Instead of "X person is a great game designer" there was a lot of ✨Black Excellence✨ talk. Which meant that sometimes the connections you made were not because *you* were good at what you did, but because someone needed to fill their Infinity PoC gauntlet with a palatable Black person. Palatable.

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The constitutional remedy for a president who uses collective punishment against people for the crimes of a few is impeachment, removal, and disqualification, followed by a criminal trial.

The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting.

Some folks call it blended colours, others call it smoky shading, but you know - sfumayto, smufato

"while the constitution provides for a navy and army, it provides no grant of authority to create an air force. In this essay I will"

A lot of people are trying to justify their own desire to surrender to Trump early in the year

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

"When wealth is passed off as merit, bad luck is seen as bad character. This is how ideologues justify punishing the sick and the poor. But poverty is neither a crime nor a character flaw. Stigmatise those who let people die, not those who struggle to live." Sarah Kendzior

Did the X-Men ever try to get around mutant registration laws by simply declaring mutant powers to be arms, and thus not to be infringed?

They gave Balatro an 18+ only rating because it had poker cards in it. Disney Solitaire has literal actual real money gambling with dark pattern lootbox microtransactions and is for ages 3 and above.

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on account of my bad mood I would like to announce that until further notice, everything sucks

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How I'm walking out of 2025

For Hayley Williams' birthday, twenty Buffy RPG plots from her album Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party thewatchhouserpg.blogspot.com/2025/12/20-b...

He lies, he blames the reader, then he blames bsky for not banning the "trolls", then feels righteous because people are yelling at him.

Stupidity this enormous and this toxic deforms the world around it and makes everything harder.

in lots of contexts they have the same meaning, but in this specific context where the whole point is to distinguish private charity from a socialist mutual aid group it clearly has utility. Going “nuh uh” I refuse to use your vocab so we’ll just talk in circles for days is not very fruitful

There you go, I hope you understand the difference now, and that you look up what "privatization" actually is, since Will doesn't know but is happy to use the word to demonize good things.

As others said in the replies, this happens in marketing-speak, and occasionally I see artists and creators internalise marketing so hard they think it is real. Do I think straight white dudes are suffering? No. Have I wanted to punch someone who told me to "write my disability"? Fuck yes.

You’re almost never going to outcompete a dishwasher in efficiency — it reuses water, does a better job at cleaning, saves time. One of the biggest W’s in the history of technology.

The interesting thing about this argument that "if you give things to voters to vote for you, a billionaire will just out spend you to get elected" is that no billionaire has ever actually done this. They deal in pork, of course, but nobody has ever given everyone in Chicago a house.

Ludic literacy is not "I have played more games than Monopoly/D&D so I know why it sucks" Ludic literacy is "I understand why I like the thinks I like and how games produce that so I can navigate the artistic field to best serve MY needs"

jeremy strong in the springsteen movie looks like they made an oscar bait minions adaptation

A good solid point: the question should be less about "does it or doesn't it" but building literacy about how it does and how it doesn't. You CAN play Chess by hitting the pieces with the board and running the bases. Why don't you?

In the comic Transmetropolitan, senitent viruses study the laws of The City, and identify miniscule moments where loopholes exist, where for a split second in one location it is legal to do a thing, like release mind-control gas to make you buy products. This is how Machine Learnign products work-

If you make something easily confused for a better mousetrap, but breaks most of the time, the world will be enslaved to beat a path to your door anyway.

You are all welcome, the community here is not great and this place is a goddamn nightmare exactly like the house you fled. Ignore the discourse. Try not to go mad. Leave often.

I'll go you one better: just lift other people up. You don't have to make friends or like people. You just support them. Every success I've ever had in this industry I can lay at the feet of giving a fucking damn about others.

If I were trying to get people to agree with me, I might say something like "I love Kat, and I hope this works attract and engage and do good. There are good reasons why campaign finance is so tracked however, so this is risky and not every campaign can do it, or do it in a useful way - be careful!"

The answer to your rhetorical question is, "Authoritarian Fascist systems of political, economic, and thought control, portrayed in attentive n engaging stories of cutting-edge conceptualization to imagine what is possible."

Carrie Fisher left us 9 years ago today, and we miss her terribly. ❤️

this is just to say I have loosed  the blood-dimmed tide that you were probably saving for the ceremony of innocence forgive me the best lack all conviction while the worst are so passionate and so intense

There's a larger point though: animals go to other animals for help too. It's not that they think we're special. Or not especially kind. Or especially clever.

This week a left-supporting journalist made a Bad Skeet which made him look like a fascist, and a lot of people got mad at him, then other people got mad at the people getting mad and so on and so forth. But the problem is: that's how social media works. Yes, don't post things without context but-

In some very important ways, games like Apocalypse World are way, way better than D&D at doing the things D&D claims to do. But at the same time, they are in other ways, doing it just as poorly. It is not enough to hate D&D, grasshopper. You must hate ALL titterpigs.

Bobby: "See, Joseph, with Powered by the Apocalypse games, you only need these two six-sided dice. And you use 'moves' to change the narrative flow of--" Hank: "Bobby, what are you doing in there?!" Bobby: "Uh... playing Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, Dad!"

Saw another "white men are an oppressed minority" piece which used as evidence for this the fact that white men will be a minority by X date. What they forget is that minorities aren't always oppressed! In fact, most of the time, majorities are oppressed.

It is soooo normal for a country to have a TV news report about its gulag system removed from the broadcast

sometimes when you're in an industry you can't say "oh that person is an asshole" because if you can't prove it, you're just being a jerk and they could say the same about you. it's the code. Similarly, a lot of games I think are just huge misses but I can't say. Like "give me my money back" suckage

This article goes through what pretty much any person who has done any student politics has experienced, and certainly anyone who has done left/liberal stuff has run into: that there's a bunch of backbiting assholes who trash movements... BUT leighstein.substack.com/p/the-end-of...

PSA: If you work for #60minutes and don't at a minimum shout far and wide that Bari Weiss is hijacking your work and trying to paint a different reality, you're not a #journalist. You want my respect? Fucking quit. There are more noble ways to make a living.

Basic income is the most effective core policy to save the people, save the country, and save the market economy in a future society where jobs are disappearing and polarization is severe Lee Jae-myung President, South Korea

The time-traveller smiled, seeing the great city of TINAPOH towering to the sky: proof that humanity had endured. "What does the name mean?" he asked. "Oh it's an acronym for the ruins we found here when we came. It means This Is Not A Place of Honour."