This video is the MOST comprehensive resource out there for anyone making a game with a PvP mode. i LOVED every second of it. MUST WATCH for those interested in game design/dev!

Project Zomboid players are dismayed because the exploit for 'battle milk' just got patched out. You mix 51% water with whiskey and milk. The whiskey combats the stress debuff, milk provides raw calories/weight maintenance and the water quotient is just enough to trigger the auto drink mechanic.

both elon trying to assassinate a whistleblower in 2018 and in 2019 trump trying to have the us ambassador of ukraine assassinated because she wouldn't help frame hunter biden feel like two stories that really did not get enough attention

ngl it is very funny how despite all the bleating from the american foreign policy establishment, the ukrainians realized that the correct negotiating strategy with russia is "kill more russians" www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/ukra...

My steam library has a single digit number of comfort games with 1k+ hours in em(+ few dozen new ones with 100+) and mountains of games with only double digit hours of gameplay. Its a SHAMEFUL Display honestly.

You see this all the time in RTS game discord servers. Everything is treated as a "balance problem" even if its actually a design "problem"/feature. If something has even a 1% higher/lower win rate than average its "problematic" and needs looking at instead of seeing the bigger game design picture.

the player is a rabid dog who can be trusted to do one thing and one thing only, which is ruin the experience for themselves however possible. many feature complaints in modern gaming come down to “why can’t i make this game more boring” which is why listening to the audience at face value is fatal

the current director of national intelligence is a guy who two years ago received a trophy declaring he “Fucks Only The Young” at an (oddly dildo focused) event he organized dedicated to the conspiracy that Bed Bath and Beyond never actually went bankrupt

“I will not be stopped. Not by you, or the YIMBYs, or the NUMTOTs, or anyone! I will rule this suburb or see it burnt to ashes around me. If you try to get in my way…”

no but seriously why did I make this

i am sure glad so many people are going so far out of their way to ensure this guy’s grossly overvalued space company gets to embed itself in everyone’s portfolio like a tick

In the darkest night for American liberalism, Tom Steyer went against his class interests, his generation and his era to work for the Mondale 1984 campaign. Absolute lion, I don't care what anyone else says, he's a real one

On the ballot: A California you can afford vs. a California for corporations.

Anti-bedtime DSA caucus notches a major win.

Someone should make a zombie movie where the zombies overrun the rural countrysides and suburbs while urban centers remain strong bulwarks against the zombie menace. Most zombie movies (intentionally or otherwise) end up being anti-urbanist propaganda!

happy pride everyone🙏😊

Instagram is tee vee. Bluesky is newspapers. Newspapers are blogs for billionaires.

i would say reading it was lifechanging but i sort of figured out most of it a few years ago and had no idea how i accidentally walked out of most of it at the time

sorry there's no nice way to say it but lifeimprovementschemes.substack.com/p/abandon-ho... is an important read imo even if you think it doesn't apply to you, because it's even a useful framing from the outside you may need to set aside a few hours when you read it if you're not super resilient

Industrial skeleton

Overcast

There are more pro-democracy institutions in the US, but most of them are run by people who refuse to advocate. By contrast, far-right civic leaders see themselves as agents of social/political change. You can see this in the totally imbalanced religious discussions of LGBTQ & reproductive rights .

Since vods have been out for a bit, I wanted to share my latest sprite work in a more viewable form for Of Gods and Kings. As usual, these are bashed from @retrogrademinis.bsky.social parts but a lot of extra work came in here to tidy up stuff, especially animating the spinning gun barrels.

Birds #aero #fighters #planes

🚨"We're not breaking the law, you are!" anti-ICE protester screams at NJ state police as officers fire flash bang grenades at unarmed protesters outside Delaney Hall ICE prison. WE'RE LIVE ⬇️

You: If minions were around for millions of years and work for the world’s most evil villain, why didn’t they serve [famous historical monster]? That’s because minions only work for people they consider evil. If they didn’t work for a villain, that means they think their ideology is good

An excellent piece here on Trump & Hegseth’s illegal, immoral, and ineffectual attacks on the “drug boats.” open.substack.com/pub/wonkette...

new Bluesky motto just dropped

This is seriously fucked. Like for starters they’re using commercial web analytics that are in no way in line with federal privacy disclosure requirements…

Like, idk man. We live in a system where if the presidential candidate with the most votes has too high a people to cow ratio in the places that voted for them, they lose anyway. It is what it is.

Me, trying to remember basic words day to day

I would like to see this sort of thing out of every Dem candidate for office it's not that hard to be a decent human being, it just isn't and I know the world is full of shitty assholes who will try to tear you down for it, but I really believe that it doesn't have to be a liability

This week I've been vindicated on this and several other things I was working on in 2017, and I don't particularly feel any satisfaction. Just sad.

The solution to bad *thing* is to avoid free *thing*. Here are the tools I use to stay sane online: 1) Kagi. I pay for my search engine. I can switch off AI, and there are no ads. It just... works, like search engines used to. 2) Feedly. RSS + newsletters + Reddit etc. RSS never went away!

A year ago I wondered aloud in a @neverpo.st editorial meeting if answering “Why can so many things play Doom?” would generate enough material for a segment. After talking to a bunch of people much cooler, and smarter than myself … I can say the answer is a resounding “yes”, and then some.

WWII was fun you had ALAMO scouts, Marauders, all kinds of weird new Army units popping up. We should bring back “weird new ad Hoc USASOC element” in each conflict

Past time to boycott. Johnson is right - the Times is *uniquely propagandistic* and harmful at scale in ways we’re all paying for now. Boycott is the bare minimum. citationsneeded.libsyn.com/news-brief-t...

Left 4 Dead's graffiti is so memorable because it was made by people—a whole lot of people aftermath.site/left-4-dead-gr...

Reddit is awesome.

Okay, bear with me for a second. Because I've held this theory for a long time. And I kinda feels like this confirms it. The death of Harambe was the tipping point of no return for the unserious right-wing turn of America. 🧵

> close all the safe injection sites > "we found needles somewhere" fearmongering thanks doug very cool

you're throwing it all away on something that's costing you more than the people who would've made your game something worthwhile ever did. and what are you getting for it?? fucking nothing because nobody wants fucking slop, dude

I hate my hitler government i hate my hitler government i hate the antichrist president i hate the antichrist president i hate the plague eugenicist hhs secretary i hate the plague eugenicist hhs secretary i hate the alcoholic rapist talk show pentagon i hate my alcoholic rapist talk show pentagon i

no regret brother

joyce messier really is such a fascinating character. the most accurate portrayal of a politically "centre-left" neoliberal type i have ever seen. prefigured the "bluesky liberal" honestly

Nyc.gov/summer is a map of free and affordable things to do this summer that we made just for you. Because public programs mean nothing if you don't know how to access them.