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Writer @ Kotaku | Also seen on: Kill Screen, USGamer, GameCritics, Hard Drive & Entertainment Fuse (He/Him)

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Cataloging some PS2 games I bought in bulk and stumbled upon this wild 45 page booklet for DF:Black Hawk Down.

06.03.2026 23:29 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This is the Elden Ring map

07.03.2026 01:47 πŸ‘ 105 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm reclaiming "vibe coding" to refer to writing code while listening to good music.

06.03.2026 21:45 πŸ‘ 119 πŸ” 22 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 0

Fun thing to think about very briefly: who currently has better lawyers, the United States or Nintendo

07.03.2026 00:04 πŸ‘ 5528 πŸ” 1061 πŸ’¬ 118 πŸ“Œ 39

I can’t do this anymore

06.03.2026 20:48 πŸ‘ 2134 πŸ” 257 πŸ’¬ 91 πŸ“Œ 12
Tweet that says, "I’m sure this will make you sad too, but I’m also using Claude to second guess home contractors. The licensed electrician was lying to me (or just totally wrong) about the kind of wiring in my house and recommending an expensive and unnecessary job."

Tweet that says, "I’m sure this will make you sad too, but I’m also using Claude to second guess home contractors. The licensed electrician was lying to me (or just totally wrong) about the kind of wiring in my house and recommending an expensive and unnecessary job."

This is the sort of thing I'm talking about in just implicitly trusting AI and acting like it doesn't hallucinate.

If you had to hire an electrician in the first place, what makes you think you're qualified to judge Claude's output to determine if the electrician is wrong?

06.03.2026 22:54 πŸ‘ 569 πŸ” 131 πŸ’¬ 22 πŸ“Œ 27
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Grammarly is using our identities without permission Grammarly’s AI stole my boss’s identity.

I happened to be in downtown SF today, so I tried stopping by the Superhuman AI office to ask about the AI β€œeditor” based on me. Unfortunately just got a very nice office manager who said no one was in.

Lots of games people in Grammarly’s pool too besides me…

06.03.2026 23:56 πŸ‘ 167 πŸ” 60 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 10
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People Are Calling Meta Ray-Bans "Pervert Glasses" On Bluesky, users quickly embraced the term "pervert glasses" to refer to Meta's Ray Ban smart glasses, following a shocking investigation.

Make it stick.

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Cataloging some PS2 games I bought in bulk and stumbled upon this wild 45 page booklet for DF:Black Hawk Down.

06.03.2026 23:29 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I am once again tapping the "support independent, worker-owned, billionaire free news" sign. the most powerful people in the world should not be deciding whether or not we know about this sort of thing. putting Marisa's subscription link below

06.03.2026 22:34 πŸ‘ 1494 πŸ” 373 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 1

In May '25, a beloved Australian games website was sold off. It went dark then, a month later, rose from the dead but stuffed full of gambling links and AI authors.

It wasn't the first time, or the last time, this exact thing had happened. And it's still happening.

My months-long investigation πŸ‘‡

02.03.2026 21:10 πŸ‘ 458 πŸ” 201 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 5
screenshot from survivor 50. colby, q, and rizo

screenshot from survivor 50. colby, q, and rizo

thinking once again about how survivor is always on the ground thinking about blocking and composition when getting their footage. part of my love for this show is its blocking, no joke. not only is it something they consider & capture in the moment, but they make you feel it

06.03.2026 17:58 πŸ‘ 24 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 2
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Something Cool Just Happened In Marathon It seems like Durandal from the original trilogy is contacting players via previously inactive terminals

Previously inactive terminals in Marathon are now talking to players, and the voice might be connected to the classic games

06.03.2026 22:26 πŸ‘ 32 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 9
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Our tiny little website currently has the 4th-placed story on r/all, which is doing all kinds of weird and beautiful things to our monthly traffic (which doesn't normally operate at anywhere near that scale)

Amazing work from @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social, as always!

aftermath.site/nintendo-tar...

06.03.2026 21:38 πŸ‘ 911 πŸ” 76 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 2
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Jack Dorsey Is Ready to Explain the Block Layoffs In an exclusive interview with WIRED, Block’s cofounder and CEO says he axed 40 percent of his workforce so that he can rebuild the company β€œas an intelligence.”

Source - Wired

www.wired.com/story/jack-d...

06.03.2026 22:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
So Block will have a layer of intelligence as its core and organizing principle?

I want the company itself to feel like a mini AGI. We're moving to a world where our customers will have the ability to create their own products, experiences, and customizations. If you put an intelligence layer on top of the company, you can actually query it, have a conversation with it, and very soon build some of those things for customers, and then scale them much quicker than ever before.

So your customers will essentially vibe-code Block to make personalized products?

Yeah, that's a path forward for almost every product. I don't think people want more products or more features. They want peace of mind, and they want to be able to build what they want for their needs specifically.

So Block will have a layer of intelligence as its core and organizing principle? I want the company itself to feel like a mini AGI. We're moving to a world where our customers will have the ability to create their own products, experiences, and customizations. If you put an intelligence layer on top of the company, you can actually query it, have a conversation with it, and very soon build some of those things for customers, and then scale them much quicker than ever before. So your customers will essentially vibe-code Block to make personalized products? Yeah, that's a path forward for almost every product. I don't think people want more products or more features. They want peace of mind, and they want to be able to build what they want for their needs specifically.

Jack Dorsey shut up

I don't think people want to create an app using AI coding tools.

They just want the apps and sites they've used for years to keep working, maybe even get faster/better

06.03.2026 22:35 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

06.03.2026 19:47 πŸ‘ 25014 πŸ” 6271 πŸ’¬ 222 πŸ“Œ 204
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06.03.2026 15:10 πŸ‘ 2112 πŸ” 394 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 12
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I've been running gdcparties.com for a few years now. Some shitty company BlueberryAI decided they'd just take all the source code for the work I've done and reskin it, advertising it as their own. Jokes on them...it was still linked to my events spreadsheet, and now their website looks like this πŸ˜‰

06.03.2026 21:43 πŸ‘ 3009 πŸ” 748 πŸ’¬ 51 πŸ“Œ 31

bleh, I say. BLEH!

06.03.2026 21:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Woof, The Marathon Battle Pass Is Bad At least the reward passes don't expire, but that's about the only good thing I have to say about these things

Woof, The Marathon Battle Pass Is Bad https://kotaku.com/marathon-season-1-battle-reward-pass-cosmetics-skin-bad-lux-cost-2000676749

06.03.2026 21:33 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 4
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The Spiderwick Chronicles (video game) - Wikipedia

The first game I ever shipped is not available to buy anywhere these days. And I mean, it wasn't a great game, it was an 11-month project, a licensed game of a film adaptation of a children's fantasy book. But it is disappointing that media can get lost so quickly.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spi...

06.03.2026 20:36 πŸ‘ 49 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 2

I love that someone from a less popular online shooter showed up on the Marathon subreddit and was like "Guys, chill. Stop watching the numbers. Enjoy the game. Be free."

06.03.2026 17:47 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
(Beartato and Reginald, in a museum, gaze upon the Mona Lisa)

BEARTATO: There it is. The Mona Lisa. The most famous painting in history.
REGINALD: Wow! What's it do?

BEARTATO: It... what?
REGINALD: Why's it famous? What's it do?

(Beartato thinks.)

BEARTATO: I don't know.

REGINALD (to nearly museum employee): Excuse me! Sir? What's it do?

EMPLOYEE: You're the first person to ask! Watch this!

(The employee yanks a pull-string. Mona Lisa's eyes spin around and her mouth opens like a puppet)
MONA LISA: Honk honk! Honk honk!

(Everyone is delighted. This is true art.)

(Beartato and Reginald, in a museum, gaze upon the Mona Lisa) BEARTATO: There it is. The Mona Lisa. The most famous painting in history. REGINALD: Wow! What's it do? BEARTATO: It... what? REGINALD: Why's it famous? What's it do? (Beartato thinks.) BEARTATO: I don't know. REGINALD (to nearly museum employee): Excuse me! Sir? What's it do? EMPLOYEE: You're the first person to ask! Watch this! (The employee yanks a pull-string. Mona Lisa's eyes spin around and her mouth opens like a puppet) MONA LISA: Honk honk! Honk honk! (Everyone is delighted. This is true art.)

True Art

06.03.2026 19:03 πŸ‘ 5671 πŸ” 1299 πŸ’¬ 29 πŸ“Œ 14
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Mech sounds foley and sound design wizardry by @amwaudio.bsky.social

06.03.2026 19:37 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

living in a walkable city where you can get anywhere you need by walking, by bus, or train is goated in an economic collapsed based entirely on gas prices

06.03.2026 18:35 πŸ‘ 4064 πŸ” 388 πŸ’¬ 73 πŸ“Œ 38
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i will never give money to this evil man but damn some of these rip

06.03.2026 18:03 πŸ‘ 151 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 22
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Nintendo Suing United States Govt. Over Trump Tariffs The Mario company wants its money back with interest according to a newly filed lawsuit

Breaking: Nintendo is suing the United States for the 'prompt refund, with interest' of the Trump-imposed tariffs it paid.

06.03.2026 18:42 πŸ‘ 61 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 11