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I definitely feel like people are going to start scooping up whatever games they can. Vita already had a very hardcore collecting audience and many games were scarce before this news – I can only imagine the prices for physical Vita games going up from here

A sleepy black kitten on top of a basket

A comment that reads "Paying for sensitivity consultants and HRT for the graphics engine programmers ain't cheap, taking away the disc drives will enable further efforts towards an inclusive workforce"

Steins Gate but with 8bit graphics like it is on an old PC

An advert for Rayman 3 where men are leaning back while at the urinal as they try to get a look at Rayman's huge dong

Four week old black and white foster kitten with an adorable lip smudge called Robin sits atop a large Kirby plushie

A close up of a man eating his bright pink Man Cereal. Next to it is says "Cereal without the B.S. You don't need a breakfast with bright mascots or sugar bombs. We keep things simple with real fuel for real life"

Picture of the games from UFO 50. Eight games are marked off as completed.

A picture of Alice from Virtue's Last Reward. She is a woman with huge gravity-defying bazongas and instead of a t-shirt she has a giant necklace that carefully covers her nipples and never moves as if glued there.

Clip from the top of the Wikipedia page for Silent Hill f. "This article may incorporate text from a large language model. It may include hallucinated information, copyright violations, claims not verified in cited sources, original research, or fictitious references. Any such material should be removed and content with an unencyclopedic tone should be rewritten. (December 2025)"

The face of a Calico cat. Her face is smooshed up and she is looking straight at you.

Image from Persona 2 Innocent Sin. We see a character that looks like Hitler in sunglasses in the foreground called 'Fuhrer' he says "Exactly. My Order of the Holy Lance, symbolising the Zodiac, has those qualifications as well." This means as much to me (the person playing Innocent Sin) as it does to you.

A Switch 2 with Silksong downloading

“Prior to the incident, he was flagged down by a woman who was the victim of a domestic violence incident. Mayor Giuliani immediately rendered assistance and contacted 911,” he said. “He remained on scene until responding officers arrived to ensure her safety.”

“Following this, while traveling on the highway, Mayor Giuliani’s vehicle was struck from behind at high speed,” he added.

Windows update FAQ top result "Uninstalling problematic Windows updates easily"

Perhaps the biggest reason Silksong took so long was that Team Cherry never had to worry about the one thing that keeps other independent developers awake at night: money.

During the production of Hollow Knight, they’d stayed lean, sometimes living off leftover triangle sandwiches that their office neighbor would bring them after meetings. “My dad would sometimes pop up and give me $20,” Gibson said. “I’d be like, ‘Oh, I’m having coffee today!’”

Thanks to their first game’s massive financial success, Gibson and Pellen no longer have to scrounge leftovers. For Pellen, who has two kids and a third on the way, that’s provided an inestimable peace of mind.

Quote from Graham Linnehan on JK Rowling stirring up hatred against trans people: "I thought, Oh my God, it's over. I can finally relax, I can finally fight back because someone's on my side, you know? And now her silence about me is just added to the feeling that, that I've done something wrong, that I'm toxic and I know I am toxic, but it's not because I've done anything wrong.

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A person is sat on a sofa with three cats. A tortie kitten on their lap, a black cat leaning on her left leg and a Calico leaning on her right leg. All cats are babies.

The physical edition of UFO 50 on Nintendo Switch. It includes an official guide and looks very pretty.

Segment from VGIM newsletter. It reads:

Disney’s Nuts: That’s the allegation of the Wall Street Journal, who suggest that the House of Mouse’s long-mooted virtual theme park has been subjected to delays due to slow-paced approvals. Tim Sweeney took to the airwaves to deny the story, claiming it was ‘BS’.

Bar chart of the most popular search engines from 2015 to 2025. At the high point Google had a market share of over 95% in 2018 to under 80% in 2025.

PayPal says implied incest is okay.

I asked if I can buy 50 Shades of Grey and they told me to read the terms and conditions

A message from PayPal customer service saying anything that contains sex is not allowed to be purchased via the service.

A bright pink wall with many framed prints. There is a black mantle in the centre atop sits a number of baskets and vases as well as a tortie kittie with one eye.

A dwarf Calico cat lies on her back on a blue sofa with her pawsies up like bunny feet. She is floofy and a baby

A small tortie cat is stretched out on a patio. She looks like she's doing a sassy dance and only has one eye.

Promotional art of And Roger a short narrative puzzle game. The picture shows a young girl sitting at a table with a man pushing her chair in.

A hairy shirtless man is holding up A "beautiful ornament" (his words) it's ostensibly a giant coffee bean with arms and legs. It has gold shoes and a face. It's blowing a trumpet into a tea cup. It looks to be the size of the man's torso and he wants £150 for this monstrosity.

Raidou from Raidou Remastered holding out a tube to release a demon.

A dwarf Calico cat and a small tortie cat with one eye sit butt-to-butt on the same small cat sofa.

.28 R&D in Northern Ireland employs over 16,000 people and is world leading
in several areas, including cyber.11 This SR grows UK R&D spending across
the UK from £20.4 billion in 2025-26 to over £22.6 billion per year by 2029-30,
delivering funding for Northern Ireland-based research. The SR also confirms the
previously committed £2 million for Queen’s University Belfast’s Cyber AI (artificial
intelligence) Hub, to continue developing research, skills and innovation across
a range of cybersecurity themes and develop a skills pipeline of cybersecurity
professionals with strong industry links.

5.139 HM Treasury has committed to delivering at least 5% savings and efficiencies
by 2028-29. This includes savings identified through the ZBR from AI and
automation, IT transformation, and bearing down on spend in estates, legal and
arm’s length bodies (ALBs). The department has also worked with the OVfM to
identify £13 million of technical efficiencies by 2028-29

5.133 The government is providing an additional £500 million TDEL from 2026-27
to 2028-29 to make HMRC a digital-first organisation. By 2029-30, a minimum of
90% of customer interactions will be digital self-serve, up from around 70% this
year. This investment will improve digital services so people can easily get the
information they need without having to call or write to HMRC. It will enable the
use of AI to help taxpayers with their enquiries and to raise productivity within
HMRC. The government will continue to ensure alternative channels, including
phonelines, are still there for those who need them. HMRC will eliminate all
outbound post, with limited exceptions such as letters which generate revenue
for the Exchequer, reducing the number of letters HMRC sends by 75% and saving
£50 million a year by 2028-29

The government is committed to delivering an agile, productive and digitally
enabled state. Defra will therefore invest over £300 million TDEL between 2026-27
and 2028-29 into programmes to improve services, deliver better outcomes and
reduce costs by: Addressing historic legacy IT challenges in order to reduce the risk of system
failures and cyber-attacks, and move towards a modern, fit-for-purpose,
resilient and secure core technology system;
b. Transforming the Environment Agency’s digital systems to lower costs and
improve customer services for businesses and developers; and
c. Investing in AI-enabled improvements to reduce the costs of regulation,
improve the management of disease risks and streamline the delivery of
grants.

5.111 This settlement provides up to £1.9 billion over the SR period to deliver a
modern digital government. This includes the rollout of new products and services
such as the GOV.UK Wallet and App, and productivity-enhancing AI tools across the
public sector, and replacing legacy systems.

5.109 This settlement provides over £2 billion over the SR period to implement the
AI Opportunities Action Plan in full, including:
a. Funding to enable a twentyfold expansion of the UK’s AI Research Resource
capacity compared with the existing programmes. This new compute
capacity will enable UK researchers and start-ups to lead in AI discoveries and
advancements;
b. Up to £500 million for the creation of a new UK Sovereign AI Unit working with
the British Business Bank to support the emergence of national AI champions;
c. £48 million for the Tech Expert programme to drive collaboration with
universities to expand AI course provision, develop new AI educational
pathways, and support AI talent scholarships which will attract the brightest
minds to UK universities; and
d. £240 million for the AI Security Institute to remain at the forefront of frontier
AI research.

DfT has committed to delivering at least 5% savings and efficiencies. This
includes savings identified through the ZBR such as reform, modernisation and
use of AI in DfT’s executive agencies. The department has also worked with the
OVfM to identify £663 million of technical efficiencies by 2028-29. These efficiencies
will be delivered through a combination of changes such as:
• DfT becoming a smaller, more skilled, and more agile department;
• The transfer of rail services into public ownership over the coming years which
will enable the removal of duplication of functions currently spread across
14 Operators, and create economies of scale; and
• Increased use of AI initiatives to increase automation in the Driving and Vehicle
Licensing Authority (DVLA) processes.

MOD will spend at least 10% of its equipment procurement budget on novel
technologies such as uncrewed, autonomous and AI-enabled capabilities. This
will deliver greater efficiency and productivity, as well as securing an advantage
over the UK’s adversaries;

TechGrad (£96.8m) - will support 1,000 exceptional domestic students a year with undergraduate scholarships in areas like AI, cyber security, and computer science. This will also go towards 100 Research MSc places in key tech sectors, and 100 elite AI scholarships. Applicants will be able to apply to the scheme online and those successful will have their bursaries paid from a central fund.
TechExpert (£48.4m) - will give up to £10,000 in additional funding to 500 domestic PhD students conducting research in tech with the aim of accelerating cutting-edge innovation, strengthen the UK’s research pipeline in strategic technology sectors, and ensure that emerging talent is supported to contribute to national tech leadership.
TechLocal (£18m) - will offer seed funding to help regional innovators and small businesses develop new tech products and adopt AI. A panel made up of local tech businesses will be established in each region to decide which applications have merit, with the necessary checks then done centrally by Innovate UK

At this SR, the government is allocating £2 billion for artificial intellgence (AI)
from 2026-27 to 2029-30, fully delivering on the government’s commitment to
harness the transformative potential of AI, as set out in the AI Opportunities Action
Plan.
4.27 This investment will build the UK’s sovereign AI capabilities, funding at least a
20-fold expansion of the UK’s AI Research Resource and backing UK AI companies
to grow and scale through the new UK Sovereign AI Unit.
4.28 The government is funding collaboration between business and the UK’s
world-class universities to develop new AI courses, launch new AI fellowships and
establish a prestigious new AI talent scholarship to develop the AI skills of the
future. The government will also support AI diffusion through a new AI Adoption
Fund.

Invest in transformative programmes to seize the opportunities of
digital technology and cutting-edge AI capability to drive productivity
improvements and help to deliver the government’s missions; and

Yes the sentence just ends in the middle there.

Over this SR period, the government is committing to a step change in
investment in digital and Artificial Intelligence (AI) across public services, including
in the NHS. The government is providing funding directly to departments to build
strong digital and technology foundations, modernise public service delivery, and
drive a major overhaul in government productivity and efficiency.
1.6 The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) will continue to
bring together the digital transformation of public services under one department,
with strategic oversight provided by the Digital Inter-Ministerial Group. This work
will be underpinned by a Government Digital and AI Roadmap, to be published in
the autumn, which will set out the government’s digital priorities to deliver better
public services. An uplift of £1.2 billion total departmental expenditure limit (DEL)
investment is being provided to DSIT over the SR period to drive forward cross-
cutting digital priorities, bringing total investment over Spending Review 2025
(SR25) to £1.9 billion.
1.7 To drive the digital transformation of public services, the government has
prioritised funding for digital programmes across the following areas:
• Digital public infrastructure, for the public and for government: the
government is modernising and transforming the citizen’s relationship with
the state by introducing the GOV.UK Wallet and a GOV.UK App, which will
deliver more personalised user experiences and verifiable digital credentials for
citizens. The government is also creating a new National Data Library to join up
data across the public sector; and
• Modernised public services by harnessing the power of AI: the government
is delivering a step-change in public service quality and reducing the cost of
service delivery through AI adoption and digital transformation, including
the introduction of a single patient NHS record so that every part of the
health servi…

Top tweet from Splitgate 2 account:
"No excuses, I'm sorry." And a photo of the man that wore the Make FPS Great Again Hat looking neutral.

Underneath a tweet from the same account reads: "Our player base has more than tripled since Beta. Specifically, we've had a ton of recent success on console."

Charitably, there exists a class of upper-middle-class cishet white dude that not only doesn’t have to think about the social consequences of merely existing unfavorably under the Trump Administration, but pointedly refuses to do so. “C’mon man I was just talking about how shitty FPSes are,” the rich studio owner says. “I wasn’t trying to make a political statement!” But what does “Make ____ Great Again” represent? Often it’s the forcible reversal to an imagined “nostalgic” past—one that never fucking existed in the first place, and where incalculable damage must be done to the world as it is to try to bring that phantom past into reality. What’s fucking hilarious about this one-man clown car’s stunt, hat included, is that they made their game into a fucking Battle Royale, the literal exemplar of New FPS Slop. He wants to radically change the FPS genre… by capitulating to what the market has dictated is the Ideal Modern FPS Form. Fucking Geniouse!

“They're speaking a completely different language than me,” Brown says. “We're both speaking English, but I'm speaking internet.”

Recommended tweets from Andrew Tate:

I am sick and tired of every hot girl in the world coming up to me begging to be human trafficked

I HAVE RETIRED!!!!!!!!!!

The tweet has 6k likes and 250k views.

Wordpress milestone saying I've posted 200 blogs on Vita Paradisa

UI box for uploading images to a Wordpress blog. One of the options is Generate with AI.

A variety box of chocolates called Celebrations. Mini chocolate bars such as Snickers, Mars, and Bountys spill from within

A tuxedo cat is sat outside on a pavement. He has no eyes and he is doing a little screm. You can see his toothers.

Duckduckgo settings that ask you whether you want AI bullshit shoved into your eyeballs instead of results from humans. This is set to on by default.

Schmitt: That’s why you spent $44 billion — I mean, there’s a lot of money. More than it was probably worth, but it had, there was a message.

Musk: Freedom is priceless. [nods sagely as crowd goes wild]

Schmitt: Probably one of the most important investments this country’s ever seen. If you gotta protect the First Amendment, it’s not much more important than that.

Musk: Yeah. I mean, I got a lot of criticism, and people, people, said, well, that proves he’s a huge idiot from a, you know, like, look, he bought it for like whatever, $44 billion and now it’s worth, like, eight cents.

Schmitt: And it’s not worth eight cents!

Musk: You know, there’s that, but, but yeah, it was essentially to, you know, buy…. freedom… of expression. And —

A Calico kitten on her back being held like a baby. She is doing a sleepy nazi salute.