The man is more fundamentally interested in state control of the economy than any elected Dem lol www.theverge.com/news/764480/...

And then it's basically not mentioned until the Darkshore Warfront. I think Blizzard said at some point that Darkshore was meant to be 'the win' to make up for Teldrassil, but it's so not. Killing one Valkyr and scaring off Nathanos versus a near genocide. Vastly different scales.

Every time Blizzard has tried to "put the war back in Warcraft" it's been...bad. The burning of Teldrassil is still one of the weirdest ones. Genuinely I think it's some of the best meshing of game mechanics and story they've ever done. 5 minutes to save 1k elves? You fail, and it's brutal.

Not to get all “wow bad duh”, but the storytelling has always been dubious and characterisations have always been inconsistent. If anybody chooses to stay invested, they do it under duress.🤷‍♂️

BfA was a wasteland of potentially interesting stories squandered by utterly abysmal writing Setting up Saurfang as an old orc who’s tired of war and just wants to die but also, because he’s an old orc, believes the only good way to die is in war is cool! But then they just make him an “honourable”-

wishing they could find a median here between "we're basically friends" and "gotta grease the wheels of war with elf blood" give me inter-faction cattiness in each zone. "oh my god these fucking gnomes are here to STEM their way through every problem yet again"

Alliance players: "I will never forgive the Horde for slaughtering civilians in Astranaar and Brennadam!" Meanwhile Horde quests: Astranaar gave, and recommended, a nonlethal option, and Horde players never go anywhere near Brennadam.

Blizzard writing faction-asymmetrical stories while telling a story about war and genocide was like some sort of evil experiment on how to create the most unpleasant experience possible for the community of an MMO 😐

The weirdest part of Battle for Azeroth is that the Horde version of the Alliance islands is a snapshot of the Alliance story, but the Alliance version of the Horde islands is "and all the Horde leadership are all working with vampires just off screen from anything Horde players see or do."

We got all the hits: - purchased by private equity firm - hid a bunch of layoffs - invested a bunch of money in AI - tried to make that money back by ruining the best product it now owned

Organizers with students engaged in advancing Texas (SEAT) are suing Texas over the new App Store Accountability law that pushes age verification and now they’ve made a game that shows how school filtering is impacting content. The kids are alright ✨Check it out! www.access-denied.org

WOLF’S GATE- Lilith, daughter of the Moon, falls from the heavens and is unable to return. She must survive a hostile human world in a mortal body until she can reach her wolf siblings in the forest. -my work and story 2025

The good news: we seem to have health insurance for another year! The bad news: we just got blown back into the red after making it up to zero days ago. Those blind boxes and digital bundles are still waiting to be cleared out! All sales help! tessfowlerart.bigcartel.com

Is there any precedent in modern history for a mass shooting occurring in a public setting with 10+ casualties and the perpetrator not being apprehended? It's really hard to fathom.

Hey if you haven't yet and are in the proper mental/financial space to do so, have you considered learning how to maintain and use a firearm? It is your right as an American citizen and a very good skill to know :]

Have you read "The wizards guide to defensive baking"? I sincerely recommend it, starts off as a 'specials and poo people' trope but builds into a 'use what you have creatively to meet the situation' vibe that is heartwarming and also blood pumping.

i love when i see two characters with incredibly niche powers who are probably completely unrelated, and bread/cookie conjurer specifically is top tier

Brioche the Doughmancer 🫓

I’m unsure. Nick was telling me about some other things last night involving forks of browsers made by other people. There might be some new stuff popping up soon.

www.waterfox.com Fork of Firefox.

Games need to go to the same system as Hollywood where workers are hired by the project and the union provides health insurance.

Anything could happen here of course but will be pretty funny if his case gets thrown out then he immediately dies from getting his dick sucked 10,000 times.

Jason Schreier watching a man about to burn every ounce of goodwill in his big scrooge mcduck vault of goodwill: "Are you sure you want to talk about genAI like this even though everyone hates it and it sucks" Big brained ceo man: "Look man we gotta use it because yknow we gotta"

Using AI slop as "reference" images is so insane to me. The point of reference images is that they anchor fictional imagery you're generating in real things, and because they're real images that come from somewhere, they're also doorways to further research.

usage is usage and people "picking their battles" has gotten us into this situation now Fuck AI means ALL GEN AI.

#SaveSpeech KOSA has amassed more cosponsors recently, jumping from 42 to 60 total You need to call your reps and DEMAND that they oppose this legislation ASAP The link below contains more info about KOSA and an easy way to contact your reps 5calls.org/issue/kids-o... Please call DAILY

Another detail crop of the unfinished unofficial red dragon. So many scales.

I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along

Sandworm from #NoMansSky

Nice yellow fella may or may not swindle you

Quick character studies for my fantasy setting

"Yglesias claims to think “rights are good,” but would have us ignore how neutral rules can be used to deny people their rights. Earlier this month, the Trump Department of Justice issued a memo that follows from Yglesias’s reasoning" www.liberalcurrents.com/a-tent-big-e...

Would not be surprised if MST3K seasons 11 and 12 are getting booted from the service too, which is why Shout Factory has the streaming rights now.

Using it AT ALL is part of the problem. The environmental impact is enormous and also WHAT DO YOU THINK IT WAS TRAINED ON... STOLEN WORK OF INDUSTRY PROFESSIONALS. Use of the technology at all is deeply unethical.

everyone invest more in human artists now

Please look at my boy, Lil Guy the chinchilla. Thoughts slide right off his brain, and the one that manages to stick is "CHEW ERRYTHING". I love him.

@timmiller.bsky.social on Vance: "He will not disavow Fuentes or disavow anyone that is making anti-Indian comments, despite his family... It seems to me like the juice is with the Candace/Tucker wing of the party. But I think it's pretty telling that the vice president agrees with that."

NEW: A report found that a significant number of kids and teens are using AI companions. More striking: themes of violence — which can include sexual violence — drove more engagement among young users than any other type of content, according to the report. futurism.com/artificial-i...

The thing thats so insidious about using AI this way is that one of the main ways artists get hired are studios looking for art references and they find us and reach out. This is removing a major avenue to get work if they can just generate nameless derivations of our ideas.

This is the way, Canada. #CdnPoli #CanPoli #AbPoli

"So powerful is Trump's thirst for political violence that he not only fails to recoil from it when it breaks out; he fantasizes that it’s taking place even when it isn’t." lnk.thebulwark.com/3KKfIzP

God why is EVERYONE so disappointing?

Publicly shitting all over your estranged kids for daring to cut contact just proves they were right to cut contact, ma'am.

I see this argument made all the time and it's embarrassing for CCDH to keep making it, because it's a lie. Section 230, what they're talking about, does not give anyone a "get out of jail free" card. It simply puts the liability on the party who actually engaged in the violative behavior.

A quite startling overperformance for Democrats in tonight's special election for a state Senate seat in Kentucky: Democrat Gary Clemons won 72% to 25%. He was defending a Dem-held seat where Kamala Harris beat Trump by 5% last year.

But Kamala only cared about they/them, or something

This article is so depressing

The thing that struck me is how aggressively they are against physical touch when so much literature is about how touch (for most of us) is so important. That's one reason cuddly pets are calming.