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He/him. Pansexual Aceflux | 🏳️‍⚧️ - ally | Free Palestine | Honour Te Tiriti | Kiwi | 1/2 of GameJabber | i have a degree from beautiful ethereal princess university | Conflicted fan of Bioware and SquareEnix games | Final Fantasy IX is the best one | Kadan <3
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November 21, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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I think it’s bad that ai allows people to pretend to live in completely separate realities so they don’t have to process news and events that make them uncomfortable. I think that is bad for the health of society!
Trump supporters are also making shitty AI videos of Trump arresting Mamdani in the Oval Office.

They don't know how to process what just happened in real life, so they're making the version they prefer with AI.
November 22, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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The last Shooter genre game to outsell Call of Duty in the US market over a full year was Gears of War, in 2006. The last FPS to do so was Star Wars: Battlefront II a year prior.

A Call of Duty game has been the US market's best-seller in 13 of the past 16 years (GTAV, RDRII, Hogwarts Legacy).
November 21, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Congrats to Jennifer English for winning the Best Lead Performer award at the 2025 #GoldenJoystickAwards!

And her acceptance speech about queer joy was a love letter to @aliona.bsky.social 🥹🌈
November 20, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Fixed it for you. Idiots! If the exclusion is based on appearance then it will certainly impact cis folks as well as trans folks.
November 20, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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This trifle at Woolworths is $46.
It is "14" servings.

I have my hand (my tiny hand btw, I have small hands - fat but small) next to it so you can see how ridiculously small it is.
November 21, 2025 at 5:45 AM
November 21, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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Final Fantasy X (2001)
November 21, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Outbreak with friends is so good. I don’t need a new outbreak but a legal functional way to play the original ones would be fantastic.
November 20, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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If I publicly got outed as having done something like this I think I would walk into traffic lmao
Krafton CEO allegedly asked AI to "brainstorm ways to avoid paying" earnout bonus to Subnautica 2 devs www.eurogamer.net/krafton-ceo-...
November 18, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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20 years ago today, Darkstalkers Chronicle: The Chaos Tower was re-released on PlayStation Portable in JP under the “PSP the Best” series. It was distributed by Capcom.
November 18, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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This is from Grokipedia's woeful AI-generated article on New Zealand. Yes, it really is citing Hobson's Pledge as a factual source.
November 18, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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"Baby, don't worry," he said. "It's not a worm."
November 18, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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Willis is part of a Govt that is destroying NZ’s core international brand, ripping up our Paris climate commitments, deliberately undermining the climate sections of trade agreements , that has alienated Aus and the Pacific by supporting bottom trawling etc etc www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
‘Doolally, economic vandalism’ - Willis blasts Greens’ mining intervention
The Greens’ promise to revoke fast-tracked consents on seven mining projects has prompted government ministers to come out swinging, and one mining company to defend itself.
www.stuff.co.nz
November 18, 2025 at 3:27 AM
IRL shiny
November 18, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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Rebecca was one of the founders of Interplay and programmed & designed for some of the most influential games of my youth, notably Bard's Tale I & III and Wasteland. She will be missed.
My trailblazing game industry bad-ass friend Rebecca Heineman has passed away.

Fuck cancer.

Friends, let’s not forget her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...
Rebecca Heineman - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 17, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Call of Duty making a zillion dollars all the time -- and being supported by a literal trillion-dollar company -- and still using AI for art assets is so incredibly pathetic and infuriating.
November 17, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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There's lots of reasons to be annoyed with The Game Awards but it's definitely the "make up a guy to be mad at"-iest thing in our industry.
November 17, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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“You know, fair use is fair use and we need to make sure that we’re not stealing people’s intellectual property and rights but..."

No! There is no "but" here! That statement ends with a period, not a "but".
"Surely there's a middle ground here?" The CEO of Helldivers 2 studio Arrowhead says people "jump to extreme takes" when debating generative AI, and that there needs to be more nuance in the discussion.

www.videogameschronicle.com/news/surely-...
‘Surely there’s a middle ground here?’ Helldivers studio CEO says people ‘jump to extreme takes’ when debating GenAI | VGC
“This is such a trigger point for big parts of the games industry today”…
www.videogameschronicle.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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one day we will reach a point where people understand that showing something bad happening in a piece of fiction is not endorsing it. but today is not that day, i guess.
November 17, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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This is grimly amusing. Bishop couldn't fulfil a campaign promise because of Simeon Brown's footpath fatwa, so he had to raid a Kāinga Ora fund. Maybe running transport policy as a culture war was a stupid and destructive thing to do in the first place, eh.
NEW: Chris Bishop used housing money to fund a bridge in his electorate his own Govt had killed off.

Officials were against the move and Labour say he shouldn’t have been anywhere near the decision.

www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...
Chris Bishop diverts Kāinga Ora money to fund a bridge in his electorate
Officials warned against the use of housing funds for bridge building but Bishop says it was a “pragmatic choice”.
www.thepost.co.nz
November 17, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Incredible 😭
Mosslax is coated in moss and has a flower blooming atop their head. Perhaps Mosslax was asleep for a really long time…
November 17, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Greens vow to scrap mining consents as fast-track changes rushed through
Greens vow to scrap mining consents as fast-track changes rushed through
The public was given just 11 days to make submissions on dozens of controversial changes to the fast-track law....
thespinoff.co.nz
November 17, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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The KiwiSaver members wiping out their balances
The KiwiSaver members wiping out their balances
Hardship withdrawals have increased substantially in recent years as cost-of-living pressure has gone on households.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 17, 2025 at 7:50 PM