Many videogaming news websites are angry about the new Steam Deck prices, but none seem to actually blame genAI for it in the title. Rock Paper Shotgun mentions genAI data centres pushing hardware costs up at the start of their article, but leaves it at that. Journalists could frankly go much harder here.

“Fact check: Did 700,000 Albertans want a referendum on separation?”: obviously they did not and Danielle Smith is a liar and an asshole. It’s amazing to see such obvious foreign interference play out unobstructed, with so many Canadians falling for it.

Since some people asked about this on Discord, this is the Gloranthan card deck that the great Lee O’Connor did last year! It looks amazing. I only used it to play poker a couple times so far but it may be fun to hastily design some Gloranthan card game too? I hear Lee’s doing a Tarot deck next, which is exciting!

Recyclable Starbucks cups never get recycled, apparently. You can always trust corporations to do the wrong thing unless explicitly regulated and regularly audited.

“Jira is Turing-Complete”: some product managers have way too much free time it seems.

A narrative designer builds a small game using Godot: “My 30-day prototype isn’t a masterpiece (…) but I’m oddly thrilled knowing that every bug exists because I put it there.”

“Can banning scalpers fix the ticketing industry?”: I don’t know if it would “fix” it but HOLY SHIT YES DO IT. Ticketmaster allowing resales at any price is an absolute tragedy. You gotta applaud the mental gymnastics of Dan Wall supporting legislation while doing nothing on his own website unless legally forced.

Sending some cool refreshing vibes to my friends in Western Europe. We had a heat dome here a couple years ago and it’s not fun… (ready to vote for environmental action yet?)

The kids liked it (which is what matters) but frankly The Mandalorian & Grogu wasn’t very good. Kept wondering if they filmed the first draft of the script by mistake instead of the last. Also, did they just type “strong Jabba” in chatGPT and left it at that for Ratta’s character design? Ugh.

Meanwhile, Captain Picard negotiates with a colonist who is profusely sweating, scratching his neck, and telling the Enterprise to go away, they don’t need their help. We can see a dead body behind him, and someone on fire running by.

Counsellor Troi: “He is hiding something”

YEAH NO SHIT DEANNA