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