Content Tagged “link”
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→ Xbox lays off 268 more employees, merges Obsidian into Bethesda, and puts Activision in charge of Halo, PC Gamer
Fuck. Microsoft has just killed Obsidian Entertainment and folded it into Bethesda. Obsidian produced some of my favourite RPGs of all time. The writing was kind of on the wall, though. Another studio that went too woke to be financially viable; sacrificing good story and good gameplay for THE MESSAGE and not being able to sell enough games as a result of it. Still, horrible news. What a sad day.
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→ Muse fans point out the irony as band lose social media name to AI assistant, The Independent
Hmmm … it’s almost as if most commercial music is actually an entertainment product meant to sell well instead of legitimate social commentary …
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→ “Today, September 8, 2026 marks the 60th anniversary of Star Trek’s premiere on American network television”, Michael Okuda on X
Star Trek turns 60 today. The franchise’s social media accounts have been hyping this up constantly for months now and there are many collaborations with all kinds of companies, trying to sell Star Trek-themed products that are mostly junk. In stark contrast to this forced celebratory bullshit, the anniversary of my favourite TV franchise just fills me with sadness, since any Star Trek produced since 2005 has become progressively worse, with “Starfleet Academy“ being an absolute farce from the very beginning and the one show still in production, “Strange New Worlds”, decending into utter silliness like musical and muppet episodes. It all makes me weary and sad and the only thing I am wishing for at this point is that they’ll finally let the mutilated corpse of this franchise rest. But that won’t ever happen, because too many people’s careers depend on continuing this disgraceful charade.
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→ I Bit the Meshtastic Apple, JonathanMH.com
My mate Jonathan has been playing around with Meshtastic in Copenhagen. He even connected to a node in Sweden 36 kilometres away.
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→ Inside CIG: Siege of Orison, Star Citizen (YouTube)
This video strikes me as funny on so many levels. The simultaneous visual polish and technical / managerial incompetence on display is quite amazing. Chris Roberts and his guys actually seem to think they have invented instancing, which is a technology that has been inherent to the very concept of an MMO from the start. It has been around since at least 1996. Also funny: Being proud of your game having no load screens when you’ve basically just replaced them with the player being stuck in an elevator for the same amount of time.
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→ Star Citizen has a disastrously laggy stream with horrendous vibes, which isn’t a great look when you’re past $1 billion in funding, PC Gamer
This game has been in development for 16 years now. Sixteen. Years.
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→ My approach to running a link blog, Simon Willison’s Weblog
Some reflections on link blogging by Simon Willison, one of the creators of Django.
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→ Black professor at Cambridge who faced plagiarism claims is found dead, The Associated Press
Not only did he cheat on his thesis, the guy also once claimed to have run 30 marathons in 35 days, the last nine of them with a fractured calf bone.