Every community manager/mod in the world read this story, raised an eyebrow, and realized there was another solution to their bot problem.

Tinman - Beardo Weirdo Wimp@bcmfietser.bsky.social · yesterday

Oh. www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

the crazy thing about this trend is how badly this exposes that these people have the same attachment and awareness of video games as scalpers do for pokemon

Kirsche 🐰🐱 (Commissions Open)@cherrypixelbun.gay · 2d ago

ITS DOOM YOU GOT THE SLOP MACHINE OUT TO PUT DOOM ON PC

Nic Cage:

four years ago I posted this image of paleontologist Jan Smit looking at rocks and his son-in-law replied with something even better

I’m at the Pizza Hut. I’m at the house of leaves. I’m at the combi s n e a v t a i e o l n fo esuoh & tuh azzip

I'm a very reserved person. If it's not a stress trigger, what I feel usually doesn't reach my face and voice. I foolishly thought I just didn't feel very strongly. Then my friend gifted me Chicory: A Colorful Tale. And now there's a dedicated "Make Spud Cry" button. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MFC...

The Mountain Top

YouTube video by Lena Raine - Topic

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Retro Blast 👻@retroblastpod.com · 5d ago

What's the most EMOTIONAL moment you've ever experienced in a video game?

Except it turns out those math papers were mostly nonsense. Our response to anything these AI companies say about ANYTHING should be “prove it”, particularly if there are people claiming we don’t need entire fields of human study now

Mathematicians Can't Make Sense of How OpenAI's Agents Solved One of the Toughest Math Problems Because the AI's "Proof" Is Borderline Incomprehensible

Mathematicians say they're still unpacking OpenAI's solution for the Navier-Stokes problems because the AI's proof is nearly incomrehensible.

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Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · 2d ago

“This recent dump of papers on Tuesday destroyed the careers of early-career mathematicians. We've had whole research programs wiped out on Tuesday by their dump … they have all the mathematicians research programs in their training data” - Tristan Buckmaster on OpenAI solving unsolved math problems

The modded Fallout Tale of Two Wastelands playthrough is coming along nicely, but once again I am forced to remember that the Point Lookout DLC has nothing to offer in its gameplay but contempt and loathing

The thing I've never gotten about vibe-coding on a personal level is, even supposing it goes well until it doesn't, the moment anything goes wrong, you enter a loop prompting an LLM to solve problems it caused, with no inherent understanding of the code. Congratulations, you are now in purgatory.

This new wave of crazy crossover mods gets significantly less impressive once you discover a bunch of them are vibe-coded to hell, which means their stability doesn't last much longer than it takes to record a YouTube video and their likelihood to reach a stable and polished state is next to null

it's awesome how with AI, game modding has gone from impressive technical achievement/commitment to cheap gimmick for views. like oh really someone made a mod that lets you shoot guys in katamari damacy? they made a mod so you can order taco bell in metroid? they put elmo into eternal darkness?

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

"The signer from Powerman 5000 is Rob Zombie's little brother" is a statement that I didn't know, but made immediate, iron-clad sense once I learned it. As logical as sun rise every morning

20 years of fanfic, finally given a soft ending and a reboot. What the fuck am I doing

Newbieblook@newbiespud.bsky.social · 4d ago

Be kind, Re:Wind. www.fanfiction.net/s/12530903/1...

Be kind, Re:Wind. www.fanfiction.net/s/12530903/1...

In case you thought "dude is the jerkoff hand gesture incarnate" wasn't a good enough reason to not buy the dude's games, get a load of this:

Nick Suttner@nsuttner.bsky.social · 4d ago

I gave Braid an A+ back in my press days. I spent 100s of hours working on The Witness at PlayStation, fighting for it, getting it into conferences, and being Jon's personal wrangler. I even coined "Metroidbrainia" after it. I will not be buying Order of the Sinking Star, and neither should you.

The penultimate chapter of the original saga. This is the part where I tip my hand about where it's all been going. This is a huge one. www.fanfiction.net/s/12530903/1...

I'm not kidding

Mysterious Z (DATE OF BIRTH AUGUST 2ND)@mysteriousz.bsky.social · 7d ago

If I told you that you can learn how to Bomb Jump in Super Metroid just by listening to Mr. Brightside, would you believe me

Idea by @decentdoicm.bsky.social and @mstangdoespuzzles.bsky.social

Kala Paint is out! I'm @olawson.bsky.social , professional artist for 15 years, then game dev, now wrote the painting software I wish I'd been using all this time. GPU-run creamy brushes, no subscription, no gen AI crap, hand-coded with ideas from artists in our Discord, and more added weekly!

I BEG YOUR FUCKING PARDON EXCUSE ME WHAT?? As if I didn't already think the @uwotc-official.bsky.social was NECESSARY.

Michael Iantorno☔️✊@michaeliantorno.com · 5d ago

"Currently, if an employee makes anything creative in their free time, with their own resources, Hasbro can claim ownership. What we do in our free time should not be dictated by the company, and what we make in our free time should belong to us.“

Today's been a "sleep in, accomplish nothing, go to bed early" kind of day

Streamin' some casual, cozy, modded Fallout 3+NV to make up for the lack of co-op factory building. Once again, we ask if this is anything. twitch.tv/newbiespud

Newbiespud - Live on Twitch

An Un-Satisfactory Time (Tale of Two Wastelands) | Streaming fallout: new vegas.

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No Satisfactory co-op stream tonight because Nyx's glorious new job is getting in the way. We might be aiming for her days off on a week-by-week basis from now on, we'll see. Might stream some Fallout tonight to make up.

Got bombarded with like 4 stress nightmares in a row this morning and my nerves are already overloaded from that, so I don't think I've got any gas in the creative tank today. I'm gonna take a sick day - which frustrates me because I'm so close yet so far, but it is what it is.

Dungeons & Dragons and Magic the Gathering are unionizing! Read our letter and sign our petition to management below! I'm the proudest to be a Wizard I've ever been—this union is the first step to making D&D better than ever before.

this will be funny to like 3 people but I’m one of them and that’s all that matters

GenSlop gets me so worked up these days that I'm tempted to start an anti-LLM newsletter or podcast or something so I have a slightly more professional place to vent my frustrations into the void, even if no one stops by to read it