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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the turkey is America’s omelas child
November 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
the turkey is America’s omelas child
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"The real poverty line—the threshold where a family can afford housing, healthcare, childcare, and transportation without relying on means-tested benefits—isn’t $31,200.
It’s ~$140,000."
It’s ~$140,000."
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:30 AM
"The real poverty line—the threshold where a family can afford housing, healthcare, childcare, and transportation without relying on means-tested benefits—isn’t $31,200.
It’s ~$140,000."
It’s ~$140,000."
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i think all the time about the discourse around the oscars slap. i forget who it was who said this but their takeaway was "listen, these are three highly specific and extremely strange individuals colliding at once in a singular event. there is nothing to be learned or extrapolated here"
November 27, 2025 at 12:05 AM
i think all the time about the discourse around the oscars slap. i forget who it was who said this but their takeaway was "listen, these are three highly specific and extremely strange individuals colliding at once in a singular event. there is nothing to be learned or extrapolated here"
image that warped an entire generation's neuropsychology:
November 26, 2025 at 4:34 PM
image that warped an entire generation's neuropsychology:
i knew destiny's star wars expansion was already skirting pretty close to Just Having Star Wars in it, but i didn't realize that the antagonist is... a sith lord. that's a sith lord. that's techwear-curious Darth Revan
November 26, 2025 at 4:19 PM
i knew destiny's star wars expansion was already skirting pretty close to Just Having Star Wars in it, but i didn't realize that the antagonist is... a sith lord. that's a sith lord. that's techwear-curious Darth Revan
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November 26, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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It’s the busiest shopping period of the year, so we’re hitting pause on buying from corporations that enable Trump’s fascist agenda: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=bluesky
November 26, 2025 at 1:13 PM
It’s the busiest shopping period of the year, so we’re hitting pause on buying from corporations that enable Trump’s fascist agenda: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=bluesky
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And because some of you are babies, if the idea of dealing with multiple stores is too much for you, get Playnite.
Free open-source game library app that hooks into all your stores and lets you browse, download and launch everything as if it was all in one place
Kinda like GOG Galaxy, but it works
Free open-source game library app that hooks into all your stores and lets you browse, download and launch everything as if it was all in one place
Kinda like GOG Galaxy, but it works
Playnite - video game library manager
Video game library manager with one simple goal: To provide a unified interface for all of your games.
playnite.link
November 13, 2025 at 3:07 PM
And because some of you are babies, if the idea of dealing with multiple stores is too much for you, get Playnite.
Free open-source game library app that hooks into all your stores and lets you browse, download and launch everything as if it was all in one place
Kinda like GOG Galaxy, but it works
Free open-source game library app that hooks into all your stores and lets you browse, download and launch everything as if it was all in one place
Kinda like GOG Galaxy, but it works
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Story's been updated with a rare, albeit thin, response from Valve:
November 25, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Story's been updated with a rare, albeit thin, response from Valve:
if nothing else, it’s interesting to see what bits of spiritual morality I’ve still got hanging around to be surprised that people can do things like this without getting straight up smote for engaging in raw moral violence
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 26, 2025 at 12:49 AM
if nothing else, it’s interesting to see what bits of spiritual morality I’ve still got hanging around to be surprised that people can do things like this without getting straight up smote for engaging in raw moral violence
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I love windows, I love clicking on an interaction I've done a thousand times in this OS only for it to throw a curveball so wild and stupid I have to sigh "what the fuck" at the screen on a weekly basis.
November 26, 2025 at 12:40 AM
I love windows, I love clicking on an interaction I've done a thousand times in this OS only for it to throw a curveball so wild and stupid I have to sigh "what the fuck" at the screen on a weekly basis.
Story's been updated with a rare, albeit thin, response from Valve:
November 25, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Story's been updated with a rare, albeit thin, response from Valve:
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Well worth reading re: Arc Raiders, AI voices and the notion of "ethical" use of generative AI.
I saw some chat about Arc Raiders' use of AI voice actors recently - I'm probably not going to rerecord the talk I gave at EXAG but I thought I'd drop in a few slides about the idea that you can make generative AI ethical by getting people to sign a piece of paper to say you can use their data.
November 25, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Well worth reading re: Arc Raiders, AI voices and the notion of "ethical" use of generative AI.
hey dude I found your exhibit in the Museum of All Things, the boundless virtual museumscape procedurally conjured from Wikipedia information, which you can download at mayeclair.itch.io/museum-of-al...
November 25, 2025 at 5:58 PM
hey dude I found your exhibit in the Museum of All Things, the boundless virtual museumscape procedurally conjured from Wikipedia information, which you can download at mayeclair.itch.io/museum-of-al...
"While it has set aside funds for six months of post-launch support for Horses, the studio says it will wind down operations after the game's launch, with studio closure likely to follow."
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Horror game maker accuses Valve of 'censorship' after its game about nude human 'Horses' is rejected by Steam: 'Lawful works should not be made unreachable by a monopolistic storefront's opaque decisi...
Valve told Santa Ragione its game featured child exploitation. The studio says otherwise.
www.pcgamer.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:23 PM
"While it has set aside funds for six months of post-launch support for Horses, the studio says it will wind down operations after the game's launch, with studio closure likely to follow."
www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...
www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...
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Hello! Annoying news! I’ve been informed by work that due to an investor delay I am not going to be paid on time. I need to pay my rent and internet/phone and eat, so if you can give me a hand, I can pay you back in the next few weeks when my pay shows up. Thanks!
PP: @StellaSacco
CA: $sacc
PP: @StellaSacco
CA: $sacc
November 25, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Hello! Annoying news! I’ve been informed by work that due to an investor delay I am not going to be paid on time. I need to pay my rent and internet/phone and eat, so if you can give me a hand, I can pay you back in the next few weeks when my pay shows up. Thanks!
PP: @StellaSacco
CA: $sacc
PP: @StellaSacco
CA: $sacc
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you’re telling me someone made a list and your list is different from their list??? this is huge
November 25, 2025 at 4:48 PM
you’re telling me someone made a list and your list is different from their list??? this is huge
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You ever look anywhere in Halo: Reach and go "holy shit"
November 25, 2025 at 12:11 AM
You ever look anywhere in Halo: Reach and go "holy shit"
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We did something different with the credits for Demonschool. We used this format: name, title, lengthy description of what they did. Often you see credits in games where you don't know what the credited developer was actually responsible for. We wanted to give people proper, actual credit.
November 24, 2025 at 10:23 PM
We did something different with the credits for Demonschool. We used this format: name, title, lengthy description of what they did. Often you see credits in games where you don't know what the credited developer was actually responsible for. We wanted to give people proper, actual credit.
shoutout to @deswalsh.bsky.social for dutifully sharing the work of countless cool artists so I can fill my timeline with more gorgeous art to counterweigh the traumatic spiraling
November 24, 2025 at 2:31 PM
shoutout to @deswalsh.bsky.social for dutifully sharing the work of countless cool artists so I can fill my timeline with more gorgeous art to counterweigh the traumatic spiraling
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I have been in the industry 14 years now and have been part of 14 games and many of them and my personal work can be seen on my portfolio and I'm available for environment work in the UK, Here is some work for 4 of them titles.
#gamedev #3dart
www.artstation.com/pikminman
#gamedev #3dart
www.artstation.com/pikminman
August 13, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I have been in the industry 14 years now and have been part of 14 games and many of them and my personal work can be seen on my portfolio and I'm available for environment work in the UK, Here is some work for 4 of them titles.
#gamedev #3dart
www.artstation.com/pikminman
#gamedev #3dart
www.artstation.com/pikminman
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5 years of animated tokusatsu/Saban projects and with each one I learned new skills and grew as an artist. Each frame is hand drawn and or modelled by myself for the love of the game
November 24, 2025 at 2:18 PM
5 years of animated tokusatsu/Saban projects and with each one I learned new skills and grew as an artist. Each frame is hand drawn and or modelled by myself for the love of the game
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"Our society might have stumbled into the most embarrassing possible cyberpunk dystopia, but—as of today—it's at least one in which wordwizards who can mesmerize the machine mind with canny verse and potent turns of phrase are now a pressing cybersecurity threat."
www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...
www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...
Poets are now cybersecurity threats: Researchers used 'adversarial poetry' to trick AI into ignoring its safety guard rails and it worked 62% of the time
Hacking the planet with florid verse.
www.pcgamer.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:50 PM
"Our society might have stumbled into the most embarrassing possible cyberpunk dystopia, but—as of today—it's at least one in which wordwizards who can mesmerize the machine mind with canny verse and potent turns of phrase are now a pressing cybersecurity threat."
www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...
www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...
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For those who observe
JUST KING THINGS heads to the local diner to discuss one high school teacher's mission to go back in time and teach more high school, and also get a girlfriend, learn how microphones work, and if he has time, stop the Kennedy assassination. It's all here in 11/22/63: rangedtouch.com/2025/09/08/1...
November 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
For those who observe