Kris A

This Space For Rent

[Kris A @EnjaKazuki]

#NeverForget

[Kris A @EnjaKazuki]

@RazorFist

[Pirat_Nation 🔴 @Pirat_Nation]

One indie developer got tired of waiting for The Elder Scrolls VI, so he’s making his own RPG instead.

The project is called The Indie Scrolls, heavily inspired by classic Elder Scrolls games like Daggerfall.
The dev posts progress updates in videos called “Day X making my own TES until TES 6 releases.”

He wants to recreate that old-school Elder Scrolls feeling with first-person combat and a huge world to explore.

[Kris A @EnjaKazuki]

@ChazakielDoremi

[Shahanshah of the Internet Age @ChazakielDoremi]

Nobody seems to understand this but I cannot stress enough that a judge told Anthropic that training their AI models didn't constitute copyright violation as long as they 'transferred' the text instead of 'copying' it, legally necessitating the destruction of the books

[Kris A @EnjaKazuki]

@ReviewsPossum

[LA\/ENDER @LavenderGhast]

Theatre kids and nerds were entirely different groups. Theatre kids want everyone to look at them, they're overly dramatic, like drama, it's in the title. Dorks, nerds and metal guys with long hair just wanted to be left alone and look at cool art of dudes using battle axes on dragons.

Dorks, nerds and metal heads made all these types of games. Theatre kids just infested it when it became popular enough to gain attention by making themselves the face of it. And now we have quirky millennial writing plaguing everything.

[Culture Crave 🍿 @CultureCrave]

Kavinsky has passed away at the age of 50

Best known for his song ‘Nightcall’ in ‘Drive’

[Kris A @EnjaKazuki]

@ReviewsPossum Evergreen take.

https://t.co/QI3gXt9zHw

[Possum Reviews @ReviewsPossum]

When I was a kid, most of our time online was spent on Newgrounds and eBaum's World.

Today, all of the kids are clustered on the same handful of social media apps where it's easy for predators to find them, and algorithms feed them content designed to give them anxiety.

[Tomochi @TomochiWorld]

mood

[𝘾𝙤𝙤𝙥𝙚𝙧 🇪🇸 @JosejuTm]

Las mujeres no os hacéis una idea del efecto que tiene en los hombres este tipo de actos tan adorables. No lo olvidamos ni en un millón de años.

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world."

My Take
This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.
ISBNdb's website literally says "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation."

I've covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate.
"We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline.

Hedgie🤗

[Niles Sankey @NilesSankey]

As someone who'd worked in gamedev a LONG time, let me explain the conversation that the devs (probably) had when writing this character:

"Let's add some character development."

"Cool yea, that's what smart writers do!"

"Yea! Maybe one of the marines you save is an ODST and, check this out, according to ChatGPT they don't like Spartans, so let's have them hate the Master Chief at the start but then the player EARNS their respect!!"

"OMG that's so great!! That's character development. But wait, how do we also add diversity!"

"Ok check this out! Let's make the ODST a woman!"

"OMG that's perfect!"

"But what if the Halo fans don't like this?"

"Who cares, they'll buy whatever slop we sell them."

"Yay! More money for us and our amazing ideas!"

"What a great day of work. Oh no, it's 4:30pm, I need to be at the No Kings protest!"

"Ok have fun! See you tomorrow!"

[Kris A @EnjaKazuki]

@MadamSavvy

[Kabrutus @kabrutusdeid]

What the actual fuck?!?!?!

And yes, it's real

[jinjin @mrjinjin2612]

The thing I like about old anime dubs is that while the delivery is still cartoony and exaggerated, it sounds natural in English because they aren’t trying to directly match the delivery of the Japanese lines.

[Peter St Onge, Ph.D. @profstonge]

Mamdani announces city-run groceries will set prices *30%* below retail.

Typical grocery margins are 2%.
Meaning:

First, the city will lose ungodly amounts of money -- at least 28 cents on the dollar.

Second, below-cost stores will steal enough market share that real groceries abandon the city.

Third, taxpayers will get tired of the money hole and slash subsidies.

At which point city groceries become money holes full of rotting food, so New Yorkers will have to take 2 trains and a bus to find a real grocery store.

Socialism will work this time 🙌

[Heel vs Babyface @heelvsbabyface]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the living legend that is Peter Cullen. Until all are one, sir.

[Pyo 5️⃣ @mrpyo1]

This picture says it all, downloaded games don't work but disc based works.

Playstation and Xbox are not even close to be able to go fully digital, this is comical.
Just imagine if gta 6 is not playable when it launces 💀

[Alex Berenson @AlexBerenson]

Last week, my mom got a "pied-a-terre" tax notice. She has lived full-time in her townhouse FOR 30 YEARS (she and my dad bought it for under $1 million). She has no other residence.

Is NYC not bothering with basic checking of its own tax lists?

She's 81 and has three weeks to get her name off the list or she owes $56,000. (Yes, I said I'd help.)

Thanks, Zohran Kwame.