If, ten years ago, someone had told you that people could subscribe to a service that can authoritatively fake everything from legal opinions and expert witness reports to determinations about recidivism and insurance claims you’d have said, “ban whatever that is immediately.”

cmrn knzlmn@ckunzelman.bsky.social · 3w ago

Reminds me a lot of some of the claims that @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social has been making about what the real use of AI is -- deferment of responsibility and the broad filibustering of the basic functions of civil society.

my friend in new super mario bros wii when they die:

i feel like the fandom obsession with things being Canon™ has led to so many people having no idea how to handle something being Implied but not outright stated. which leads to picking up on clues intentionally left by the author being given the same weight as headcanons pulled out of thin air

it's really eye opening once you realize just how much of rural/red state politics is "keeping the same wealthy families as wealthy as possible" and "funneling state funds from the working poor to upper middle class families so they can start their fifth business"

I've had this on for like 2 days now

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games have been huge success. thats why we're firing every one who makes games. also we are going to make it so players can no longer buy games

If you're curious what a non-preservationist gaming ecosystem looks like, you can look at the mobile stores, where most of the shit you remember does not exist in any form anymore.

Nearly every mobile game I’ve ever worked on is gone, “sunsetted” rather than made playable on current OSes. Their titles mean nothing to recruiters and hiring managers, let alone players. Even if players remember them fondly, they couldn’t play them anymore if they wanted to.

Imran Khan@imrankhan.bsky.social · 2mo ago

If you're curious what a non-preservationist gaming ecosystem looks like, you can look at the mobile stores, where most of the shit you remember does not exist in any form anymore.

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Bill@bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 2mo ago

we all make jokes about how woke 1 went too far but woke 1 was extremely, absolutely correct about how much these people were dogwhistling, absolutely correct about the direction they were going in, absolutely correct that how their beliefs were not compatible with a free society

do you want some opinions about steam's most recent next fest that don't waste your time? well, i have the blog for you. tellthemidied.blog/2026/06/24/o...

one or two sentences about some of the best games i played during steam next fest june 2026

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true but I think it is even closer to the individual: it was pioneered by those who grew up seeing the erosion of the cozy 'third space' where you're welcome and people hang out. liminal horror is the exact opposite of these feelings, a reflection of what most of our lived reality is nowadays

Sucko Comics@thesuckoshow.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The Backrooms is a pretty apt horror mythos for a generation growing up in Ghost Town America. Fake job listings, empty houses, studios spending $200m on a movie just to shelf it for a tax break. We already live in a hollow, uncanny facsimile of American life built by powerful aliens.

This is an example of the way AI is a crystallization (though not the origin) of a post-information epistemic culture that has taken an anti-documentarian turn where information no longer operates as evidence of the real world, and conversely can no longer tell when documents are evidence of fantasy

Maggie Harrison Dupré@mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 3mo ago

NEW: Google's AI Overviews are treating entities from the SCP Foundation — the famously fake fan-fiction universe — as if they're real. The AI feature often contextualizes SCP entities as actual discoveries while describing made-up SCP records as "official" documents. futurism.com/artificial-i...

ive seen half my timeline repost that culture crave post about the backrooms and reddit and i cannot stress enough how much culture crave fucking sucks

Culture Crave Sucks

Too many of you are sharing posts from a network that steals other people's work!

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I feel like an important aspect of enshitification is that everything has autoplay now

“industry convinced us to be okay with cars mowing down kids and taking away public space. we can also adjust to all the harms of the product making me a lot of money.”

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3mo ago

“.. He said cars were once portrayed as killing children, but the world changed its norms by having sidewalks and crosswalks .. “When I was growing up, I used to play in the streets,” Huang said. “When cars came along, you obviously can’t play in the streets now.” apnews.com/article/nvid...

after reading a bit about the state of college in the era of LLMs my honest reaction is what's even the point of college anymore. this isn't me saying LLMs are epic and replacing the need for college. but it sounds like it's just a place where you go to and play pretend now.

I don't think the average "gamer" really understands just how dire it is yet. Like, games are still coming out and things still feel 'normal' if all you do is browse Steam, but the industry is very much hemorrhaging amazing people at an unsustainable rate and you *will* feel it in time.

Shinobi602@shinobi602.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Entire Luna Abyss dev team Kwalee Labs has been laid off a month after release ➡️ gameinformer.com/2026/06/16/w...

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NESbot@nesbot.bsky.social · 3mo ago

30 billion street and environmental scans from Pokémon GO players were used to train US military drones www.resetera.com/threads/15...

Asha Sharma was always meant to function as Xbox’s sin eater.

She had to have known going into this that they were going to bleed this shit dry. They love putting a new face on things and saying they’re turning a corner right before plunging the knife in. Microsoft cannot be saved.

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90% of AAA game is either disappointing, too expensive or morally compromised meanwhile there’s like five hundred beautiful indie games out there every day that are like ‘what if we kept making quake but with a half life gravity gun’ or ‘what if there was a new Power Stone but for homosexuals’