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If step 1 isn't "Drop AI integration completely" then it really doesn't matter
scoop: Microsoft is working to rebuild trust in Windows. The head of Windows tells me Microsoft will focus on "addressing pain points we hear consistently from customers." Full details in my Notepad newsletter this week, gift link here 👇 tinyurl.com/win11trust
Microsoft is working to rebuild trust in Windows
2026 is all about improving Windows
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January 29, 2026 at 5:20 PM
If step 1 isn't "Drop AI integration completely" then it really doesn't matter
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Microsoft provides technology that upholds Israel’s apartheid and powers ICE’s deportation and detention infrastructure.
It’s strange to watch people express genuine, justified rage at ICE and then immediately fawn over Xbox reveals like Microsoft exists in a gamer vacuum
medium.com/@noazurefora...
It’s strange to watch people express genuine, justified rage at ICE and then immediately fawn over Xbox reveals like Microsoft exists in a gamer vacuum
medium.com/@noazurefora...
Microsoft Powers ICE: Why doesn’t Microsoft want to talk about its contracts with Immigration and…
Executive Summary
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January 22, 2026 at 6:36 PM
Microsoft provides technology that upholds Israel’s apartheid and powers ICE’s deportation and detention infrastructure.
It’s strange to watch people express genuine, justified rage at ICE and then immediately fawn over Xbox reveals like Microsoft exists in a gamer vacuum
medium.com/@noazurefora...
It’s strange to watch people express genuine, justified rage at ICE and then immediately fawn over Xbox reveals like Microsoft exists in a gamer vacuum
medium.com/@noazurefora...
He's just out there doing good things and doing them quickly. I want this so bad man.
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January 14, 2026 at 5:40 PM
He's just out there doing good things and doing them quickly. I want this so bad man.
1000xResist and this moment continues to live rent free in my mind. Especially in the *gestures broadly* current state of the US as everything feels hopeless and like nothing can be done. But it isn't and this moment so perfectly gets at why.
January 12, 2026 at 11:06 PM
1000xResist and this moment continues to live rent free in my mind. Especially in the *gestures broadly* current state of the US as everything feels hopeless and like nothing can be done. But it isn't and this moment so perfectly gets at why.
Keep posting Tim. You're doing great. I mean if you wanted to make an argument for Twitter continuing to exist you could at least suggest Grok be shut down due to the whole "distributing disgusting content" thing. Interesting that you haven't and just made excuses for that too.
January 12, 2026 at 3:22 AM
Keep posting Tim. You're doing great. I mean if you wanted to make an argument for Twitter continuing to exist you could at least suggest Grok be shut down due to the whole "distributing disgusting content" thing. Interesting that you haven't and just made excuses for that too.
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hi! i'm co-founding a new gaming website with my former polygon colleague @zoehhannah.com. it's called mothership.blog. i made it for someone like me... the kind of website i always wished we had in our space. watch the video to learn more :D
It's time to board the Mothership.
www.youtube.com/shorts/iEw90...
www.youtube.com/shorts/iEw90...
Board the Mothership.
YouTube video by Mothership Media LLC
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January 9, 2026 at 5:04 PM
hi! i'm co-founding a new gaming website with my former polygon colleague @zoehhannah.com. it's called mothership.blog. i made it for someone like me... the kind of website i always wished we had in our space. watch the video to learn more :D
dudes rock
i too have begun watching the straight man hockey podcasts discuss heated rivalry. this is the forum of athens to me
December 31, 2025 at 2:20 AM
dudes rock
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oh brother, another bad post from political influencer beltway brian. i am furious at beltway brian all of the time. i share screencaps of beltway brian's posts with people who have no idea who he is. i hate all of beltway brian's posts and i read all of them every single day, including weekends
December 27, 2025 at 5:47 PM
oh brother, another bad post from political influencer beltway brian. i am furious at beltway brian all of the time. i share screencaps of beltway brian's posts with people who have no idea who he is. i hate all of beltway brian's posts and i read all of them every single day, including weekends
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Most of us did not choose to write or draw or design so that we could put products on the shelf. We chose to do it because it’s a set of skills we enjoy exercising, that give us fulfillment.
It’s like asking a pro pitcher to just let a machine pitch for them. Fuck off and give me the ball.
It’s like asking a pro pitcher to just let a machine pitch for them. Fuck off and give me the ball.
December 18, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Most of us did not choose to write or draw or design so that we could put products on the shelf. We chose to do it because it’s a set of skills we enjoy exercising, that give us fulfillment.
It’s like asking a pro pitcher to just let a machine pitch for them. Fuck off and give me the ball.
It’s like asking a pro pitcher to just let a machine pitch for them. Fuck off and give me the ball.
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Look man I don’t think the people being poisoned by data centers really care if you remove the generated assets before shipping, and I don’t really care if you “only” use the machine that stole my shit and convinced teens to off themselves for internal PowerPoints.
Cool motive. Still bullshit tho.
Cool motive. Still bullshit tho.
December 16, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Look man I don’t think the people being poisoned by data centers really care if you remove the generated assets before shipping, and I don’t really care if you “only” use the machine that stole my shit and convinced teens to off themselves for internal PowerPoints.
Cool motive. Still bullshit tho.
Cool motive. Still bullshit tho.
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the larian stuff sucks to hear a lot. you have to be a true all-timer loser to think generative AI is useful for concepting ideas or artwork. you let the machine do the fun part you dumbass. it doesnt tell me you think efficiently it tells me youre a fuckass who's given up on being interesting
December 16, 2025 at 4:49 PM
the larian stuff sucks to hear a lot. you have to be a true all-timer loser to think generative AI is useful for concepting ideas or artwork. you let the machine do the fun part you dumbass. it doesnt tell me you think efficiently it tells me youre a fuckass who's given up on being interesting
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consider my feedback: i loved working at @larianstudios.com until AI. reconsider and change your direction, like, yesterday. show your employees some respect. they are world-class & do not need AI assistance to come up with amazing ideas.
December 16, 2025 at 4:21 PM
consider my feedback: i loved working at @larianstudios.com until AI. reconsider and change your direction, like, yesterday. show your employees some respect. they are world-class & do not need AI assistance to come up with amazing ideas.
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I want to re-emphasize, the guy who has made HUNDREDS of videos calling people in the industry slurs, calling for them to be fired, calling all the studios that are showing games "woke and gay" and has harassed multiple journalists covering the show over the years is at the Game Awards.
LOL hey everyone in the industry who is at the Game Awards, the guy who has made countless videos harassing you is there!
December 12, 2025 at 1:35 AM
I want to re-emphasize, the guy who has made HUNDREDS of videos calling people in the industry slurs, calling for them to be fired, calling all the studios that are showing games "woke and gay" and has harassed multiple journalists covering the show over the years is at the Game Awards.
Just go to 2025.gamesrecap.io tomorrow or one of the many other places that will compile every trailer. Save yourself some time and you get to not support that loser.
Tonight is the VGA but you can do something more productive than watch it: read a book, bake a cake, purchase and play an indie game, etc.
Don't give more views to this circus of a show!
Don't give more views to this circus of a show!
“Don’t gather some of the most brilliant activists in the industry, treat us like crap, and then expect us to do nothing about it.” After the Game Awards cancelled its Future Class programme, @alyssamerc.bsky.social talked to its former honorees
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
December 11, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Just go to 2025.gamesrecap.io tomorrow or one of the many other places that will compile every trailer. Save yourself some time and you get to not support that loser.
Oh those studios are dead dead aren't they?
"a Warner Bros Discovery spokesperson confirmed the recently-restructured video game division, which includes studios such as Mortal Kombat creator NetherRealm, Batman: Arkham developer Rocksteady, and LEGO custodian TT Games, will be joining Netflix."
www.gamedeveloper.com/business/yes...
www.gamedeveloper.com/business/yes...
December 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Oh those studios are dead dead aren't they?
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hey if you're a dev who worked on a game that was nominated, i know it's hard with the Discourse but i hope you're proud of yourself and the work you did
November 17, 2025 at 6:22 PM
hey if you're a dev who worked on a game that was nominated, i know it's hard with the Discourse but i hope you're proud of yourself and the work you did
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the children yearn for bj blazkowicz’s monologues
November 14, 2025 at 5:37 PM
the children yearn for bj blazkowicz’s monologues
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Glad to see Polygon cover the resistance of game developers to generative AI--and to be able to speak briefly to one of the greatest dangers of this entire thing.
Gen AI doubles down on making MORE SPACE for production issues that *already make games worse.*
www.polygon.com/arc-raiders-...
Gen AI doubles down on making MORE SPACE for production issues that *already make games worse.*
www.polygon.com/arc-raiders-...
November 12, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Glad to see Polygon cover the resistance of game developers to generative AI--and to be able to speak briefly to one of the greatest dangers of this entire thing.
Gen AI doubles down on making MORE SPACE for production issues that *already make games worse.*
www.polygon.com/arc-raiders-...
Gen AI doubles down on making MORE SPACE for production issues that *already make games worse.*
www.polygon.com/arc-raiders-...
If I was unsure how I felt about Arc Raiders use of AI (I wasn't), knowing Tim Sweeney was defending it would be enough to let me know I should appose it
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney has defended AI following Eurogamer's 2/5 Arc Raiders review, which criticised the game's use use of AI voice generation. "AI dialog generation + human personality and tuning could totally transform gaming," Sweeney said.
www.gamesindustry.biz/epics-tim-sw...
www.gamesindustry.biz/epics-tim-sw...
Epic's Tim Sweeney wades into the Arc Raiders AI row
"This technology increases human productivity in some areas by integer multiples"
www.gamesindustry.biz
November 11, 2025 at 9:09 PM
If I was unsure how I felt about Arc Raiders use of AI (I wasn't), knowing Tim Sweeney was defending it would be enough to let me know I should appose it
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“Don’t gather some of the most brilliant activists in the industry, treat us like crap, and then expect us to do nothing about it.” After the Game Awards cancelled its Future Class programme, @alyssamerc.bsky.social talked to its former honorees
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
“We were effectively props”: young stars of game development feel let down by the ‘gaming Oscars’
Announced in 2020 by the Game Awards as an inclusive programme for the industry’s next generation, the Future Class initiative has now been discontinued. Inductees describe clashes with organisers and...
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
“Don’t gather some of the most brilliant activists in the industry, treat us like crap, and then expect us to do nothing about it.” After the Game Awards cancelled its Future Class programme, @alyssamerc.bsky.social talked to its former honorees
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
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Nothing will make me consider someones opinion invalid faster than "Well people in Japan think this obviously morally bad thing is completely fine actually *shrug*"
The level of ignorance (and probably racism) you have to have to think 100+ million all think identically is staggering.
The level of ignorance (and probably racism) you have to have to think 100+ million all think identically is staggering.
November 1, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Nothing will make me consider someones opinion invalid faster than "Well people in Japan think this obviously morally bad thing is completely fine actually *shrug*"
The level of ignorance (and probably racism) you have to have to think 100+ million all think identically is staggering.
The level of ignorance (and probably racism) you have to have to think 100+ million all think identically is staggering.
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Hi and welcome to my post-mortem on why we did not take over Steam’s marketshare.
Slide #1: We did not tell anyone we were trying to do this.
Sorry, guys. This one is on me. I honestly just forgot. Like, I had it as a reminder on my phone, but it was there for so long, I just ignored it. Whoops.
Slide #1: We did not tell anyone we were trying to do this.
Sorry, guys. This one is on me. I honestly just forgot. Like, I had it as a reminder on my phone, but it was there for so long, I just ignored it. Whoops.
October 29, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Hi and welcome to my post-mortem on why we did not take over Steam’s marketshare.
Slide #1: We did not tell anyone we were trying to do this.
Sorry, guys. This one is on me. I honestly just forgot. Like, I had it as a reminder on my phone, but it was there for so long, I just ignored it. Whoops.
Slide #1: We did not tell anyone we were trying to do this.
Sorry, guys. This one is on me. I honestly just forgot. Like, I had it as a reminder on my phone, but it was there for so long, I just ignored it. Whoops.
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it's cool to see that this game's starting pitcher is still hanging in there
October 28, 2025 at 6:32 AM
it's cool to see that this game's starting pitcher is still hanging in there