The old adage is true: the effort required to refute this stuff exceeds the effort it took to publish it. We are tired.

Hah, hobbies COVID lockdown was working full time starting at 6AM while my wife watched our infant and then switching roles at noon, then two hours for dinner and everything else we had to do, and repeat on weekends to reach 40 hours Also drinking too much, I suppose that's a hobby

Chappell (Like The Show)@chappellskickback.bsky.social · 2d ago

I have a question for the masses This came up at work. In 2020 was your COVID lockdown hobby if you had one? I’ll go first. I joined an ant colony on Facebook. 😭 (don’t ask)

Why do we keep on doing this? Praising a 'small core team' for a game with 1100+ people in the credits is incredibly misleading. This PR narrative hurts, hides the massive shadow workforce of outsourced developers and testers, and sets impossible standards for actual indie teams.

GamesIndustry.biz@gibiz.bsky.social · 5d ago

Star Wars: Galactic Racer was made by a core team of 75 people. "What we wanted to do was keep that core small, smaller than perhaps you might have done in the past, and scale capacity and capability with what we call distributed development." https://bit.ly/4hT02qg

Still trying to understand how Napster got shut down, but Anthropic is going public and still hasn’t paid us authors yet after stealing our work.

They're going to kill us all to build a beach resort.

the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it

Gianmarco Soresi@gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 2w ago

Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon

Madison has noticed an increased reliance on generative AI among patrons at the Michelin-recommended Italian restaurant where she worked until recently. She’s had customers request bottles that the restaurant doesn’t carry — or, in some cases, that don’t exist at all.

AI hallucinations are making entitled customers even worse

Thanks to AI, the customer really isn’t always right.

theverge.com

I implore all cis people to read this.

Cal Horton (they/them)@fiercemum.bsky.social · 3w ago

New blog: Leaving the UK with a heavy heart. growinguptransgender.com/2026/10/02/l...

Hey folks, it's clearing out the Warhammer closet time again, this time to pay for Isaac's ̶c̶o̶l̶l̶e̶g̶e̶ ̶f̶u̶n̶d̶ birthday party since he missed one last year. Sorry if some of these prices seem crazy but trust me, some of these upgrade sprues are going for crazy dollars. www.ebay.com/usr/drhazard01

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Follow drhazard01 on eBay. Buying, Selling, Collecting on eBay has never been more exciting!

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Gobsmacked by the elite levels of not knowing ball in the Senate today, thinking an NBA team is called the Hawkeyes then, refusing to Google it, then accusing a guy of treason because you didn’t know the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes aren’t in the NBA. Somehow I don’t trust these people to Save Girls Sports.

I hope this email finds you, binds you ties you to a pole and breaks your fingers to splinters drags you to a hole until you wake up naked clawing at the ceiling of your grave ooooooh-whooooooah

Since a dev shared his game concept last month, Steam has been flooded with vibe-coded slop clones. This is what "democratising creativity" actually looks like. Even with AI, your ideas are worthless as long as they can be plagiarised at scale. Gen AI was designed for plagiarism, NOT creativity.

“Everything is 40% more expensive because of AI” is a great line for an opposition party trying to unseat the AI-supported incumbents, if any Democratic consultants wanted to take a short break from dehumanizing trans kids to actually try winning a contested election.

IGN@ign.com · last mo.

The Steam Frame starts at $1,059, but it was probably supposed to cost about $750, as the RAM crisis continues to raise prices. https://t.co/Oq9XUHM630

The Message From Deep Space is such a smart puzzle game. Slowly figure out how to communicate with aliens, starting with basic math concepts and building up from there.

Become Earth's First Xeno-Linguist in Sci-Fi Puzzler The Message from Deep Space

Here's my number, so call me maybe?

steamhype.com

Maybe not particularly smart of me to say, given I'm still trying to find employment, but you can count me amongst the crowd decrying crunch on social media.

Game Developer@gamedeveloper.bsky.social · last mo.

Wardogs lead says the studio won't hire people who decry crunch on social media

If Democrats were serious they would go straight for the jugular of the crypto industry as soon as they take power. There’s public policy reasons to do this (name a non-crime use case), but also it cuts off a major artery for Republican support and corruption.

Tomas Hirst@tomashirstecon.bsky.social · last mo.

Another clear and knowable downstream consequence of letting scammers get rich off crypto was that that money would boomerang back into politics in ways that were highly likely to try to skirt around fundraising laws and distort policy incentives.

let us remember that ‘sales projections’ are often, but not always, fairytales made up by people who don’t read books and who think culture is going to a javier’s once a month

a few years ago when i was a graduating game design major the one thing i did not want to do was start my own company/kickstart a passion project, because i knew that no amount of striking out on my own could substitute from actually learning from seniors

so are we gonna get a bunch of political analysis thumbsucker pieces about the cautionary tale of a promising youngish politico who torpedoed his career by latching on to the biological gender extremists who are attempting to drag the Democratic Party into hugely unpopular political waters or nah

Just spotted that Titanium Court is half price. Very weird, very smart, very funny hybrid match 3 strategy roguelite autobattler. It is also a modern retelling of A Midsummer Night's Dream, where your magical private helicopter can be chased around the magical battlefield by rabid magical papparazi

Save 50% on Titanium Court on Steam

A critically-acclaimed surreal masterpiece. This is how AP Thomson would describe Titanium Court if not for the curse he bears as punishment for his hubris. Instead he can only use the crudest of term...

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i think if you walk into court saying "unless our demands are met we will blow up the kennedy center" you should just go directly to jail

Before an emergency hearing, the Kennedy Center's board threatens to demolish it

A lawsuit seeks to block President Trump's name from going back on the center. The center's board warns that if renovation plans don't go forward, it may be demolished.

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I remember realizing I didn't have Taste cuz I thought this was clever and so many words were written about how it's not.

brendan mordheim@brendanmcleod.dev · 2mo ago

we used to make Video Games

I am becoming incredibly exhausted of this pattern: many people: "AI sucks!" Very Smart Person: ah but have you considered (distinct application of ML or statistical modeling that has no real relationship to what the tech industry is marketing as, and people broadly perceive as, "AI")

Megan Greenwell@greenwell.bsky.social · 2mo ago

apropos of nothing, here's a terrific feature about a meaningful, life-saving use of artificial intelligence, which I have been thinking about for over a year. it's just extremely stupid to say that AI has zero benefits even if you don't think it should be used in writing (which I don't)!

How do I explain to small business owners that the menu on the left is one billion times more appealing than the one on the right

A year on MASSAGE-2(A-B)b doesn't seem too bad. Would probably get sick of eating beryl nuts before ADA made me crazy.

Nina Marotta ☢️💙@mrschief7.bsky.social · 2mo ago

You're offered $250,000,000 but to claim it you must enter the last video game you've played and stay there for a full year. How are y'all faring in this deal?

The constant, unrelenting, mainstream media narrative of "I can't conceptualise that so it can't possibly be real and anyone who says it otherwise is lying" is so exhausting and is always targeted at groups who have been minding their own business for decades harming no one.

People message me that my assets get resold at Fab, itch.io & Roblox. Technically that's legal (sort of debatable), but I still feel it's unfair for people that pay for them while they could've been free. I want my assets to be free, please keep them free.

A thing anyone can do is unfollow CNN and follow a bunch of independent and local newsrooms instead. 🧵 follows.

CNN@cnn.com · 3mo ago

Twenty-five years after the mayor of New York City became the champion of America's grief and resilience at the time of the 9/11 attacks, families of those killed are split on whether the current mayor should attend the annual remembrance. https://cnn.it/4zkKYdc