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LMAO HOLY SHIT

for conservatives (and establishment dems), this is like when hitler was rejected by an art school

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discovered that this game low key rules during my brief, movie-adjacent sonic kick earlier this year

I also told Nicole if the patent gets rejected upon reexamination I will be popping champagne in our next interview so fingers crossed that comes to fruition

this is a big deal! i spoke to two lawyers about it. (thanks @haleyfax.bsky.social!!!!!)

jfc

www.videogameschronicle.com/news/square-... I imagined trying to get through bug reports written by an LLM and immediately got an honest to god headache. What do you mean I can’t even go back to the person who wrote it and ask for more details because there isn’t one, but it can still make shit up?

if archive.is dies, I will start the revolution here and now

the ADL always serves israel’s interests first and foremost, and it has a history of doing this with video game companies in particular (see also: twitch)

Any London based game devs out there, I think this would be an important demo to show up to if you can. The UK industry has to show Rockstar and Take Two higher ups that union busting will not be tolerated.

MrBeast hates Zohran because if people have access to basic necessities, it will demolish the Giving People Those Necessities As Part Of A Saw-Inspired Game Show industry

lol

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The full weight of western capitalism is about to laser focus on NYC. The robber barons failed to win and will panic. They will sabotage NYC because the system cannot allow Mamdani's term to be successful. They cannot allow people to believe things can be better. Your job now is to hold the line. 1/

ok fine, just a little more libbing out, as a treat

As a nice bonus joy for Mamdani winning, we also get the delight of knowing Cuomo lost

Zohran Mamdani polled +40% on men under 30. So we wasted all that time on all those think pieces about how we need a Joe Rogan for the left, when what we actually needed were *policies* for the left.

Mamdani going so hard for trans right and winning is some juicy proof that every dem that abandoned us didn’t do it for politically advantageous reasons. They did it because they’re transphobes and they will lose for it

The bad news is that *even in the current climate* liberals, capitalists, and mainstream media will form a united front with the fascists to oppose a center-left candidate. The good news is that they can be defeated.

Alright Dave Portnoy and Bill Ackman time to leave New York City and never return like you promised

if democrats are serious about winning they need to learn from tonight and convert to islam

I reiterate: aftermath dot site picks only winners

ZOHRAN MAMDANI CALLED AS THE NEXT MAYOR BY @hellgatenyc.com!!!!

(to the tune of Eleanor Rigby) 🎶socialist muslim🎶

it is once again cuomover

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It's uncanny how Cuomo has been laser-focused at appealing to the absolute worst qualities in people - their insularity, their tribalism, and now their fear. A campaign monumental in its cynicism, a colossal bet by this man and his billionaire backers that people are basically bad.

thank you for the outpouring of support! those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.

I love when rich assholes threaten to leave New York City or California or wherever like they haven’t figured out yet how much ordinary people hate them and how it’s actually hurting their cause

When I tell you I've been banging on this drum for nearly a decade.

watching the Mamdani campaign from afar during the primary, so many things were impressive, among them the incredible work his online video team was doing to spread the message in fun, creative, educational, invigorating ways that spoke to people this is my story about how they did it

they're right and they should say it

Thinking of this today 😌

A thing you're not seeing if you haven't checked Twitter in the last week is all the political betting markets (Polymarket, Kalshi) are actively caping for Cuomo and spreading Zohran conspiracies on there. Usually this would be a cause for some sort of regulatory oversight but that no longer exists.

i am so tired but also incredibly excited about whats coming to aftermath next week. we've been working on it for MONTHS, cant wait to show it all off.

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

Nor does it stand up to any basic economic sniff test. BY DEFINITION an acquired company cannot continue unchanged. Companies are acquired for ROI. Their valuation accounts for the current expected future growth. The whole point of an acquisition is thinking “we can do better”.

companies will say anything to get mergers approved! and how can current leadership guarantee anything when they're about to be under new leadership! it's always placative nonsense

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The short version: Despite layoffs, buying the game still puts money in the pockets of the developers who worked on it. Which is doubly important because they're out of a job. Boycotting the game in solidarity with them by screwing them out of money won't help anyone!

It’s not ever about the numbers—you can bring insane audience engagement, views, eyeballs to your verticals, shape the conversation in wonderful ways, win awards and on and on And they still will nuke your job and your entire desk in the name of capital consolidation and kissing the fucking ring

chat am I cooked www.vogue.com/article/teen...

I have finally found the 2025 mystery game I can passionately demand everyone play while enigmatically refusing to tell anyone anything that happens in it to avoid spoilers, driving you as mad as you all drove me

the purpose of a system is what it does

it’s a me

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