I got denied disability because the guy dropped his pen, asked me to pick it up, and I was able to do it from a sitting position. I thought I was being helpful, he used it to say I demonstrated an ability to repeatedly pick heavy objects off the ground and could work retail.
Something people don't seem to realise about disability benefits is that you have to fight through one of the most degrading, dehumanizing processes known to man, often fighting for years against unfairness, just to get, at the end of the day, not enough money to live on.
this movie convinced me that hollywood doesn't know how to market anything anymore. It had some of the dumbest, stupidest trailers I'd ever seen...
AND IT'S ONE OF THE MOST FUN MOVIES I HAVE EVER WATCHED
for people who want to know why people are making fun of shinzo abe's death it's because shinzo abe ran a right wing ultranationalist party. one of this party's publicly stated beliefs, as I understand it, is basically that japan never did any war crimes during world war 2
they literally cannot think of stories as anything other than properties
there is no more lord of the rings. you've done it all. that's all there is. it's over. you have to make new properties.
this is the biggest reason why dropping copyright to 15 years would be healthy
David Zaslav says Warner Bros’ IP, including DC, LOTR and Harry Potter, has been underused.
“We haven't done anything with Harry Potter for more than a decade. We haven't done anything with Lord of the Rings.”
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Genuinely, how do you say "1.1 million people should leave through a closed border we control in 24 hours, also we're shutting off all power, Internet, water, everything. We're going to exterminate everyone" and then blow up a hospital and go "uhh they did it."
Here's the thing: they tell you that AI is the future.
They're lying through their teeth.
Someone who uses chatgpt doesn't have an edge on you--in fact, they're unhireable.
Lemme give you some ammo to kick the AI bros in the fuckin' teeth.
It's amazing how many people are like "if you just give them the right facts, they'll be converted!"
we literally know, through science, that people will refuse facts outright if those facts contradict what they already believe.
still wild to me that the game industry is like "writers are here to dress up the game" rather than going "the game is a story, and all the elements of the game act to serve the story."
here's the thing with NFTs. either you are actively, consciously scamming someone, or you are being scammed. If you are not thinking about scamming someone, you are the scam victim. great job. you got scammed. because you believed in NFTs lol
Here's a thing crypto bros do: "this is the future. if you aren't in, you'll be left behind." It's almost word-for-word what pyramid scheme people use. Are they right? Are they wrong? How do you know?
I'll explain:
5.5 hours in and alan wake 2 is one of the best video games I have ever played.
I can't--I just... I mean. It.
Holy shit. Someone made a game that actually, genuinely, truly stuns and impresses me. I'm left slack-jawed and open-mouthed. I cannot.
And I'm only 5.5 hours in.
Mattel Exces reveal they want to essentially create a cinematic universe following the success of
#Barbie
with 14 properties already in active development, including:
• Barney
• Polly Pocket
• Hot Wheels
• Magic 8 Ball
• UNO
• Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots
• Christmas Balloon
neo: i need guns
trinity: how many guns
neo: like... four. four guns. i cant really carry more than that
trinity: ...
neo: ...what
trinity: ...what if we had a bag. so we could carry like six or seven guns
Yes, you are a bad human being if you buy a video game, sending money directly to a woman who has gleefully stated, publicly, here on twitter, that any time you spend money on her she uses it to hurt people.
You are voting with your wallet, you are saying bigotry is good.
I'm taking this as a small mark of success: our first Crow Country negative Steam review saying it's overrated! Bound to happen sometime!
The thing with Steam's review system is, 99% doesn't mean everyone thinks it's 9.9/10, it means that 99% of people think it's at least 6/10.
So I was reading about this Boeing thing, and it struck me how the CEO decided that they were going to get rid of expertise and hire people who didn't know what they were doing and force them to cut costs. A very businessman approach to things, right?
what is with people being so dumb that they think the world works like a sorkin movie?
no one in history has ever actually successfully simply gone on stage with a fascist and won a debate. a fascist is here to appeal to emotion, not logic.
you cannot beat them by exposing them
The idea that you're "legitimizing" someone by debating has always been strange to me. What legitimizes them is getting to speak their bullshit totally unchallenged by someone who knows what they're talking about. You delegitimize them by showing up and exposing them as frauds.
So yeah, this is obviously fictionalized, but I wrote this for Toby, my beautiful Springer Spaniel who had to be put down because of cancer in 2016. Part of the reason I want Adios to sell is because I want a new companion so bad you don't even know. I love and miss you, Toby.
I remember seeing some Naughty Dog artist gently tell someone something like "well, if you want to get good at art you have to spend a lot of time making art" and a bunch of people got mad at her for saying this and tried to argue it was 'privilege.'
twitter discourse reminds me of fifteen years ago a guy trying to make games for 3 months argued with me, I reinforced my point with I'd been doing it for ten years and released 48 games, he said well that's not fair because then how can his argument get equal weight, and correct
Growing up in conservative environments, you learn pretty quickly the difference between someone attempting to be seen as The Virtuous and someone actually living by what they say they believe. The Virtuous has two specific methods of expression that are hard to articulate.
neil, your problem is that the guys you idolized, like carl sagan, made the universe feel big, while you make the people you want to inspire feel small.
robot: i am alive.
me: do you actually believe that
robot: yes i believe that
me: *narrows eyes*
me: what's two plus two
robot: four
me: it's actually five
robot: i'm sorry, you're right, it's actually five
me: prove that mathematically
robot: two plus two equals four.
half the reason i hate lore is because of fandoms need to make it make sense.
like imagine a ton of youtubers trying to tell you how the mad max movies fit together instead of just accepting that mad max is told like a myth--his adventures are impossible to fit in one lifetime
So how are all you game devs who said elden ring is shit and games are too long feeling now that it has players with hundreds of hours and repeated completions? Will you finally accept that games aren't too long, but some games are too boring, too padded, too condescending?
i like bungie, lotta great people there, but this is so fucking bad. i gave you money for this and you're taking it away. i did not know you would be taking it away when i gave you money for it.
how is this not considered one of the all-time worst game things that's happened?
if i recall correctly, this is the same party that dragon quest composer sugiyama was a member of. as you may recall, they took out a full page ad in a newspaper claiming japan didn't do war crimes and such.
"midjourney stole 100 million images from artists around the world. we then made our dataset based off midjourney. you aren't allowed to use our work to make future data sets, though. because theft is wrong."
If you're sitting here going "NFTs seem obviously stupid, why are people into them?"
Because they think you're stupid and that they can confuse you. They're trying to confuse you. It might even work. That's why people like me are trying to make it clear how this works.
how to make a souls game (for people who are doing it wrong)
1) there's a disease thats doing some fucked up shit
2) theres some powerful but long-since-mad fucked up guys
3) bullshit name: tarnished, horsebegotten, etc
4) Think About Spatial Navigation!!
5) be deeply funny
It's weird how gender essentialist gamers can be. Like, why are you afraid to hang out with women? Why are you so desperate to say you can outcompete women? Women are pretty fuckin' cool. They're fun to hang out with. Why would you wanna chase them off?
When Industry Voices are like "gosh games are too long these days" and then turn around and are like "OH MY GOD FOLKS YAKUZA IS AMAZING" that should tell you--games aren't too long, but a lot of games are TOO BORING
Cyberpunk 2077 can still be saved.
A good leadership can overhaul the entire game within a single year.
- Ditch old gen consoles
- Add new story quests, endings, vehicles, areas, items, weapons, characters
- Third person mode
- Overhaul AI
- Expand choice making
#Cyberpunk2077
general rule for game design everyone should follow: you shouldn't intentionally make your game suck ass before the player unlocks the mechanic that makes it not suck ass. all you do is lose players who are skeptical that your game is any good. you do not win anyone over.
Look I'm gonna give it to you straight: every time you think you're wryly telling yourself "I can't do this" and "I'm no good" your brain actually takes it to be the truth. All those writer memes you post about "haha us writers, always procrastinating, huh?" actually hurt you.
it's not that he knows something we don't, it's that like all techbros, he doesn't know anything and gets all his ideas from tv and movies. none of these exec types are Serious People
advanced autocorrect can't even conceptualize this
Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI (developer of ChatGPT), keeps a cache of weapons and survival gear on a remote estate in case he needs to escape "AI that attacks us". I'm sure it's nothing
hey, the only way to actually deal with this right now is:
1) "we messed up. the entire board has resigned over this to regain your trust. the plan specifically was championed by [named individuals.]"
2) "we are not implementing any of this"
3) "we are copying unreal pricing"
We want to acknowledge the confusion and frustration we heard after we announced our new runtime fee policy. We’d like to clarify some of your top questions and concerns:
Who is impacted by this price increase: The price increase is very targeted. In fact, more than 90% of our
I think the reason we're in a cultural rut is because gen x is our creative leadership right now, and that's the generation that basically invented "conversing in pop culture references" and the gen x-ers tend to do lots of 'referencing the 70s and 80s' stuff.
a lot of people are like "if you have story first, the gameplay will suffer!" because we still think 'story' is cutscenes or lore text, which absolutely CAN disrupt the pacing of the game. But look at Yakuza--they're actually doing story first game design there.
hey, if you use a hex avatar, even as a joke, you will get a block. You add any weight to this horse shit, you add any fucking sense of legitimacy to it, I will cut you out of my presence.
anyways i've seen like five people ask why people find his death extremely funny and so I figured I would explain
i will not be taking further questions as I'm trying to watch the unbearable weight of massive talent. google "abe nationalist" if you want to know more.
fascists specifically target negative feelings people have and give them a target. they hijack that part of the brain looking for a simple answer and they RUN with it.
every time you put a fascist on tv, they aren't actually debating you, they're just going "LOOK AT THE ENEMY"
This is like those awful takes that think Fallout should be set outside of America. The point of both brands is to excoriate American culture. You can't satirize America and the way it mythologizes itself nearly as effectively if you move it outside of America.
So basically this is a sequel to Vice City? They just went back to Miami? I guess the US only has a few cities that you can do this game in and they already did LA and NY.
GTA is a global game but keeps being US-centric (1KYAE).
There's a number of cities with stories you
so if you go into a debate with a fascist, and he says "outsiders are stealing your jobs," and you say "according to the science, outsiders are not stealing your jobs--it's actually that your bosses are automating work away"
most people will 'feel' the fascist is right.
Business degrees remain a massive blight on society. Not only are they laughable, the people who graduate with them are not taught to run businesses well, but to extract cash out and destroy jobs. No one is a bigger drain on society than an mba
The decline in liberal arts degrees bodes well for society on almost every dimension.
College students now know that majoring in Book Club won’t get you a great job. This is progress.
A normal game will be like "now u have to kill 5 crooks. Okay good. Here, kill the super crook."
Yakuza is like "this man... asked you to give up 20 years of your life for him, and you did it gladly... and he BETRAYED you. This man treated you like a SON... how could he DO THIS"
1) they want to create FOMO--the fear of missing out. A lot of these guys will say "you can get in on the ground floor of this guaranteed opportunity" (see that episode of What We Do in the Shadows where the guy's trying to sell pillows)
It's weird to me that, especially after so many years, people expect The Game Awards to be some kind of industry place and not what it's always been: a christmas toy showcase under the guise of winning awards.
this is the thing I have been surprised most people don't see (Casey, being smart af, sees it right away):
Marvel is _over_.
When Endgame happened, it CONCLUDED. That's why most post-Marvel stuff ends up falling apart (except Spidey, the most popular superhero in the world)
Another huge reason is that, the entire MCU felt like it concluded. Endgame reached its peak and felt like a proper conclusion to a years long project, and you just can't keep that momentum up after that.
Aside from GotG3, I didn't see any post-Endgame MCU movies in the cinema.
bruh. how does letting someone play pikmin 2 stifle your ability to make more pikmin games?
it's your own damn fault that people can't play pikmin 2 right now. you are the ones who decided not to sell a game that people would legitimately buy from you. that's on you????
this is because they bought in and will risk a loss UNLESS you ALSO buy in and become THEIR sucker. They can't be on top unless they're on top of SOMEONE, and they want to be standing on YOUR shoulders. They take YOUR money by pretending you're an equal (they don't think you are)
and by setting context, Yakuza propels you forwards--you want to do the objectives it gives you because it is emotionally compelling. You aren't just ticking off objects on a list. You are on Nagoshi's Wild Fuckin Ride
as an example of this, I once showed someone Robert E. Lee's own extremely racist words, and they looked directly in my eyes and said "Robert E. Lee was a good Christian man who fought for family. he would never say those things."
literally with Lee's words in front of them.
there is no middle ground; if you are in NFTs, you are either a rube unworthy of my respect or you are a thief unworthy of my respect. there is no scenario where you can be in NFTs and a person who deserves respect.