Pete Davison
@moegamer.net
Manuals and digital stuff @evercade.co.uk.
Ex-GamePro, USgamer, Rice Digital.
Words on games: https://moegamer.net
Daily ramblings: https://imnotdoctorwho.moegamer.net
Videos: https://youtube.com/@ThisIsPete
I have played Atari today.
Ex-GamePro, USgamer, Rice Digital.
Words on games: https://moegamer.net
Daily ramblings: https://imnotdoctorwho.moegamer.net
Videos: https://youtube.com/@ThisIsPete
I have played Atari today.
Been playing Tears of the Kingdom alongside Age of Imprisonment and, given recent Discourse over modern games not trusting players to retain information, I feel the organically occurring adventures of BotW and TotK are evidence that a hands-off approach *can* work. moegamer.net/2025/11/15/z...
Zelda's organic adventures - MoeGamer
Zelda has always been about non-linear exploration, but its most recent installments expand this into organically occurring adventures.
moegamer.net
November 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Been playing Tears of the Kingdom alongside Age of Imprisonment and, given recent Discourse over modern games not trusting players to retain information, I feel the organically occurring adventures of BotW and TotK are evidence that a hands-off approach *can* work. moegamer.net/2025/11/15/z...
welp. glad I picked up the Japanese physical (which has English text)
Can't believe we're still doing this "platform standards and guidelines" nonsense. Treat adults like adults!
Can't believe we're still doing this "platform standards and guidelines" nonsense. Treat adults like adults!
XSEED Games announced that Corpse Party Tetralogy Pack west physical is canceled as well as digital unreleased games featured in the pack, due to the contents of several games in the pack not complying with current platform guidelines
November 15, 2025 at 1:36 PM
welp. glad I picked up the Japanese physical (which has English text)
Can't believe we're still doing this "platform standards and guidelines" nonsense. Treat adults like adults!
Can't believe we're still doing this "platform standards and guidelines" nonsense. Treat adults like adults!
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Lumines Arise is mechanically elegant and fun to play, but its biggest triumph is its sincerity, earnestness and emotional resonance -- qualities that we're long overdue to stop considering "cringe" and embrace fully. moegamer.net/2025/11/14/l...
Lumines Arise, the art of sincerity and creating meaning without explicit narrative - MoeGamer
Lumines Arise is a new addition to the famous puzzle game series, and it's both mechanically elegant and emotionally resonant.
moegamer.net
November 14, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Lumines Arise is mechanically elegant and fun to play, but its biggest triumph is its sincerity, earnestness and emotional resonance -- qualities that we're long overdue to stop considering "cringe" and embrace fully. moegamer.net/2025/11/14/l...
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Insulting to the players, insulting to the IP, insulting to the medium, the developers. And the craft itself. Fuck you executives who pushed this garbage.
frvr.com/blog/call-of...
frvr.com/blog/call-of...
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is littered with AI art slop, because your $70 means nothing anymore
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is littered with AI generated artwork which makes the $70 feel like a complete rip-off.
frvr.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Insulting to the players, insulting to the IP, insulting to the medium, the developers. And the craft itself. Fuck you executives who pushed this garbage.
frvr.com/blog/call-of...
frvr.com/blog/call-of...
I suspect this is unfortunately true for many, but as someone who has always devoted 100% attention to a game while playing (I refuse to play with podcasts/videos on, even when grinding in an MMO, as I think it's disrespectful to the devs) this makes me sad.
We've gotta fix this. Not just in games.
We've gotta fix this. Not just in games.
You wanna know why we're having nag line discourse in 2025? Because developers know we're fighting an attention economy war we'll lose no matter what. Players don't read, have TikTok open next to them, god forbid we are scared you miss something and then blame us for not giving you all the info.
November 14, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I suspect this is unfortunately true for many, but as someone who has always devoted 100% attention to a game while playing (I refuse to play with podcasts/videos on, even when grinding in an MMO, as I think it's disrespectful to the devs) this makes me sad.
We've gotta fix this. Not just in games.
We've gotta fix this. Not just in games.
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After years of games (and movies, and TV shows) featuring reams of irony-poisoned dialogue, Lumines Arise's sense of really *meaning* what it "says" throughout is refreshing. And that, to me, is admirable.
November 14, 2025 at 4:14 PM
After years of games (and movies, and TV shows) featuring reams of irony-poisoned dialogue, Lumines Arise's sense of really *meaning* what it "says" throughout is refreshing. And that, to me, is admirable.
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Lumines Arise isn't "about" something specific in the same way a story-based game is, but it definitely has recurring themes, and one of the best things about it is that it has no shame about expressing those themes.
November 14, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Lumines Arise isn't "about" something specific in the same way a story-based game is, but it definitely has recurring themes, and one of the best things about it is that it has no shame about expressing those themes.
Lumines Arise is mechanically elegant and fun to play, but its biggest triumph is its sincerity, earnestness and emotional resonance -- qualities that we're long overdue to stop considering "cringe" and embrace fully. moegamer.net/2025/11/14/l...
Lumines Arise, the art of sincerity and creating meaning without explicit narrative - MoeGamer
Lumines Arise is a new addition to the famous puzzle game series, and it's both mechanically elegant and emotionally resonant.
moegamer.net
November 14, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Lumines Arise is mechanically elegant and fun to play, but its biggest triumph is its sincerity, earnestness and emotional resonance -- qualities that we're long overdue to stop considering "cringe" and embrace fully. moegamer.net/2025/11/14/l...
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Trump Denies Writing 36-Volume Comic Titled ‘Don And Jeff: Time Pedophiles https://theonion.com/trump-denies-writing-36-volume-comic-titled-don-and-jeff-time-pedophiles/
November 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Trump Denies Writing 36-Volume Comic Titled ‘Don And Jeff: Time Pedophiles https://theonion.com/trump-denies-writing-36-volume-comic-titled-don-and-jeff-time-pedophiles/
Rain on a cloudy day won't stay
You and I deserve to live this life
We will get through every fight
EXCEPT THIS FUCKING BASTARD LEVEL
You and I deserve to live this life
We will get through every fight
EXCEPT THIS FUCKING BASTARD LEVEL
November 13, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Rain on a cloudy day won't stay
You and I deserve to live this life
We will get through every fight
EXCEPT THIS FUCKING BASTARD LEVEL
You and I deserve to live this life
We will get through every fight
EXCEPT THIS FUCKING BASTARD LEVEL
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiayqa37f7kik7l7s7fbtfp2sir5ckb662ry2lylinyjrfa2rkvvka@jpeg)
if you need any additional reasons not to cross the picket line here (you shouldn't, but still), Starbucks' CEO thinks his company that makes coffee and sells cakes should be "all-in" on AI for some inexplicable reason
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 5:46 PM
if you need any additional reasons not to cross the picket line here (you shouldn't, but still), Starbucks' CEO thinks his company that makes coffee and sells cakes should be "all-in" on AI for some inexplicable reason
what a miserable fucking sentence this is
November 13, 2025 at 5:20 PM
what a miserable fucking sentence this is
The Vangel is the most annoying dungeon in The Granstream Saga. So I thought I'd blast through it in one (long!) episode in the hopes of not having to fling my controller through the window after umpteen Mimic and Blob encounters. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXXY...
Battling the most ANNOYING enemies | THE GRANSTREAM SAGA #8
YouTube video by ThisIsPete
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November 13, 2025 at 5:12 PM
The Vangel is the most annoying dungeon in The Granstream Saga. So I thought I'd blast through it in one (long!) episode in the hopes of not having to fling my controller through the window after umpteen Mimic and Blob encounters. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXXY...
can I just say that the "tomatoes and broccoli" level on Lumines Arise is simultaneously wonderful and horrendous for those of us with a very specific kind of synaesthesia
November 13, 2025 at 3:36 PM
can I just say that the "tomatoes and broccoli" level on Lumines Arise is simultaneously wonderful and horrendous for those of us with a very specific kind of synaesthesia
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The new Lumines has absolutely killer art direction precisely because it has zero fear of being perceived as corny. It will just throw every idea it has at you and maybe not all will land but at some point you WILL cry about how all humans are connected while matching broccoli and tomatoes onscreen
November 13, 2025 at 2:25 AM
The new Lumines has absolutely killer art direction precisely because it has zero fear of being perceived as corny. It will just throw every idea it has at you and maybe not all will land but at some point you WILL cry about how all humans are connected while matching broccoli and tomatoes onscreen
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AI is the ultimate forced meme: aftermath.site/ai-is-the-ulti...
November 12, 2025 at 7:03 PM
AI is the ultimate forced meme: aftermath.site/ai-is-the-ulti...
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And to be clear, coming from me whose best code is *the absolute fucking pits*, if even *I* think code is dogshit it must really really stink.
November 12, 2025 at 11:39 AM
And to be clear, coming from me whose best code is *the absolute fucking pits*, if even *I* think code is dogshit it must really really stink.
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There is no AI in Earth Must Die.
FULL DISCLOSURE in desperation, in my darkest hour, I did use CoPilot to try and fix a bug, but the code it spewed out was such absolute dogshit I couldn't have implemented it if I wanted to.
FULL DISCLOSURE in desperation, in my darkest hour, I did use CoPilot to try and fix a bug, but the code it spewed out was such absolute dogshit I couldn't have implemented it if I wanted to.
We don’t use generative AI at Strange Scaffold and I can confirm that a *lot* of other studios are not—whether indie or AAA.
Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.
Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.
“It’s important to assume every game company is now using AI.” Nexon CEO comments on role of human creativity as AI tools become the norm
automaton-media.com/en/news/its-...
automaton-media.com/en/news/its-...
November 12, 2025 at 11:22 AM
There is no AI in Earth Must Die.
FULL DISCLOSURE in desperation, in my darkest hour, I did use CoPilot to try and fix a bug, but the code it spewed out was such absolute dogshit I couldn't have implemented it if I wanted to.
FULL DISCLOSURE in desperation, in my darkest hour, I did use CoPilot to try and fix a bug, but the code it spewed out was such absolute dogshit I couldn't have implemented it if I wanted to.
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it’s not early days
this is the result of years of intensely financially motivated development being carried out in parallel by the worlds largest tech companies
this is what we’re getting and it’s shit
this is the result of years of intensely financially motivated development being carried out in parallel by the worlds largest tech companies
this is what we’re getting and it’s shit
November 12, 2025 at 3:59 AM
it’s not early days
this is the result of years of intensely financially motivated development being carried out in parallel by the worlds largest tech companies
this is what we’re getting and it’s shit
this is the result of years of intensely financially motivated development being carried out in parallel by the worlds largest tech companies
this is what we’re getting and it’s shit
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am I going to be left behind by those that “embrace” it?
oh no they’ll make mediocre shit faster than I make my stuff
while forgetting how to code/model/write/think when the bubble pops and the genAI tools get taken offline
oh no they’ll make mediocre shit faster than I make my stuff
while forgetting how to code/model/write/think when the bubble pops and the genAI tools get taken offline
November 12, 2025 at 3:59 AM
am I going to be left behind by those that “embrace” it?
oh no they’ll make mediocre shit faster than I make my stuff
while forgetting how to code/model/write/think when the bubble pops and the genAI tools get taken offline
oh no they’ll make mediocre shit faster than I make my stuff
while forgetting how to code/model/write/think when the bubble pops and the genAI tools get taken offline
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the idea that lots of gamedevs are secretly using ai is booster bullshit
what on earth would I use genAI tools for? Coming up with ideas? Writing? It’s shit at those
making 3D models? Coding stuff? It’s shit at that too
oh but it’s faster maybe? Did I mention it’s shit at things?
seems important
what on earth would I use genAI tools for? Coming up with ideas? Writing? It’s shit at those
making 3D models? Coding stuff? It’s shit at that too
oh but it’s faster maybe? Did I mention it’s shit at things?
seems important
November 12, 2025 at 3:59 AM
the idea that lots of gamedevs are secretly using ai is booster bullshit
what on earth would I use genAI tools for? Coming up with ideas? Writing? It’s shit at those
making 3D models? Coding stuff? It’s shit at that too
oh but it’s faster maybe? Did I mention it’s shit at things?
seems important
what on earth would I use genAI tools for? Coming up with ideas? Writing? It’s shit at those
making 3D models? Coding stuff? It’s shit at that too
oh but it’s faster maybe? Did I mention it’s shit at things?
seems important
This is a VERY GOOD VIDEO GAME
🎉 Lumines Arise Available Now for PS5 and Steam 🚀
Light, sound and haptics unite your senses. Feel the good vibes. Puzzle differently.
Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2370000/Lumines_Arise
PS5: store.playstation.com/concept/10011885
lumines.game #LuminesArise
Light, sound and haptics unite your senses. Feel the good vibes. Puzzle differently.
Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2370000/Lumines_Arise
PS5: store.playstation.com/concept/10011885
lumines.game #LuminesArise
November 11, 2025 at 11:46 PM
This is a VERY GOOD VIDEO GAME
Wanna grab Lumines Arise, so thought I'd buy it on the PlayStation app and set it downloading while I make and have dinner.
Opened it up and it had logged me out.
Logged in and it wanted 2FA despite previously telling it to "Trust this device"
Gave 2FA and THEN app said it needed an update.
FFS
Opened it up and it had logged me out.
Logged in and it wanted 2FA despite previously telling it to "Trust this device"
Gave 2FA and THEN app said it needed an update.
FFS
November 11, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Wanna grab Lumines Arise, so thought I'd buy it on the PlayStation app and set it downloading while I make and have dinner.
Opened it up and it had logged me out.
Logged in and it wanted 2FA despite previously telling it to "Trust this device"
Gave 2FA and THEN app said it needed an update.
FFS
Opened it up and it had logged me out.
Logged in and it wanted 2FA despite previously telling it to "Trust this device"
Gave 2FA and THEN app said it needed an update.
FFS