> Pay $70 for the game > Deal with microtransactions > Still get exposed to ads They’ll monetize the fuck out of us, sell our attention to advertisers, and look us dead in the eye and say "games cost too much to make" Why am I paying a premium price tag if you're gonna treat it like a F2P game? If ingame ads are meant to make up for rising AAA dev costs, shouldn't the base price of the game drop? (Spoiler: It won't.) Modern ad tech built into game engines actively monitors your positioning, movement speed, and camera angles to measure exactly how many seconds your crosshair hovered on a specific brand. The dystopian shit is that EA has already filed patents for a mood-based targeting system: - Just lost a FIFA match in the 90th minute? The engine knows you're mad and serves a specific ad. - Just won a game? You get a different ad tailored to an endorphin spike. Sure, they’re starting with sports games. Real stadiums have ads, so they can easily say "it enhances realism!" We're already used to seeing realworld sponsors in EAFC and Madden, so we're way more likely to just accept it. But today it's banners in EAFC, tomorrow it's billboards in Battlefield. And unlike skins or microtransactions (which you can at least try to ignore) these environmental ads are permanently slapped onto the world you're playing in. Game worlds are built for creative purposes. If you see a billboard in a game, it's because an artist put it there for worldbuilding, not because an ad division sold that space to Nike. But soon, level designers and environment artists are going to be pressured to find ways to cram branded content into their maps without pissing people off. It'll shift the priority from "what makes this fun to play?" to "where can we stick a McDonalds ad so the player stares at it?" We've officially reached the point where games aren't even products. They're just tools designed to squeeze every last drop of value out of you. $70 entry fee battle pass cosmetics now a literal ad network on top... Where do we finally draw the line?

Soccer would not exist without immigrants. Immigrants play and coach the game, work in the stadiums, fill the stands, and make celebrations like the World Cup possible. Six of the players on the US Men's National Team are immigrants. We will not allow ICE or anyone else to sow fear in our communities — especially at this moment. As the world comes to our city, we will stand proudly with our immigrant neighbors and reject these attacks for what they are: an attempt to divide us.

This is really stupid, and it’s not getting enough attention. The Trump administration is pulling a working $368 million ocean monitoring system out of the water, equipment taxpayers already bought, built, and sank into the deep ocean. And they are doing it right when the oceans are behaving in ways that alarm the scientists who study them. Record-breaking temperatures. A system of Atlantic currents that may be lurching toward collapse. The response? Yank out the instruments and walk away. That is not budgeting. That is smashing the gauges while the engine is on fire and calling it efficiency. For what? The Trump administration dressed it up as a “nimbler approach” and “smart lifecycle management,” which is fancy nonsense for “we shut it off and hoped nobody would ask why.” There is no return-on-investment analysis. They cannot show taxpayers save a dime, because the gear is already paid for and the science it produces protects real money and real lives. The kicker: the same people killing the monitors want to mine the deep sea for minerals. So they are destroying the only tools that could measure what that mining does. That is not an accident. That is the point. You cannot see the damage if you break the instruments first. cnn.com/2026/06/03/climate/o…

GOW 2018- “Ew why are they making Kratos a good dad” GOW Ragnarok-“Ew why am I playing as Atreus” GOW Laufey-“Ew why am I a playing as a woman” These guys are not “fans” they are corny edge lords

The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, has apparently closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States, for the seventh time, won the war that wasn’t a war, so now the United States has to open the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before the not-war began. The not-war began because Iran had uranium that was totally, completely, beautifully obliterated, so they can’t build the nuclear bomb they weren’t building, which is why the United States had to start the not-war it definitely didn’t start. Now the United States, which has nuclear weapons, is threatening to use nuclear weapons to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, because nuclear weapons are far too dangerous for countries with nuclear weapons to allow other countries to have. If the United States saw the United States doing what the United States does in other countries, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.

I'm not even joking but if you think both state of play this week and game fest today was bad then you should stop playing games Find a new hobby, there is nothing for you here anymore

Two sides of supposedly grown-up people are fighting over whether female characters should look like one or the other, and all masquerading is faux concern and serious talking points🚀 In the end, both are very self-serving and all about scoring a point against each other, rather than any moral or artistic principle. What happened to people’s ability to enjoy things for their own merit (or to move on), rather than to desperately make it their whole personality to argue over things not even they deep inside believe to be true or matter in any way. I really can’t wait to play Stellar Blade: Blood Rain and God of War Laufey. It’s totally possible to play a game without thinking that the character is you or your crush, but rather a character, a whole person with an interesting world or story🎤

the ibuprofen searching my body for the pain

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it. Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying. Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence." Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter." Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter. They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created. One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility." Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies. That's the metered intelligence business model. And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

"There's no way you can write a ten page paper without chatGPT" WE COULD LITERALLY DO EVERYTHING THAT EVER HAPPENED IN HUMAN HISTORY WITHOUT CHATGPT WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT.

how life feels when nobody knows what you're up to or where you are

I'm going to have so much fun in life even while carrying all this heartache in my body

Accepting it because what the fuck else can I do

music is honestly one of the best parts of being alive.

i can only think in extremes and it’s ruining my life

just be urself nobody likes u anyway

the fact that people can see me makes me kinda uncomfortable ngl

if you think uncomfortable conversations are hard wait until you see the results of not having them

i'd say i am pretty chill as long as i don't get irritated in any form whatsoever