Increasingly convinced this is the most important post
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It's rad how the US hegemony has gotten so dog shit in basically every conceivable space and market that the rest of the world (and even Americans tbh) are trying to figure out how to ditch anything made in or owned by America because it's all trash now.
If you too would like to stop using increasingly shitty software made by bad people who make the world worse, I wrote a guide for how to lessen/end your small team's dependence on US-based tech services: nelsanderson.zone/a-guide-to-d...
i love that this has had literally no impact on my day lol
ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok Are Down
Sin'dorei legacy World of warcraft character quick commission
I am practising zero tolerance for this shit. If they use genAI for any part of development, then I don't know how I'm supposed to trust that they aren't using it elsewhere. They keep only being sorry when they get caught, they keep pleading for special exemptions. Just. Don't. Use. It.
Video game companies keep trying to bait and switch us with AI, and it sucks aftermath.site/1666-amsterdam...
“ehrm you can ethically consume media if you pirate it” stop making piracy less cool
Hi I'm a AAA dev who is now indie. It's a depressing time, and it would be uplifting to see games industry folks boycott The Game Awards. Later this year Geoff is going to be handing awards to people who literally use plagiarism machines, after unheard of layoffs. Please just don't go.
Worried about your growing games wishlist? Here's some help to make it smaller https://kotaku.com/opening-night-live-2026-genai-slop-games-geoff-keighley-2000728477
As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.
There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.
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"...denen, die gegen uns arbeiten" Glaub, das war bisher am deutlichsten.
ich finde folgenden clip in meiner timeline viel zu unterskandalisiert, tbh
ich finde folgenden clip in meiner timeline viel zu unterskandalisiert, tbh
"People don't believe that when they pay money to buy something, then that means they own the thing they bought with money." love the all-digital future, absolutely adore it
Sony says "reasonable consumers" know they don’t own the digital PlayStation games they buy. It argues that it's "not plausible" to suggest that when they buy a digital game they actually believe they're "obtaining ownership" of it. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/sony-sa...
Last year I've been honoured to make a piece for @monsterhunterzine.bsky.social featuring Jin! I decided to go for more calm, relaxed atmosphere than the first encounter in the game. I bet he likes every ray of sun he can get ❄️ [ #dragon | #art | #monsterhunter ]