Roaz
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If it feels like the media landscape is muted on Discord age verification, it’s because most of the journalists who cared deeply on this issue have been laid off or harassed out of the industry, and the remaining few truly don’t give a fuck—they silently benefit from adult spaces while chiding porn
February 9, 2026 at 5:17 PM
If it feels like the media landscape is muted on Discord age verification, it’s because most of the journalists who cared deeply on this issue have been laid off or harassed out of the industry, and the remaining few truly don’t give a fuck—they silently benefit from adult spaces while chiding porn
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People who assign the label "slop" to the third similar game in a genre they see in a year would not survive the era of wii and ps2 shovelware
February 6, 2026 at 4:23 PM
People who assign the label "slop" to the third similar game in a genre they see in a year would not survive the era of wii and ps2 shovelware
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January 23, 2026 at 5:35 PM
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Northernlion is my only hope that someone can steer the gamer youth of twitch in a normal direction
January 21, 2026 at 2:06 AM
Northernlion is my only hope that someone can steer the gamer youth of twitch in a normal direction
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Bandcamp pays artists about 80% of sales. And prohibits AI music.
If you believe music is important, stop using Spotify.
If you believe music is important, stop using Spotify.
In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties.
The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.
Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.
The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.
Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.
January 16, 2026 at 4:19 AM
Bandcamp pays artists about 80% of sales. And prohibits AI music.
If you believe music is important, stop using Spotify.
If you believe music is important, stop using Spotify.
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There was a point in time where it at least made sense why someone would prefer to stay on Twitter.
Those reasons have all dried up at this point. Twitter kills engagement for breathing wrong, most activity is from bots, it's a pedophile Nazi bar with a built-in deepfake porn machine.
Those reasons have all dried up at this point. Twitter kills engagement for breathing wrong, most activity is from bots, it's a pedophile Nazi bar with a built-in deepfake porn machine.
January 9, 2026 at 1:09 PM
There was a point in time where it at least made sense why someone would prefer to stay on Twitter.
Those reasons have all dried up at this point. Twitter kills engagement for breathing wrong, most activity is from bots, it's a pedophile Nazi bar with a built-in deepfake porn machine.
Those reasons have all dried up at this point. Twitter kills engagement for breathing wrong, most activity is from bots, it's a pedophile Nazi bar with a built-in deepfake porn machine.
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there is no "staying to fight back" THERE IS NO FIGHT DUDE YOU ARE NOT WINNING ANYTHING JUST FUCKING LEAVE LMAO
January 7, 2026 at 11:57 PM
there is no "staying to fight back" THERE IS NO FIGHT DUDE YOU ARE NOT WINNING ANYTHING JUST FUCKING LEAVE LMAO
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yeah no its fine keep using it because it generates you clicks and gives you attention though. its fine. keep using the pedophile site to pay your bills. totally fine.
Grok is producing ~6,700 sexually suggestive or nudified images per hour
• Twitter (X) is now the top deepfaking site in the world
• Women who speak out become targets by users
(via business)
• Twitter (X) is now the top deepfaking site in the world
• Women who speak out become targets by users
(via business)
January 7, 2026 at 11:42 PM
yeah no its fine keep using it because it generates you clicks and gives you attention though. its fine. keep using the pedophile site to pay your bills. totally fine.
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"maybe gamergate actually had a point"
you understand it was gamergate that led us to this point right? including BOTH the paypro censorship AND the mass volumes of csam being generated by grok. they were fascists. they rode our cultural hatred of women & MaGes to success and to today's world
you understand it was gamergate that led us to this point right? including BOTH the paypro censorship AND the mass volumes of csam being generated by grok. they were fascists. they rode our cultural hatred of women & MaGes to success and to today's world
January 5, 2026 at 6:03 PM
"maybe gamergate actually had a point"
you understand it was gamergate that led us to this point right? including BOTH the paypro censorship AND the mass volumes of csam being generated by grok. they were fascists. they rode our cultural hatred of women & MaGes to success and to today's world
you understand it was gamergate that led us to this point right? including BOTH the paypro censorship AND the mass volumes of csam being generated by grok. they were fascists. they rode our cultural hatred of women & MaGes to success and to today's world
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Such a shame that the live service component of this was not supported properly, the flight mechanics have yet to be beaten.
My video essay on this if interested! I will always love talking Anthem 👉🏻 youtu.be/tUGEKwF2fDI?...
My video essay on this if interested! I will always love talking Anthem 👉🏻 youtu.be/tUGEKwF2fDI?...
January 4, 2026 at 8:14 PM
Such a shame that the live service component of this was not supported properly, the flight mechanics have yet to be beaten.
My video essay on this if interested! I will always love talking Anthem 👉🏻 youtu.be/tUGEKwF2fDI?...
My video essay on this if interested! I will always love talking Anthem 👉🏻 youtu.be/tUGEKwF2fDI?...
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reminder these are available!
January 3, 2026 at 7:21 PM
reminder these are available!
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We really need to bring back “dont yuck my yum.“ Perfect idea, encourages mutual respect and civility, but this obsession with policing others’ sexual desires and calling earnest erotic expression cringe… we’re doing the fascists’ work for them. Respect difference in preference
but for real I genuinely hope during this year people finally fucking stop taking face value of smear campaigns and moral panics over simple kinks of (mainly) queer people as the world wants to erase us.
January 1, 2026 at 4:39 PM
We really need to bring back “dont yuck my yum.“ Perfect idea, encourages mutual respect and civility, but this obsession with policing others’ sexual desires and calling earnest erotic expression cringe… we’re doing the fascists’ work for them. Respect difference in preference
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victims of "website that stabs you with a knife" on moving to another website:
"idk it's kinda knifeless there"
"idk it's kinda knifeless there"
December 25, 2025 at 9:38 AM
victims of "website that stabs you with a knife" on moving to another website:
"idk it's kinda knifeless there"
"idk it's kinda knifeless there"
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Give folks their flowers
No, I mean right now. Go tell someone you loved their work right now. They're on social media just say it, it has never been easier
"They know how much people love--" no they don't go say it right now to a composer or artist or game dev or writer or anyone AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH
No, I mean right now. Go tell someone you loved their work right now. They're on social media just say it, it has never been easier
"They know how much people love--" no they don't go say it right now to a composer or artist or game dev or writer or anyone AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH
September 29, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Give folks their flowers
No, I mean right now. Go tell someone you loved their work right now. They're on social media just say it, it has never been easier
"They know how much people love--" no they don't go say it right now to a composer or artist or game dev or writer or anyone AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH
No, I mean right now. Go tell someone you loved their work right now. They're on social media just say it, it has never been easier
"They know how much people love--" no they don't go say it right now to a composer or artist or game dev or writer or anyone AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH
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This hit extremely close to home on a personal level in multiple ways and also, yeah, wow
Since yesterday, many people have DM’d to say that they were strongly affected by my essay & wished they could share it.
So I've revised, expanded, & posted it for free on both Substack & Patreon.
Please feel free to share.
www.patreon.com/posts/this-i...
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So I've revised, expanded, & posted it for free on both Substack & Patreon.
Please feel free to share.
www.patreon.com/posts/this-i...
catvalente.substack.com/p/this-is-wh...
December 20, 2025 at 3:29 PM
This hit extremely close to home on a personal level in multiple ways and also, yeah, wow
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I just saw someone yell “they’re just using it to generate ideas!”
And
I hate to say it
But if you work in the ART DEPARTMENT and you need a death machine stuffed with your colleagues’ work to give you ideas
Quit.
And
I hate to say it
But if you work in the ART DEPARTMENT and you need a death machine stuffed with your colleagues’ work to give you ideas
Quit.
December 20, 2025 at 2:44 AM
I just saw someone yell “they’re just using it to generate ideas!”
And
I hate to say it
But if you work in the ART DEPARTMENT and you need a death machine stuffed with your colleagues’ work to give you ideas
Quit.
And
I hate to say it
But if you work in the ART DEPARTMENT and you need a death machine stuffed with your colleagues’ work to give you ideas
Quit.
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I disagree, Larian is being made an example out of, it’s like putting a head on a pike. The message? “We don’t care if you made BG3. We will not forgive any use of AI”
ragging on a top game studio for using LLM placeholder text is maybe not the most efficient use of time with all the fires currently burning
December 17, 2025 at 5:48 PM
I disagree, Larian is being made an example out of, it’s like putting a head on a pike. The message? “We don’t care if you made BG3. We will not forgive any use of AI”
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So the guy himself is saying they arent really even seeing productivity gains? He said they are just using AI because they are afraid of being left behind. He is inviting this public scorn by repeating techbro talking points for no benefit at all. The mind of a CEO is fascinating.
If I had known the two paragraphs about genAI in my article today would be so controversial, I would have expanded them a bit! Here's a rough transcript of the relevant portion of my interview with Swen Vincke, so everyone has all the context. (Full article here: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...)
December 17, 2025 at 12:16 AM
So the guy himself is saying they arent really even seeing productivity gains? He said they are just using AI because they are afraid of being left behind. He is inviting this public scorn by repeating techbro talking points for no benefit at all. The mind of a CEO is fascinating.
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The thing thats so insidious about using AI this way is that one of the main ways artists get hired are studios looking for art references and they find us and reach out.
This is removing a major avenue to get work if they can just generate nameless derivations of our ideas.
This is removing a major avenue to get work if they can just generate nameless derivations of our ideas.
December 17, 2025 at 12:32 AM
The thing thats so insidious about using AI this way is that one of the main ways artists get hired are studios looking for art references and they find us and reach out.
This is removing a major avenue to get work if they can just generate nameless derivations of our ideas.
This is removing a major avenue to get work if they can just generate nameless derivations of our ideas.
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December 16, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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wanted to bring attention to the patch charity fundraiser hosted by the xivlauncher and dalamud team! they will be running this event until friday, and all donations sent in go directly to Doctors Without Borders.
tiltify.com/@goatsdev/xl...
tiltify.com/@goatsdev/xl...
December 16, 2025 at 8:43 PM
wanted to bring attention to the patch charity fundraiser hosted by the xivlauncher and dalamud team! they will be running this event until friday, and all donations sent in go directly to Doctors Without Borders.
tiltify.com/@goatsdev/xl...
tiltify.com/@goatsdev/xl...
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Honestly beyond glad Larian did this. When the statue first appeared people were adamant that Larian wouldn't be the source of it...
But mfers forget they have that BG3 money and dedication to art is what Larian IS about.
But mfers forget they have that BG3 money and dedication to art is what Larian IS about.
December 12, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Honestly beyond glad Larian did this. When the statue first appeared people were adamant that Larian wouldn't be the source of it...
But mfers forget they have that BG3 money and dedication to art is what Larian IS about.
But mfers forget they have that BG3 money and dedication to art is what Larian IS about.