PETE HEGSETH: *drunkenly bashes through a door without fully unlatching it^ I’m thinking of getting rid of EVERYONE IN THIS ROOM who can’t explain their DIRECT CAPACITY as WARFIGHTERS EVERY ANALYST IN THE ROOM: *logs into the War Thunder forums*

The WBC was the perfect encapsulation of how the US is perceived on the world stage now. All the baseball players who are normal joined the team of the country their grandma emigrated from so all that was left for Team USA were a bunch of male stepford wives who kept talking about the troops

Remember when Richard banana was like "turns out you can just do things" like hours after the US shot it's own dick off again by attacking Iran

If you have a bit of a ghoulish side this may hearten you: even if the current villains all get their way, the psychotic evangelical death cultists hold the purse strings and will gleefully wipe out the blood and soil Zionists if that moment ever arrives

U.N. investigator Francesca Albanese is seen by her supporters as a rare and forceful voice piercing the cone of silence and indifference that has fallen over Gaza. This has earned her powerful enemies.

This is how we know how little munitions are left in the region

All very obvious and the DoD is filled with people who research this stuff for a living to warn of negative externalities of war but I guess they couldn’t handle the power of Pete Hegseth drunkenly barking “sounds gay” at them

Their trolling game is top tier

Ever since I was a little girl I knew I wanted to watch the yuan destroy the petrodollar

Oh word

starting to understand why this band is so hyped up live

pro: beef tongue is good. con: yet another secret meat for us ethnics will now be much more expensive

Jake Tapper accidentally saying "The lesser of two Israel's" might go down as my favorite Freudian slip ever.

danhausen and speed are legitimately delightful together in these segments

i would let stephanie mcmahon hit me with the "gracias!" smile no problem. she gets the pass

Yet watermelons and song lyrics are hate speech.

“While I will soon appear once more upon the earthly realm, My sole focus during this Second Coming will be various woodworking projects and not the establishment of a messianic kingdom,” said Christ, the Light of the World

Jake Tapper is auditioning for a prime time slot once Bari Weiss takes over CNN.

There he is 🫡

Investors looking at Fortnite and Animal Crossing as proxies for the entire game industry c2020

lollllllll

"Critics say"? No, that's literally what the law is and how it's being reported elsewhere.

we've lost so much good art to the cost of living.

I wish there was an equivalent of GOG that carried more versions of each game instead of (mostly) just the DOS ones. There are so many cool, unique ports out there. Even ones that are pretty familiar to Americans but not currently in digital distribution!

A truism in my life is people who talk about IQ a lot… are not very smart

God it’s so fucking funny that he deliberately tore up the military’s fairly efficient logistics, probably the primary reason why the US military was until recently so heavily feared, because he thought logistics were gay and fake

That's right

YouTube's "content moderation" is as shamelessly dogshit as it has EVER been. Content produced on the site cant SAY WORDS about sex, gambling or billionaire pedophiles so that they're "advertiser friendly" and then most of the ads are for sex and gambling that pay out to billionaire pedophiles

Stephen Miller allegedly urged Department of Homeland Security agents to “force confrontations” with protesters in Minneapolis in order to win a “PR battle." trib.al/NcbpdiX

“Shifting to longer term bets like robotics” lol so I guess they’re following Elon’s lead on this one. That’s the next big griff, shitty robots that of course don’t work as advertised. AIBO but it does Son of Sam stuff for real to its owners

As someone who lived most of their life in Mexico, I'd say that having a console cost equal/ more/double than the minimum monthly salary is not a rare occurrence for us, and is one of the reasons gaming is an expensive luxury pastime for many outside if the states

my thoughts as well. video games have had a symbiotic relationship with tech industry for decades. the cream of the latest tech would get bought up by game devs and game enthusiasts, who would then play around with it, prove it out, and help popularize it. this relationship seems to have evaporated.

I started working in video games in 2005. Got hired to do Sarbanes Oxley compliance reporting for Activision. Was as thrilling as it sounds. Have seen a lot happen since. Industry has never felt as dire as it does today. Not trying to be a downer, but holy hell, party people. It ain't great!

american gaming is about to get very Eastern European style in a minute here and I'm so ready. my childhood fully prepared me for this

cannot over-emphasize how if you like old games, linux is your OS. we get the best versions of all the top emulators and you can run old windows games with LESS screwing around than you have to do in windows. your old machine will thank you for being updated with a secure OS and not becoming ewaste

jay admitting to using LLMs in moderation is not surprising, I'm sure that's how every platform does it at this point. but still, it explains some things, especially some of the autobans that flag phrases that aren't even bad in context, and autohides where you click through and there's no reason

great article about the failure of the US media chomping at the bit and believing every single piece of bullshit said by CEOs and the billionaire class

most evil country on the planet somehow ratchets up the evil even more

TRUMP SAID SOMETHING!!! BUY BUY!!! *Trump finishes his sentence* SELL SELL SELL

operator: 911, please state the nature of your emergency me: there’s a site i go to a lot that isn’t the best way to follow breaking news operator: is it a news site me: not really operator: why don’t you go to a news site me: i don’t know operator: jesus. ok. how many ambulances do you want me: 75

I had a problem with videos on here getting stuck in full screen and freezing. It went away. Now I have a problem where they randomly don’t play sound and then glitch out after a few seconds and I have to restart the app to see them. I love using a vibecoded social media app

Kinda amusing that the person they’re being mean to is doing a better job of promoting the unique functionality of their product than the Bluesky staffer is

rahm emanuel discourse is just friendly reporters who can always call him for a quote vs. posters who remember him covering up a murder to win an election

Nobody likes this guy. The main thing he’s known for is how nobody likes him. He is irrelevant to this race and any other for the rest of his life. Anybody publishing serious stories about him being a serious candidate is doing so as a favor to someone

when people say dumb shit like this i do find a bit of joy in the fact that they'll never understand [gestures vaguely at everything]. they may even be rich or successful or whatever but they'll go their whole life just not understanding a lot of very basic concepts and that's kinda funny

I’m glad this dope had his Trek pitch turned down although I’m not sure why they did, they basically handed off the franchise to people who agree with him

Guys who talk like this make millions in tabletop games

Nixon: Charmy Bee…Charmy Bee Haldeman: yes we have evidence that Miss Bee is involved in subversive activities Nixon: Charmy Bee you say? …Latin features on her… Kissinger: *indistinct talking* -Cream the Rabbit *tape cuts out for 18 minutes* Nixon: the hell’s an echidna? Is that made up?