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Korlis @korl.is · 29/09/2026

my favourite Indian place used to have stock photos on the delivery app but they recently changed to genAI and yeah that's much better how did we live without this technology

Screenshot of two items in a delivery app menu with AI generated images. One is a "pickles tray" and the image shows the appropriate chutneys and pickles. The other is "pickles" and the image is just a huge plate of some weirdly discoloured sliced pickles, like discards from several picky eaters' burgers.

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Korlis @korl.is · 22/09/2026

OK they're definitely killing Xbox (firing everyone who ran Xbox Game Studios) and moving pieces around the chess board to sell off Bethesda (now running Obsidian) and Activision (now running Rare and... uh, *who* is making Halo?) as discrete entities, right?

In a post to Xbox wire today, Matt Booty shared that the roles would be eliminated across “Halo Studios, other first-party studios, and the XGS management and central functions layer” and would be counted as a part of the previously laid-out restructuring of the company, which he claims is now three-quarters of the way complete.

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Korlis @korl.is · 22/09/2026

TFW you're too optimistic:

Discord message from me (Korlis) on 1st July 2026: "Frankly it sounds like the planned cuts are so widespread I wouldn't be surprised if they basically pare back to Bethesda Game Studios, Playground Games, a skeleton of 343."

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Korlis @korl.is · 14/09/2026

Ixion continues to impress me. Gorgeous sci-fi visuals, absolutely brutal survival grind, and a story that keeps surprising me.

Screenshot of Ixion, depicting a ring-shaped space station/starship transiting in front of a distant, greenish star

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Korlis @korl.is · 10/09/2026

started playing Ixion, a survival city builder set inside a circular space station/colony ship, and I am absolutely here for any sci-fi about malignant billionaires fucking everyone over

Store art for the game Ixion, depicting a large circular space station with debris and smaller ships around it, and some astronauts in EVA gear in the foreground.

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Korlis @korl.is · 01/09/2026

on the bright side I look forward to being The History Person for some kind of perverted Mad Max warlord

The History Man in Furiosa, an old man with tanned, weathered skin covered in faded tattoos of illegible text

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Korlis @korl.is · 31/08/2026

referring to Heresy-era Fulgrim and Fabius Bile as streamer girlfriend and podcaster boyfriend

Artwork depicting a young Primarch Fulgrim prior to the Horus Heresy in Warhammer 40,000. He is superhumanly tall—towering over a kneeling supplicant offering him a scroll—pale and beautiful. He is wearing a royal purple toga.

Artwork depicting Fabius Bile, an apothecary of the heretical Emperor's Children Space Marine Legion, after falling to Chaos. His power armour is partially obscured by robes and coverings of human skin, and he holds aloft a severed head. He wears no helmet, leaving his pale, grotesque head and stringy white hair visible.

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Korlis @korl.is · 27/08/2026

the Roku remotes having what is effectively a lanyard hole is a godsend. ours is attached to some glow in the dark paracord that's, uh, clenched in the teeth of an anatomical skull model. for reasons.

An anatomical model of a human skull, wearing a brightly coloured headscarf, with a coil of braided glow in the dark paracord between its teeth. The paracord connects to the fabric label at the base of a Roku remote control.

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Korlis @korl.is · 23/08/2026

hey did you know you can just go in and add tags to any game on Steam? you know, if you wanted to make sure the latest overgrown post-apocalypse game is tagged in the correct genre

cropped screenshot of the "View and edits tags for this product" pop up in Steam, adding "Tokyo Jungle-like" to Beast of Reincarnation

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Korlis @korl.is · 22/08/2026

Huh, could've sworn one of us had blocked the other, but I guess not: I managed to find the thread where she talks about asking ChatGPT for help making a video. She claims it's necessary for her to test out genAI tools like this to report on them, but her latest posts suggest she relies on them.

Korlis: Do you regularly ask it for help?

Lorenz: not really bc it just gives me shit like this

Korlis: Then I have to ask why you used it now? There are all sorts of ethical reasons to avoid it on top of it - as you've said - not being a useful tool

Lorenz: Well I'm a tech reporter and report on ChatGPT and I'm interested in AI products generally and how they work, so I do bop in and see if it works for things like this sometimes. There are ethical reasons not to use pretty much every platform I report on sadly, and they're very valid!

Korlis: But you see the difference between researching a technology with journalistic intent and being a casual user, right? Or why "I asked ChatGPT..." out of context suggests an impromptu question not a formal test? If you had liked its suggested titles, would you have used them?

Lorenz: If it came up with something coherent yes I'd absolutely talk about it! I think anyone who follows me knows I report on ChatGPT and user behaviour, hence I beta test and investigate use cases of these different products. Again, it's my job. If it wasn't I wouldn't have to worry about any of it!

I concede that reporting on something may mean taking unethical actions where its in the public interest for a product, tech, behaviour etc to be reported on. But ChatHPT/genAI products are a known quantity at this point. "Gives bad [video title] suggestions" isn't newsworthy or a compelling reason to use it.

Lorenz: Again, I am a tech reporter who reports on the user side of these platforms so I engage with them and beta test features in frankly very lightweight ways. I don't consider that unethical, I am a journalist and somehow seem to be the only tech journalist held to this standard

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Korlis @korl.is · 22/08/2026

dual wielding pistols that can't hit the side of a barn, an anti-materiel sniper rifle with kilometres of range in a claustrophobic indoor map, a double-barrel shotgun when the enemy has fully automatic mulching machines, snarks

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Korlis @korl.is · 14/08/2026

nope don't think we'll be doing that again

screenshot of the wireless emergency alert setting on my phone being turned off

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Korlis @korl.is · 12/08/2026

anyway the moon put on a little sun hat

Photo of a partial solar eclipse, shot on a smartphone through a filter, so the image is mostly black except for a small crescent of golden light.

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Korlis @korl.is · 11/08/2026

ohhh no, you definitely didn't hallucinate it, I remember it, though I don't associate it with that particular phrasing! I wondered how it lined up with the date of the immortal "ah well nevertheless" tweet and: perfectly, in that ol donny had been wriggling out of things for years already

Well, I'd like to see ol Donny Trump wriggle his way out of THIS jam!
*Trump wriggles his way out of the jam easily
Ah! Well. Nevertheless,

[Jesse Farrar, 1 Oct 2016]

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Korlis @korl.is · 11/08/2026

we got talking about teleoperated vehicles and while looking at a company website I spotted "Defense" in their additional resources. 'lmao immediate red flag', I think. oh no no: we're RED FLAGMAXXING.

screengrab of a company's Additional Products drop down menu, featuring:
"Teleoperation Connectivity Platform
Defense
Teleoperation Taxonomy"

screengrab of a teleoperated autonomous vehicle's selling point, "Combat-Proven Reliability (In Active Use by the IDF): Deployed and active with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF)."

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Korlis @korl.is · 05/08/2026

ok gotta stop playing the @ironnestgame.bsky.social demo

Screenshot of the map table in Iron Nest: Heavy Turret Simulator, showing grid squares and black and white aerial photography criss-crossed with yellow and red lines to calculate bearings and distance to targets

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Korlis @korl.is · 28/07/2026

In this case, a perfect storm of Japan being far less anti-AI (in a general public sense) than the Anglosphere + Square Enix never finding a tech trend too stupid to attach itself to

Headlines covering Square Enix's failed attempt to chase the dead NFT trend

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Korlis @korl.is · 28/07/2026

Is there any group more consistently disappointing than the humble gamer?

A two panel "Hello, human resources?!" meme contrasting gamer calls to boycott Sony over ending physical media with BDS calls to boycott Microsoft over actual complicity in genocide. Someone with zero media literacy has quote-tweeted the post with "#FuckSony", inadvertently reinforcing the point of the meme.

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Korlis @korl.is · 22/07/2026

thanks GW, an appropriately sized box as usual

A photo of a cardboard delivery box that is far too comically large to be appropriate for the three items inside (a hardback book, a hardback book in a cardboard sleeve, and a small box containing two Games Workshop miniatures)

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Korlis @korl.is · 18/07/2026

inspired by some other QTs of this: not merch, but 40K kitbashes of characters like my Inquisitor OC (...might even get around to painting them one day)

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Korlis @korl.is · 17/07/2026

real curious how these big plans intersect with their mass layoffs

A goose chasing after a stand-in for Todd Howard screaming "Who's making it Todd??" and "Which employees??"

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Korlis @korl.is · 06/07/2026

In Dune, the prohibition on AI leads to new schools of thought that push the boundaries of human intellect. In 40K, it means that the trillions of humans in the Imperium represent a surplus of grey matter that can be repurposed for biological computational power (once any free will is scooped out).

A screenshot from the 40K videogame Boltgun, where a servo skull named Incommodus is introduced in a cutscene. He's a floating skull wearing a burning brazier like a jaunty hat.

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Korlis @korl.is · 04/07/2026

Impossible for me to think about "the troops" without thinking of BoJack Horseman nailing it

A screenshot from BoJack Horseman, featuring the character's (entirely accurate) rant that "I don't agree to that. Maybe some of the troops are heroes but not automatically. I'm sure a lot of the troops are jerks - most people are jerks already, and it's not like giving a jerk a gun and telling him it's okay to kill people suddenly turns that jerk into a hero."

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Korlis @korl.is · 25/06/2026

it rules that billionaires have cavernously empty brains. just the dumbest motherfuckers to ever live sitting on a dragon's hoard of immoral wealth. I want to take a look around in there with a flashlight. the acoustics must be amazing.