The most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.
Arjan Terpstra
@ranja72.bsky.social
Video game writer. Wrote for Guerrilla and PUBG games. Author of PAC-MAN: Birth of an Icon and Sonic Art and Design books. See ranja72.com for details, projects, contact.
One day after leaving The Odyssey with mixed emotions but no clear sense of why I felt conflicted about the movie I find this: the leading US scholar on Homer promoting her essay on the film. Which is as epic as it is humbling.
EMILY WILSON@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · last wk.I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Something wild is happening, and if you know how to read Trumpworld — and unfortunately, I do — the signals are unmistakable. open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...
Russia Is Out Of Gas. Literally. And Trump Just Switched Teams Mid-Collapse As Ukraine Overwhelms Russia EVERYWHERE.
The tells are everywhere. The refineries are on fire, MAGA propagandists are apologizing, and Donald Trump just called Zelensky “Very good!!!” You know what that means.
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I am once again begging Hollywood to stop using the Greek alphabet for an Ancient World movie, if they can't afford to even throw a couple of quid at anyone with an inkling of the language. Unless they really think audiences are dying to see THS THDPSSSSPS
The halftime show artists at the #worldcup have a hell of an opportunity to make political statements, don’t they? If Madonna has any of that eighties’ grit left in her, she’ll know what to do.
The Silent Carthographer. We're proud to present our fist official @halogame.bsky.social fine art print by @janurschel.bsky.social. Created to celebrate the original game's 25th Anniversary this year! #halo #masterchief #warthog
My opponents are all communists. In unrelated news, my government will be taking ownership of the means of production.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo agoTrump says he's interested in govt taking equity stakes in the giant AI companies like OpenAI or Anthropic: "There's something very interesting about it, where it almost becomes a partnership. The American people can benefit from the success of AI, and by doing that, they're gonna like it better."
Mainstream journalists are abdicating their duty. Cartoonists are the real heroes of the moment.
Sisyphus but every day he unsubscribes from marketing and promotion emails.
Something I didn’t get about capitalism before reading a lot of Marx is that the dynamic driving companies isn’t just to make profit but to be making more profit at a higher rate than everyone else. To do that you need to invest more than everyone else and work on a larger scale...
Jason Schreier@jasonschreier.bsky.social · 4mo agoExact budgets of video-game productions can be tough to corroborate (more transparency from publishers would be nice!) but the numbers I've heard floating around AAA game dev these days are $300 million or more — sometimes much more! — which I think helps explain the current state of the industry
When movies were shot on physical film, the film was measured in feet. This is why any recorded thing is now called ‘footage.'
Please repost and share far and wide: we are 43 backers away from 1000 backers! It would be SO NICE of we would reach that magical number before our Kickstarter closes. Are you one of those 43 last backers? ❤️😍❤️ www.kickstarter.com/projects/spe... #videogames #indiegames #indiedev #kickstarter
All Will Rise: a narrative courtroom deck-builder
A game about taking a billionaire to court for the murder of a river.
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Joost Vervoort breaking the 4th wall@joostvervoort.bsky.social · 5mo agoOne thing that's interesting about this is All Will Rise is about a small group of people trying to change big systems, too. And they have difficult conversations about who to work with, and for what reasons. Game world and game dev reality are converging in a way.
If Donald asks Zelensky for anti drone systems, he better wear a suit, ask nicely and say thank you.
Tokyo train features a striking PlayStation ad. Original post
Het leuke van bluesky versus twitter is dat ik hier een dagtaak heb aan het blokken van vogelaars en insectenliefhebbers in mijn feed. Een goed probleem om te hebben lijkt mij.
Lots of games deserve attention at nextfest, I've been super charmed with All WIll Rise. it is the type of protest game that should define our times. Not the brainrot. store.steampowered.com/app/3165340/...
All Will Rise on Steam
The river is a god, and they killed her. It’s time for ordinary people to hold them to account. Manage your team. Mix with ecoterrorists and godmen. Build your deck, follow leads and find allies. Make...
store.steampowered.com
De gamejournalistiek dreigde uit Nederland te verdwijnen Daarom zijn we vandaag met Unpause begonnen. Een gamesite die van onszelf is, zonder uitgever. Ons verdienmodel is simpel: onze lezers kunnen abonneren. Kom lezen, en steun als je wil en kan! www.unpause.nl/verhalen/nie...
Welkom op Unpause! - Unpause
Unpause is een gamewebsite. Zo lastig als dat blijkt, zo simpel kan het zijn.
unpause.nl
Heard an interview today where a guy said (and I'm paraphrasing) "LLMs have had years to train on every aspect of chess, read every book and article about it, review every match, but when they play, they STILL makes illegal moves. That tells you everything." And. Yup.
(1/11) If you live in NY, you’ve probably started seeing a new warning: “THIS PRICE WAS SET BY AN ALGORITHM USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA.” This mandatory disclosure went into effect late last year, and it’s the first attempt by a US state to grapple with a new generation of surveillance pricing.
This is most certainly something that will rattle @henklooijesteijn.bsky.social 's cage phys.org/news/2026-02...
New study uses Neanderthals to demonstrate gap between generative AI and scholarly knowledge
Technological advances over the past four decades have turned mobile devices and computers into the world's largest library, where information is just a tap away. Phones, laptops, tablets, smartwatche...
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And here's how I suddenly went on a hunt for a black outline shoulder tattoo
Scabbyhabby@scabbyhabby.bsky.social · 6mo ago
This video from costume company Total Fabrication provides a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of a Pac-Man costume that would be used by Namco in the late 1990s for events such as E3.