lincoln carpenter
@lincolnhello.bsky.social
News writer at PC Gamer. Older stuff at Polygon, Fanbyte, pre-unholy resurrection Waypoint, etc. Artist formerly known as the Hellmouth Sunbeams. Views are my own and bad
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we weren't meant to trade follows. we were meant to trade secret oaths of vengeance against the count's men
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Recent Sony game studio acquisitions
- 2021: Nixxes
- 2021: Firesprite (layoffs in 2024)
- 2021: Bluepoint (closed in 2026)
- 2022: Valkyrie Entertainment
- 2022: Haven Studios
- 2022: Bungie (layoffs in 2024; new game soon)
- 2022: Neon Koi (closed in 2024)
- 2023: Firewalk (closed in 2024)
- 2021: Nixxes
- 2021: Firesprite (layoffs in 2024)
- 2021: Bluepoint (closed in 2026)
- 2022: Valkyrie Entertainment
- 2022: Haven Studios
- 2022: Bungie (layoffs in 2024; new game soon)
- 2022: Neon Koi (closed in 2024)
- 2023: Firewalk (closed in 2024)
Roughly 70 employees will be impacted by the Bluepoint closure. Bluepoint was working on a God of War live-service game until it was canceled early last year. The studio then spent the last year pitching and trying to determine what it would do next. Full story: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Sony Shuts Down Video-Game Studio Bluepoint
The PlayStation subsidiary previously made remakes of games like ‘Demon’s Souls’
www.bloomberg.com
February 19, 2026 at 7:04 PM
Recent Sony game studio acquisitions
- 2021: Nixxes
- 2021: Firesprite (layoffs in 2024)
- 2021: Bluepoint (closed in 2026)
- 2022: Valkyrie Entertainment
- 2022: Haven Studios
- 2022: Bungie (layoffs in 2024; new game soon)
- 2022: Neon Koi (closed in 2024)
- 2023: Firewalk (closed in 2024)
- 2021: Nixxes
- 2021: Firesprite (layoffs in 2024)
- 2021: Bluepoint (closed in 2026)
- 2022: Valkyrie Entertainment
- 2022: Haven Studios
- 2022: Bungie (layoffs in 2024; new game soon)
- 2022: Neon Koi (closed in 2024)
- 2023: Firewalk (closed in 2024)
my kids are hard at work on the worst idea i've ever had and you'll never guess what happens if it doesn't pan out
I'm going to raise my children like a savvy videogame businessman should. if they aren't billionaires within two weeks of birth I'll have them killed
February 19, 2026 at 7:07 PM
my kids are hard at work on the worst idea i've ever had and you'll never guess what happens if it doesn't pan out
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Also, it’s not an error, it’s a bias. They just “turned it up” too high and so they got caught too quick.
If an “error” is only happening to a certain group of people then it is a targeted bias.
If an “error” is only happening to a certain group of people then it is a targeted bias.
"why are you against progress" I yell confidently as my sloppily-implemented algorithms prematurely murder your grandma
UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges
For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.
arstechnica.com
February 18, 2026 at 6:52 PM
Also, it’s not an error, it’s a bias. They just “turned it up” too high and so they got caught too quick.
If an “error” is only happening to a certain group of people then it is a targeted bias.
If an “error” is only happening to a certain group of people then it is a targeted bias.
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my body is a machine that turns making one meal into three dirty knives
February 18, 2026 at 2:39 PM
my body is a machine that turns making one meal into three dirty knives
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ProPublica published children's letters and drawings documenting their sadness and suffering at Dilley. And Dilley staff are now retaliating by confiscating kids' letters and drawings.
www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...
www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...
February 18, 2026 at 1:14 PM
ProPublica published children's letters and drawings documenting their sadness and suffering at Dilley. And Dilley staff are now retaliating by confiscating kids' letters and drawings.
www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...
www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...
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Appreciate Chris for pointing out how gross the Supreme Court's action here is, since too many will see it as minor.
They're forcing people seeking justice from the Court to engage in extra (and thus $$$) busywork because two justices will not divest their stocks.
They're forcing people seeking justice from the Court to engage in extra (and thus $$$) busywork because two justices will not divest their stocks.
SCOTUS is dealing with problems that arise from justices’ ownership of individual stocks.
What did the court do to address this ethical question? Did the justices agree to divest from individual stock ownership? Of course not.
Parties are directed to include stock ticker symbols in their briefs.
What did the court do to address this ethical question? Did the justices agree to divest from individual stock ownership? Of course not.
Parties are directed to include stock ticker symbols in their briefs.
SCOTUS changed the rules for bringing cases to the court because John Roberts won't sell his stocks
Roberts and Alito are the only two justices who own individual stocks. Also: A new lawsuit challenges the Trump admin's removal of the Pride flag at the Stonewall Monument.
www.lawdork.com
February 18, 2026 at 2:23 PM
Appreciate Chris for pointing out how gross the Supreme Court's action here is, since too many will see it as minor.
They're forcing people seeking justice from the Court to engage in extra (and thus $$$) busywork because two justices will not divest their stocks.
They're forcing people seeking justice from the Court to engage in extra (and thus $$$) busywork because two justices will not divest their stocks.
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The constant condescension about ai is another aspect of it that makes me hate it more. The assumption is you can only be against it because you don't understand it like I do. No man. I don't like voluntarily making every human enterprise dependent on a tech run by a tiny group of financial maniacs
February 18, 2026 at 5:08 AM
The constant condescension about ai is another aspect of it that makes me hate it more. The assumption is you can only be against it because you don't understand it like I do. No man. I don't like voluntarily making every human enterprise dependent on a tech run by a tiny group of financial maniacs
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(when i've only prepped 1 of 4 ingredients i'll need a knife for) welp, time to place this knife in the sink, the Capital of Filth
February 18, 2026 at 12:43 AM
(when i've only prepped 1 of 4 ingredients i'll need a knife for) welp, time to place this knife in the sink, the Capital of Filth
spent Presidents' Day communing with my namesake. as ever, Abe's dispatches from the astral plane consist mostly of cursing George McClellan and seeking details about our wondrous production of a butter using naught but the humble peanut
February 17, 2026 at 2:17 PM
spent Presidents' Day communing with my namesake. as ever, Abe's dispatches from the astral plane consist mostly of cursing George McClellan and seeking details about our wondrous production of a butter using naught but the humble peanut
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"Impossibly, despite its attempts to pacify the ensuing outcry by issuing a clarification that merely some users will be required to submit to its child detection matrix, Discord has managed to make the rollout of its global age assurance policy seem even grimier."
Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter Thiel
Discord is "experimenting" with an age authentication vendor whose major investors include Thiel's Founders Fund.
www.pcgamer.com
February 13, 2026 at 11:21 PM
"Impossibly, despite its attempts to pacify the ensuing outcry by issuing a clarification that merely some users will be required to submit to its child detection matrix, Discord has managed to make the rollout of its global age assurance policy seem even grimier."
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Ask and you shall receive
February 14, 2026 at 1:22 AM
Ask and you shall receive
first his apes and now this
February 14, 2026 at 1:18 PM
first his apes and now this
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"wages have been flat for decades" is an extremely simple, obviously true concept that explains about 80% of all handwringing op-eds and for some reason they just won't say that
"zoomers are killing the bar industry" oh interesting was it zoomers who decided a drink should cost seventeen dollars
February 13, 2026 at 10:04 PM
"wages have been flat for decades" is an extremely simple, obviously true concept that explains about 80% of all handwringing op-eds and for some reason they just won't say that
"Impossibly, despite its attempts to pacify the ensuing outcry by issuing a clarification that merely some users will be required to submit to its child detection matrix, Discord has managed to make the rollout of its global age assurance policy seem even grimier."
Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter Thiel
Discord is "experimenting" with an age authentication vendor whose major investors include Thiel's Founders Fund.
www.pcgamer.com
February 13, 2026 at 11:21 PM
"Impossibly, despite its attempts to pacify the ensuing outcry by issuing a clarification that merely some users will be required to submit to its child detection matrix, Discord has managed to make the rollout of its global age assurance policy seem even grimier."
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if someone is saying shit like "it's lowkey biphobic that you support AOC even though she won't legalize cannibalism" or "you realize that expecting your room to have windows a luxury belief right" what you're seeing are the charged particles being shot off from polycule fission
February 13, 2026 at 5:15 AM
if someone is saying shit like "it's lowkey biphobic that you support AOC even though she won't legalize cannibalism" or "you realize that expecting your room to have windows a luxury belief right" what you're seeing are the charged particles being shot off from polycule fission
"CiniCross is a new roguelike that hit Steam this week, and it turns nonograms not into pictures, but into a dungeon crawler—complete with collectible artifacts, class progression, and the thrill of slowly bleeding out because your brain doesn't handle numbers particularly quickly."
I can now say I've been killed by a nonogram thanks to this roguelike that turns Picross into a dungeon crawler
I always knew I'd go out this way.
www.pcgamer.com
February 13, 2026 at 4:15 PM
"CiniCross is a new roguelike that hit Steam this week, and it turns nonograms not into pictures, but into a dungeon crawler—complete with collectible artifacts, class progression, and the thrill of slowly bleeding out because your brain doesn't handle numbers particularly quickly."
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Absolutely do NOT give your ID or face scan on Discord. It's even worse than expected. Apparently due to people bypassing current systems, they're switching to "persona" which is funded by fucking Peter Thiel.
February 12, 2026 at 1:40 PM
Absolutely do NOT give your ID or face scan on Discord. It's even worse than expected. Apparently due to people bypassing current systems, they're switching to "persona" which is funded by fucking Peter Thiel.
you'll be shocked to learn, I'm sure, that this earned me my first real hatemail in months
"It's a competent loop of heist setup and escape execution. But even when I piloted Nomali through a flawless getaway, I found myself more interested in being able to return to the relooters' hideout to learn more about the game's 70 reclaimable artifacts and their very real histories."
Relooted is a fine heist game—but it's a better history lesson
Correcting dark historic wrongs can feel surprisingly bright.
www.pcgamer.com
February 13, 2026 at 1:49 AM
you'll be shocked to learn, I'm sure, that this earned me my first real hatemail in months
discussing the sony state of play
February 12, 2026 at 10:33 PM
discussing the sony state of play
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Wow, almost like the media and journalism profession failed in some sort of professional duty to actually inform these low-engagement voters about what Trump was saying he wanted to do and the consequences of those plans.
There is a moral-failure-of-the-voters here, but it's not the only one.
There is a moral-failure-of-the-voters here, but it's not the only one.
New poll: In 2024, low-engagement voters went for Trump over Harris by 11 percentage points. But now they disapprove of the way he's handling the presidency by 13. They have moved 25 points against Trump — 2x as large as the shift for high-knowledge voters www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-lost...
Trump has lost the voters who weren’t paying attention in 2024
The least-engaged Americans have swung 25 points against him since 2024 — about twice the shift among everyone else. Trump has flattened the engagement gap.
www.gelliottmorris.com
February 12, 2026 at 2:42 PM
Wow, almost like the media and journalism profession failed in some sort of professional duty to actually inform these low-engagement voters about what Trump was saying he wanted to do and the consequences of those plans.
There is a moral-failure-of-the-voters here, but it's not the only one.
There is a moral-failure-of-the-voters here, but it's not the only one.
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I'm going to raise my children like a savvy videogame businessman should. if they aren't billionaires within two weeks of birth I'll have them killed
February 12, 2026 at 2:59 AM
I'm going to raise my children like a savvy videogame businessman should. if they aren't billionaires within two weeks of birth I'll have them killed
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finding a good place for this in my Dwarf Fortress headline scrapbook
February 11, 2026 at 8:45 PM
finding a good place for this in my Dwarf Fortress headline scrapbook