It bears repeating: Every store that said that Horses is too extreme for them to sell is lying. Blatantly.

There's nothing in the game that wouldn't pass muster in an M-rated movie. And it's FAR milder than COUNTLESS titles on Steam right now.

But it's easier than admitting a smear campaign worked

Google with AI buttons

Google without AI buttons

I made a filterlist for uBlock Origin to remove Generative AI features on websites. Includes blocks for
* Google AI Summaries
* YouTube Ask button & chat summaries
* GitHub Copilot
* Facebook AI chat
* X's Grok buttons
* Deviantart DreamUp
* Booru AI images
* And more

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Guy in a car, eating a slice of pizza with the caption "Little Caesar's taste so good when you ain't got a bitch in ya ear telling you it's nasty."

I think this might be one of the wisest things uttered on the internet in the past decade. Applies to just about everything, including (especially?) games.

Cultivate your own tastes. Filter out bad vibes and groupthink. Like what you like and don't be afraid to say it.

“The worst form of waste, inherent in late capitalism, lies in the misuse of existing material and human forces of production; instead of being used for the development of free men and women, they are increasingly employed in the production of useless and harmful things. All the historical contradictions of capitalism are concentrated in the twofold character of automation. On the one hand, it represents the perfected development of material forces of production, which could in themselves potentially liberate mankind from the compulsion to perform mechanical, repetitive, dull and alienating labour. On the other hand, it represents a new threat to job and income, a new intensification of anxiety, insecurity, return to chronic mass unemployment, periodic loss of consumption and income, and intellectual and moral impoverishment. Capitalist automation as the mighty development of both the productive forces of labour and the alienating and destructive forces of commodity and capital thus becomes the objectified quintessence of the antinomies inherent in the capitalist mode of production.”

I've said it before but one of the most revelatory things about reading Marxist theory is seeing just how much genAI automation is just the same old business-as-usual capitalism. Here's Ernest Mandel's Late Capitalism in 1972.

Why is everyone addicted to gambling, wtf.
Adverts for any type of gambling should just be banned everywhere. That includes sports betting, prediction markets, cryptocurrency, trading individual stocks, and gacha games.

Since the game is out tommorow I'm resharing the article I wrote on how abysmal the preservation of gacha games is and how Octopath 0 can be a step in the right direction for the medium
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Just came across this, maybe it could be of use? Looking forward to playing MonCraft!

The white ones that come covered in powdered sugar are THE BEST. Although I think it's also because I love peeling it off and just eating the dough+dulce de leche

What the fuck is wrong with you? You think a racist internment camp in response to a war is comparable to mean comments online in response to a GENOCIDE? How fucking privileged do you have to be? Or do you genuinely believe that the US gave a fuck about the asians that they went on to genocide?

Nobody of note, certainly not the youtuber that you are angry about, advocates for anything like that, they are simply asking you to get your head out of your ass and stop centering jewish feelings and opinions when Israel, a Jewish supremacist state backed by the first world, commits genocide

A genocide is happening and you have to pretend like the Holocaust is happening right now to position yourself as the victim. You are like an incel crying about not getting laid while women are raped and murdered. There are no american jewish internment camps, you are delusional

Moreso, if you think it's antisemitic to not care about jewish feelings in the midst of a jewish supremacist islamophobic genocide, that is extremely dangerous islamophobia, one that actually fuels actual mass murder of brown people all around the world

It's not, the same way that it isn't anti-white hatred to recognize that white people are often privileged and carry with them some racist attitudes, or how cishets are commonly prejudiced against lgbtq+ folks, especially when not educated about it or propagandized against it.

Ok, then you should have no issue acknowledging the involvement of most Jewish organizations and vast swathes of Jewish diaspora in ideologically and materially supporting the genocidal state of Israel, and we should probably avoid centering their concerns in the ongoing genocide conversation

You are doing the "not all *insert oppressive privileged group*" retort, fundamentally

Been there, still have like 8 of them swimming from Japan to Chile

I’ll just leave this here

do let me know if you find out haha

really glad to read that, happy for you buddy (*´∀｀*)

Are you from chile? HB recently added the tax on top of prices instead of including it in the price like it did before. I wonder if you could bypass it using a vpn to buy from another country, or if the keys would be region locked…

This is why I avoid talking about studios, games and products under Microsoft's umbrella, and suggest that you all avoid giving them money until there's some kind of change of management or major reckoning with this.

Roping in the feds to crack down on anti-genocide sentiment among staff? Pure evil

Ooh, been looking forward to this one for a LONG time. They say 'write what you know', and this RPG about trash is by a pair of janitors.

#Gaurodan is out!

The 2013 game has been completely redone to fit my current vision of traditional arcade game design. It's denser (more levels but less overall length), with better pacing, mechanics and a proper scoring system.

Music by @gryzor87.bsky.social ♫
Info and downloads at locomalito.com

It's a collab with developers, at the bottom they have a contact email to participate in the giveaway- although I guess they could have prioritized wider appeal stuff too

I think it can be interesting to see how many other people got past or through something. I also like the aspect of a sort of tracker for what I did in certain games, I like playing lots of different games and I like how it serves as an automated diary of sorts

Follow @wario64.bsky.social and repost for a chance to win 1 of 5 Steam codes for Cook Serve Forever courtesy of @chubigans.bsky.social (Giveaway ends on August 5th, 6 PM PT)

1.0 launch available now on Steam and out on eShop, PSN, and Xbox store.steampowered.com/app/1928090/...

The term “meritocracy” was coined in 1958 by sociologist Michael Young, as a satire and a warning. In his book The Rise of the Meritocracy, it described a dystopia where the elite believe they deserve their power, because they "earned" it, and everyone else is told they deserve to lose.

Keep getting error can't sign me up for now