Passengers were significantly more likely to offer their seat when Batman was present (67.21% vs. 37.66%, OR = 3.393, p < 0.001).

Look if you didn’t want to wake up to fun facts about Trotsky’s assassination you shouldn’t have married me

When you're writing a tabletop roleplaying game, the mechanics should evoke the atmosphere you want in your story. A simple example: we're writing a cozy woodland mystery game. What are the combat mechanics like? Well, clearly there aren't any. Combat isn't part of our cozy woodland story. But...

This is great and the diagram is also great

Before you spend 7 years in Australia making Silksong with 2 friends, it’s important to figure out whether you created Hollow Knight or not. That’s a key factor in deciding whether making Silksong is the right business move

happy none pizza left beef day!! it's been 18 years and is now old enough to vote

what's the strangest thing to order from a comedy club menu and why is it soup

My husband is aghast at how many hours I’ll listen to movie podcasts, what would he say if he saw how much I’ve listened to people talk about the history of Game of Thrones

This is great work. Great. And you know what? A librarian might not know all this off the dome, but they would absolutely help you find out.

alas I have acquired the Platonic ideal of a hair tie, but I bought it in a yarn shop in Sweden so I'm destined to never find its equal again

are video games art garfunkel?

Interesting dive into design principles behind prosocial games. Makes me think of systems at work — sure, your job can't cover everything. But most of my companies would have been better if "toxic behavior is carefully monitored and mediated" was a requirement. polarisgamedesign.com/2022/kind-ga...

How many times do you think I've checked the expiration date on my passport since I bought my flight to Copenhagen? (It expires in 2029. I know it expires in 2029. But what if it *actually* expires in 2025? Can't be sure unless I look at it again.) Couldn't possibly be related to anything.

Oddly good heuristic for what it’s safe to give AI control of

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This is so funny — this is wonderful, and it has that constant feeling of almost crashing into a wall, which can be really fun in live performance, and which I am now informed was indeed because of a tempo error. A happy accident, if you ask me.

i don’t think it’s fair that the walls can get dusty. like what am i supposed to do about that. that doesn’t seem like it should be my problem.

weather: solar eclipse

I love many things about my tiny local pharmacy, but my favorite might be that their hold music is an 8-bit version of Holst's "Jupiter, Bringer of Jollity"

A lunar geology class called "We Choose to Go to the Moon."

an argument that i did not make in here but i do fully believe is that if you're the kind of parent who wants your kids to have Good Taste in Art, you gotta also let them watch some real trash taste doesn't come through restricted access to a pre-curated list, it comes through Trying Shit

We absolutely have to stop using Facebook and Twitter to warn the public about things that could kill them - and we need to do whatever it takes to help local and state government break this habit. My latest on Little Flying Robots: little-flying-robots.ghost.io/we-have-to-s...

not only are his pants doing excellent work, I wore a red petticoat under my wedding dress because of Cyd's outfit. Brigadoon's costumes stuck with me

I keep thinking about this one

I feel like not enough of you heard me tell you that you must read The Tainted Cup so I’m saying it again. two weird detectives in a quasi-Roman fantasy setting with the most interesting magic system I’ve seen in a while uncover murder plot while beset by… fine I’ll call them kaiju

water left in a glass overnight tastes bad because it gets haunted

This is a beautiful article on Fallen London. The FL team put out some of the best writing in games *every single month*, and it’s wonderful to see that recognised. (Got quite emotional to see shroom-hopping mentioned, too: one of my first pieces of work for games.) www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/iv...

Gotta do some finger stretches, someone's asked me to give notes on a survey. This person has no idea what they've unleashed. It's 800 miles to Chicago, I have a full tank of metaphorical gas, half a Chemex of coffee, it's raining, and I have no meetings today.

forget the museum trip I had planned, instead I'm spending tomorrow running around K-town buying as much SPF 50+++ as my backpack can hold

I have a very NSFW story from my first job where someone sent a porn parody asset to Disney (it was in an asset library and not in the build, but still — the client found it in the source files.) Never, ever, ever, put something that you don't want to ship anywhere near your project.

This is game development 101 stuff. Never, ever, make a placeholder that could ship – it’ll ship.

The Crock Pot is one of the only times when real life works like video game crafting. You dump in some powders and the remains of several vile birds and out comes hot delicious food

Women’s clothing stores should be required by law to show a picture with a phone in the pocket

Unsurprisingly, this is a great thread.

After you eat an ortolan this is what you get for dessert

laying in bed, trying to go to sleep, then my brain spontaneously recalls a (detailed!) plot summary of the NBC miniseries The 10th Kingdom (2000) including the parts where a dog turns to gold and trolls can’t figure out elevators that’s some aggressive counterprogramming, brain

I need everyone on Normal People internet to know that American Girl Doll Instagram is doing doll protests today. There are tiny t-shirts and signs. AND THEN I realized it's a joint protest with the Barbie ppl, where there are EVEN TINIER SIGNS.

Is she confident, or is she just wearing bright yellow pants? (yes)

“guy who wants you to buy his SaaS product claims it can replace 20% of the workforce”. ok. in other news local cat claims at 5:59 that he has never been fed once in his life

I take an odd perverse pleasure that this week’s AI-inserted podcast ads think I need reliable roofers and bigger grill, I, a person who lives in a one bedroom apartment with no backyard

a key skill for working creatives is realizing when you’ve been handed a horse shaped box. IE, the goals & constraints are - must have hooves - must say “neigh” - can’t have horns - needs to be this tall - rideable the sooner you realize the box is horse shaped, the sooner you can deliver a horse

there’s a funny paradox to me in creative work which i call “the horse shaped box.” basically: lead wants to give IC a space to work within, with constraints. but the constraints are extremely specific; “you can put anything you brainstorm into this box!” but the box is shaped exactly like a horse

This was super helpful, especially considering we have to rank five candidates!

god give me the confidence of someone tagging in John Darnielle to show him how good AI is at analyzing one of his songs

hey just some quick feedback. the groceries -> cooking -> washing up loop feels too tight, it’s like I’ve only cooked a few times before I have to start over again. it’s a reliable resource sink for sure but it would be great to not have to do it so often. can we do a tuning pass

May 12th - The Bridge on the River Kwai, that will connect Bangkok and Rangoon must be completed by this date according to the POW camp commandant, Colonel Saito. 📽️📅 The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

*Margo Has Money Problems* is as good a book as everyone told me it would be, which means it is a very good, stay-up-til-2-reading-it kind of book.

As part of the launch festivities, we're excited to host @raygan.me & @laurajnash.bsky.social of @shortgame.fm for a special LudoNarraCon Broadcast - who you can watch tackle a full playthrough of the game alongside some wonderful commentary. Give it a gander store.steampowered.com/app/3487020/...

this is also why you can trick google into manufacturing justifications for entirely old-fashioned and well established English idioms we're all familiar with and love to say regularly