“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

D&D tonight, which means I am excited to take a break from experiencing the unknown horrors of the real world (bad) to experience the unknown horrors of the fantasy world (good)

The game in which the premise is "the odds are real but gamers struggle to conceptualize or even believe them" has negative reviews from gamers who don't believe the odds are real (game: Unfair Flips)

i have never seen a more dead behind the eyes mf

Me and my partner finished watching every main line gundam show tonight. This is our agreed-upon tier list.

the Command & Conquer series is 30 years old today we so have an excuse to share this iconic moment with Tim Curry

Some big implications for journalism, too, where reporters often mistake trending posts as a reasonable reflection of public opinion.

Only 6 hours in but it's definitely looking like Trails In the Sky 1st Chapter will be my GOTY

🔥 STEWART: “This is the lie they tell you — that all this money flowing towards corporate interests is actually for YOUR benefit…. That government intervention for corporations is our ‘FREE MARKET’, but government intervention for workers is ‘SOCIALISM’.

Sam Altman expressed concern that the AI industry is in a bubble, while former Google CEO Eric Schmidt warned that a focus on AGI and superintelligence has been a distraction, urging that the U.S. treat AI more like China does.

You can have story. Or you can have data. Story is choices. Data is no choices, just more stuff, but presented with no weight, value or sense. Just more. We are watching the tyranny of the takeover of story - of choice, of taste, of craft, of meaning - by the data people. Horrible.

my PhD level experts keep saying "of course! thanks for correcting me on that one" whenever I point out an obvious lie two minutes of googling would show

very weird feeling to join a discord for people developing a private server for a (since shut down) game that you worked on

had a bear in my back yard once. absolutely adorable (we did not go outside for the next 2 days straight)

Really wasn't excited about MAX anymore. HBO MAX on the other hand... now you've piqued my interest.

Void crew is a tremendous game. one of the best co-op games I've ever played. And it's on sale as part of the steam summer sale! store.steampowered.com/app/1063420/...

With the awful news from the last couple hours, this post from the political optimism subreddit helped to break through a bit of the despair fog. Repubs know this is political suicide, ICE's support is crumbling despite the budget increase, and there's a myriad of ways to fight back. Keep strong.

First full box of Deathwatch complete. I'm certainly not the best painter in the world but I am proud of these boys.

Mamdani must explain his tweet from 1740 BC claiming that Ea-nāṣir had "high quality copper"

Looking at steam reviews for my game. Saw someone that left a negative review after 350 hours. Then they played for 400 more since they posted their review 20 days ago. That's a gamer.

Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

My top 25 games, no particular order. Thoughts? topsters.org

I’ve seen posts you wouldn’t believe.

Finished Andor season 2 -- quite good Rewatching rogue one -- CGI Peter Cushing looks like shit wow

Not since Frankenstein's monster has a creation tried so hard to destroy their creator.

The world's biggest losers are at it again

If you like "survivors-like" games, Conquest Dark is one of the best I've ever played. Incredible depth of mechanics.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has the most effective first 30 minutes I've ever played in an RPG

AI is generating an ocean of stuff nobody wrote and that nobody wants to read, just a continuous terrible slurry of zombie texts, standing in for real expression and thought

Never seen it framed this way by all recent elections Wild

Pretty much everything this guy does that isn’t currently a crime needs to become a crime

So fucking right

“How could someone with AUTISM appreciate BASEBALL?” - guy who apparently doesn’t know shit about either baseball or autism

Drinking chocolate milk at midnight while trying not to think about the state of the world 😎

It's fucked up that Gundam made a perfect character with Char and nobody in all of fiction has ever been able to be cooler than Char.

oh you mean like every other time they've tried this? everywhere else in the world?

Car broke down 30 minutes after i left the AAA office yesterday Called a tow truck this morning The tow truck broke down before it could get to me

Regimes have fallen for much less than this.

lmao

It’s happening. That cartoon is happening.

Loving this FTR face turn (because they're getting Adam Copeland off of my tv)

As protests gain momentum, it's important to recognize and call out COINTELPRO-style behavior Many people who engage in this type of behavior aren't feds. They probably mean well. They are also engaging in behaviors that are so good at disrupting movements that the FBI literally weaponized them

An immersive sim is any game where you can pick locks via a minigame

Not sure if the path of exile 2 subreddit or the stock market subreddit is melting down harder

Finished Trails Through Daybreak 2 this weekend. Still probably the most consistently excellent series in gaming.