Ryan
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Moral of the story:
I think both gamers and the gaming industry need to stop treating "The Movie Adaptation" as a mark of prestige, when you consider the track record.
It demeans the uniqueness of gaming as a medium to suggest a video game only achieves true cultural validity by sacrificing...
I think both gamers and the gaming industry need to stop treating "The Movie Adaptation" as a mark of prestige, when you consider the track record.
It demeans the uniqueness of gaming as a medium to suggest a video game only achieves true cultural validity by sacrificing...
This is just it, isn't it?
Everyone thinks if you focus on adapting a video game's **LOOOOORE** it'll compensate, but, uh-
No.
Lore means nothing without player inference. Otherwise, it's just a wiki, a set of decontextualized facts with no emotional resonance.
Everyone thinks if you focus on adapting a video game's **LOOOOORE** it'll compensate, but, uh-
No.
Lore means nothing without player inference. Otherwise, it's just a wiki, a set of decontextualized facts with no emotional resonance.
yeah the part about using movied to inspire videogames is the interactive element adds more layers to the text. doing the reverse removes layers.
November 18, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Moral of the story:
I think both gamers and the gaming industry need to stop treating "The Movie Adaptation" as a mark of prestige, when you consider the track record.
It demeans the uniqueness of gaming as a medium to suggest a video game only achieves true cultural validity by sacrificing...
I think both gamers and the gaming industry need to stop treating "The Movie Adaptation" as a mark of prestige, when you consider the track record.
It demeans the uniqueness of gaming as a medium to suggest a video game only achieves true cultural validity by sacrificing...
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This is just it, isn't it?
Everyone thinks if you focus on adapting a video game's **LOOOOORE** it'll compensate, but, uh-
No.
Lore means nothing without player inference. Otherwise, it's just a wiki, a set of decontextualized facts with no emotional resonance.
Everyone thinks if you focus on adapting a video game's **LOOOOORE** it'll compensate, but, uh-
No.
Lore means nothing without player inference. Otherwise, it's just a wiki, a set of decontextualized facts with no emotional resonance.
yeah the part about using movied to inspire videogames is the interactive element adds more layers to the text. doing the reverse removes layers.
November 18, 2025 at 2:27 PM
This is just it, isn't it?
Everyone thinks if you focus on adapting a video game's **LOOOOORE** it'll compensate, but, uh-
No.
Lore means nothing without player inference. Otherwise, it's just a wiki, a set of decontextualized facts with no emotional resonance.
Everyone thinks if you focus on adapting a video game's **LOOOOORE** it'll compensate, but, uh-
No.
Lore means nothing without player inference. Otherwise, it's just a wiki, a set of decontextualized facts with no emotional resonance.
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You can call him the greatest living director & just about everyone will agree - Coppola, Spielberg, & Lucas say it - but with his teaching, evangelism & film preservation he's probably done more for the cinema than anyone, anywhere, ever.
HBD, the incomparable Martin Scorsese, whose movies and commitment to art changed my life.
November 17, 2025 at 4:08 PM
You can call him the greatest living director & just about everyone will agree - Coppola, Spielberg, & Lucas say it - but with his teaching, evangelism & film preservation he's probably done more for the cinema than anyone, anywhere, ever.
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Wow, this must be one of the most popular things I've ever posted on here, guess I hit upon a sentiment a lot of people were feeling? So, can you do me a favour?
Advocate for the art you love. Talk about it, uplift it, introduce it to others, leave reviews. Let's not just focus on the negative.
Advocate for the art you love. Talk about it, uplift it, introduce it to others, leave reviews. Let's not just focus on the negative.
Why am I so against generative AI in games?
Because I simply do not want my initial reaction to art to be one of suspicion and scrutiny, AI slop is fundamentally damaging my relationship to art and artistry, and I am deeply resentful that it is forcing me to be guarded when I should be wowed.
Because I simply do not want my initial reaction to art to be one of suspicion and scrutiny, AI slop is fundamentally damaging my relationship to art and artistry, and I am deeply resentful that it is forcing me to be guarded when I should be wowed.
November 18, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Wow, this must be one of the most popular things I've ever posted on here, guess I hit upon a sentiment a lot of people were feeling? So, can you do me a favour?
Advocate for the art you love. Talk about it, uplift it, introduce it to others, leave reviews. Let's not just focus on the negative.
Advocate for the art you love. Talk about it, uplift it, introduce it to others, leave reviews. Let's not just focus on the negative.
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Genuinely I think the video games industry is too large across too many games over too many hours across too many countries and languages to ever have a genuinely representative voting block outside of people that do nothing but play games all days. Most devs I know play like 3 games a year.
The DICE awards already do something similar to this and the awards are just as bad and go to an even slimmer pool of games because shockingly lots of oversees games get left out.
The only game dev I've ever known in my life barely even plays new releases. It doesn't work out how you would expect.
The only game dev I've ever known in my life barely even plays new releases. It doesn't work out how you would expect.
November 17, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Genuinely I think the video games industry is too large across too many games over too many hours across too many countries and languages to ever have a genuinely representative voting block outside of people that do nothing but play games all days. Most devs I know play like 3 games a year.
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The Salvation Army are a hate group. Do not forget that this winter.
November 17, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The Salvation Army are a hate group. Do not forget that this winter.
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The only thing that could redeem the VGAs is if Keighley gets up there and screams FUCK GEN AI and bans it from the show but more likely he'll cheerfully introduce the worst slop shit scam thats ever been made
November 18, 2025 at 3:23 AM
The only thing that could redeem the VGAs is if Keighley gets up there and screams FUCK GEN AI and bans it from the show but more likely he'll cheerfully introduce the worst slop shit scam thats ever been made
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Love to see a peckerwood centrist weasel get the libs all riled up because prison abolition doesn’t have an immediate solution to everything, as if working towards a world with less punitive justice and focusing on removing the root causes of most crimes isn’t a better ideal than what the U.S. has.
November 18, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Love to see a peckerwood centrist weasel get the libs all riled up because prison abolition doesn’t have an immediate solution to everything, as if working towards a world with less punitive justice and focusing on removing the root causes of most crimes isn’t a better ideal than what the U.S. has.
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You know that old idiom: "Once is accident, twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. Seven is Get This Shit Off The Streets, Jesus Wept.
“.. Tesla’s current Robotaxi crash rate .. is about 2x higher than Waymo’s, despite in-car supervisors that prevent an unknown number of crashes.”
@electrek.co $TSLA
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@electrek.co $TSLA
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November 18, 2025 at 2:08 AM
You know that old idiom: "Once is accident, twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. Seven is Get This Shit Off The Streets, Jesus Wept.
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Capitalism is incredible. Sorry, former teacher, your retirement fund is gone because 5 guys who've collectively never worked a full hour told the banks to put all the money in the country into virtual girlfriend futures
WSJ: “.. If the AI market blows up, the blast radius would be wide, hitting not only Wall Street firms, but also pensions, mutual and exchange-traded funds and individual investors, because of how debt is often sliced and resold across the financial landscape.”
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/finance/inve...
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/finance/inve...
November 18, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Capitalism is incredible. Sorry, former teacher, your retirement fund is gone because 5 guys who've collectively never worked a full hour told the banks to put all the money in the country into virtual girlfriend futures
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I will be stepping back from my public commitments but I will continue being around teenagers all the time
Breaking News: Larry Summers said he was “deeply ashamed” about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, and would step back from public commitments, but continue teaching.
Larry Summers to Step Back From Public Commitments Over Epstein Emails
New emails showed that Dr. Summers, a former Harvard president, had stayed in touch with Jeffrey Epstein for years after Mr. Epstein faced sex trafficking charges.
nyti.ms
November 18, 2025 at 4:09 AM
I will be stepping back from my public commitments but I will continue being around teenagers all the time
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It is genuinely incredible to me how much evidence there is to support investing in the public good and how much animus there is to do this simple, effective thing.
November 18, 2025 at 3:00 AM
It is genuinely incredible to me how much evidence there is to support investing in the public good and how much animus there is to do this simple, effective thing.
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You know how I say major corporations are built on an ideology of control as being more important than profit? www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...
Krafton CEO allegedly asked ChatGPT to help him find a way out of paying Subnautica 2 devs their bonuses because he wanted to avoid the 'professional embarrassment' of being seen as a 'pushover'
A pre-trial brief filed by former Unknown Worlds bosses says Krafton CEO Changham Kim was worried about losing his job for overpaying for the studio.
www.pcgamer.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:04 AM
You know how I say major corporations are built on an ideology of control as being more important than profit? www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...
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In the wake of all this Epstein stuff, you need to be extremely dilligent about information and media you share
There are orgs that want to use the energy around all of this to push for censorship/surveillance legislstion as well as promote swerf ideology under the guise of supporting victims
There are orgs that want to use the energy around all of this to push for censorship/surveillance legislstion as well as promote swerf ideology under the guise of supporting victims
November 18, 2025 at 5:56 AM
In the wake of all this Epstein stuff, you need to be extremely dilligent about information and media you share
There are orgs that want to use the energy around all of this to push for censorship/surveillance legislstion as well as promote swerf ideology under the guise of supporting victims
There are orgs that want to use the energy around all of this to push for censorship/surveillance legislstion as well as promote swerf ideology under the guise of supporting victims
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Listen. There’s a lot of discourse happening right now. But never forget the core truth of our craft: we’re all just weird little guys making weird little guys.
November 18, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Listen. There’s a lot of discourse happening right now. But never forget the core truth of our craft: we’re all just weird little guys making weird little guys.
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I know some too online weirdo told him "Sir this will do well with young men" but it really can't be said enough -- rapist solidarity administration.
NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House.
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 11:35 AM
I know some too online weirdo told him "Sir this will do well with young men" but it really can't be said enough -- rapist solidarity administration.
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Happy 40th birthday to Bill Waterson’s ‘Calvin and Hobbes’. A work of consummate, stubborn, human, and more-than-human art.
November 18, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Happy 40th birthday to Bill Waterson’s ‘Calvin and Hobbes’. A work of consummate, stubborn, human, and more-than-human art.
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This is terrifying. Everyone who cares about free speech—whether or not you engage with porn—should GAF about this.
Spoke to a second source familiar with what’s going on with paypro censorship toward me. It seems I’ve been blacklisted among paypros as a creator, particularly for mommy domme content. This could escalate into debanking, I learned
November 18, 2025 at 2:43 PM
This is terrifying. Everyone who cares about free speech—whether or not you engage with porn—should GAF about this.
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one interesting thing about animation is that even though institutional knowledge is being lost thanks to industry churn and corporate malpractice, fans themselves have picked up the slack and continue to carry on older styles and practices.
Production art I did in late-2024 of SQUIM on the Smiling Friends episode "Squim Returns"! I just adore this character and I had so much fun drawing him! Once again, huge thanks to Zach Hadel, Michael Cusack, and Aron Fromm for having me design this critter! 🤪
He holds a special place in my heart!
He holds a special place in my heart!
November 17, 2025 at 11:28 PM
one interesting thing about animation is that even though institutional knowledge is being lost thanks to industry churn and corporate malpractice, fans themselves have picked up the slack and continue to carry on older styles and practices.
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raskin's talk about MTG reminding me how lincoln chafee - remember him? - didn't just speak out against his party, he actually became a democrat. and the moment that happened, he lost all novelty, appeal, mystique, and the party moved on to trying to appeal to further right republicans. lmao
November 17, 2025 at 10:53 PM
raskin's talk about MTG reminding me how lincoln chafee - remember him? - didn't just speak out against his party, he actually became a democrat. and the moment that happened, he lost all novelty, appeal, mystique, and the party moved on to trying to appeal to further right republicans. lmao
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I fully believe that Cameron is not being metaphorical here, and that, when he spoke to Rodriguez about Alita 2, he plunged a dagger into Rodriguez' hand and clasped it to his own bloody palm, screaming in insane tongues all the while.
Never bet against Jim Cameron.
Never bet against Jim Cameron.
James Cameron says he and Robert Rodriguez have 'sworn a blood oath' to make 'Alita 2'
"We’re making progress on that ... I appreciate the loyalty of the Alita fans"
(via Empire Magazine)
"We’re making progress on that ... I appreciate the loyalty of the Alita fans"
(via Empire Magazine)
November 17, 2025 at 11:08 PM
I fully believe that Cameron is not being metaphorical here, and that, when he spoke to Rodriguez about Alita 2, he plunged a dagger into Rodriguez' hand and clasped it to his own bloody palm, screaming in insane tongues all the while.
Never bet against Jim Cameron.
Never bet against Jim Cameron.
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In 2028 I will vote for whoever will send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5.
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
Sanford grandfather, born in refugee camp, nabbed by ICE after 70 years in U.S.
Paul Bojerski never gained official residency, but he checked in regularly with ICE for years. Then in July, at age 79, he was detained and sent to Alligator Alcatraz.
www.orlandosentinel.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:24 PM
In 2028 I will vote for whoever will send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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That this is even remotely legal is an egregious failure of regulation of an industry that is clearly out of control.
Make the calls. Complain to MC and Visa.
Call your reps. Tell them that payment processors should be required to process any legal transaction.
Make the calls. Complain to MC and Visa.
Call your reps. Tell them that payment processors should be required to process any legal transaction.
So yes, this is a “beginning of the end” thing for me and simple stuff like, for example, having a bank account. Now is a good time to fight this issue and do so very publicly — it’s a matter of financial life or death for me
November 17, 2025 at 10:53 PM
That this is even remotely legal is an egregious failure of regulation of an industry that is clearly out of control.
Make the calls. Complain to MC and Visa.
Call your reps. Tell them that payment processors should be required to process any legal transaction.
Make the calls. Complain to MC and Visa.
Call your reps. Tell them that payment processors should be required to process any legal transaction.