Brief thoughts on AI chatbots: policyalternatives.ca/news-r…

The CBC has a mandate to create shows, films, podcasts, why not extend their mandate to interactive fiction as well? Why not a socialist model for games as we already have for so many other forms of art and culture?

Scottie with the custom CN Tower braid up 😮‍💨🇨🇦

2004 rok, E3, CD Projekt ze stolikiem na stoisku wielkiego BioWare. Bieda aż oczy bolą. 22 lata później, BioWare zamknięte, a CD Projekt jest jednym z najlepszych deweloperów na świecie. Powinni mieć to krzesełku na wystawie w biurze, jako symbol tej absurdalnej drogi.

"The number of problem gamblers in Ontario has spiked and gambling-related suicides have tripled since the expansion of private online casino games and sports betting in 2022, CBC News has learned. Nearly 130,000 Ontarians now show signs of gambling problems, compared with roughly 43,000 in 2018, a tripling of the number of people who meet the criteria of gambling too frequently, losing money and struggling with addiction."

Making the humanities available only to those at elite private universities is a sign of social decline - gilded age shit.

One of my uncles went to study to become a pharmacist in late soviet Leningrad on an all expenses paid scholarship, when he had resigned himself to being an illiterate farmhand before. What the former USSR did to uplift the third world is without parallel in world history

Incredible really.. all that influence & PR, & still, Zionisms main defenders really are all the most publicly, notoriously hated, Racist dog diddlers in all of politics & media.

Yemen please send a missile to the EA Saudi Arabia offices they took Mass Effect from us take their lives I beg of you

Dan Houser revealed Gavin was real, and RDR2's original opening was too dark to keep "I think he's the best lead character." - Dan Houser on Arthur Morgan Houser has called Red Dead Redemption 2 the best thing he's ever worked on. Here's everything he told Lex Fridman about it: Arthur Morgan Arthur's TB came from Houser's own family. His grandfather had TB and was sent to a sanatorium, where "only three of them out of like 35 survived". After John's sudden death in RDR1, Houser wanted a long, drawn-out death: "As diseases go, it's a great literary device". Arthur was "platonically in love" with Dutch, and his journey is "retaking that power in the moment of dying". Arthur's journal was the art team's idea. The cut opening The game originally opened with Arthur's baby having just died. It made Arthur "very, very nasty at the start," and was cut because "it was too tough in some ways". "I still like that little bit. It spoke to me personally" Gavin "No, Gavin existed. So it wasn't that he was a split personality". Rockstar hadn't decided if a future game would reveal Gavin was dead, or that he'd abandoned Nigel. "I just loved the way he shouted, 'Gavin.' It just amused me" Dutch "He's just drowning in his ego at the end". "There was something flawed but beautiful in his idealism when he was younger". The world RDR1 was "a super dusty game," so the sequel needed something new: "That's why the game starts in the snow". The cowboy setting gives "a sort of mythic seriousness" a modern setting can't. Behind the scenes RDR2 was "behind schedule" and "over budget so much I didn't want to think about it". An abandoned GTA 5 DLC, where Trevor was a secret agent, made room for RDR2: "If that had come out, probably wouldn't have gotten to make Red Dead 2" #RDR2

Bioware has been a massive part of CDPR history. We befriended them when localizing and selling Baldur’s Gate games in Poland, Czech, and Slovakia. And later they were great help when lending us their engine for Witcher 1, sharing their wisdom and even giving us a spot at their booth at E3. I had a pleasure to visit them a few times in Edmonton and also host them in our Warsaw office. Very sad for the people affected, but also sad to see a legendary brand go down. Not a great day in the games industry.

Yeah, uh, fuck Jared Kushner.

Very sad to hear this.BioWare started in Edmonton! One time the guy who did the voice for male Shepard in Mass Effect played Othello at our Shakespeare in the Park — extremely sick.

Such good news. I could never have imagined a few years ago how emotionally involved in the pope’s health I could get. He’s such a good influence in this broken world.

This is private equity, this is what it does. Buy up businesses, run them into the ground, and rip them apart for short-term profit. The developers at BioWare know how to run the studio. They know how to make the games we all love. They should be given the first opportunity - and the federal support - to buy it and run it themselves. And if we want to avoid the Mass Effect effect in Canada, we should be keeping private equity out, not welcoming it in. pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/…

Veilguard did not kill BioWare. Private equity killed BioWare. Money killed BioWare. Corporate greed killed BioWare. Shut the fuck up about wokeness and Veilguard for fuck’s sake. Holy shit

I took action this morning as part of a group of 🇨🇦 citizens to stop the sale of 🇮🇱 settlement properties in Canada. On behalf of myself and five other complainants, primarily from Palestinian and Jewish communities, Global Echo Litigation Center and Canadian Lawyers for International Human Rights (CLAIHR) have filed a complaint with Canada’s Competition Bureau challenging the deceptive marketing of illegal Israeli settlement real estate to Canadian consumers. You can learn more and get updates on this case as it progresses at: globalecho.law/settlement-re… This is the first known legal action to use competition law to challenge the marketing of Israeli settlement real estate anywhere in the world. I am grateful we have the ability to do something about this in Canada. Because of the strong ethical standards in Canadian law, we are able to bring our concerns to the Competition Bureau and demand an inquiry into the actions of the five companies named in our complaint. We are asking the Competition Bureau to look at their actions and determine whether they are representative of a widespread pattern of deceptive marketing of illegal Israeli settlement real estate in Canada. Now that we’ve filed our complaint, it’s the Competition Bureau’s responsibility to uphold the standards of Canadian law. If the allegations in our complaint are substantiated, then the Competition Bureau needs to take action to protect Canadian consumers and the ethical standards of our marketplace, or risk losing Canadians’ trust. No company should be allowed to deceive Canadians into breaking the law and violating Palestinians’ rights — or anyone’s rights. Advertising illegal settlement properties in the West Bank as “Israeli” conceals their true location in occupied Palestinian territory and deprives consumers of material information necessary to make informed purchasing decisions. If the concerns raised in our complaint are not addressed, then Canadian consumers are not only at risk of continuing to be misled about the ethical implications of purchasing Israeli settlement property, but also the potential legal consequences they could face under Canadian and international law. I am grateful to be able to do what I can as a Canadian citizen to challenge the sale of Israeli settlements on occupied Palestinian land. I hope you’ll support me by sharing this news and future updates as the case progresses. 🙏

So, it’s only 14,000 Jewish children in British state funded schools who are said to be experiencing “antisemitism” because someone wore a watermelon pin, but they are now going to have millions of pounds of state funding poured into their feelings not getting hurt, while millions of pounds of state funds continue to be spent on helping Israel drop more bombs on the 1 million Palestinian children trapped in a concentration camp. Ok.

If you're wondering who is behind those Jagmeet Singh duffel bag ads on here, know that it's part of a multi-billion dollar scam empire being run out of Eastern European call centers. It's an absolutely massive problem and Canada is a priority target. cbc.ca/news/ukraine-call-cen…

Only ethical case for breaking McD BDS

So many hours wasted on imagined wokeness ruining games while Jared Kushner and Saudi Arabia just took a shotgun to one of the most legendary studios