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Again, chatGPT killing people is not some side-effect of a broader societal neglect of people struggling with suicidality. It's a downstream effect of beliefs and deliberate choices. It's an act of deliberate harm. OpenAI's engineers and directors killed these people.
December 29, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Again, chatGPT killing people is not some side-effect of a broader societal neglect of people struggling with suicidality. It's a downstream effect of beliefs and deliberate choices. It's an act of deliberate harm. OpenAI's engineers and directors killed these people.
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more games writing thoughts, adjacent to but not really in the discourse: i do think a creative and artistic process that primarily centers player agency is inherently one that produces bad writing
December 22, 2025 at 1:55 PM
more games writing thoughts, adjacent to but not really in the discourse: i do think a creative and artistic process that primarily centers player agency is inherently one that produces bad writing
It’s wild how many “progressive” people in the games space feel comfortable sharing their “I don’t care about Palestine and I’m proud of it” Steam wrapped stats…
December 17, 2025 at 4:12 PM
It’s wild how many “progressive” people in the games space feel comfortable sharing their “I don’t care about Palestine and I’m proud of it” Steam wrapped stats…
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You do not have to be a coward. You do not have to let this shit beat you up. There's no real downside to standing up for humanity. Nobody who wants to defend or equivocate about this shit is your friend or even useful to know. We don't have to resign ourselves to being disposable.
this shit, despite its faults, is not going anywhere and people are going to have to pick their battles
Larian CEO Responds to Divinity Gen AI Backlash: 'We Are Neither Releasing a Game With Any AI Components, Nor Are We Looking at Trimming Down Teams to Replace Them With AI' - IGN
This morning, the news broke that Larian Studios, developer of Baldur's Gate 3 and the upcoming, just-announced Divinity, is apparently using generative AI behind the scenes. The backlash has been swi...
www.ign.com
December 17, 2025 at 1:05 PM
You do not have to be a coward. You do not have to let this shit beat you up. There's no real downside to standing up for humanity. Nobody who wants to defend or equivocate about this shit is your friend or even useful to know. We don't have to resign ourselves to being disposable.
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It's finally time to love yourself enough to stop playing fortnite.
🪄✨ BREAKING: #FortniteWinterfest 2025 Harry Potter crossover CONFIRMED!
Stay tune for more updates at tinyurl.com/56y9bxe4
Patch 39.11 December 18
#Fortnite #HarryPotter #FortniteSkin #WinterfestEvent
#FortniteCrossover #GamingTrends #HarryPotterFortnite #Baskingamer
Stay tune for more updates at tinyurl.com/56y9bxe4
Patch 39.11 December 18
#Fortnite #HarryPotter #FortniteSkin #WinterfestEvent
#FortniteCrossover #GamingTrends #HarryPotterFortnite #Baskingamer
December 16, 2025 at 3:20 AM
It's finally time to love yourself enough to stop playing fortnite.
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Really says something about the cowardice of the website that people are afraid to like this post b/c of the possible repercussions from the woke mob
Who's the greatest character in all of popular fiction and why is it Grandma Arbuckle?
December 15, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Really says something about the cowardice of the website that people are afraid to like this post b/c of the possible repercussions from the woke mob
Tangential, but I kind of forgot console gamers existed because everything is on everything now, but I checked in with them recently and they’re not well!! They only play old games if there’s a remaster, and they care about the game awards!! (Talking about the identity, console gaming is normal)
you just have to play doom for like five minutes to understand why pc gamers are like that. console babies be like ooooh link to the past is so exciting let me just charge my sword motherfucker i'm playing DOOM
December 12, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Tangential, but I kind of forgot console gamers existed because everything is on everything now, but I checked in with them recently and they’re not well!! They only play old games if there’s a remaster, and they care about the game awards!! (Talking about the identity, console gaming is normal)
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ian bogost getting the timeline riled up by ludocentrism posting….. i will sleep soundly in my bed tonight because obama is president and idle thumbs still puts out episodes weekly and i’ve got uni in the morning for it is 2015
December 5, 2025 at 6:29 PM
ian bogost getting the timeline riled up by ludocentrism posting….. i will sleep soundly in my bed tonight because obama is president and idle thumbs still puts out episodes weekly and i’ve got uni in the morning for it is 2015
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Not the DC Universe, Game of Thrones, and Harry Potter!
a cartoon of a man wearing a yellow shirt with a star on it
ALT: a cartoon of a man wearing a yellow shirt with a star on it
media.tenor.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Not the DC Universe, Game of Thrones, and Harry Potter!
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The MAGA regime just ended a special rule that made it illegal for strange men who spin straw into gold to take your firstborn if you can guess their name. Now they can have all our children whether we know their names or not. It's mask off
December 2, 2025 at 3:04 AM
The MAGA regime just ended a special rule that made it illegal for strange men who spin straw into gold to take your firstborn if you can guess their name. Now they can have all our children whether we know their names or not. It's mask off
This has been out for hours, where tf is the doom wad?????
December 1, 2025 at 10:51 PM
This has been out for hours, where tf is the doom wad?????
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I think the corollary that a lot of people miss about "write what you know" is that *you have the power to know more things.* Research and talking to people are a central part of writing!
“write only what you know” is bullshit because a man wrote silent hill f and this shit rocks!!!! its feminist core resonates SO strongly if you’re a woman!!!!
November 30, 2025 at 1:57 AM
I think the corollary that a lot of people miss about "write what you know" is that *you have the power to know more things.* Research and talking to people are a central part of writing!
Lifted Dodge Ram with undercarriage leds. All black Utah vanity plates read “DUI MODE”.
November 20, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Lifted Dodge Ram with undercarriage leds. All black Utah vanity plates read “DUI MODE”.
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it is pretty funny that they made a barbie movie about what it means to be a man and the struggle of masculinity and the unique pressures of being a man and how to find your place if you're a man and the responsibility and burden of being a man and so on and so forth
November 19, 2025 at 11:47 PM
it is pretty funny that they made a barbie movie about what it means to be a man and the struggle of masculinity and the unique pressures of being a man and how to find your place if you're a man and the responsibility and burden of being a man and so on and so forth
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clair obscur is basically like if guys that only play god of war played resonance of fate and instantly declared it the greatest game ever made
November 17, 2025 at 7:19 PM
clair obscur is basically like if guys that only play god of war played resonance of fate and instantly declared it the greatest game ever made
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In the future it will be very popular to forget some of the words and actions of powerful liberals and associated institutions during this time and accurately remembering them will be pathologized. You'll feel like you're losing your mind but thats just having a memory and some form of conscience.
November 4, 2025 at 10:16 PM
In the future it will be very popular to forget some of the words and actions of powerful liberals and associated institutions during this time and accurately remembering them will be pathologized. You'll feel like you're losing your mind but thats just having a memory and some form of conscience.
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Ninja Gaiden 4 was one of my most anticipated games of the year and I'm not playing it in accordance with the BDS Microsoft boycott, and it turns out that actually nothing bad happens to you if you don't play a video game.
October 26, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Ninja Gaiden 4 was one of my most anticipated games of the year and I'm not playing it in accordance with the BDS Microsoft boycott, and it turns out that actually nothing bad happens to you if you don't play a video game.
God of War (2018). It triggered a year long crisis about video games for me. If that shit was the cream of the crop then why waste time with the medium at all? It baffles me to this day when I see otherwise sensible people sing its praises!
What's the worst game you finished/rolled credits on?
(games media folks, it can't be something you were assigned to review; this has to be something you subjected yourself to of your own free will)
(games media folks, it can't be something you were assigned to review; this has to be something you subjected yourself to of your own free will)
October 15, 2025 at 12:18 PM
God of War (2018). It triggered a year long crisis about video games for me. If that shit was the cream of the crop then why waste time with the medium at all? It baffles me to this day when I see otherwise sensible people sing its praises!
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It's funny how in 2000 or so we settled on the bluetooth standard for wireless devices and ever since nobody has had a thought to consider that perhaps wireless devices should work reliably
October 11, 2025 at 8:26 PM
It's funny how in 2000 or so we settled on the bluetooth standard for wireless devices and ever since nobody has had a thought to consider that perhaps wireless devices should work reliably
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it is not polite to say so but no discussion of the state of the games industry/press can really avoid the reality that the audience is just. really really bad.
October 9, 2025 at 5:34 PM
it is not polite to say so but no discussion of the state of the games industry/press can really avoid the reality that the audience is just. really really bad.
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Welcome to the capitalist innovation museum we got
- scam machine
- psychosis inducing machine
- weapons of mass destruction
- button you push that makes the planet hotter
- markets that intentionally starve people
- clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time
- medicine you can’t afford
- scam machine
- psychosis inducing machine
- weapons of mass destruction
- button you push that makes the planet hotter
- markets that intentionally starve people
- clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time
- medicine you can’t afford
October 8, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Welcome to the capitalist innovation museum we got
- scam machine
- psychosis inducing machine
- weapons of mass destruction
- button you push that makes the planet hotter
- markets that intentionally starve people
- clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time
- medicine you can’t afford
- scam machine
- psychosis inducing machine
- weapons of mass destruction
- button you push that makes the planet hotter
- markets that intentionally starve people
- clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time
- medicine you can’t afford
All-timer match up opening today’s Scrandle!
September 29, 2025 at 4:09 PM
All-timer match up opening today’s Scrandle!
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frame generation is a capital pathology, totally avoidant to address the realitybreaking promise from publishers and PR of higher and higher fidelity graphics. studios cant/wont pay to develop these games, existing hardware doesn't have the power to run them, gamers don't have the money to play them
[Digital Foundry] Silent Hill f Review - PlayStation 5/PS5 Pro - Impressive On Base, Problems On Pro
www.resetera.com/threads/13...
www.resetera.com/threads/13...
September 22, 2025 at 8:28 PM
frame generation is a capital pathology, totally avoidant to address the realitybreaking promise from publishers and PR of higher and higher fidelity graphics. studios cant/wont pay to develop these games, existing hardware doesn't have the power to run them, gamers don't have the money to play them
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Disney learned nothing from Mr. Toad's Wild Ride.
September 18, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Disney learned nothing from Mr. Toad's Wild Ride.
Why is everyone a game mechanics expert the second they play something that isn’t frictionless slop???
feels like you could fix the Silksong rosary economy by simply not having the 'lose rosaries on death/try and make it back to where you died' mechanic. it works in Elden Ring, Dark Souls etc because there are consistent places to spend your souls, but Silksong's shops are rare enough that ...
September 11, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Why is everyone a game mechanics expert the second they play something that isn’t frictionless slop???