Aaron Verber

Mostly I'm (still) just thinking about Star Trek: The Next Generation.

[Aaron Verber @aaronverber]

Suno and I made this symphonic concept album about mechanical whale sorcery and a traitorous squid king: https://t.co/cymQdZdbNf

[Aaron Verber @aaronverber]

The cube being so comedic in the trailer basically guarantees the devs think they can be clever by later giving him the deep/dark/unfunny backstory. What's the opposite existence of a funny goopy cube? A stone, man. A stone. He's gonna be turned into a stone.

[Aaron Verber @aaronverber]

Buying into this GoW guess early:

The sword is Excalibur.
The cube is the stone.
The ribbon is Merlin(a).

Mom of War: Luffy ends with her reborn as Morgan le Fay(e), Kratos becomes Urien and they fight Arthur/Atreus + Knights of the Round Table in *God of War: Avalon* in 2032.

[Aaron Verber @aaronverber]

Oh, it's a disco ball! Wow. I never would have gotten that. You know, I bet this looked neat on someone's big monitor (and probably took the AI only a few seconds to make), but on my phone it looks like green nothing.

[Farzad 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 @farzyness]

Whoever designed this needs to be fired immediately:

[Aaron Verber @aaronverber]

Already not enough cigarettes.

[Christina Tasty @ChristinaTasty]

Explaining why I, personally, hate Mixtape in just under 3 minutes of totally uninterrupted "gameplay" (Spoilers):

[Aaron Verber @aaronverber]

I think people misremember the Phantom Menace backlash because it was back when you talked about movies out loud with friends, not to strangers all shouting into the Hope Extinction Machine with the gom jabbar at each other's throats. Hating bad movies used to be good fun.

[Aaron Verber @aaronverber]

2010: The Year We Make Contact is full of mistakes and anachronisms. We clearly made Contact around 1996, in time for a 1997 release date.

[Aaron Verber @aaronverber]

GPT Image 2 can instantly conceptualize an entire movie idea.

[Aaron Verber @aaronverber]

GPT Image 2 is pretty good at spatial awareness: two angles on the same scene...

[Aaron Verber @aaronverber]

The new ChatGPT image generator is pretty good! Based on a true photo.

[Aaron Verber @aaronverber]

Self report harder.

[Dan Savage @fakedansavage]

A monogamous commitment means your partner doesn’t sleep with other people. It doesn’t mean they don’t want to. They do, and so do you. And if you go looking for evidence your partner wants to sleep with other people, you will find it.

[Aaron Verber @aaronverber]

Marathon discourse died because it's both "old news" and still somehow "too new to review". I feel like Bungie made their own discourse no mans land.

[Aaron Verber @aaronverber]

First impressions: Crimson Desert seems pretty cool. Definitely wears its influences on its sleeves. A lot of Zelda, a lot of Skyrim. And I clearly just Red Dead'd out of a tent.

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

The first trailer for ‘LANTERNS’ has been released.

Releasing in August on HBO. https://t.co/RMKHS4y8Zw

[Aaron Verber @aaronverber]

This is literally the pixie cut thing for guys.

[monk @mechanical_monk]

2 months in, gf is slowly menswearguying me

before and after

[Aaron Verber @aaronverber]

There's more love for Star Trek in each single frame of this AI music video than anything made by Paramount for the last 20 years.

https://t.co/3NGihlYxgA

[Aaron Verber @aaronverber]

Every game podcast: "I plan to check out [game] later on, after it gets good. But other people should keep playing it while it sucks. To keep the business going. So they can fix it up. For me. For when I'm ready. I really don't have time for video games anymore, anyway."

[God Empress of Mankind @nuhre_]

Gamers: We don’t want this.
Devs: It’s not for you.

Oh, my bad. Who’s it for then? The invisible demographic? The mythical “modern audience” that only exists in PowerPoint slides?

[Aaron Verber @aaronverber]

"This ship cannot sink!"
"She's made of iron, sir. I assure you, she can. And she will. It is a mathematical certainty."

[The Highguard offices, I assume...]

[Aaron Verber @aaronverber]

I think it's an unexpected drawback of good back-compat support and live service games on console:

A brand new XBOX or PS used to be a wasteland with only 4 games to pick. Now a new game competes with basically every game ever released, plus the forever games. Good luck!

[Aaron Verber @aaronverber]

Publishers still hoping "I CAN'T WAIT to play [blank]!"

It made sense 10+ years ago when games released at a slower pace and rarely became forever games.

But 2026 is full of forever games. I CAN wait to play your game. 2000s-era hype-driven game dev is dead. There is no hype.

[Geoff Keighley @geoffkeighley]

A large part of the Wildlight Entertainment team that worked on @PlayHighguard has been laid off, just 16 days after release.

An unfortunate, brutal and sad outcome for a game I enjoyed in early play tests.