if valve said “hey, you know what, we’re moving to 20% across the board” it would 1) still be too high, 2) buy them massive good will and ensure another decade of Steam hegemony, and 3) not particularly affect profitability

multiple things can be true at once: 1) there shouldn't be billionaires 2) since there ARE, it's interesting to see one spending money on being an ocean nerd in the name of science, instead of feeding us to machines and destroying democracy 3) valve's 30% cut of steam sales is too high

oh no what a terrible and completely unforeseeable thing to happen to one of the leading intellectual lights of her generation

when are they going to make a Gunpla kit of the juice robot

And how did I deal with the problem of one of the sources being in Greek (which I don't speak) and the other in Sanskrit (of which my knowledge is only moderate)? Colleagues and other experts. That's how. I asked other experts.

I can't believe how quickly all these people became terminally AI-brained to the point that the concept of being forced to do their own research with their own brain feels like punishment

Last night I had a dream that dril was running for LA city council and I got lectured by a gang of twitter people who moved to LA to make it as podcasters for calling him wint because “he’s a nice guy trying to make the world better, stop being a piece of shit” but I kept calling him wint defiantly

Hacked This Runners Brain and Exposed To Them The Truth:

getting carbombed after a palantir thinktank pays me $125 to pretend to be a Gay Looking Ethical Non Monogamist who is glad alcatraz closed

cannot recommend this enough, genuinely one of the tightest designed games with a gorgeous art style, fun character writing, legitimately the rare game where i actually threw myself at hard sections as much as i could to beat. and also. canon girlypop instathot outfits

i know what they're asking but it does seem like a question out of a cosmic horror story

hey nice weekend you’ve got there, be a real shame if it was a great one

the median dem primary voter who bought into "BERNIE IS TOO EXTREME" in 2020 is ready for show trials and public executions. But just as important is that the typical squishy swing voter isn't an entity locked in amber. They'll start reacting too

Breaking: Tennessee Republicans pass new 9-0 gerrymander after SCOTUS destruction of Voting Rights Act eliminating state’s only majority-Black district & last Democratic seat. Splits Memphis, which is 63% Black, into 3 districts to disenfranchise Black voters. Quite literally a return to Jim Crow

they called me mad for starting a 6 hour critique vid on signalis after watching a 7 hour critique vid on signalis last week but (a) i like both of these youtubers, (b) signalis is dense, warrants this much material and (c) they've both pointed out things the other missed in the first five minutes

at last

lol this is technically a spoiler for signalis

And Josh Shapiro and Corey Booker are both very good! One is a governor and the other is a senator. But they have also maxed out how far that can take them because they think running for national office means knifing the left. Obama knew better! He lied to the left.

I see some people online who seem to really want Obama "to speak up more" etc... but my point is and has been that he's deeply OUT OF TOUCH. Which Democratic electeds are "talking to people like a college seminar?" Name names. His comments are just another complaint about "the groups." Sad!

This is the perfect endless debate because every failure can be blamed on it, every success can be attributed to a lack of it, and no one knows what the fuck anyone actually means when they say it, which ironically is the thing it’s supposed to be arguing against

This statement is meant to be left-punching, but notice that the most popular left-wing candidates (Bernie, Mamdani, AOC) are superb at plain-spokenness, and it is the moderate wing that usually offers language that has been optimized and focus-grouped to death

i don't remember writing this down (alt text cont: these are all the methods of control he is finally shaking off, ending with iwazaru, the voice of kun lan directly in his ear, which gives him the context of what he's doing)

you clearly did not understand sekiro, you must've missed dialogue from this off-the-beaten-path character that can only be experienced between two events that happen near-sequentially, when it would be counterintuitive to think of visiting them. Trust me, what they say recontextualizes everything!!

may the fourth be with you! haha that's a joke, i'm not a fan of star wars, i'm interested in the hollow consumerist mimicry of religious holidays hierophanies in the calendar can't exist when "time is money," unless those hierophanies also further capitalist realism

thinking of developing ai psychosis

the gabriella paiella tweet burned into my mind is, "my greatest shame as a writer, and a woman, is that i can never spell 'diarrhea' right first try"

the lady who does tech/admin support for our church is big into linux, and when i asked "so.. i was thinking about. for our family computer. i was wondering if you had any linux recommendations.." i could see her charging up with raw thrilled power like she just spent a behelit

the final insult of AI is going to be forcing us all to become linux guys. we're all going to be like oh yeah downloading stuff on linux is super easy you just juice the tarball and compile the pulp in the sudo command line. not like windows where you have to click on things

so is this site just completely unusable on desktop now or what

remembering back in the first year or so of the biden admin, calls to pack the court being tsk'd-tsk'd as unserious policy (not by this OP specifically, in general)

TED LASSO: *on his second week leading the north korean missile program* now what all y’all “nuke-u-lar” physicists forgot to ask yourself is: ”did this so-called idiot American spend his childhood knowing Planck’s Constant?” ROOM: *gasps in unison*

choosing to believe this is bc he, in his wisdom, wants to spare us from president jd cuz i hope you remember it's insane fascists all the way down that succession

I get this a lot as a clam man. I used to get mad, but these days I feel pity for people with this mindset

did a mockingbird write this

the alt text scold cracks their knuckles, readying their stock reply. They take a gander at the pic and begin sobbing. "they should've sent a poet"

grandmas across the country across the political spectrum are saying shit like "damn, missed him again" on their full government name facebook pages, but world leaders are rushing to offer fake apologetics, embarassing

Western (and USian) discourse about violence is always, always, always circumscribed by an unsaid agreement about what the "acceptable" and "normal" bounds of violence are. Journalists dying in Gaza is normalized; a journalist being shot at the Hilton would be a hard break with preceding reality.

Regular Americans got desensitized to gun violence 15 years ago, all this does is tell us how in the elite you are. Welcome to our world, it doesn't revolve around you.

For your weekend enjoyment, here's a beautiful, expansive new view of the Sombrero Galaxy, courtesy of the 570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera on the Blanco Telescope in Chile. The galaxy's dark "brim" is a ring of dust and cold gas encircling a vast ball of stars. 🧪🔭 noirlab.edu/public/news/...

Post a horse from any game as a reply and I'll tell you my opinion about it as a professional horse game consultant and certified video game horse expert also repost this so much that I'll regret posting it, I need an excuse not to do any other work today

"oh i can't play from software games, they make them too hard" me playing fromsoft games:

she is so beautiful #art