The doomsayer in me is constantly thinking about how this just incentivizes them to monetize the rot and rent seek home computing by moving everything from hardware you own to cloud-based virtual machines you subscribe to.

“Gamers rise up” now a coherent political philosophy

Legion: the difference between our ideologies is not that one is right and one is wrong, they have each performed calculations on the same data and achieved two different but equally correct results Shepard: no the other geth are wrong Legion: you’re right! Thanks for the correction.

How long has it been since we had a Castlevania where you could use your whip as a grappling hook? youtu.be/3k9Yy-o6tpo?...

Watching The Studio. Bryan Cranston’s ability to go from Hal Malcom in the Middle to Walter White at the drop of a hat is a fkn magic trick.

If I got to choose where they spent this kind of money, Soma Cruz would be Tumblr’s favorite pretty boy rn and ao3 would be nothing but X x Zero

Took a break from Fellowship for a few weeks but finally forced myself through the Tom Bombadill stuff These are the types of chapters your publisher only lets you get away with if you wrote The Hobbit

Beat Code Bunny! Both characters. Feel like it hits at a lot of the same themes I was trying to do with my thesis game back at NYU. Makes systems mastery into a thematic statement. Super gay. Clearly made by Mega Man and Sonic sickos. Studio is a bunch of Brazilian DBZ fans. Hell yeah, my dude.

Me watching a horror movie: See, what I would do in that situation is simply give the monster a swirly and slash its tires. Me playing a horror game: Look, a heavily telegraphed and very slow moving enemy with a big red weak point. If only I could aim at it through my tears!

Battle of Gods again has gotta be a recession indicator But also DBO 2 so I’m gud

Toyotaro getting Dragon Ball has the same vibes as Filoni getting Star Wars. No, I will not explain.

Legendary YouTube refresh pull today. TIL Mega Man 11 is actually a schmoovement platformer. youtu.be/_0PnXqQDGcY?...

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

Giving Battle Network another try. Pretty clever battle system but they made Proto Man, the least cop-y guy in a series full of cops, a cop.

Watched Merry Little Batman on the plane ride home. Damian is practically a new character (which is fine), but Bruce as an overprotective dad essentially childproofing Gotham is the most in-character thing I’ve ever seen.

The more I learn about Alan Scott, the gay train nerd from the ‘40s who has special magic fire powers and plays by his own rules, the more I think he might in fact be the best Green Lantern

Interesting start to 2026 that I’ve been relatively unable to browse for this first week, but whenever I do, there’s a fresh new horror to think about until the next time I get data

Been at CES all week focusing on ✨gaming✨. I worked with @jackiecobra.bsky.social from IGN and @offbrandchance.bsky.social from Mashable to select the nominees for the best gaming tech at CES 2026. Stay tuned for the winner! www.cnet.com/best-of-ces-...

Rewatching the latest Folding Ideas today, for no reason in particular youtu.be/eKPM7cZORTE?...

This is the sort of thing you do in a B grade buggy grand strategy game when you get bored

Happy New Year! 2025 was a rough one, but surely 2026 will be better! Now to take a big sip of coffee and check the news…

sliwa correctly understanding that mamdani ran a very traditional campaign and thus surpassing the analytical ability of 80% if people who comment on politics for a living

part of the genius of his major campaign ideas is that they can be deployed fairly quickly as tangible deliverables. they can help him build trust with voters as someone who does what he says he will do. and trust goes a long way!

Couldn’t have picked a better day to be flying back into New York City

The in-laws watch CBS news every night. Watched a few broadcasts with them and all of my imposter syndrome about calling myself a journalist instantly evaporated.

Here’s a “I didn’t play for a week and now the Christmas event stuff started and every recurring revenue system reset requiring a new pop up” version that is somehow twice as long

Finally watched the new Beatbreak, that digivolution scene is up there with the Angewomon or Kizuna digivolutions. The power of friendship has come a long way to get to “growing up because your accidental teenage dad finally accepted you.”

Played Candy Land with the nephews over break and found out that they removed this fucker from the new editions (due to woke?)

Do you think Vince named her Carol because he knew I’d be watching the Pluribus finale on Christmas?

“Who has worse vibes, Carol Sturka or Jake Sully?” - my husband, after finishing Pluribus S1

Beat the family twice at a board game I don’t even like 💪

I’m from Whoville, and I say kill the Grinch!

Damn Bilbo, read them to filth

Final week to enable Bluetooth mode on a Stadia controller buff.ly/MGHqBIs unofficial backup in case they don't extend it again and you're late: buff.ly/sRoUywK

If you’re cold, they’re cold

That is NOT dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even Tim may die

GM.

MRS. KLAUS: [over coms] You should be coming up on the North American continent in 20 clicks. SANTA: Heh, time to get my coal ready. MRS. KLAUS: Focus, S.

PRESENT DAY PRESENT...TIME!

Avatar 3 was still way wetter than I expected. James Cameron might be the reason we still have water levels.

This is a wonderful summation of the beauty and value of human made art ❤️

I can’t believe I didn’t get spoiled on Conclave until watching it with the family tonight

What do y’all think the lyrics to Jingle Bells are in the Uma Musume universe?

Watched Eternity for my birthday yesterday. Love me a good afterlife bureaucracy. Great rom-com, but also there’s still so much untapped gag potential with the setting. I’ll need a 6-season workplace comedy about the people who work in the waiting area on my desk by next fall, thank you.

Multiple social media users noticed on Monday that the 60 Minutes episode was available via the Global TV app. To view the episode, viewers need to connect to the app from a Canadian IP address. People then uploaded copies of the episode to a variety of file sharing sites and services.

I think Mr. Beast’s final form might actually just be Hunger Games Werner Herzog

I feel like I'm going to get a lot of use out of this Pluribus screencap

Waited to watch Knives Out 3 so I could see it with the family over break. We gotta let this guy do Star Wars again.

Moved on from The Hobbit to LOTR (I’ll admit I’ve only seen the films). In the prologue, Tolkien explains the retcons to Riddles in the Dark as Bilbo being a liar and suffering from ring corruption when he wrote his memoirs. Lmao gottem!