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A first sneak preview!

Echoes: Berlin is a narrative strategy game set in Berlin during the German revolution of 1918-1919. Follow the stories of several revolutionaries as you attempt to gain control over the city.

#berlin #indiegame #strategygame #indiedev #politicalgames #gamedev

the play for peace artwork showing a palestine flag as a puzzle, hands placing pieces on the board, and the title of the charity imposed over it.

Play for Peace - Games for Palestine 2025 Charity Bundle is here!
itch.io/b/2979/play-...
for just $8 you get 382 amazing games, from cozy narrative sims, to meditative adventures, to action games, visual novel tools, experimental sims, an RPG about being a cow, to tabletop experiences…

OpenAI is now openly suggesting people use chatGPT for mental health, to „untangle their thoughts” to help them „think more clearly” or if they need to decide whether to „break up with their boyfriend”.

This is unacceptable. Somebody will die. They know that. They don’t care.

Fuck them.

Next @sosowski.bsky.social's talk. He's right. Fuck AI. It's dumb, possibly dumber than 15 billion monkeys and typewriters making predictive text. In a world of consumerism, the creative process is more valuable than polished, recycled slop. Whatever AI pretends to make, my human effort is cooler.

"Some uses of AI and LLM could be practical and ethical so we should be more open minded" some uses of landmines could be practical and ethical but that doesn't mean I want you to keep burying them in my yard

‘An Overwhelmingly Negative And Demoralizing Force’: What It’s Like Working For A Company That’s Forcing AI On Its Developers - Aftermath 'I have had conversations about AI in a professional context that make me want to walk into the sea'

Even from my perch inside gamedev, I had no idea it was already this bad. The rot is spreading. A necessary, sobering read. (gift link)

I will die on the hill that the worst thing about AI, aside from the widespread theft to train models and negative environmental impact, is the atrophy of basic critical thinking and communication skills that it is trying to replace.

Developer Creates Infinite Maze That Traps AI Training Bots "Nepenthes generates random links that always point back to itself - the crawler downloads those new links. Nepenthes happily just returns more and more lists of links pointing back to itself."

A web developer has created and released an infinitely generating "tar pit" designed to trap AI training bots in an endless maze: "Just me unleashing shear unadulterated rage at how things are going"

www.404media.co/developer-cr...

Picture of the Tesla gigafactory in Berlin with Elon Musk projected and the words Heil Tesla

Tesla Gigafactory, Berlin

(Collaboration with @politicalbeauty.bsky.social )