SpeckObst
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(ENG/GER) Some kind of video game critic (he/him)ㅣbusiness email: [email protected]
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Anytime you ask “why did the Times cover it this way?” or whatever corporate media it is, remember that influential moderates are the tool of the wealth class and are there to normalize whatever the wealthy want and create doubt regarding reform and change.
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Wenn ich sehe, wie gerade Nintendo Jagd auf Rom-Seiten macht, würde ich einen Übersetzungsfehler eher ausschließen.

Hoffen wir jedenfalls, dass sie niemals das Internet Archive entdecken.
Locking 4x speed behind the paywall is crazy though
youtube enabling my worst habits
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they’re doing racist Pokemon posts on Facebook like you’ve never seen before
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The game is quite fun and original. In the future (2014), people race with exoskeletons that enhance their physical abilities. And it has unlockables like Baby. It also has unlockables like Baby, with babies racing at 250 km/h.
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immigrant grocery store owner who voted for Trump to lower grocery prices and then got wrecked by tariffs. mfer you run a business called "Wong Kai Imports" what the hell did you think was gonna happen
"A beloved family-run grocery store in Florida may have to close its doors after 43 years because of tariffs." www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/ar...
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and who set that system up?
Miyamoto explained why Nintendo has made a serious push into making movies:

“Games eventually stop running when newer versions come out, but films remain forever.”

english.kyodonews.net/articles/-/6...
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It's incredible just how on the ball trans people were about those US think tanks influencing British politics, going to great length to detail all these links and connections, only for it to fall on deaf ears because of how aggressively trans people were frozen out and disenfranchised.
bittersweet seeing parts of the lethargic british press sluggishly get around to wondering if US far-right religious think tanks are working to influence british politics. they are, yes! it is not secret! do your jobs better!
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I've been radicalised into hating Kier Starmer by lemme check my notes...

Kier Starmer!?!

Now could he do this to me (and trans people, the disabled, the poor, peaceful protestors, old people getting taken away by the police, etc. etc. etc. etc.)
I think Starmer has been a huge disappointment. He’s been passive & cowardly. He’s not politically savvy either.

I also think he is a decent person and really wants to fix the country.

However, the hatred for him, almost universal in the country, is nothing short of radicalisation. It’s batshit!
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Man what I wouldn’t give to see how historians contextualize this in a hundred years
and another thing: he’s not mad. please don’t put it in the newspaper that he got mad.
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TERFs pretending to freak out about the “transgender propaganda” of “unknown gender” in pokemon that was in the series since gen 2 released in 1999
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This is what they have now. There are no ideas, only "oh you don't like that? Then I'll do it more." That's the sum total of the right's brain trust now
It is a scandal totally unprecedented in history that the Vice President has shared a video depicting the President as king. It’s an obscene violation of every founding American principle.

And nothing will come of it. It makes me physically sick.
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Look, it’s really straightforward to get a publisher as a new name indie in 2025. Simply do 95% of the work making and marketing your game, and if your metrics are trending towards almost certain success, a publisher will swoop in to promise the remaining 5%, deliver 3%, and collect 75%
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Emiru, the streamer who was sexually assaulted at TwitchCon yesterday, said she is "hurt and upset by how Twitch handled it during and after the fact"

She claims TwitchCon security & staff were heavily dismissive of the incident, only catching the perpetrator hours later due to her manager
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“Fuck AI”

— Guillermo del Toro

🎥 Vanity Fair
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it is my pleasure to report they are indeed mad as fuck on the other site over being blocked and ignored. keep up the excellent work everyone
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"i dont want to eat a kebab, i want fish and chips" well sorry little buddy but we're at the kebab shop and you're twelve
Never fuck with Japan's copyright lol
Japanese government has made a formal request asking OpenAI to refrain from copyright infringement 🇯🇵

• Says characters from manga, anime, and video games are ‘irreplaceable treasures’

• Comes in response to Sora 2’s ability to generate videos with copyrighted characters
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The shorter games with worse graphics made by less people discourse is starting again and the nuance lost in this conversation is: we absolutely CAN make big, hyper-realistic games, sustainably. The problem -- and the money drain -- is executive pay, leadership overreach, mismanagement, and whims.