No more extended FFXIV breaks, I got one DoT and don't know how to hit the button and my PvP rank has decayed into hell

this morning I’m thinking about South Korean citizens boosting their representatives over fences so they could do their job by force and man the bar is in hell

Damn Reuters embarrassed itself and you so fast

I forgot how much I love Final Fantasy VI oh my god I’m gonna throw up over Celes my wife

I forgot the FFXIV unreal fights looped back to encounters I like and now I guess I’ll finally fix my shit and play more

yeah it's bad, checked this morning and it's just straight up wrong stuff from engagement garbage accounts

sorry to keep google posting but my partner desperately asking if he can fix his Google Discover feed bc it won’t stop showing him X posts aggregating garbage just makes me 🥲🥲

this was 2025, as told by 91 writers across the world intothespine.com/2025/12/31/s...

Thanks to a Reddit post, I toggled a random RGB setting on and it fixed the whining. I hate this.

19 years later and I’m finally watching When the Levees Broke and woo lord I was not as ready as I thought I’d be. god bless Spike Lee man.

Finally got so fed up with my PC’s mysterious coil whine I spent the last hour isolating parts trying to figure out which was the culprit.. and it was my damn OLED this whole time. I can’t believe I spent so long w/ ridiculous burn-in anxiety when I really needed to worry about tinnitus triggers.

the big show stepped on my foot at e3 and did not acknowledge my presence at all

I’m only 3/4ths through this book, but I’m wrecked. Lots of people have correctly noted that it feels important, but (a) he’s a damn good storyteller, and (b) it’s hard to read this and not constantly see how the attempt to prop up the violence of western hegemony wrecks all our lives

yeah my IMO is: it's bad to use it, it's bad they left it in, it's good they removed it, it's good they disavow it, and it's entirely justified to have rescinded awards for it. i will continue to talk about clair obscur fondly.

‘twas the night before Christmas and ffs gotta reseason the cast iron skillet

If you pay attention to any large industry long enough and follow it to its logical conclusion you eventually end up sounding like a communist even if you started off testing CPU case fans. youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0?...

“These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”

“I want to be a part of the position where I could vote for the person that's representing me, versus just have these people representing me in a way that I don't feel comfortable with," Walter Lewis said in his appeal to have his voting rights restored.

My Google Discover feed was already miserable but it’s just totally unusable now with the nonsense AI headlines. I don’t know how average or not super online people feel about it, but genuinely wish I had some reliable data on the drop off or if it’s made any impact.

YES! this is what techbros who have let their creative selves wither call "procrastination" or "inefficiency" and try to technologise away, not understanding that it is the source of creativity and imagination and everything good

i would rather die

These are our favourite PC games of the year. www.pcgamer.com/games/pc-gam... #pcgamer #pcgaming #goty

In the more than a decade I have been making games, one of the most consistently (and literal) breath-taking moments in any process is seeing the way a concept artist brings something descriptive and flat to life. That's pure collaboration and trust. The alternative is soulless.

I don't know why the idea of developing concept art with AI is somehow meant to convince us that AI isn't replacing creative professions, when concept art is one of the single most creative and imaginative parts of the entire development process.

One take from a former Larian artist, following my interview with Swen Vincke this morning:

marathoning Adventure Time with @heartimecia.bsky.social and I’m sick about bubbline again

these ppl make a great case for why id love to slash their funding bc how can you pump this much money into authorities that have all the time and resources to terrorize regular ass people but they can’t find a guy that shot up a campus. not just one shot and bolt. dude did all this and peaced out.

Absolute fucking trash

what is the single best conversation in video games and why is it your conversation with the deserter in disco elysium :)

It’s so cool that every website is just Like This now. We used to send guys to the chair for putting pop-up ads on their sites. Now if I want to read something I have to read single lines between autoplaying video ads that use so much RAM they force the browser to reload every 5 seconds.

what if I get my septum pierced and I need my millionth MRI bc I was born with one of those arts and crafts pipe cleaner deals for a spine but I can’t take it out for a retainer bc new piercing. then what??

sorry to add to the doom posting but I really hate that when something dangerous happens and there’s a real threat for loss of life I have to sift through gen AI videos and headlines trying to figure out what’s real and what’s fake

The story of how this song got into Cyberpunk 2077 is great. From my interview with Johnny from @health.band: www.rpgsite.net/interview/16...

2025 was a helluva year. Published some of the best work I’ve ever done, but still going into 2026 on the job market. So check out my website and keep me in mind if you find yourself needing a writer/producer/editorial multi-hyphenate. Happy Holidays!!! www.mattkimwrites.com

Valve has now rejected my complaint, confirming that "I don't like muslims" is a valid reason to leave a negative review on a game on Steam This is where we're at now.

"I'm not playing another thing that looks remotely like P.T." she said before playing another thing vaguely P.T. ish and becoming obsessed with it.

At least 60 people arrested in Hinds County have been jailed in its detention facilities for over three months—including at least five for more than a year—with no indictment filed against them and no pathway to a trial in sight.

she extracted all the stuffing and the squeaky part from her penguin but still prefers its husk over the not-destroyed toys

Israel hunted a 70 year old lady down with a gun drone and then hoovered above to make sure she bled out next to her dying son. They both join almost 1,000 Palestinians Israel has massacred or maimed in its genocide during the "ceasefire". www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...

what if it has a savage version that gets even better im hollerin

Extreme views of assassin Beckwith from 35 years ago now in mainstream Jerry Mitchell writes Beckwith's "anti-science, anti-vaccine, anti-immigrant and anti-federal government rhetoric have made their way into the mainstream."

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Looked at the list of games I wanted to finish before the year is over then opened up BG3 for my Durge run, so I guess it's to the 2026 pile these go.

No one gave my mom a chance to come up with any savings for retirement - she was diagnosed with Schizophrenia before I was born. Dementia turned it all into a nightmare. TX next of kin means I can make her medical decisions, but my hands are often still tied unless I pay ~10k to be her guardian.

My dad had many issues and his situation was quite complex, but I do believe if this country had functional social support systems for the ill and elderly, he would not have died miserable and alone this year.

it has been suggested that my affinity for "tinkering" and the ten million PC problems I encounter could be related but I think Windows 11 should simply be better and my GPU shouldn't weigh fifty pounds

it's been one of my favs this month✨ also @tjcwilde.bsky.social's damn thinking emoji here kills me