Was there any hype in dev chats or downloading spree when young scrolls posted their ZOOM album with Xedilian track having an explicit “My bitch is 4k like SkyOblivion” positive reference to your project?

Besides almost everything availiable to try on Windows before the switch, I’ve seen Nobara writing on their page about their media-focus, mentioning DaVinci Resolve workarounds from out of the box. I’ve not tried it yet.

What an eccentric visionaire he is. Mars any day now.

There’s a russian joke about putting Navalny’s name into snow in order for communal services to finally clean it.

Reminds me of Epic v. Google over allowing alternative app stores that weirdly enough put F-Droid and the likes into danger. This too can lead to unforseen consequencies for everyone excluding megacorps. Almost feels like you are a NPC watching super-persons plowing through half the city to settle some little grudges between them.

The most brazen example is Squad 22: ZOV, released on Steam in May 2025 and openly endorsed by Russia’s Defense Ministry.

Now as I checked it’s page, I’m pretty sure to assume it’s more of a grift, or only a grift, and probably only internal, but wtf it’s on Steam? I thought Valve has at least some policies. And while they slack on any moderation, they only have so much products and did some formal review before accepting it on their platform and saw no problem? I’m out of words.

Script-search, presumption of age, kid-sniffing and self-snitching.

They won’t fight because major studios would be affected last and only after a couple of rounds of racket. Games with sexual content were easy targets and those you can hardly milk. Those already problematic like Activision with CoD, well-beloved by the type of gamers you probably dislike most, would happily do an LLM Donald cameo if it means funding or easing taxes.

I’m in doubt the better part was saved after the cut.

He seems like a zoomer kid very into military vehicles, updoots and denial.

Besides how Roblox now a den of pedophiles now, that I think is more an effect than a cause, it does strike me as a game that would have, ideally, have a high-ass age rating due to

1. Being online-only, with random visitors and chatting capabilities, no anonymous presence allowed
2. Having a free-form gameplay where creators can make entire games in it
3. Thriving on mxts, having robux incencetives for creators

A good game for teens, from the parents’ standpoint, is where they have a predictable experience with as less addiction-inducing mechanics as possible.

GTA: SA, the controversy queen at the time, was more safe for children because even with it’s sandbox gameplay, you couldn’t encounter or do anything more than cartoonish violence or, like, boring sex minigame in Hot Coffee. Most games are like this or even more sterile, with all toys screwed down to the floor, where player can not deviate from a range of experiences baked into it. CoD, of all games, presented a space where the chat was the worst offender as it was put in stone in our massmedia, but other than that you just shoot people and watch propaganda, that’s what you can tell by it’s cover.

There we see not a built-and-released game where we can estimate anything, but a platform that hosts an uncontrollable space of minigames, a risk factor 1, where you encounter random individuals, rf2, and that encourages you to spend money, rf3.

If we are to take age ratings seriously, these three should put Roblox deep into M territory.

I remember some games started with the disclaimer ‘ESRB doesn’t rate your online communication experience’, and oh, well, it fucking should start doing that. If you don’t limit your chat capabilities to the likes of point-and-call wheel seen in Valve games, you get a more mature rating. Not to say that community-created minigames themselves could be even worse offenders, like, someone can create a challenge to draw a palestinian flag! Where’s the admin?!

And fucking mtxs, man, why the fuck we still not considering them a red flag and a reason to ban the fucking thing? Roblox, Fortnite, gachas and others got billions on that, they grew because of that, and game developers/publishers started to pursue that model because no one cared about it. All while having just a cosmetics shop should’ve led them well into adult market where all their lucrative technics couldn’t work as well as with children.

Even without all the pedos on said platform, it’s still not a game for children.

Hate and fear go hand in hand.

AI is also an ideal replacement for a middle-manager fall guy you can pin everything on, with an agency of something divine.

Massive layofs, market tilts, monopolization, corner cutting, targeted incarcerations, media manipulation, warcrimes, probably everything can be explained with it’s Will and Presence. AI is a source of unchallenged power passed to capitalists by the Algorythm. And it’s integration in many systems is not unlike some state&church honeymoon phase.

And although I myself and many dismiss it as too junky for our own workflow, ehem, the junkiness is on point. LLM works in misterious ways, you know, with all it’s weights, and it’s not an outdated dude-on-a-cloud but our cool pure math! And that techno-teo-fascism spreads like cancer.

I’m not well versed in marxism yet, but from my knowledge of history of RE\USSR and arguments against state religion, they line up nicely with AI hype too.

1. Russian church held a monopoly on affordable education for the masses, only nobles could choose prestige education without indocrination - introduction of SOMEONE’s AI into classrooms, eradication of useful information on the internet in general, putting headshots on public academia by opening a box of LLMandora on them too;
2. Russian church was a source of power for the crown and vice versa. Sometimes it stuffed the deck of it’s narrative to support the king and influence the masses, but there were decades where the church was the sole biggest landowner challenging their might too. Proto-lobbyism, the god-given power to rule and overly abundant stonk rubles taking the charge!

IAopium for the masses.

The article nicely mirrors a popular prompt to disregard everything in it as bullshit.

After receiving my doze of brain damage from OP pic it’s occured to me that Gandalf&Co in LotR couldn’t use eagles to travel directly to Mordor (thus ending the series in 90 minutes) because the first movie was premiered in december 2001 when every birb counted 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Where laptop???

Thank you, I’m saving that.

Too much Vermintide 2 on Quick Play with randoms.

It’s just nice when you click with a party and everyone’s caring to wait for each other, sharing items, etc. Never cared to play Sienna before but now I enjoy her AoE conflag staff and staggering a lot of enemies in tight situations, leaving a breathing room for others - although it denies cheap health for the team, using it conservatively saved us a lot of times. And flail, although suboptimal in pure damage numbers, trashes the new kind of shielded Chaos Warriors like wet paper bags, wow.

Just yesterday we had fucked up big time: I and Saltz got a Chaos Spawn to 10%, but as patrol jumped at us and murdered both, Krub and Bard got so unlucky CS sucked on them on them repeatedly up to the 100% health. ‘Omnomnom motherfucker’ as one of them put it in the chat after we all died.

I’m still looking for a PvE game that does it for me like VT2 does. Although not ideal, it’s movement and fights feel so natural and fluid. And the themes of getting by in the ongoing apocalypse hit too close to home too.

What’s there to do if you filled your account’s capacity to carry characters? I maxed out those I have, with a couple ready but kept in a forge due to the lack of space. It seems without any option to buy more space I’m stuck. Is it possible to get over it grinding/selling in-game stuff?