Podcasts / AI Boosters Want To Sacrifice The Present For A Future That Will Never Come "I hate these people so much for insisting that I should be fucking excited for this" By Nathan Grayson / 20 Feb 2026
Video Games / So Long, Phil Spencer. You Will Not Be Missed Spencer, retiring from Xbox next week, played a lot of games and oversaw the layoffs of even more people By Nathan Grayson / 20 Feb 2026
technology / The Left Doesn't Hate Technology, We Hate Being Exploited Techno-cynics are all just wounded techno-optimists. By Gita Jackson / 19 Feb 2026
AI / AI Is So Inherently Popular That Companies Are Paying Influencers Up To $600,000 To Tell People How Awesome It Is It's great guys, you love it, you absolutely don't need convincing of that By Luke Plunkett / 12 Feb 2026
AI / As A Principled Video Game Executive, I Believe AI Is ‘Metadata’ Mixed With A ‘Parlor Trick,’ And We Should Be Skeptical Of It. Then Again, Counterpoint: Never Mind Life comes at you fast By Nathan Grayson / 5 Feb 2026
valve / The Steam Machine Has Been Delayed Because Stupid Little Babies Can't Stop Using AI To Write Their Emails 'The limited availability and growing prices of these critical components mean we must revisit our exact shipping schedule and pricing' By Luke Plunkett / 4 Feb 2026
News / Adobe Is Ruthlessly Killing Off Software That Animators Around The World Are Using Every Day [Update] 'The entire toolshed is being demolished' By Luke Plunkett / 3 Feb 2026
AI / We Need A Word That Goes Beyond 'Slop' For This One We've gone way past the bottom of the barrel By Luke Plunkett / 29 Jan 2026
AI / The Anime AI Closed Captioning Situation Is Crazy Crunchyroll getting in bed with an AI localization company and Netflix declaring it’ll use AI to improve localization spells bad times ahead for anime fans. By Isaiah Colbert / 27 Jan 2026
AI / Despite AI's Best Efforts, I Fixed My Kid's Airpods Through The Collective Power Of Human Troubleshooting "Suck on the one with low sound" By Luke Plunkett / 26 Jan 2026
AI / Finally, Some Good AI Policies Bandcamp and Games Workshop are showing everyone else how it's done By Nathan Grayson / 14 Jan 2026