Just to clarify a little bit (I was a little confused myself):

Postal was developed by the studio Goonswarm. The publisher Running With Scissors cancelled their games release because of the AI claims, and in response the developers have closed their studio, probably due to the financial strain of having your game completely cancelled by your publisher.

“After revealing POSTAL: Bullet Paradise, a title Running With Scissors was planning on publishing but not developing, we’ve been overwhelmed with negative responses from our concerned POSTAL Community,” reads a statement from Running With Scissors founder Vince Desi, emailed to RPS this afternoon. "The strong feedback from them is that elements of the game are very likely AI-generated and thus has caused extreme damage to our brand and our company reputation.

“We’ve always been, and will always be, transparent with our community,” Desi continues. "Our trust in the development team is broken; therefore, we’ve killed the project. We have a lot of good things coming (some you know and some you don’t).

“Since forming Running With Scissors in 1996, we’ve always said that our fans are part of the team,” it concludes. “Our priority is to always do right by the millions who support the POSTAL franchise. We are grateful for the opportunity to make the games we want to play, and will continue to focus on our new projects and updates coming in 2026 and beyond. We can’t wait to share more!”

Postal: Bullet Paradise was once “a timeline-hopping, dystopian bullet heaven first-person shooter with POSTAL’s signature darkly humorous personality”. The project is “no longer available” on Steam, though it still has a page as of writing.

Desi’s statement doesn’t mention which elements of the game may have been AI-generated, or whether they’ve taken any steps to confirm this with Goonswarm.

It seems like the publisher hasn’t done much to work with the devs, finding the true story instead of reacting to knee-jerk public opinions, and has just pulled the rug out from under them to protect themselves instead.

The devs have adamantly insisted there is no AI in their work; and if true, this really really sucks.

why not let them go to the playground unmonitored instead?

That would actually be the safer option imo.

I’m sure Roblox has gotten better moderation during that time

Quite the opposite.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roblox–Schlep_controversy

Not a biologist, not something I study, just a passing thought:

I would guess a large number of venomous animals are also poisonous, because you’d be ingesting their venom. Probably not always the case; you’re not always eating the venom containing parts, and it my not be poisonous unless injected into the bloodstream/tissue. But that’s what my intuition tells me. 🤷

Just because it’s kinda interesting:

Tomatoes are technically a fruit, but they’re legally, a vegetable. At least in the US.

I usually cut a full pie into quarters, so… Nine sounds about right.

Wrap the pj pant leg tightly around your ankle, put socks over top, then pull on the next layer of pants.

Keeps the pj’s in-place so they don’t ride up your legs or stick out from under your regular pant legs, plus it stops the breeze blowing up your pant legs makin’ your ankles/shins chilly.

Pyjama pants stay on under the jeans when I get out of bed, then multiple layers: shirt, hoodie, sweater/jacket. Add/remove layers as-needed.

Unless I’m staying home for the day, then it’s just pj pants and a hoodie all day.

Not even slightly surprised to see the US on that list… America hates it’s workers.

People grieve in the oddest ways sometimes.

Dude made roller skates because the missus told him to sell the house. At least he realized he’s an idiot and seems to be moving on.

Talking at me =/= talking to me.

Get my attention, then say whatever you’ve gotta say.

Well, since you asked so nicely…

That’s a mighty fine top hat he’s wearing, but who tf is that posing with his fish??

I don’t think classic SMS does this, but RCS and IMessage both do. SMS has ‘delivery reports’ (ie, the carrier will let you know when they succeed in transmitting it to the phone), but not actual read receipts.

As a sender; sometimes a message doesn’t warrant a response, but it’s nice to know it was actually received/seen.

As a recipient though, I’ve always found it a tad creepy and turned it off on every phone I’ve had.

The Third Drawer Down.

‘Ignorance is bliss’…

Isn’t that just Sunday?