I think every downturn in gaming history has led to explosions in indie dev studios and products.

this one feels a bit different; first time I’ve seen companies posting record profits and bragging about them, while laying devs off in absolute droves. it’s almost as if consolidating a billion competing IPs into a handful of publisher/owners who don’t really care about games per se, but see the enormous financial value in controlling the IP and production landscapes may have been a bad idea.

don’t get me wrong, someone comes along and offers me billions for my company, probably gonna take it, but you can see how it becomes reductive; and then the people calling the shots end up knowing very little about the actual mechanics of the industry… yeah we’re in for very fun times.

Indies will keep producing great stuff. Some of them will also get gobbled up. Support the rest please!

ALL OF YOU! EACH ONE OF YOU HAS HAD MY FILTHY ASS PENNIES!

now that’s self confidence.

imagine… any other president would be successfully impeached for shit like this - it’s one thing to sortie US forces into harms way on covert missions against an enemy, it’s another thing entirely to subvert the oversight process that lets critical parts of the government know we may just be starting a nuclear war.

I think this is Xi and Putin deliberately fucking with Trump.

Think about it: he’s circling the drain, they know it, and he’s desperate for anything to save him.

You can’t delete a book

nonsense, raise it’s temp to 451f and it’ll delete easily.

if it’s a 16’ x 9’ screen, I’m in.

film scanning at 4k res already reveals the granular structure of film, at 8k it’s going to become hard to ignore. And you’re spot on - they’ll do crappy 8k upres garbage for ages before the storage and streaming become practical.

fuck bbq sauce it’s overrated anyway. gimme a dry rub any day (wink wink nudge nudge it’s all the same to a blind wombat)

Carolina BBQ

is that what they call ketchup there?

it’s growing quite rapidly, really impressed with this project.

yeah seems like a charming troglodyte. chudworthy.

It’s almost as if violence is only stopped by violence

eh, yeah… that’s been working out great since the uk sold all that land to two different people and walked away from the shitshow.

I think we’re in a situation where we have to take the decision making power out of the hands of people guided by religious rhetoric and malignant monocultural motivation in order to see any real, lasting change.

they almost had this a few times on both sides but the religious nutbags kept assassinating them. the trick is to get secularist people who recognize a multicultural society is stronger than the alternatives, jihad and genocide.

cause not his job to let people know he says.

wow… that’s… sorry you have to live with someone like that.

now that’s a malicious sentence… but yeah, quitters never win :|

or a silly, halfwit race to build out the infrastructure (because they’re smoking their own product) that could crash the economy.

You’re only seeing the upsides - make nifty pictures, ai music, whatever - because the entire shitshow is a free or exceptionally underpriced preview of what’s to come. while everyone from google to grok to your mom fails to find a way to actually profit off of it all when they have to figure the costs of the water, power, training data, lawsuits and other shit into the actual equation it blows up.

These aren’t my ideas - please, take a break from your preconceptions and read:

https://futurism.com/data-centers-financial-bubble

https://www.zdnet.com/article/todays-ai-ecosystem-is-unsustainable-for-most-everyone-but-nvidia-warns-top-scholar/

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/8/22/2339789/-Why-The-AI-Bubble-Will-Burst

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-gui/

rape

I worry for the future generations of Taiwan and Ukraine. Trump’s going to just shrug and let them die.

ty!

I doubt that. Dawkins teamed up with religious fundamentalists to speak out against trans rights multiple times in the past.

can we get a citation on this because the dude has always given me odd vibes, but the selfish gene and climbing mount improbable were excellent. a citation would be useful in discussions with fam (lots of dawkins fans).

it may be physically impossible but until we test them with catastrophic conditions we won’t know. that said, their long history of fail-safe fail states and the extremely reduced physical constraints (lower pressure, lower temps, lower amounts of fissile material, lower enrichment, etc.,) make me think you’re right, but it’s gonna be hard to prove because we’re having such difficulty getting the larger industry to test the shit much less deploy it in any reasonable amount of time.