I’ve been thinking a lot about Mel Brooks lately, and today I’m fixated on the not-so-small point that he’s one of the very last of America’s GI generation — 15 for Pearl Harbor, just old enough (17) to be drafted in 1944 while he was still in high school. A baby, then an eyewitness to the Nazis.

Game developers trying to pick a release date that avoids AAA releases, first party showcases, holidays or world war 3

Steelers fans need to brace themselves for the fact that if the Bears go to the Super Bowl Dennis Allen will probably be their next head coach.

Quick, somebody check on Tree, see if he had an aneurysm!

Me during the 4th quarter

Don Rodgers has fallen to The Strouds. youtu.be/DSfuC88ati8?...

Idk that it bodes well that a corporation can say "we fired these people for [describes union organizing activity]" and a judge will find that this doesn't seem to mean that they were fired for union organizing activity

It was really jarring when I was listening to Folk music on Spotify, especially Irish music, and this song would always poke it's head out in the algorithm. It was one of the stepping stones that led me to dropping streaming music.

Why is every game a freaking nailbiter...

These games are just bringing out all sorts of obscure rules.

That interception was just tragic man.

Because I love to talk about the games that made me as a designer: here's a blog post about my response to @polarisgamedesign.com's survey of influential games. azhdarchid.com/a-design-gen...

Twitter is the world’s largest generator of CSAM & non-consensual porn by a margin of about 8000%, and somehow… MSM isn’t even reporting on it. (also includes advice for reporting ‘deepfake harassment’ to police if it escalates to a point where restraining order is necessary) youtu.be/p71qQKmIGhQ

The Catholic church requires an individual to perform two miracles to achieve sainthood. Pope only needs one more

What a way to end it holy shit.

MAGFEST 🚨 COME TO CHIP RAVE! Come see Street Cleaner, then ME! DONUTSHOES! Then stay for Petriform, Star Fighter Dreams, and Boy Without Batteries!!!

"If I leave Omelas that kid is still going to be tortured - in fact, if everyone who cares about the kid left Omelas the only people left would be kid-torturers! So in a sense, staying in Omelas is my version of walking away form Omelas. I'm staying in Omelas to stick it to the kid torturers."

This is How You Get JARHEAD Sequels youtu.be/i5m-RHS1fU0

So the Raspberry Pi 500+ arrived a day early. Here it is next to my old 400 for comparison.

More like Ole Piss the game away.

I think @itch.io should just remove the X link field in profiles given that it’s just this now, and frequently producing sexualized photos of children too

I like games that give you tough choices

this showcase was one of the sickest things that's ever been at GDQ. unfathomably cool

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

And they’ll say they can’t be held accountable because when they pulled the trigger they were afraid for their lives. Their lives which they spent serving an ideology of fear, a machine of fear, a holistic regime of fear. A culture-spanning engine of the ugliest and most dishonest fears there are.

what this week feels like to me

This is the critical part - harsh words are useless, and arguably actively harmful if not followed up with actual action. Arrest the shooter and have your police escort ICE to the state line, or start talking about how murder is legal in Minneapolis if you're racist enough. Those are your options.

losing my mind at the "she should have followed directions" people really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?

Thinking about this again...

"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato." surreal times dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...

Man, barely made my self induced deadline of 12th Night/Epiphany for my 2025 wrapped post. I am so tired of '25, I think this year is the year I pull my shit together. Anyways, here's a half-assed 2025 media I liked post... xuelder.neocities.org/Blog/posts/2...

Trying to finish my 2025 Wrapped blog post together, and its pretty much just a list of crap. Should be more commentary but 2025 really felt that crappy that I don't really want to put more effort into it.

Hey, are there examples of games being controlled by Midi Controllers that aren't Guitar Hero/Rock Band style games?

NEW: X/Twitters continue to freely use xAI's Grok to generate and disseminate nonconsensual explicit deepfakes of real women and underage girls. Neither X nor xAI have taken meaningful action to fix the issue. So we're following that inaction live: futurism.com/artificial-i...

Here's Ep 1 of Better Offline's CES Coverage - I'm joined by Robert Evans, Ed Ongweso Jr., David Roth, Scott Stein, Lisa Eadicicco and Matt Binder to talk NVIDIA's tepid press conference, LLMs in TVs, smart glasses, and Robert's exoskeleton. open.spotify.com/episode/1a5P... linktr.ee/betteroffline

New Year, New "Hey, I'm Still Looking For Work" Post I'm available for full-time or part-time work as a Game Writer and a Narrative Designer but I'm open to consulting if that's what you need. You can find my work and reach out to me at sahilbajaj.dev

MICHIGAN: Police arrest protestor of Trump’s attack on Venezuela while she’s live on air 🤔🇺🇸

I've not yapped about it but it is really fucking insane that we spent the summer fighting against paypros for our right to buy a videogame with a penis in it and another megacorp is currently just creating terabytes of CP openly and proudly and working with paypros to do it

"Secret good Stranger Things finale" has nothing on MY current fan theory: Secret extra songs from Protomen Act 3 when they do the live shows

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Probably the most dissatisfying part of the AI bubble will be that it probably will end in a whimper not a bang. After all the hype, money, and the supply shortages at best what we will be left with will be a cost saving, stripped down Gemini and OpenAI fully absorbed into Copilot, never worn.

I would not have rebranded the most recognized software suite after not just the Slop Machine, but the worst part of the software suite that nobody likes. But that's just my opinion.

I finally ordered the Raspberry Pi 500+, so expect the 12 indie games in 12 months challenge to start soon I guess...

Peak shit mountain.

Shough