Thanks CD for featuring my Celeste piece! If you haven’t yet, check it out, as well as all the other awesome stuff in this week’s round-up

Similar to my post about "liberation means even for that annoying guy you hate" - weird art includes art you personally don't get, don't like, wouldn't spend money on, find unsettling. Games you wouldn't play. Books you wouldn't read. Decommercialise your preconceptions of what art deserves to exist

@dtjcomposer.bsky.social @homenekonomics.bsky.social the most haunting ume edit I’ve seen yet youtu.be/eO8NBToNMmM?...

Welcome to AI Chat! You're chatting with Yoshi With A Gun. You: Hello Yoshi With A Gun: *idly twirling Desert Eagle by trigger guard* Yoshi!

Kani Bucho, an office boss with an entire crab for a head, is the mascot for Yokobiki, a company that makes metal roller shutters for store windows.

Jungian @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social meme

Now two people have completed Tetrachroma's most challenging mode! Congratulations to WaterArko!

Just experienced my first scruff Moment. Why did we need this. Am I old and washed

COWBOY IN MULHOLLAND DRIVE: you’ll see me more one more time if you do good, twice if you do bad GUY WITH ADHD: okay, just… okay… it’s just that I worry I’ll, like, lose track of how many times I’ve seen you and that’s gonna be just, just *so* bad for my anxiety

Computer touchers, are you ready for a quiz that will hurt you jsdate.wtf

obviously i'm intimiately familiar with this bop but apparently i've never seen the cover before and i swear to god the title in this crazy ass font really looked like it said "grimace how" at first

Power BI this Power BI that why don’t you explain why you’re Power By Yourself

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

Sometimes a house just sucks! I'm Shirley Jackson and you're watching Hill House Haunters

the children are insatiable in their desire for fruit juice. if we don't stop them now, there'll be none left for us grownups

it’s a real shame that the obsession with “canon” and wikipedia-ification of fiction has people playing choice-based games like they’re a problem to be solved rather than a series of choices you have to stand by.

when I was defending itch I heard from a lot of - frankly to my shock - other queers who were like "it's a platform, platforms are the enemy" and until we're able to distinguish _as users_ the ways in which worker owned services aren't your enemy and deserve grace, we won't be seeing very many

the thing about asking for a worker owned anything on the web is that the pitch has to account for the fact that the website is going to - innately - be slower to add features, slower to respond to issues, have financial struggles, etc

not that we need to rehash this conversation but the way valnet and gamurs devoured decades of industry legacy then hired a bunch of cheap labor they made no attempt to train in the basic ethics and protocol of this job needs to be studied

Gamer joke! If you’re feeling tired in the morning, you can tell people “I’m still compiling my shaders” and point to your coffee mug!!! 🤣🤭🤣🤣

Looks like it’s going to be a bumper crop

The NOVA Usagi, a pink bunny with a beak, promotes the NOVA chain of English schools.

Humans should make critical hit sounds every time you score a direct shot with the bidet

Icchy, the mascot of Tokai TV, is neither a bear nor a dog, but is “a fairy that came from a flower garden.”

2010s: be sure to put some sort of dog interaction in your game for a Polygon writeup 2020s: be sure to put a perfect square of negative space in your HUD for Northernlion to nest in

"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that

It’s Bandcamp Friday so you could always buy the new Rochelle Jordan, which RIPS (Also, it would do less vague posting psychic damage to me) rochellejordan.bandcamp.com/album/throug...

Weird week to have my first name

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thanks to outgoing interns @exalclaw.bsky.social and @beewertheimer.com, who interviewed for a Paste internship and wound up launching a whole damn site with us. go hire them.

KOKO THE GORILLA: Koko birkin bag. Practical Koko possession bag RESEARCHER: No, Koko. You can’t have a Birkin bag. KOKO: Good Birkin good Koko give beautiful Koko deserve gorilla RESEARCHER: Koko, we simply can’t afford a Birkin bag. It is an unjustifiable expense. KOKO: jealousy professor

Zippers make a different noise when you zip them up vs zip them down

listen i might change my mind on this but i think maybe package managers are bad i have tried a few static site generators over the years and it's insane that you have to let npm download eighty dependencies to run a program that effectively turns text files into slightly different text files

happy acktober one and all.

lesbians should be allowed to time travel as much as they want. I trust them

you deserve a treat store.steampowered.com/app/1414020/...

Realized I could just post “good luck with the stressful computer touching today,” and address like 90% of my feed at once

Hell yeah

some exciting news: another book! announcing The Devil and Mrs Gooch, a fantasy in which our capricious friend The Devil falls head over hoof for dread entrepreneur Gwendolyn Gooch, and her latest diabolical scheme: the rented apartment. expect torrid results. releasing USA May 2026 from W.W. Norton

trails FC remake is essential because of the constant stream of agonized joshua faces that did not exist the same way in the original

"DK Island Swing" Donkey Kong Country (1994)

I read every Natalie article, but a candid Amanda Shires interview (!) driving around my college town (!!!) is an absolute treat.

these live action remakes are getting out of hand

society if linux nerds figured out how to make self-hosting a viable option for regular people who don't enjoy spending hours in config file hell

maybe a big fucking calzone will fix me. like a really big one.

Morning walk

incredible potential in this screenshot of a typo'd mazinger z subtitle

Here is the advice I wish I'd had about running a pretty big game jam on itch davemakes.com/extremelyspe...