profile on God is a Geek and finds connection to an iGaming company called Paradise Media

@baldbreens.bsky.social found the link to the company

A horrific AI simulacrum of a generic white man who’s supposed to be Pete Hines.

Looks like right wing moron Calvin Robinson’s site, God is a Geek, has been sold to some iGaming AI slop factory. Meet, erm, Pete Hines?

Hey guys, Kirk GammyEye here.

I don’t know how these big YouTubers do it. I’d be fucking devastated if everyone knew me by a stupid gamer handle I made up before my prefrontal cortex was fully formed.

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto

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A ginger cat sits with all his paws tucked and looks like a little ducky

I see there’s some discourse but my cat just perfectly folded up so he looked like an orb

I went to visit Quantic Dream in Paris in the nadir of the David Cage era, when they were making that terrible Beyond game. I swear to you: the word EMOTION was written on the studio wall in big black lettering

One of the first major games that put the actors in the booth together so they could react to each other, too.

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My job’s shitter than your job, Pete

Yeah, I think it’s important to show. We’re all messed up in various ways, but we’re not alone.

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Alien Isolation. And although it’s underwater and not space, Soma.

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I am in pieces, on the floor, unable to move, destroyed utterly. You think it's done in the middle and then you get to a youtuber with erectile dysfunction trying to come up with witticisms at the end. There should be awards for this stuff.

I've been quiet about my legal case as I take it very seriously and wish to keep it as separate from my everyday life as possible, but I wanted to give you all an update that provides some context for my commentary. 🧵 (1/10)

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This is fucking wild mate

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About 17 hours!

Just finished Esoteric Ebb — beautiful art, reactive, sharp writing with interesting choices and great characters. A perfect Disco Elysium-like.

Aye, it was great