I miss being a sportswriter.

"You look like you keep a spreadsheet ranking glue brands by taste." I shit you not, that insult was so good that I've just straight-up stolen it.

If you're an artist who has been insistent on continuing to use Twitter for some damn reason, I present to you another piece of evidence for why you should nuke your damn account already.

Ask and you shall receive

There has been a fascinating phenomenon in sports over the past year or so where every athlete who appeases Trump has gone on to have just awful seasons. The Lions, the Tigers... even teams that succeed, like the Dodgers, the guys who are openly pro-Trump (Treinen and Kershaw) would shit the bed.

Thank god I grew up watching the 2000s Lions. This kind of disappointment… it’s a familiar one. I can process this. I’ll be fine in, like, an hour.

I've seen this going around today and it's beautiful, so here's a gift link.

Yes, well.

Please enjoy once again the college football comment of the year 🏆

Much like what happened with @chetsucks.com, TikTok took my 7-second video about this down quite literally within a minute of posting it. Clearly their filters are meant to sift out Nazi iconography, which is good, but then why on Earth are they letting it be sold on their store?

Here’s what the top four “Holiday Haul” items on TikTok are right now: 1.) Swastika necklace 2.) The World Trade Center 3.) 32GB DDR5 RAM 4.) Shrek Hitler blanket I’m about to sign off from any mine if Internet. Everything, everywhere is fucking garbage.

Me, seeing “Lake Michigan” trending: “Oh, neat. I reckon people are posting pictures of the frozen ice sheet waves that happen ever year.” Me, upon seeing the conversation:

Alternate Headlined “Microsoft Puts Pistol In Mouth, Aims to Pull Trigger by 2030.”

these are the kind of numbers that, *at the end of a president's term*, herald a total wipeout for his party in the next election. we are in december of year one.

Christ alive. What can you even say? My heart breaks for his family, his friends, his colleagues, and everyone at Respawn.

Honestly, I think RAW FURY handled The Escapist’s borderline-libel piece accusing Blue Prince of using AI with grace. If a publication accused me if using genAI in my work I fear my retribution would be the legal equivalent of Wyatt Earp’s Vendetta Ride.

The NFL will never beat the allegations that they hate Detroit.

Well that's a bummer.

The actor Michael Sheen used all his money to start a fake debt collecting business, buy 900 people in Wales's debt, and excused it. If Musk bought ALL $194 billion in medical debt in the U.S. and excused it in the same way, he'd still be the world's riches man by hundreds of billions of dollars.

The players always voted Uecker a full playoff share. To my knowledge Kalas, who was beloved by the Phillies as an uncle, who sat with the players on flights, was not voted a share. Scully wasn't. And so forth. It is the ultimate sign of respect. Uecker divided it between his charities.

The White House has been caught. The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims. In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.

I need that sound effect of Rocky punching meat and it sounding like a howitzer added to this clip.

Sad news about Lamarr Wilson.

I technically work Monday and Tuesday next week but as anyone in game development can attest, there will not be very much getting done on the Monday or Tuesday before the end-of-year holiday.

He doesn’t even have the money to bribe the troops like a real dictator; he’s taking funds that were already allocated and rebranding it to make the payout sound like a bonus. Even by conman standards, that’s pretty pathetic.

The only thing I will add to Palmer Luckey's retro game company partnering with Palmer Luckey's automated weapons manufacturer is that you can build your own handheld for around $100. Just Google "FPGBC." $100 and about half an hour of assembly later and BOOM, you have a "brand new" Gameboy Color.

I say this with zero irony: if you are even tangentially a part of a retro video game community, it is your civic duty to push back against this company and shun anyone who doesn't. This is fascism tapping gently at the door and as soon as you let it in, it's going to invite its friends.

New Illustration: "We Beat 'Em Before..." Taken from a British WW2 poster, the original features a WW1 German soldier at the top. I just swapped it for the Nazi soldier it had at the bottom.

Every six weeks or so Threads has a “DID IT HAPPEN?!” psychosis event and I’m just too tired to inhale the hopium tonight.

GET EVERY STRANGE SCAFFOLD GAME FOR LESS THAN $60 BUCKS IN THE STEAM WINTER SALE *13* DANG GAMES OF WILD VARIETY AND AMBITION--AND DISCOUNTS ON EVERYTHING ELSE WE DO GOING FORWARD MAYBE CHECK IT OUT BECAUSE THAT'S A WILD DEAL??? store.steampowered.com/bundle/35090...

Honestly, this is a pretty good excuse to not use TikTok anymore.

game studio ceos be like: we can either crunch, use genAI, or kill ourselves. those are our only options

Our debut game, Eternal Strands is on sale again for the Steam Winter Sale. Explore a ruined magical city full of constructs, climb everything, including huge creatures, and combine magical abilities in physics-based combat. Fully voiced, light romances. Enjoy store.steampowered.com/app/1491410/...

absolutely wild move by @oversightdemocrats.house.gov to allow comments on the dropbox folder with the epstein photos

People Make Games have knocked it out of the park with their reporting on Microsoft, Xbox, and Palestine.

Ignoring everything else about Douse's comments (enough people have commented that this is flat-out asking the machine to do the part of the work that gives "writing" its identity, its soul), I DESPERATELY need somebody at Larian to take away these fuckers' phones. They are not helping themselves.

Here's the thing about Daniel Vavra's thoughts on generative AI use in game development: I'd rather shit in my sneakers and then run a 10K than pay any mind to what homeboy has to say about much of anything.

“Libera te tutemet ex inferis.”

Been thinking on the use of GenAi for mood boards. Ethics and legal risks aside, I truly believe using GenAi as references deprives one of many pivotal things. Here’s a blurb on what I mean:

Pour one out for Dan Bongino

America has deindustrialized so much they can't even manufacture consent

Sharing some of my thoughts from the other site but man I'm really pissed off about this shit.

Please dear lord let there be a physical release.

I read a lot and, growing up poor, writing was the cheapest outlet I could engage in. No paints or brushes. No camera. No instrument. A paper and pencil is all I needed to craft my own worlds and heroes; to go on the adventures that, being destitute in rural Michigan, I never thought I’d embark on.

this is a good battle to pick. the CEO mentioned using "AI" and got so much shit for it immediately that he's rattled and backpedaling. easy win there

This is all kinds of dope.

“I've been doing some thinking and I’ve got some ideas to improve the show. I got it right here. One: New Vegas needs to be front and center in every scene. Two: Whenever New Vegas is not on screen, all the other characters should be asking, "What’s happening in New Vegas?”

Having gone through the process with them three times (I liked the writers and wanted to live in Ireland), every negative thing you've heard about Larian's hiring process is not only true, but quite probably understated. What they demand for a "test" would be considered a prototype at some studios.