Jon

Blogger & freelance writer (always taking comms, DM for rates). I talk about stuff here, sometimes it turns out to be interesting.

[Jiikae @Jiikae]

The myth of having a “cool” job is over. Every industry sucks. Embrace actual hobbies.

[AmaLee 🦋👑 M̶̱̍ö̷̧́n̶̝͋a̷͔̓r̷̝̓c̶̼̈́h̸͕̀ @LeeandLie]

Finally beat that boss in Elden Ring that makes you question your sanity just for it to jump cut to NOTHING BEATS A JET TWO HOLIDAY

[Stop the Forever Wars @DoctorFishbones]

"We didn't hack that company, the program we made did" is the lamest fucking attempt at a defense I've heard in my life. It's on par with "I didn't shoot that person, the gun did"

[Mig @wtfmig]

Turns out waiting for a good time to upgrade my PC was a terrible idea

[HIDEO_KOJIMA @HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN]

As confirmed earlier through our official channels, in mid-June of this year, we unexpectedly received notice from PlayStation Studios that they would cancel the PHYSINT project. PHYSINT is an important project both to me personally and to KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS. Determined to keep the project alive, we have spent the last three months searching tirelessly for a new partner. In the course of seeking advice and pursuing negotiations with people across many fields, we found in XBOX a partner with whom we share a common vision for the future, and we have decided to team up with them once again. Please rest assured that development of PHYSINT, our genre-defining action-espionage title, is ongoing and will continue moving forward.

[🦀 YORA 🦀 @yoracrab]

Congratulations, you took a game whose color palette and strong art direction were shaped by hundreds of artists and flattened it into completely intentionless realism slop

[Whitelight @TheLightIsWhite]

Download one graphics mod that costs near zero performance like fall of the windy city, or use an art-agnostic bullshit filter that cuts your performance in two. Hmmm.

[shar •̀.̫•́✧ @_yapsharlene]

what happened to one-time purchase licenses man. some of the software out here is like notepad but you have to pay $2.75 a month

[MaceAhWindu @MaceAhWindu]

Do NOT ai that man’s voice.

[Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh]

Just a PSA for all the other major publishers: You can’t make a GTA 6. Don’t have any meetings about it. Don’t put together any pitch decks. Don’t preemptively doom your workforce and the industry any further than you already have. Leave it alone.

[Fav @Favwontmiss]

I don’t have any problem with ads on free games it’s closing the ad that’s gotten a little ridiculous. It’s not clicking the X anymore you have to click the X watch 5 more seconds click again & get taken to App Store close App Store watch 5 more seconds & click again it’s annoying.

[Animation Obsessive @ani_obsessive]

Concept art by Carter Goodrich for Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003), dir. Tim Johnson and Patrick Gilmore, DreamWorks Animation

[El 🦋🌸@ NEW BL NOVEL OUT NOW!!!📌 @Fereael]

something about the whole Wattpad people flooding AO3 and getting mad about everything situation that makes me happy is my soul deep certainty that none of it will ever matter because I am 100% sure the AO3 mods will look at all this and go "No❤️"

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Not only were kids reading 700 and 800-page Harry Potter books in a single day, they were writing, without AI, fan-fiction that frequently surpassed the length of those books. The fact that people can no longer believe this happened only shows how steep our decline has been.

[Stop Killing Games Official @StopKilingGames]

And there it is: no longer just games. Movies, Software, your GPS, all of it. "You will own nothing and be happy" was never a statement of intent. It was a prophecy.

[Eryk (dark political satire warning) @erykistired]

I have a theory that they are purposely trying to remove the creators who Al trained on, so the Al generated content will become the new “original” after the copyright obstacle is gone… just like what they’re doing with rare books

But it’s just a theory don’t come after me

[eliza ˙⋆✮ @enchantedflms]

i wish there was an option to turn off AI usage for people who don’t want to be associated with it.. like AI ads, replies, information etc bc many people use but many people also don’t want to use it

[Trey the Explainer @Trey_Explainer]

First promo to motivate me to *not* see a movie that I was originally going to see