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I think one of the reasons I tend to enjoy "retro-styled" games (eg. pixel art and possibly chiptune music) isn't really about nostalgia at all - there were no games like Eastward, Animal Well, Kingdom: Two Crowns, Stardew Valley or even Undertale when I was a kid with an Amiga. Playing them feels nothing like what playing games felt like when I was a kid with an Amiga either.
Rather, I think it's because pixel art and that sort of gameplay feels much more like a piece of artistic craftsmanship someone cared about. I get the same feeling from hand-drawn vector art (ranging from the simplistic-looking art in eg. Don't Starve and Oxygen Not Included to the "cartoon you can play" style of eg. Spiritfarer). I only very rarely get this feeling out of modern 3D-rendered game art - for lack of a better term, that often feels a lot more "alienated", even when it's technically much better.
(Possibly I'm just better at judging pixel art than 3D rendering, which would be because I'm old. 😀 )
One 3-d rendered game that stands out for me is The Long Dark. Its art style borders on cartoony: it's 3-d, but highly stylized and not hyperrealistic. This video gives a sense of it. It's one of the few games I've played as an adult where I felt like I had an experience. I remember and still think about it from time to time.
Hyperrealistic 3-d game art tends to trigger unpleasant feelings in me. Usually either it's the uncanny valley, where everything feels creepy, or it's one I can't easily describe where I feel like I'm smelling cellophane the whole time (everything's too shiny) and just want to leave before I'm sick from it. It's disorienting, almost dizzying, and I can't suspend disbelief enough to enjoy the game a lot of the time (while also acknowledging some of these games are visually very impressive). I've had this reaction to modern digital television shows too. I'll admit that maybe I'm unusual, but anyway I have a kind of "alienated" response to this kind of game art too.
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Brazil’s most revered Indigenous leader, Raoni Metuktire, has said he believes that one of the former president Jair Bolsonaro’s goals while in office was to “exterminate” the country’s Indigenous peoples.
“He really wanted to exterminate us. But Indigenous peoples across Brazil united to resist his government,” he says, adding that “from now on, every president elected in Brazil must respect Indigenous peoples”
@RichardJMurphy hits the nail on the head (as so often):
'if any political party wishes to truly succeed — not just scrape by, but build lasting loyalty and transform this country — it must make the promise that it will put people first, meet their needs from cradle to grave, and offer them freedom from fear'!
However, our political class seems quite some way from that agenda....
I recorded a podcast with Tony Groves and Martin McMahon from the Echo Chamber Podcast in Ireland yesterday, which I do every few weeks or so. This is now published, but only for subscribers.
It’s made to order. First, eliminate the aid system after creating circumstances of enormous suffering. Then, kill, starve, vanquish and displace those in need of that aid. Finally: give the pretence of humanity by ensuring some aid to those whose suffering you created in the first place.
As things stand, the system of aid distribution in the Gaza Strip is intended to cause suffering and destruction to recipients.
On Tuesday, The Guardian published an opinion piece by Colombian President Gustavo Petro, in which he accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of orchestrating a "campaign of devastation" in Gaza and called on the international community to move beyond symbolic outrage toward concrete action in defense of international law.
Petro has emerged as one of the most outspoken world leaders condemning "Israel’s" war on Gaza.
If you're just tuning in, it turns out Al Qaeda in Syria are not terrorists but the peace activists in the UK are, the guy committing genocide in Gaza says the guy backing his genocide deserves a Nobel Peace Prize, and Jeffrey Epstein was an misunderstood angel who killed himself.
I keep meaning to write up an analysis of LLM use based on systems-thinking—the core issue is that their volatility is bad for organisations and leads to gambler behaviour in individuals—but then I come across some fresh bullshit and realise there's nothing I can say to change people's minds. The people who are against it are already against it and the people who are for it, or even on the fence, aren't likely to listen to my style of argument.
I do tech consulting, and more than once since 2022 I've advised small-to-medium-sized businesses about LLMs. It's extremely valuable to have analysis like this in hand and be able to link to it. Throwing an analysis into the wind may not change minds, but those of us in the trenches can make excellent use of it.
Ca s'appelle un camp de concentration, et nous ne devons pas laisser cela arriver.
- haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-0… (Defense Minister Says Israel Plans to Concentrate All Gaza's Population in 'Humanitarian' Zone Built on Rafah's Ruins)
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It’s called a concentration camp, and we must not let it happen.
Ils et elles n'ont pas de papiers mais veulent se sentir utiles en lançant une ferme maraîchère près de Rennes. Reportage 👉 basta.media/quand-un-collectif…
Ce groupe de demandeurs d’asile de Rennes a décidé de cultiver la terre sur une parcelle d'un hectare prêtée par un agriculteur. Leur récolte est destinée aux Restos du Coeur et à leur propre consommation.
Pour se sentir utile et recouvrer un peu d'autonomie, un groupe de demandeur·es d'asile de Rennes a décidé de cultiver la terre sur une parcelle prêtée par un agriculteur. Les récoltes sont en partie données aux Restos du cœur. Reportage.
Kathmandu Post - More than two dozen people are dead or missing after a flood caused widespread destruction, sweeping away the Miteri Bridge — a key piece of infrastructure linking Nepal and China. kathmandupost.com/nepali-diasp…
📢 The Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF), a Brussels-based legal advocacy group pursuing Israeli officials for alleged #warcrimes - announced this week that the ISR government has imposed sanctions on 50 individuals associated with the organization
🔹 Among those targeted are the foundation’s chairman, Diab Abu Jahjah, two of its co-founders, and three lawyers involved in its international legal campaigns
Deadly floods could be new normal as #Trump guts federal agencies, experts warn - theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j… "Cuts and chaos instigated by Trump come as threat from extreme weather grows due to human-caused #climatecrisis"
"The makers of our constitution undertook to secure conditions favorable to the pursuit of happiness... They sought to protect Americans in their beliefs, their thoughts, their emotions and their sensations. They conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone -- the most comprehensive of the rights and the right most valued by civilized men."
-- Justice Louis D. Brandeis (1856-1941) US Supreme Court Justice Source: Olmstead v. United States, 1928
In a whiplash reversal that has infuriated America-First conservatives, President Donald Trump now says the United States “has to” ship still more arms, missiles, and ammo to Ukraine — just days after the Pentagon froze deliveries because …
“The restaurant had been targeted… due to its ownership by Shahar Segal, an Israeli businessman who has served as a spokesperson for the controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.”
that's kinda like saying OSI should write software.
IMO FSF's role is to be a steward and promoter of Free Software values and definition. For example, by giving well argumented opinions on which licenses satisfy the Free Software Definition, but also which software and hardware best fulfills the spirit of Free Software and which doesn't.
I agree it does a poor job at that, but that doesn't mean it should be doing something else.
Israeli occupation forces detained Nasser al-Lahham, Al Mayadeen’s bureau chief in occupied Palestine, in a pre-dawn incursion into his home in Beit Lahm, southern West Bank.
The Israeli security service, Shin Bet, was directly responsible for the detention, which specifically targeted al-Lahham’s personal broadcasting studio in search of electronic equipment and media devices linked to his journalistic work.
Encampment by encampment, Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem are asserting control over vast areas previously inhabited by Bedouin communities and livestock herders.
Roughly a month after the displacement of the “Mughayyir al-Deir” community east of Ramallah, and less than a week after the expulsion of “Arab al-Malihyat” the wave of expulsions has now reached occupied Jerusalem.
Watan-Encampment by encampment, Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem are asserting control over vast areas previously inhabited by Bedouin communities and livestock herders. Roughl
A BBC journalist was left fuming as the corporation was found to have ignored the scandal of British spy planes being deployed over Gaza.
The National, in conjunction with the investigative website Declassified UK, this week published an expose of the failure of the mainstream media to look into RAF planes being deployed over the besieged territory.
CIA agent is the head of BBC middle east coverage. https://mastodon.world/@Captain_Jack_Sparrow/113789695471420229
"Raffi Berg, an Englishman who heads the BBC’s Middle East desk, formerly worked for the U.S.
"The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should…
"The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution,
are worth defending at all hazards;
and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.
This is a war crime. Israel just bombed a prison ward where trans people were kept locked up. Hundreds of trans people exterminated. There is no rational explanation for this.
The nation state system, Western conceptions of property rights, and the theater we call "rule of law" are all reaching their logical ends.
They were all just Colonialism 2.0 and the whole inane system is slowly being crushed under its own weight.
We need a detailed proposal for what a post-nation state could look like.
Particular attention must be paid to how systems that sustain civilization can be picked up & transformed with as little damage as possible as the systems of yesterday perish.
This might sound unhinged to many; after all, imagination around other systems, other ways of being, and other types of civilizations, other ways of doing trade and sustaining life, those are all things we are taught not to think about or take seriously, and communities who practice alternatives are have always been ignored when possible, or met with violence.
The most unhinged systems are the ones we exist in today, normalized because we are just fish in the waters of our suicidal system.
I only recently came across a very interesting critique of the straightforward communist "seize the means". Because that production is extractive and colonist by it's very nature! So how to we dismantle the means of production for its most efficient and ethical use is our generation's question.
Olivier #Marleix, membre du parti Les Républicains (LR), est décédé tragiquement le 7 juillet #2025 à l’âge de 54 ans. En 2017, il a présidé une commission d’enquête parlementaire sur la vente de la branche énergie d’ #Alstom à #GeneralElectric, dénonçant une possible perte de souveraineté industrielle. Il a saisi le parquet de Paris en 2019 et a reçu le «prix éthique» d’ #Anticor en 2020 pour ce travail. Gaulliste convaincu, il critiquait régulièrement la #politique d’Emmanuel #Macron, notamment sur la faillite du pays et la désindustrialisation. Olivier Marleix est mort aujourd’hui à son domicile d’Anet. Selon plusieurs sources, il se serait suicidé, une information confirmée par le procureur de Chartres. Juste après la mort d'Eric #Denecé qui avait lancé un rapport d'alerte sur la vente d’Alstom, maintenant c'est celle du Député Olivier #Marleix qui avait fait saisir le Parquet national financier sur la même affaire.
Le député LR de la deuxième circonscription d'Eure-et-Loir, Olivier Marleix a été retrouvé mort, pendu ce lundi 7 juillet dans sa maison à Anet, commune dont il a été le maire de 2008 à 2017. C'est son ancienne première adjointe...
"The rights enumerated in this Bill of Rights shall not be construed to limit other rights of the people not therein expressed." ~ Virginia Declaration of Rights
A recent series of worldwide studies finds that ugly anti-immigrant prejudice isn't inevitable just because immigration increases. "Inclusive legal and socioeconomic integration policies that render immigrants more equal to natives...reduce xenophobia among natives": researchgate.net/publication/3…
BTW, I found those studies in my review of social science research offering possible solutions to tribalism: "Heterogenius: Why and How to Stop Dividing People into Us and Them" - alfiekohn.org/blogs/diversity/
NFL News: Former Dallas Cowboys player Pettis Norman is no more. He died at 86. Norman passed away peacefully at his home. His family was with him. He played fo
Avengers: Doomsday was originally set to be released next May, but was recently pushed back to December. As disappointed as many fans were by the news, most
my new classic ride, a Grand Marquis, has those tiny flip out ashtrays in the rear doors. No lighter back there though I guess the driver has to pull it out and hand it to you. 😬
SOMMET DES BRICS : « IL EST INACCEPTABLE DE CONTINUER À UTILISER LE FMI ET LA BANQUE MONDIALE POUR PERPÉTUER DES PRATIQUES COLONIALES ». ( #Lavrov) Contrairement à ces pratiques, la nouvelle Banque de développement des #BRICS se distingue par son innovation et s'attache à tirer parti des efforts des pays membres du groupe pour renforcer leurs économies et améliorer leur bien-être.
Lors de la deuxième session du sommet des BRICS, le ministre russe des Affaires étrangères a affirmé que la grande majorité des pays souhaitaient mettre en œuvre des mécanismes de développement indépendants de l’Occident.
Les pays BRICS sont engagés dans une transformation sans précédent, s'efforçant de bâtir une architecture économique plus stable, fondée sur les principes de transparence et de non-discrimination, garantissant l'égalité d'accès aux opportunités pour tous.
« Il est inacceptable de continuer à utiliser le Fonds monétaire mondial ( #FMI) et la Banque mondiale pour perpétuer des pratiques néocoloniales », a déclaré M. #Lavrov, remettant en question la présence de situations similaires au sein de l'Organisation mondiale du commerce ( #OMC) et appelant à une réforme des institutions de #BrettonWoods.
Il s'est dit convaincu que les institutions émergentes reflètent le véritable équilibre des pouvoirs dans l'économie mondiale. Lors des délibérations du deuxième jour du sommet, la Russie a dénoncé le fait que les pays à faible revenu et à revenu intermédiaire dépensent davantage pour le remboursement de leur dette extérieure que pour leur propre développement, et a averti que cette situation échappait à tout contrôle, même dans certains pays développés.
Il a dénoncé le fait que l’ #Occident subordonne l’octroi de son aide financière à des considérations politiques. À titre d’exemple, il a cité l’octroi de fonds d’« aide militaire » équivalant à 500 % du PIB de l’Ukraine, alors que de nombreux pays africains n’ont pas pu accéder aux recettes nécessaires pour soutenir leurs prévisions de développement.
Contrairement à ces pratiques, il propose que la nouvelle Banque de développement des BRICS se distingue par son innovation et s'attache à tirer parti des efforts des pays membres du groupe pour renforcer leurs économies et améliorer leur bien-être.
Les BRICS contribuent à 48,5 % de la population mondiale, représentent 39 % du PIB, 24 % du commerce extérieur total, 43,6 % de la production de pétrole et des réserves mondiales, et 78,2 % du charbon. Ils excellent également dans la création de technologies alternatives, l'utilisation des nouvelles technologies et la transition numérique.
#Trump’s Immigration agents, Marines and National Guard - with imbedded Fox News staff - swarm #LA’s MacArthur Park in big show of force and public intimidation but without any other seeming reason.
How will the world end? While some, like Robert Frost, have waxed poetic about the end of life on Earth—fire or ice—others have been looking to science to
@Sirpantangelini every baby should be taught how to swim gratis. Many times a baby dies surrounded by people who don't notice - happened to a former classmate
No había visto que los avales a la compra de vivienda que propone el PNV son para "jóvenes" entre 18 y 39 años. A ver si un día entendemos que con 39 años no eres joven ni que la precariedad es una cuestión de edad
Daily Caller News Foundation co-founder Tucker Carlson asked Iranian President Masoud Pezeshhkian if his country had ever plotted an assassination attempt
Ob CDU-Kanzler Merz es wahrnehmen will oder nicht, durch Flucht in die Außenpolitik entkommt er den Problemen daheim nicht. Sie verschwinden nicht und die mit sich selbst beschäftigte SPD löst keine.
Great idea. Gotta get rid of the psycho nazis first. "The wealth tax approach, they wrote, "is effective because it targets all forms of tax optimization, whatever their nature. It is targeted, as it applies only to the wealthiest taxpayers, and only to those among them who engage in tax avoidance.""
"Und ganz nebenbei wird hier auch noch [von #Brantner, #Grüne] suggeriert, dass die #Linke – parlamentarisch und außerparlamentarisch – keine anderen Argumente und Forderungen vertreten würde, als #Israel von der Landkarte löschen zu wollen.
[...]
Fragen nach Israels [Verbrechen] werden mit dem Verweis auf islamistische Hamas-Ideologie mit einer Nicht-Antwort bedacht."
"»Wenn Deutsche über #Israel reden, reden sie meist über sich selbst.« In der nach moralischer Rehabilitierung strebenden »Wiedergutmachungspolitik« Adenauers, die vornehmlich der Westbindung diente, & der heutigen Identifizierung des dt. Staates mit Israel [...] sieht er einen »Ersatznationalismus«. Der führe dazu, dass sich viele in DE gar nicht vorstellen könnten, dass Israel Kriegsverbrechen begehe, weil dies das dt. Selbstbild stören würde."
La IA más avanzada del momento, chatGPT, no es capaz de vencer a una Atari de hace 50 años. Porque no es inteligente, simplemente escupe palabras siguiendo una distribución de probabilidad.
Sin embargo, se nos ha dicho que va a revolucionar el mundo laboral y ya hay quién se ha enamorado de su chatbot sin darse cuenta de que, como Narciso, se ha enamorado de un reflejo compuesto de unos y ceros.
Al final, la IA lo único que hace es ponernos delante de un espejo virtual que nos devuelve un reflejo deformado. Un reflejo que, más temprano que tarde y sin avisar, va a reventar en tantos pedazos como dólares se está gastando en este delirio colectivo.
Ya veo a todos los fachas de los chiringuitos de Fuengirola votando a los que proponen echar de España a sus trabajadores y después quejándose muy fuerte de que no encuentran a trabajadores que explotar.
On Tuesday, July 1, 2025, African Stream published its final video, a defiant farewell message. With that, the once-thriving pan-African media outlet confirmed it was shutting down for good. Not because it broke the law. Not because it spread disinformation or incited violence. But because it told the wrong story, one that challenged U.S. power in Africa and resonated too deeply with Black audiences around the world. When Secretary of State Antony Blinken accused it of being a Kremlin front, Big Tech didn’t hesitate, and within hours, the platform was erased from nearly every major social media site.
KKR, genocidio palestino y los tentáculos del capital fósil
El fondo proisraelí KKR, que participa en empresas que promueven la ocupación israelí en Palestina, posee una cartera de activos en combustibles fósiles con la que libera anualmente a la atmósfera 93 millones de toneladas métricas de dióxido de carbono.
El fondo proisraelí KKR, que participa en empresas que promueven la ocupación israelí en Palestina, posee una cartera de activos en combustibles fósiles con la que libera anualmente a la atmósfera 93 millones de toneladas métricas de dióxido de carbo…
An important detail here is that Jesus and the disciples were headed into an enemy stronghold, home of the Gadarene demoniac. Sometimes the storm in our lives is because we’re on assignment and on the right path, yet we need more Jesus and less fear.
Este fin de semana han robado una caravana FENDT Tendenza en el área de auto caravanas de Teruel. Está denunciado, por favor si alguien la ve llamen a la policía. La matrícula de la caravana es R 4302 BCM. Gracias.
Tucker Carlson's latest interview with the president of Iran is even more evidence that Carlson is not a journalist, he is a CIA actor playing a role of a regular, based American.
Listen to Nick Fuentes break it down and explain why he doesn't trust Carlson even a little bit. (Begins at 2:06:47)
well, Carlson was never an actual journalist. The way i see it, a real journalist reports facts and leaves drawing conclusions to the receptient, which is hardly what Carlson is doing.
Israel furious after cancelling Bob Vylan, only for them to top the charts How dare they refuse to be cancelled
Israel is furious after it ordered the cancellation of punk act Bob Vylan, only for the controversial duo rise to the top of the Hip Hop and R n B album charts.
Israel has a proud tradition of getting anyone who disagrees with Israel cancelled
Anna Rocca 🇮🇱 Pax americana – «Le #Yémen sera traité comme Téhéran» : sans perdre de temps, #Israël lance son opération «Black Flag» contre les #Houthis «Quiconque tente de nuire à Israël sera frappé», a fanfaronné le ministre de la Guerre, Israël #Katz. «Et quiconque lève la main contre Israël la verra coupée. Les Houthis continueront de payer un lourd tribut pour leurs actes». La nouvelle campagne de bombardements contre l'un des pays les plus pauvres du monde a visé les infrastructures des ports yéménites de #Hodeidah, Ras Isa et Al-Salif, ainsi qu'une centrale électrique à Ras Katib. «Ces ports sont utilisés par le régime terroriste houthi pour transférer des armes du régime iranien, qui servent à mener des opérations terroristes contre l’Etat d'Israël et ses alliés», a affirmé Tsahal.
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in reply to datarama • • •One 3-d rendered game that stands out for me is The Long Dark. Its art style borders on cartoony: it's 3-d, but highly stylized and not hyperrealistic. This video gives a sense of it. It's one of the few games I've played as an adult where I felt like I had an experience. I remember and still think about it from time to time.
Hyperrealistic 3-d game art tends to trigger unpleasant feelings in me. Usually either it's the uncanny valley, where everything feels creepy, or it's one I can't easily describe where I feel like I'm smelling cellophane the whole time (everything's too shiny) and just want to leave before I'm sick from it. It's disorienting, almost dizzying, and I can't suspend disbelief enough to enjoy the game a lot of the time (while also acknowledging some of these games are visually very impressive). I've had this reaction to modern digital television shows too. I'll admit that maybe I'm unusual, but anyway I have a kind of "alienated" response to this kind of game art too.
The Long Dark -- VISUAL ENHANCEMENTS for High-End Systems
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