i guess you need to be tall, white, and AAA to be considered in the “first real mom game” discourse 🤠

Not a great economy alert! Wall Street Bets users think Palantir spiked today because The Onion story titled “Palantir Acquires Pentagon for $800 Billion” hit their front page. They’re guessing trading bots indexed the top post on the subreddit reddit not understanding source.

australian bureaucracy can work miracles if there's sufficient motivation

Story, most of the time, exists as a scaffold for whatever the creatives making a work wish to express. If they want to work out some kind of fetish, all the more power to them.

why does cricket still do test matches. they should know whether or not it works by now

HONEY BEE CONTROL PAD

my kind of Jubilee, the Japanese national team vs. 100 kids

This needs to go into a textbook as the easy, cartoonish example of what a spin on a story is...

We made a game in which god is a teenage girl with generational trauma. - Relive her memories - Uncover a 1,000 year-old lie - Atone for the sin that will change the society of her clones forever 1000xRESIST is 40% off for the Steam Summer Sale! s.team/a/1675830/

In her latest fantastic piece @jesszam.bsky.social explores her personal experience with burnout and how Pokopia, of all things, helped her during that time. www.player2.net.au/2026/06/burn...

Turkey probably just sealed it. At least this game gas been more eventful that the Aus one apparently was

It has been about a month since 007 First Light landed and @hewso.bsky.social is now ready to talk about why the quiet moments in this Bond adventure are the most important. Spoiler Warning Folks. www.player2.net.au/2026/06/embr...

A little piece of my soul shrivels up every time I get a message laying out how another company plans to use personal data in ever encroaching ways for AI training. I got one of those emails recently from Google and blogged about it for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/how-to...

Watching BBC News and they just did 5 minutes with a doctor about how this heatwave is life threatening and the interviewer closed it with "well, it's just an opportunity to have ice cream for breakfast!!". Amazing clip of how the BBC seems just blissfully unaware of what is happening

Still struggling to believe that this guy is real and that this isn't some Getty stock photo of 'cartoonish villain'

Absolutely superb work by @skyelark.bsky.social: Hanson's massive non-English speaking figure includes 100,000 babies. Yes, really. thepoint.com.au/factchecks/2...

So far One Nation has promised to: -Freeze wages & cut conditions to help bosses. -End maternity/parent leave -Abolish qualified childcare -Force girls & women to give birth - Add $225 billion to defence spend -Repeal gun laws -Subsidise new coal & nuclear plants -Take Malcolm Roberts seriously.

Feel a bit bad for Dark Scrolls. It moved out of the way of Mina, only to have any coverage squashed by Steam Machine reviews. Which is a mite ironic, as I expect it's a pretty great fit for that platform

We need a shortcut expression for face-in-hands-but-also-lol

Slice N' Hook (PC, 1998)

Tapping the "states can't commit piracy only private actors can, not every bit of maritime violence and wrongdoing is piracy" sign. Would the US doing this be an internationally wrongful act? Yes! Would it be piracy? Fuck no! Stop it

Come again?

Seems like the kind of thing that you might want to take steps to prevent?

The latest P2 Pixelcast went live yesterday. Join @pretendbeard.bsky.social, @robcap.bsky.social and @hewso.bsky.social as they talk about the highs and lows of gaming's silly season. P.S. It's worth noting this was recorded before Xbox shit the bed. Timing huh! www.player2.net.au/podcast/the-...

This is an incredibly smart sentence.

I don’t think there’s enough of an outrage around the fact that the Iranian World Cup team is not allowed to stay in the US so they have to leave after every game and go to Mexico.

A yearly loss of about $38 billion? All moral and ethical considerations aside, this seems deeply unprofitable?

Posted at 1:56pm, got an email at 3:03pm from Jane Norman cancelling my membership of the press gallery

This is handy. Watch it in case Rinehart threatens to sue. #auspol

Well, that was a fucking ride.

Feels like this has been obvious for well over a decade, but better late than never?

Gitaroo Man is out tomorrow! A hidden gem of the character-story-music genre, the game that put iNiS on the map prior to Ouendan, Lips, etc. I was inspired to dig through my old files to find my first trip to the iNiS office all the way back in 2002. Look at all these young people!

Sometimes you've just gotta mess around with digital toy cars, y'know?

Shuttering Double Fine after all that studio has been through pretty much since inception would be a wildly fast-track path towards cartoon villain status

Wat?

Australia apparently went and won a soccer game it wasn't supposed to while I was caught up in the NBA finals, and im never going to see any footage of the two goals, am I?

Do we have to respect the NBA Cup now?

Hawks beat the Knicks twice. Trae Young is the biggest loser of this year's NBA playoffs

Me, making incredibly easy but correct predictions

That has to be some kind of record-level low scoring 1st quarter for the finals...

Because he’s a dentist doing an ad for Oral-B.

My 2025 GOTY is on sale for just $6. Even if RPGs aren't your thing. Even if horror isn't your thing. I HUGELY recommend it. It's funny, dark, smart and very human. It's hugely replayable and has so many secrets and little branches and random bits that you won't see everything on one playthrough.

Shinji, if you won't do it for your father or for Rei, then get in the robot because it is cool and looks like it would be really fun to drive around the city.

this might be the best headline i’ve ever read

Yeah this insane to me. People just playing a beloved game, going about their lives, and malicious actors go “we can use that to kill people”

Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes." After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc

Going to fall into conspiracy-pilled belief that Nintendo was going to show ten minutes of gameplay, but then the leak happened and changed to 'fuck you, logo and sleeping boy is all you get now'

As you can see, Xbox held their presentation on 6/7, while Nintendo is holding theirs on 6/9. This is due to their core company missives; Nintendo holds fast to traditional (and successful!) gamer values, whereas Xbox is a brand that constantly tries to remain relevant by latching onto trends

I have no dog in this fight. Injustbwantba long playoff series. But I kind of want SA to claw out from their 2-0 (now 2-1) hole just because the entirety of New York will blame Trump for this forever