How do I know bluesky isn't a dead platform? There's actually people posting about a broadband outage that's also affecting me, so I can confirm that it's not just me. That's progress 😏

We literally have tech companies saying they have a divine right to take what they can't afford from artists and writers, with endorsements from all kinds of political figures. So why the handwringing when someone without all that startup capital needs a loaf of bread?

When people complain that Starfield had loading screens and wasn’t a completely new engine it stops being a games literacy thing and more like “have you ever worked at a company” or “do you understand the basics of trade and industry”

GUESS WHO'S BACK BACK AGAIN DOC'S BACK TELL A FRIEND That's right. It's time for part 3 of the FPS series; this time, a lot of assorted thoughts on what makes for good enemy design. This one was fun as hell to write. docseuss.medium.com/building-a-b...

Cola Bottle Guy is, in fact, a Milkshake Duck.

You ever just get really angry about Jamie Oliver?

Hell yeah

Here's how we handle manchildren on the Steam forums at No More Robots:

I've spent the last year rapidly expanding my tastes in dance and other electronic music and, no, it's decidedly not boring.

this implies the existence of a Yaoi Gagarin

A top-tier bundle of excellent games from probably my favourite studio. So many of these have been a huge influence on how I think about games and story.

Yep! It makes me sad seeing others view Baby Steps as a "streamer rage-bait" game when.. that's not what it is. You can get frustrated playing it, but there's purpose there beyond that.

Youtube algorithm turned up the goods and I've kind of become a little bit obsessed with this actually good fusion of classical with drum & bass youtu.be/AZ7MN4WpZRI

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RIP Steam u were a real one 💋✌️

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a major problem is with people mistaking “it didn’t move me” with “it’s objectively not good and you suck for liking it”. You can absolutely be annoyed by something well made. you can also just understand some critics are great at rhetoric and that doesn’t mean what they say should be true for you

Saw a guy on an electric scooter holding multiple pizzas with one hand, like way up in the air just like the cartoon guy on the pizza box, only to completely eat shit and send pizza shrapnel everywhere. Swear to god one of those slices went straight up, 30 feet in the air.

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Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

Yep, it's digital Funko Pops. Merch for when you want a piece of merch to show that you like thing that merch is from. Artistic nuance will not survive that transition...

Wizards of the Coast is hosting a Twitch stream to support Trans Lifeline, a hotline and non-profit organization offering direct support to trans people in crisis – for the trans community, by the trans community. Tune in to twitch.tv/magic on Oct 4th at 10am PT to play games with us and support!

‘I know picture editors who use subtext and they are all cowards.’

What a needlessly cruel, greedy industry.

Newly minted evergreen meme

Please complete this consultation to confirm that, obviously, trans women are women and trans men are men etc etc. Otherwise it's just gonna be the tedious germ minority shouting louder than everyone else as per usual www.hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is

Oh yes, I put on this year's Halloween costume. Hello.

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

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"hee hee you didn't use alt text so I'm going to steal your joke and take credit" sure is.. an attitude.

meanwhile at the Riyadh Comedy Festival

"Oh I love that album!" Oh nice, which track? "All of them!"

"You can’t help anybody when you’re exhausted and keep posting one million college-educated rewordings of “I would love to be dead right now” on the computer."

Duke Nukem 3D, Jedi Knight, Atomic Bomberman Real answer. I played and loved all those games at the time.

Hot take maybe but watch out for people who are really combative online even if they seem smart and good. I feel like the most common factor for eventually having some kind of scandal or incident where everyone is like, wow but they seemed so good, is they regularly got into extended personal fights

I will admit when I'm wrong. If it turns out we have a new Civil War and it's totally fine and everyone loves it, I will make a follow-up video apologizing for my mistake: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMya...

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...

I get a sort of perverse enjoyment out of preemptively blocking exactly the kind of accounts that, if they ever found out, would spin out of control and assume I was everything they hate.

You know what? At least it's not another Lovecraft.

Arnalds and Richter on the list? I feel we could talk about music.

these kids aren't Alex Jones or Steve Bannon. the dude who fired at an ICE van and shot himself was not engaged in a cunning long term political gambit. The term "non-political" here means their motivation was not in furtherance of some sort of cohesive partisan project. they did it for the lulz.

Yep, this is exactly what I'd have expected. Great article from Ken.

Streamed Baby Steps yesterday. Spent 3 straight hours failing to climb a tower, didn't rage once. Game is good.

Seeing the media reaction to the paracetamol thing, I can't wait for the first day of the post-Trump era when they all slap their hands on their thighs, look around with that wide-eyed bemused smirk, and go "well what was THAT all about, eh? Eh?!" like they weren't eagerly feeding it to us every day

Just to shout out GreenManGaming who've saved me a fair chunk off a number of new game purchases in the last few years. Seeing Silent Hill F for £70 on Steam, when they've got it for £52, and as far as I've ever known they're legit and not a dodgy key reseller, so.. www.greenmangaming.com

Luv 2 be in the American Empire, me

I'm still open for commissions and gigs!✨