Clear takeaway: If you don't want the US government (under Trump, or anyone else in the future) or Elon Musk personally to surprise you by cutting satellite internet access you thought you had secured, the only way is to not use anything made by SpaceX. Otherwise, the risk will always be there.

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idg that 404 article like I'm pretty sure Jason Koebler isn't an outright dipshit so why the softhanded ai-optimism on an article that purports to be about the shuttering of an online space due to rampant thoughtless ai use

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tbh i think koebler just has no regard for game devs. i have a feeling if the headline was "art collective shuts down because strangers keep finishing the artists' paintings with genAI" the tone would be a bit more somber

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Got blocked by two different people today, in two different comment chains and contexts, for daring to suggest that we could maybe learn something from studying the negative parts of history rather than pretending they never happened at all so we repeat their mistakes. Oh, Bluesky, you're so silly.

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AAA developers with billions of dollars: "We HAVE to use Game-Key Cards on Switch 2 because actually putting the game on a cartridge is unreasonably expensive, it just can't be done!" Indie developers also working at Wal-Mart to pay bills: "Oh yeah our Switch 2 game is actually on the cartridge."

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