Shawn McDowell

Objection! Molly’s only crime is being too cute! 🐱

looking at the GDC talks for this year and this kinda sums it up, huh

"I bought another Super Nintendo. I wonder how many I've bought so far? I used to play when I was still active, but I was busy with matches and didn't have time. One of my dreams was to buy a white house with a view of the ocean after I retired and play games all day. I'm starting to do that now. First of all, I'll play Final Fantasy, but I also want to play Mario World and Sim Earth. I need a CRT TV."

True pro wrestling legend Bull Nakano: lol I bought another Super Famicom today.

"Tech enthusiasts: My entire house is smart. Tech workers: The only piece of technology in my house is a printer and I keep a gun next to it so I can shoot it if it makes a noise I don't recognize."

walkies time

This bit in the From Russia With Love game made me laugh out loud. You've got a fairly grounded, low key fight based on the one in the movie, then the most video game looking fucker of all time slides into frame.

Still tear up every time I watch this 🥲

What if the children learned to torrent again

Making a translation devoid of charm, apparently 🫠

bsky.app/profile/pelo...

(No shade to the Shiro crew for that first post, to be clear. Apparently they weren't told about the involvement of AI while making that article/doing the interview, which hey, is yet another dick move!)

Segagaga, the "impossible translation", got an English translation patch!

IGN's own Reaction Guys are very excited!

The project's GitHub reveals at the end of the page, however, that the translated script was made using AI and "edited" by humans. Full text: "AI Notice Due to the importance of SEGAGAGA to the fan translation community, I think it’s important to disclose where AI was used in the development of this translation patch. What I call the “playtesting translation” — a base translation that allowed the artists and playtesters to get started early and understand what they were working on — was developed using a combination of DeepL and ChatGPT 4o/4.5. That translation then went through a substantial, months-long human translator review. I don't think that the end product feels “machine-translated,” but that’s ultimately for you, the player, to judge. For the purists, we’re also offering the tools used to develop the translation, so if you are a translator who wants to do your very own translation of SEGAGAGA, you now have the means to do so! Check out the Resources section to get them. The beauty of the fan translation community is that people are always refining and developing new translations and giving them back to the community. Go forth and prosper!"

The Reaction Guys sleep once again.

UNOWN COOL S

Gen 10 !!!!!!
#pokemon
#pokemon30

Shoutouts to @hunt270.bsky.social for absolutely nailing this one 🙏

We cannot and should not let generative AI take away these tiny, insignificant, but probably fun as hell jobs from artists

Winds and Waves confirmed they are SWITCH 2 EXCLUSIVES.

The amount of people that are about to name this little guy Missile

I don’t know if Alucard could beat Ridley and Kraid and them, but I do know that Samus Aran would fuck Dracula up so bad he’d never recover.

Hey, Sword and Shield did a lot of things wrong, but its cast of human characters was *definitely* not one of them!

Now *this*, I respect.

a man with sweat running down his face Alt: Me, sweating profusely because I can’t let everyone know about my Nessa x Elesa fan fiction.

Right. Because of Lance and Red.

I'm usually with the community on these votes, but y'all wild for voting for red during Game Mess Decides tonight 💀

a man is sitting at a table with a plate of food . Alt: George Costanza pulling out his hilariously thick wallet.

I just want the foldable with a 30,000 mAh battery that evens out my lower back

Long version: In reference to AI, multiple smaller, specialized AI models work together to get specific things done, like book a flight on your behalf. On an "agentic OS" (like what MS said Windows would be), AI is monitoring every little thing you do to make this all work.

Short version: "Gross".

For reference: I like my iPhone 17 Pro, but I miss the openness of Android sometimes.

The community-run, privacy-focused Android fork GrapheneOS is coming to some non-Pixel devices in the future, and I think that might end up being my preferred balance of openness, privacy, and performance.

A screenshot from Samsung's Galaxy Unpacked February 2026 livestream. The CEO is on stage, and the words "Agentic AI phone" are on the screen behind him, above a picture of the corner of a Galaxy S26 Ultra.

Alrighty, let's go see what's happening over in Samsung lan-

Oh. Okay then.