How do you know your brain is games-rotten? When you see a ranndom Reel in front of a door and immediately say out loud 'Coastline, Rainbow Six Siege'. IFYKYK.
Dave Knowles
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Not as nice as initially expected, but does get better over time. I don't get it either. In gaming circles, I'm 'Shockeh' - I probably should have worked there but InfoSec paid better.
Okay, went through a flurry of fetching mutuals out of 'The Old Site That Went Bad'. If you're just noticing my Follow, Hi! I followed you back there, and have zero intent of being any more interesting or socially acceptable now!
Reminder: If you’re ever bored at work, just find a generic resignation letter, fill it out with a coworkers name then print it and leave it on the printer. Guaranteed comedy from some basic office terrorism.
That there’s no US Democratic candidate organising ‘Drain The Swamp’ chants now at rallies is such an incredible missed opportunity. “Oh, you didn’t mean the swamp you made? Riiiiiigggght.”
Whether Marathon (and/or Bungie, and I hope not) dies or not, the new Vandal cinematic is actually fuckin' rad. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiAu...
Vandal Shell Cinematic | Marathon
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A warm farewell to the Master of the Imperium, and one of the artists who fired my young imagination when I first set foot into a Games Workshop and encountered 40K, John Blanche. His work absolutely created the very bones that entire setting rests on. It simply wouldn't be 40K without Blanche.
TIL it's 'Unprofessional' to say 'I'm not saying he's worthless, though. I'm saying if we replaced him with an open tin of Pedigree Chum, statistically a stray dog will eventually wander in and do a better job'. Honestly, it's political correctness gone mad.
Today - I announce the creation of my Flat Sun movement; I aim to prove all these globists wrong, as the sun is clearly a flat disc that faces us! I have substantially more evidence than either any so called ‘Scientist’ or ‘Flat Earther’ because you can just look up and observe for yourself!
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Off to SYD to talk about what the SOC of 2030 needs to look like. I’m willing to bet there’s gonna be a lot of ‘everything will be robots!’ talk.
Bender from Futurama: Kill All Humans!
ALT: Bender from Futurama: Kill All Humans!
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Aside from any of the obvious points, the Jobs Ready Graduates Scheme that ushered this into being and continues to be is a great illustration of the Ratchet Effect in politics, where the establishment right ruins something, and the establishment left does nothing to fix it when they gain power
Guardian Australia@australia.theguardian.com · 3mo agoOne in four humanities students will take more than 25 years to fully repay their student loans because of Morrison government changes to university fees, newly public Treasury modelling reveals. Reporting by Krishani Dhanji. Read the full story. 🔗👉 www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
I hate how absolutely Ubisoft are going to hook me into buying Black Flag again, because it just felt so satisfying to putter about being a pirate. Just an honestly good fun gameplay loop. Like dunking bad guys in Arkham, you want to go out of your way to do it. C’mon Ubi, just do that more.
Wait, did I become the age I was, or am I the age I am now? Do I have a way back? Do I have to carefully re-tread history exactly so my family will exist? Am I going to die before I get to now again? There's SO MANY GODDAMN QUESTIONS. Oh, but I definitely go regulate Big Tech.
The old internet@theoldinternet.bsky.social · 3mo agoyou wake up tomorrow and it’s 1995, what are doing?
When AI Came First it came for the Writers And I did not speak out Because I was not a Writer Then it came for the Artists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Artist Then, it came for me; - And there was no one left * To speak out * For me
Provoked by very tedious attempts to supplant actual writers with the usual this week: “If you think AI slop is good writing, that says more about your reading comprehension than its writing ability.”
My video games rotten brain knows, definitively, there's a secret area available if I climb up onto the bottom right pipe, run along it, and jump to that partially visible hole in the wall.
Nick de Klerk@nickdk.bsky.social · 5mo agoThe gothic solemnity of Westminster station does it for me every. single. time.
I know it's a take as old as time, but that there's no 40K competitor to Planetside 2 is just... absolutely mindblowing. The format is exactly right for 40K. The models are already digital formats, and work flawlessly in Space Marine 2. And there's no modern competitor. Why doesn't this exist?
But critically, still leaving the door open for things like... 'supported by AI drafting' and 'Crafted by humans with generative concepts', or 'with background assets procedurally generated' and other euphemisms for 'lol we used the plagarism machine to make it more profitable'
Kotaku@kotaku.com · 6mo agoXbox's New Boss Promises Not To Flood It With 'Soulless AI Slop':
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, here revealed as Cyberdyne Systems Nonce-800, presumably was just trying to check Sarah Connor wasn't on the island.
@ironspike.bsky.social I can't reply sadly, but I see your 'Playing House' C&H, and raise you this absolute diamond of short-form, minimalist storytelling.
How do we possibly have a quite good Fallout TV show, and it's NOT timed to release with a Fallout game? Surely, surely that would have been a smart thing to do. I mean, it's also been 16 years since New Vegas, and nothing else in the franchise came even close, so maybe we are ruled by idiots.
I’m confused - I recognise objectively Fight Club is not a story to aspire to, and it’s really about toxic masculinity. But also I really want to watch the corporate buildings collapse whilst the Pixies play ‘Where Is My Mind’ in the background.
www.reuters.com/business/med... Fantastic news for Joss Whedon dialogue fans! Terrible news for *checks clipboard* literally everyone else!
Exclusive: Amazon plans to use AI to speed up TV and film production
Amazon plans to use artificial intelligence to speed up the process for making movies and TV shows even as Hollywood fears that AI will cut jobs and permanently reshape the industry.
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