Obviously the closing point about how gamification makes the divide between work and the rest of life slippery is the big important takeaway here, but also, lol, lmao, i simply love to read about the gamer's grotesque urge.

had a dream where i explained to someone in extreme detail exactly how the extremely overengineered City of Villains community's Mastermind keybinds work. a.) Why do I still know that and b.) why am I dreaming about it

they pissed off the WeRateDogs guy enough from him to break character to directly tell them off, that's genuinely impressive levels of being an asshole

I’m glad to see people protesting Discord forcing IDs for age verification, but what I need everyone to understand is that there’s immense bipartisan pressure to make the entire internet like this, and they are likely going to succeed unless something drastic happens

[Geralt voice] Wind's howling...

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

Clark time

I said this before but Americans simply can not comprehend how much wealth there is. We constantly under project how much tax revenue we will raise from taxing the wealthy. The original estimate was $50 million.

Crowd reaction to Prop 1A raising $115 million in it's first year, more than double the initial estimate! @houseourneighbors.bsky.social

really worried about conspiratorial thinking being a self-reinforcing positive feedback loop. "A machine that gives people apophenia" is what a lot of the Internet looks like right now, because of entirely *reasonable* low social trust and anger at elite impunity

I honestly thought we'd be like 90% on average after launch, as we sold more and more outside the core market, but 🤷‍♂️

they should invent a day with 39 more minutes but also a habitable atmosphere on the same planet as my friends

where did all the minutes go

sorry i missed the virtual meeting on discord, liz. i got hit with the id verification that happens when the app detects youre young

My dog doesn't love his food so I'm doing a new bit where I try to hype it up like "Let's see what's on the menu today!! Oh! What do we have here! It's pellets!!" He hates it

extremely Video Games sentence:

can hear some frogs in the creek today 💜

The morning so far

Please support my fellow South Africans and citizens of other African countries who made this.

Our company is pivoting to a chalice that makes you immortal

this looks slick as hell

had a dream about... going on a quest to get index cards? guess i should buy some index cards...

hey folks, a client that owes me quite a bit of money has been very slow in paying me, so I'm gonna struggle a bit over the next couple months. if you've got any short-term editing work, or want to buy one of mine and @llewellynrose.bsky.social's comics, it'd be a big help. ko-fi.com/s/71c6cf0fd1

medieval peasants: what grand works do ye bring of the future, lady me, holding up phone: so it’s a soulslike extraction friendslop with twitch integration and collector elements peasant: and doth it bring joy ? me: oh definitely, for like 4 hours yeah

have to be up in six hours for work but can't sleep, cool

this rocks

always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay

Is this anything?

the Hello Kitty(tm) Tactical Nuclear Deployment System

Another classic post-Homan day where around school dismissal time we get a flurry of ICE vehicles all across our neighborhoods. Today one vehicle led an observer to their own home and pointed at it. This is a sick game to them, but we won’t be intimidated and we won’t stop until DHS is abolished.

BLUESKY COME BACK

I've waited a long time to be able to say this, but we're hiring a full-time Film Critic for @avclub.com! Details are in the job listing, but you should send application materials to [email protected] www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

mercy demonschool! (+pocket the dog, my beloved 🧡)

me in hell

dnd item idea, definitely not inspired by my own various lingering resentments: an axe that grinds salt out of everything it hits

oh damn okay, now i can quarantine my spicy takes properly

condolences to the 2xko team 😔 Layoffs immediately post-launch are not what you ever want to see. www.gamedeveloper.com/business/rio... I will say, props to Riot for doing 6 months' severance. That's decent of them.

shoutout to @amazingthew.bsky.social for the actual answer to discord adult verification

didn't actually finish my Stellaris game today but did kind of get it to the point where my victory is a foregone conclusion. We'll see if I actually see it through lol. Robots have been a really fun playthrough though, very different strategic context from my usual Human playthroughs.

i see what you did there

This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.

I'm not sure how I want to close this game out. I have one more Tradition to pick, two more Ascension Perks. I could pick Defender of the Galaxy and maybe beat The Crisis™ when it appears... but I could also Become The Crisis in a couple interesting ways. I've never done that before.

The Sermon on the Mount, by Beryl Lewis, before 1965, 📸 by @ScottStrazzante

accidentally created a Great Khan to unite the feuding warlords as I was trying to eliminate them. Fortunately it's as far from me as it could possibly be lol

"prohibition in the united states" has this time lapse map that switches from folksy banjo music to ominous industrial sci-fi for the 15 seconds when alcohol was illegal nationwide

Every Super Bowl ad is for the door in the forest. It’s annoying. “You must walk through the door.” Yeah thanks, I know that already. I dream of the door every night

made something out of idle curiosity so I figured I'd share it. Here's a breakdown of the top 500-selling Survival Crafting games on Steam since Jan 1, 2021 (per @gamediscoverco.bsky.social data), and how their place in that list of sales stacks up against Day of the Week they released.

the main thing I have to say about this game so far is that "Sam Darnold" sounds like it came from this list

my memory is funny. "exact workings of a game mechanic you encountered when you were 11 years old" - ✅. "a single letter in the name of your good friend's wife" - ❓