Ork Stompa miniature from Warhammer 40,000, painted in the yellow Bad Moonz scheme.

How's about one big yellow guy? Ork Stompa, stompin' along.

Yesterday, Google chose to remove Doki Doki Literature Club from the Google Play Store. Their explanation is that the game’s content violates their Terms of Service in its depiction of sensitive themes. DDLC is widely celebrated for portraying mental health in a way that meaningfully connects deeply with players around the world, helping them feel heard, understood, and less alone on their journey. Managing to achieve that—making a truly meaningful difference by using the power of fiction to connect to others—is what I’m most grateful for. It inspires me every day to keep making cool new things, things that can really reach others, especially those in need of connection. DDLC is available on many different major platforms, including iOS, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation, and more. We’re continuing to do everything we can to find a path forward for getting DDLC reinstated on the Google Play Store. Meanwhile, we’re also looking into potential options for alternate methods of distribution on Android devices. We worked hard to bring DDLC to Android, and we’ve gotten to see so much love and enthusiasm from passionate Android users over these past few months. Thank you so much to the community for continuing to express your love and support for DDLC through the years. We’ll keep you updated on the future of DDLC for Android. - Dan Salvato and the Serenity Forge Team

A statement regarding the removal of DDLC from the Google Play Store:

Change a thing
Rub your cheek

Change a thing
Look to the side

Change a thing
Thumb your--SIT STILL YOU MONKEY

damn, that’s crazy

anyway

It also sucks to NOT work in the video game industry right now! Hah, get it? Yeah?

... Yeah.

Thread. I'm begging people to realize how much we've already given in just the past 25 years. I'm old enough to remember when surveillance wasn't ubiquitous and before ICE or the TSA existed. There was even a time when the average cop wasn't kitted out for full on urban warfare.

I've only had to deal with a few people like this in my career and I have enormous sympathy for everyone who has to deal with them regularly.

It's fine to not have the talent or experience to do the work but if you literally cannot imagine a finished asset in place of a temp asset, please exit.

Nvidia Answers my DLSS 5 Questions YouTube video by Daniel Owen

great reporting here. basically yes DLSS 5 is running a gen AI model on the 2D output and nothing more. it doesn’t know anything about the 3D scene, textures / models / lighting / PBR other than what the model infers by looking at a frame.

TL:DR, they sped up slop.

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Imperial Knight chainsword, painted with hazard stripes

Imperial Knight chainsword, painted with hazard stripes

I am back on my bullshit (my bullshit is hazard stripes)

If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula.

Mission designer for a decade and a half here: text to speech temp voice is one of my dearest friends and I hear it narrating my dreams sometimes, it's that important (and genAI hasn't proven it replaces anything in that regard, just costs more).

Skeletal frames of three Knight models for Warhammer 40,000 on my painting desk

Still from a Roxbury sketch from SNL

I've decided my standards for posting were too high. Everyone, get ready for really dumb posts about whatever I want.

Progress on two Imperial Knights and one Chaos one for 40k, and what their hunched poses remind me of.

NO NO NO YOU DON’T

GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA

federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL

tell everyone you know

www.freetaxusa.com

Morrowind, Planescape: Torment, Bloodborne, Half-Life 1, Starsiege: Tribes, Arkanoid, Warframe, The Binding of Isaac, Fallout 1

my9games.com

My 9 games. (At the moment. There are at least another nine I had to struggle with excluding.)

Sending this to the ex-Blackbird folks who used Party Parrot, just, all the time

If you have any love for the Party Parrot emoji, know that originated from a video of a Kākāpō. So let's collectively send party parrot vibes to New Zealand in hope that this batch of chicks helps the species.

I'll always be obsessed with this edit made by @tommchenry.bsky.social

Representative Hakeem Jeffries, Democrat of New York, the House minority leader, said in a statement that Iran was a “bad actor” that must be “aggressively confronted” for its human rights violations and nuclear ambitions, among other things. But he condemned Mr. Tump for failing to seek congressional approval for the strikes. The Trump administration, he wrote, must explain its rationale and justification for the strikes, define the national security objective and “articulate a plan to avoid another costly, prolonged military quagmire in the Middle East.”

This is unacceptable from democratic leadership in Congress. They should be screaming NO WAR, not merely raising procedural objections. Cowardly, politically foolish failure to meet the moment.

Culture has to turn away from this shit to survive. We have to make our own stuff and maybe it’ll look like dogshit but we can call it ours and love the process

We literally know now that anti-trans legislation was pushed by a pedophile ring to allow a pedophile ring to serve a pedophile ring’s interests, and legislators have decided the best course of action is to keep doing what the pedophile ring wants.

“why do you hate technology” as though “technology” were some discrete entity divorced entirely from the context of what it does and what it creates, rather than a category so broad as to constitute reality itself

a lot of AI discourse is like people talking about how you can use manure to fertilize crops in a world where there's a vast Manure Lobby insisting that we put manure in every school meal, asthma inhaler, and beanbag chair

Screenshot of Amazon customer support chat getting refund for a Ring Floodlight Cam https://www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurveillance/comments/1r0m509/comment/o4jc9xz/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Screenshot of chat with Amazon customer support getting refund for a Ring product bought in October 2020 https://www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurveillance/comments/1r0m509/comment/o4k6nqk/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Infographic telling Ring customers they can get refunds for their purchases through Amazon

People on Reddit are getting Amazon to refund their Ring products because of their partnership with Flock and that creepy Super Bowl ad
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hey remember when I got shit on for years for trying to warn people that GamerGate was just Nazis and not just about harassing women and not just about some “consumer revolt”

I legit fear for the overall game literacy of new junior designers in the coming years for various reasons and a big part of that is just, a lack of idiosyncratic games in many diets that aren't, like, tied to insidious monetization loops.

Let people play games that are weird in honest ways, dude.

I get why a distinction between "America" and "the Trump regime" may seem immaterial to many Europeans. But Trump's domestic political weakness is something Europe can exploit, which in turn strengthens the hand of opposition within the US. Plus, the distinction is *extremely* relevant stateside.

Game development job titles make no sense YouTube video by Robin-Yann Storm

imo game development job titles make no sense in general: youtu.be/yWv4WHkDF0w?...

Nobody knows the difference between UX design and product design, nevermind UI design.

We cant even decide what a level designer does. Is it purely geometry and gameplay? Or also env art? Or also visual script??

tim walz can urge everyone not to interfere with ICE loud n clear all day. he's still subpoenaed for obstruction because that's the narrative trump likes. he's getting the exact big loud show he wants to see, always. you win by making a big loud show he doesn't want to see, that gets better ratings

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'