three of the movies should be 3 hour long slogs and ringo’s should be a five minute animated pixar short

Yo de niño

when you think it’s home time but there’s still 40 minutes to go

One weird trick to solve all your AI problems: Make the creators of AI legally liable for foreseeable problems their product causes, just like every other damn product in the world.

Happy birthday!!

So, just in case anyone didn't know, I have a Patreon where I'm currently translating the revised and expanded edition of The Wings of Rean, Tomino's 2000+ page saga of sex and violence and (eventually) giant bug mecha. I'm almost a quarter of the way done. It's a lot of work. Like, a whole lot.

I need all of the "AI kills productivity" studies first filtered through what I call the "does this remotely involve SharePoint" lens because if anything involved touches a SharePoint library it's basically cursed by the anti-productivity gods

my new idea for what to call rpgs like dragon quest and final fantasy that may or may not actually be japanese is "quest fantasy". this is a reference to the rpgs dragon quest and final fantasy, and a subtle nod to the fact that many of these games indulge the fantasy of going on a quest

Ken St. Andre, creator of Tunnels & Trolls, has announced on Facebook that he is terminally ill. He has perhaps a few months to live. Ken is an unsung titan of the gaming industry, and Tunnels & Trolls was a shot across the bow of the then-nascent D&D juggernaut. T&T was the first game to look at

a shadowy cabal WAS taking over our industry! it was billionaires, and now all you get is AI slop IP generators and exploitable remakes and rereleases. nobody who cares has a job anymore. colleagues and friends privately judged me as hysterical at the time. i hope they enjoy this world now

the stupid thing was: the consumer games press DID have unethical marketing mouthpiece relationships with the industry. the e3 / spike tv / actiblizz / doritogate conglomerate and the payola-dominated masculine corporate culture had a stranglehold on what got made and how it could be discussed --

RIP to a level design legend. always wanted to write about Duke 3D level "The Abyss" one of these days - one of my favorite game levels of all time. also he's the subject of some of my favorite exhausted/pissed off looking game dev photos

Si visteis la fascinante "Un taxi en Tokio" de Koji Yamada que nos trajo @acontracorrientefilms.com y disfrutásteis de la estelar actuación de Chieko Baisho, que sepáis que es la actriz que puso voz a Kamaria Ray, la madre de Amuro, en el primer filme de "Mobile Suit Gundam".

Incredible things are happening at Karl Marx's house in Trier.

Okay, Doomheads, you really need to check this out. Doom as a place of architectural dread. There is a LONG build-up to the very first fight as you explore what I can only describe as a cozy public plaza as designed by von neumann machines. Alleyways to nowhere and well-lit unstreets.