okay badempanada's trolling has become too unhinged on bluesky for me to follow in good conscience, the libs can have this one win

decades on it's still the most evocative world. maybe not visually but like in your mind and thinking about the lore? 100% would rather think about dagoth ur x nerevar doomed yuri than the stormcloaks vs. imperials any day of the week

The cool Morrowind youtuber is trans the cool Morrowind youtuber is trans 😌

actually, I can also add brass bands, wish I'd gone to more of those, they are great for street performances

a major reason I missed a ton of rock/metal concerts, sorry I want to be able to hear bass tracks for most of my life

btw UK government might ban X The Everything App because Grok won't stop creating CSAM so please brace yourself for an influx of British people here

studio notes by Sid Sheinberg, CEO of Universal Pictures, recommending that Back to the Future should be renamed to "Space Man from Pluto"

I like that the entire plot of the Back to the Future trilogy is based on a series of stupid mistakes that could have been easily avoided just rewatched the second movie on TV and it's a fun time also - thank God there still hasn't been a shitty sequel to ruin the experience for everyone

they can sell it better if we collectively start to pretend that it's a technology regularly used since the 90s procedural generation was actually AI, Arena/Daggerfall was made with AI roguelikes use AI FPS bots were AI

idea for a sci-fi challenge run [or a Star Trek film]: Q sends you back in time to the year 1600 and you are tasked with defending the validity of the Copernican hypothesis to the dissenting astronomers of the age. You have 10 years to make a significant splash. Good luck, Mon Capitaine!

Bastion continues to be a lot of fun, I see why Supergiant is a respected indie studio they were cooking from the get-go

- The Beginnings of Western Science, David C. Lindberg

thinking about it, my patience with non-fiction books is proportional to how recently they were published - I will have very little understanding if the author makes some egregious error in judgment if it could have been checked with just Wikipedia but I will have much more grace with older books

skimming through this book makes me wonder anew how major scientists can be ignorant and dismissive of the history of science, yet arrogant enough to publish about it there are many worse examples than this one, to be fair, but still... guess it's my fault for trying this instead of e.g. Lindberg

honestly, when there's an ongoing comic with a trans superhero is when I'll actually care about it and check it out nothing much to get excited about when the character appears in a few issues for a limited series

I'm a cross between 'german neoplatonic mystic' and 'all are welcome Protestant'

My scheming vizier when I start to cough after taking a swig of wine from my goblet

🖥️ Bastion (2011) Awesome indie game with a Linux port, sign me up. I know I tried this a long time ago, but for reasons lost to memory, I didn't play much of it at all. It's got excellent style and music, so it would be a shame to miss out. Anyone who's played it surely remembers the narrator.

SKEETING FROM LINUX NOW

AI generated CSAM, now monetized

This is a nice guide to get some ideas icculus.org/~hamish/retr...

I wonder who actually follows those "chronological view order" lists for long-running franchises, it's pretty much always a terrible idea like imagine starting Star Trek with Enterprise, lmao

There is no excuse for this whatsoever. They should all be charged for csam

Jonathan Riley-Smith from his magisterial work: (The Crusades: A History, 4th Edition)

1/2 The basic issue with this film is obvious - it's a secular humanist portrayal of events that were anything but secular, so many characters are religious skeptics in a way that doesn't make any sense in the cultural context. The whole notion of the Christian Crusade resulted from---

really annoying, watched the first half of Kingdom of Heaven and then our TV had a breakdown

felt it was time to break my extended pause after watching TNG, so here we go with Deep Space Nine this is the 90s show I'm least familiar with, so pretty much everything will be new to me - I'm ready!

Bleak social film about the inhumanity of systems and local power-hungry assholes with fingers in too many pies. There's brief moments of levity and kindness, but still - nothing hits quite as hard as ex-yugoslav movies that portray the plights of the downtrodden. Of course, I'm somewhat biased.

Good thread and shows how this gesture can serve to flatten out the very religious diversity to which it purports to draw attention.

they're smart enough to play this for all it's worth, and have the benefit of being correct about it

I'm so disillusioned with social media queer darlings, they keep having the most dogshit political views for years now I don't know if i was ignorant before or they really did get more stupid and/or reactionary

My best idea for 2026:

It's gonna be so funny when we need to be outraged about China taking Taiwan after all this.

Why are there so many fragile white policy and research guys on social media? They get so mad when authoritatively stating something doesn't persuade people.

might be all over for me cuz I've been thinking Dwarf Fortress seems cool to get into these days

lol

the vanguard of Catholic online evangelism losing his brain in real time

there's all sorts of vinyl transfers to be found on the Internet Archive, but the CD remaster can be listened to in this playlist: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

a few days ago I found a massive torrent that contains all major recordings of Handel's Messiah since 1928. and I absolutely intend to nerd out over it it's fascinating to see the changes in orchestral interpretation Turns out it's also the oldest continuously performed piece of classical music

in a lot of ways, the late TNG interior design still looks like the ideal futuristic place to live they really nailed it for that show like yeah it's a technologically advanced future, but that doesn't mean you need to shove techy stuff absolutely everywhere, there's a bunch of comfy furniture

good review by Katie here

I'm voicing a protest against sci-fi movies where everyone lives in terribly designed houses with transparent glassy surfaces and glossy screens everywhere. I wouldn't want to live in those apartments!

Meh. Action scenes range from laughable to merely boring, and the plot is all kinds of messed up. The ending tries to send a bright message: "Determinism is false! You can change your future!", but I didn't need that reasoning to notice the entire setting is deeply dystopian and nobody has privacy.

Will the EU break with the US over Venezuela? Fuck no. Will it condemn invasion and regime change here? Fuck no. Will it condemn invasions elsewhere? Depends if it’s Israel. Will it keep preaching human rights, democracy, sovereignty, rule of law? Of course. Will anyone believe them? Fuck no.

People doling our nonsense about the "legitimacy" of the victim countries government is sickening. Whether we think their gov is legit or not makes little difference for the lives upended and destroyed by the chaos of war.