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“Fuck AI” — Guillermo del Toro 🎥 Vanity Fair

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Happy 58th birthday to video game composer Yoko Shimomura! Career Highlights: - Mario & Luigi series - Kingdom Hearts series - Super Mario RPG - Street Fighter II - Super Smash Bros. - Radiant Historia + A lot more!

Look, it’s really straightforward to get a publisher as a new name indie in 2025. Simply do 95% of the work making and marketing your game, and if your metrics are trending towards almost certain success, a publisher will swoop in to promise the remaining 5%, deliver 3%, and collect 75%

RFK Jr. Demands Records of Everyone Who Has Played a Sonic Game hard-drive.net/hd/video-gam...

Simu Liu has a script draft done for the Sleepy Dogs live-action film

Aerial view of the nationwide Anti-Trump ‘No Kings’ protest in Boston.

Happy birthday to maybe the greatest game ever made

Taking things to the next level by insisting everyone refer to cornfield mazes as "metroidgrainias"

don't feed the trolls (official US government information outlets)

Happy Saturday Start your weekend off right

When you go to protests you’re going to encounter some corny and cringe people you’re not fully aligned with in various ways and I think that’s OK and not something to get Yosemite Sam mad about.

OHHHHHH they had to get them survivors out and home before journalists could get to them. Oh yeah he did some serious ass war crimes

Mark Chiarello art for a Hellraiser comic.

View of the Anti-Trump ‘No Kings’ protest in Chicago.

Tigers can imitate calls of other animals to lure prey into ambushes. Fun fact. You know where to find me for more lore. #monstergirl #oc #originalcharacter #grwm #redhead

Photos of the nationwide Anti-Trump ‘No Kings’ protest in Washington, D.C.

An important announcement from Tom Nook.

20 years ago today, Shadow of the Colossus launched on PlayStation 2 #ShadowoftheColossus #PS2

Ganondorf has condemned the No Kings protests taking place across Hyrule today, has baselessly accused them of being funded by “The ‘Sloppy’ Seven Sages”, and threatened to send his Demon Army after any “insurrectionists and agitators” who threaten his authority.

Gamer Still Thinks About NPC He Was Rude to 10 Years Ago hard-drive.net/hd/video-gam...

How about we cross that bridge when we come to it instead of just giving up instantly for no reason

This really is the end result of Microsoft hating internal teams and wanting outsourcing on every level. Why not outsource it to the robot fuck it who cares

Anbernic RG DS - Engineering Prototype Gameplay Demo www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIKg...

20 years ago, Madonna released “Hung Up.”

Was gonna play some games on the ROG Xbox Ally X while I watch AEW but I guess not!

i cant remember if i cried when i heard you had to stay online and preowned games would be denied

Hugely disappointing and scary to see Emiru was assaulted by a “fan” at TwitchCon, especially when you remember she was one of three streamers who was stalked and threatened during an IRL stream earlier in the year. Twitch cannot survive without its talent, and yet it doesn’t protect its talent.

It's the 40th anniversary of the New York test launch of the NES - nationwide rollout wouldn't happen until late in 1986. I have no nostalgia for the console from its early days (more so for NESticle!), but its history is fascinating, and it has become one of my favourites in recent years.

The improved SSR in godot 4.6

Nook Inc. Reviewing Blathers Museum Exhibits to Ensure They Align with Tom Nook’s Vision of Island History hard-drive.net/hd/video-gam...

Decorating my antifa tree

The NES and Super Mario Bros. launched 40 years ago in the United States! You can make the case it's the most important anniversary in the history of the US video game market.

The only position he's consistent on is that he's going to Hell. He was visited by the ghost of Stan Chera who warned him he'd wear the chains he forged in life and then waited for the spirits of redemption who never came.

remembering when CB "akira yoshida" cebulski made a post lamenting that writers were cramming too much into their issues, trying to get everything done at once, and had apparently no thoughts whatsoever about how marvel's penchant for cancelling books ASAP might have to do with that

One of those "it gets worse with every single word" kind of sentences right here.

Honestly I've always thought this disgusting art style was gorgeous. It's a perfect stylized version of how an irradiated wasteland should feel.

NECA Releases JD Vance Figure in Universal Monsters Collection hard-drive.net/hd/video-gam...

Met up with @bro3256.com at PRGE and he asked me to sign the tag on the $1000~ game he bought from us for $11.99. I love this hobby.

One of the great romantic exchanges of cinema...

Some of my all-time favorite video game franchises: 🧬 Resident Evil 🛡️ The Legend of Zelda 🔷 Mega Man / Mega Man X 🌫️ Silent Hill 💀 Dead Space 📦 Metal Gear Solid 🍄 Super Mario 🦇 Castlevania 💎 Final Fantasy 🦔 Sonic the Hedgehog 🛸 Metroid 🦊 Star Fox 🥷 Mortal Kombat 🌌 HALO Do we any in common? 👀

Simu Liu reveals a draft of the script for the live-action ‘SLEEPING DOGS’ movie is done. (📸: SimuLiu)

Enchantress casts a spell on Thor that makes it a struggle for him to think in anything except cliches, which writer Al Ewing depicts as the most commonly parodied MCU quips. (Immortal Thor #10)

A videogame is good when you don’t have a bitch in your ear telling you it’s shit.

puss in boots. he’s a cat that’s sexual style. target audience: five year olds

digimon, digital monsters, digimon with a six pack wearing jeans and no top, digimon are the champions

Omg, this looks like an amazing total conversion for Hit & Run.

Don't y'all ever forget, the first ones out on the street in protest were Mexican kids in Los Angeles

As a Windows device, none of this is a huge ask of the user, but imagine that someone who really liked the Switch and heard this newfangled Xbox was even more powerful picked this up and _this_ was what they had to contend with.

ALBERT EINSTEIN AT NEWARK AIRPORT IN APRIL 1939

The last No Kings there were like maybe 100 people at Laurel Canyon and Ventura. This time there are THOUSANDS for several blocks. I couldn't even get footage of everyone as I was driving past it was so packed. This is awesome ✊

I don't know which level of hell this is, but this morning Windows 11 keeps automatically flipping back to light mode a minute or two after I put it on dark mode.

the funniest joke in the simpsons is when homer falls down springfield gorge and hits his head on every rock twice in a row. nothing else comes close. i could watch it every day for 100 years

Redeem your #MyNintendo Platinum Points to collect custom icons from the Splatoon series, available until Nov 13 at 5pm PT on Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2. Icon elements will be refreshed each week. #NintendoSwitchOnline Learn more: ninten.do/6012s6D9n

telling the story in 30 years "so thats when they did the first trump the diarrhea king video"

U.S. Signs Exclusive Mineral Rights Agreement For Wario’s Gold Mine hard-drive.net/hd/video-gam...

I recently came across this pack of 1,200+ fonts, loved it, got in contact with the creators and I can now offer a 90% off (!) coupon for all Kenney friends!✨ itch.io/s/160768/fri...

I know what that smile means. Yeah he’s winning.

every sports manga got that one bit where it gets the kind of racist you thought was globally outlawed after 1930 and then rapidly moves on to never mention it again

Nevermind the earlier stream post, see you guys at 4pm Pacific for more Digimon Story Time Stranger! No Arc Raiders'll be appearing on my channel. See you guys at twitch.tv/patstaresat youtube.com/patstaresat

‘The Fate of Ophelia’ by Taylor Swift remains at #1 on the Global Spotify chart with 10.949 million streams. It has now spent 14 consecutive days at #1.

Continuing the Psychic Force (PS1 version) love-fest with some gameplay and a snippet of the banger soundtrack. It's a lot of fun with special moves (the psychic powers) that aren't too tricky to pull off.

Neat development platform for making Genesis/mega drive games, along the lines of GB studio in terms of letting non-coders get something moving on screen. They've now got their documentation updated so folks can get started making things.

90s anime energy to kick us off in the intro as psychic warriors harness elemental powers in a battle for the ages. 📺: Psychic Force, Taito, 1996 (PS1 version)

All the govt orgs just joined here. They did that to get a reaction out of you. Then they take those screenshots back to Twitter and use them to get engagement and claim "Bluesky is SO MAD! 😂🤣" If you ignore a bully, you take their power away. Don't give them an audience. BLOCK AND IGNORE THEM.

😀 (<- life flashing before my eyes)

I know there's literally nothing that should be surprising anymore, I KNOW OKAY, but every once in a while I do log on and have to do a double take because the president of the United States did WHAT.

Damn, I didn’t realise that people hate the Sacramento Kings this much.

Game devs, always remember two things: 1) If you need a publisher, you'll know. Don't let a silver tongue convince you otherwise. 2) If you do have a publisher, they work for you. You don't work for them.

north korea type shit

Timelapse of the start of the Oakland no kings rally. From @oaklandside.org oaklandside.org/2025/10/18/o...

Maybe the most badass picture of an axlotl ever taken

TWA Flight Center at JFK Airport!

Black men and women knew back at the age of 14 that they needed to be careful because if the situation was convenient, their child status would be stripped from them to give them harsher treatment. White men and women are still getting called "girls" and "young men" as they do heinous shit at 24.

reaping: drawing many incredible little illustrations and expressions for my characters sowing: having to export every single one of those little illustrations and expressions with their appropriate naming conventions

I'd like to start showcasing games that use my #gameassets! Do you use one of my asset packs in your game and is your game on Steam? Let me know by commenting the pack + link to your game and I'll select games to add to the asset pages, for free (300,000 visitors a month)

i need locked accounts on here sooooo bad i'm not used to being this hyperactive on main just rapid fire posting then suddenly i remember wait thousands of people can see this for some reason

An excellent dude with very cool stuff! Might I suggest the Quest 64 items?

one of my more bitchy opinions is i dont think you should say something has "storytelling problems" you sound like film crit hulk. just say it sucks. thats what you mean

When people point out the lack of Afro Latino representation in Hollywood, would you point to Pedro Pascal and Jenny Ortega as examples? No, bc that makes no sense. So when trans women keep bringing to attention our lack of representation, why does everyone point to other types of trans people? 🤔

With so much cruft on the Internet these days, wouldn't it be nice to get a little guidance?

action game fans are often perceived as snobbish, elitist gatekeepers

Not many things bother me in our comments section, but this is irksome. I work a lot and make more videos than just optimised settings guides. The user must imagine that videos are made out of thin air? I am not going sacrafice my every weekend to satisfy the frankly inane AAA release schedule.

One of Natsume's 16-bit finest. Space western gallery shootin' that can be found on Steam and consoles these days in 'Reloaded' form. 📺: Wild Guns, Natsume, 1994 (SNES version)

New episode of The Retro Blast Podcast drops TONIGHT! It's the largest project I've ever produced, and I'm a liiiiittle nervous about it! 😅 To all the fans who have encouraged me to try something a little different, thank you for the kind words and support. I really hope y'all like it! -Patrick

Square Enix released a video comparing the different versions of Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade. I was really impressed with the Switch 2 version after playing it this month.

no kings seems like a good message because its like the very default mythological american stance

A series of *extremely* satisfying clunks.

PRGE time :)

Played through the Arc Raiders playtest Tutorial. First of all, great tutorial. Secondly, I can see why people were laughing *so* hard at Marathon when both of their closed alphas were running. It's a night and day quality and polish difference.

I think true love is my wife watching me get beaten so throughly by Jake from State Farm in NBA 2K25 that she is now learning how to play the game from first principles so she can beat him for me

"Ah yes, the well-aged wall chicken. Excellent choice, sir. Could I interest you in some wine? Some BLOOD wine?" 🦇

I just lost HOURS worth of final editing work due to a computer error. I'm heartbroken and I'm frustrated. I was almost done. 🥲 I have a project save from earlier, so I'm re-doing the final edit. With that said, the episode will not be out tonight. It'll be out tomorrow 10/19. I'm so sorry! -Pat

We need to give more people a platform who can educate the public on this terrifying pipeline