I secured a safe place in Brooklyn to drink despite the horrors. AMA my very real followers that are awake at 11pm on a Sunday

going to watch Superman on the plane

I've been spending too much money to make myself look and feel good so it's about to be the most crock pot stew January you've ever seen

Including children's books

The new preface to this great and depressing scholarly book gets into the explosion of sports betting and “prediction markets” since 2012’s 1st edition, plus well-meaning games-for-change types trying to harness dark patterns for good. Everyone within 30 feet of gamedev should read it.

Ozymandias II - Richard Bensam https://macthemes.garden/themes/e13d943d8502-Ozymandias-II

roguelite deckbuilder is a beautiful name for a baby

Christmas Decoration - Waynne Warren https://macthemes.garden/themes/7a96dae6efbd-Christmas-Decoration

it has never been more Chris's moment

One final report from me before the holiday – I spoke with disabled players who noted this year's Game Awards caused seizure-like symptoms and migraines. Some reveals like Divinity caused approximately four hours of pain. Read more here: accessgranted.ghost.io/live-perform...

Wow!

Kat Tenbarge is simply the best to ever do it

the guy that's been doing the Honey investigation on YT seems great and all but it's really grating to go to the comments and seeing random people go: "this is world class journalism" brother none of us know if he's verifying all of his sources, if he's done a legal review... I'd hope so! but!

I was offered archival snuff to inhale.

It is again time to post the real tree my dad put up in the late 80s

iCloud, Mega, and as a torrent. Archivists have uploaded the 60 Minutes episode Bari Weiss spiked.

Roblox CEO Dave Baszucki donated $2.5 million to Trump's White House ballroom project, per NYT

asking my mom to get me a power drill and wire stripper for christmas, what arc will I enter next

just found out my brother knows one of the members of boy throb from music school merry christmas everybody

Newbern Firehouse Newbern, AL

ramada inn, amarillo, texas, 1977

youtu.be/oZ94w7Jq4po shoutout boy throb best boy band

Reminding everyone for no particular reason that Section 230 is one of the last things standing between free speech online and Trump having control over everything you see and say on the internet

Last Thursday marked the six-month anniversary of the historic day on which forced broker fees officially became illegal in New York City. Six months in, we look at how the FARE Act has changed the city's rental market (and how many brokers have been punished).

Crying on the subway is overrated as fuck

computer graphics (1984) archive.org/details/popc...

as an environment reporter i think the bigger convo is re the energy use of ai vs its (comparatively minimal) water use, and how the data center buildout could not only increase emissions, but also open up cultural permissions for us to pursue more fossil fuel development in the name of the AI race

Can we take a second to appreciate how insane VHS recordings are? You're taking Radio Frequencies out of the sky, & copying them onto magnetic tape. They're snapshots of the EXACT moment a TV Tower was beaming signals into space. We should be treating them like Ice Core Samples.

shrimp boat restaurant sign, rosemead boulevard, temple city, california, 1991

daddy and his computer, story submitted to creative computing magazine (1974) archive.org/details/crea...

From: Frosty the Snowman (c. 1950), dir. Robert Cannon, UPA

larians recruitment process features prominently in this:

The reaction to this post makes the culture of this website make way more sense to me, as a lot of people seem to believe that they are doing very important political work by posting on here

if your support of me is conditional on rushing big life decisions instead of doing things on my own time while I am grieving then you are not my friend. unconditional love while I sort through the shit is vital for me right now. and I love the people that have understood and shown that to me.

drunk at arcade bar due to the horrors ama

ever since I met a guy bar hopping at my friend's birthday with the most detailed Google Maps of restaurants in NYC I've ever seen I've decided I also want to be that guy with the densely populated map with a good rec on hand at all times. happy to take more recs to add to the list