"No one can afford to buy games" is one explanation for what's going on in the games industry but it doesn't really explain the rapid contraction. I think more salient factors are:
1. dependency on external investment that has dried up
2. rapidly changing patterns of consumption post-covid
15.02.2026 16:53
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I will not support any funding deal that puts money in the hands of Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and this violent agency. Defund and abolish ICE now.
10.02.2026 16:35
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Top US Army general says heβs using ChatGPT to help make key command decisions
dawg we are gonna lose a war because ChatGPT has this guy mobilizing divisions that don't exist and tasking real troops with holding mountain passes and ports an LLM hallucinated
17.10.2025 02:38
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I don't understand the "I asked chatGPT" crowd.
Like, how TF did you lose the ability to source information and desire to learn a new skill?
11.07.2025 20:47
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The fact we have secret police whisking people off the streets doesnβt get enough attention. It ainβt normal and weβre further down the road to authoritarianism than you think.
05.07.2025 02:52
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Suddenly mad that we'll never get a Discworld book in which the wizards invent something like Large Language Monsters that eat everyone's stuff before regurgitating it, and Vimes arrests them all for being bloody stupid
24.12.2024 07:42
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Unity to Unreal: Best Practices for Transitioning Developers | Unreal Fest 2024
YouTube video by Unreal Engine
A great presentation for anyone transitioning to Unreal Engine by @dakotaherold.bsky.social and @jboswell.bsky.social π #uetips
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef_5...
19.12.2024 08:59
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this is how your email finds me
06.02.2024 20:43
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This is literally all of us
18.08.2023 06:25
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