Two old-timers sitting on a porch in 2068: "You remember that guy? Now that was a Jomperson fight." "HELL of a Jomperson fight." "Right you are."

Hades 2 edition (later boss names obfuscated) Hecate - Bumpo's Palace Scylla - the gang Dog - Stomp Jomperson Grandpa - totally freakin out into Bumpo's Polyphemus - the most Stomp Jomperson guy of all time Eris - totally freakin out Birdman - Jomperson Rawr - interrupted my dinner

We're already looking at Thunderdome and there are still 3 months (2.5 maybe in terms of when ballots will be due at most sites) to go.

I think we can all agree that it would be very funny to see Pete Hegseth have a cartoon piano fall on his head and then sprout a comically large goose egg that goes up and rings a bell and wins him first prize at the carnival in a Looney Tunes-esque visual gag.

I don't often do this, because I don't like the taste it leaves in my mouth, but as a US Army veteran, 8 years, two deployments: they(republicans, not NCOs or Officers) want dumb fucking idiots who will kill when told to kill to join the military and this is the rhetoric that will fill those ranks

It's very, very funny to me that blueanon thought they were going to make the general staff swear an oath of loyalty to the dictator and it turned out to basically be

Every time I get an email that's like, "Hey Len! Will you review your recent transaction?"

“AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society, and our descendants will be digging it out for generations.”

The EA sale is bad news for everyone aftermath.site/the-ea-sale-is...

Yeah, Sims is the one it would hurt the most to lose. But hopefully they leave 4 in good technical shape at least so people can continue to play that. Hoping one of these Sims-likes turns out to actually be good.

"The deal is a huge bet that artificial intelligence can significantly cut EA’s operating costs, allowing the equity consortium to manage a large debt load on a company that historically carried limited net debt." Oh okay so they're dead dead. We're not just talking about BioWare like EA is dead.

Ya girl could use some help

Working on an article about EA's aquisition by Kushner / the Saudi PIF, and its potential impact on queer and disabled rep in future games. Particularly focused on the future of The Sims. Would love to chat to some queer Sims fans about their experiences and opinions. [email protected]

This is officially the most ridiculous build I've seen in Hades 2. Aspect of Thanatos V and stacking stuff that makes your normal attack faster just makes you into an absolute monster. Turned the final boss into absolute charcuterie.

Reiterating that Veilguard's hope for the world was a radical thing. I don't know what happens next, but given today's news, the things that game had to say feel even more important as a "final word" from BioWare when all the odds were stacked against them.

If you work at EA and want to talk privately about your feelings about the sale to Saudi Arabia you can reach me anonymously at [email protected] or via Signal/WhatsApp at +12673263042.

If BioWare gets added to the pile of Origin, Westwood, Bullfrog, Maxis, and Pandemic, it will really help cement that EAs most meaningful legacy might be shutting down some of the greatest and most foundationally important teams in game development history. That's like killing the Avengers.

A lot of people are (understandably) focused on the Saudi Arabia and Kushner part of this, but the far bigger immediate impact will come from the new private EA being on the hook for $20 billion in debt. That could mean mass layoffs, more aggressive monetization, and other big cost-cutting measures

My guy wants to work his way up to the actual Hunger Games by way of the boiling the frog strategy

THE MEME IS REAL

I haven't spent a ton of time with it but I'm pretty positive overall on the new @victoria.paradoxinteractive.com patch. Adding mechanics for the rise of nationalism is the kind of thing I definitely want to see more of. It's one of the most important revolutions in human social organization.

My [Not Applicable]-star review of A Minecraft Movie

Finished S1 of Severance on the flight back and that was such a tightly scripted finale, definitely wish I'd watched it sooner. I also watched the Minecraft movie since on a plane was the only context I was ever going to watch it and it was just too bland in every way to even form an opinion about

It seems like some people are just naturally prone to hero worship and I'm not sure what you do about that. I have a couple friends I will see bounce between this kind of hyperobsessive parasocial thing with some public figure or another and I I wish I knew how to talk to them about it.

This could be a whole article, but I've seen the take several times that Hades 2 is missing the family dynamics from the first. But I think a lot of queer femmes especially will see their experiences reflected by its found family of traumatized people struggling to be vulnerable with each other.

Hey friends, the end of the month is coming and me and Percy could use help with rent. My meds continue to not work right so I have been sludge for almost six months now and money's run out again Venmo: @RowanKaiser PayPal: paypal.me/rowankaiser CashApp: $arkaeyn

This is my favorite sentence of the year.

"Oops! You calibrated your level of weirdness on main to some former mutuals who have since fallen into professional disfavor. Would you like to start over with a new identity?"

Ultimately, we're all looking for the same thing: a horse who solves crimes

This is true! The Mercury and Apollo programs were famously so all-American they didn't have to import a single paperclip! Google "project paperclip" for more information.

The Saudis and Jared Kushner buying EA would be like someone saying "I can make her worse" about the worst person you know and somehow actually being right

Buyers: So your games... guns and football, yes? EA: Mmhmm, mmhmm, mostly guns and football, yep. Buyers: No gay stuff? No politics we're not going to like? EA: Haha, definitely not! Hey, could you give me one sec? I just need to shut down a studio real quick. kotaku.com/report-saudi...

Anyone who has messaged me on here, try to get me on discord. I'll be home in a day or so but the UK government wants me to upload a photo ID to read my DMs lmao

You can tell how out-of-pocket someone thinks they're being by the silliness of emoji they put after it. Someone who ends a line with 🤪 knows they probably didn't need to post that

Shout out to the people who constantly insist that I'm better than what I tell myself I am. Even if they're right less than half the time, that adds up.

This thread is full of people surprised I've never heard of Sha Na Na and I'm starting to be in the upper 50% for age at the events I attend now so thank you for making me feel young again, you Olds.

Does anyone have any good home remedies for treating the aching void inside the dark hearts of men

There are already multiple Palworld imitators with equally imitative creature designs and I'm just saying I'd probably wait to see how that pans out in court first. "Well they got away with it!" Chances are still good they will not.

I still can't really believe Nintendo had a CEO named Bowser, not the least of which because I have heard that name *exactly* twice in my life and the other one is the big angry turtle guy.

Victoria 3 (2022)

Finally watched the first half of the first season of Severance on the plane and it's about as good as anyone who praised it to me said it was. Excellent writing, cinematography, set design, use of music. If it has one most visible flaw it's that McKay doesn't have the dramatic chops to keep up.

I'm still really confused about why people with lots of money would continue to want to work with Jared Leto. Does he have dirt on people?

Boycotts work. This still isn't far enough but don't let anyone tell you boycotts don't work.

Love to see Silksong, Hades 2, and Ghost of Yotei all taking highly acclaimed games and giving them better, woman-led sequels in the same month.

London is such an uncanny city to visit if you're from the Anglosphere and I don't think it's just the common language. We don't have places north of the Rio Grande where medieval history and modern culture coexist side-by-side. Our medieval history is scattered all over the world.

If you're the type of neurospicy where you can't just let thoughts live in your head, it's actually good life advice to have a small discord server of weirdos where you can brain dump stuff that would otherwise just end up on main.

Sometimes you read an article that makes you feel like... idk... 15 years ago, some of us got on an express train and saw what was on the tracks ahead. And now we're on a call to the people on the slower train, now approaching, and they cannot comprehend the landscapes we describe as familiar.

7th grade, I found out about wealth inequality and I proposed the idea that every year on New Year's we should gather up all the money and give everyone an equal amount. Was told "that's called communism and it never works"