"Cozy" and "wholesome" continue to be my personal bugbear but this shit exhibits why: because it's become an AESTHETIC instead of a PHILOSOPHY. The IDEA of "cozy games" is not, to me, troublesome. That makes sense to me. But the trappings of the movement are now divorced from the THINKING.

Silly pet peeve - gamers who complain about games "playing a powerpoint" just because the FPS dropped below 60. Come back when you've had to experience single/teen digit frames and we'll talk about powerpoint 😅

Welcome to Bluesky 💙🦋

Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

“Now Scientific American has updated and re-released what it calls the “classic graphic” that shows that a human on a bicycle—able to coast, or freewheel, without pedaling—remains the world’s most energy effecient traveler.” @carltonreid.com on the re-release of the iconic graph in @forbes.com.

Currently waxing nostalgic about one of the best forgotten 90s aesthetics, the Human-i-Tees shirts from school fundraisers

A new colossus, you say…

There is an actual life-changing conflict between WFH being cheaper and more efficient, an entire layer of middle managers who need to have meetings to feel alive, and the commercial real estate cabal that runs all cities. It’s going to get so fucking weird.

good luck kitty

You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't

maybe the *next** generation of republicans won’t be such batshit, bigoted garbage humans … ::reads article:: … …oh no, good god, never mind, throw the entire platform into the sea and put up one of those “this is not a place of honor” warning signs www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

This profile has haunted me ever since it came out.

Wow, wow, wow. This has always been legally possible but the law has virtually never been enforced — and now this is the SECOND case I've heard of in the last month (first involving a person with a green card) of a noncitizen being charged for failure to carry their papers.

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand: 'Unexpected playtest branch update'

"kill them with kindness" wrong. bat attack 🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇

a friend of mine in antifa told me that antifa's headquarters is SHEIN and if the company fell the whole network would fall

VIVA LA ANTIFA-Frog

Imagine having 15 bottoms whew

Never underestimate the power of the sea otter buff

BASEBALL!!!!!

"Oh yeah? You like baseball? What if I make you smoke *an entire pack* of baseball?"

two salmon runs? you know it is serious

The innings will continue until morale improves.

Tonight, we find out the terrible price of the witch’s spell. The Mariners can’t be eliminated… if the game never ends.

Y’all got me watching a baseball

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Farm bankruptcies are back in the news, so it's time to pull this chart out again. Hey look they kept rising during Trump's first term. Then they went way down under Biden. Now they're up again? So weird. Thanks Farm Bureau for the graphic

i am not saying the world has gone completely bonkers but the world has gone absolutely completely bonkers

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

The tank's role is to draw aggro

Urbana

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

NEW: Cops in Texas told 404 Media in May they used Flock to find a woman who self-administered an abortion out of concern for her safety. Documents now show police were conducting a “death investigation” and discussed whether they could charge her with a crime: www.404media.co/police-said-...

Silver lining — AI can't take your job if you don't have one.

One other machine is conscious and that is a PlayStation dev kit. They can smell fear, and laugh in the face of your goals. When I was in QA our PS troubleshooting docs ended with 'sacrifice a chicken' because if you got that far and nothing else had worked it was the last resort of the faithful

With farm bailouts back in the news, it's a great time to remind everyone that US Treasury Secretary Bessent owns thousands of acres of of soybean farms. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/u...

When your custom character appears in a cut scene

the quantity of wolves inside of you cannot accurately be described with an integer value. hope that helps

Some mornings you just gotta wake up and put on your most expensive perfume purely for the vibes

gamedev in 2025

If you’re in Illinois and you’re disturbed by the images that you’re seeing of the Illinois State Police in Broadview this morning, please call now. It will honestly take 30 seconds. I spoke to a real person. Here are the phone numbers: 312-814-2121 312-814-2122 217-782-6830 217-782-6831

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later. harpers.org/archive/1941...

RIP Jane Goodall, who has died at 91. She was a gentle disrupter who reshaped how we understand our place in nature. Her research with chimpanzees revolutionized science, and her boundless optimism touched the world. buff.ly/5Hwx3Z7 🌎🩺

it’s time 🧛

As we prepare for #thelifeofashowgirl❤️‍🔥 #ts12 let's take a minute to refresh ourselves on the mastermind that is Taylor Swift. COMPLETELY FREE TO READ, The Psychgeist of Pop Culture: Taylor Swift explores the psychology behind TS and her music. Learn more at www.psychgeistofpopculture.com

before and after hegseth's directive

You may not like it, but this is what peak game development looks like.