EA is now owned by Saudi Arabia and Donald Trump's son-in-law

EA is now owned by Saudi Arabia and Donald Trump's son-in-law

The U.S. publisher has been taken private in a deal worth $55 billion.

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never ship your game. worst thing you can do

Insider Gaming@insider-gaming.com · 9h ago

Halo Studios Hit by Layoffs After Campaign Evolved Launch insider-gaming.com/halo-studios...

RT to scare a speculative collector

Your Canadian Girlfriend@yourcanadiangf.bsky.social · 2d ago

Why? Why must everything we enjoy be sealed up with a "grade"? I get baseball cards being put in plastic because you can still enjoy both sides of the card. But a Blu-ray?

between what i've read about the brain stem, and what i've gleaned about internal family systems/parts work therapy, i'm a little surprised plurality isn't even more common. people will just have to communicate with "using personality A with friend group B" memes in the interim

part of why the AI market is pushing "everybody is using it, it's inevitable" narrative: I've seen with people in my life the more you lean on it (and a lil bit slippery slopes towards more) it will make you worse at what you're doing until your output is as mediocre as anyone only using AI to do it

Mike Bithell@mikebithell.bsky.social · 22h ago

The specific focus in this video on the way these tools get under your skin and train you to depend on them is an aspect I personally find existentially terrifying. youtu.be/TtvICev9sBE?...

Sometimes I think of how much genius, talent, & possibility we've been robbed of in this world bc wealthy white men refuse to not be absolute ghouls to everyone. The women who lost opportunities bc they wouldn't trade their bodies for them. The of color & queer folks stifled just because. It sucks.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w ago

Lena Headey looks back: ‘I told Harvey Weinstein where to go. A decade of possibilities disappeared’

In a heartbeat, I'd give up my usage of AI immediately, and I can still get through an entire workday without it. I've refused to offload my cognition to it and have no plans to use it outside of the mandatory "need" at work.

Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · yesterday

Guys like this don’t realize that they are the freak

HAHAHAHAH FUCK YOUUU LET'S GOOOO

Discworld QOTD, from Monstrous Regiment

Micah@rincewind.run · yesterday

Discworld QOTD, from The Light Fantastic

PSA.

No more Sims games for us. No more EA games either, for that matter. Some words on why.

Guys like this don’t realize that they are the freak

Somebody asked me on Reddit why people who use AI to generate Recomp projects are currently being rejected from the communities and what they can do to fix this. I might tweak parts of this to be a more general blog post at some point, but this should be of help to anyone in a similar situation.

I literally just peaked at the Scritchy Scratchy thread on the AP server and the mods are ripping someone apart for asking if gen AI is used in the AP world and other AP worlds they’re interested in playing. Jesus fucking christ something needs to change on that server.

Brooke | Chafee 🇨🇦@chafee.bsky.social · 2d ago

I just caught up with the AP discourse and I’m tired of this grandpa. So far to my knowledge that none of the games I play are vibe-coded and will be vigilant for new games in the future.

i think my least favorite pmd writing trope is "oh (my) arceus" instead of "oh (my) god" you will absolutely never see that in any of my fics im sorry but it feels so corny and unnatural

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"saudi arabia owns EA" is going to be the headline you see basically everywhere for this one but "jared kushner is about to use EA as a vehicle for trump administration bribes" is equally relevant imo

Wario64@wario64.bsky.social · yesterday

EA Announces Completion of Acquisition by PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners www.ea.com/news/ea-anno...

Our Ennobled and Innocent Taco Bell vs their Sinister Disease-Ridden Chipotle

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d ago

“Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. removed jalapeños from multiple stores in Minnesota after learning the peppers may be linked to a salmonella outbreak in the state that’s sickened 110 people.”

every theater kid I know is wincing in sympathy

Pixie Casey@pixiecasey.bsky.social · 2d ago

in insane local news, the 26 year old director of a rocky horror production was arrested for sending threatening messages to himself in order to get the play shut down bc he didn’t want to deal with cast drama www.mynbc5.com/article/rock...

so there's been this big Clear Channel digital countdown to the world cup billboard in Oakland for the last six months, except the world cup is over, and they haven't found someone new to buy the billboard space, so right now it just says: "-51 days till all eyes are on the Bay Area!"

The day that Ray Bradbury died I was on book tour and that night I read "There Will Come Soft Rains" to my audience instead of the usual reading.

Adam Rawnsley@arawnsley.bsky.social · 2d ago

Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.

i didn’t think it was physically possible, but there’s finally something worse than `curl | sh`

the temu app will be studied for generations. i opened the app. here’s my unedited, nearly two-minute launch sequence. i was just searching for a bookshelf

just give me the egg dude I didn't ask for your life story