Oh boy, it's AI and Quibi, two terrible tastes that taste even more terrible together!
12.03.2026 15:50
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Oh boy, it's AI and Quibi, two terrible tastes that taste even more terrible together!
Stop trying to make fΜΆeΜΆtΜΆcΜΆhΜΆ Quibi happen.
This makes me want an βEPCOT Center Handcraftedβ documentary.
This reminds me of a sexual violence prevention program at my university. They named it "Stop Rape Week" and put up flyers everywhere.
Somehow they never realized that it sounded like "Rape Week" was a big problem that we needed to stop!
Why are there three plastic easter eggs just lying on top of the controls?
Quite literally, AI cannot imagine something a human has not already imagined. Everything it does is based on something humans already did.
They make it sound like you're going to enter "make a game in a new genre" into a prompt and that'll showhow actually work!
Also, from Nintendo's POV, why should they bother paying their own in-house spokespeople like Kit & Krysta when there are legions of "content creators" who will do essentially the same job for free?
The answer should be "control over messaging" but I guess they don't care about that as much anymore
It's lazy, but in a world where speed (posting first) is prized by audiences and rewarded via more clicks, it's hard to blame the content creators. "Hate the game, not the player" applies here.
But we can blame the corporations for essentially feeding into and capitalizing on this mentality.
When I started working a Syracuse one of the projects given to me was annual updates to the campus map. I didnβt even go to SU and I realized what a missed opportunity it was not assigning building #44 to the dome. I fixed that.
The best part was regularly watching Ebert put Siskel in his place LOL. The compilations of their arguments are legendary.
Happy Mar10 Day!!!
I go back to Streets of Rage 2 at random points just to play it for like 30-60min. It's always enjoyable.
You should check out the new Scott Pilgrim EX game if you're into the genre. It's definitely more inspired by Kunio-kun (River City Ransom) games, but there are some SoR references in it!
I'm actually behind the times on this. Thanks to @nron10.bsky.social for the insight into how that stuff has changed since my time with PGC/NWR.
I've obviously been out of the game way too long to understand how the access thing works these days. It absolutely was that toxic positivity thing back in the 00s. Bad reviews used to (and maybe still do?) mean that you're not getting the next game's review code early, or maybe at all.
Oh yeah that's absolutely a whole other thing that gaming, and especially the Nintendo community, has to reckon with.
With Nintendo, I think the content creators focus on "what's next" not only because it is lazy/easy and seems to be what audiences want, but also because speculation allows them to avoid outright criticisms of Nintendo, thus keeping them in Nintendo's good graces.
We see the same thing with Disney. The content creators only ever talk about Disney in a positive way, because they know negative coverage will result their advance and/or complimentary access to the next big Disney thing being limited or outright denied, which would kill their channel.
Once Nintendo (like many other industries) realized they could use the toxic positivity of the "content creator" pipeline to deliver news via supposedly "authentic" voices without the fear of criticism from those same voices, all the actual substantive games journalism went out the window.
The problem isn't unique to Nintendo, as "content creators" across industries tend to be focused on marketing messaging, probably because they've come to rely on things like press releases (aka work done by someone else, not you) as a foundation of their content pipeline.
Thanks for resurfacing this, as I missed it last year. You hit the nail on the head regarding the obsession over the "what's next" news/marketing cycle stuff, which doesn't have to but is currently very much is happening at the expense of actual, substantive discourse.
This is your reminder to go play Mario vs. DK for GBA, now that it's out on the Switch Online catalog!
Unlike the subsequent Mario vs DK games, which annoyingly focus on the boring minis gameplay, this first one is essentially a spiritual successor to the superb DK '94 for original Gameboy.
Anyway, the new Mario movie continues to look like it will be good, at least as good as the first one, which was good but not great. I'm here for the SMB2 fan service and the one Wart line in the trailer sounded great in Guzman's voice. Good casting pick!
Woke up this morning and my Nintendo Today app's theme, which I have set to random, was on Animal Crossing. I'm honestly a bit surprised that Nintendo didn't force the Mario theme for everybody using the randomize setting.
Anyway, happy Mario Day!
Prices keep going up. Service and quality keep going down. The enshittification of Disney Parks continues. Why do people continue to put up with this?
She has rapidly become one of my favorite people on this show. She took to it faster than just about anyone I can remember.
Itβs Whiskey Friday with Tony Dokoupil, and buddy, Iβm all out of Tony Dokoupil
Kaboom! Thatβs a blast from my childhood past.
They just took a big knob labeled βenshittificationβ and turned it up.
Enshittification at the expense of egalitarianism. Rich and poor used to have a roughly similar day in the parks. Those days are long past.
I've never seen a more accurate description of the current Disney Parks experience.
Spoilers: IT FUCKING SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKS.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dznd...
