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1/3 dog, 1/3 arts+tech, 1/3 something something. Recently: Digital Foundry, NYT, Polygon, The Stranger, Game Developer, Games Radar. Currently: for hire. Previously: Ars, American Airlines, The Atlantic. He/him, from Seattle.
In other words, whatever $ you give to the ESA Foundation for its stated purposes (scholarships for young devs) may very well get funneled into greater ESA efforts (lobbying the US govt with stances that you may not agree with), and you'll never know which way your $ goes.
Big red flag on a "charity" basis. The ESA Foundation is simply part of the ESA, a 501(c)(6), meaning $ it collects via donations can be moved through its operations however it sees fit - with zero paper trail. Learn more on how these orgs differ from 501(c)(3)s. Then, skip this bundle.
They paid and credited the artist in question, and the MTX is all skins, zero mechanical content. Not that Bungie is not impugnable, but FYI.
nothing better proves that this industry is all hallucInatory BS than a product that attempts to extrude "editors' advice" without sourcing internal editors' notes/comments
like, did y'all break into their Google Docs accounts? what the heck else would you even use to extrude believable text?!
gonna need the @mariners.com to step up with their former corporate masters and make this happen locally. default Yoshi is already Mariners color-coded!! Naylor plz use your powers for good here
goddddd I hope SNL pivots for its cold open this week with Mushroom Kingdom V. Trump Admin and I will gladly chip in with free rewrites
best shape of my life, people say I've never been healthier, don't look at my weirdly colored hand, etc etc
NINTENDO is a VERY BAD company who has a FAILED Switch 2 launch and hasn't put out a good STAR FOX game in years!! It's no wonder they are once again being UNFAIR to me, the BEST president with the WORLD RECORD Super Mario 64 speedrun!! God bless the Sega Dreamcast, a REAL console
I'm working on an article about all of this, btw.
I'm the guy in the ERA thread who confirmed most GaaS launches include guidance like this. This landed 2 weeks before launch as a "while we have your attn" ask and again says right there it's NOT a mandate. They can ask, we can decline.
black and brown dog lies with paws dangling above, tongue sticking out
good morning from a dog
They interviewed outside candidates for this exact role roughly a year ago. I know because I made it through a few rounds of tests and interviews. And then, from what I can tell, they never filled it.
Marathon is fun as hell, a different memorable story via emergent gameplay every hour, it seems
I think it was George Orwell who said you can pick your friends, you can pick your nose, but you can't finger the nostrils of your colleagues and spouses
if you have friends playing? yes. some very good ideas are being executed on, and even scrubs like me have access points to having a good time.
Happy Marathon day to those who celebrate! My latest article for @nytimes.com is a primer about Marathon and its grim tone for anyone who may not be familiar with the extraction shooter genre. Thanks to @stephentotilo.bsky.social for chatting with me on this.
this shit, by the way, can and does happen when these systems are asked to write code, as well. they'll never get smarter, and they'll never run out of ways to bypass whatever specific-case patches humans apply to them. generative word-turding was and will always be a mistake.
wanna dispel misconceptions about so-called AI? here ya go. even "hallucination" gives these systems too much credit. they are computationally expensive auto-complete bots, looking for mathematically derived syntax matches, not information. hence, online forum-like gibberish like the below.
Democrats should figure out how to play this footage on a loop in every VA hospital in the US, jfc
this US Govt is an Xbox
Anthropic?!
Boo,
Larry
who wants to pay me to write 2,000 words rebutting an audio product review I wrote for a different site? working title: "Not Buying Klipsch Products Again Isn't Punishment Enough For These Soundbar Clowns"
that very satisfying feeling of closing 14 browser tabs at once after completing a weeks-long project
happy new @anamanaguchi.bsky.social music day to all who celebrate! up now at Bandcamp and wherever finer MP3s are streamed (tho, if you're asking me, don't choose Spotify)
cc @mikeymrff.bsky.social can your org confirm Jonathan's reporting?
I'm not sure anyone has had a longer rent-free residency in American history than Seth Meyers in Trump's head
could really use Jon St. John doing a Duke Nukem quip of "fuck cancer" rn
the best PR campaign Capcom could've possibly launched for Resident Evil Requiem right here
now tell her about Cracking Packs, that'll turn the tide
proving it's not a sprint it's a