Speaking of green scum-smothered water.

RICK RUBIN on why Hollywood keeps making soulless movies: "So many big movies are just not good because they're being made by people trying to make something they think someone else is going to like. That's not how art works. That's commerce."

29 years ago, a small team at Capcom known as Dirty Beret were given the reigns for the 3rd entry in the Darkstalkers series to "reinvent what it means to be a monster." Vampire Savior is my favorite fighter, so let's explore this experimental masterpiece: youtu.be/bbl1856uGI0

Absolute bars here:

Clue and Snatch

If anyone talks about data centers in terms of economic development, show them this, but also ask them how many jobs are ongoing at the data centers. Because it’s not 200 jobs.

Another new blog post! This is a bit more in-depth. 10-15 minute read. I designed Destiny encounters for years but haven't ever talked much about what that actually means. So here you go! #GameDesign #Destiny

Best to ever do it

The war on metaphor is over and we lost. defector.com/promises-mad...

I find I am just generally pro-suffering for its own sake because 1. we deserve it, and 2. we aren't going to get real reforms unless people are genuinely terrified

Ebooks for @oldmoonquarterly.bsky.social 9 & 10 are available to backers, Conan; print & ebook versions for purchase should follow. I've been looking forward to 9 for a long time—not only because it has a story by me. (Elevator pitch: Merlin vs. Medea in the enchanted forest of Broceliande.) 1/x

One of my favorite pictures is this one by Whitey Schafer from 1940. It was created to break all of the Hays Code in just one frame.

Never expected Paul Walter Hauser to be so based. Dude really loves pro-wrestling.

Her feet are light and nimble. She never sleeps. She says that she will never die. She dances in light and in shadow and she is a great favorite. She never sleeps, the barbie. She is dancing, dancing. She says that she will never die.

THE JAPANEESE HAVE DISCOVERED TEXAS ROADHOUSE BREAD

My Art for HERCULES, PRINCE OF POWER for Magic: The Gathering | Marvel Super Heroes). #MTGxMarvel

i have been obsessed with this for years. allowing manufacturers to sell direct to consumers would be good for consumers and also destroying the car dealership would be an existential crisis for republicans

PS: Fuck ICE

THURSDAY THURSDAY THURSDAY! There's an all-new episode of Shujin Academy VGM Club, featuring music from the classic @ocremix.org albums devoted to Final Fantasy II, IV, V, and VI! Hear awesome remixes of classic songs! Thrill to awesome VGM arrangements! SUPLEX THE WHOLE TRAIN!

Frosting and quiche.

I think more romantic mecha anime should look at eureka 7

AFTER NEARLY THREE LONG YEARS, THE SINGLE BIGGEST CREATIVE PROJECT OF MY LIFE IS FINALLY COMPLETE!! THE NAMCO MUSEUM MUSEUM - EVERY COLLECTION, EVERY GAME, EVERY REGION, EVERY PORT RELEASES FRIDAY 6/26/26 @ NOON PST youtube.com/@MythicResonance

It's called the City of Hate for a reason.

Billionnaires buy all the media to keep Republicans in power so that they remain billionnaires. Democrats taxing billionnaires down to non-billionnaire status is the gentlest of the solutions. If not, we head to Jacquerie/Guillotine/St. Luigi territory. So, @democrats.org, get aggressive next admin.

On the one hand this is an asinine display of how degraded politics is and how much contempt the Texas GOP has for the average voter’s acuity that they think we’re all moronic jughooters who will forget how bad they are if they just yell out enough cultural signifiers

South of Midnight was the first time I saw my peers talk about the South as something beautiful and worth seeing. That game did something I didn't think was possible; it was a love letter to a region I believe we should fight for, and for once, my peers got to see the beauty and magic that I see.

The shit that the South of Midnight team had to go through to ship that game would make you puke if you knew about it, and for Microsoft to reward them for shipping not only any game but a really good, award-winning game, with a studio closure is… well, it's routine now, isn't it.

For those just discovering this post: Luis Roldán modeled Michael’s face off of her own, and the devil’s off of her husband’s, so it is exactly as kinky as it looks.

it is really important to be loud about this stuff because it's typically kept very quiet to enable people to go "See? Nothing happened, it was just people being dramatic"

random reminder that a goal of ultra rich people is to make people not want government regulators to be funded & for people to feel taxes are a waste, a trick they do to achieve that is by going out of their way to flood govt with corruption and waste it's subtle but if you look you'll see examples

A basic income program in central Iowa gave 110 people $500/mo. It caused improvements in savings, stress, and agency. It also found significant changes in scores relating to hope — the ability to create goals and feel capable of working toward them, and also increases in mattering and self-reliance

Become Ungovernable.

If all you do is engage with the exact sort of art you make, all you'll make is bad photocopies. A broad and diverse 'diet' of art will serve you very well. Plus, you need to go outside.

In the vein of not letting writing die in my own archives, I've posted a talk I gave at Montclair State University this spring on Chrisofascism and immigration discourse in the United States on Substack. If you ever wanted to see what my public talks are like. open.substack.com/pub/thomasle...

Okay, so I have a wild idea.

I sit on my hands for a year, not saying anything, and Francesco... he just interviews it out :)

Psst... Did you know that the UFO mythos 👽 AND tech-bro transhumanism 🤖 have their origins in something called 'spiritual eugenics'? Here's a mega-thread about this zeitgeisty topic. It gets very weird.

An image to help me figure out the feeling behind my "Ancestral" project. I have to chose between this and my knight story at some point! Also, I think I'm starting to get the hang of the CSP basics!

Hi all! I am Dave. I've been making comics and graphic novels for a while now and they've pretty much all flown under the radar. This is now a thread of my books for you to check out. I'd be thrilled if you snagged a book or two and/or shared this post. Rock and roll. 1/

artists, QRP with your 2 sides

“Scots discovering tailgating” could be a real Prometheus stealing fire moment

I've got a GOOD feeling about this.. Join the Resistance today! www.kickstarter.com/projects/meg...

"It's too hard to learn a new system!" If you are capable of reading at an eighth-grade level you should be able to read a new rulebook in a couple hours at most

One reason i think everyone should take an archaeology class is to internalise with tangible examples that there is no pure, natural past utopia and that antibiotics and vaccines are what stand between us and a 50% child mortality rate and scores of women dying needlessly during pregn and birth

Ossipago, Barbatus, and Famulimus.