Feb. 5, 2025
296! Wild Prognostications 2025!
Apple Podcasts What's to come in 2025?
This week, Wild Prognostications returns! Jess, Aaron, and Joey make their predictions for the new year, discussing micro-social media [3:30], platform madness [6:52], nihilistic design [13:10], weaponized compliance [18:32], graphic realism pivoting to novel gameplay [24:05], dressing up [30:38], blockbuster novels [33:15], and a runaway AI crisis [36:56]. They don’t talk about supervillain Daniel Dumile.
references
- The Atlantic: We’re All in ‘Dark Mode’ Now
- Unreal Engine
- Hazelight Studios
- Techradar: Nintendo Switch 2: what we know about the next-generation system so far
- The New York Times: Rebecca Yarros’s ‘Onyx Storm’ Is the Fastest-Selling Adult Novel in 20 Years
- A Good Day To Die Hard
- The Mitchells vs. The Machines
- The 2024 CrowdStruke outages
- Vulture: The Brutalist Is Half of a Great Movie
- "Missing" by Everything But the Girl