feels like an especially irresponsible moment to ignore BDS when Game Pass is the easiest, level one way to participate in the boycott and BDS just called for renewed pressure after Israel passed a law on executing Palestinian and Arab in prisons that use Microsoft cloud services
due to the demands of our glamorous jet-setting lifestyle, we couldn't record a new episode this week. we'll be back next week probably <3
Best editor relationship I had was a constant antagonistic back and forth centered around her undying hatred of my pentient to use british english convention
text that reads: If you have to cover Xbox-published games, always do so with context about Microsoft’s activities and the ongoing boycott. Just because you may be in a position where you have to cover these games, it doesn’t mean you can’t make people aware of the boycott against Microsoft called for by BDS. Be constructive and thoughtful in your criticism, and help people understand that by purchasing an Xbox-published game, or by subscribing to Game Pass, they are supporting a company that is complicit in the genocide against the Palestinian people.
I just think about this advice from @nogamesforgenocide.com quite a bit... for no reason in particular
Me and who 😍
Starting to feel I could do more good as an editor, but I’m too much of a bitch for that probably
Whisper of the Heart is in theaters today, so here's what I wrote for its 30th anniversary last year! Kondo's Ghibli film remains a relevant portrait of what finding connection in an urbanizing, digital world feels like.
This about AC Black Flag but is true of many things
I simply will never get excited about a remake for a game from the PS3/Xbox 360 era or newer that I can actively play on my PS5 right now. Graphics are not that much better. This is peak consumerism feeding on fandom and hype and I simply do not want to be losing chess to a dog
It isn’t even 8am and I have a craving for a Chicago hot dog. What?
I admit Zoe and I had one collective chuckle. 6/10
It’s just me and my cozy Nana cardigan against the world
Attiring
OC fanart of Edelgard getting dressed, not just fabrics, but also expectations.
#FE風花雪月 #FireEmblemThreeHouses
#ファイアーエムブレム風花雪月
#Edelgard #エーデルガルト
Someone should pay me. I don’t know what for, that’s unimportant. They should just do it.
a younger cohort of games writers has noticed a growing propensity to gatekeep lately.
next time i will build an audience by working at the right website 12 years ago.
I’ve had the same editor since 1967. Many times he has said to me over the years or asked me, Why would you use a semicolon instead of a colon? And many times over the years I have said to him things like: I will never speak to you again. Forever. Goodbye. That is it. Thank you very much. And I leave. Then I read the piece and I think of his suggestions. I send him a telegram that says, OK, so you’re right. So what? Don’t ever mention this to me again. If you do, I will never speak to you again
Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited
Like lmao that’s amazing! You thought it was all AI, no! It’s also just all corporations suck!!!!!
There’s a great tidbit you can find where a digger robot kills a guy and everybody is like “oh shit are the ai somehow rebelling against their programming?” And it turns out the corporate higher ups just decided to turn off safety features for cost cutting measures cuz they suck.
Had more thoughts so Ill put them here (was gonna blog but three people already did the blog lol):
Hugh is much more influenced by Lee in TWD than Joel in TLOU or Kratos in GoW or any other "sad dad". Lee largely, like hugh, just accepts Clemtine and wants to care for her from the get go!
Y'all ever watched A.I Artifical Intelligence (2001)
Lee's questions of if he should take care of Clementine or not are more focused in a worry that association with him and his past actions will jeopardize her place in communities in this new status quo. Which... is also caring for her! Hugh and Lee both just care
Had more thoughts so Ill put them here (was gonna blog but three people already did the blog lol):
Hugh is much more influenced by Lee in TWD than Joel in TLOU or Kratos in GoW or any other "sad dad". Lee largely, like hugh, just accepts Clemtine and wants to care for her from the get go!
Pragmata is like 80% the second. Diana is not meant to evoke genAI and that tech in today's world. 20% though (mostly the flavor text and lore bits about the delphi corporation and some goings on on the lunar base pre-game) have hints of genAI allusion, but they aren't fleshed out stories
Something Pragmata really drilled home to me is that we need to really differentiate betweenthe 2 types of AI stories. The first are trying to say something about the realities of genAI as it exists today and impacts people. The second exist in a lineage of sci-fi AI disconnected from reality.
My Pragmata article's now live on @pcgamer.com! This one's about the joys of ~speedrunning~, and how a hi-speed approach only reveals new layers in an already incredible game!
www.pcgamer.com/games/third-...
You gotta have that one place in the city you gatekeep because it’s too good
Sorry Signalis fans. Island of the dead is not on view anymore. Rip
They moved my favorite painting in the Met :(
Love to be admiring the Raphael exhibit at the met and be subjected to tech bros discussing how much they admired an AI written networking email they got