Inside the ‘Dragon Age’ Debacle That Gutted EA’s BioWare Studio ↗
The latest game in BioWare’s fantasy role-playing series went through ten years of development turmoil.
Meta's Platforms Have Become a Cesspool of Hatred Against Queer People ↗
A recent report found that Meta consistently under-moderates anti-LGBTQ posts while over-policing LGBTQ content.
Nice Hat, Loser ↗
Imagine getting up on stage for a presentation that would have cost in the ballpark of $500,000, all to promote your new video game, and instead of having people talk about it, they are instead talking about: a) Your stupid hat b) How your little speech sounded like a wizard breathed life into a downvoted Reddit comment.
What Nintendo does
As news broke yesterday about the latest bed Nintendo has decided to shit in, I was reminded of a few things.
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How Twitch Emote Artists Are Tackling The Rise Of AI Art ↗
The proliferation of AI art is making business harder for some Twitch emote artists.
Video Game Consoles Are Dead ↗
While Nintendo still focuses on console exclusivity, the rest of the video game industry is changing.
Life without advertisements is a great life ↗
The problems with modern advertisement isn’t just the attention it takes from us but that it’s supported by an entire industry that threatens our privacy and democracy through tracking our every action and building profiles of us, even when we don’t actively interact with the platforms.
The ‘white-collar bloodbath’ is all part of the AI hype machine ↗
If AI companies can take these handy, quasi-reliable text predictors and turn them into an economic revolution, fine. But that seems so far off in the future that Amodei’s warnings feel more like an ad than a PSA. It’s on them to show their work: Show us how AI could be so destructive and how Anthropic can fix it — rather than just shouting about the risks.
My website is ugly because I made it ↗
Soon it will become something else entirely. Because it’s my website and I’m perpetually becoming somebody else.
What Are People Still Doing on X? ↗
Imagine if your favorite neighborhood bar turned into a Nazi hangout.
Yen Press Picks Up Love Bullet and Fruits Basket Manga Box Set ↗
Yen Press will release the Love Bullet yuri manga in English, as well as create a Fruits Basket: The Complete Set manga collection.
Oh No, Anyway ↗
I think some dipshits fleeced some even bigger dipshits out of $22 million, failed to make enjoyable video games because they were never interested in making video games in the first place and now someone–anyone who owned any of these games’ now-worthless tokens–is left holding the bag.
Formless Star is a charming creature cataloguing game set on an ever-changing planet ↗
Formless Star puts you on a planet that will never look the same twice on a mission to catalogue all the animals that inhabit it.
With FBC: Firebreak, Remedy says it’s made a Control shooter ‘for Dads’ ↗
A phrase that kept coming up during my time at Remedy was “dad game”. This is a game that is deep enough to be fun to come back to over and over, but doesn’t require the time investment or dedication that simply isn’t offered to most parents.
Cybertruck Owner Brutally Mocked by Dozens of Kids After Breaking Down at Baseball Practice ↗
I was stuck with a $50 Uber bill, and 28 ten-year-old kids went from thinking the Cybertruck was the coolest vehicle to pointing and laughing as it was towed away on a flatbed truck.
A neutral stance is for weightlifting, not for human rights ↗
When a dispute involves the real or potential oppression of people, neutrality is not a real option.
Moderation.txt ↗
seeing a bunch of gen x or millennial developers lament "cancel culture" while logging off, going to their six-figure tech job, and living an ultimately private life is embarrassing. calling community owners out on their shit isn't being canceled—please learn accountability.
People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies ↗
Marriages and families are falling apart as people are sucked into fantasy worlds of spiritual prophecy by AI tools like OpenAI's ChatGPT.
Are Pride Wallpapers and a Watch Band Enough in 2025? ↗
There are certainly risks to Apple if it were to do more to stand up for the LGBTQ+ community, but those risks pale in comparison to the increasing threats trans and other people in the LGBTQ+ community face in the U.S. and around the world every day. It’s time for Apple to step up and do more than wallpapers and a watch band.
Log Off, Tim Sweeney ↗
Here is Sweeney, the boss of the company responsible for Fortnite and the Unreal Engine, pillars of the video game industry, agreeing with an overtly conspiratorial and openly racist post from the most unloved person on the planet
Fosstodon: The Neutral Problem ↗
This is what keeps “normies” away from the Fediverse. It’s not the LGBTQ+ people, it’s not the immigrants trying to establish a voice for themselves online, it’s the “politically neutral” tech-obsessed foss-bros who are so insulated from harm and hatred, that they can’t tell the difference between a guy who would ship you off to prison for being gay, and someone who thinks everyone should have equal rights.
Think less, ship more ↗
I do too much thinking about what I want to make, and not enough actually making the thing.
Business Insider Founder Creates AI Exec For His New Newsroom, Immediately Hits On Her ↗
There is something so crushingly sad about a man who was once the CEO of a tech publication sitting in a cafe in Brooklyn talking to machine ghosts he’d conjured up.
Meta Says It's Okay to Feed Copyrighted Books Into Its AI Model Because They Have No "Economic Value" ↗
Meta cited an expert witness who downplayed the books' individual importance, averring that a single book adjusted its LLM's performance "by less than 0.06 percent on industry standard benchmarks, a meaningless change no different from noise."
How OTK Lost Its Way ↗
Last year OTK laid off employees working in production, sales, and marketing. This was the culmination of an arc that began promisingly, with ambitious ideas from streamers and behind-the-scenes staff, but which ultimately descended into scandals and conflicting priorities on the part of some streamers.
Streaming my life away ↗
Over the course of any particular day, I could be updating five or six RSS feeds, depending on how much I’m blogging, how many links I’m posting, or how much music I’m listening to. I’d like to take those individual feeds and mush ‘em all up together.
Adobe Gets Bullied Off Bluesky ↗
Per screenshots of the "skeet," as folks on the butterfly app are wont to call their posts, the software maker had thousands of replies and reposts but very few "likes." In social media parlance, that's known as "getting ratioed" — and boy, did Adobe get an earful.
How NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139... connects to NieR:Automata (and vice versa) ↗
There are thousands of years between them, but the NieR games don't stand apart. We explain how NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139... and NieR:Automata are more connected than you think…
Elon Musk Rage Quits Gaming Livestream After Repeatedly Dying, Gets Mercilessly Mocked by Viewers ↗
During a livestream of himself playing the free-to-play action RPG Path of Exile 2, Elon Musk was ruthlessly bullied by other players.
The Zeigarnik Engine: Using Unfinished Tasks to Fuel Endless Momentum ↗
The Zeigarnik Engine isn’t a fix-all. But it’s a way to stay in motion. To keep pushing, even when you’re overloaded. Even when you don’t feel ready. Leave the thing half-built. Let it bother you.
Tesla Is So Cooked That It's Now Refusing to Accept Cybertrucks as Trade-Ins ↗
Some owners are reportedly being forced to go through the Lemon Law process, which some states have implemented to protect car buyers by requiring carmakers to repurchase or replace vehicles with significant defects.
Baseball Reaches Its Breaking Point ↗
An elbow-injury epidemic has become an existential threat to the sport, prompting the M.L.B. to brainstorm new solutions, such as the use of a heavier ball.
Pixelfed leaks private posts from other Fediverse instances ↗
When following someone on a different server on the Fediverse, the remote server decides whether you are allowed to do so. This enables features like private accounts. Due to an implementation mistake, Pixelfed ignores this and allows anyone to follow even private accounts on other servers.