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I'm working on it

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[Dan @Moabdog00]

I have some pretty amazing friends. Appreciate what you have people, you never know when it might get taken away from you.

[Alex Hirsch @_AlexHirsch]

@Variety “The anti-monopoly department, owned by President Monopoly, has approved the monopoly”

[Dan @Moabdog00]

@LidlGB we couldn't find any "cicken" to roast and pair but we like the wine overall 😉

[Josh RR Jokien @joshcarlosjosh]

HE SEES YOU WHEN YOU'RE SLEEPING / HE KNOWS WHEN YOU'RE AWAKE / HE KNOWS IF YOU'VE BEEN BAD OR GOOD / SO KEEP IT SECRET, KEEP IT SAFE

[Ryan K. Rigney @RKRigney]

Sometimes people throw around terms like "industry legend" to describe famous game developers, but Vince Zampella was genuinely legendary.

Most people have no idea how influential the man was. Director on Medal of Honor: Allied Assault. Co-creator of Call of Duty. Then he shipped the iconic first two Modern Warfare games. If he had ONLY done all that, he would be an "industry legend."

And then Act 2 of his career was arguably even crazier. He flipped the bird to Activision after they tried to wriggle out of a contractually-owed bonus, started Respawn (taking with him a huge chunk of the MW2 team in the process!) and then shipped Titanfall 1 & 2, Apex Legends, and two of the best Star Wars games ever.

That we won't get to see Act 3 of Vince Zampella's career is a tragedy. Pray for his family.

[CSAURAGEUL @csaurageul]

Video games will never be taken seriously as an art form because neither the industry nor the audience treats them as art, and the audience is the larger part of the problem. Games are treated as products to be made fast, sold loud, consumed, discarded, and replaced. That is why Call of Duty and FIFA sell in the billions, not because they endure, but because they are disposable and familiar.

This has nothing to do with graphical fidelity, art style, music, voice acting, or budget, even though players insist otherwise. For most people, “artistic merit” means how flashy, pretty, and expensive a game looks. Spectacle is mistaken for depth, and production value is confused with meaning.

Games are not built to be evergreen because the audience does not want evergreen. The people who revisit old titles, engage deeply with systems, or approach games patiently are a minority. Most want the new release, the hype cycle, and the spectacle, then move on as soon as something shinier appears. This is the same reason Avatar makes a billion dollars per film yet leaves almost no cultural footprint. Audiences want stimulation for a few hours, then the exit.

Art requires patience and trust, and games demand both. They ask players to learn systems, accept friction, and think. The audience rejects this. Anything slow, strange, or uncomfortable is dismissed as boring or pretentious, so risk is punished not just by publishers, but by players themselves.

Because of this, metrics replace meaning. Engagement time, retention, and monetisation become the measure of success, because that is what the audience rewards. Art asks what something is saying. Products ask how long you stayed logged in. Games suffer most here because their greatest strength, player agency, is treated as an inconvenience rather than an opportunity.

Legacy is impossible without permission to fail, and the audience does not allow failure. A bad novel does not kill literature. A bad film does not kill cinema. A bad game can kill a studio, because players demand perfection, constant novelty, and infinite support while rejecting experimentation.

So the ceiling stays low by choice. Not because games cannot be art, but because an audience trained on disposability, spectacle, and instant gratification will not tolerate sincerity, patience, or risk. What survives is not what lasts, but what sells loudly and disappears quietly.

[Dan @Moabdog00]

@NVIDIAGeForce GeForce Season

[parsa @pzrsaa]

> checks if cloudflare is down
> visits downdetector
> doesn't work
> they use cloudflare

[Dan @Moabdog00]

And she just dropped her salmon on me too

[Dan @Moabdog00]

She dropped her wine on me

[Dan @Moabdog00]

She dropped her wine on me

[Dan @Moabdog00]

Currently sat with my wonderful fiancé. Salmon wellington in the oven, the great escape on TV and a glass of wine in my hand. Couldn't ask for anything more. Can't wait for many more years of this.

[Dan @Moabdog00]

Currently sat with my wonderful fiancé. Salmon wellington in the oven, the great escape on TV and a glass of wine in my hand. Couldn't ask for anything more. Can't wait for many more years of this.

[Back to the Future™ @BacktotheFuture]

We are quite sadden to learn of the passing of Drew Struzan. His impact on the @BacktotheFuture franchise is immeasurable.

https://t.co/8wXOUrgY6K

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

[not lextorias @lextorias]

The lesson: 2D animation that isn’t strictly for kids still has mainstream blockbuster potential

The lesson execs will learn: we need to make a live action Demon Slayer movie starring Tom Holland immediately

[nick @lovechazelle]

putting my glasses on to watch a movie

[monica @waystarroyhoe]

watching an older movie at home and thinking about how good it would’ve been to see it in theaters

[Austine @theereal_one]

Restaurant music being low enough for conversations

[Advit @advitwake]

He did it. The son of a bitch did it.

[Dan @Moabdog00]

@CultureCrave @business So they can waste money and cancel it after 7 years. Or use it as another tax write off like their movie studio?

[Macklemore @macklemore]

fucked up.