was about to argue with a guy before I saw he had "LinkedIn Influencer"in his bio and realised there was nothing I could say to him that was half as humiliating as what he's already saying about himself

Nothing grates me more than when AI game dudes are like "Don't you wish you could ask an NPC aNyThInG?" Absolutely fucking not. If you don't understand that every piece of writing is made with intention, character, and meaningful choice... you probaby shouldn't be directing a fucking video game.

two men sit in front of a sign that says dealbook summit ALT: two men sit in front of a sign that says dealbook summit

Imagine if this guy showed up at your front door and said, “I’m here to collect all of your personal information and while I’m doing that I’m going to clear up some misconceptions about the Nazis.”

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

The TF2 Spy “Gentlemen” meme, but it’s me with 17 sticks of string cheese.

I hate Al and I refuse to use it Peter, if you don't use Al a bunch of super rich men will lose a lot of money I already said I hated Al Harry, you don't need to sell it to me

spread the word

THE DEADLANDS IS BACK

clear your calendar and head to the graveyard

(bring something for the crows)

settle in to read

👇

Somewhere in his writings Samuel R. Delany talks about living in London in the early 1970s and going upstairs to see who was playing amazing piano and getting to know that person and becoming friends with them and of course it was Tim Curry

Mike Nellis @MikeNellis "I'M NO LONGER CATHOLIC!" Hannity ABANDONS HIS FAITH for Trump NELLIS X.com • +*+

Amazing that in the national divorce the libs are getting the NFL, butter and cooking oil, being attracted to adult women, standup comedy, Bud Light, and now also Catholicism

“chose to leave the games industry” about someone laid off who can’t land a new job feels so slimy and dishonest. is it really a choice when they have to somehow pivot their career elsewhere because nobody is hiring? they didn’t choose to leave, their last employer dumped them out of the industry

Thinking about a story in which crimes get pardoned if they are very, very funny.

You ever notice how in the Superman the Movie poster, he's got one fist out, and on Superman II he's got two fists out? Well BUCKLE UP, I gave him three and four fists for Superman III and Superman IV, respectively. Hilarious!

They're cowards for not doing this.

Me, yesterday, in the voice of the starfish from Finding Nemo who also sounds kind of like the “my anus is bleeding” cloud from Rejected:

“Today’s the day, watched The Pitt season finale, missed the post credits scene- I MISSED THE POST CREDITS SCENE”

All-time banger alert.

hmm what if they had, like, 4 vaults tho

I’ve been hoping for this kind of south stadium renovation for years. Only thing that stands out is I’m a little sad that they’re doing a curved horseshoe at the expense of Memorial’s classic angles in the north and south.

Mount Rainier, viewed from the air, flanked by Mount Adams to the left and Mount St. Helens to the right. Mount Adams is just barely visible between Adams and Rainier.

Any day with this view is a good day.

Me: [idly looking up info on popes]

Wikipedia: This list is incomplete; you can help expand it.

Me: wut?

Wikipedia: [lifts eyebrows suggestively]

Live look at the video game industry

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I love how the vertical core intersects with the traditional saucer shape - this is great stuff

Brad Lander gestures with palm facing upwards at a rally in front of City Hall. Person in the background holds a sign reading "AI rots your brain"

@bradlander.bsky.social at today's @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social rally at City Hall Park. Organizers including @climatefamsnyc.bsky.social are calling for a morartorium on "A.i." in the NYC public schools.

“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.

“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”

Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

DA PITT

oh that's very good

Absolutely wild how fast a year can go

I can't decide if this or the Robert Yang quote on the Prey map is my favorite 😅

A vex column rises from sandy and rocky terrain, with several lasers connecting to a laser grid tucked under a curving rock overhang. The Timekeeper, for Destiny: House of Wolves. Released in 2015.

A brutalist concrete structure made of disasssembling floating cubes, floating in a blue partly cloudy sky. You'll Shoot Your Eye Out for Quake 3, built with Matthew Breit. Released in 2012.

Sweeping canyon terrain with rock cliffs and a large spherical blue tank with white checkers frames a ringed planet hovering in the sky. Narrows, for Starhawk. 2012.

A dark corridor with vertical columns and a deep red light casting down from overhead skylights. Eclipse, for Natural Selection. Released in 2002.

Here's some levels I'm particularly fond of:

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Need a senior/principal/lead level, technical, or general game designer? Hire me!

Let's make games together. ♥️

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Asking the forbidden question