Luke

Welcome to the incessant train of thought for things I want to talk about but no one wants to hear me say - He/Him

[vibe instructor✌🏾🐝 @Vanessa_ABee]

they got marie-antoinette for less

[Luke @SoImaginative]

GTA starting the sharo decline to the actual death of physical media

[PlayStation @PlayStation]

Important updates:

News on physical discs for new games - https://t.co/BzZODXdWGY

News on PlayStation Store on PS3 and PS Vita - https://t.co/ev3mN6wj14

[Liz Slade @lizslayed]

This is amazing. Hugh Jackman must have felt insane.

[Luke @SoImaginative]

I laughed but I'd probably fall for it

[VGC @VGC_News]

Resident Evil 2 director Hideki Kamiya has brainstormed his idea for a ‘cozy’ spin-off, in which Leon Kennedy grows vegetables and walks the dog.

https://t.co/8sb834KGbY

[John Romero 🤘🏽 @romero]

Hi Sandy, I hope you’re well. I have appreciated the recent discussions. I do not agree with your framing.

Regarding piracy, DOOM is a complicated example because shareware was the model. DOOM’s first episode was designed to be freely copied, passed around, uploaded, installed, and played. That enormous unpaid audience was not the same thing as piracy. It was part of how DOOM reached the world.

By the mid-90s, DOOM had something like 20 million shareware installs and more than 2 million paid copies sold. Those 20 million people were not “pirates” by default. A huge number of them were playing the free episode exactly as intended.

That doesn’t excuse people pirating the registered game. However, it’s important not to collapse legal shareware distribution, unpaid reach, and actual piracy into one number.

I also don’t think piracy is what “gutted” id - id is still around and still making games. Piracy may have cost money, but it wasn’t the reason Quake was hard or why people eventually went different ways.

So yes: pay developers. Buy the games you love. Support the people who make them.

But history is messier than “pirates killed the companies.” Sometimes the same free distribution that looked like lost sales was also the thing that made the game impossible to ignore.

[Luke @SoImaginative]

These Supergirl reactions are genuinely insane. It's nothing impressive sure and it certainly sticks out after the breath of fresh air that was Superman but the films biggest crime is being inoffensively fine and some are acting like it heralds the death of cinema.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

NEW: A Mexican “Batman” has reportedly emerged in Jalisco, hunting motorcycle thieves & taping them to street poles.

[edgarwright @edgarwright]

This story keeps getting re-told but it’s not entirely correct. The original draft had two Halloween masks and one Austin Powers mask. The rights to Michael Myers were tricky, so my backup plan was to get three Austin Powers masks. The great Mike Myers had to personally sign off on the different version of the gag, and did so happily. So thank you Mike!

[sam⁷ @snailsoob]

i’m ctfu 😭😭 this student still plagiarises the old-fashioned way!

[4quest.❤️🔱🖤 @thinkpiecetribe]

The New York Post treats Zohran Mamdani like how J. Jonah Jameson treats Spider-Man lmao

[Luke @SoImaginative]

Given the magnitude that the PS5 outside Xbox by, I wouldn't expect any different even without official numbere

[VGC @VGC_News]

"People should wait for real data" - Xbox refutes claims that GTA 6 on PS5 is outselling Xbox 8-to-1.

https://t.co/jEGmvcRUJG

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: A wildfire has broken out in Glossop, Derbyshire amid the extreme UK heatwave

[Cindy Begel @CindyBegel]

I was a writer on this movie! I got to walk through Bedrock, see life-size dinosaurs in the quarry, Henson creatures everywhere, meet John Goodman, Halle Berry, & work w/ Spielberg. It made $400 million! Prob the last time real sets. Like walking thru a dream. Oh, & a Razzie!

[Luke @SoImaginative]

Here comes the watershed

[Geoff Keighley @geoffkeighley]

Grand Theft Auto 6 will retail for $80 and the Ultimate Edition will be $100

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 BREAKING: Temperatures are now set to reach up to 40C in the UK on Wednesday and Thursday

A rare red weather warning has just been issued

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: The UK will shortly have its seventh Prime Minister in 10 years after Keir Starmer's resignation

[🍉LoZza🍉 @CocoaFox023]

Whether this is AI or not doesn't matter, this is what happens when you invest money into AI

You lose trust with your audience

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

Everyone should note how frightened white supremacists are of American
history. This is an acknowledgment of the power of just the memory of Harriet Tubman & other heroic figures in our collective past.

[John Squires 🎃 @FreddyInSpace]

This is some seriously deceiving bullshit, intentionally designed to make it sound like Curry Barker had a callous response to the question. He did not. At all.

Here's the actual full quote from Barker: