I officially have video game characters calling me old

You probably can’t personally stop the war in Iran today. Is there something you can do for your neighbors hiding from ice? For a trans person in Kansas? Any local aid orgs or rapid response networks? Phone banks? Anyone already doing good shit that just needs a hand?

I’m very upset, but I’ve got nothing of substance to contribute to the conversation on this platform. When you see me posting through it about random stuff, don’t confuse it for apathy.

I also deeply loathe how Iran treats women but this is like finding out your friend has an abusive father and deciding that the way to solve this is to let a pack of rabid wolverines loose in their house while they're all sleeping.

50 DKP minus-ass government

It was obvious then, and it's obvious now: There was no peace candidate. There hasn't been one of those in a very, very long time.

At this point I'm a full believer that the decor that launched with WoW player housing in Dec. was made to be kinda shitty on purpose so they could hold back all the best stuff for the expansion. It's such a humorously stark difference. The older vendor stuff looks like "We have Silvermoon at home"

Questing with Arator as a ret paladin: youtu.be/3Yd3lQVbkYc

take your pick we got: > Constantly taking selfies in front of local landmarks for the gram > Thinks he was in the "real line" and you formed a second, illegitimate line but will stay mad about it literally forever rather than say anything > Knows where to get some -really- weird romhacks

I physically can't -run- 10 miles. Not even with an inhaler. I can walk 10 miles easily. I've walked 20 miles in a day over rough terrain more than once. So if that's allowed, I got this easy. If I actually have to maintain a running pace, I will pass out first.

[42:45] Queer Romance VS Player Attraction (among other names

Trying to log in to WoW right when an expansion releases really is charlie brown with the football but at least I have the excuse that this for work

I know I have a severe case of Editor Brain but one of the really common communication failures that gets on my nerves a lot is not establishing context before you start talking about something. Like if you're starting a new discussion about a game I need to know what game you're talking about.

Is bluesky being weird for anyone else? Likes/Reposts just not going through?

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Seems like a good day to repost an editorial I wrote back in 2023.

Glad this got updated to reflect the recent stuff that's come out. This honestly needs to be taught in schools when all this is over. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0Sk...

Just realized as of this very month, I have now lived in Colorado longer as an adult than I did as a kid growing up here - 10 years, 5 months. There's something really strange about having those bookends with such a long gap in the middle.

Colorado borders Kansas. Here is a Colorado non-profit that helps trans people relocate, Trans Continental Pipeline. Please share. tcpipeline.org

Going into what will be my fourth WoW expansion review and it's still a mix of, "What did I get myself into?" and "This is my real job? This is real life?" At this point I kind of have it down to a process and set up a bunch of stuff that's going to make it easier. But it's still daunting.

I lived in Kansas for 12 years. It's about a four hour drive from where I am now to the state line. I know trans people who live there still. If it wasn't already clear that they want to criminalize our existence, deny us basic participation in society, I hope it is now. This is not a drill.

There can be other ways to wield power or threaten to wield power and cis allies in Kansas might want to think about what those might entail and talk about them in places that aren't online.

The way those rights become permanent is if the people who withdraw them can be punished for doing so -- ie, that you have a power base that will exist outside of the things that the government deigns to grant

If your human rights are contingent on asking the government nicely to do something good for you, and then the government agrees, you don't have human rights, you have a been lent something that can be withdrawn anytime the winds change.

ethan walking around a village full of insane zombie adjacent monsters going guys chris redfield just did the opening of kill bill to my wife. does anyone have any information on this

i just don’t think resident evil is ever gonna top beloved hero chris redfield drive bys and double taps your wife for woke reasons. for one beautiful moment they truly understood how stupid the series could be

I'll tag onto this that *being an editor* also makes you a better writer. I encourage writers to give it a shot.

I'm not surprised to hear Requiem is good. For my money Resident Evil has been an extremely reliable series for the last decade or so and even before that the highs were very high. Almost every game since RE7 has been at least great, including the remakes. RE3Re is the low point and still very good.

"Elden Ring is four years old" sounds like a completely fake statement. I remember when four years felt like a long ass time.

Sometimes it occurs to me that something someone said to me in a conversation maybe weeks ago was total bullshit, but I assumed they knew something I didn't, and it's like it just got flagged as "sus" and sat in the buffer until finally it clicked why it doesn't make any sense.

Normalize (IRL and in fiction) people who just don't want to be in a long-term cohabiting relationship. I'm not aro/ace, I have just decided this is a thing I don't enjoy and don't want to participate in it again. It is treated like a prerequisite for happiness and it just isn't.

Hollywood is the most successful hunter org of all time. Every creepypasta comes into being at full power when it's wholly shared in back channels by internet weirdos, prowling the data packets and lurking on your hard drive, and is slain when they make a movie about it with A-listers.

We also might be the only country in the world with enough space in existing detention facilities to hold them all if we offer immediate amnesty to everyone who's ever been incarcerated on nonviolent drug charges by our racist police system.

OKAY FINE I'll come back just this one more time, but this is your last chance home box office

30 years of Pokemon is also 30 years of RPGs for me, as it is for a lot of 90s kids. I can't say it's remained one of my Main Thing since because I do think I mostly grew out of the mainline and it didn't innovate in the right places to keep up. But it was the first time I cared about xp, stats, etc

I have a draft that just says "I'm going to kick your deoxyribonucleic ass" and I don't know where I was going with that but I guess if you ever get in a fight with a geneticist or something you can have that one

it's only in early access but a) Menace is excellent and b) the fandom is already first class

The Gary Moore/Nightwish version of Over The Hills and Far Away is probably right up there in the Top 10 songs that can be immensely be improved by making it about lesbians.

This week, @len.bsky.social and @jonbolds.bsky.social get tactical with some turn-based space marine (in the traditional sense) bug and terminator-hunting in Menace. www.idlethumbs.net/3ma/episodes...

coming in with a real neutron star of a take here but I am constantly vexed by the fact that so many people in pretty much every kind of position of authority we have in our society are just always lying and getting away with it consequence-free. it puts me right off of the whole shebang.

Now that EVO is owned by a government that’s diametrically opposed to the health and safety of the FGC’s queer competitors, we have a responsibility to choke the life out of the event. No tickets, no streaming views, no nothing. Make it lose all relevancy and legitimacy.

This is not a 'hear me out', man, this is what everyone who played this game was thinking.

I think AAA is just toast at the end of the day. I don't say that with any real joy because it means way more people will be out of a job, as part of an ongoing process that has already left many without jobs. When video games had huge teams and huge budgets is going to be past tense.

A man who has the tenacity to wear a Starcraft shirt onstage right after his company bought Blizzard and then did not give us a new Starcraft game during his tenure will not see the light of Heaven.

the immediate impact is one thing, but this is one of those weeks in the industry that's gonna ripple out over years, in ways we'll only learn about through reporting. so i guess i'm saying, now is a great time to support and read the work those reporters are doing, so they can chase it.

With everything happening this week, feels a good time to say. Now that I’m a freelance reporter I’m not constrained by, let’s say directives that I might have been before. My signal is in my bio if anyone ever wants to chat about a story - devs, workers, anyone. Always guarantee anonymity.

Kendall wants to go all-in on AI and ends up selling a bunch of his shares to a guy with a kickstarter to make a new Colecovision. Shiv thinks they really need to respond to the BDS allegations. Roman makes a VR porn game that keeps giving people siezures. Cousin Greg ends up as CEO of Sony.

I am sorry but this is still the core problem with trying to parse anything he says about tariffs.

I will sign my name on a giant declaration that says "Gen 3 did have too much water." I will sign it twice. I will have a wax seal made of my face to put on there.

Checks and balances still exist in the very specific context of protecting the stock market