With the AWS outage, now‘s as good a time as any to post this old strip.

Seems like a lot of people have forgotten that ACAB is ACAB. Doesn’t matter if they post “friendly” things like this. Don’t give them an inch. They aren’t pro-protest. They aren’t on your side. They are the state. It’s the same reason cops shouldn’t be welcome at Pride events.

Absolutely sent this. One small adjustment to the template, these wouldn’t be concentrating power in the Executive Branch, since they aren’t giving the GG any new powers. I believe they meant “Cabinet”

I’ve been craving a Two if by Sea croissant for literally years

I keep seeing posts about the new Critical Role campaign. It looks amazing and super ambitious for AP, but I simply can’t with the episode length

I take strenuous exception to the idea that funding Canada Post is "bailing them out". Government shouldn't talk like that about a public service. Does the fire department need to break even?

so I'm about 7 hours into Silent Hill f and it is clunky, stiff to control, disorienting, claustrophobic, the combat is kinda ass, I never have enough items, and I'm constantly opening and closing the map like a fiend in other words it's a perfect silent hill game, they fuckin did it

This is it, but people are too gullible and mindless to realize it.

ATTN FELLOW CANADIANS: An actual MP has created a petition to stop financial discrimination against adult creators by payment processors. You have to confirm your email but thats because its something that can actually be shown to parliament.

Right on schedule

Oh, hey. Visa and Mastercard now say you can't pay for WoW. Magic the Gathering. FFXIV. DnD. Lord of the Rings. Because they're all "adult" content against their ToS just for being "fantasy". Let that sink in. Spread this like wildfire and have people in those circles call them. No quarter.

Having long hair Pros: • You have long hair Cons • You have long hair

Last night was one of the worst nights of sleep I’ve had in literally years. Hoping to get some alertness from the full-caffeine iced coffee I’m drinking. Even better if it doesn’t come with crazy anxiety spikes.

Nekonyancer Sketch:

"I became a full-time public bigot and for some reason people treated me differently after that" is the only article that anyone seems to want to write about these assholes.

Rolled credits on Sword of the Sea earlier today. Not at all shocked to have strong Journey and Abzû vibes in a traversal-centric game.

The amount of (let’s be honest, white and/or male) leftists and progressives that struggle with the fact that many people, even the well meaning “non-bigoted” types treat discussion of bigotry and oppression like a personal attack sure is impressive

The whole “feminism is antagonizing men and turning them into misogynists/rightwingers” take gives me the same energy as when people were insistent that BLM was making white people racist

Blast from the past courtesy of the Apple Music algorithm this morning. The Guitar Hero 2 recollections are strong

Fresh local fruit is one of the few good things about summer

Good god, this. This is so important, has been used to hurt so many trans kids, and dealing with this exact thing--where people skim scholarly articles and wildly misunderstand what they say--is a big reason why I do science articles on Stained Glass Woman.

Friendly reminder that the "25 year old minor" is also part of a larger propaganda push to deny abortion and birth control. It was also part of the same push to keep young people from voting. They don't believe in us having bodily autonomy. They don't believe in consent.

Soundtrack for putting supper on for a long simmer on a lazy Sunday afternoon

I think the "ttrpgs are too expensive now" crowd are wrong to point their finger at ttrpgs, as we can see in the quote, but I think it is fair to say "I'm struggling to afford things as a worker" because the difference in cost of living has nuked a lot of folks' discretionary spending budgets.

I’m listening to the first Distant Worlds album, and I’d honestly forgotten how PS1-era the tracklist skews. Literally more than half of the songs are from either Final Fantasy VII or VIII.

Given the way people are clamoring to replace their relationships with chatGPT, i gotta say that too few people have seen the classic government PSA "I Dated a Robot", and it shows.

Distant Worlds I and III on vinyl arrived today. I plan to eventually get the whole set, but damn if shipping from the US isn’t a bad idea right now.

I wish I could say this was in any way surprising.

1. First #ttrpg you ever played - MechWarrior 2e 2. First you ever ran - MechWarrior 2e 3. Played the most - Changeling: the Dreaming 4. Run the most - Changeling: the Dreaming 5. Favourite - Changeling: the Dreaming 6. Most recently played - D&D 5e 7. Most recently run - D&D 5e

This is absolutely ridiculous. You are running a fundraiser for THE TREVOR PROJECT and decide to make it Harry Potter focused? Absolutely disgusting. @humblebundle.com should be ashamed. You can't reclaim this brand. Fan works aren't exempt. It's all poisoned down to its core. Just vile work here.

corporations on july 1st:

ディアンドル👗ドイツの民族衣装でお祭りでたくさん見かけて可愛かったので(*^-^*)多分浴衣感覚

When CERB was a thing, tire sales went up. For the first time, working poor people were able to buy new tires instead of used. People spend the money, it lubricates the economy which *makes more money*. A basic income supplement IS THE FUTURE. Just get on board already.

POV you are about to witness someone suplex a train. #finalfantasyvi #finalfantasy

totally non-insane way to serve pasta

They finally made the milk from that hotel

when you open a service you've been using for a decade only to find it out it caught the virus

People wonder why AAA games suck now and honestly I think it has a lot more to do with the fact that game developers have no job security and everyone working at major studios are new hires out of college working on several year old projects because publishers keep laying off entire studios.

ok but seriously cancel your game pass. with the BDS boycott and the microsoft higher ups constantly bleeding their developers for the most miniscule of gains you'd be doing yourself a favor in the long run not giving those assholes your money. with every passing month they get all the more ghoulish

A fun fact about me: my caffeine tolerance is inversely proportional to my overall stress. Basically, with caffeine, I’m fine until I’m very much not. With all the everything happening in the world over the last few months, the distance from 0 to that line has gotten very short.

Interesting coincidence that my podcast queue featured back-to-back @jamieloftus.bsky.social guest appearances. Especially during the lead up to the Nathan’s famous hot dog eating contest

"Bluesky is dying" "Bluesky is an echo chamber" "Bluesky is full of hateful leftists who scolded me" Grow the fuck up and get a sexual crush on a weird cartoon or video game character like the rest of us and you'll get better results out of this place

I needed to read this today. Thought someone else might need it too.

People outside the games industry don't grasp that this is absolutely unheard of. Workers don't get royalties, and we definitely don't get performance bonuses. When we make a hit game we sometimes just get laid off

"i asked chatgpt" yeah well i went to the doctor, i went to the mountains, i looked to the children, i drank from the fountains there's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line and the less I seek my source for some definitive closer I am to fine

Obligatory I’m-a-Millennial food pic. Moroccan pita from Hopyard in Charlottetown