Суворий Лемур

[smol silly cat @Catsillyness]

smol and alone

[Admiral @TheAdmiralKane]

You think I never lose 19 in a row? Everyone loses 19 in a row sometimes but you have to try and win the 20th game.

[The Evangelion Chronicler @DeathlyPrice]

Fucking, EXCUSE Me?

[autist @litteralyme0]

The Backrooms

[JER @lifeofjer]

https://t.co/ofucbVgkLV

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Sony spent up to $400 million making a single video game. It sold 25,000 copies in 14 days before Sony pulled it from sale. Cost per copy sold: about $16,000. The studio shut down two months later. The executive who warned them had already been fired for saying no.

The game was Concord. The executive was Shuhei Yoshida, who ran Sony's in-house game studios for 11 years and helped ship some of the biggest PlayStation hits ever: God of War, The Last of Us, Uncharted, Ghost of Tsushima. These are games you buy once and finish. Sony made billions on that model. Spider-Man alone generated $315 million in digital sales. The Last of Us 2 pulled nearly $250 million. God of War Ragnarok sold 15 million copies, with $279 million from digital downloads alone.

Then in 2019, a new CEO took over PlayStation. Jim Ryan wanted Sony's studios to stop making those kinds of games and chase a different model: live service. Live service is Fortnite's model: games designed to keep you playing and paying forever, earning money through endless small purchases instead of one-time sales. Ryan told his team to ship 12 of these by 2025.

Yoshida refused. Ryan removed him from running the studios and gave him a choice: take a smaller role working with indie developers or leave the company. Yoshida took the role and stayed at Sony for another six years. At an industry event in Australia last weekend, he finally said plainly that Ryan fired him from running the studios for refusing to do the 'ridiculous things' Ryan had demanded.

Of those 12 live service games, 8 were cancelled before they ever came out. Naughty Dog killed a Last of Us multiplayer game in late 2023. Bend Studio's sci-fi game died in January 2025. Twisted Metal and a London fantasy game were both scrapped in early 2024, and the London studio was closed. Insomniac's Spider-Man multiplayer was abandoned. A God of War live service game was cancelled, then the studio making it (Bluepoint) was shut down this past February. A Destiny spin-off was scrapped. Deviation Games, a studio Sony had partnered with, was shut down before shipping anything.

Only one of the 12 actually worked. Helldivers 2 was a big hit. But the studio that made it, Arrowhead, isn't owned by Sony, and they've already said they won't partner with Sony on their next game.

The total damage under Ryan: $3.7 billion spent buying Bungie (the studio behind Destiny), up to $400 million written off on Concord, and roughly 1,500 jobs lost across studios that got shut down. The PS5 generation is now short on the kind of games that built PlayStation in the first place.

Yoshida was pushed out in 2019 for saying no to one strategy. Five years and a few billion dollars later, Sony's current CEO says the new plan is to 'fail early and fail cheaply.'

[Dexerto @Dexerto]

A police station in Japan has reappointed its official Shiba Inu officer for another year

Mamesuke, a 5-year-old Shiba Inu, is heading back to work with an official rank and duties promoting safety in the local community

[spor @sporadica]

RIP Sora, you gave us the greatest ai video of all time

[den the dev 👨‍💻 @denysdovhan]

🪰 Десь у світі зараз повзає муха, яка ніколи не народилась

Ще одна, абсолютно крейзі новина: EON Systems PBC повністю зісканували мозок мухи дрозофіли, посадили її у симуляцію і … муха почала ходити, чистити лапки, коротше робити все те, що роблять мухи.

[Battlefield @Battlefield]

Double XP is live 📣

Say less. Deploy the tankcopter.

Weapon ⬆️
Career ⬆️
Hardware ⬆️

Respectfully, we are pulling up unreasonably loud.

2XP Ends Feb 16, 12:00 UTC.

[Суворий Лемур @spynet41]

@DodoSocks котик-песик

[柴犬·͜·♡もも @momonosekaiii]

実家行くとマイクラになる犬おもろすぎ

[cts🌸 @gf_256]

a true gem (Linux kernel mailing list)

[Та, що з Маріуполя 🇺🇦 @Wiesenklee]

Питання сказу завжди було актуальне
Зараз тим паче
Сказ супроводжував людство з моменту його існування
Від сказу немає лікування
Після перших проявів хвороби людину чи тварину чекає лише болісна та у муках смерть
Єдиний спосіб захисту- профілактика

[NAUKA.UA | Новини науки @thenaukaua]

☄️🌑 Голлівуд лякав нас астероїдами-вбивцями, а тепер реальний камінь летить прямо в... Місяць

У 2032 році астероїд 2024 YR4 може врізатися у наш супутник. І це не просто красива картинка для фільму, це загроза для нас.

💥 Удар перетворить поверхню на шрапнель. Тисячі тонн уламків полетять у бік Землі: під «обстріл» потраплять супутники, МКС та, можливо, майбутні місії.

У NASA вже є план (і він жорсткий):

1️⃣ Квітень 2030: запустити до астероїда кінетичний імпактор (таран)

2️⃣ Жовтень 2031: якщо перше не спрацює — відправити ядерну боєголовку.

Так, ядерний вибух у космосі. Так, це цілком реально. І так, часу на рішення дедалі менше.

Як науковці обирають зброю для захисту Місяця і чому збивати астероїд краще, ніж підривати — читайте у новому розборі!

https://t.co/CIuAwgfcsr

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Advanced Physics Department's Christmas tree