I’m haunted by how incomprehensibly bad math this all is. Even if you laid off every single person you’d only recoup 2bn at best. (And then would have zero people to make new games and generate new income) Where do they think they’re going to find that money???? Astoundingly stupid business deal.

Pat Stares At BASTION@patstaresat.bsky.social · 4h ago

For further clarity, EA is going to be on the hook for paying 1.8 billion dollars a year in interest, whereas their current yearly profit is 1.5 .So their interest payments are 300 million more than their entire yearly profit. We're in the process of watching them tie a noose and look for a spot.

While I am excited to try the new game, why are some of the new fire emblem characters as grey as homestuck trolls. What happened?

dude i don't even know how chatgpt looks like

Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · 22h ago

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

I’m getting caught up on critrole, on ep 30…

Nice AI-image-generating tool, but it will never be as great an artist as Onfim, a child who lived in the Novgorod Republic in the mid-1200s and who scribbled these drawings and schoolwork writings on birch bark at the age of 6 or 7.

I hate how financial crisis this year vaporized my creative drive just as it was coming back after years of burnout Every time I sit down to draw I get overwhelmed by ‘can this be made into an object to sell’ & ‘is this popular enough to be worth the time spent making it’ and end up drawing nothing.

My name is Nilah and I'm here to say I'll illustrate your picture book any time you're looking for an illustrator to do that, just hit me up! Look I'm an illustrator, not a poet. Hire me to DRAW! My portfolio: www.nilahmagruder.com/portfolio/ #kidlitart

Millennial grey is a scam sold to you by Big Rental

Already noticed some AAA games from the last few years slipping in quality due to the attack on labourers by the wealthy class and uh... I think gamers need to know it's gonna keep deteriorating in small ways, not a big bang Games will still drop for a while, but they'll be quietly worse

A Jamiroquai commercial for the Japanese Sony Minidisc. Circa late '90s.

never thought short form video would be able to capture a type of humor i can only describe as “the far side-esque” but this comes close.

i have a new hobby i made up where i look at hundreds of ancient stock photo cdroms from archive .org and try to find cool shit in them. ill post more later but for now these are "tonights picks"

unseal your cards, unseal your comics, take things out of the fucking box. it's all just cardboard and plastic. fuck the resale market

Dexerto@dexerto.bsky.social · 5d ago

K-pop star Momo is under fire after breaking open a vintage graded Pokémon card to stick it on her face and keep it in her phone case

You know ai is the future because every time a popular creator gets caught using it they have to make big dramatic statements and beg their viewers for forgiveness

Cooling off 🧊

can you hear it? #ffxiv #art

Fucking prophetic line

you have to outlive rowling her grave isn't going to piss on itself

The grief I felt at seeing an AI pixel art logo at the farmers market this week. It’s pixel art letters… that’s literally the easiest thing to do…

I truly feel for kids growing up now who will have to unlearn using AI, but if you've been writing for more than 2 years it is the easiest thing in the world to just Keep Doing The Thing You Did and ignore AI tools!! It makes me feel crazy that people act like this isn't the case!!!

Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈@midimyers.com · 5d ago

it's actually sad as hell to use AI for research when research is the fun part. you can just email people and call them on the phone and ask them questions about the thing that they have expertise in. you can read documents & learn cool shit. ok now i'm just talking about how being a reporter is fun

I don’t watch Hank Green’a solo channel often but I do watch a bunch of the complexly science channels and mannnnn what a disappointment. I’m glad everyone is chasing him with hammers over this.

Help! My symbolism! It's so overt! And very explicit!

Sunken Nazi warships resurface as water levels drop

Scuttled German WW2 warships have reemerged from the Danube in drought-hit Europe.

reuters.com

If you ever see me posting more than 3 times in an hour you should know that there is some kind of important task that I urgently need to perform.

We have more information on how dead "Blade" is than we do how alive Mitch McConnell is.

IGN@ign.com · 5d ago

Mahershala Ali has confirmed his Blade movie is dead and he has officially moved on from the troubled Marvel project. https://bit.ly/4wDl0Qg

Hey guys meta announced a new policy where they send a killer to get you so be sure to go to settings>my account > killer> disable killer to turn that off

I have the day off tomorrow and was considering going downtown to explore forgetting it was Lolla weekend. Never mind I will not be going anywhere near the loop.

I have the draw comics again itch but zero story ideas 😩

Would love to learn mixology but I don’t really drink at home and a lot of my local friends don’t drink so there’s zero reason to keep a super expensive stocked bar. I could learn for freelance bartender purposes but I think I’ve lost all my bar charisma in the yrs since I quit working a wine bar.