bramslammin
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Firewalk Studio's Concord's 75th biggest fan.
I like videogames and anime and movies
Very stupid also
I like videogames and anime and movies
Very stupid also
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in the early 2000s Rebecca took the time to chat over IRC with a teenaged and gender-confused Me on the practicalities of transition - in a time where being out as trans online was something that could get you socially ostracized. I owe her a lot for that and only hope I can pay it forward.
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...
Fuck cancer.
Friends, let’s not forget her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...
Rebecca Heineman - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 17, 2025 at 10:29 PM
in the early 2000s Rebecca took the time to chat over IRC with a teenaged and gender-confused Me on the practicalities of transition - in a time where being out as trans online was something that could get you socially ostracized. I owe her a lot for that and only hope I can pay it forward.
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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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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...
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
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.
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The Legend of Zelda series is available to watch on Tubi buff.ly/Qo3Vg61
November 17, 2025 at 9:38 PM
The Legend of Zelda series is available to watch on Tubi buff.ly/Qo3Vg61
Losing my mind finding out the Japanese dub voice of Alastor is Joseph from Turn A Gundam
November 17, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Losing my mind finding out the Japanese dub voice of Alastor is Joseph from Turn A Gundam
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i spoke to the folks behind the project to bring concord back to life about why they're doing it
!["I think a big part of [reverse engineering] is just being curious and motivated," Real said. "I'm very interested in 'lost media' and the like so I initially gravitated towards Concord because of the very large wave it made online as well as its incredibly short lifespan. Over the course of the project I began to respect a lot of the design choices I initially questioned and I think that also motivated me to keep working on it. I think part of it is wanting other people to see what I saw."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ngixp5ab4bvfayehc23q2mja/bafkreiemmmsshjdkovqagje5j7ftmr2sjdzxidxrbazepzkilpi6vxsrpu@jpeg)
November 14, 2025 at 10:08 PM
i spoke to the folks behind the project to bring concord back to life about why they're doing it
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Of course Sony would actively torpedo the one positive bit of press Concord has gotten since its release. I guess it's back to Youtube videos just talking about it as the WORST GAME EVER MADE again.
Sony has issued takedown notices for videos showcasing a fan-led project that's bringing doomed PlayStation live-service game Concord back to life. https://bit.ly/3JYsWbM
November 17, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Of course Sony would actively torpedo the one positive bit of press Concord has gotten since its release. I guess it's back to Youtube videos just talking about it as the WORST GAME EVER MADE again.
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I wished for a ghibli Zelda for most of my life, recently would accept a sony animation or fortiche studio version. But live action, that was always the fear. Now I've seen that Link looks like Jake lloyd's Anakin in Episode I, it somehow is worse.(nothing against Lloyd he did his best)
November 17, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I wished for a ghibli Zelda for most of my life, recently would accept a sony animation or fortiche studio version. But live action, that was always the fear. Now I've seen that Link looks like Jake lloyd's Anakin in Episode I, it somehow is worse.(nothing against Lloyd he did his best)
I like The Game Awards because I wanna see the commercials of games coming out
November 17, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I like The Game Awards because I wanna see the commercials of games coming out
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The thing about Gabe Newell’s weird Yacht phase in his life is that yachts are objectively weird rich guy excesses but he bought the yacht company Oceanco in August which is way more specific and weird than if he just had one or more yachts.
November 17, 2025 at 5:26 PM
The thing about Gabe Newell’s weird Yacht phase in his life is that yachts are objectively weird rich guy excesses but he bought the yacht company Oceanco in August which is way more specific and weird than if he just had one or more yachts.
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And every time too, I’ve never said, “If you played it, you’re a bad person.”
I’m just stating where I want or don’t want to spend my own limited amount of money. But it’s always some guy that feels like I personally attacked them in particular for not giving up $70 for something I don’t want.
I’m just stating where I want or don’t want to spend my own limited amount of money. But it’s always some guy that feels like I personally attacked them in particular for not giving up $70 for something I don’t want.
November 17, 2025 at 4:44 PM
And every time too, I’ve never said, “If you played it, you’re a bad person.”
I’m just stating where I want or don’t want to spend my own limited amount of money. But it’s always some guy that feels like I personally attacked them in particular for not giving up $70 for something I don’t want.
I’m just stating where I want or don’t want to spend my own limited amount of money. But it’s always some guy that feels like I personally attacked them in particular for not giving up $70 for something I don’t want.
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I notice whenever I bring up that I’m not personally spending money on a popular game that sold well but uses GenAI, I’ll get some bad faith weirdo who will go down this list of reasons, but will also get mad for not “supporting the artists” on, you know, the game that was popular and sold well.
The amount of varied, fabricated excuses I saw pardoning Clair Obscur's use of AI art was absurd
"contractors did it" "it was an asset they bought they didn't know" "They patched it out it's fine" "it was just one rogue artist" or the ever present "who cares" when something they love is attacked
"contractors did it" "it was an asset they bought they didn't know" "They patched it out it's fine" "it was just one rogue artist" or the ever present "who cares" when something they love is attacked
November 17, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I notice whenever I bring up that I’m not personally spending money on a popular game that sold well but uses GenAI, I’ll get some bad faith weirdo who will go down this list of reasons, but will also get mad for not “supporting the artists” on, you know, the game that was popular and sold well.
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steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back
Insulting to the players, insulting to the IP, insulting to the medium, the developers. And the craft itself. Fuck you executives who pushed this garbage.
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Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is littered with AI art slop, because your $70 means nothing anymore
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is littered with AI generated artwork which makes the $70 feel like a complete rip-off.
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November 15, 2025 at 9:10 AM
steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back
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November 16, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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i'm so sad that the metroid quip and hint guy was in the previews because they're definitely gonna tone him down before release now. they should have saved that for you all to discover on day one
November 16, 2025 at 8:32 PM
i'm so sad that the metroid quip and hint guy was in the previews because they're definitely gonna tone him down before release now. they should have saved that for you all to discover on day one
I'm buying the Concord IP from Sony and commissioning a anime OVA AND a single player campaign/multiplayer shooter, with local split-screen and LAN support.
You have been cursed. You somehow acquired vast wealth and in order to stave off the madness associated with it (and thus use it for good), you have to fund eccentric and ridiculous art prizes.
What kind of thing are you commissioning?
What kind of thing are you commissioning?
November 16, 2025 at 7:55 PM
I'm buying the Concord IP from Sony and commissioning a anime OVA AND a single player campaign/multiplayer shooter, with local split-screen and LAN support.
Man Metroid Dread might be the most disappointing game I ever played.
November 15, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Man Metroid Dread might be the most disappointing game I ever played.
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The same rich idiots that told me downloading a song on Napster was like stealing a car are trying to tell me that absorbing every movie ever made into *THE ROBOT* is fair use, actually, and a legion of dickriders coming to defend them because it's the future. Like fuck off.
This is the core of it. People think they're mad at the AI boogeyman but really they're mad about copyright law.
November 15, 2025 at 7:45 PM
The same rich idiots that told me downloading a song on Napster was like stealing a car are trying to tell me that absorbing every movie ever made into *THE ROBOT* is fair use, actually, and a legion of dickriders coming to defend them because it's the future. Like fuck off.
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whenever i see discourse about how you can’t ship the anime girls who aren’t related because the real race horses they are based on are related, i’m like “damn if you think that’s problematic, wait until you hear about how they breed the real race horses”
November 15, 2025 at 7:52 PM
whenever i see discourse about how you can’t ship the anime girls who aren’t related because the real race horses they are based on are related, i’m like “damn if you think that’s problematic, wait until you hear about how they breed the real race horses”
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Every overly long defense post for GenAI lump in other technologies with GenAI to make it seem normal.
Really good example of trying to foster AI doomerism in the comments I was describing. Even IF all of that is true (it's not, but sure), I can't stand the attitude of, well, since you *must* use X that's ethically compromised, you might as well just give up on everything! Just begging for a pass
November 15, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Every overly long defense post for GenAI lump in other technologies with GenAI to make it seem normal.
@playstation.com hey go fuck yourself
Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos
“Due to worrying legal action we’ve decided to pause invites for the time being.”
DMCA takedowns have only been sent on YouTube gameplay videos so far and not direct to the team's custom server project
“Due to worrying legal action we’ve decided to pause invites for the time being.”
DMCA takedowns have only been sent on YouTube gameplay videos so far and not direct to the team's custom server project
November 15, 2025 at 6:22 PM
@playstation.com hey go fuck yourself
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I think this is also part of the equation. The answer of "well what'll you play if every game becomes AI?!" is meaningless on its face because that's not going to happen. We're literally watching the bubble pop right now.
Left 4 Dead 2 and Skyrim can keep alive until the AI bubble pops
November 15, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I think this is also part of the equation. The answer of "well what'll you play if every game becomes AI?!" is meaningless on its face because that's not going to happen. We're literally watching the bubble pop right now.
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I finished the entire BLOPS 7 campaign, asked for a refund and Valve granted it to me.
I wrote: "The game constantly utilized AI generated options that were not present in the marketing for the game as well as videos and screenshots of the material."
Shocked they did TBH
I wrote: "The game constantly utilized AI generated options that were not present in the marketing for the game as well as videos and screenshots of the material."
Shocked they did TBH
November 15, 2025 at 1:03 AM
I finished the entire BLOPS 7 campaign, asked for a refund and Valve granted it to me.
I wrote: "The game constantly utilized AI generated options that were not present in the marketing for the game as well as videos and screenshots of the material."
Shocked they did TBH
I wrote: "The game constantly utilized AI generated options that were not present in the marketing for the game as well as videos and screenshots of the material."
Shocked they did TBH
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demonstrably false & lacking faith in your audience. Kids love playing games at their own pace and figuring stuff out. People are putting on podcasts in a single player game, so what? There's no correct way to experience these things and I promise you the people who you want engaged are engaged.
You wanna know why we're having nag line discourse in 2025? Because developers know we're fighting an attention economy war we'll lose no matter what. Players don't read, have TikTok open next to them, god forbid we are scared you miss something and then blame us for not giving you all the info.
November 15, 2025 at 2:05 AM
demonstrably false & lacking faith in your audience. Kids love playing games at their own pace and figuring stuff out. People are putting on podcasts in a single player game, so what? There's no correct way to experience these things and I promise you the people who you want engaged are engaged.
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Imagine thinking that Samus needed an awkward bespectacled sidekick and making it a fucking nerd guy, and not a really subby lesbian with a military hardware fetish.
November 15, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Imagine thinking that Samus needed an awkward bespectacled sidekick and making it a fucking nerd guy, and not a really subby lesbian with a military hardware fetish.