If you are able to help support our site migration that would be amazing! I am very bad at asking for help but right now, @butwhytho.net needs it.
We have to get set up on a new host, work with a dev, and our old host still has not refunded us the $3k they took.
Anything helps!
Can anyone out there be or recommend a good webdev for But Why Tho?
“Won’t you believe in him? That even if there is no god or buddha… there is Kamen Rider.”
The infinite growth model is one of the worst things to happen to journalism/media. At some point you reach the ceiling of people who want to read your magazine! You can just make enough money to pay people well and publish things and not grow forever!
A reminder that transphobes are trash and a charm initiative after years of trash being trash is not particularly credible.
NEW: A new pre-print study offers the first causal evidence that outsourcing reasoning tasks to AI can rapidly erode users' independent performance AND their will to persist despite difficulty.
"People’s persistence drops... they’re also not willing to try without AI.”
futurism.com/artificial-i...
reminder to check your Costco warehouse for crazy clearance deals on video games like this one that has Pokemon Legends Z-A and Kirby Air Riders for $30 each
extreme YMMV it will depend on your local Costco (you can check in the app)
Pragmata was my game of the show back at SGF last year, and i'm happy to report the shoot-and-hack formula absolutely rules so much that i happily 100%-ed it before review! story is *fine* if not charming. another big W for Capcom!
READ: www.ign.com/articles/pra...
WATCH: youtu.be/DaIQMptjIa4
I wrote about Pokémon Champions for @theverge.com! I talk about the tension between onboarding new players and satisfying experienced ones (without getting TOO in the weeds, I promise). Gift link: www.theverge.com/games/910110...
Pokemon Champions is here! Expert guests @shinycaseyd.bsky.social and @inkydojikko.bsky.social get deep into the tall grass of competitive battling. Also: How do the gatcha components of Pokemon Champions affect players?
🎧 : open.spotify.com/episode/0orI...
💸: www.patreon.com/posts/pokemo...
The worst thing about the fist of the north star dub being bad is assholes using it to preach their “dubs are bad” bullshit like this isn’t an anomaly and dubs have generally been solid for over a decade
normal battle mockup
exploration / location mockup
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PSA: SUPERMAN SMASHES THE KLAN, one of the best superhero comics ever made, is FREE TO READ all this month on DC Universe Infinite.
Anyway, we have ample research on how living under a state of sustained terror and stress causes life-long health problems as well as intergenerational epigenetic effects. This feels like it's making you sick because it actually is making you sick.
You gotta hold on to something. Even if it's just making it to next week to hang out with your friends, or surviving long enough for the grocery run on your day off. You gotta have something that keeps you going. Hope, revenge, spite. You can't let them take every moment of every day away from you.
apropos of nothing, if you're visiting Japan i think you have a moral obligation to spend a day learning about the human cost of nuclear war. i visited nearly a decade ago and i've never forgotten my experience
hpmmuseum.jp?lang=eng
Wow. They really are pushing Kamen Rider globally.
They put up the announcement press event with English subs.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtGw...
The Kamen Rider franchise has announced a new label for animated films, and the 1st project will be a CG anime by Aniplex and Shirogumi.
I think we sometimes need to consume media without immediately slipping into a reviewer's mindset. The best way to engage with art is not constant analysis, but with an open mind and a willingness to understand the creators' intent. You don't have to enjoy it, but meet it on its own terms first
Headshot of Kamen Rider Zeztz as his eyes glow light up with the trans flag
Also, because it always must be said...
Despite being a crazy windy day (and using thin cardboard) my sign survived and the message was received. #nokings
I believe that there's only one way remaining to fix U.S. society. It's a drastic measure, but I can't see any way around it.
We're going to have to ruin golf.
Next week there will be another existential boogeyman designed to discourage you from pursuing art. There will always be a mosquito in your ear trying to convince you your creativity has no value. Let this Sora situation be a lesson. Stop getting pushed around by scammers. Make art
I'd love to hear from people who used to work in games media (or any form of entertainment media) about what you did next. Would be a huge help to me and lots of others.
Wonder how much longer corporate bootlickers can call mass layoffs “a COVID hiring correction” like yeah man thanks 1000+ people gotta figure out what to do all of a sudden but at least they can sleep well knowing they were hired by mistake
I can't recall a time when more talented reporters and writers on movies and culture who have real skill and knowledge are struggling to find a foothold. We live in an "Everyone's an expert" era. But everyone isn't. Editors: Please take a chance on folks you haven't tried before. Read their clips!
If you can't pay someone to voice something, either voice it yourself or don't do voices.
"I'm a smol uwu indie dev" is not a fucking excuse. Scale the project fucking back if you don't have the budget.
Indie devs have been working without genAI for decades, fuck outta here with this shit.